Google has finally unveiled Dart, its new programming language for building web applications, a new platform developed with simplicity, efficiency, and scalability in mind, combining powerful new language features with familiar language constructs into easy to define code. The language comes with a set of basic libraries and tools for checking, compiling, and running Dart code, all of which will evolve further with your participation. Dart’s design goals are: - Create a structured yet flexible language for web programming. - Make Dart feel familiar and natural to programmers and thus easy to learn. - Ensure that Dart delivers high performance on all modern web
Read MoreAmazon addicts and people who obsessively track packages may know this already, but pasting the tracking number into Google and hitting search will bring up a link to go directly to the package status page on whichever carrier has the package, saving you the hassle of figuring out which carrier has your package, visiting their site, and then pasting in the tracking number there. This trick works for USPS, UPS, FedEx, On-Trac, and a few other national carriers, but if your package is in the hands of a small company or a courier service, your mileage may vary. It's particularly useful
Read MoreGoogle has launched Google Flights Search, an attractive, intuitive, lightning fast airline search tool. The search results are nearly instantaneous where most of the travel sites make you slog through the "searching airlines" intermediary screen, results display on a Google Map in a way that's actually useful; it's got an impressive, easy-to-use interface; and it also includes powerful filtering tools to help you find tickets matching preferences like non-stop, duration, price, and especially handy, a tool to help you find the cheapest flight by duration when you've got flexible travel dates. After a few initial comparisons, Google Flights Search also
Read MoreHere a comes an addition to Google Maps current weather conditions. The feature is live accessible by clicking the weather layer on the upper right hand corner of a map. Selecting the feature will overlay conditions culled from Weather.com, anywhere in the world with icons to denote sun, clouds, rain and so on. The results include the temperature and icons for the sun, rain, clouds and the moon, when that part of the world goes dark. Also new is cloud coverage from the US Naval Research Lab. Video of new feature is embedded below. Changing the units of wind speed (Mph/KMph/Mps)
Read MoreGoogle's now made what's surely the biggest addition to Google+ in its short lifespan: games. Unlike a certain other social network, Google says games in Google+ are "there when you want them and gone when you don't," meaning that they won't flood your main stream if you never play them you have to click the games button at the top of your stream. You can see the latest game updates from your circles, browse the invites you’ve received and check out games that people you know have played recently. The Games page is also where your game accomplishments will appear.
Read MoreGoogle Music Player is a desktop player for Google Music which lets you play songs directly from its interface. It also has many additional features like minimized player, minimize to tray with a dragable playback control bar and support for multimedia keys. The player is a web version of the music service inside an app, you need to first login to your Google Account and then access the Google Music. When you minimize the player, you can play/pause buttons along with next and previous keys. You need to have an invite to access Google Music and the service is currently
Read MoreGoogle has released a number of features which make Gmail for mobile look sharper and feel smoother. Pull down to refresh you can now pull down to refresh your message list and conversation on all iOS and Playbook devices. To refresh, simply touch the message list, drag downwards and release. High resolution icons for those of you using Gmail for mobile on an iPhone 4 Retina display, the icons and graphics are now at a higher resolution, making Gmail for mobile sharper. Transitions when you tap on a conversation, tap back to the inbox, go to the menu or go
Read MoreThe XDK is the world’s first HTML5 powered mobile application development tool. With it, you can create, debug and build customized, robust HTML5 apps in hours. appMobi's cloud-based build system turns your HTML5-based apps into 100% native API-compliant mobile apps for iOS or Android, or you can deploy them as webapps or Chrome apps. All from a single code base. It’s clear that HTML5 has become the unifying technology for the mobile space. However, creating great HTML5 apps requires great HTML5 tools and that’s exactly what the XDK is. As a Chrome ‘web app’ itself, the XDK can also be
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