Gmail Newest Spam Block Feature

In the next week millions of users of Google Mail will see something changed. Just like the web browser, Gmail will have tabs.

But it was not to deal with a variety of accounts tab. Instead, tab, new auto-sorting power of Google Gmail in the effort, your email has been granted more useful. This is arguably an evolution of the spam blocker.

Building on its years of data collection from a Gmail account, Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) will be able to receive notifications from services such as Facebook (FB) and Twitter, and file them away in a folder titled Social. Groupon (GRPN) looks and never-ending assault of Fab hidden email Promotions folder.

All of these bills, receipts and nagging reminders you do not really want to deal with? Update folder. And for those who still use the message boards and mailing lists, there are folders for all emails from this corner of the internet.

The number of emails we all have increased road. But because of our method of communication has become more diverse electronics, we get far fewer e-mails we really care - e-mails can get lost in the flood of counterfeit Cialis offers.

With the updated Gmail, Google launched a theoretically live earlier this week, which is the e-mail inbox that you really want to see.

Google has been trying to provide the tools to make email less painful. He led the so-called spam filters, e-mail and auto-fill Marked Priority Inbox folder, all in an effort to reduce noise. But apart from the spam filter, people do not really stick to one of the other solutions. And even in the spam filter, most people are still too many e-mails.

If the box, an application built on top of Gmail, for Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) iOS was released earlier this year, was to approach simple and painless way to file a non-urgent.

Google is wise to build something like this in the core Gmail experience, but still be prudent to move forward and automate processes. Some companies may be more data and insights about the nature of the e-mails people actually want to engage with, and if someone dared to try to qualify for such a feat, it's Google.

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Google Street View: 3D maps

You can see every corner of New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles in three dimensions on the planes of Google Maps

"The privacy only exists inside your head." This sentence of veteran actor Will Smith Gene Hackman in the movie "Enemy of the State" could serve to illustrate well the situation in any Western city. Thousands of cameras, satellite, fixed or attached to vehicles, track and record the streets until the last square meter of our cities. The reason? Google is determined to make a map "online" in the world in three dimensions.

Google Maps: Internet and computer 

Google Maps, which is offered free on the Internet, can see in "satellite mode" aerial photographs anywhere on the planet except a few areas considered possible terrorist target, such as military bases America has around the world, the White House or the Pentagon.

The sparsely populated places like the desert of Monegros or some islands of Indonesia, have a resolution discrete since its uniformity does not require more detail. But big cities can be seen with a stunning resolution to the point of being able to distinguish a car, the roof of a house, a tree or a sheet hanging in the sun. This technology, based on images taken from space by satellites overlaid with detailed maps of all populated areas.

The Google Maps service gains in power if the surfer is downloaded to your computer the program Google Earth (which installs most of the information on the computer's hard disk so that you can move the images with real feeling be flying by the planet). And the experience is further enriched with Google Sky.

This program, including Google Earth, used to visualize the space, zooming in on constellations and star clusters, with a resolution equivalent to that which could be obtained only a decade ago with the best ground-based telescopes. It is even talk of an upcoming release of Google Oceans, to explore underwater funds.

In all these services, new ones are added periodically surprising to those who install or first-time visitors, as Panoramio, an application in which users put photos and information of interest on the maps. Others allow to locate information on the map private business such as restaurants, hotels and shops.

The result of adding the different layers of information (graphic, photographic and data provided by users) is becoming astonishing and allowed Google to become much more than a web browser. He is now able to seek services on the map to the user, and also charged for it. In this line, the next step to perfect his method is to show the streets of major cities around the world in three dimensions.

The strange black cars

This is where those strange black cars lately Google are seeing through some streets of Seville, Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid. They have a kind of articulated arm on the roof and a panoramic camera with eleven lenses. They are touring the Spanish cities photographing every corner, every window, every doorway ... Before they have done the same in middle Europe.

The services offered by Google so far, to be amazing, only allowed to play in the streets and cities in two dimensions, the service Google Street View adds the third dimension to the images just black cars are capturing from the streets, which run over a and again for weeks.

Then, at the headquarters of Google images mounted on the maps so that they are accessible to a mouse click that open sandwiches on the computer screen. These snacks offer a continuous view of the streets, as you would see a pedestrian or driver of a vehicle.

Google Street View is available in the maps of some U.S. cities like New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and is expected to also be available for European cities in the coming months.

Utilities Google Street View

Google Street View has several utilities for users. The most obvious: when looking for a trade, a room or a house to rent or buy, and you can see the map, aerial photo and also a continuous image of the facade, and the whole street. Even the whole neighborhood.

In this way the user can get a quick overview of how to get to the right place, how is it exactly, or what kind of neighbors would expect in a particular area. The same is true when you are thinking about choosing a university, be with friends in a bar or at a table at the restaurant that has not been before.

The service, of course, also has sparked some controversy: some people have been surprised to see his face in the images of Google Street View. The company, to avoid discomfort, has begun to blur thousands of faces. Anyway, there are netizens who are dedicated to the service track in search of the most striking images ... And, despite its obvious utility, Google Street View also raises the side of the Network gossip and results can be seen: burning cars, young sun, divers walking on the street in full sun, and even a boy at the time when the bicycle falls down.

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Google Now, New Service from Google

Google Now mobile personal assistant, displays useful information to the user in real time

 

Since last year Google have a new mobile personal assistant called Google Now. This service is a pioneer in his field, but that adds to other attendees already on the market, such as those based on voice recognition,
which highlights Siri for iOS and Android similar. The difference from the rest is that Google Now intends to anticipate user needs to provide accurate information at the right time and automatically. This and other features of this personal assistant for Android devices and iOS 4 are explained below.

In order to anticipate the needs of its users, Google Now learns of data stored by themselves in the universe of Google applications and services. In this way, you have access to calendars, as well as inquiries made through the browser and even emails. For birthday alerts, use the contact data in Google Plus.

This information is contextualized with the user's position to give the GPS navigator device. Thus, Google Now can perform multiple tasks, such as alerting the user that will not reach a meeting time if it does not then or tell the nearest route to a destination previously searched.

Warning Cards

This information is shown through cards that the user can turn on or off at any time. Currently, there are 30 cards available, among which the activity summary, birthdays, events, flights, boarding passes, upcoming appointments, public warnings, sports, traffic and weather.

However, for now Google Now does not show too much activity and many of the content tabs are not active outside the United States. The most common is to display the weather of the location where the user is, a route to a destination or updated sports information.

Users can interact with Google Now through typed commands or by voice. Among the types of queries that can be performed by voice is the query time, nearby, flight status, world time or basic math operations.

For now, Google Now has voice recognition commands in English, but in early April he was active in Spanish on a temporary basis for a few days. This suggests that it was a Google development test and in the near future will be available officially. In addition, improvements in speech recognition are constant in each new version to fit a natural language search.

In this regard, it is important to note that the first use of Google Now automatically activates the user's location history, as well as of searches through the search engine. These functions can be overridden manually from the user's account. However, it is reactivated every time you use Google Now.

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