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  Google Docs viewer on Mobile Browsers (Cross-posted with the Google Docs Blog)
  
  Last week, we announced that the Google Docs viewer supports .doc and .docx attachments. Today we’re also releasing a mobile version of the Google Docs viewer for Android, iPhone and iPad to help you view PDFs, .ppt, .doc and .docx files you’ve uploaded to your documents list, without needing to download the file.
  
  With our mobile viewer you can switch quickly between pages and pan/zoom within a page. On your iPhone and iPad, you can pinch to zoom in or out.
  
  You can try it out by going to docs.google.com on your Android-powered device, iPad or iPhone and select any document in these formats that you've previously uploaded. Let us know what you think in the Mobile Help Forum.
  
  Mickey Kataria, Software Engineer

  

  

  

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  Google Docs Viewer on Mobile Browsers Cross posted on the Google Mobile Blog
  
  Last week, we announced that the Google Docs viewer supports .doc and .docx attachments. Today we’re also releasing a mobile version of the Google Docs viewer for Android, iPhone and iPad to help you view PDFs, .ppt, .doc and .docx files you’ve uploaded to your documents list, without needing to download the file.
  
  
  
  With our mobile viewer you can switch quickly between pages and pan/zoom within a page. On your iPhone and iPad, you can pinch to zoom in or out.
  
  You can try it out by going to docs.google.com on your Android-powered device, iPad or iPhone and select any document in these formats that you've previously uploaded. Let us know what you think in the Mobile Help Forum.
  
  Posted by: Mickey Kataria, Software Engineer

  

  

  

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  Two more states open Google Apps for teachers and students We recently announced that Oregon is the first state to begin offering Google Apps to public schools. Today, Colorado and Iowa are joining the movement. Google Apps for Education will now be available to more than 3,000 schools across the two states.
  
  These state-wide agreements enable schools and districts to benefit from centralized resources such as deployment support and training materials, paving the way for an easy transition to Google Apps—including Gmail, Docs, Sites, Calendar, Video, and Groups—in their classrooms, immediately.
  
  Colorado Governor Bill Ritter said it best, “I’m pleased to see the Statewide Internet Portal Authority (SIPA) continue its tradition of bringing innovative tools to members of the Colorado public. By leveraging the Internet, educators are able to bring new ways of learning to the classroom and connect with students in exciting and challenging ways.” And Brent Siegrist, Director of Iowa Area Education Agencies Services, reflects, “As a former teacher, I can see how these tools will engage students, make the classroom a more vibrant place and allow teachers to work together more collaboratively.”
  
  Saving money is just one reason schools are moving to Apps. Educators and students from JeffCo Public Schools, the largest school district in Colorado with more than 85,000 students, have been using Google Apps to help students collaborate and learn by working together. Teachers in Colorado and Iowa praise the “anytime, anywhere” availability of Google Apps. They’re using the unique online collaboration tools to teach feedback and revision strategies to students, and are even starting to go paperless on a number of assignments.
  
  This week we’re also introducing a set of training solutions for schools to start making the most of Google Apps. We’re also extending the promotion for Google Message Security to allow primary and secondary schools opt-in to the email filtering service free until the end of this year.
  
  If you’d like to learn more, come meet the Google Apps Education Team and some of the teachers using Google Apps in Colorado today, Monday June 28, through Wednesday at the annual ISTE conference. Stop by booth #2536 and take a seat in our teaching theater to learn more about what Google Apps can do for your school. Executive Directory of SIPA John Conley will join us at our Google Block Party after the conference today. We hope you’ll join us to learn more about Colorado’s decision to move to Google Apps.
  
  Posted by Jaime Casap, Google Apps Education Manager

  

  

  

  2 months on
  
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  Make Money With Your Blog and Google AdSense Posted by Courtney, AdSense North America team
  
  AdSense is a great way to get paid for doing what you love to do: blogging! AdSense allows you to show targeted ads on your blog and earn revenue from your traffic. It also helps your visitors find things they may be interested in, based on the content of your blog posts. Best of all, AdSense is free and you have the option to remove the ads at any time.
  
  The AdSense system shows ads relevant to the content of your blog and you can easily customize the look and feel of the ads to match your blog. If your blog is about fashion, you may show ads for shoe designers or clothing stores. If your blog is about cars, you may see ads for car dealerships or auto shops. Using filters, you can have control over the content of the ads you display by choosing to block categories of ads or even specific advertisers.
  
  With the free suite of powerful AdSense reporting tools, you can pull detailed reports that will help you track your revenue and identify opportunities to earn more money. You can see earnings by day, page, domain or specific ad unit and can also use Google Analytics to see the source of your traffic and earnings.
  
  Adding AdSense to your blog is easy. Just follow these steps:
  

  1. Log in to Blogger, choose your blog, and go to the “Monetize | Set up AdSense” tab.
  2. Choose where you want to show your ads on your blog and hit “Next.”
  3. If you’re new to AdSense, follow the easy online steps to sign up for a new AdSense account. If you already use AdSense, you can log in to AdSense and link your Blog to your AdSense account.

  
  

  

  
  
  If you’re using a Classic template, you can add AdSense to your blog by following the steps outlined here.
  
  To learn even more, come take a tour with Google AdSense.

  

  

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  Party Till You Drop

  Chuck E Cheese wasn’t available, but they got the next best thing.

  (submitted by Brooke)

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  This week in search 6/27/10 This is one of a regular series of posts on search experience updates. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. - Ed.
  
  Speed is a common theme at Google—the notion of speed is baked into all of our products, from Google Chrome to web search. Often, we also simply develop features that help deliver answers fast. Whether by displaying the exact content you're looking for at the top of your search results page or by optimizing the way you search, many of these speed enhancements save you keystrokes—and time.
  
  This week, we released two new features:
  
  Sunrise and Sunset Search feature
  Whether you're looking to find the best time for a morning jog or trying to plan that perfect moment for a wedding proposal, knowing exactly when the sun rises or sets can always be helpful. This week, we were happy to launch a Sunrise and Sunset feature for search. It gives the precise times of sunsets and sunrises for any location around the world. Unlike the weather, sunrises and sunsets are quite predictable, and as a result, we don't use a data source. Instead, we calculate sunrise and sunset times based on latitude, longitude and the current time. This calculation has been of interest to astronomers and mathematicians for millennia, so they’ve had time to get it just right. And for most locations, it’s accurate to within a single minute.
  
  
  Example searches: [sunrise port jefferson ny] or [sunset cancun]
  
  Google Search by Voice expanded to more languages
  Google Search by Voice enables people to search the web faster than ever before—getting you answers with fewer keystrokes. This service was originally launched in English, and was offered in the U.S., U.K., India, Australia and New Zealand. We later introduced Japanese and Mandarin to expand the number of possible users. Just a week ago, we launched the service in French, Italian, German and Spanish. Given that local dialects are a factor in the performance of speech recognition, we first launched our service in the four countries most closely associated with these languages: France, Germany, Italy and Spain. This week we followed with Korean and the launch in Taiwan of Traditional Mandarin.
  
  
  
  To get started with Google Search by Voice, visit the Google mobile page in your country's domain (for example, in France go to m.google.fr) and download the application for your phone’s operating system in your locale. You'll find this available for iPhone, Android and Blackberry phones. Ultimately, our goal is to bring Google Search by voice to speakers of all languages, so stay tuned for more announcements here.
  
  We'll see you back here next week for more new announcements.
  
  Posted by Johanna Wright, Director of Product Management, Search

  

  

  

  2 months on
  
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  Google: uma palavra em 884 fotos

  Um dos mais antigos ditados que eu conheço diz que "uma imagem vale mais que 100 palavras".

  Mas, tratando-se da palavra Google, a pergunta é: quantas imagens vale esta palavra? A resposta é 884.

  O gerente de produtos do Google, Bavor Clay, teve a idéia de reunir imagens, na proporção de 4×6, para montar, em um grande painel, um mosaico com o novo logo do Google.

  Para poder concretizar o trabalho, Clay se deparou com os seguintes obstáculos:

  • obter um número considerável de fotografias, a fim de poder escolher as que melhor se enquadravam nas cores necessárias;
  • encontrar uma parede grande o suficiente para montar o painel gigante, além da necessidade de haver um bom espaço em sua frente para que as pessoas pudessem, de longe, analisar o novo logo e, ao aproximarem-se, ver as imagens individualmente;
  • inspecionar as imagens individualmente, selecionar as mais agradáveis e em alta resolução;
  • descobrir exatamente onde inserir cada imagem, para que o mosaico surtisse o efeito desejado;
  • um monte de gente para poder montar o painel gigante.

  Segundo Clay, por trabalhar no Google, as coisas foram mais fáceis do que ele imaginava. A grande parede foi encontrada no escritório do Google em Londres. Duas dezenas de fotógrafos do Google fizeram o upload de mais de 5 mil imagens de pessoas e lugares do Reino Unido ao Picasa Web. Depois, com a ajuda de amigos e alguns Googlers, finalmente conseguiu terminar o tão sonhado mosaico do novo logo da empresa.

  

  

  Além do mosaico, a equipe gravou toda a montagem que, fotografada por uma câmera uma vez a cada sete segundos, resumiu o trabalho de 5 horas e 30 minutos em um vídeo de 1m20s. Vale a pena assistir.

  Todas as informações dos bastidores da montagem podem ser vistas no site pessoal de Bavor Clay.

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