Google I/O kicks off with Google Font API & Google Font Directory
Today the largest Google developer conference the Google I/O is starting. In fact it started half an hour ago. And as always Google comes with lots of new things to these conferences. Last year they unveiled among other things Google Wave, which by the way is opening up to the public today. After reading the [...]
How to turn off Google Buzz
Google Buzz arrived in our Gmail accounts this week. I must say i’m not a fan of this thing. I like Gmail because it has a fairly good spam filter and because i can easily filter and categorize my mail. My email is very important to me so i like to keep it organized and [...]
Fatality: Google drops IE6 support in 2010
Just received it on email from the Google Apps team: “In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, [...]
As expected Google Drive arrives in the form of Google Docs
We waited quite a long time for this one. But after all that time it became a reality. Google Docs slowly morphs into Google Drive. Google today announced that any type of file can be uploaded to Google Docs. The feature is being rolled out right now and will be available anytime from a couple [...]
Nexus One : The Google Phone is here. Should we care?
Google unveiled today the much anticipated Nexus One, the so called Google Phone. And once more is demonstrated that rumors about the Mountain View company’s products usually have a solid basis. We’ve seen rumors about GBrowser ant it has come in the form of Chrome and this was also true for other products or acquisitions. [...]
Google upgrades paid storage plans
I have a paid storage plan at Google which until now featured 10 GB extra storage for 20$ a year. I use it mostly for private (protected) Picasa Photos but its nice to know that my Gmail account has an overflow capacity too. Google announced today that they will upgrade the paid storage plans because [...]
Google Sidewiki or let’s see the quality sites now!
Google launched today an interesting feature. It is called Google Sidewiki and allows anyone to comment anything about a site. In short when you browse the internet you can post comments about a site and when someone else who has Sidewiki installed goes to that page he can see your comments, annotations about that site. [...]
Gmail is down! How to check if it is really down or its just your connection
As i’m writing this post Gmail is down. This is very annoying as both regular Gmail and the Google Apps version seems to be affected. I can’t check my email at all. At first i thought it is only my internet connection playing some weird games. But its not. Gmail is really down. Twitter is [...]
Popup management in the new Google Chrome
I’ve upgraded today to the latest version of Google Chrome available on the dev channel and finally popup management is available in Google’s browser. I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. I even made a post about how much i hate the lack of popup management in Chrome. Theme support also has been [...]
Wolfram Alpha is impressive. Very impressive
I’ve finally had some time and tested the recently launched and much hyped Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine. Make no mistake, this is not a classic search engine. The “computational knowledge engine” phrase really has meaning. If you’re expecting search results similar to those of Google’s then you’re in the wrong place. But what Wolfram [...]
You can run PHP on Google App Engine
It seems that some people figured out how to run PHP on Google App Engine. You may be wondering how this is possible as Google doesn’t support PHP on App Engine. Well its possible because recently Google announced Java as the newest programming language supported by the App Engine. And this made possible to run Quercus [...]
How a Google Data center looks like
I always wondered about how a Google Data center looks like, mainly from the inside I discovered today a very interesting video released by Google. This video explains in details how a data center is organized and how it works. This data center houses 45000 servers organized in 45 containers.
Chrome Experiments and Extensions
Or could i call this post just Javascript is the future ? It seems that Google indeed has big plans with Chrome. That’s why they built in a very advanced and fast Javascript engine called V8. This Javascript engine will allow developers to create highly advanced applications that run directly in the browser without any [...]
New Google Chrome Beta
Google is just rolling out a new beta of the increasingly popular Google Chrome browser, with many improved features. This update comes just a few months after they took off the beta label from Google Chrome in last December. From the new features: improved speed (about 25% to 35%) form autofill full page zoom autoscroll [...]
Google Chrome’s popup blocker sucks!
I’m having difficulties working on Chrome lately. I’m using a webpage that constatly spawns popups for reminders and my problem is that Chrome blocks these popups. And it shows the notice that a popup has been blocked only for a few seconds. If you are not quick enough you have no way to see the [...]
