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Google Analytics Tracks Chrome 
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 04 Sep. 2008
TechCrunch reports that Google Analytics included Chrome in the list of detected browsers. It's probably irrelevant that 8.64% of today's visits for this blog were from Google Chrome because a lot of users test the new browser to see if it's bett
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Google Chrome Tips
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 04 Sep. 2008
Here are some not-so-obvious things you can do in Google Chrome, the minimalistic browser launched on Tuesday.1. Show the list of recently visited pages from the current tab: right-click on the "Back" button. This also works for the "Forward" button.
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Add Photos by Email in Picasa Web Albums
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Wed, 03 Sep. 2008
There's an easy way to upload photos to Picasa Web Albums if you don't want to install Picasa: send your photos by email to a secret address.First you need visit the Settings page and check "Allow me to upload photos by email." The secret email address where you can send your photos has the fol
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Google Chrome's about: Pages
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Wed, 03 Sep. 2008
Like most other browsers, Google Chrome has some special pages that show information about memory usage, cached files, plug-ins and more. Here's a list of the most interesting about: pages available in Google Chrome (you can open them by dragging about:name to the address bar).1. about:version - Google Chrome shows the version number the browser, WebKi
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The Invisible Browser
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
Google Chrome has been released and you can now finally try it. Developed in the past two years, the browser is barely noticeable after you open it. It loads f
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Where in the World? (Picasa Web Game)
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
The new version of Picasa Web Albums added a simple game called "Where in the World". Your mission is to find the correct location for some photos that are already geolocated. To find the game, go to the Explore section and click on "Start Game".
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Picasa Web Albums Adds People Tagging
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
CNet reports that Picasa Web Albums will add some interesting features today. After implementing face detection in the image search engine, Google adds face recognition in Picasa Web Albums to facilitate photo tagging."The problem with tagging is that it's a chore, so most people don
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Google OS Is Actually a Browser: Google Chrome
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Mon, 01 Sep. 2008
Google Blogoscoped posts an interesting comic book created by Scott McCloud that illustrates the features of Google Chrome, an open source browser based on WebKit. As usually, all the rumors related to Google are true and "Google Bro
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 - IE Looks Good Again
(unknown author) via Google Operating System on Sat, 30 Aug. 2008
Shared by Derick Valadao
This kind of overhaul has been long overdue. But still; no extensions, no substitution.
Microsoft has recently released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, an impressive update for a software that stagnated in the past years
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Something You Can't Find Using Google
(unknown author) via Google Operating System on Sat, 30 Aug. 2008
Shared by Eater
Interesting.http://www.google.com/s2/profiles/109859000123225450719?zx=cxwtev0jx4fb
Google Profiles, the public pages that include information about Google users, continue to add new questions. Some of the r
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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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