Showing posts with label Picasa. Show all posts
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Friday, May 29, 2015

Google Photos

English: Google+ wordmark
English: Google+ wordmark (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Google Plus has been my favorite photo sharing app. I have liked the instant upload, the auto upload thing, I have liked the lots of space thing. I have liked the easy share thing. And now, instead of giving me nightmares by sunsetting Google Plus, as was the rumor, Google gives me Google Photos. I am thrilled. I want storage to be free. Unlimited.

But free is just the starting point. Google Photos takes photo storage and sharing to a whole new level. A Gmail for photos is a good description.

CNN: Google's amazing new app is like Gmail for your Photos
Time: Google Plus’ Best Feature Is Coming Back From the Dead
Despite Google Photos’ arrival, Google+ still lives

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Blog Carnival: Google (2)

July: Netizen Blog Carnival Month
  1. Blog Carnival: Internet For The Billions
  2. Blog Carnival: Wimax
  3. Blog Carnival: Cheap Laptops
  4. Blog Carnival: Microfinance
  5. Blog Carnival: Venture Capital
  6. Blog Carnival: Google




Google

Plan ahead: Document and share your health wishes with Google Health
Submit your ideas to change the face of broadband
Introducing a collection of favorite places from around the world
Google Voice mobile app for Blackberry and Android
Google Friend Connect speaks more languages
Google accounts on Twitter
Google tips for recent grads
How to steer clear of money scams
Special Ghana site for President Obama's visit
Seeing the world with improved Google Search results
Find Creative Commons images with Image Search
Designing useful mobile services for Africa
Introducing the Google Chrome OS
Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really)

Recent developments from around the social web
Introducing the ClackPoint gadget
See who's visiting to your site with the Footprints gadget
Designing a lounge for the Day in the Cloud
Back from Google I/O
Developing and distributing social gadgets just got easier
Introducing the Conversations element

Special Site for President Obama's visit to Ghana
Language: a lens for experiencing culture & technology
Google SMS to serve needs of poor in Uganda
University Outreach in Kenya
New in Gmail: Inbox preview
New African countries live on Google Maps
Launching Google Suggest in Swahili

Easier to find Favorites - better Fan control
The Fast and The Full-Screen
The coffee-table book goes custom
Calling all students: Google Photography Prize
Using Eye-Fi with Picasa - new album presets & video uploads
New: Instant Comment Notification
Now playing on YouTube: Picasa's Community Channel

Tip: Recover your password via text message
Gmail leaves beta, launches "Back to Beta" Labs feature
Labels: drag and drop, hiding, and more
So, you want to be a Gmail ninja?
New fields for Gmail contacts and better importing too
Tip: Check and reply from multiple email addresses in Gmail
Like puzzles? Get ready for the Day in the Cloud Challenge on June 24th
Tip: Slice and dice your mail with search operators
New in Labs: Inbox preview
New in Labs: Automatic message translation

University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Texas expand Google Books agreements
Books Are Full of Visual Gems: 19th century fashion edition!
New ways to search within a book
Explore a book in 10 seconds
Orwell: Author and Dishwasher
Books Are Full of Visual Gems: Famous Facial Hair edition!
New Features on Google Books

Maps and Sites
Tip: Recover your password via text message
Gmail leaves beta, launches "Back to Beta" Labs feature
Automatic navigation, and a lot more themes and page layouts for Sites
Paving the road to Apps adoption in large enterprises
Removing the beta label
Template galleries for Google Apps domains
Drag and drop, and organize your labels in Gmail
Improvements to Google Apps contacts
Labels: drag and drop, hiding, and more
Announcing the Sites for Teachers Page
Solve feature lets you solve optimization problems
Apps Status Dashboard goes global in 24 new languages
Take Docs to Work
So, you want to be a Gmail ninja?
Creating and giving presentations has gotten easier
New fields for Gmail contacts and better importing too
Tip: Check and reply from multiple email addresses in Gmail
Like puzzles? Get ready for the Day in the Cloud Challenge on June 24th
Serena Software on switching from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps

Google Wave Hackathon and Federation Day: July 20, 21 in Mountain View
Share Your Work in the Wave Samples Gallery
TwilioBot: Bringing Phone Conversations into Waves
1 Wave Sandbox, 5 Hours, 17 Awesome Demos
The Making of the Sudoku Gadget
Google Wave API Office Hours
Google Wave team heads to Google Developer Days in Asia
Introducing the Google Wave APIs: what can you build?

Contribute Gadgets to Blogger
Partner Profile: Lijit
Blogger is Turning 10
Zemanta helps you "blog smarter"
Spruce Up Your Blog
Search Box gadget available to all
Thanks for the feedback so far!
FTP vs. Custom Domains
Going somewhere interesting? Share it with the world!
We want to hear from you!

Google Chrome OS - FAQ
Lost a tab? Not to worry.
Google Update, Updated
Land of the Rising Chrome
Get to where you're going, faster
Join the Google Chrome icon project
Get to know the Omnibox

Releasing Neatx, an Open Source NX Server
London Open Source Jam 13
Google Update, regularly scheduled
Introducing Apache Commons Math SimplexSolver
Australia Goes Open
Guten LinuxTag!
Chris DiBona and Leslie Hawthorn at FISL
Sojourning at SouthEast LinuxFest
Introducing Android Scripting Environment
Getting Started in Free and Open Source

Need a new number?
What is that number again?
Keyboard shortcuts & Search Operators
Archiving now available in your inbox
Helping you fight Phone Spam
Accessing GrandCentral after upgrading to Google Voice
Tips on upgrading

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2009) in Montreal
Speed Matters
A new landmark in computer vision
Large-scale graph computing at Google
Google Fusion Tables
Remembering Rajeev Motwani
The best and the brightest

Looking Backward: Happy anniversary, Walkman!
A Call to News Publishers: How to Share Your Video
Search by Author on Google News
Google News gets a makeover
More ways to see the story
Looking Backward: A historical perspective on influenza
@googlenews on Twitter
Introducing Google News Timeline
The story, as it unfolded
Local news in more places

Introducing Android 1.5 NDK, Release 1
Activities and Tasks Design Guidelines
Calling all developers for Android Developer Challenge 2!
Android Icon Guidelines
Painless threading
Drawable mutations

Tell us what you think about Webmaster Central
Labeling in Gmail for Android, iPhone browsers
Product Ideas - Now for Blogger!
Edit, delete and respond to events using Google Calendar for mobile
Product Ideas for Google Sync and Google Docs Become Reality
Recently Implemented Ideas for Google Mobile: Latitude and Tasks
Season's Greetings from the Google Product Ideas Team!

Top tips for webmasters in India
Google Mobile App for BlackBerry goes Indian
Translating the world's information into Indian languages.
What's your IQ ?
Type in your language on any website
Webinar for new publishers in India
Google Transliteration now available for Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi and Nepali

Upload Your Photos, Download Your Albums
Introducing Google Quick Search Box
Mac OS X Spelunking in PowerPC and x86 Assembly, part 2
Google Chrome, Sandboxing, and Mac OS X
Mac OS X Spelunking in PowerPC and x86 Assembly, part 1
Google Spreadsheets power gFlashPro Flashcards for iPhone
Updated Gmail and Calendar for iPhone

HTTPS security for web applications
Top 10 Malware Sites
Reducing XSS by way of Automatic Context-Aware Escaping in Template Systems
Why Googlers attend the Internet Identity Workshop
Announcing "Browser Security Handbook"
Native Client: A Technology for Running Native Code on the Web
User Experience in the Identity Community
Gmail security and recent phishing activity
OAuth for Secure Mashups
Malware? We don't need no stinking malware!

Google Reader on your Google Desktop
"Life is a great bundle of little things"
Latest round of Reader improvements
Meeting friends of friends
Google Reader is your new watercooler
SXSW 2009 Party: Reader, Blogger, and You
What we did on our winter break

The Google Sites blog is moving
Doing more with gadgets
Check out the improved Sites Help Forum
Sharing the holiday spirit on Google Sites
Migrate your JotSpot wiki to Google Sites
Sites goes international
September search improvements

Calling Video Publishers
Turning Down Uploads at Google Video
The Google Video Help Forum has moved
Insight for Google Video: A New Way to Track Your Videos
Playable on Google Video
Personalized Video Recommendations
Even More Hot Videos
Suggestions on Your Search
Closed Captioning Search Options
Uninterrupted Viewing Experience

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Friday, May 22, 2009

The Android Architecture





Open Handset AllianceImage by dannysullivan via Flickr


Just take a look.
  • All your stuff is saved. Contacts you add on your Android phone are automatically saved in your Gmail account that you are used to accessing over your laptop. So you can lose that mobile phone and not lose anything. Get a new phone, sign in, pick up where you last left.
  • You can take your photos and videos from your mobile device straight to your online destinations, in Google's case Picassa and YouTube. You don't have to download them to your desktop and then upload them online. That right there is further liberation from the desktop. And of course the editing happens online.
Many human beings come with a pair of legs. We move around. A lot. The mobile space was always very important. Technology is catching up. But it would have been a minor disaster to realize the mobile space was a whole different silo from the big rectangle of your laptop.

That seamlessness from the mobile space to, what will we call it, the immobile space is key. It has to feel like one continuum. When mobile and not so mobile, we are still dealing with the same ecosystem of information and people.

The Android architecture has that seamlessness in mind. That seamlessness is at the heart of the Android vision. That is also why the architecture is open. You have the Open Handset Alliance. Android is open source. It is free. Just like Google search is free. The business model perhaps is to create a vibrant mobile space, get people to start using the basic services like Gmail and calendar, and then cash in in the mobile ad space which promises to be huge measured by any yardstick.

On The Web

HowStuffWorks "Google Android Architecture" the Android OS as a software stack. Each layer of the stack groups together several programs that support specific operating system functions. ..... the kernel ..... memory management programs, security settings, power management software and several hardware drivers. ...... libraries. ...... the media framework library supports playback and recording of various audio, video and picture formats .... runtime layer includes a set of core Java libraries -- Android application programmers build their apps using the Java programming language. ....... A virtual machine is a software application that behaves as if it were an independent device with its own operating system. ..... The Android OS uses virtual machines to run each application as its own process. ...... no application is dependent upon another. .. if an application crashes, it shouldn't affect any other applications running on the device. ..... simplifies memory management. ........... the application framework. ....... programs that manage the phone's basic functions like resource allocation, telephone applications, switching between processes or programs and keeping track of the phone's physical location. ...... Think of the application framework as a set of basic tools with which a developer can build much more complex tools. ........ the applications ...... the user interface.
Android The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language.
Android Architecture
Ideas 2.0: Google's Android Architecture
Code Beach: Android Architecture Overview
Google Android Architecture Overview : iPhone Killer
Curiosity is bliss: Google Android architecture
Android Architecture Overview (Android forum at JavaRanch)
Android An Open Platform For Mobile Devices
HyperFuture » Blog Archive » Android architecture video - Part 1 of 3





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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Cupcake: Android 1.5

Android has an interesting list of new features. Just like the distance from your laptop keyboard to the internet is zero, Android seems to envision that the distance from your mobile phone to the internet ought to be zero. That picture you shot from your mobile phone should end up straight at Picassa. Why download? Why upload? Why the drama? Same with video. Take it straight from the mobile phone to YouTube. Skip the download, upload drama. Online photo and video editing would be tackling the same problem from another angle.
The new Android looks to be muscular and ambitious.


T-Mobile G1 Google AndroidImage by netzkobold via Flickr


https://twitter.com/Android_Bot/status/1522494989
Finance 2.0 Manifesto



On The Web

Android 1.5 Highlights | Android Developers
Sneak a Peek at the Next Version of Android
Android 1.5 Early Look SDK | Android Developers
Android Developers Blog: Getting ready for Android 1.5
iPhone 3.0, meet Android 1.5 | Tech Gear News - Betanews

In The News

Google touts Android 1.5 features to coders CNET News



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