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Thursday, January 28, 2010


Chrome Tip: Managing tabs on Google Chrome

When you're using the same browser window to check your email and calendar, write a report, do some research, and watch a few YouTube videos, the tabstrip can become pretty crowded. With Google Chrome, we tried to make it easy to keep your tabs organized.

You can use the mouse to grab a tab and drag it around in the tabstrip, to keep related tabs close to each other.


If you need even better delineation between tasks, just drag a tab out of the strip entirely and drop it somewhere on your desktop. You'll get a whole new window to keep stuff in, and you can then drag more tabs from your old window to your new one.


Didn't mean to create that window? Just drag the tab you dropped back up to the original tabstrip to put it back.

Of course, sometimes you don't want to move tabs, you just want to get rid of them. If you find that highlighting the little "x" that closes a tab is too tricky, you can just point at any part of the tab in the tabstrip and press your mouse's middle button. This makes it just a little easier to go close a tab.


And after you close one tab, the next tab will slide right under your mouse, so if you want to close a bunch, you can just keep clicking.

Source & Recent Posts from Google Blogs :
http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/01/tip-managing-tabs.html
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/serving-better-ads-in-gmail.html
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-thumbnail-flipbook-in-upload-shows.html
http://google-au.blogspot.com/2010/01/googles-privacy-principles.html
http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/01/updated-books-home-page-and-my-library.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/googles-privacy-principles.html

Sunday, January 24, 2010


Wish you happy birthday Orkut :-)




Ariel, on behalf of the orkut team Say's

It may not have popped up in your birthdays list, but today is orkut's big day: the site is now 6 years old! In the past 6 years we've learned to walk, talk, and color inside the lines, among many other achievements. We've even shaken things up and reinvented ourselves not once but twice!

More importantly, we've made a ton of great friends along the way (over 80 million worldwide), and are happy to include you among them.

Thanks for sticking with us for all of these years. There's plenty more to come from the orkut team, so we look forward to many more birthdays together!

Recent posts from Google Blogs:
http://en.blog.orkut.com/2010/01/orkuts-6th-birthday.html
http://blog.orkut.com/2010/01/6-anos-de-orkut.html
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/01/sundance-film-festival-rentals-now.html
http://googlejapan.blogspot.com/2010/01/tech-talk-in-google-1-30.html
http://buzz.blogger.com/2010/01/important-note-to-ftp-users.html
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/serving-better-ads-in-gmail.html
http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2010/01/use-your-extra-storage-to-store-any.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/this-week-in-search-12210.html
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/01/youtubes-all-access-pass-to-davos.html

Thursday, January 21, 2010


Google Blogs Update [Google Wave / GMail]

New features: Read-only and Restore

Read-Only Participants
The creator of a wave can now change other participants on the wave between full access and read-only by clicking on their picture at the top of the wave panel, and selecting the access level in the drop-down:



As the name implies, read-only participants are prevented from making any changes to the wave, including adding new participants. They can, however, view live changes to the wave, and look at the history in playback.

You can make entire groups read-only as well, including the "public" group, which includes all Google Wave users. Note that individual permissions take precedence over group permissions, so even if a group has full access, an individual can be given read-only access, and vice versa.

Restore from Playback
Anyone with full access to a wave can now restore that wave to any previous state visible in playback:



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Serving better ads in Gmail

Ever since we launched Gmail, we've tried to show relevant and unobtrusive ads. We're always trying to improve our algorithms to show better, more useful ads.

When you open a message in Gmail, you often see ads related to that email. Let's say you're looking at a confirmation email from a hotel in Chicago. Next to your email, you might see ads about flights to Chicago.

But sometimes, there aren't any good ads to match to a particular message. From now on, you'll sometimes see ads matched to another recent email instead. For example, let's say you're looking at a message from a friend wishing you a happy birthday. If there aren't any good ads for birthdays, you might see the Chicago flight ads related to your last email instead.

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More recent posts from Google Blogs
http://googlepolska.blogspot.com/2010/01/lepiej-dopasowane-reklamy-w-gmailu.html
http://analytics.blogspot.com/2010/01/clicks-vs-visits-revisited.html
http://google-produkt-kompass.blogspot.com/2010/01/gezieltere-werbung-in-google-mail.html
http://googlewave.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-features-read-only-and-restore.html
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/01/introducing-youtube-html5-supported.html
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/serving-better-ads-in-gmail.html

Wednesday, January 20, 2010


Google Blogs Update [Orkut / Google Search]

Auto-Magic Groups

Have you ever wanted to see updates only from your family members or colleagues? Or have you ever tried to share a photo with college friends and had to select each recipient manually? If you have a lot of friends it could mean selecting dozens of people, one at a time. What if you could easily group them and interact with all of them at once?

As managing a large list of friends and keeping it up-to-date can be very time-consuming and not much fun, we came up with a solution: Auto-Magic Groups, a new feature that, as the name suggests, "automagically" figures out any friend groups you may have and also suggests labels for those groups.



Clicking the "edit groups" link will pull up groups you previously created, as well new groups suggested by orkut. You can reject orkut-suggested groups, or further customize them (the way you do with groups you've created yourself) by naming them and deleting or adding people to existing groups. Also, orkut tries to identify communities most closely related to each group.


Helping computers understand language

An irony of computer science is that tasks humans struggle with can be performed easily by computer programs, but tasks humans can perform effortlessly remain difficult for computers. We can write a computer program to beat the very best human chess players, but we can't write a program to identify objects in a photo or understand a sentence with anywhere near the precision of even a child.




Enabling computers to understand language remains one of the hardest problems in artificial intelligence. The goal of a search engine is to return the best results for your search, and understanding language is crucial to returning the best results. A key part of this is our system for understanding synonyms.

What is a synonym? An obvious example is that "pictures" and "photos" mean the same thing in most circumstances. If you search for [pictures developed with coffee] to see how to develop photographs using coffee grinds as a developing agent, Google must understand that even if a page says "photos" and not "pictures," it's still relevant to the search. While even a small child can identify synonyms like pictures/photos, getting a computer program to understand synonyms is enormously difficult, and we're very proud of the system we've developed at Google.

Here are screenshots of those disambiguations of GM in action:


Recent Posts from other google blog's:
http://googlewebmastercentral-ja.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_20.html
http://googlethailand.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post.html
http://googlejapan.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_20.html
http://www.googlechinawebmaster.com/2010/01/blog-post_20.html
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/01/making-grade-by-mapping-candides.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/helping-computers-understand-language.html
http://en.blog.orkut.com/2010/01/auto-magic-groups.html

Sunday, January 17, 2010


Support Disaster Relief in Haiti

On January 12, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. Join recovery efforts mobilizing around the world to assist earthquake victims. Your donation will help disaster victims rebuild their lives and their communities. Google will also donate $1 million to help organizations provide relief.





Watch Michelle Obama on Haiti Relief



Other ways to help

The following organizations are accepting SMS donations in the US only:
  • SMS text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 to Red Cross relief efforts
  • SMS text “YELE” to 501501 to Donate $5 to Yele Haiti’s Earthquake Relief efforts
  • SMS text "GIVE10" to 20222 to donate $10 to Direct Relief
Help map Haiti - Directly assist relief workers in saving lives.

News and Updates

Wednesday, January 13, 2010


Google Chrome Tip: More omnibox power tools

We've already seen a few things you can do with the omnibox, but it turns out there are even more capabilities you might not have known about.

First, you can create a desktop shortcut for the page you're on by simply highlighting the text in the omnibox, and then dragging that text onto your desktop.



If this is too fussy for you, you can drag the Star button next to the omnibox to the desktop to do the same thing (Note: this only applies to Google Chrome for Windows).

Second, if you've gotten a web address in an email or other document, and it isn't actually clickable, you can easily open it in the omnibox. Just select the link (even if it's broken across multiple lines!), copy it to your clipboard, and then right click (or on the Mac, ctrl-click) on the omnibox and select "Paste and go".

This will navigate to the link immediately. It works for things other than links too -- if you have some text on your clipboard, you can "Paste and search" to do the same thing as dragging the text to the omnibox.


Recent posts from other google blog's

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/01/tip-more-omnibox-power-tools.html (Source)

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html

http://googlepolska.blogspot.com/2010/01/dokumenty-google-jeszcze-lepsze.html

http://googleproducts-nl.blogspot.com/2010/01/ben-jij-een-gmail-ninja.html

http://googleenterprise-ja.blogspot.com/2010/01/google.html

http://googlekoreablog.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_13.html

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/default-https-access-for-gmail.html

'GO' for it : Google's new programming language

http://golang.org/doc/logo-153x55.png

The Go Programming Language 

Introduction

Go is an open source project, distributed under a BSD-style license. This document explains how to check out the sources, build them on your own machine, and run them.
There are two distinct ways to experiment with Go. This document focuses on the gc Go compiler and tools (6g, 8g etc.). For information on how to use gccgo, a more traditional compiler using the GCC back end, see Setting up and using gccgo.


Community resources

For real-time help, there may be users or developers on #go-nuts on the Freenode IRC server.
The official mailing list for discussion of the Go language is Go Nuts.
Bugs can be reported using the Go issue tracker.
For those who wish to keep up with development, there is another mailing list, golang-checkins, that receives a message summarizing each checkin to the Go repository.


Getting started

Install Go.  /  Read the tutorial.  /  Learn the libraries.  /  Video

Default https access for Gmail [Gmail Blog Updates]

In 2008, we rolled out the option to always use https — encrypting your mail as it travels between your web browser and our servers. Using https helps protect data from being snooped by third parties, such as in public wifi hotspots. We initially left the choice of using it up to you because there's a downside: https can make your mail slower since encrypted data doesn't travel across the web as quickly as unencrypted data. Over the last few months, we've been researching the security/latency tradeoff and decided that turning https on for everyone was the right thing to do.

We are currently rolling out default https for everyone. If you've previously set your own https preference from Gmail Settings, nothing will change for your account. If you trust the security of your network and don't want default https turned on for performance reasons, you can turn it off at any time by choosing "Don't always use https" from the Settings menu. Gmail will still always encrypt the login page to protect your password. Google Apps users whose admins have not already defaulted their entire domains to https will have the same option.

To read about other steps you can take to protect your accounts and your computers, visit google.com/help/security.

Note: If you use offline Gmail over http currently, the switch to https is likely to cause some problems. Learn more about this known issue and how to work around it.

Original Source : http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/default-https-access-for-gmail.html

More Tips in More Languages | Gmail Ninja

When we published the Gmail tips guide in July, we promised it would help you become a Gmail ninja. Now, if you want to become a Gmail ниндзя or 忍者, you can do that too: these tips are now available in Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, and UK English.

We've also added a handful of new tips to the English site, culled from suggestions you submitted. Some of the new tricks to help manage your email efficiently include sending and receiving mail from multiple addresses, adding formatting to chat messages, and selecting multiple messages at once using shift-select. Thanks to everyone who submitted ideas, and please keep them coming.

Update (1/12): The Gmail tips guide is also now available in German, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

Original Source : http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-ninja-tips-in-more-languages.html

Friday, January 8, 2010


Chat on Translator Toolkit : Google translator

Collaboration is an important part of translation. Whether you work with editors to translate documents, customers to clarify terms or project managers to meet deadlines, working with other translators is key to making high-quality translations. Today, we're making it easier to collaborate on translations with the release of chat in Translator Toolkit.


Just like chat in Gmail, you can send instant messages to colleagues, friends, family and groups directly from within Translator Toolkit. All the features and settings of chat are the same as what you're used to, including going on the record to save your translation chats in Gmail. If you don't want to be interrupted as you work on a translation, you can simply go invisible or turn off chat through the Translator Toolkit settings.

In addition to chat, we've made a few other updates that should make your translation work speedier. You can now change your display language and set the toolkit tabs to open or close by default. And we've expanded our entries in the dictionary tab, including useful information like parts of speech and alternate definitions. For example, if you're translating the word cancer into Chinese, you will find alternate translations for cancer as a disease and cancer as a quickly-spreading danger so you can find just the right word for your translation:


Check out these improvements now in Translator Toolkit.

Source : http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/chat-on-translator-toolkit.html

Recent Posts from other google blogs :
http://adsense.googlechinablog.com/2010/01/blog-post_08.html
http://googlechinablog.com/2010/01/blog-post_08.html
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/01/cross-posted-from-google-sketchup-blog.html
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/01/finding-places-near-me-now-is-easier.html

Thursday, January 7, 2010


Gmail on Nexus One : Gmail Blog

Not only does the just-announced Nexus One have a beautiful display, snappy processor, and five megapixel camera complete with flash and geotagging, but you can also buy it online with or without a service plan. Plus, it runs Android 2.1, which adds a couple of new features to the native Gmail application:
  • Quick contact badge: Press the contact status icon within Gmail, and a handy box shows all of the ways you can reply to a contact — including email, chat, SMS, and Facebook.
  • Voice input: Swipe the keyboard, then just speak to select contacts or write an email, complete with punctuation. Period!



Nexus One also features the Gmail updates of Android 2.0, including:
  • Multiple Gmail accounts: Sync multiple accounts to the same device and switch between them without leaving the app.
  • Undo: A handy 'undo' link makes it easier to retrieve messages when you hit archive or delete by mistake. (Note: you can't yet undo send as you can with the desktop version of Gmail).
Original Source : http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/gmail-on-nexus-one.html

Friday, January 1, 2010


Yes. Its new year : from the Orkut

Another year has gone by, and it's certainly been an exciting one for the orkut team. In the past 12 months, we're proud to have:
Through it all, our primary guide has always been your feedback, and we're happy to hear that so many of you have enjoyed what's come so far.

We have a lot of exciting updates planned for 2010, but we'd also like to hear about things that you'd like to see. So, let us know: what's your biggest wish for orkut in 2010? Please be sure to get in touch and tell us what's on your mind.

As you head out to celebrate the new year with your friends and family, don't forget to check out the orkut doodle that we've created in honor of the date:



Oh, and be sure to post the pictures from all your New Year's antics to orkut so that your friends can see what you've been up to.

Source : http://en.blog.orkut.com/2009/12/happy-new-year.html


Google Say's Five years of Google blogging

It's time again for our annual wrap-up of blogging at Google. You may have noticed 2009 marked our fifth year here on the Official Google Blog — our first post was in April 2004 — and it was our busiest year yet. This is our 423rd post of 2009 — a 15 percent increase over last year. We're also pleased to note that a total of 14,493,472 readers stopped by this year, a 21 percent increase. You hail from all over: more than half of visitors are outside of the U.S. The other top countries are (in order) U.K., India, Canada, Germany and France.

What captured your attention this year? Here are the top 10 posts of 2009, by unique pageviews:
  1. Introducing the Google Chrome OS - 2,591,794 unique pageviews (more than 12 percent of the year's total). The announcement of our open source operating system received more than 4x the views of any other post.
  2. Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave - 639,225. Wave-mania struck after we introduced a new product for collaboration and communication at our Google I/O conference.
  3. Here comes Google Voice - 357,084. We released a preview of this application to help you better manage your voice communications.
  4. "This site may harm your computer" on every search result?!?! - 320,435. A short-lived error affecting Google search results led to confusion and concern; this post cleared it up.
  5. Email in Indian languages - 224,052. A transliteration feature in Gmail that makes it easier to type in Indian languages was a hit. More than one million readers of the blog in 2009 were from India — a 53 percent increase over 2008.
  6. Releasing the Chromium OS open source project - 217,424. A few months after announcing our operating system project, we open-sourced it as Chromium OS.
  7. Now you see it, now you don't - 165,329. We introduced a new, clean version of our classic homepage.
  8. Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really) - 164,319. Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk all lost their beta tags (in Gmail's case, after five years!).
  9. Now S-U-P-E-R-sized! - 155,196. A "small" change increasing the size of the Google search box got a lot of attention.
  10. Introducing Google Public DNS - 143,122. We launched our public DNS resolver, which converts domain names into unique Internet Protocol (IP) numbers.
We also developed a few different series of posts this year: one on the power of measurement, for people who want to improve the performance of their websites; a weekly series focused on search; and another on the latest in the world of Google Apps.

As always, we had some fun in 2009, with grass-mowing goats and a panda-obsessed Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE) on April Fools' Day. Our curiosity was piqued by Atlantis (or not) under the sea, constellations in Google Sky Map and a fresnel lens somewhere in between.

Finally, the Google Blog network continues to grow. This year, we welcomed blogs dedicated to Google Wave, Google New Zealand, Data Liberation, Google Voice, Google Arabia, Google Thailand, European Public Policy and Google Chrome — among others — to our blogging family.

Beyond the blogs, in February we jumped head-first into the Twitterverse, starting our @google account with a geeky tweet. Since then, we've tweeted more than 1,000 times, and are grateful to have gathered two million or so followers. That puts us in the company of @algore and @ashsimpsonwentz, and (today, at least) just 65,000 or so followers behind a certain @ladygaga (although we're pretty sure that gap is only going to grow — no way we can compete with her outfits). Around 75 other Google entities and teams have gotten into the Twitter act this year as well, so we built a directory to help you keep up with all the action. Twitter also was our biggest non-Google referrer to the blog in 2009, a clear sign of its rapid growth in popularity.

Thanks for sticking with us through all of our goings-on over the past 12 months. We look forward to having you back for more in 2010. In the meantime, happy New Year!

Source : http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/five-years-of-google-blogging.html

Recent posts from other google blog's :
http://googlechinablog.com/2009/12/blog-post_30.html
http://google-newzealand.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-we-watched-on-youtube-in-2009.html
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/12/youtube-blogging-in-2009.html
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