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Googleholic for June 20, 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

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Filed under: Weekend Review

Download Squad Week in 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?

Featured Time Waster

The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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