July 2nd, 2008 | by Sapna | published in Google Video
Posted by Justin Donnelly, Software EngineerThe “Hot videos” section of the Google Video homepage offers up the web’s most popular videos, determined by how often they’re being watched, shared and blogged about across the Web. If, like me, you think t…
July 2nd, 2008 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Jason Cook, Product Marketing ManagerHere’s a tip for families sharing photos on Picasa Web Albums, or for anybody else who needs to shuttle large sets of photos from one computer to another. With Picasa Web Albums, your viewers can download…
July 2nd, 2008 | by Mariya Moeva | published in Google Webmaster Central
Posted by Mariya Moeva, Search Quality TeamIf your site does not appear in Google Search results, you might be understandably worried. Here, we’ve put together some information to help you determine when and how to submit a reconsideration request for …
July 2nd, 2008 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Jonathan Matus and Luca Zanolin, Google Maps for mobile voice search teamOn the Google Maps for mobile team we’re always experimenting with new technologies, so we’re happy to announce that we’ve started testing voice search as a new feature….
July 1st, 2008 | by A Googler | published in Google Public Policy
Carolyn Dalton, Head of Government Affairs and Public Policy, Australia and New ZealandThe other day, we blogged about the importance of a national broadband policy in the U.S. In fact, this is a critical issue confronting countries around the globe….
July 1st, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Effie Seiberg, Mobile TricksterWe’ve got some exciting submissions on Mobile Tricks, our new YouTube channel celebrating everything that can be done with a mobile phone. Today’s theme is “getting away.”You can get away from that annoying guy …
July 1st, 2008 | by Niels Provos | published in Google Online Security
Posted by Michal ZalewskiWe’re happy to announce that we’ve just open-sourced ratproxy, a passive web application security assessment tool that we’ve been using internally at Google. This utility, developed by our information security engineering team,…
July 1st, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
About a month ago, we gave you a quick overview of Google’s offline advertising offerings: TV, Print, and Audio Ads – all of which fall under the umbrella of what we call ‘traditional media’. Today, we’re pleased to announce that the TV, Print,…
July 1st, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Chris Dizon, SketchUp GuruIf you happen to fall under the Engineering, Construction or Facilities category, then please read on. We just found a new website that could be useful to you. Engineering Toolbox is a website dedicated to providing …
July 1st, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Jason Huggins, Software Engineering Team and Selenium Co-CreatorI’m happy to announce “Selenium Ice”, a new tool for developers who test web applications in Internet Explorer with Selenium. This first version of Ice is limited in scope — it si…
July 1st, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Gears
Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears Team
When a lot of developers think about Flex, they often tie it to Flash and AIR, but you can of course integrate Flex applications with many other front-end services.
Mrinal Wadhwa has seen value in building Flex applications, and also likes functionality available in Gears.
He wrote up an article on enhancing Flex applications with Gears which had him create a sample application the uses the Desktop API in Gears.
It is interesting to take a look at the source to see how Flex applications tie back to plain old JavaScript.
For example, the following shows you how you put JavaScript into your Flex application, and then call back to the Flex code via thisMovie(APP_NAME).methodToCall
:
// tells the swf if gears is installed
function isGearsInstalled() {
if (window.google && google.gears) { //gears is installed
thisMovie("FlexGears").testForGears(true);
return;
}
//gears is not installed
thisMovie("FlexGears").testForGears(false);
}
function thisMovie(movieName) {
if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1) {
return window[movieName];
} else {
return document[movieName];
}
}
// ....
Thanks to Mrinal Wadhwa for taking the time to try this all out. We enjoy seeing how people take Gears into many corners of the Web!
Also, you may not have seen QuickFix, an example application that shows how you can use Flex to talk to Google App Engine. The example is created by Dick Wall from App Engine, and James Ward from Adobe.
July 1st, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Gears
Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears TeamWhen a lot of developers think about Flex, they often tie it to Flash and AIR, but you can of course integrate Flex applications with many other front-end services.Mrinal Wadhwa has seen value in building Flex applicati…
July 1st, 2008 | by Kate Pacher | published in Google TV Ads Blog
Welcome to the new Google Traditional Media blog! The recent launch of our traditional media advertising platforms enables you to advertise on TV, radio, or in newspapers. We’ve created this blog as a place for you to turn for the latest in feature …
July 1st, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
First, let’s go over a few new features for static maps:
We support larger maps, up to 640X640 pixels.We use a more compact Google logo for maps less than 100 pixels wide.We support the ability to specify a map view…
July 1st, 2008 | by GooglePR2 | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Posted by Robert Whiteside, Head of UK and IrelandEvery day more than 3,000 businesses sign up for Google Apps and move to the cloud, and today we’d like to share one of those stories. Taylor Woodrow is a construction firm in the UK that recently migra…