Google Last News: May 2011

2011/05/31

How do I post a video to my blog?

If you already have a video on your computer, you can upload it to your blog as follows:

Click the film strip icon on the post editor toolbar.
In the popup window, click "Browse" to find the video on your computer.
Enter a title for your video.
Agree to the Terms and Conditions (if this is your first video upload).
Click "Upload Video."

Frequently Asked Questions

Where are my videos hosted?
Videos uploaded through Blogger are hosted on Google Video.
Are my videos indexed or searchable?
No, your videos are kept private and will not be included in Google Video search.
How long does it take to upload and process a video?
Uploading a video may take a while, since videos tend to be very large files. However, the exact amount of time required will depend on the size of your specific video and the speed of your internet connection. The processing stage usually takes about five minutes. Blogger will display a status message below the post editor to let you know how this is going, and there will be a placeholder icon in your post to show where the video will appear.

How to put AdSense and Google Affiliate Network in your blog's sidebar

Note: This article assumes you are using a classic template. For Layouts-enabled blogs, you can simply add a new AdSense page element to your sidebar, or drag an existing element to the desired location.

If you're new to AdSense and not too familiar with making modifications to your blog's template, you can follow these instructions for placing AdSense code in your blog's sidebar (using the Minima template as an example).

Assuming you have already signed up and been approved for a Google AdSense account, you should be able to log in here. Once you're signed in, click the AdSense Settings tab near the top of the page. To cut right to the chase, focus on these steps:

Google Last News: All about Dynamic Views for Readers

All about Dynamic Views for Readers

Blogger currently offers five dynamic views for its public blogs. These views are only accessible if allowed for by the blog author.

Flipcard: available at [blogURL]/view/flipcard

Mosaic: available at [blogURL]/view/mosaic

Sidebar: available at [blogURL]/view/sidebar

Snapshot: available at [blogURL]/view/snapshot

Timeslide: available at [blogURL]/view/timeslide

As an example, the URL for accessing the Sidebar view for Blogger Buzz would be http://buzz.blogspot.com/view/sidebar.
These views require modern browsers such as Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox 3.5+, Chrome or Safari. Many elements of these views will not work should you have an older browser.
In all views, search is available in the upper right hand corner. Clicking on the ">" arrow in the very top left of the header bar will slide the header bar across and allow you to choose different views for the current blog as well as type in a new blog URL.
There is also a feedback link for each view.

Sign-in to Multiple Google Accounts at the Same Time

You may owned multiple Google accounts for various reasons but unfortunately you can't login on them at a

same time coz Google or like practically any other website out there, doesn’t provide for this feature. Sometime it can be a headache to manage the different accounts. But now looks like that Google is working on a new feature which will enable users to be logged into several accounts at a time in the same browser.

Here the 5 sites to download online videos from sites like youtube. The best thing is you need not to install any application, There are a few, actually. Not only YouTube, but the fact is that they support other sites like Metacafe,etc.

Here's the list below :
1. KeepVid – It offers the possibility to download in MP4 or FLV plus a bookmarklet with which to download any video you’re viewing.

2. VideoGetting – Very simple and straightforward but offers multiple video output formats. Enter the URL of the video, choose the format for download: MOV, MP4, AVI, WMV, etc..

3. Downloader9 – Simple as could be. Enter the URL, click the “Download” button and in seconds you have the link to download the video. FLV format only.

4. Dirpy – One of the ones I liked. Provides the ability to download MP3 audio only what comes in handy if you want only to hear a speech or presentation on your iPod.

5. Zamzar - Fairly complete. Besides downloading videos from a URL you can convert files uploaded from your computer. Most outstanding quantity of video formats supported when downloading from YouTube.

2011/05/30

WiMAX PlayBook 4G announcement betrayed by Google search?

Well, we've been waiting for a PlayBook packing something more than WiFi to rear its enterprise-friendly head, and there it is -- sort of. Search Google for "Sprint PlayBook" and the number one (non-sponsored) result is a page "introducing the BlackBerry 4G Playbook tablet," which means the companies are right about on schedule for that promised summer release. Clicking on the link just redirects you to the Sprint homepage for now and, sadly, price and exact ship date are still anyone's guess. There's enough detail in the search snippet to tell us that this is legit and and an announcement page is ready to go, though -- so, WiMAX fans, we hope you like QNX.

[Thanks, Josh]

Droid X gets genuine Gingerbread update, leaked build floats out for the impatient

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 hits Best Buy's site, decorative Androids fall off in the process

Remember the Android tablet we said might be the first real competitor to the iPad 2 earlier this month? Well, it just made its debut on the Best Buy site, and while the big "Coming Soon" button has crushed our dreams of pre-ordering one today, the site is offering up a few more details on the thing -- or at least some confirmation of what we already knew. For one thing, it looks like the system will indeed pack Android 3.1, unlike the version we tested, which was rocking the 3.0.1. Also, on a more disappointing note, the adorable Android army on the model we picked up at Google I/O is gone, with a plain white back in its place, unlike the black one we were expecting -- perhaps Samsung will offer up both color options when the device actually ships. In the meantime, we'll see if we can find the number of a good laser engraver

Best Buy

ASUS Eee PC X101 runs MeeGo, costs only $200

ASUS is starting off its bevy of Computex announcements with the new Eee PC X101, a netbook that gives the 11-inch MacBook Air a run for its ultrathin money -- with a 950g weight and 17.6mm thickness -- while running either Windows 7 or... wait for it, Meego! The latter model will come out at the groundbreaking price of just $200. Check out its scarlet construction in the gallery below or jump past the break for our video hands-on.
so we hope google beat this

ZTE Skate - Today’s Software on Yesterday’s Hardware

ZTE, a Chinese manufacturer, named its Android smartphone after the skateboard, a simple, light and highly mobile mode of transport mostly used by trendy young folk. The phone itself though is not a skateboard. It’s barely a go-kart.

ZTE Skate Basic Specifications

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is the latest Android smartphone to arrive on the market and it is a real divergence from the typical smartphone of today because it comes with PlayStation certification and a slide-out control pad which lets you get much deeper into the action than its touchscreen-only rivals. In this article, we will weigh up the pros and cons to see whether the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is worth the investment.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Basic Specifications

The LG Revolution is the first Android device to arrive on the market optimized for Verizon’s 4G LTE network. With download speeds of between 5Mbps and 12Mbps and upload speeds of between 2Mbps and 5Mbps — ten times faster than the company’s 3G network — phones running on 4G should be able to make good use of any cloud-based services. LG has certainly cashed in on that potential with a multimedia phone that includes Netflix’s app as a built-in feature.

LG Revolution Basic Specifications

Samsung is pouring on the heat in the mobile markets with it’s Galaxy family of devices over the last year or so. Why stop now right? Well, this news may be a bit premature from Samsung, even if it is just a few nuggets of hints thrown at us wild mobile dogs. Still, with the Samsung Galaxy S II just out the doors, and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 inch not launching until next month, or the Galaxy Tab 8.9 inch til this summer for release, don’t you think it would be wise to let us buy these devices first, then tell us about the next models?
Samsung’s Mobile communication president J.K. Shin made mention that we should expect to see a Galaxy S III sometime in the first half of 2012, which isn’t bad seeing as the Galaxy S II just came out and we’re still in the first half of 2011. He also stated that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be coming out this year after the 8.9 tab launches, where the 10.1 Tab will be sporting 4G/LTE technology, of which they are already in talks with US and South Korean carriers. Wow. That seems a bit early. They must not be concerned with selling the first 10.1 inch Galaxy Tab much before putting it to rest with a faster 4G model.
[via engadget]

ViewPad 7x Android Honeycomb tablet – pictured at Computex 2011

We knew that ViewSonic was going to be making a run at being the first 7inch tablet to ship with Android 3.0 Honeycomb, and now at Computex 2011 in Taipai, we have some real images of the ViewPad 7x tablet.
The specs are pretty much the same as what we had heard about a couple weeks back, featuring the NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor, Android 3.0.1 Honeycomb, and 1024×600 display resolution. After having a look at the device below, it looks like it may fair better than ViewSonics’ earlier Android tablet devices, which is what they need to be taken seriously anyway, and shake that ‘cheap’ image away. Have a look and let us know what you think!

Back in February, we were informed of several new devices ViewSonic had up its’ sleeves for tablet devices in 2011. One of which we heard of was the ViewPad 10Pro, which upon early specs, looked to be a dual-booting Android and Windows 7 Pro tablet device. Cool right? Well, not as cool as we had heard, but still nice enough.
At Computex 2011, ViewSonic not only announced its ViewPad 7x, but alsoi the new ViewPad 10Pro which will come with Windows 7 Pro, and Android (looks like Android 2.2 Froyo in the pics), but Android will be accessed by a virtualization program called Bluestacks, which turns Android into a Windows app and runs it in a virtual environment rather than being a true dual-boot. Ah, well, it’s still pretty cool. On top of that, it’s got a 1.5GHz Intel Oak Trail processor, 32GB onboard storage expandable by MicroSD and USB and 3G built-in. Let us know what you think!

Using OACurl to explore Blogger’s API

Blogger’s GData API is now available over HTTPS using OAuth 2. These changes result in less code, increased productivity, and enhanced security. Let’s take a look at how it works using OACurl, a wrapper for the curl command line tool that authenticates you using OAuth.

Prerequisites

First up you need to install Mercurial and Maven. Mercurial is the source revision control software used by the OACurl project. Maven is a java build system used to download and include the dependencies required by OACurl. Once we begin using oacurl we will use HTML Tidy to make the returned XML readable.

Getting OACurl

JDOM

What is JDOM?

Java + XML = JDOM

JDOM is a way to represent an XML document for easy and efficient reading, manipulation, and writing:
-Straightforward API
-Lightweight and fast
-Java-optimized

It not DOM, despite the similarity in name. It is an open source project with an Apache style license. JDOM is intended to be simple for Java programmers. It is supposed to hide the complexities of XML (I find this somewhat humorous because XML appears simple compared to Java). JDOM is to DOM/SAX as RMI is to CORBA.

JDOM offer 4 packages:
-org.jdom
-org.jdom.adapters
-org.jdom.input
-org.jdom.output

The first package contains classes representing parts of an XML document (i.e. element, CDATA, attribute, etc.). The input package contains classes for reading xml data from existing sources while the output package contains classes for writing xml data to various form of output.

The JDOM web site is http://jdom.org. I'll check into this later but for now it is getting late and I'll have to continue at a later time.

Topic Maps

Topic Maps are "the GPS of the information universe" says Charles Goldfarb. They are basically an XML structured index of information contained in various files and or databases. This XML index is written in the XTM vocabulary. Most applications manipulate this index using a topic map engine which is roughly equivalent to a relational database management engine except designed for topic maps.

The XTM vocabulary consists of its main element, topic, which is used to represent a specific topic. This topic will be associated with a type or role specified and will often contain a link to an occurrence of the topic. Different topics can then be associated with each other using the association element. This association can be between topics of the same or different roles. These associations can then be recalled when a user searches for information of a topic.

Topic Maps are essentially a method to organize and index information that goes beyond the tradition hierarchical representations commonly implemented. Through various associations and hierarchies topic maps make information easier to find, search and organize.

Protege

Protege is an ontology management tool. More specifically, Protege is an opensource ontology editor and knowledge-base framework written in Java. Its architecture supports user developed plug-in tools. Existing plug-ins support OWL and RDF and allow the visualization of ontologies in different ways. Protege supports 2 different methods of modeling ontologies.

One way is through Protege-Frames editor, and the other is through the
Protege-OWL editor.

The main difference between the two methods is that the Protege-Frames editor support frame based ontologies while, not surprisingly, the Protege-OWL editor supports the W3C's OWL version of the semantic web ontology. Both modeling methods support the creation, visualization and manipulation of ontologies.

Protege was developed by Stanford Medical Informatics at the Stanford University School of Medicine with various supporters including:

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
National Cancer Institute,
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
National Institutes of Health's National Centers for Biomedical Computing,
National Library of Medicine,
National Science Foundation
etc.

Protege is supported by a strong community of developers, government and corporate users and is downloadable from http://protege.stanford.edu/index.html

AJAX

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The goal of AJAX is to increase the web pages interactivity, speed and usability. It tries to achieve this by exchanging small amounts of data behind the scenes thus eliminating the need for the user to reload the entire web page each time the user makes a change.

AJAX relies on a combination of technologies including

XHTML and CSS for markup and styling information,
DOM accessed with a client side scripting language such as JavaScript and JScript
The XMLHttpRequest object to exchange data asynchronously with the web server
XML is commonly the format used to exchange data back and forth to the server.

AJAX is really an amalgamation of a number of different component technologies. It's advantages include interactivity and portability. The main disadvantages of AJAX are unexpected behavior of the browser's back button and the difficulty of setting bookmarks. Network latency has also been an issue with AJAX. AJAX also requires that the browser has JavaScript enabled and Internet Explorer 6 additionally requires ActiveX.

With AJAX instead of loading a web page at the start of a session the browser loads an AJAX engine - written in Java Script and not visible to the user. This engine is responsible for rendering the user interface as well as communicating with the server. This AJAX engine allows the user's interaction with the application to happen asynchronously - independent of communication with the server. The AJAX engine commonly exchanges data with the server in XML format instead of HTML + CSS.

Engage your audience with Follow by Email

Fresh content is the fuel that drives the blogosphere; it keeps readers coming back to your blog. Our team is always thinking of new ways to connect users with the freshest content across Blogger, and today we’re happy to offer a new, powerful way to do just that with Follow by Email.

The Follow by Email gadget provides blog authors a simple way for their readers to subscribe to the latest hot-off-the-press updates, which are delivered directly to the reader’s inbox. When new blog content is published, all subscribed readers will receive a daily email notification of the new published posts, which includes a copy of the new content as well as links back to the actual posts.

To enable Follow by Email, click the Add a Gadget link from the Design | Page Elements tab, and then select the Follow by Email gadget which should be at the top of the list. Once you add the gadget, readers visiting your blog can then just enter their email address and click Submit.

Taking advantage of Feedburner technology, Follow by Email will also track your subscription information, such as the number of subscribers and daily views. To view these stats, log into Feedburner.com, and select the appropriate blog feed from your list.
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Dynamic Views, the Chrome Extension

Last week we announced five exciting new ways to view your blog content, which take advantage of the latest web technologies to provide a richer experience for your readers. You can already see these views in action by appending /view to the end of any Blogger URL, but today we’re happy to announce another way to experience these views via the Blogger Dynamic Views Chrome extension.

Once installed, the extension will automatically detect when you are viewing a Blogger blog, and then display a Blogger icon (the orange ‘B’!) in your address bar which lets you select and view the blog in one of the five new dynamic views. It’s that simple.

Of course, you can always disable the extension whenever you want from the Extensions section of the Tools menu. Try it out today, and please feel free to leave a rating or review on the extension page.
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YouTube Us!

If it’s been a while since you’ve checked out the Blogger YouTube channel, you may want to head over and have a look around as we’ve given the whole site a facelift. Beyond our shiny new theme and graphics, we’ve added thirteen hot-off-the-press videos that cover a wide range of feature walk-throughs, handy tips, and other fun stuff that the team has come up with. And this is just the beginning!

We had so much fun putting these videos together that you can be sure to see a lot more uploads in the future, as we want this channel to be an ever-evolving source of Blogger information.

The Blogger team would love to hear your feedback on the new YouTube page, and we’ve created a form where you can pass along your ideas for further videos and other ways we can improve our channel. Of course, you can always send us a quick tweet or drop us a line in the Feedback section of our Help Forum as well.

Either way, we hope you enjoy our revamped channel and we look forward to expanding it over time.

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Add location info to your posts with geotagging

Geotagging has been available for a while on Blogger in Draft, but is now available to all users with today’s release. To add location information to your blog posts, simply click the Add Location button in the bottom right of the new post editor. This will bring up a new window that displays the familiar Google Maps interface and you can search, drag, zoom, and drop markers for the location of your choice.

Once you’ve settled on the location you want to add to the blog post, just click Save and the information will automatically be added to the footer section of your published post (if you don't see it, you'll probably have to enable the Location option in the Blog Post widget which is normally defaulted to 'on'.)

We’ve made a few small updates and bug fixes since the original Draft release, most notably the ability to remove location information after publishing and the addition of a placemarker for pinpointing location info.

Refreshed interface for image and video upload

Clicking the “photo” or “video” upload buttons will now display a sleeker, updated picker. We’ve also made it draggable so you can look back at the post editor if you need to.

A pair of Known Issues are now fixed

Users posting comments from non-Google accounts should no longer see the intermittent bX errors that occurred last week.
The intermittent errors which were preventing the browsing of archives via Newer / Older navigation
links has been fixed.
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Google Last News: Add a virtual tip jar to your blog

Add a virtual tip jar to your blog

Posted by Peng Ying, Developer Programs Engineer

We know that most of you blog for the sake of sharing your thoughts and opinions, however a little side income is like an unexpected gift. Today we’re releasing a new gadget that allows your readers to directly contribute to your blog. The gadget can be added to any part of your page, but we’ve formatted it to fit best in the sidebar.

Setup is only five simple steps and should only take a few minutes of your time; just follow the steps below:

Sign up for a Google Checkout Merchant account at checkout.google.com/sell
Be sure to enable the HTML API by going to the Settings tab, clicking the integration link and unchecking the “My company will only post digitally signed carts” checkbox. Also, copy the Merchant Id for use in step 5.
Back in Blogger, on the Design | Page Elements tab click “add a gadget” where you wish to place the Support gadget.
Add the "Support My Blog" gadget from the gadget gallery.
Customize your support button settings. The Checkout Merchant Id is the one you copied down in step two. Save and you’re done!

Your supporters can now contribute to your blog. Clicking on the support button will direct your supporters to Checkout to complete the transaction. For an example of the support button in action, please visit the following blog:

http://bloggercheckout.blogspot.com/

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