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Googleholic for June 20, 2008

by Christina Warren Jun 20th 2008

Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!

In this edition:

Upcoming AdWords system maintenance
Sites gets new features
YouTube tries long-form
YouTube introduces Screening Room
Google Docs on ultraportables
Google Finance adds cash tracking

Tags: eee pc, EeePc, google, google docs, google finance, google sites, GoogleDocs, GoogleFinance, googleholic, GoogleSites, youtube, youtube screening room, YoutubeScreeningRoom

Filed under: Weekend Review

Fun, fortune, adventure and excitement; You'll find them all in Download Squad's week in review. Ok, so we're lying about the fortune and excitement is a highly subjective term. Still, there's fun, and adventure afoot so kick back and catch up.

Squander that extra hour you're getting this weekend and let's take a look at this week on Download Squad.

The Asus Eee PC
Our own Brad Linder gave in to temptation and dropped a not-so-small chunk of change for Asus' new Linux based eee PC. After an impatient wait for the battery to fully charge, he filed these two video posts on the wonders of a simplified Linux desktop on a 2lb ultra-sub-mini notebook.

Up close with the Eee PC part 1, the user interface
Up close with the Eee PC part 2, installing unsupported applications

Free (legal) movie downloads
Resident smarty-pants Lisa Hoover went download mad in this look at free and legal movie downloads online.

Five places to download free movies (legally!)

Microsoft's newest Google catch-up game
In the never ending quest to do everything Google does with slightly less skill and accuracy, Microsoft launched Project Gatineau. It's new, it's pretty, and it just might give Google's analytics a run for the money.

Microsoft launches Project Gatineau web analytics private beta

I can't understand a word you say
Google Reader Translate is a Firefox add-on that adds a translation feature to Google Reader. It won't translate full feeds for you (that would probably take forever), but it does translate every headline in a given feed. Click on the article and it will open up in a new window using Google Translate. Ich bin ein Impressed!

Automatically translate feeds with Google Reader and Firefox

Other popular stories this week:

Introducing the Meebo platform
Broken Flash uploads in Lepoard
Have you checked the clock on your Windows Mobile Device this week?

Tags: download squad, DownloadSquad, eee pc, EeePc, free movie downloads, FreeMovieDownloads, project gatineau, ProjectGatineau, week in review, WeekInReview

Featured Time Waster

Civiballs is a beautiful, soothing physics puzzle Time Waster

I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.

In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.

To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.

Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.

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