Google World Wonders: For full 360° views of modern and ancient heritage sites

Street View on Google Maps is a popular way for you to explore places at street level views. All this being accomplished by Google's street view cars that have cameras mounted on them. Google cameras got close enough to these heritage sites of both the ancient and modern world and have created beautiful 360° views at street level. With Google World Wonders you can now go globetrotting sitting on your armchair and visit the ancient wonders of the world. All in stunning clarity, 360° views, 3D and accompanied YouTube videos to help make your journey and discovery as clear and as real as possible. 

It also has a lot of benefits for teachers who can use this service and its lesson plans to help teach children. Now when students need to research wonders of the ancient and modern world, Google World Wonders can definitely offer a realistic picture of these wonders. Currently there are 132 historic sites from 18 countries, including Stonehenge, the archaeological areas of Pompeii and the ancient Kyoto temples. Man-made sites include natural places: wander the sandy dunes of Australia’s Shark Bay or gaze up at the rock domes of Yosemite National Park in California. Google Wonder also has a YouTube channel to help you explore more. 

Explore Google World Wonders now

Google World Wonders YouTube Channel

Source: Google Official blog

Amazon Electronics Trade-In: Sell your old laptops, Phones and Electronic goods and get gift cards

Amazon has a new trade-in program for electronic goods. You can use the program to exchange your old laptops, netbooks, smartphones and other gadgets and get an Amazon Gift Card. This card can then be used to buy your next gadget on Amazon.com. This program opens doors for people who are especially fond of browsing Amazon for products to buy. The process of exchanging and trading-in old electronic goods just got simpler. Almost everyone has old laptops and other goods that are no more used. Amazon will handle that for you in the easiest manner possible. You can get an exchange for old laptops. MacBooks, iPhones, iPads, external hard-drives, tablets and a host of other electronic goods. Once Amazon agrees for a trade-in you can then print a label, pack your items and ship them for free. Once received you get a gift coupon in your Amazon account within two days.


Amazon electronics trade-in: How does it work
You will need to go to Amazon trade-in for electronics and then use the search bar to find product you want to do a trade with. Essentially if you model number and product is not found than it is not eligible for a trade-in. Under the find the electronics you'd like to sell bar you can enter the tile or keyword to search by. Once your product appears on this page you can click the trade in like and get started. If you goods reach them and they think you have overvalued your goods they can send it back or you can accept they lower valuation and trade-in or sell it anyway. So go ahead and sell your old electronics goods on Amazon.com. So search if your product is eligible and how much it's worth. 
Amazon Electronics Trade-In

Google+ Local: How does it work

If you login to Google+ you're going to see a new tab on the left hand column. It is called Local and the icon is of a person and a map pointer. Google Local now integrates Zegat ratings, from the site that used to charge $25 annually for access to its diners ratings of restaurants from across the globe. Google+ Local now has these ratings available for free when you search for places located close to you. Once you find a place and want to review it you can do so by using the 'Write a review' icon. Your ratings are then also available in Zegat reviews. So posting to Google + Local will also show up in Zegat. Both the services are now tied together after Google bought Zegat for in Sep 2011 with reports saying that Google paid 150 million dollars. Google is now expected to build a powerful competitor against yelp.com - which refused a 500 million buy out from Google. 


Google+ Local: How does it work


Once you click on Google+ local you get two bars one to enter the service you want to find and the other for the city you want to find it in. Once you enter a search term you get to see if any of your contacts from within your circles have reviewed any of these places and services. You can then write a review and to do this click on the pencil icon. You then get a pop-up with the Zegat 30 point rating system. To rate and review, if the default labels are not related to your review you can change the labels by clicking on wrong labels. This can happen when you want to review a park for restaurant labels appear. Once you write a review your review is posted under your name and no alias is allowed. This review will also get cross posted to Zegat. You can also find reviews from top reviewers or people from your circles. 


If you're wondering what the 30 point rating system of Zegat is:

26 - 30Extraordinary to Perfection
21 - 25Very Good to Excellent
16 - 20Good to Very Good
11 - 15Fair to Good
0 - 10Poor to Fair


Google+ Local for mobile available here. 
Learn more about Google+ local here. 
With Google+ local you can share photos from your favorite places, write and share reviews of the places you like to eat at, stay at, play at, dance at or have fun at. 
Google+ is a simple and easy way for you to find great restaurants and places in your city. Also lets you research cities you might be visiting and find great places and services there too. Please let us know your thoughts in the comments section below. 

How to track your lost Android phone and find it again

If you have misplaced your mobile phone then there are ways to track it and get it back. The easiest instance would be that you turned the ringer into silent mode and then forgot where you left it. If you have one of the apps listed below it will help you to turn the ringer on by remote controlling your phone via SMS or TEXT messages and turning it back on. Below are a list of apps that can definitely help you track your lost phone.


1. Plan B

This is an app that you can use after you have lost your phone. There is no software to be downloaded and if by chance your phone is missing, head over to this app located in Google Play and start it over the web to begin searching. To begin using the app you will need a Google Account and then start using it over the web. Once installed you get an email in your associated Gmail account telling you the app has begun searching for your phone. This is followed up by another email with a Google map showing you where your phone is. If it is unable to locate your phone you can use another phone and text the word 'Locate' to your phone. The service will not work if your phone is turned off. has no SIM card or no network connection. Works in the US only.


2. Where's My Droid Lite
This is one app can also be used after you have lost your phone. Once you phone is missing you can use this app to send a text message to your phone that will turn the ringer volume right up and help you locate your phone. You can also use text commands to send you back your phones location and get the longitude and latitude position of your phone. 


3. Agastya
This app will allow you to again turn on your phone's ringer even if it is silent mode. You can do so by using any other phone and using text message commands to get the job done. Here is a list of commands you can use with this app, provide by Tech blog Digital Inspiration. 



SILENT – Turn off the phone’s ringer
RINGER – Turn on the ringer
IMEI – Get the IMEI number* of your phone
LAST MESSAGES – Retrieve the last 5 text messages received on your phone
LAST CALLS – Know the last 5 missed/received/dialed numbers
– Fetch the contact number of a person from the address book.

How to find your Facebook email address

This is a simple trick to find your Facebook email address. This post is not going to redirect you anywhere or tell you where to go to find out what your Facebook email ID really is. It is very simple your public username is your Facebook email address. So let's say your Facebook username is user.123, your Facebook public address would be www.Facebook.com/user.123. Your Facebook email address would automatically then be user.123@ Facebook.com. So all you need to do is to click on your Facebook Timeline and check the URL in the address bar. You full Facebook address will appear and whatever appears after .com is your Facebook email address.


Maybe you have not yet chosen a vanity URL for your profile. This means you can have your name after .com. You can set it right and change everything because the default profile URL you are given does not look nice and you should change it to something more colorful and nice. So, to customize your Facebook email address go here and choose a new one. You can now start giving out your new Facebook email address to all your friends and they can then send you email direct to your Facebook account. You can then reply from there and use it like traditional email. Please leave a comment below to continue this discussion. 

Steve Jobs Interview collection free on iTunes

There is now a place on Apple iTunes for you to view all of those iconic interviews of Steve Jobs. These interviews took place on the stage of All Things D and they have now made it available as a podcast on iTunes. All videos are available as online streaming video and you get to see some of those classics. There are a lot of interview videos to be found online and on YouTube, especially the most inspiring and oft-quoted Stanford Commencement Address and videos of Apple product releases. If however you want to see some of those interviews with him sitting on stage and answering unrehearsed questions this is the place to go. In fact many times he sat on the All Things D stage and spoke very openly on a number of things and  these are noteworthy interviews to be viewed by anyone interested to explore more the mind of the great Steve Jobs. All Things D are famous for a number of interviews especially the first time they brought both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together for an interview. As a memorial to the man and in the spirit of freedom All Things D have released these 6 interviews. A most for anyone who is a fan, maybe a budding entrepreneur, a TECH buff. Read more at All Things D.  
Steve Jobs interviews on iTunes available for free

Video: Sergey Brin lets interviewer try on Google Glass which he hopes to launch sometime next year

Google's Project Glass was in the news a few days ago when Sergey Brin Google's co-founder was spotted wearing the AR glasses. Google Glass is in the news today again and this time because of a video where Sergey Brin actually lets an interviewer try on Google Glass. Gavin from The Gavin Newsroom Show gets a chance to try on the hi-fi piece of eye-wear and get a glimpse of the product the Sergey hopes will be out next year. There has been a lot of speculation with analysts saying it will be years before the glasses are available to the public. Sergey on the other hand says that he hopes to have it out sometime next year. This does sound a little bit fat-fetched. But hey, this is Google and they do have a reputation for getting things done on time and beating deadlines. This smartphone for the face does everything your phone can without you having to use your hands. It is like an 'Advanced Skunk Works project' he says and yes it is really out there. Check out the video below and see for yourself what Sergey Brin has to say about it.