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Picasa for Mac 
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
Picasa borrowed a lot from Mac's elegance and simplicity, but it was only available for Windows (and emulated in Linux). Mac users can now finally install a native version of Picasa from picasa.google.com/mac/ and enjoy one of the most easier to use software for photo management.From the
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Blended Google Mobile Ads
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
Google Mobile Search started to display short text ads in the middle of the search results page. The mobile interface mixes web search results, news, images and local businesses, but Google displays the ads after the list of regular web results. Google separates the ads using a different background, but it's weird to see the ads mixed with search results.Here's an example for the query [
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Android for Netbooks?
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Sun, 04 Jan. 2009
Android is not just an operating system for mobile phones and it's likely that it will be used for netbooks, ultra-portable laptops which started to become popular last year. D
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Google Viewer for Gmail Attachments
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Sat, 03 Jan. 2009
Last month, I mentioned that Gmail links to a new viewer for PDF attachments, powered by Google Docs. It turns out that Google's viewer doesn't work only for PDF files and Google intends to replace the outdated "view as HTML" option with a proper application.Right now, you can use Google Viewer
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Update Vulnerable Programs from Your Computer
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Sat, 03 Jan. 2009
Secunia is a respected security service provider that tracks vulnerabilities in more than 20,000 applications and operating systems. To find information about the latest vulnerabilities, you could subscribe to Secunia's mailing lists, but if you want to know whether there are known security issues for the
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Upgrading from Internet Explorer 6
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Sat, 03 Jan. 2009
"Every so often, people ask me why they should upgrade to Internet Explorer 7, the newest version of the venerable Microsoft web browser. They're happy with Internet Explorer 6—it does what they want it to do and they're comfortable using it. Some are nervous about upgrading because they feel they don't have time to learn a new way of doing things. Others believe that because they only use their
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Bundled with Google Software
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Sat, 03 Jan. 2009
I've noticed that many of my favorite Windows applications include the option to download unrelated Google software (mostly Google Toolbar and Google Desktop). Of course, you can easily uncheck the options and bundling Google software is better than installing spyware, but many people install applications by repeatedly clicking "Next" and ignore their boring messages.
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Google Simplifies the Format for Video Results
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Tue, 30 Dec. 2008
After removing the useful option to play videos inline*, Google no longer displays the duration and the rating for universal video results. Here's the same YouTube video in 2007, when Google launched universal search, and today. The only difference between video results and regular web pages is that videos hav
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Translate Google Maps Reviews
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Tue, 30 Dec. 2008
Google Maps has a new option that automatically translates reviews written in a foreign language. This is especially useful if you are planning to visit a different country and most of the reviews are not available in a language that you speak. Here's a list of results for [
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Oxymoronic Google Trends
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Fri, 26 Dec. 2008
Randall Munroe from xkcd imagines some correlations between Google searches and people that are unlikely to use them. The #1 US state for [men kissing] is indeed Utah, but the other correlations are made up.
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Top Google Products in 2008
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 25 Dec. 2008
This is a top of the Google products that improved the most in 2008. 10. Blogger has improved a lot this year by adding useful features like importing/exporting a blog, inline comments,
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Google 2008 in 12 Pictures
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 25 Dec. 2008
January - iGoogle has a new theme directory, where people can upload interesting themes. Later this year, Google uses three collections of iGoogle themes (artist
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Google Hot Trends, Christmas Edition 2008
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 25 Dec. 2008
Google Hot Trends shows the searches that have suddenly become popular in the US. It's always interesting to see what are the "hottest" queries on Christmas Day, when many people open their presents and then use Google to find information about them.
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Predictions for Google's 2009
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 25 Dec. 2008
1. 10% market share for Google Chrome.2. Google's search engine will lose a significant amount of market share as Live Search's position will consolidate.3. Google's Q&A service, used to implement Google help forums, will become a part of Google Apps.4. GrandCentral will be publicly a
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Last Year's Predictions
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Tue, 23 Dec. 2008
From my 16 predictions for this year, less than a half actually became reality.1. (0/1) "Google will try to unify its application and transform them into a big social network."That's still a work in progress and I expect to see more pieces next year
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Virtual Scrollbar for Google Cache
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Sun, 21 Dec. 2008
Google Cache Mapper is a Greasemonkey script that enhances Google's cached pages by adding a virtual scrollbar with all the matches of your keywords. Google highlights your search terms using different colors and this script shows the position of the matches. The virtual scrollbar is clickable and it shows snippets for each match of your sear
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Google Maps Highlights Top Contributors
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Sun, 21 Dec. 2008
Google Maps shows a list of the people that contributed with the most customized maps, reviews and edits related to a location. In some cases, you'll find helpful maps that show hidden parks, interesti
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Picasa Web Search Tips
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Sat, 20 Dec. 2008
Picasa Web Albums has a search feature that can be restricted to your albums, to the public albums of your favorite users or to all the public albums hosted by Google. Here are some ways you can use Picasa Web's simple search engine:1. Find random photos published by Picasa Web users: just click on the search b
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Find Cartoons and Cliparts Using Google Image Search
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Fri, 19 Dec. 2008
Google Image Search has two new content restriction options: clip art and line drawings. Besides the two new options, you can restrict the results to faces, photos and illustrations for recent news articles."Many of us use Google Image Search to find imagery of people, clip art for presentations, diagrams for reports, and of course symbols and patter
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Google Shows Suggestions from Your Search History
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Fri, 19 Dec. 2008
When you create a Google account, Google enables an option that saves all your queries and the results you clicked on. The service is called Web History and it can be extended to all the web pages you visit if you install Google Toolbar.Web History has man
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