Google recently gave a few hints about its long-rumoured Google Browser, Chrome. This will be an open-source project and has been brought into the spotlight with a 38 pages comic published by Google Blogoscoped.

Today, they have posted a response to this on their blog and have announced that Google Chrome is launching tomorrow. It will be a beta version releasing in more than 100 countries.

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Google recently rolled out a new feature for Google Search homepage that had long been in testing at Google Labs.

Google Suggest is a new feature that suggests search keywords as you type in the search box and offer results in real-time.

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We all know that Adobe AIR is an awesome platform for desktop applications. I recently wrote about an AIR-based web 2.0 icon generator, and here I have an other interesting application from its ever-increasing list.

GMDesk is an application that lets you run Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Maps as a stand-alone application from your desktop and do all your mail handling, calendar event reading etc with.

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The new iGoogle has been in beta testing for more than 2 months now. It was announced back in June that the new developer sandbox has been opened for a few Google accounts and not all are able to access it.

Several changes have been made like the tabs are now in the left side of the page instead at the top. They are expandable if you want to see the list of gadgets in a treet list. Another major change is that each gadget now has an expanded view providing more functions and features.

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Gmail is one of the most popular email services available. I use a popular desktop client, Thunderbird, to receive my Gmail mails and it is my default email client to send emails.

But for people who do not have a mail client configured for their browsers, Firefox 3 has a built-in feature by which they can configure Gmail as the default email client. This trick will enable you to automatically open Gmail when clicked on a mailto link.

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