Archive for October, 2008

Gmail in Firefox: How to Associate Email Links
Saturday, October 11th, 2008

The Google toolbar already has a built in feature that lets you make Gmail as your default email client. But if you don’t have the google toolbar installed this is how you can do it in the latest version of Firefox.
associate “mailto” links in web pages with Gmail, so that when you click on [...]

RSS of Google Search: Results
Friday, October 10th, 2008

Search Engine Land has recently reported that Google is planning to provide RSS feed for their search results. So when this happens, the RSS feeds will be an additional feature of Google Alerts, which currently only allow notification via email.
Screen-scraping a google search results was already possible but with this feature live, RSS feeds should [...]

Google In Game Advertising: Released
Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Google has recently released AdSense for Games also known as Google In-Game Advertising. This is a unique way for AdSense ads in text, image or video format to be integrated into web-based Flash games.
Currently there are quite a number of participating game publishers such as -Konami, Playfish, Zynga, and Demand Media etc. Check out [...]

Gmail Labs Plugin: Stop Sending Mail You Might Regret
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Have you ever sent an email to someone and later wished that you have never sent it? A very new Gmail labs feature called Google Goggles can help you solve this problem. In order to activate this feature just go to Gmail > then Settings -> Labs -> Mail Goggles -> Enable.
By enabling this feature [...]

Google Russia Search: Launched
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Google has recently released a classified ads search site for Russian users. From an auto-translated Google blog post from August:
“We launched a new beta product – search ads. Users of the service can search for private ads, collected from the top sites Runet. Google search ads … finds anything – from budgerigar [?] to factories, [...]

Google Spreadsheets: Design Live
Monday, October 6th, 2008

Google has recently released their new interface design to the last of the Google Docs trio, Spreadsheets (Google presentations and Documents already had this new style implemented previously). The tabs have now been replaced by an application menu. Google first spoke about this new update last week; in an recent announcement they said that these [...]

G1 Android Phone: Emulator
Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Google’s Anroid phone has already rocked the mobile industry. You can check (Google) Android phone by T-Mobile in a rotateable view as well as in an emulator that lets you click through the menus. The emulator is kind of incomplete as you will see a lot of screens with dysfunctional mockups.

Speech Output in Knol Articles: now Live
Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Google has recently added text-to-speech capabilities to some of the Google Knol articles, like for instance there is one titled “File Formats in Digital Photography”. If you want, you can download the whole article as an MP3 as well as hit a Listen button in the top right of the article. The quality of the [...]

Google Broken Link: in Home Page
Friday, October 3rd, 2008

I think right now Google wants to promote their desktop photo app Picasa 3 on the google.com homepage, but interestingly the link is dead… at least for some of our readers, me included.
In one browser (Firefox), I’m getting a link to picasa.google.com/learn_more.html, in another browser (Google Chrome) it links to picasa.google.com/download_promo.html, but both links returns [...]

Google Image Search Ads: Live
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Google is recently experimenting with ads in Google Image Search. Google Blogoscoped reported a couple of image ads in Google image search. In previous times image search was totally ad-free, but i guess now Google wants to make more money from adwords thus experimenting with ads in the image search results. Notice the screen shoot [...]