Play Atari Breakout on Google’s Image search

Google is commemorating 37 years of the Atari’s famous game Breakout, which was introduced way back in April 1976, by letting users play the game on Google’s Image Search.

Simply click on Images in Google Search and then type Atari Breakout. The Image search results will then align into blocks and a little easter egg at the bottom for you to play the game.

Screengrab of the Image Search Atari Breakout.

You get five lives to play the game and at the end you can post your score to Google Plus if you want. Frankly speaking its addictive and its unlikely you will get any work done once you start playing.

Incidentally, the task of designing Breakout’s prototype was given to Steve Jobs, who nicely passed it on to his friend Steve Wozniack, who ended up completing it in 42 days. More on that here.

COURTESY : firstpost.com

15GB unified Storage from Google

If you don’t see the point of keeping data you have stored across assorted Googleservices separate then you’re in luck: The company agrees with you. Google announced on Monday that it is giving users “15 GB of unified storage for free to use… between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos,” thus giving them more flexibility to use their data space as they see fit. Users who want more storage across multiple services can pay $4.99 a month for 100GB of additional space as well, the company said. The new unified data plan will give a particular boost to Google Drive since the cloud storage service will act as the hub for online storage across all Google services.

With this new combined storage space, you won’t have to worry about how much you’re storing and where. For example, maybe you’re a heavy Gmail user but light on photos, or perhaps you were bumping up against your Drive storage limit but were only using 2 GB in Gmail. Now it doesn’t matter, because you can use your storage the way you want.

Google Glass

‘Project Glass’ is a research and development program by Google to develop an augmented reality head-mounted display (HMD) named Google Glass. Project Glass product displays information in a smart phone-like format hands-free, and can interact with the Internet via natural language voice commands. It was started about three years ago by an engineer named Babak Parviz who was an electrical engineer as a part of Google’s X Lab initiative.

Google is looking ambitious to bring its Google Glass wearable computer to market much faster than many likely anticipated, according to the Verge. Google has revealed that it hopes to have the commercial version of Glass available for sale to ordinary consumers by the end of 2013. The cost is expected to be under $1,500. This is the most clear Google has been yet about its public release schedule for the headset-mounted computing device. Earlier in June 2012, Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggested that a rough timeline for developer and consumer availability would put the device in the hands of the general public in 2014.

This time, a Google official has said directly that the company is targeting an end of year release date and the credibility of the source cannot be debated. Google’s recent release to a broader audience beyond just developers via an application process indicates things might be moving quicker than the company previously expected.

The Verge has also mentioned that, it is compatible with i-Phone devices as well as Android handsets. They also were convinced that this is something that Google will eventually be able to turn into a device with mass-market appeal.

How It Feels [through Glass]

Google Minus

Inspired from a video I saw some days back on Youtube, Here is the gist of the new product from the freedom lines of Google which will be launched if Google+ doesn’t proves to be a success..!!!

The new product will be named as “Google Minus”.

You won’t have to beg for a beta invite or a sign-up. If you use Gmail, Google- will automatically be added to your google bar.

Google is being really smart here because they have realized that the reason most people will just stick with Facebook is because it is too much of a hassle to start over on a new network and build up friends from scratch. So on google- every members starts as friend with every other member and you can narrow or minimize your social network by subtracting friends.

You have a universal feed and you can mute every post that you don’t like. There is also a dislike button and a thumbs down button because these days majority of status updates are pretty depressing and being able to dislike stuff will is much awaited.

Google- also has a feature of street alert. So, when you go anywhere with your smart phone and you have to had your Gmail enabled as your main email account for this to work. Whenever you pass someone else who uses google- you both will be sent street alerts linking to the other persons profile. It is a great way to make friends with total strangers who can’t be Internet creepers because you met in the real world.

There is also a voice chat option that connects you with a randomized friend from your network to be in touch with each other, making this even simpler.

And a feature that automatically writes happy birthday on your friends profiles for you which you can customize with all options like exclamation “Happy Birthday!!” or all caps: “HAPPY BIRTHDAY”.

There are a lot of people who are more interested in thumbs down and dislike more than liking some-one’s status or any posts.!!

You this will bring a revolution in anti-social networking..!!! (This will happen if Google is again defeated by Facebook in social networking).

And beware, you don’t still have an option of “-1” this post, so better do “+1” this post if you liked (or hated) this post..!!!!! :p

courtesy : aglasem.com