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Ionut Alex Chitu
More Flexible Notifications in Google Calendar 
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
Last week, I received a message from Guy: "I LOVE Google Calendar! But... I wish I could set a reminder for a month in advance, instead of a measly 2 weeks. That is the only thing holding Calendar back from being truly awesome!"Thankfully for Guy, Google Calendar's event reminders are even more customizable: now you can choose any period of time
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Add Captions to YouTube Videos
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
YouTube added support for closed captioning, a feature that was already available at Google Video. If you edit one of your videos, you can click on the "Captions and subtitles" section and upload a captions file."Captions and subtitles make videos accessible
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Mobile Gmail 2.0 for BlackBerry
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Gmail's mobile client for BlackBerry has been updated and you can now download version 2.0.5 at http://m.google.com/mail. One of the most important changes is that you can add the credenti
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YouTube Toolbar for Playlists
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
YouTube shows a small toolbar at the bottom of the page that lets you manage the videos from a playlist, more like the controls from a media player. The toolbar has options for pausing and muting the active video, buttons for playing the next video from the playlist and for automatically playing videos. All of these options were already available in the sideba
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Gears for Safari
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
Google posted a link to a beta version of Gears for Safari: http://dl.google.com/gears/current/gears-osx-opt.dmg. The minimum system requirements are: Safari 3.1.1 on Tiger 10.4.11 or Leopard 10.5.3, although Gears is likely to support ot
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Google Suggest, Enabled by Default
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
As anticipated, Google Suggest will be finally available at google.com. "Today we're excited because Google Suggest will be graduating from Labs and available by default on the Google.com homepage. Over the next week, we'll be r
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Response Summary for Google Forms
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
Google Docs experiments with automatically generating response summaries for forms. If you edit a form and click on "View responses", Google shows charts for questions with multiple choices and lists the first answers for free-style questions.
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Marriage Proposal in Google Street View
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
"My name is Michael Weiss-Malik, and I work for Google. I don't work on the Street View team, but I interact with them pretty regularly. They decided to coordinate a pre-announced Street View run outside Google's Mountain View offices, with the idea that Googlers could line up along the street and appear in the imagery. So I put together my "Proposal 2.0" billboard and showed up, hoping that it'd
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YouTube Uploader Powered by Gears
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
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 som
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Google Translate OneBox
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
Google has a new OneBox for quick translations. You can just search for "translate", followed by a word or an expression and the optional "into English". For example, you can search for [translate désormais] and Google shows the entry from an automatically-generated
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Shallow Reader
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Fri, 22 Aug. 2008
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.
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APIs for Finding Location
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Fri, 22 Aug. 2008
Google launched two APIs for finding the location of a user from a web application. The most simple way, which is also the least precise, is to derive some information about location from the IP. Google AJAX API has an object named google.loader.ClientLocation that includes "metro-level granularity properties": country, r
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Export Google Notebooks
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
Google Notebook provides options to export each notebook as HTML or in the Atom format, but it's not very easy to export all your data. A Greasemonkey script automates the tedious work by reformatting the mobile page and adding links to the HTML or Atom version of each notebook.The default format is Atom an
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Photosynth Launches
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
Two years after the first technology preview, Microsoft officially launched Photosynth, an interesting way to combine overlapping photos from a place and explore the place in detail from different angles. "Using techniques from the field of computer vision, Photosynth examines images for similarities to each other and uses that information to estimate the shape
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Translate YouTube's Search Results
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Wed, 20 Aug. 2008
YouTube tests a new option that translates the search results into your language using Google Translate. Now that you can independently select the interface language, it would be nice if the user-generated content was available in the same language.YouTube didn't translate the titles and descriptions for all the videos, but it decided to use
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Google Widget for Custom 404 Error Pages
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Tue, 19 Aug. 2008
Google Toolbar 5 for IE (and soon for Firefox) has a useful feature that adds custom 404 error pages. If a site doesn't customize the error page and you click on a broken link or mistype the web address, Google Toolbar shows a list of suggestions: the site's ho
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More About Android and HTC Dream
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Tue, 19 Aug. 2008
Five months after the last released version, Google and the Open Handset Alliance publicly launched Android 0.9 SDK beta."Back in N
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A Directory of Google Reader Shared Pages?
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Mon, 18 Aug. 2008
Google promotes on the homepage a site called "Power Readers in Politics", which lists the Google Reader shared pages for US political journalists and the campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain."You can read what they read, and see what's on their minds as they share and discuss news. Each participant has created a reading l
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Knol's Advanced Search
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Mon, 18 Aug. 2008
Knol has recently added a search toolkit that lets you build advanced queries, a feature that wasn't available
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Google Calendar Agenda in Gmail
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Sun, 17 Aug. 2008
GmailAgenda is a Greasemonkey script that shows your Google Calendar agenda as a sidebar in Gmail. The script uses Google Calendar's embedded view and it includes an option to add events to the main calendar. The sidebar can't
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