August 26th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Code
Let’s say you’re really interested in coffee and tea and would like to know every time someone talks about them. You’ve been able to do that for the web with Google Alerts. Now you will be able to do the same thing for Google Buzz with our latest fea…
August 26th, 2010 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
Many of you are about to leave your hometowns and head off to schools across the country and around the world, so we’re excited to let you know that staying in touch just got a lot easier — and cheaper.
Starting today, you can call any phone right from Gmail.
Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free for at least the rest of the year and calls to other countries will be billed at our very low rates. That means that none of your precious minutes get eaten up and staying in touch with your friends who are studying abroad will run you as little as 2¢/minute. Side note: making calls in Gmail is also a great way to get around dropped calls in dorms and apartments with bad reception.
Dialing a phone number works just like a normal phone. Just click “Call phone” at the top of your chat list and dial a number or enter a contact’s name.
If you have a Google Voice phone number, calls made from Gmail will display this number as the outbound caller ID. And if you decide to, you can receive calls made to this number right inside Gmail (see instructions).
We’re rolling out this feature to U.S. based Gmail users over the next few days, so you’ll be ready to get started once “Call Phones” shows up in your chat list (you will need to install the voice and video plug-in if you haven’t already). If your school email is powered by Google Apps you won’t see it quite yet, but it will be available in your personal Gmail accounts.
For more information, visit gmail.com/call.
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August 26th, 2010 | by abishop | published in Google Enterprise
Editor’s note: Today’s guest post comes from Chris Poe, Engineering Director at JibJab Media. JibJab.com is a digital entertainment studio that creates, produces and distributes humorous online content. From offbeat eCards to personalized videos a…
August 26th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
When we first introduced our real-time search features last December, we focused on bringing relevance to the freshest information on the web. Our goal was to provide real-time content from a comprehensive set of sources, integrated right into your usu…
August 26th, 2010 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
Today, we added in-cell dropdown and validation to spreadsheets. This makes it easy to constrain the values of an individual cell to a specific range or list. For example, if you are building a trip planning spreadsheet, you can now limit the options…
August 26th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Code
Over the months, we’ve had many requests to explain the way we rank applications in the orkut directory. Developers often wonder why one of their very popular apps doesn’t appear as high up in the directory as they believe it should. Well, it’s n…
August 26th, 2010 | by Harrison | published in Google Enterprise
The email inbox has become the hub for most people’s business day. With Gmail contextual gadgets, available in the Google Apps Marketplace, instead of having to open additional applications to take action or get more information, these applications …
August 25th, 2010 | by Tasha Danko | published in Google SketchUp
Our September and October 2010 SketchUp Authorized Training Center schedule is now available. The map below contains information on specific locations, dates, and courses provided.View September/ October 2010 Training Schedule in a larger mapWe have so…
August 25th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Starting today, you can experience YouTube in four new languages: Croatian, Filipino, Serbian and Slovak. This brings the grand total of languages we support to 28, a nearly 50% increase since the beginning of 2010. (And remember: by selecting automate…
August 25th, 2010 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Google Docs
We’ve now introduced the ability to reveal all formulas with one clickEditions included: Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for GovernmentLanguages included: All languages supported by Google DocsHow to access what’s …
August 25th, 2010 | by Deanna Yick | published in Google Earth
Three years ago we launched reviews for places on Google so that you could share your opinion of any place in the world. Your reviews help other users find places that are right for them.We encourage you to continue sharing your experiences and opinio…
August 25th, 2010 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Google Docs
Incremental reveal has now been added to Google presentations to gradually reveal a selected object on your slide.Editions included: Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for GovernmentLanguages included: All languages sup…
August 25th, 2010 | by Patricia Boswell | published in Google Analytics
Raise your hand if any of this sounds familiar to you:You just set up your tracking code and you’re wondering if it’s correct–and you want to know right now.You have decided to migrate your tracking to the new asynchronous syntax–but you want to know…
August 25th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Our sixth annual Google Summer of Code program has wrapped up and we want to highlight some of this year’s amazing participants and projects. Summer of Code offers students developers all over the world the chance to get paid to write code for open s…
August 25th, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
Freebase is an open, Creative Commons licensed repository of structured data that contains information about 12 million real-world entities including people, places, films, books, events, businesses, and almost any other thing you can imagine. Our gra…