Google reader new look

Next week Google Reader will get brand new design and integration with Google+ and share the best of your feeds with just the right circles.

And some other changes are

Many of Reader’s social features will soon be available via Google+.
retiring friending, following and shared link blogs inside of Reader.

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Opera 11.52 released

Opera 11.52 is available for download.This release is a recommended upgrade offering security and stability enhancements.

Fixed:Adjusting volume on a YouTube HTML5 Video causes freeze
Fixed:a non-exploitable bug which allowed injection of untrusted markup into the X-Frame-Options error page.
Fixed:Crashes when downloading via BitTorrent
Fixed:an issue where manipulating fonts in SVG could allow execution of arbitrary code
Fixed:Installation of Opera in Ubuntu 11.10 by changing the compression method.
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WordPress 3.3 Beta 2 released

Wordpress 3.3 beta 2 is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this version of wordpress?

Updated the Blue theme
Fixed IE7 and RTL support
Improved flyout menu styling and fixed several glitches
Finished the Pointers implementation
Landed the Welcome screen
Improved contextual help styling
Tweaked the admin bar a little more
Fixed a bunch of bugs
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Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

What’s new in Android 4.0 – Ice Cream Sandwich?

Refined, evolved user interface and multi-tasking.
improvement? in resizable widgets.
new home screen folder for users to group their apps, get app info.
New lock screen actions.
Quick responses for incoming calls.
Powerful voice input engine-dictate text to the phone for as long as they want in any language.
native photo editing to the Android camera interface.
improved auto-completion feature
improved Native Browser.
developers now have the ability to set device specifications with backwards functionality.
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Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions

Google announced a new Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions.With the new API,users just need to add “tts” to your permissions and it is easy to change the rate, pitch, and volume. In addition to the main API, Google also introduced the TTS Engine API which allows developers to implement a Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine.Users that have Chrome on Mac OS X or Windows, or those using Chrome OS, should be able to use the native client voices immediately. Linux users will have to download a voice from the Chrome Web Store.

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Google Docs Presentations – New features

New and improved animations.
Revision history stores edits
New themes.
Character-by-character collaboration.
Chat with collaborators directly within the presentation.
Draw organizational charts, flowcharts, design diagrams and much more.
Transition between slides to add more effects.
Shape linking turn shapes within your presentation into hyperlinks that link to other slides, presentations, or webpages.
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Google Analytics Flow Visualizations

Google announced a new feature for Google Analytics called Flow Visualization. It is a dynamic way to view Google Analytics data and instantly understand how visitors flow across pages on site.It utilizes the lens of a Sankey diagram, a specific type of flow diagram. Visitors Flow and Goal Flow.The Visitors Flow view provides a graphical representation of visitors’ flow through the site by traffic source.Goal Flow provides a graphical representation for how visitors flow through your goal steps.

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Google SSL-encrypted search

Google announced that SSL-encrypted search will be the default for signed-in users. https://www.google.com This change encrypts the search queries and Google’s results page. This is especially important when you’re using an unsecured Internet connection, such as a WiFi hotspot in an Internet cafe.When someone search from https://www.google.com and websites you visit from google organic search listings will still know that they came from Google, but won’t receive information about each individual query.
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Angry Birds 30 million daily active users

According to Andrew Stalbow Rovio‘s GM of North America,various version of Angry Birds have been downloaded 400 million times. 30 million users play the game on a daily basis.130 million people play Angry Birds monthly basis.Gamers spend  300 million minutes playing Angry Birds daily. That’s 109.5 billion minutes per year, or 1.825 billion hours.

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