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Download Squad Week in Review

Posted Mar 29th 2008 10:00AM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Weekend Review

DLS logoBeen busy spending the past week telling the press about your extramarital affairs, history of drug use, and misuse of campaign funds? Here are a few stories you might have been too busy to read.

Adobe Photoshop Express Beta launches

After months of hype, the big day finally arrived. Adobe launched a free, online version of Photoshop, the industry standard in image editing. You won't find all the bells and whistles that come with the desktop version of Photoshop. After all, Adobe does still want to sell you software. But Photoshop Express will definitely give existing online image editors like Picnik and FotoFlexer a run for their money.

8 steps to a more professional Blogspot blog

Look, we know that most folks think it's blasphemy to use the words "professional" and "blogspot" in the same sentence. But hear us out. Google's blogging service offers free web hosting, unlimited bandwidth, and a surprisingly tweakable template. We've gathered 8 or so of our favorite tips for making your Blogspot site look as good as good as any WordPress blog.

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Google rolls out Gmail updates in 37 languages

Posted Feb 14th 2008 7:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: E-mail, Google

Gmail label colorsIt's been a few months since Google rolled out some major updates to the Gmail interface, including support for colored labels, group chat, graphic emoticons, a new contact manager, and new keyboard shortcuts.

Now Google is offering the same features to non-English speakers. The company is rolling out the updated version of Gmail to 37 new languages. There are still a few unsupported languages. But if you speak Croation, Icelandic, Hebrew, or Arabic, you can still user the older version of Gmail.

The update also means that the rest of the world gets to experience the joy of watching their Gmail-specific browser plugins stop working. Fortunately, third party developers have been hard at work for the last few months updating their Gmail notifiers and Greasemonkey scripts. So if you're reading a translated version of this page and you've noticed your plugins don't work anymore, it might be a good time to check the developer homepages to see if there are new versions available.
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Googleholic for January 29, 2008

Posted Jan 29th 2008 2:00PM by Romeo Wahed
Filed under: Internet, Blogging, Web services, Google, Googleholic, Search

Googleholic for January 29, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!

This edition covers:
  • Google TV ads to let advertisers bid for shows
  • Blogger is infused with three more languages
  • Accessing Google Docs offline
Google TV to let advertisers bid for shows

Instead of purchasing airtime based on time slots or demographics, Google Adword's TV ads will let advertisers bid for specific shows. From the looks of it, this will give advertisers a lot more flexibility when setting up budgets for television advertising.

Blogger is infused with three more languages

Blogger has added support for three more languages, bringing its total number of supported languages up to 40. The new languages available are Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew, and are fully fleshed out with right-to-left features such as right-to-left templates, as well as bi-directional input to give users flexibility in how they want their posts to appear. If you would like to use these new languages on your Blogger blog (or any of the other languages for that matter) you change the language settings from the dashboard.

Accessing Google Docs offline

Google Blogoscoped gave Google Gears a shot to see what kind of offline functionality could be had with Google Docs. Unfortunately, from the looks of it, offline capabilities are capped to renaming and starring files - viewing and editing is not possible at this point in time. So although the ability to "access" your Google Docs files offline is there, it is going to need a little more work before it's going to become standard fare for Google Docs users.

And other bits of Google we tracked since the last issue:

Google Reader adds timestamp - For those that do not enjoy the wait between the time it takes for a published post to update, the timestamp in Google Reader will let you at least know just how large the discrepancies are.

Google adds new search result views - If you're feeling adventurous and want to experience what it's like to be on the cutting edge of search, Google has just released three new experimental search views for you to play around with - map view, timeline view, and info view.
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Netvibes international updates

Posted Dec 28th 2006 9:30AM by Ross McKillop
Filed under: Internet, News, Web services

Netvibes blog new international versions
The folks over at Netvibes have been very busy as of late. In the last few weeks they've released 10 new international versions of their "customizable Web 2.0 home page/portal solution" (buzzwords aside, it's a terrific service). If you haven't given it a try yet, perhaps one these new versions will entice you: Greek, Turkish, Quebecer, Ukrainian, Russian, Danish, Canadian, Polish, Brazilian and UK.

If you want to help Netvibes to build a local version for your country, I'm sure they would be thrilled if you contact them.
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Hello World Collection

Posted Sep 8th 2006 2:15PM by Ryan Carter
Filed under: Developer, Fun, Text

Hello WorldEvery programmer knows what Hello World means because it is the first time they were able to get a particular programming language up and running successfully. Hello World somehow became the universal way to announce to the world that you had cracked the shell of ignorance previously surrounding a particular language, and were able to hack the few lines of code it takes to produce "Hello World" and output it to your screen in some form. Today's time waster isn't a rockin space-race game or anything, but it is somewhat interesting, mostly if you engage in a little programming (or a lot). The Hello World Collection is a site that has the code or graphic that it takes to write "Hello World" in many different programming languages. It is interesting to go find any of the languages you are familiar with.
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Monolingual: Eliminate languages from OS X

Posted Jun 29th 2005 3:47AM by Jordan Running
Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh

Monolingual screenshot

Mac OS X ships with its core applications in dozens of languages, but chances are you're only interested in using one or, if you like to spice things up once in awhile, two. Monolingual is a small app for OS X which removes translations you don't want and frees up a couple hundred megs of hard drive space. It's open-source, too.

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