Posts Tagged ‘Google’
Add more Fonts to your Website with Google Font Directory
Google Fonts makes it simpler for designers and developers to embed a wider range of fonts in their sites and applications.
The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers.
View font details to get the code needed to embed the font on your web site. Please also visit their quick start guide and FAQ page. For more help and suggestions, use their moderator page
UPDATE: Check out this Mashable.com Guide on HOW TO: Implement Google Font API on Your Website!!
Google Fiber
Announced then in February 2010:
What has come about now:
New* Rich Text Signatures in Gmail!
Hey Guys, Google just released an update in Gmail that allows for Rich text email signatures. Make sure to add your logo and url ASAP!
as seen on Mashable.com
Tip: 5 things you may not know you can do with attachments in Gmail
1. Drag attachments in
Simply drag files from your desktop right into the message you’re composing and they’ll upload from there. (Make sure you’re using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox 3.6 for this to work.)
2. Select multiple attachments
Attaching multiple files one by one is no fun. Instead, just multi-select the files you want to attach by holding down the Ctrl key (or Command on a Mac) and clicking on each file you want to attach. Holding down the Shift key will select a continuous list of files.
3. Never forget an attachment again
Gmail looks for phrases in your email that suggest you meant to attach a file (things like “I’ve attached” or “see attachment”) and warns you if it looks like you forgot to do so. Every day, this saves tons of people the embarrassment of having to send a follow up email with the file actually attached.
4. View attachments online
When you receive an attachment, sometimes you just want to view it and there’s no need to download or save to your desktop. The Google Docs viewer allows you to view .pdf, .ppt, and .tiff files in your browser. Just click the “View” link at the bottom of the message.
5. Find that long lost attachment via search
If you’re looking for an attachment someone has sent to you, Gmail’s advanced search operators can help you find what you’re looking for quickly and accurately.
A couple examples:
- To find all messages that contain attachments: has:attachment
- To find all messages from your friend David that contain attachments: from:david has:attachment
- To find all messages that have .pdf attachments: has:attachment pdf
- To find a specific attachment named physicshomework.txt: filename:physicshomework.txt
ARTICLE FROM GOOGLE BLOG
The First Video Ever Uploaded to YouTube
“The video doesn’t look like much, but it sparked a revolution; by July 2006, more than 65,000 videos were uploaded to the site every day. In October that same year Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion – a reminder of how fast things move in the age of the internet…”
That’s nuts!!!
(Excerpt and article Via Mashable)
Google Operators
Although Google is the most used website in the world, a lot of people don’t truly know the best way to find exactly what they are looking for on the site. Below are a List of practices you can use to refine your Google search, taken straight from Google; Just a little something I learn at the Internet Expo at The Learning Annex…
| OPERATOR EXAMPLE | FINDS PAGES CONTAINING… | |||
| vacation hawaii | the words vacation and Hawaii . | |||
| Maui OR Hawaii | either the word Maui or the word Hawaii | |||
| “To each his own“ | the exact phrase to each his own | |||
| virus –computer | the word virus but NOT the word computer | |||
| +sock | Only the word sock, and not the plural or any tenses or synonyms | |||
| ~auto loan | loan info for both the word auto and its synonyms: truck, car, etc. | |||
| define:computer | definitions of the word computer from around the Web. | |||
| red * blue | the words red and blue separated by one or more words. | |||
| I’m Feeling Lucky | Takes you directly to first web page returned for your query. | |||
| CALCULATOR OPERATORS | MEANING | TYPE INTO SEARCH BOX | ||
| + | addition | 45 + 39 | ||
| - | subtraction | 45 – 39 | ||
| * | multiplication | 45 * 39 | ||
| / | division | 45 / 39 | ||
| % of | percentage of | 45% of 39 | ||
| ^ | raise to a power | 2^5 (2 to the 5th power) |
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| ADVANCED OPERATORS | MEANING | WHAT TO TYPE INTO SEARCH BOX (& DESCRIPTION OF RESULTS) | ||
| site: | Search only one website | admission site:www.stanford.edu (Search Stanford Univ. site for admissions info.) |
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| [#]…[#] | Search within a range of numbers |
DVD player $100..150 (Search for DVD players between $100 and $150) |
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| link: | linked pages | link:www.stanford.edu (Find pages that link to the Stanford University website.) |
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| info: | Info about a page | info:www.stanford.edu (Find information about the Stanford University website.) |
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| related: | Related pages | related:www.stanford.edu (Find websites related to the Stanford University website.) |
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