Your desktop background is your palate
December 15th, 2010 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
This post is part of the “Teach Your Parents Tech” series where Googlers help provide some tips and tricks you can gift your parents with this Holiday Season.
Last holiday season was the first time that I accumulated enough funds (read: got a “…
December 15th, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
Today, we are open sourcing the Postini EZCommand Shell, a Perl script allowing Postini administrators to issue EZCommands to Postini from a command line.The script is useful in two ways. First, it allows Postini administrators to make Postini EZComma…
December 15th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Code
When Google acquired Instantiations in August 2010, everyone knew about our Java Eclipse products. Shortly after we joined, we talked about how best to help developers now that we are part of Google. We have always wanted to get these tools in more dev…
December 15th, 2010 | by Kevin Gough | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
When we announced that Chrome is now used by over 120 million users and showed off some of its latest features last week, we saw a tremendous amount of excitement from both users and businesses. Many businesses asked how they can get the benefits of i…
Email delegation now available for all Google Apps customers
December 15th, 2010 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Email delegation is now available to all Google Apps customers. This Gmail feature was previously only available to Google Apps for Business.Editions included: Google Apps and Google Apps for EducationLanguages included: All languages supported by Gmai…
December 15th, 2010 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Don Harrison, Deputy General Counsel As we’ve said before, we understand that as Google grows, we’re going to face more questions about how our business works. We recognize the responsibility we have, and we are always open to hearing i…
December 14th, 2010 | by aidanchopra | published in Google SketchUp
Today’s Google Building Maker imagery update is our last one for 2010 – you can now use our purpose-built geo-modeling tool in any of 109 cities around the world. We’ve just released imagery for:Oklahoma City, OklahomaOslo, NorwayThe Hague, The N…
Email delegation now for all customers
December 14th, 2010 | by miriam | published in Google Enterprise
A while back, we launched email delegation for customers using Google Apps for Business. Today, we’re happy to bring this highly-requested feature to Google Apps and Google Apps for Education customers as well. As more universities migrate their facult…
Join your favorite YouTube stars and charities for an “awesome” live event on Saturday, December 18
December 14th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Youtube
*Update, December 15 at 17:15 PT: The 48 hour period of Project for Awesome starts at 9am PT / noon ET on Friday, December 17, and the live stream will take place from 4pm to 7pm PT on Saturday, December 18.*Three years ago, the vlogbrothers Hank and J…
December 14th, 2010 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Following up on our announcement that we’ve been beta-testing a new category blocking feature, we’re delighted to release the feature to all publishers in English-speaking countries. General category blocking is an important update to the new AdSen…
Analytics for Android Apps
December 14th, 2010 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Alexander Lucas, an Android Developer Advocate bent on saving the world 5 minutes. —Tim Bray]With the addition of custom variables to the Mobile Analytics SDK for Android, it strikes me as a good time to cover something many of you …
Live webcast this Thursday: “Google on Google”
December 14th, 2010 | by Ashley Chandler | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Have you ever been curious about how we run our business on Google’s products? Join us Thursday for a live webcast with Julie Pearl, a Director in Google’s Corporate Engineering group. Julie leads the team responsible for building and operating Googl…
December 14th, 2010 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Hari Nidumolu, Software EngineerI use two Gmail accounts: one is my personal account and the other I share with my family (we use it to subscribe to groups like my children’s classroom mailing list). Checking these two different accounts used…
On-screen Keyboards on Google Translate
December 14th, 2010 | by Missy | published in Google Translate, Uncategorized
Today Google Translate supports translation between almost sixty languages, but typing many of those on a standard QWERTY keyboard ranges from difficult to impossible. That’s why today we’re happy to announce the addition of on-screen keyboards to …
December 14th, 2010 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
You may have had the experience while searching on Google of finding results that are either too simple or too complex for the task at hand. A new feature in Advanced Search lets you display the reading level of results and filter based on level.
To …