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How to install a Blogger XML template
2007-10-17 19:26:00
Make sure you have backed up your template before installing a new one.1. Go to your Blogger Control Panel - Edit HTML2. Browse the XML file you have saved and upload it.[Free BlogSpot Temp late s]

Google Subscribed Links
2007-10-17 19:20:00
Google Subs cribed Links allow you to add custom search results to Google search for users who trust you. You can display links to your services for your customers, provide news and status information updated in near-real-time, answer questions, calculate useful quantities, and more.See examples of existing Subscribed Links.What you can do with Subscribed Links Create search results specific to your product, service, or expertise.Design a basic version in minutes to see how it works.Build a dynamic version using XML, TSV, or RSS files or feeds.Include images in your Subscribed Links.Include Google Gadgets in your Subscribed Links. New!Test your Subscribed Links interactively and get debugging messages.Include cities, countries, and calculator invocations as special objects.
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More Spreadsheets Features: change format with rules, hide columns or rows
2007-10-17 18:38:00
Google Spreadsheets has several new features, as a Google Docs Guide in the official help group on the subject announced today:** Background and text colors based on rules YOU createhttp://documents.google.com/support /spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer... - Set text and background colors based on rules you create! A great tool for those of you who want a quick visual summary of complex or changing data. ** Hide and Unhide Datahttp://documents.google.com/support/s preadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer... - Not excited yet? Well, maybe you will be when I mention that this feature enables you to *hide row and columns*! Champagne, anyone?** Print like a pro-To create a better printing experience, we've changed the default printing output. Now, before you print, your spreadsheet is convertedto PDF, creating a more readable, better looking printed spreadsheetfor all.** Banish ugly errors when your formula doesn't compute- Try using the new function IFERROR. IFERROR allows you to choosewha...
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Add Desktop Gadgets to iGoogle
2007-10-17 18:26:00
Windows only: Google Desktop users can now add some of their favorite gadgets and sidebar applets to their personalized iGoogle home pages as well. That means being able to play music, monitor system performance or even check wireless signal strength from your browser. The latest (still beta) release of Google Desktop also includes better Outlook search compatibility, multiple gadget instances and a polished look for the search box. Google Desktop is also available for Mac and Linux, but the desktop-to-iGoogle gadgets appear to be only working for XP/Vista/2000 users at the moment.The process for adding Desktop gadgets to your iGoogle homepage is simple. Just surf over to the iGoogle Content Directory and find the gadgets you want to add -- for example, try adding the media player gadget by clicking on the "Add it now" button on this page. If you already have Desktop 5.5 installed, you'll get the gadget without having to do anything more. If you don't, you'll be offered a streaml...
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Create Google Calendar Events from Gmail
2007-10-17 18:11:00
In the "More actions" drop-down, select "Create Event" and then enter the details of the event. Unfortunately, Google Calendar doesn't add snippets from the message to the event, so you'll have to copy-paste some relevant fragments. Once the event is created, you'll see it in Gmail 's sidebar, next to the message. This could server as a reminder when you get a reply or read the message again in the future.
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orkut up to 50 Photos in your album
2007-10-17 17:58:00
Today Google announced that they expanded the orkut album size from 25 to 50 pictures as Natalie Schwartz, Associate Product Marketing Manager, said on orkut blog:Several weeks ago, we announced that we'd expanded the orkut album size to 25 pictures. And last week, we quietly launched double the space: now you can have up to 50 photos in your orkut album! Not many of you have caught on to this yet, so we thought we'd let you know here. For now, that's it, twice as much space for you to share more pics of your family, friends, travels, or whatever else you like! And, more photos makes browsing orkut even more fun. If you love taking photos like me, though, 50 covers about the past month's worth, so we'll continue to add photo space to accommodate even the extreme photo buff.
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Fun with Google's Image Labeler
2007-10-17 17:37:00
Google Image Labeler, a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google's image search results.How does it work?You'll be randomly paired with a partner who's online and using the feature. Over a two-minute period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner's label, you'll earn points depending on how specific your label is. You'll be shown more images until time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you've seen and the websites where those images were found. And we'll show you the points you've earned throughout the session.For example, this image can be described by the labels: sky (50 points), bird (60 points), soaring (120 points), or frigate bird (150 points).What is required to participate?Just an interest in helping Google improve the relevance of image se...

Blogger - Free, automated weblog publishing tool
2007-10-16 20:36:00
Blogger is a blog publishing system. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003.History * On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools, it is credited for helping popularize the format. * In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. The acquisition allowed premium features that Pyra charged for to be free. About a year later, Pyra Labs' co-founder, Evan Williams, left Google. * In 2004, Google purchased Picasa; it integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility Hello into Blogger, allowing users to post photos to their blogs. * On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features including CSS-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email. * On 14 August 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in beta, codenamed Invader, alongside the gold release. This migrated users to Google servers, as well including som...
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Google Analytics Unveils New Features, Urchin Software
2007-10-16 20:05:00
[Google Press] Today at the eMetrics Summit in Washington, D.C., Google announced new features to its Google Analytics ™ web service such as site search reporting and event tracking, and an updated version of Urchin™ software. This enhanced feature set makes essential Web 2.0 information more accessible and comprehensible, and enables Google Analytics users to better understand their users and to act on reporting information in more sophisticated ways. Users can enable site search to identify keywords, categories, products, and trends across time and user segments, thereby helping them measure the effectiveness of their websites and their marketing dollars. Site search aggregates data about how searches affect site usage, e-commerce activity, and conversion rates, by tracking internal search patterns. This best-of-breed feature will soon be available worldwide, and it works with Google Custom Search™, GSA, Google Mini™ and many other non-Google site search products. With We...
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Google Analytics - makes it easy to improve your results online
2007-10-16 19:28:00
Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that a webmaster can optimize his/her AdWords advertisement and marketing campaigns through the use of GA's analysis of where the visitors came from, how long they stayed on the website and their geographical position.Users can define and track conversions, or goals. Goals might include sales, lead generation, viewing a specific page, or downloading a particular file. By using this tool, marketers can determine which ads are performing, and which are not, as well as find unexpected sources of quality visitors.Google's service was modeled upon Urchin Software Corporation's analytics system, Urchin on Demand (Google acquired Urchin Software Corp. in April 2005). Google still sells the standalone installable Urchin software through a network of value-added resellers. The system also brings ideas from Adaptive Path, who's product, Measur...
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YouTube Video Identification Beta
2007-10-16 04:07:00
Today, Google announces to launch, in beta form, YouTube Video Identification .Video Identification is the next step in a long list of content policies and tools that we have provided copyright owners so that they can more easily identify their content and manage how it is made available on YouTube.David King, YouTube Product Manager, said on their blog about Video Identification joins the following policies and tools: Our strict repeat-infringer policy, which has been in place since our launch, terminates accounts of repeat infringers based on DMCA notices. We take a unique "hash" of every video removed for copyright infringement and block re-upload of that exact video file prospectively. We require a 10-minute limit on the length of content uploaded to the site. We provide content owners with an electronic notification and takedown tool, to help them more easily identify their material and notify us to take it down with the click of a mouse. We also publish copyright tips for user...
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Google Maps in Your Sidebar
2007-10-15 20:47:00
Mini Map Sidebar gives you a suite of in-built maps and mapping tools for your web browser. Create and save a sidebar map using the addresses or address links you find on web pages (highlight then drag and drop), or by manually adding locations. View traffic Info, drag and drop kml files, local search, Google , Yahoo and Live Local directions, view in google earth, tagzania, platial, geourl and many more. Address/Location points are stored locally for later use. This extension comes with two mapping components, the main and most powerful one being a minimap sidebar. In this sidebar you can drag and drop addresses or locations you find on web pages and they will be automatically located, and added to your saved address list. The sidebar is launched from the toolbar icon (customise toolbar and drag in), a statusbar icon and the view sidebar menu. The extension also comes with a main browser Map Tab for viewing a larger map and this is accessed from ...
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Google Maps
2007-10-15 20:34:00
Google Maps (for a time named Google Local) is a free web mapping service application and technology provided by Google that powers many map-based services including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder and embedded maps on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. It offers street maps, a route planner, and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world.A related product is Google Earth, a standalone program for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux which offers enhanced globe-viewing features.FeaturesGoogle Maps features a map that can be navigated by dragging the mouse, or using the mouse wheel to zoom in (mouse wheel up) or out (mouse wheel down) to show detailed street information. Users may enter an address, intersection or general area to quickly find it on the map.Search results can be restricted to a certain area, thanks to Google Local. For example, someone can enter a query such as "Waffles in Ottawa" to find restaurants serving waffles near ...
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Cricket Score gadget
2007-10-15 20:02:00
For the Cricket World Cup 2007, Google launched three cricket-related gadgets: Cricket World Cup Score s, Cricket Videos, and Cricket Images and News. Recently, Google open-sourced all three of these gadgets at code.google.comGoogle also looking for developers to enhance these gadgets. If you have knowledge of JavaScript programming or RSS/Atom/JSON XML feeds, or if you are a cricket freak and want to learn how to build gadgets, you are most welcome to join. Read here for more information about it.
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How to Rename/Delete folders in Google Reader
2007-10-15 19:55:00
To delete the tags/folders, go to Settings > Tags, select the folders you want to remove and then click the button "Delete selected".
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Google Reader - checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content
2007-10-15 19:48:00
Google Reader is a Web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds online or offline. It was released by Google on October 7, 2005 through Google Labs. Reader graduated from beta status on 17 September 2007.FeaturesInterfaceMajor revisions to Reader's interface were made on September 28, 2006. Nick Baum, Product Manager on the Google Reader team, whilst being interviewed by Robert Scoble, stated that the redesign is a movement toward making news aggregation something for the general public to enjoy.Here are some of the features that are now included within Google Reader: * A front page that lets you see new items at a glance * Import and export subscription lists as an OPML file * Keyboard shortcuts for main functions * Choice between list view or expanded view for item viewing (showing either just the story title or with a description, respectively) * Automatic marking of items as read as they are scroll past (expanded view only) * Search in all feeds, across all updat...
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Put YouTube Videos on Your Web Page
2007-10-15 18:31:00
The Video Bar is a simple to use application of the Google AJAX Search API that is designed to let you easily add a strip of playable videos to your pages, sites, and blogs. The sample video bars to the right and below demonstrate some of the key features of this control. The control is highly customizable, allowing you to specify the orientation of the video bar, the number of videos displayed, the size of the thumbnails, the location and size of the video player, the list of search expressions that drive the video bar, etc. Your page controls the selection of videos displayed in the video bar through both APIs, and if you like, through hyperlinks on your page (e.g., VW GTI, Monkeyboy, Wii.)Adding the Video Bar to your page is a snap. The easiest way is to start with our Video Bar Wizard. The wizard walks you through some simple customizations and then generates all of the code for you. If you want ...
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Customize your YouTube
2007-10-13 21:48:00
YouTube has released a tool that can customize the layout of their best player and can integrate it into your site or blog. With this tool you can change the color scheme and the type of player you want to show.Once your player created, you can save it for later use and general code to show videos with this design.To use this editor enters your mind, you will be the link "My Account" from the options and find the button "Create Custom Player."
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Zoom closer to Google Maps
2007-10-13 04:23:00
Users now can zoom in even closer to areas all around the globe for a more-detailed view of all of the imagery in Google Maps ' database.Well, now we've given you a bionic eye on Google Maps ! OK, not a literal bionic eye, as Steve Austin had. Said on Google Latlong.
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Add Blogger Play to your iGoogle
2007-10-13 04:20:00
Today Google is letting you take Blogger Play with you to your iGoogle homepage with the Blogger Play Google Gadget:Click the button to get Play on your homepage!We also took the opportunity to add keyboard control to the big version of Blogger Play: spacebar plays and pauses, and the left and right arrow keys move backwards and forwards.

Gmail's Storage Increases to 6 MB
2007-10-12 19:53:00
Gmail will increase the free storage gradually in the next days. On October 23, you'll get 4321 MB of storage, then the growth will slow down until January 4, when you'll have 6283 MB of storage. From January 4, you'll receive 3.3 MB every day, that's 10 times bigger than the current rate of growth.Another good news is that Google Apps mail accounts will have the same quota as standard Gmail accounts, while Google Apps Premier Edition will have 25 GB mail accounts. Previously, Google Apps accounts had 2 GB of storage, while the business edition offered 10 GB per account.Gmail didn't abandon the paid storage option, but you'll get around 50% more storage for the same price: 10 GB for $20/year, 40 GB for $75/year, 150 GB for $250/year and 400 GB for $500/year. The paid storage will probably become more attractive when Google adds more services, like Google Docs, JotSpot or GDrive."In April 2005, we started increasing Gmail storage as part of our "Infinity+1" storage plan. At tha...
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Gmail
2007-10-12 19:42:00
Gmail, officially Google Mail in Germany, Austria and the United Kingdom, is a free Web-based email (Webmail) and POP3 e-mail service provided by Google. It was released on April 1, 2004 as a private beta release by invitation only and was opened to all as a public beta on February 7, 2007. With an initial storage capacity of 1 GB, it drastically increased the standard for free storage.Gmail now offers just over 2900 megabytes of free storage, with an additional 10 GB available for US$20 per year. It has a search-oriented interface and a unique 'conversation view'. Gmail is well-known for its use of the Ajax programming technique in its design.[4] Gmail has about 58 million users, still far less compared to 380 million of Windows Live Hotmail and 120 million of Yahoo mail users.FeaturesThe service currently provides over two gigabytes of free storage and paid storage of 10 GB up to 500 GB, shared over Picasa and Gmail.The increase from 1 GB was announced on April 1, 2005 and was m...
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Google celebrates Luciano Pavarotti's birthday
2007-10-12 19:39:00
Today Google has put a special logo on their homepage to celebrate Luci ano Pavarotti's birthday.[Glogos]
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Watch YouTube Videos in Google Earth
2007-10-11 20:55:00
Virtual explorers can now discover and watch YouTube (http://www.youtube.com) videos while they traverse the globe. Starting today, a YouTube layer will be available in the Featured Content folder of Google Earth (http://earth.google.com). The new layer enables users to zoom in on any location on the planet and view YouTube videos related to that place. For example, a trip to Maui offers videos of surfing, snorkeling and exotic sea life, while users who fly to Chamonix-Mont Blanc, France, can watch breathtaking videos filmed at the highest points of the Alps. The integration of YouTube functionality into Google Earth offers a new way to experience destinations as seen through the eyes of YouTube users who have visited them, enabling people to watch, hear and feel what's happening in locations theythank may never have otherwise visited. For instance, armchair tourists to Rome can now watch YouTube videos filmed at the Colosseum, providing a holistic experience ...
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YouTube
2007-10-11 20:41:00
YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in mid February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. The San Bruno-based service uses Adobe Flash technology to display a wide variety of video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos. In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for US$1.65 billion in Google stock. The deal closed on November 13, 2006.Unregistered users can watch most videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Some videos are available only to users of age 18 or older (videos containing potentially offensive content, pornography is disallowed to be uploaded). Related videos, determined by title and tags, appear onscreen to the right of a given video. In YouTube's second year, functions were added to enhance user abili...
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