Archive for the ‘Google’ Category
Saturday, September 1st, 2007 |
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don’t speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle incompatabilities between web browsers and platforms, and JavaScript’s lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJAX components difficult and fragile.
GWT lets you avoid many of these headaches while offering your users the same dynamic, standards-compliant experience. You write your front end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.
Download: Google Web Toolkit 1.4
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007 |
Google Desktop gives you easy access to information on your computer and from the web. It’s a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, music, photos, chats and web pages that you’ve viewed. By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks. It makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google.
Google Desktop doesn’t just help you search your computer; it also helps you gather new information from the web with Sidebar, a new desktop feature that shows you your new email, weather and stock information, personalized news and RSS/Atom feeds, and more. Sidebar is personalized automatically, without any manual configuration required (though you can certainly make your own customizations if you want to).
Requires glibc 2.3.2+, gtk+ 2.2.0+
Download: Google Desktop for Linux
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Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 |
Google Toolbar is a popular browser add-on that makes it possible to quickly perform Google Web searches, prevent annoying pop-up ads from appearing, and fill in Web forms with one simple click.
Now you can make your Toolbar as unique as you are. You can add buttons and bookmarks; share web pages with friends; get instant search suggestions; and enjoy the web form filler and spellchecker.
Features
· Enhanced Search Box
· Google Safe Browsing
· Subscribe to Feed
· Send with Gmail
· Custom Layouts
· SpellCheck
· AutoFill
· Custom buttons
· Google Account Sign-in
· Google Docs & Spreadsheets
With the Google Docs & Spreadsheets feature enabled in the Google Toolbar, you can open most popular file types right in your browser.
· Bookmark frequently visited pages and access them from anywhere
· Add buttons to the Toolbar to search your favorite sites.
· Send To
You can use your Google Toolbar to share web pages via email, text message (SMS), or blog.
System requirements:
· Windows XP/2000 SP3+, Mac OS X 10.2+, or Linux
· Firefox 1.5+
Download: Google Toolbar for Firefox 3.0.20070525w
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 |
AdWords Editor is Google’s free, downloadable account management application for your computer. Download your AdWords account to your computer, make your changes, then upload your revised campaigns. Benefits and features include:
Navigate your account quickly and easily
Make bulk changes to keywords and ad text
Work offline, then upload your changes
Copy and paste keywords and ad text
Circulate proposed changes and get feedback
Requires: Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS X(10.4+)
Download: AdWords Editor 3.5.0
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Friday, March 30th, 2007 |
Google Pack is a free collection of essential software from Google and other companies. The software in the Google Pack helps you browse the web faster, remove spyware and viruses, organize your photos, and more.
Google Pack is:
· Essential: Enjoy safe, useful software for your computer
· Simple: Download and install everything in just a few clicks
· Customizable: Choose only the software you want
· Up to date: Get updates and new software via Google Updater
Google Pack is only available for Windows XP or Vista
Download: Google Pack 2.1.810.31257 Beta
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007 |
GMarks helps you sync & manage your bookmarks with Google Bookmarks.
Use the sidebar to manage and access your bookmarks, the GMarks toolbar for fast access to important bookmarks, and the Quick Search(Home+Home) to find bookmarks like the Google Desktop Ctrl+Ctrl.
Nest your labels with a customizable separator in the sidebar or the toolbar.
GMarks includes a search box in the sidebar to search your bookmarks with Google.
It searches not only the bookmarks’ details, but also the content on their pages.
Add bookmarks to either Google, Firefox, or both, using the standard Firefox Bookmark window.
Quickly see if the site is already bookmarked by looking at the included Star toolbar item, which also toggles the sidebar and can quickly add or remove the site.
Use filters to automatically apply labels or descriptions to bookmarks from sites matching your query or use the filters to batch edit/delete bookmarks.
Hide entire labels from view in the sidebar so you only find them when searching.
Shows not only your Google bookmarks, but optionally your starred Google Reader posts.
GMarks allows for easy migration to and from Google Bookmarks. You can import your Firefox bookmarks to Google or export your Google Bookmarks to a bookmarks.htm file. GMarks is completely separate from your Firefox bookmarks and does not remove or hide them.
Download: GMarks 0.8.8.1
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 |
The Gmail Notifier is an application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages. It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have unread Gmail messages, and shows you their subjects, senders and snippets, all without your having to open a web browser.
If you have the Google Talk client installed, you will automatically receive new mail notifications from Google Talk and you do not need to install the Notifier.
System requirements: Windows 2000/XP, Mac OS X 10.4+
Download: Gmail Notifier 1.1.217
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 |
Watch videos from Google Video right on your desktop
Google Video player features:
· Watch videos downloaded from Google Video
· Browse scenes within a video using thumbnails
· Skip to anywhere in the video, even if that portion hasn’t downloaded yet
· Sit back and watch videos in full screen mode
· Resume video downloads automatically
System Requirements:
- Windows XP or 2000
- Video card with at least 16MB of RAM
- 1GHz Pentium 3 or faster
Download: Google Video player 1.0.3.3 Beta
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 |
Google Calendar is a free online shareable calendar service. With Google Calendar, it’s easy to keep track of all your life’s important events: birthdays, reunions, little league games, doctor’s appointments - all in one place.
Using Google Calendar, you can add events and invitations effortlessly, share with friends and family (or keep things to yourself), and search across the web for events you might enjoy. It’s organizing made easy.
Seeing the big picture
· With Google Calendar, you can see your friends’ and family’s schedules right next to your own; quickly add events mentioned in Gmail conversations or saved in other calendar applications; and add other interesting events that you find online.
Sharing events and calendars
· You decide who can see your calendar and which details they can view. Planning an event? You can create invitations, send reminders and keep track of RSVPs right inside Google Calendar. Organizations can promote events, too.
Staying on schedule
· You can set up automatic event reminders, including mobile phone notifications, and instantly bring up anything on your calendar with the built-in search tool.
Sign in to Google Calendar
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Saturday, August 5th, 2006 |
Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.
This extension works with Firefox version 1.5 and later. Currently, it doesn’t work in the Mozilla Suite, Internet Explorer, or Opera. Google Browser Sync is compatible with all operating systems supported by Firefox 1.5.
Download: Google Browser Sync for Firefox 1.2.20060802.0
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 |
Use your Mac to upload photos!
Now there are two ways to upload your photos to Picasa Web Albums — from directly within iPhoto or using drag-and-drop from a standalone application.
For iPhoto users
The Picasa Web Albums Exporter lives right inside iPhoto. Select photos, choose Export in the File or Share menu, and upload them directly to your web album.
For a standalone application
Use the Picasa Web Albums uploader — just drag photos from the Finder and click the Upload button.
Requirements:
- You must have a Picasa Web Albums account to use the Exporter or Uploader.
- Requires OS X 10.4 or later.
Download: Picasa Web Albums 1.0 Beta
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 |
The Google Video Upload program lets anyone who owns the necessary rights (including copyrights, trademarks, rights of publicity, and any other relevant rights for your content) submit videos electronically to Google Video. Google Video Uploader lets you upload your video files in Google Video.
You can upload several types of video files through the Uploader: .mpg, .mpeg, .avi, .ra, .ram, .mov, .wmv, .asf, .mod, .mp3.
We’re accepting digital video files of any length and size.
Download: Google Video Uploader 1.0.5 Windows, Mac, Linux/Solaris
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Tuesday, June 6th, 2006 |
Google Spreadsheets Sneak Peek
Create, store and share spreadsheets on the web.
?Ǭ? Imagine a spreadsheet that’s always current and that others can update from their own computers, even at the same time.
Get started quickly.
?Ǭ? Import your existing spreadsheets or create new ones from scratch.
Edit your spreadsheets from anywhere.
?Ǭ? All you need is a Web browser - your spreadsheets are stored securely online.
Share changes in real-time.
?Ǭ? Invite people to your spreadsheets and make changes together, at the same time.
Google Spreadsheets is a limited test. You can try it out by signing up for an invitation.
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Tuesday, June 6th, 2006 |
Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organised by date with folder names you will recognise. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organised.
Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú you can email, print photos home, make gift CDs, and even post pictures on your own blog.
Now you can harness the power of Picasa on your Linux machine. The Linux release includes the same functionality as Picasa for Windows with the exception of just a few items.
System Requirements
?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ Should work on any Linux system with Intel 386-compatible processor, glibc 2.3.2 or greater, and a working X11 display system.
?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ Desktop Integration features require a current version of Gnome or KDE.
?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ Camera detection and integration requires kernel >= 2.6.13, hal >= 0.56, and gnome-volume-manager or equivalent.
?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ Available in English
Download: Picasa for Linux
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 |
Google Notebook makes web research of all kinds ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú from planning a vacation to researching a school paper to buying a car ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú easier and more efficient by enabling you to clip and gather information even while you’re browsing the web.
And since Google Notebook lives in your browser, you won’t be left with a scattered collection of notes, Word docs, and browser bookmarks to sort through; all your web findings will be gathering into one organized, easy accessible location that you can access from any computer.
Download: Google Notebook 1.0
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Thursday, March 9th, 2006 |
Widgets are mini-applications that you download and install into Dashboard to add new functionality. Have fun using these widgets!
Features
- Quick and easy blog posting
- Your Gmail inbox at a glance
- Remember the page from last week? Now you will
Download: Google Dashboard Widgets for Mac
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2006 |
Create your own web pages, quickly and easily.
Google Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes.
?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ No technical knowledge required.
Build high-quality web pages without having to learn HTML or use complex software.
?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ What you see is what you’ll get.
Edit your pages right in your browser, seeing exactly how your finished product will look every step along the way.
?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ Don’t worry about hosting.
Your web pages will live on your own site at http://yourgmailusername.googlepages.com
Google Page Creator Beta
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Thursday, November 24th, 2005 |
Google Toolbar is a popular browser add-on that makes it possible to quickly perform Google Web searches, prevent annoying pop-up ads from appearing, and fill in Web forms with one simple click.
?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ SpellCheck
Check your spelling whenever you type in web forms
?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ WordTranslator
Translate English words into other languages
?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ Google Suggest
Get query suggestions as you type in the search box
?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ AutoFill
Automatically fill out forms for faster online shopping
System requirements:
?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ Windows XP/2000 SP3+, Mac OS X 10.2+, or Red Hat Linux 8.0+
?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ Firefox 1.0+
Download: Google Toolbar for Firefox 2.1.20060807 - Also available:
?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ Other Firefox extensions from Google
?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ Googlebar, an open-source toolbar written by Google fans
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Thursday, October 13th, 2005 |
Mission to fund “good works” and solve “big problems”
Google has begun to make good on its commitment to plough a small fraction of the proceeds from its wildly successful stock offering into social projects.
Funding for “good works” will largely be derived from the donation of one per cent of the equity from last year’s IPO, along with one per cent of its annual profits.
Google said on Tuesday it plans to organise its charitable work under the umbrella of a new organisation it calls Google.org. The mission is to focus on vast issues such as global poverty, energy and the environment.
Sheryl Sandberg, Google’s vice president of operations and advertising, who is also in charge of overseeing Google.org, said: “These are big problems, so our focus is to provide sustainable and scalable solutions to these problems.”
One percent of Google’s stock represents about three million of the 300 million shares created by its IPO in August 2004.
Full article: silicon.com
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