Hello readers,
Yet another interesting social networking tool from Google!! "Google Wave" according to Google sources, is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A "wave" can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
Since a "wave" is shared, any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.
What's more? It is also live!! With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.
Google says, a "wave" can be used in a variety of ways like, for organizing events, group projects, photo sharing, meeting notes, brainstorming etc. It is also bundled with some powerful featured extensions like Google Maps, Lab Pixies, Rabbit for telephone conferencing calls, Rosy - the live translation tool, a real time video chatting extension and many more!!
Seems interesting..........need to explore.

Free OCR Tool on Web

Dear readers,

Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this to perform OCR on any image you supply. This service is free, no registration necessary. We also do not need your email address. Just upload your image files. Free-OCR takes either a JPG, GIF, TIFF BMP or PDF (only first page). The only restriction is that the images must not be larger than 2MB, no wider or higher than 5000 pixels and there is a limit of 10 image uploads per hour. Enjoy!!

Free access to articles by 2009 Nobel Laureates - Courtesy Springer

Dear readers,
Springer is offering all journal articles and book chapters written by this year’s Nobel Prize laureates free of charge on its online information platform www.springerlink.com. The articles and chapters will be available to print out or download from now until 31 December 2009. Enjoy your reading!!