Imagine a situation - you are seeing a thing that you don't know anything about, say for example a restaurant menu in some foreign language or a historical monument but you know very little about it or a painting and you can't even search it on Google because you can't describe it in words than you think there needs to be a device which instantly get you all the information you need just in time when you seeing it. It might be very futuristic like that of a sci-fi movie but Google Goggle is a new app (although a prototype) that lets you use pictures taken with your mobile phone to search the web, no need to type or speak your query all you have to do is open the app, take a picture, and wait for your search results. The best thing is its translation feature that translates the texts in picture taken into any desired language you want, right now this technology only works for German to English translations. However, the Google Goggle is available to just Android enabled smart phones with auto focus feature and QVGA screen available in Android market also the smart app is in its early ...

LifeSnapz enables people to capture and explore life events with photos, videos, timelines and maps, and share these events with friends, family and other trusted groups. With interactive LifeSnapz users can organize, manipulate, find and share their own life events within user defined groups with customizable timelines, interactive maps and tags. Nominated for Open Web awards, LifeSnapz have used almost every media type any user can ever captured their life events in. Users can use LifeSnapz as a Individual user or as a group, company, organization or institution to enable them to organize/ share their histories, events and memorable moments in interactive ways. LifeSnapz users can even share their photos and videos from third party site apart from their own computers and for this the website has chosen intelligently ace performers in both of these, Flickr & Picassa for photos and YouTube & Vimeo.com for videos. The website has also appreciatively taken a good care of privacy while sharing ones online content with any users or groups such as 'read-only' members who can view events in the group and add comments to events, but cannot edit events, add new events or invite other members to the group.

Channel 4 have launched 4mations.tv, a new video-sharing site aimed at bringing together the best animation from around the world. 4mations is a collaboration between Channel 4, Aardman Animations, Reality Digital and Lupus Films and has a strong focus on rewarding animators who upload their work - offering cash rewards of up to £1000 for popular content, competitions, opportunities to pitch for commissions, and even the potential to get on TV. The 4mations website is based around a video-sharing platform, allowing users to upload, rate and comment on content. Additional functionality includes the "Thinks" application, that allows users to quickly and easily create their own personalized animations. Thinks has been developed by the guys behind the cult web-app - Fuzzwich. The site was designed by Oscar-winning Aardman Animations (based in Bristol UK, and the brains behind Wallace and Gromit) and built by Reality Digital (based in San Francisco USA), and is based on Reality's "Opus" video sharing platform. 4mations' visual design is based around an iconic kitten-skull character called "General Tiddles", created by designer Gavin Strange and the Aardman creative team. 4mations launches with a whole host of specially commissioned content from the UK animation community, including animated series, virals and games. ...

Mikogo a free screen sharing tool has now partnered with Skype to provide a perfect free solution to web conferencing. With Mikogo, now one can incorporate free screen sharing within a Skype conference call which makes Mikogo + Skype as complete tool that has - Internet calls, screen sharing, instant chat, and video without any cost. Mikogo available as a Skpe Extra (i.e. plug-ins for Skyoe) where users can have free screen sharing and phone calls together for no cost. With Mikogo Skype Extra one can invite up to 10 participants to any Mikogo screen sharing session directly from your Skype installed in their systems. The tool within Skype provides users an access to high quality screen sharing in real time and in true color quality. The Mikogo and Skype partnership is a good deal towards conferencing solution for SMEs (Small & Medium Entrepreneurs) along with individual who cannot afford additional cost and overhead of paying charges towards web conferencing plus screen sharing. Get Mokogo Skype Extra here.

Navigaya is a new model of portal cum search engine cum "browser based browser" flash technology based portal website/ online media center, where users can search multiple search engines faster and easier than ever before, get headline and video updates from any RSS syndicated website, create YouTube powered streaming video playlists for uninterrupted background playback, manage their favorite site links via a simple yet beautiful scrolling interface, save all customized portal settings and playlists online for use anywhere without any hassles and finally share everything with friends and strangers. Well, Navigaya.com combines all elements of search engines (Google, Yahoo, Lycos, Wikipedia etc.) along with web surfing experience such as video, audio and text with categories/ sections divided to navigate through in fun way. Apparently, it claims that it can ‘find everything sharper, deeper and faster’. Moreover, one big benefit of Navigaya is that its actually uses as a social network - you will find this option on the “login” icon where you can send your navigaya (the navigaya that you modified - including your favorite sites, playlists and all of your profile settings to your friends. Users can view and listen to their play list while simultaneously searching the web. The ...

Mikogo is a free online meeting tool that enables the users to host web presentations and even control a remote computer over the Internet. The tool uses 256 bit AES encryption, allowing to share your desktop in real time and in true color quality across the world with up to 10 participants simultaneously. The tools is offshoot of its already screen sharing tool called BeamYourScreen, to instantly share your screen online to anyone. Mikogo can be employed for a range of professional, business, or academic, including online meetings, product demonstrations, online presentations, web conferencing or remote support. Naturally, Mikogo includes many features to empower the users as much as possible during use. During meeting with Mikogo users can able to: • share each others’ screens • switch presenters • access remote keyboard and mouse control • pause transmission • select only certain applications for sharing • and transfer files between PCs To get started with Mikogo just download the app, and start a meeting with 2 mouse clicks from the system tray. Receive the unique meeting ID – participants then use this to join the meeting. Noticeably, there is no installations or registrations on the participants' part. Being free web tool and no time limitations, Mikogo is easily in reach to ...

RoamAbout is a plugin that delivers information on the web contextually. Users would not need to leave the site they are browsing in order to search for videos, music, pictures or share the things they come across with. This Firefox & IE plugin bring all these to the user by just highlighting the text any user want without leaving the web page they are viewing. One can get related information by selecting text and clicking the RoamAbout Icon in status bar also users can post to their twitter account, the selected text of a web page and post it directly their, without even leaving the web page actually. Similarly users can browse flickr photos, Google news, info from Wikipedia, maps from MapQuest and videos from YouTube and by just selecting the text in web page you are viewing and hitting the plugin's icons bar. User can customize the the plugin bar so as to limit the no. of Icons for different Web services or websites such as stock quotes, weather or games. Moreover, the company behind RoamAround Vysr do have the open platform that provides developers with any easy way to add and integrate services and networks that users can tap into as ...

AppApeal.com has created web 2.0 Mosaic i.e. an art in form of world map filled with small pieces of images, which in this case are logos of leading web 2.0 websites. This World Web 2.0 Mosaic is created from 1001 web 2.0 company logos which when clicked take you to the related website. The logos will appear in full-size when you hover over the mosaic. This art of AppApeal has reminded me of Million Dollar Page that had created a lot of buzz, couple of years back but here in this case its free but no inclusion request or so. One things I found annoyed in AppApeal's Mosaic art is that not even a single website or blog from India has been included in the web 2.0 logos art, though there are worth full websites from India that are much popular than many of the websites present in mosaic art. Nevertheless, a great art work. Thanks, Jelle de Bruin.

MSNBC one of most reputed digital news channel from Microsoft has lately launched a stunning visual RSS reader called Spectra News Reader, that picks news from MSNBC News channels and put in front of user to get a nice visual experience. The App has ability to make it customizable and adding some human interactivity as well. The App Spectra let users to add news channels which in turn carry topics and all this in color combinations and designs to let users distinguish the pallets flying orbitally with headlines on it. The app as apparent is to promote the news website and to compete with the other online news websites which are way ahead than MSNBC.com. If we talk about the channels/ topics that MSNBC have are good enough and vast quality content as well, even though sites like Digg.com, NYTimes, Del.icio.us and even reddit are way ahead than MSNBC. Digg too have similar fashioned Visual web tools or apps to lure its users such as Digg Spy, Arc or Big Spy but it would get its part of traffic anyway. MSNBC in a similar manner does have number of tools, apps and widgets to make its content go viral, one can see all ...

Sitepoint a leading web and online media website is giving a Free 278 page book (PDF version) titled "The Photoshop Anthology" which would usually cost $29.95. The book comprises the examples, hints and inspirations for web designers right from designing a glassy button to background images or classy templates. The book is available for Free, at no extra conditions at Sitepoint and, this free giveaway is only for time constraint of 22 days from time of this post. So, just grab the valuable book for all you designers there, as it does not requires any single thing from you, except for your email ids. Sitepoint, as apparent is 1,866th most visited site in the world and is making mark among web professionals and online media including books for same.