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Jason Kincaid shares what might be a screenshot of the upcoming Google Chrome OS. I don’t know whether this image is genuine or faked, but we can certainly see Google’s minimalistic design ethic in the layout.
Up until two years ago, Google Video offered a downloadable media player. Perhaps that will be recycled into the player app in the screenshot.
Originally posted on August 31, 2009 @ 11:00 pm
While the opposition to Google Books grows, the service continues to push forward.
The latest news is that over one million public domain books are now available in the free, open industry standard EPUB format, as well as PDF, for download to compatible devices. [Read more…]
Originally posted on August 27, 2009 @ 3:42 am
Google Insights for Search, the tool that lets you analyze one or more keywords or phrases to see how it changes in search popularity over time, has just been given some new features.
Firstly, it’s now available in 39 languages, which is great news if you’re not an English speaker or you’re checking out trends in another language. [Read more…]
Originally posted on August 19, 2009 @ 5:52 am
Considering Google’s push to the cloud, I’m surprised it took this long for Google Chrome to push your bookmarks to the cloud. The search giant’s browser now features bookmark sync built in with its latest dev channel build, when launched with the command-line parameter “–enable-sync”.
Naturally, synced bookmarks are associated with your Google account. The feature should be rolled out to Chrome’s mainline builds soon.
Bookmark sync is available as a plugin for Firefox, as are many other cloud-enablement features. With Google strongly pushing users toward cloud computing, expect Google to build such features straight into Chrome.
Originally posted on August 18, 2009 @ 7:25 am
Sure, it’s 9:01am in your city — but if you’re reading 901am, you probably know that the new media business is global. It might be lunchtime for your audience three timezones east, or evening for your coders in India. That’s why I like the new world clock in Google Calendar Labs. It shows what time any event on your calendar will happen in various timezones — perfect for those teleconferences and timed posts. [Read more…]
Originally posted on July 15, 2009 @ 10:21 am