Type "Time your location" into Google Search and you will get the current time of that place. For example, if you wanna know what time it is now in Singapore, type Time Singapore and you will see an analog clock showing the current time with a verbose display on its right side.
A related query is asking Google about the weather of a location by typing "Weather your location" as in Weather Singapore.
This is a good video uploaded to YouTube by National Geographic. It talks about the health hazard that you can get if you go too much to parties and clubs. Even if you don't drink there, just being there in a noisy environment alone can harm your hearing. Take a look at the video. It's short and good.
Microsoft is testing Live Translator which can be accessed through: translate.live.com or translator.live.com. The interface is clean and maintain the consistent looks of Windows Live services—Live Spaces and Live Mail, for example. (Side note: I hate that looks! It doesn't make sense to put a large banner above the Windows Live navigation bar. The banner takes a lot of space and it doesn't serve the users. Something without a use should disappear; it does in evolution though.)
Below I did a simple translation and compared the results with those from Google Translate. It seems like Google's translation is better but to confirm it needs a lot more testings of course.
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2) How are you?
Until then...
Justin
Google Reader, the most powerful feed-reader, also got the most important update. For quite some time after graduating from Google Labs, the Reader remained the strange Google Application without the famous Google Search! Now, there is a search box at the top of the page and you can now search all the feed items or the posts inside a feed.
The search is very good but it is the slowest search provided by Google. Sooner or later, Google will hopefully improve the performance of Google Reader Search.
As you can see from the screen shot above, the Google Reader icon has not detached the Google Lab icon yet. But, they removed the lab icon from the "Loading" message.
The Reader also got a minor update: it can now count toward 1000. Before that, it only show 100+ for any feed with more than 99 unread items. I think 1000 should be very enough for feed item count since any number larger than that will not be useful to the user anymore.
Until then...
Justin
Last week, the iGoogle homepage got some updates too. There is now a way to change the column layout of the homepage into 2 columns, 3 columns with variable widths. In fact, Google should have realized that some iGoogle gadgets would benefit from more space than the then-default width of the 3 column layout. Anyway, I'm glad now that I'm able to have a column with a bigger width for my news and search gadgets. :)
Another update to the iGoogle is the ability to share a certain tab with other users. The state of the tab—the page layout and content—will be the same as when the owner generated the share link. After that, anyone who adds the tab using the link will not see any update of the tab even if the owner changes it.
To change the width or to share the tab, all you need to do is to click on the arrow icon on the tab and select the corresponding link.
Until then...
Justin
Google has been behind the schedule for the launch of the Google Presentation tool which is strongly needed to be a part of the Google Docs Suite. After Google allowed Slideshow Preview in Gmail for Microsoft PowerPoint files, there had been many speculations as to when the tool will be released. Although Ionut predicted that Google could release it last week, there was no sign and news of it. While Zoho, an online office suite, has long been offering a presentation tool, it's surprising to see why Google have such delays to release the product.
There was a little but very good update on Google Spreadsheet though. Now it is very easy to let the Spreadsheet to autofill the cells based on the first three data that you entered. For example, if you type "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday" and select the three cells and drag the small blue square to the range of cells that you want the Spreadsheet to autofill, Google Spreadsheet will fill in the rest of the days of the week.
In the above test, I provided the first three rows for the first three columns and the first six rows for Fibonacci series but Google Spreadsheet doesn't seem to recognize it. Nonetheless, it is a very cool and nice tool for Google Spreadsheet and will prove very useful to me who uses it a lot.
Until then...
Justin
United managed to achieve their second win this season by beating 1-0 to Sunderland with Saha's header.
This is the first match for Saha this season and he not only managed to score the sole winning goal but also was able to raise the tempo of the United in the second half.
The low scoring United is proving that their attacking front is something wrong after bringing in new kids, considering that they only scored three goals so far.
The video for the match can be found here.
Google Docs just added the right-clicking feature in the document list interface. I find it especially useful to be able to click on a document and see the context menu which would otherwise require me to select the document and select More Actions menu. So, it now saves me one click and some distance to move the mouse pointer. Love it.
There are some people out there who have no sense of what watching a soccer match can bring to them. For them, their excuse to not liking the match is "people trying to catch a ball and give it away when they get."
But, there's more to that "kicking the ball" action in a real soccer match. This video from metacafe is a good compilation of soccer tricks which hopefully convince them that there're a lot more things involved than just kicking the ball in a soccer match.
