January 29th, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Code
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsLast year, Steve Yegge posted about Rhino on Rails, his port of Ruby on Rails to the JavaScript language on the Rhino runtime. It garnered a slew of interest, and I have been wanting to talk to him in more detai…
January 29th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
As part of our efforts to make sure that the AdSense account details publishers provide are valid and correct, we do a couple types of validation that you may be aware of: the Personal Identification Number (PIN) program and, in some locations, phone n…
January 29th, 2008 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Dan Pupius, Gmail engineerFirst off, this update is only for those of you who write or run Greasemonkey scripts. If you don’t have any third-party extensions installed or don’t know what we’re talking about, you can ignore this post.Ok… loo…
January 29th, 2008 | by Googler | published in Google News
Posted by Greta Ghizzo Van Everen, News Support TeamIf you’re looking for an easy way to let us know what new features you’d like in Google News, look no further. Today, we’re launching a new feature request form that will make this process a lot easie…
January 29th, 2008 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Anthony Procissi, Software QA EngineerIf you have a higher-end digital camera, you’ve probably seen an option to capture images in RAW format instead of the more-familiar JPG. You might also have noticed that the release notes for recent Pi…
January 28th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Desktop Team)Did you know you can specify the type of mouse cursor to display for an individual element? basicElement has a cursor property that can be set to various cursor types. This can impro…
January 28th, 2008 | by Alden DeSoto | published in Google Analytics
This weekend, we added a search box to the Google Analytics site. We rarely blog site changes, but this small enhancement to the site will help in two important ways to create a better visitor experience. First, it lets you, our visitors, quickly find …
January 28th, 2008 | by Alyssa | published in Google Checkout
Posted by Prem Ramaswami, Product ManagerA few months ago, we released a reporting feature that enabled you to easily review and download previous orders. Initially accessible only from the seller interface, this feature is now also available to API us…
January 28th, 2008 | by Quang Nguyen, Developer Advocate | published in Google Android
We’d like to let you know that we are extending the submission deadline for the first Android Developers Challenge to 14 April 2008. Based on the great feedback you’ve given us, we’ve made significant updates to the SDK that we’ll be releasing in sever…
January 28th, 2008 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick
I’ve been glad to dust off my blogging chops with this new DoubleClick blog lately, and furthering my Web 2.0 street cred, I was just interviewed for a podcast by MarketingVoices, which just went live here. The host, Jennifer Jones, focused the intervi…
January 28th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Matt Lowrie, QA EngineerIn LayOut, you can turn any line into in your document into an arrow using the Shape Style dialog box. Here’s how:Select any line in your LayOut document.Make sure the Shape Style dialog box is visible. If it isn’t, ch…
January 26th, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Sze-jun Tsai, Consumer Operations AssociateHere’s the scenario: you decide to try out a new Gmail feature and suddenly you have some questions. What do you do? Come on down to the Gmail Help Discussion Group.The Gmail Help Discussion Group is…
January 25th, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Code
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsThe Compiere team is trying to make ERP easier. I had a chance to catch up with Gary Wu, Di Zhao and Chris Sprague of the Compiere engineering team. We talked about their recently shipped open source ERP solutio…
January 25th, 2008 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
We are happy to announce the release of our new Python client library.The AdWords API Python Client Library makes it easier to write Python clients to programmatically access AdWords accounts. Main features include:the ability to hide the SOAP layer f…
January 25th, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Just because the December holidays are over doesn’t mean we’re taking a break from our industry trends and seasonal highlights. Get a head start on preparing for winter sales opportunities (including Valentine’s Day) with our latest Retail and Tech B2C…