Google unveils Dart its new programming language for building web applications

October 12, 2011 |  by  |  Google, News  |  No Comments

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

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You can track almost any package by Googling the tracking number

September 21, 2011 |  by  |  Google, Tips n Tweaks  |  No Comments

Amazon 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

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Google introduces Flight Search for finding cheap tickets

September 14, 2011 |  by  |  Google, News, Video  |  No Comments

Google 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

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Sharing Google Maps made easier with Google shortner g.co

August 24, 2011 |  by  |  Google, News  |  No Comments

The Google Lat Long Team has announced that the Google g.co URL shortener has graduated from testing to become an official feature of Google Maps. The super-short URL dedicated to Google-owned Web properties launched in July, and the g.co/maps path will always lead to a Google Maps page. The Google Maps screen now displays a link icon in the top right corner. Clicking the link opens a box containing the map's URL, which is no longer visible from the browser's location bar (it just says 'maps.google.com'), as well as HTML to embed the map on a Web page. The full URL

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Google Maps now adds current weather conditions

August 19, 2011 |  by  |  Google, News, Video  |  No Comments

Here 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)

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Google Related a chrome extension act as a browsing assistant

August 17, 2011 |  by  |  Apps, Downloads, Google, Video  |  No Comments

Google Related is a Chrome Extension that shows you useful, interesting content while you browse the web. Whenever you’re navigating to a new page, Google Related will look for interesting related content and, if available, display it in a bar at the bottom of your page, you'll see a thin bar along the bottom of your screen that offers videos, maps, reviews and other content that's relevant to that page. To preview a listed item or see additional items, just use your mouse to hover over different categories in the bar. When you see an item you like, you can

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Google brings games to Google+

August 12, 2011 |  by  |  Google, Nokia  |  No Comments

Google'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.

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Google Music Player for desktop

August 8, 2011 |  by  |  Downloads, Google, Softwares  |  No Comments

Google 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

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Gmail for mobile now get Retina display, Pull down to refresh and Transitions

August 5, 2011 |  by  |  Apple, Apps, Google  |  No Comments

Google 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

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appMobi XDK – HTML5, free, cross-platform development on Google Chrome App Store

August 4, 2011 |  by  |  android, Apps, Concepts, Google, News  |  1 Comment

The 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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