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Googleholic for June 27, 2008

Christina Warren — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:30:00 +0000

Filed under: Internet, Google, Googleholic

Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!

In this edition:

New Google Mobile homepage
Improved search results for BlackBerry
Free Google webinar for webmasters
Google Finance data API released
Google Media Server gadget

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Using data to fight webspam

A Googler — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:51:00 +0000

Major Update for Google’s Blogger

Ionut Alex. Chitu — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:18:00 +0000

Google gives Blogger a long overdue facelift

Brad Linder — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Blogging, Google

Google has rolled out a whole slew of new features for Blogger, the company's user-friendly blogging software. In order to enable the new goodies, you'll need to login to draft.blogger.com instead of www.blogger.com. This is where Google rolls out tools that might not be quite ready for prime time. But once you try out the new version, you'll probably never want to go back.

First up, Google has redesigned the post editor. It's still a what you see is what you get editor, but the toolbar looks much cleaner and placing images got about a thousand times easier thanks to a new drag and drop image handling. You can also easily resize images by clicking (or double-clicking in Firefox 3) to bring up a box that asks if you'd like an image to be small, medium or large.

Blogger in Draft also has better support for HTML and enables tables and other advanced HTML code to be placed in a post. And the preview feature brings up a new window so you can preview your post without leaving the editor window.

One thing to note is that Google has turned off the autosave feature, so you'll need to click the save button periodically if you don't want to lose your work. Autosave should be restored in a future update.

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A Media Server from Google

Ionut Alex. Chitu — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:03:00 +0000

Google Tests the New iGoogle

Ionut Alex. Chitu — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:01:00 +0000

Free cross-product webinar for webmasters

A Googler — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:32:00 +0000

Google Reader Is Feeling Lucky

Ionut Alex. Chitu — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:11:00 +0000

Google Lists Your Reviews

Ionut Alex. Chitu — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:42:00 +0000

Google Browser Sync: I’m not dead yet!

Brad Linder — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:30:00 +0000

Filed under: Internet, Google, Open Source

Google may have decided to cease development of the Google Browser Sync plugin for Firefox, but that doesn't mean the utility will never see another update. Because rather than simply boxing up the source code and packing it away, Google decided to release the source code publicly under the BSD license.

Google Browser Sync is a utility that lets you synchronize your Firefox bookmarks, preferences, and cookies across multiple computers.

Now anyone can check out the source from the Google Code project page. While nobody's done anything really cool yet like make a version of Google Browser Sync that works with Firefox 3, it may just be a matter of time.

One thing that's particularly interesting is the fact that Ars Technica reports Google posted the source code online on June 13, the same day that Lifehacker confirmed the death of the official project. It's not clear which came first, the chicken or the egg. But either way, we're not complaining. If Google isn't going to continue developing this useful utility, then we're just glad that someone else may be able to pick up the torch.

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