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How to build your own Google Android app

admin @ January 2, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Google’s Android mobile development platform has rightly caused a stir.
Based on Linux and with built-in 3D, SMS and web browsing courtesy of WebKit, it’s an entirely self-contained and free mobile operating system.
Though there are only a few devices that currently support Android out of the box, it’s designed as an open, free platform [...]

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Google pushing users away from IE?

admin @ December 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Google has taken the aggressive step of advising some of the people using its Gmail webmail to use Chrome or Firefox rather than Internet Explorer.
When users log into their Gmail using Internet Explorer a red text link appears at the top right of the page saying ‘get faster Google Mail.’
If you click on [...]

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Get started with Google Calendar programming

admin @ December 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Most people think of Google as ‘just’ a search company, but in recent years it’s started to provide free versions of applications that were previously only available as standalone desktop programs.
The number of people using Google for email, scheduling, word processing and creating spreadsheets is ever-increasing, but websites are just one way of accessing [...]

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“Google Earth bordering on time travel and teleportation”

admin @ December 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Technology is amazing. It’s so great, it’s next to impossible to truly appreciate just how phenomenally, staggeringly, unbelievably indescribably great it is.
Every day we play with the kind of power that would have medieval villages setting up pyres (or to be more accurate, gallows, since English witches were hanged rather than burned), and every [...]

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Complete guide to Google Analytics

admin @ October 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Things change so quickly on the web. When I started working at software firm Urchin in 1996, web analytics was a niche product, important to (and understood by) perhaps a handful of people at an organisation.
When Google bought Urchin in June 2005 and launched Google Analytics later that autumn, the industry was moving away [...]

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30 Google Chrome tips, tricks and shortcuts

admin @ October 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet

СЕКРЕТУТКА. Create desktop and Start menu shortcuts to web apps such as Gmail – go to Gmail.com and then select Create application shortcuts… from the Page Control menu (in the top-right corner of your browser – it looks like a page with the corner folded over). Now choose where you want to place your shortcut. [...]

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Five wacky jobs you never thought would exist at Google

admin @ September 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet

OK, so we haven’t quite got Google’s baker. Or the butcher. And it doesn’t quite scan right. But we do have an exclusive interview with a Google chef among other Googlers in jobs you wouldn’t necessarily associate with Google’s usual mission to bag up the world’s information.
We’ve interviewed people working for Google in London [...]

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Google Chrome: interview with artist, Scott McCloud

admin @ September 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet

After fronting Google’s surprise launch of Chrome with his explanatory comic book earlier this week, TechRadar grabs an exclusive chat with Zot!, Destroy!!! and Understanding Comics creator Scott McCloud about his work with Google, his life in comics and his plans and aspirations for the future.
When did Google first approach you to do the comic [...]

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Secrets from Google’s labs

admin @ September 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Google has become a behemoth of innovation and a harbinger of intellectual capital.
Yet, despite its obviously self-written Google Finance summary that says it “maintains an index of websites and other online content,” the company is actually a dual-purpose entity. It’s a very successful experiment in social engineering (where people flock to its Internet properties) [...]

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Google week: 101 tips, tricks and hacks

admin @ September 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet

СЕКРЕТУТКА. The best way to begin searching harder with Google is by clicking the Advanced Search link.
2. This lets you search for exact phrases, “all these words”, or one of the specified keywords by entering search terms into the appropriate box.
3. You can also define how many results you want on the page, what language [...]

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