November 3rd, 2008 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Aseem Sood, Product Manager, Google ToolbarAre you addicted to email? Do you keep Gmail open on your browser, constantly hitting refresh to get your latest messages?If you’re using Google Toolbar 5 for Internet Explorer (or Toolbar’s Firefox …
November 3rd, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
We’re pleased to let you know that the improvements to Ads Quality that we announced last week have recently launched. As we explained last week, these improvements better evaluate the precise quality of your ads and improve the way we determine which …
November 3rd, 2008 | by Jeff Bailey | published in Google Open Source
By Jeff Bailey, Open Source TeamA couple weeks ago, we announced the Android open source release. Beside it, we silently released the tools that we wrote in order to make handling a large multi-repository project manageable in git. If you had a chanc…
November 3rd, 2008 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
In early September, Daniel Bowman Simon and Casey Gustowarow visited Google in their modified double-decker school bus. Their bus is really two buses fused together with an organic garden on the roof. (The picture above shows our very own Jen Mazzon …
November 3rd, 2008 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Posted by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing ManagerCloud computing can conserve IT budgets, let IT departments focus their time on core projects and equip employees with powerful tools, fostering competitive advantages and healthier businesses. But y…
November 3rd, 2008 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
AdWords API v13 ushered in a number of great new features, like exposing keyword quality score information, new report types, and support for more geo-targeting options. There is an additional new feature that received somewhat less fanfare, though: st…
November 3rd, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
When you submit your gadget, you specify URLs for large and small screenshots of the gadget. These screenshots represent your gadget in listings such as the Add gadgets window, online gadget directories, and the web page that’s automatically generated for each gadget.
Unfortunately, there was no direct way to update these locations should they ever change — until now. This tip tells you how to update the screenshot URLs.
Add these tags to the gadget.gmanifest of your published .gg file:
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http://mysite.appspot.com/80x60_screen.png
http://mysite.appspot.com/300x255_screen.png
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The gadget gallery has the smarts to pick up these changes and use the URLs you specify to update the images in the gallery. Check out the gadget.gmanifest documentation for more details.
Just a reminder, the small screenshot should be 80×60 pixels. Also, be sure to take a look at this classic tip about submitting better screenshots.
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Desktop Team)
November 3rd, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
When you submit your gadget, you specify URLs for large and small screenshots of the gadget. These screenshots represent your gadget in listings such as the Add gadgets window, online gadget directories, and the web page that’s automatically generated …
November 3rd, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Bigger is better – for AdSense ad unitsAdSense for content is the bread and butter of many of our publishers, and we often receive requests to recommend strategies to improve AdSense performance on publisher sites. While we refer to this as ‘optimisati…
November 3rd, 2008 | by Ben Lisbakken | published in Google Ajax API
So, the other day, I was asked by the AJAX APIs dev team if I’d like to write a guest blog post, but they didn’t tell me what to write about. I thought about telling you how the AJAX APIs revolutionized how I think about life, design websites, and slic…
November 3rd, 2008 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
By Itai Raz, Google Visualization API TeamToday, we’re publicly documenting the Google Visualization API’s open-wire protocol, thus dramatically expanding the capabilities of this API beyond what had been available since we first launched in March of t…
November 3rd, 2008 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Google Docs
Google Apps administrators can now link their Google Analytics accounts to Google Apps, providing administrators with usage data for Google Docs and Google Sites.Editions impacted:Premier and Education EditionsLanguages impacted:US EnglishHow to access…
November 3rd, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Making 3D models on the computer is great and all, but have you ever wanted a real-life, physical, breaks-if-you-drop-it object to hold in your hands? Of course you have — we’ve all been spoiled by Captain Picard’s replicator. But we might have to wai…
November 3rd, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop
Name: Photo FrameAuthor: GoogleDescription: Keep your favorite photos, nicely framed, on your desktop. You can choose from several frames and themes. More information | Download gadget Each week this blog features a recently added Google Desktop gadge…
November 3rd, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop
Name: Photo FrameAuthor: GoogleDescription: Keep your favorite photos, nicely framed, on your desktop. You can choose from several frames and themes. More information | Download gadget Each week this blog features a recently added Google Desktop gadge…