Ever experienced difficulty in filtering out clip-arts or pencil drawings from the google image search. Now it can be easily done as because of the google's new options in searching.

Along with the faces and photo content, Google has also added up Cliparts and Line Drawing options inorder to filter out the images based on user's wish and need.

All of these options can be selected from the "Any content" drop down in the blue title bar on any search results page, or by selecting one of the "Content types" on the Advanced Image Search page. User need not type any queries newly instead just a selection will do.

Tell us about your experience whether this new feature really helped you in filtering out what you needed?

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On December 18, Symantec unveiled Norton Internet Security for Mac which includes traditional virus protection, a Firewall, and tools to help Mac users protect against the spyware and identity thefts.

Though currently not many users of Mac faces these problems, but in the long run with Mac becoming more popular among users, this would be a better solution to be ready to face any potential threats. This application is integrated with the protection found in Norton AntiVirus 11 for Mac, Norton Confidential, and two-way firewall functionality.

The Norton Internet Security for Mac Dual Protection was also released along with this. This application will also protect against phishing Web sites, protecting your identity and protecting files against keyloggers and other types of eavesdropping applications.

Norton Internet Security for Mac is also linked to Symantec’s DeepSight Threat Management System, updating the firewall rules at least once a day to protect against the latest attacking IP addresses. This ensures that Mac users will be protected on an ongoing basis without having to really think about many of the threats.

You can purchase Norton Internet Security for Mac for $79.99 and Norton Internet Security for Mac Dual Protection for $69.99.

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The Google webmaster team has prepared a very good 22 minute video presentation, which gives tips on how to improve your site’s presence on Google search and how to deal with issues like image search, fluctuating PageRank, duplicate content etc.

The presentation slides used in this video can be downloaded from Google Docs.

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Toshiba introduced the world's first 2.5 inch 512GB solid state drive. This multi-chip NAND based flash storage is based on 43nm manufacturing technology.

It supports excellent read speeds of 240MBps and write speeds of 200MBps. The drives comes with AES encryption, which improves data protection. Toshiba also plans to introduce 64GB, 128GB and 256GB SSD versions.

They are designed for laptops, gaming and home entertainment systems. The company plans to demonstrate new SSD in January at CES 2009.

Shipments of engineering samples of the new drives will begin in the first quarter of 2009 and mass production is scheduled for the second quarter.

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Samsung Electronics is developing an Android-powered version of the Korean market Omnia smart device for launch on Sprint and T-Mobile in the second quarter of next year in North America.

The launch of Google phone by Samsung is regarded as a signal for increasing its smart phone market share by releasing handsets in various operating systems.

On December 18, industry insiders said that Samsung Electronics is currently in the development process of its new Google phone to release out in the Q2 2009 via Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA in North America.

A team of 80 developers is currently working on it including 30 Linux and Java experts. Although the developers have been at it for a year, Sprint needs the Google phone quick and has asked Samsung to speed-up.

The Google phone will feature the Google Map based location information service, messenger G-Talk, the G-mail application and Google Search.

A Samsung official said, “We are accelerating the development process for Google phone in order to meet the specific need of local carriers. We will be able to release Google phone in the second quarter of the next year in the US market. ”

Currently, HTC, a Taiwanese mobile phone maker, only released a Google phone, G1.

Its Google phone has been assessed to have lower competitiveness in design and quality.

That’s why Samsung’s full touch Google phone is drawing attention from the market.

Lets us know your views whether this phone could be an iPhone killer?

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Wikipedia is the most commonly used free content encyclopedia written by a global community of volunteers. This has launched its mobile version of its site to address the needs of the ever growing mobile subscribers. The site has been built as though the basic model phones which have a WAP browser can access it.

The two major advancements in mobile version is it can support 14 languages as of now and another feature called Spoken Wikipedia which will give some practical use of the nearly 800 spoken articles on the site. Currently this feature is not enabled to users. This site involves no graphics except the Wikipedia logo.

Visit mobile.wikipedia.org and let us know the feedback.

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Google has released the latest version of it’s AdWords Editor v7.0 in just 2 months after the last major upgrade (version 6.5 in Oct 2008). Google AdWord Editor version 7 includes a number of changes and improvements including First page bid estimates, Keyword Quality Score, Keyword Opportunities Locale, Campaign targeting in the data view and Send feedback to Google.

Google AdWords Editor is a free program that lets Google AdWords users to download their account, update your campaigns with powerful editing tools, then upload your changes to AdWords.

Advertisers will welcome the latest upgrade, as the more useful metrics included in the editor will make it easier for them to make informed decisions and changes with their campaigns.

After you've installed the new version, you can download your account and import the backup file.

Download the latest version of Adwords Editor from here.

Please let us know what you feel about this new version of Adwords Editor.

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