Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Google Guru-Search from Gtalk!

Google Talk Guru is an experimental service that allows people to get information like sports results, weather forecasts, definitions etc via chat. It works on many popular chat applications that support Google Talk.Google Guru is actually a bot which returns the search results typed in Google Talk chat window.

To start using Google Talk Guru:
1. Sign into a chat client that supports Google Talk
2. Send a chat invitation to guru@googlelabs.com 
3. Find guru in your contact list and send chat queries to guru using the examples below:

Sport scores:score arsenal
Weather:weather Nairobi
Calculate:123 * 45
Currency:120 KES to USD
Definition:define laptop
Translation:translate earth to French
Web result:web Mount Kenya
Help:help translate

Friday, April 8, 2011

How to Watch TV Online Using VLC Media Player

Source:CallingAllGeeks
VLC media player is one of the most famous open source media players. Did you know that you can use VLC media player as a television and watch tv channels on it? In this post I will show you how you can do that with an easy tutorial. So, lets begin.
1. Open up VLC Media Player. Don’t have it installed? Download VLC player from here –> Link.
vlc How to Watch TV Online Using VLC Media Player