YouTube Uploader Powered by Gears (40)
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You can now upload videos larger than 100 MB to YouTube without installing a dedicated software. YouTube started to use Gears to upload videos.The latest version of Gears introduces some new features that make manipulating large files so much easier. Gears now makes uploading large and multiple files on the web much easier, giving you the primitives to roll a resumable uploader, which means hopefully we can see custom desktop uploaders go away soon. (...) ...
Shallow Reader (66)
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I don't like to read feeds in Google Reader or in any other feed reader. After subscribing to sites that seem interesting, Google Reader makes them boring and uniform. All the subscriptions lose their identity and become random bits. There's also the pressure of having to read the new posts and clean the "inbox" which makes you skip interesting posts or just skim them."Skim = To read or glance through (a book, for example) quickly ...
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Leooon said:
"When you open Google Reader and there are 400 new posts, each article becomes a mission from a hopeless game created by yourself. You want to be free again."Vida lôca.
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DigDoug said:
I'm beginning to feel this way
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János B said:
Sad but true. RSS will die..
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GregEh said:
I can relate to these problems. Reader has become both the best and worst source of information.
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zhangs.jedi said:
言为心声，我感同身受
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Juan Diego said:
Qué gran verdad.
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Jeton said:
Excellent article about how Google Reader makes us robots when reading text.... Sad, but true.”
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chexov said:
totally true...
News without borders: search results across languages (3)
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Posted by Mahesh KM, Software EngineerOne of our most important goals for Google News is to expose readers to a diverse range of journalistic viewpoints. This is why we think it's important to have hundreds, if not thousands of different sources for important stories. It's also why Google News is currently available in more than 20 languages.We've recently released a feature which we call cross-language search, which will help you find even more perspectives when ...
Federal Regulations Helped Spawn Mortgage Crisis (1)
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Federal “affordable housing” and “diversity” mandates helped spawn the mortgage crisis. Additional evidence comes from a Washington Post story, which notes that “even late in the housing bubble, Fannie Mae was drawn to risky loans by a variety of temptations, including the desire to fulfill government quotas for the support of low-income borrowers.” As Slate’s Mickey Kaus noted today, that shows that “government regulations . . . may also have been at least partly to ...
Benjamin Ling and Facebook back-story (11)
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Here’s one certainty in the hubbub that has resulted in the wake of the departure of high-profile exec Ben Ling from Facebook last week: COO Sheryl Sandberg is definitely not responsible for the melting of the polar ice caps. That’s the joking question–Was global warming Sandberg’s fault too?–that was asked at a staff meeting at the social networking start-up last Friday afternoon, after the news of Ling’s departure, on the heels of some other previous ...
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Jack said:
It literally reads like a soap opera.
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charleshudson said:
one of the more interesting takes on the situation - worth a read if you're a Googler, ex-Googler, or Facebooker
Knol's Advanced Search (10)
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Knol has recently added a search toolkit that lets you build advanced queries, a feature that wasn't available at launch. Many of the options from Google web search can be used in Knol: phrase search, negative terms, OR search. You can also restrict the search to titles, summaries, authors, reviews, recent knols. Google offers three options for ordering the results: by relevance, by creation date, by last modified date and an interesting "reverse sort".The advanced ...
The Week In Washington, D. C. (1)
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With Congress out all month, not much is happening in Washington, which is always a good thing. But the debate is shifting noticeably. For evidence, read this editorial in the Washington Post. The Post has not said anything reasonable or even factually correct on energy for over a decade (they used to support oil production in ANWR). In this editorial, however, the Post corrects ads being run by the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund ...
Time to "Free the Airwaves" (47)
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For quite some time we've been talking about the potential of the unused airwaves between broadcast TV channels ("white spaces") to provide affordable, high-speed wireless Internet connectivity nationwide. For this to happen, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) must allow unlicensed use of this spectrum.If you care about the future of the Internet, now is the time to take action. The FCC has completed its field testing and is expected to make a ruling in the ...
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Noah said:
Google takes aim at the "unused bandwidth" in the broadcast radio spectrum.
Sarbanes-Oxley — Loved By Countrywide and Mozilo, Albatross to Legit Investors and Entrepreneurs, Challenged in Court — response to Jane Bryant Quinn- (1)
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For more than two years, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has been involved in a constitutional challenge to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the giant agency set up by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to create auditing rules under the law. CEI attorneys Sam Kazman and Hans Bader are of counsel to the plaintiffs in Free Enterprise Fund (FEF) v. PCAOB, and they have worked with the lead attorneys at the Jones Day law firm ...
Linux: Recover Corrupted Partition From A Bad Superblock (3)
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Linux ext2/3 filesystem stores superblock at different backup location so it is possible to get back data from corrupted partition. This aricle explains how to recover a bad superblock from a corrupted ext3 partition to get back data.
Barack Obama Disrespects Justice Thomas (1)
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Forms move out of their parents' basement (and other improvements) (11)
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We made a few improvements to the spreadsheets editor this week, which you can read about in our user group. Among the changes were some improvements to Forms.The most visible change makes the whole Forms feature more accessible to you, since "spreadsheets" isn't the first place you'd look to create a form. We noticed that many of you search for "Forms" from your Docs List and from within the other editors (documents, presentations). So, we've ...
Google Gadgets for Linux 0.10.1 (2)
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Posted by James Su, Software EngineerTo celebrate the opening of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, we've just released Google Gadgets for Linux 0.10.1. This version contains two new built-in gadgets:Photos - Displays your favorite photos (from either the Web or a local directory) as a slideshow. This gadget is very simple to use. Just get it from the Add gadgets dialog, and add your favorite sources in the Options dialog.Gadget Designer - Similar to the ...
Keyczar: Safe and Simple Cryptography (7)
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Written by Steve WeisCryptography is notoriously hard to get right and if improperly used, can create serious security holes. Common mistakes include using the wrong cipher modes or obsolete algorithms, composing primitives in an unsafe manner, hard-coding keys in source code, or failing to anticipate the need for future key rotation. With these risks in mind, we're pleased to announce the open-source release of Keyczar.Keyczar is a cryptographic toolkit that supports encryption and authentication for ...
Add a Table of Contents to Google Docs and More (62)
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Basic features like table of contents, footnotes or thesaurus are still missing from Google Docs. Some of the features are already implemented and they're ready to be added to the interface.For example, to generate a table of contents from the headings of a document, just paste this code in the address bar:javascript:mr("TocSettings");void(0);You should see a dialog that lets you choose the numbering style.There's also an option to insert a HTML snippet without editing the HTML ...
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xsolutions said:
Lassan, lépésről lépésre, egyre többet és többet ad, míg függővé nem válunk.
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Götz said:
Basic features like table of contents, footnotes or thesaurus are still missing from Google Docs. Some of the features are already implemented and they're ready to be added to the interface.- oh, ich wußte garicht, daß Google Docs das noch gar nicht konnte bisher ... naja, jetzt geht es ja.
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wvpv said:
Finally.
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Topka said:
О! Забавный подхож...А я как раз голосовал за TOC.
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Nick said:
wow
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Hervé said:
Enfin, mais c'est quand même pas encore ça!
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williamsdb said:
One thing I love about Google Docs is the continual improvement and addition of new features. Having recently created a doc from scratch the TOC is definately missing so it is good to see that it is on it's way.
distcc's pump mode: A New Design for Distributed C/C++ Compilation (13)
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By Nils Klarlund, Research Scientist - Build Tools TeamFor a while now, Google has been using distcc, a distributed C/C++ compilation system, to speed up building software made of millions of lines of code. With distcc, we can build code an order of magnitude faster than we could if everyone had to compile on their own workstation. But even with distcc, compiles could take a long time: compiling the Google Webserver might take 20 minutes. ...
Anonymous referrers for private sites (2)
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We have had some questions in our discussion group about why some outgoing links are sent through an extra redirect before getting to their destination URL, and we wanted to explain the benefits of this feature for private sites.Normally if you have a link on your website to another website, and someone clicks on that link, the URL of your page with that link is passed to that site as referral information (and visible to ...
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MiramarMike said:
All good ... except, as Stuart points out, it uses http and httpS for "super secure" ... so not so "super secure"
Google Slowly Closing Page Creator (11)
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As Digital Inspiration noticed, Google on their Page Creator About page says: <<We are no longer accepting new sign-ups for Page Creator because we have shifted our focus to developing Google Sites, which offers many of the capabilities of Page Creator along with new features like site-level navigation, site-level headers, control over who can see and edit your site, and rich embeddings like calendars, videos, and Google docs.>> Google Page Creator is or was Google’s ...
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tarman said:
well, i guess some good things come to an end
Infinitube (13)
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Infinitube plays back YouTube videos non-stop. Search for “google”, for instance, and sit back to watch one video after another without having to press the play button again or navigate. The site suggests this can be useful “while you have a meal, do some work, or have a conversation with a boring friend”. Be aware that your search queries may pop up on the site’s public “recent video searches” list. Infinitube went online in July ...
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Chris said:
search for David Hasselhoff
