Biking directions on Google Maps has been requested by public long time ago. On 10^th March 2010, Google has finally added a new biking directions feature to the Google Maps. At this moment, Biking directions is only support and coverage for US country.

This feature includes as much bike trail information as possible to recommend the most efficient routes for the riders, so it is possible to avoid hills, heavy cars traffic and faster to reach the destination.

With this feature, riders can customize their trip, make use of bike lanes and calculate the rider-friendly route, in order to drive less and spend more time at destination place.
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Google Docs is a free web-based service that allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating with other users in real-time basic. On 12^nd January 2010, Google has announced it will roll out its upgraded Google Docs service over the next few weeks.

This will be a good news for those users who are heavily on using Google Doc as the primary tool for document sharing among their friends, co-workers from different locations.

Google Docs was considering on the difficulty when attach large files for emailing, so the upgrade of Google Docs will allow users to upload large amount of files in the cloud. This makes it easy for users to backup the files, documents more frequently, easily and safety without the need to bring the USB drive from time to time.
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Nowadays, there are plenty of search engines available on the web. One of the image search engine GazoPa has recently released by Hitachi America after a year of private beta trial service. This is the open beta version to the public for trying, testing, feedback without any registration to the system.

GazoPa is a next generation of similar image search engine, which allows users to search for the images based on the image features such like a color, a shape that are extracted from a key image that uploaded by the users.

Users can perform various kinds of search method for similar images by using GazoPa. For example, Users can upload an image (4MB Maximum size) from their PC; key in the image URL into the search field; search by keyword; install the GazoPa plugin for the Firefox; install GazoPa bookmarklet; or even users can random search the similar images by “Shuffle” feature.
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Since first of July 2009, Gmail has improved some of its features to make the system more user friendly, easy to use and navigate. This time Gmail was making some changes to its labeling toolkit. Gmail has moved those label names to higher place, drag and drop labeling aims to make Gmail’s labels more likely as you are dropping your file to a folder on your desktop.

1. New location of the custom labels

Users’ custom created label are now placing higher up on the left hand sidebar, just below the Gmail default labels. Now labels are easier to reach without scrolling the webpage.

2. Show and hide labels

Gmail’s users now have the control over which of their labels to show or hide. It can now automatically showing the labels that you use most of the time and hiding others. In order to reach any of the old labels, just click on the “more” hyperlink. This change has give some convenient to the Gmail’s users, now they not need to create the funny label name like “_todo” or “-important” to force the most-used labels to the top of the list.

3. Drag and Drop

The most impressive new feature has been introduced like the Hotmail.com. Gmail’s users now can drag any message(s) and drop the message(s) into label. This does the same action like “Move to” option, but it make you more comfortable to perform the moving from one label to another. Move multiple message just select those message before drag them to another label.

You can also drag label onto message just like you are labeling the messages. It is also possible to drag labels into the “more” menu to hide them and vice verse. More information at Gmail’s official weblog.

I most likely using Gmail, because of user friendly and the speed when opening a message. Now Gmail has make everything be more organized. The storage for the Gmail is keep increasing, now is about 7.3 GB, so you will not need to delete your messages anymore to prevent full of your mailbox.