Internet Utilities: August 2009

Aug 31, 2009

Get Directions on Google Maps (Google Video) : Customize your directions on Google Maps.

http://maps.google.com - Customize your directions on Google Maps. Drag & drop the default directions to your preferred roads or highways, get walking or public transit directions, route around traffic, or add multiple stops on your way. Print directions with Street View photos included.

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Google container data center tour (Google Video) : Data Centers Summit, hosted at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA on April 1, 2009.

Picasa Web Album as Slideshow to Blogger (Video) : Embedding a picasa web album slideshow into a blogspot post.

New Picasa 3 : Picasa Basics: Picasa 3 feature overview

Google Mobile App for iPhone, now with Voice Search (Google Video) : Google mobile team gives an overview of the new Google Mobile App for iPhone.

What's your Gmail story? (Google Video) : Has Gmail helped you do something interesting or productive?

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Google container data center tour (Google Video) : Data Centers Summit, hosted at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA on April 1, 2009.

First presented at the Google Efficient Data Centers Summit, hosted at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA on April 1, 2009.

For more information about the event or Google's data center efficiency efforts, please visit: http://www.google.com/corporate/green...

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Google Mobile App for iPhone, now with Voice Search (Google Video) : Google mobile team gives an overview of the new Google Mobile App for iPhone.

What's your Gmail story? (Google Video) : Has Gmail helped you do something interesting or productive?

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Does Google value its own links for PageRank? (Google Webmaster Tool Video)

Robert Enriquez from Charlotte, NC asks:

"Does Google value its own links for PR/Linkjuice? Google Bookmarks, Google Profile, etc. Reason - Google links never appear in Webmaster Tools"

This video is part of a "Grab Bag" series in which Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team, answers questions from webmasters. We're not currently taking new video questions, so your best bet for getting an answer about webmaster-related search issues is to head to our help forum: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p...

Picasa Web Album as Slideshow to Blogger (Video) : Embedding a picasa web album slideshow into a blogspot post.

Embedding a picasa web album slideshow into a blogspot post.

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The Tour de France in Google Maps Street View (Google Video) : Experience the famous French race like never before.

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New Picasa 3 : Picasa Basics: Picasa 3 feature overview

To get you started on the upgrade from Picasa 2.7 to Picasa 3, we've provided a detailed run-down of what's new and what's changed. This page explains the basics, but you'll need to get your hands dirty to really appreciate the changes. Click the links below to learn more about each feature.

	Sync your Picasa 3 and Picasa Web Albums edits Tired of having to manually re-upload your photos after making further edits? By enabling 'Sync to Web,' edits made to your photos in Picasa 3 are automatically transferred to your corresponding online albums. You can sync the following changes: Picasa 3 edits (Basic Fixes, Tuning, and Effects) Photos added or deleted in Picasa 3 Captions, tags, or geotags Changes made to folder or album properties Getting started The Sync to Web button is located on the right side of each folder or album header. When you click this button, you'll first be prompted to upload the photos in that folder or album to Picasa Web Albums. You can change the upload size, album privacy setting, or even add a watermark to your uploaded photos. When the upload is complete, any subsequent Picasa 3 edits to those photos will automatically transfer to your online album. Troubleshooting You can disable the sync feature at any time by clicking the Sync to Web button again, or by selecting Disable Sync in the drop-down menu to the right of the Share button in the folder or album header. All your photos and their edits up to this point remain online, but any new edits and changes will no longer be synchronized. The following changes don't transfer to your online albums: Reordering photos Changes made to folder or album properties Changes made to filenames
	Retouch your images Always want to be airbrushed? Use the Retouch tool to remove unsightly blemishes and improve photo quality. It can also help you to restore old photos with marks, water stains, and scratches to excellent condition. When editing any photo, just click the Retouch button on the 'Basic Fixes' tab. Adjust the size of your brush, and use the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out of the photo for precise edits. Click once to highlight the area you'd like to retouch, and then find another portion of the picture that should take the place of your highlighted area. Hover over this replacement area and click a second time.
	Preview image files with Picasa Photo Viewer The photo viewer is a fast, lightweight application for viewing images on your desktop or through Windows Explorer. Installed with Picasa 3, it lets you to take a quick look at images without having to fully open the Picasa 3 program. What you can do with the photo viewer: Add stars, zoom in and out with your mouse scroll wheel, rotate, or proceed to Picasa 3 to make more extensive edits. Upload directly from the photo viewer to Picasa Web Albums or Blogger. Jump right into emailing or printing as well. From your computer desktop or from within Windows Explorer, just double-click any image file to launch the Picasa Photo Viewer. You can reconfigure the file types that the photo viewer will display by clicking the Tools menu in Picasa 3 and selecting Configure Photo Viewer. If you'd prefer to use a different application to view certain file types, deselect the file types that the photo viewer shouldn't open. To disable the Picasa Photo Viewer entirely, click the 'Don't use Picasa Photo Viewer' option.
	Create and edit movies Combine your photos, videos, and music into a movie or use the editing room to trim your existing movies. Creating movies Use the movie maker to combine your photos, videos, and music into a movie, and create a Windows Media file. Share it with friends by uploading it directly to YouTube. About the movie maker: You have complete creative control - change the music sync, the slide duration, and slide transition style, among other things. Supported audio formats include mp3 and .wma. Add text slides: Create a title slide or a divider to provide some context. You can choose to include your photo captions as well. There are two ways to launch the movie creation screen: Create a movie for all photos in a folder or album by clicking the Create Movie Presentation button in the folder or album header. If you'd like to pick and choose photos from different collections, place them in the Photo Tray and click the larger Movie button in the Photo Tray. Use the Movie, Slide, and Clips tabs to alter movie settings, add text to slides, and insert new images, respectively. When you're satisfied, click Create Movie. Once created, use the Upload to YouTube button to share your creation with family and friends. Depending on the number of images and size of your audio file, the movie creation process can take a significant amount of time. Can't create the entire movie in one sitting? No problem, just click the Close button, and you'll be prompted to Save Draft. You can pick up your work at any time in the 'Movies' folder in Picasa. Editing movies When playing any video in Picasa 3, explore these features: Use the In and Out buttons in the lower-right corner to trim a shorter clip. Rotate your video using the Rotate buttons in the Photo Tray. Click Export Clip to output a newly trimmed or rotated video. Use the Take Snapshot button to capture a single frame of the video. Use the Play full screen button in the lower-right corner to watch the large version. Or use the zoom slider to adjust the size of the video in the Picasa editing window. Use the . and , keys on your keyboard to step the video frame-by-frame.
	Capture your screen Instantly take and import your screen captures and webcam captures into Picasa 3. Screen captures Press PrtScn to capture a shot of your entire screen. Ctrl+PrtScn will capture the highlighted window. These images will be placed in the 'Screen captures' folder. If you're having trouble importing screen captures, make sure Picasa 3 is open. Screen captures won't be imported if the application is closed. Webcam capture This is webcam importing made simple: Capture video or stills from within Picasa 3, and import them in the same instant. Make sure your webcam is operational, and then click the Webcam Capture button on the top button bar. The Capture tool will let you take and import video and stills. If the Webcam Capture button is inactive, first make sure your webcam is set to go. Then try closing Picasa 3 and opening it back up.
	Add text or watermarks to your photos You can easily personalize your photos using the Watermark and Text tools. Watermarks Help protect your images by stamping a watermark on all images that you export or upload. The watermark signature will be placed in the lower right-hand corner. Upload photos with watermarks Click the Tools menu in Picasa 3, select Options, then click the Web Albums tab. Select the option labeled 'Add a watermark for all uploads.' Type the text for the watermark in the field below the option. Export photos with watermarks When you click the Export button in the Photo Tray, you can select the 'Add a watermark' checkbox to include a watermark on your exported images. Type the text for the watermark in the field below the option. Text Use the Text tool to add text quickly and easily to your photographs; you can even print the result. You can edit the style, size, color, and alignment of the text, as well as drag it to your desired location on the photo. When editing a photo, click the Text button on the 'Basic Fixes' tab to access the tool. Do you want to add the same text to multiple photos? From the main Library view, click the Edit menu and select Copy Text to copy the text you've placed on one photo. Then select Paste text to apply it to all other selected photos. The text change isn't permanent. Once you've added your text, you'll see a 'Show Text' checkbox on the 'Basic Fixes' tab for that image. Deselect the checkbox and the text will disappear.
	Print captions Your captions are about to see a little more action. You can now print your captions or photo file names on or below your photos. Control the style and color of your printed caption, in addition to the width and color of the printed photo border. After you've selected the photos you'd like to print, click the Print button in the Photo Tray. Click the Border and Text Options button to add borders and adjust the style and placement of your printed text. Click Apply to preview your work, and OK to accept the changes.
	Upload easily to Picasa Web Albums Use the Drop Box to hold quick uploads and upload throttling to multi-task during your upload. Drop-box upload The Drop Box is an online album that serves as a holding pen for your quick uploads. Click the Upload to your Web Albums DropBox button located above your photo on the 'Edit Photo' screen to upload a single picture directly to your Picasa Web Albums Drop Box. Upload throttling You can choose to have Picasa 3 reserve some of your Internet bandwidth for surfing the Web while you're doing large uploads to Picasa Web Albums. During your upload, the dialog box will have an option labeled 'Don't eat all my bandwidth.' Just select this checkbox, and then continue multi-tasking.
	Control your Picasa Web Albums settings If you have an online album in Picasa Web Albums, you can now control the online settings through the corresponding folder or album in Picasa 3. There are a few different controls located in the drop-down menu to the right of the Share button in the folder or album header: Adjust the privacy of your online album. Change the online image size. Delete an online album. Sync your edits to your online album. You can also choose to apply 'Sync to Web' to starred photos only. Use 'Refresh Online Status' to pull your captions, tags, and geotags that you've added in Picasa Web Albums down to your photos in Picasa. Troubleshooting The button's only available for folders or albums that have been uploaded to Picasa Web Albums. You must be signed in to your Google Account for Picasa Web Albums. You can sign in by clicking Sign in to Web Albums in the upper-right corner of Picasa 3. You will only be able to adjust the online image size if you have enabled 'Sync to Web.'
	Manage folders on your computer It's now possible to move entire folders around on your hard drive from within Picasa 3. From the folder list, right-click the folder you'd like to move, and select Move folder. Choose your desired destination or create a new folder altogether. These moves are permanent on your hard drive, so make sure you properly stow your folders.
	Get more information about your photos We've added new icons and tools to the Library view to quickly communicate useful information about your photos.

Picasa 3 now has the ability to support more photos on your computer -- now up to a million photos! And we've made plenty of other improvements that we think you'll enjoy. Click the links below to learn more about each feature

	Collage Experiment with six different collage types and a slew of new settings in the more hands-on collage creation screen. Collage has been reborn. You now have total artistic control over your collage content and layout. For 'Picture Pile' collages, click an image to drag it to a new location or use the wheel to rotate and resize it. Add or delete images to your collage as you go. Grid spacing: Use the slider to precisely control the space between images. More background options: Select an image as background or select any color you'd like. Print your collage in high resolution, and choose from 10 different display dimensions. Getting started Create a collage for all photos in a folder or album by clicking the Create Photo Collage button in the folder or album header. If you'd like to pick and choose photos from different collections, place them in the Photo Tray and click the larger Collage button in the Photo Tray. Use the Settings tab to control the collage type and appearance. Use the Clips tab to find additional images to insert. Experiment with these tabs to perfect your creation. Troubleshooting Depending on the type of collage you choose, you'll have different options on the Settings tab. While all collage types share basic settings like 'Background Options' and 'Page Format,' there are some settings that are only available for specific collages. If you're half-done creating a collage and need to finish later, just click the Close button, and you'll be prompted to Save Draft. You can pick up your work at any time in the 'Collages' folder.
	Sharing Why take two steps when you can do it in one? Upload an album to Picasa Web Albums and email invitations to friends and family with just one click. By clicking the Share button on the right side of the folder or album header, you can choose your recipients, and compose your accompanying message. Click Send, and your photos will be uploaded and shared in the same step. If you use the Share button for an album that's already been uploaded, it'll simply set up an invitation that you can send to friends to view your existing online album.
	Auto red-eye Our improved technology automatically detects faces and corrects the red eye in your photos. While editing any photo, you can access the Redeye button from the Basic Fixes tab. After the red eye is identified and auto-corrected, click Apply to accept the changes. Your manual controls are still there, should you want them. Just click the Reset button after the automatic correction is made, and you'll be able to use the red-eye tool manually.
	Cropping The Crop tool offers three crop suggestions based on the composition of your photograph. Don't miss the 10 different dimensions to choose from when cropping. You can access the Crop button from the 'Basic Fixes' tab. Select your chosen dimension. Click the Preview button to get a sneak peek before you apply the changes.
	Screensaver Spice up your screensaver by pulling in pictures from additional photo sources, such as your Web Albums and photo feeds. You also have more control over presentation aspects such as slide transition style, slide duration, and captions. To customize your screensaver, click the Tools menu in Picasa 3 and select Configure Screensaver. Select Google Photos Screensaver in the dialog window and click Settings to choose your screensaver sources. Click the relevant Configure buttons to get more granular choices.
	Multiple word tags You can now add multi-word tags to your photos. Finally, you can tag your rocking chair as 'rocking chair,' rather than 'rocking' and 'chair.' To add a tag, select your photo and click the Tag button next to the Photo Tray area or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+T. The blue status bar at the bottom of the screen shows any tags that have been applied to your pictures. If you'd like to see all your tags listed under each photo, click the View menu, select Thumbnail Caption, then select Tags.
	Importing To help you import images from a particular day or event, Picasa now segments your images according to the time frame when they were taken. Each group of images in the import window will be marked by a clock icon. Hover over the clock to see the time stamp of this group or click a clock to select all the images in the group. Click the Import button , choose your media, and watch as your photos are segmented by the time period in which they were snapped. Due to size constraints, Picasa can only create up to five groups at any one time. The first four groups will be segmented according to time and the fifth group will contain the remaining photos that can be imported.
	Slideshow Make your slideshow come alive with new capabilities

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Aug 30, 2009

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Mike LeBeau of the Google mobile team gives an overview of the new Google Mobile App for iPhone. The App lets you speak your queries without pushing any buttons, and also lets you do local searches without specifying your location.

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Yahoo! India Adds More Features : New innovative Yahoomail announced

Internet brand Yahoo! India on Tuesday said it has introduced a number of innovations on Yahoo! Mail.

People can now do more, share more and stay better connected from their inbox, saving time and the need to visit multiple websites to get things done, a Yahoo release said.

New social features allows one to stay updated on what friends and family are sharing online, including the ability to view the most recent e-mails from contacts and receive birthday reminders, it said.

"Additionally, with an intuitive Yahoo! contracts solution, you can view updates across contacts when they change their name, e-mail address or phone number", the search engine said.

Yahoo! mail has extended the attachment limit for photos and files up to 25MB (up from 10MB).

"Now it is easier than ever for people to stay on top of their e-mail with one-click access to check, compose and search e-mail", Yahoo said. "Additonally, support from downloading attachments such as Microsoft office documents, PDF files and photos has been added, as well as the ability to access personal folders".

Soon these enhancements would be accessible on over 400 devices with HTML browsers, it said.

Aug 29, 2009

What's your Gmail story? (Google Video) : Has Gmail helped you do something interesting or productive?

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Google Search Privacy: Personalized Search (Google Video) : Google offers a closer look at personalization and the privacy tools that are available

In the second in a series of short, informative videos on privacy, Google offers a closer look at personalization and the privacy tools that are available when you choose to personalize your search.

As the video explains, search algorithms that are designed to take your personal preferences into account, including the things you search for and the sites you visit, have better odds of delivering useful results for you.

So if you've been checking out sites about the Louvre and you search for "Paris," you're more likely to get results about the French capital than the celebrity heiress. The privacy tools we've designed--such as "pause" and "remove" buttons — help put you in control of personalization.

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AdSense event featuring optimization and product seminars in Toronto in early October : Calling all Canadian AdSense publisher

Matthew Carpenter-Arevalo - AdSense Optimization Team says in his blog post

Are you a Canadian AdSense publisher? We'll be hosting a small AdSense event featuring optimization and product seminars in Toronto in early October, and we have a few additional spaces available. If you're located in the Toronto area and would like to attend, fill out our interest form, telling us a little about yourself, your site, and your history with AdSense. There are a limited number of spots left, so if you're interested, let us know as soon as possible. We'll let you know by email if you've been selected to take part in the event.

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New Messenger 10 Beta : Do more than just IM with Yahoo! Messenger 10 BETA : Enhanced Video Calling!

Yahoo Messenger is one of the most popular instant-messaging programs and it's easy to see why: a simple-to-use program supported by a massive online community, and it's all free.

All you have to do is get yourself a Yahoo ID (by signing up for one at the Yahoo UK website) and download a very small installation program.

The set-up procedure is slightly confusing, as you are presented with several different options and it's not always obvious which ones to choose. The offer of a free Yahoo email address, for example, may be appealing to some, but the set-up procedure also attempts to set your browser's homepage to Yahoo, which might annoy some users.

You have to make sure you remove the tick from the appropriate box if you don't want this to happen. Once installed, you'll find evidence of the program everywhere - your desktop, taskbar and quick launch bar will be littered with shortcuts and your web browser will have suddenly developed a whole new toolbar. These are all easily dealt with, but it feels a bit invasive.

The Messenger program itself works just like MSN, with the added bonus of enormous, thriving chat rooms where you can talk to fellow webcam users as well as your nearest and dearest.

The latest v10 preview ships with enhanced video calling as well as a built in media player that will enable you to watch web videos and view photographs with friends.

Note that this is free, but supported by adverts.

Enhanced video calling
Feel like you’re there with high-quality, full screen video and voice calling

Keep up with what your friends are doing
See your friends’ latest updates from Yahoo!, Flickr, Twitter and more with the new “Updates” view
Improved language support
Change your preferred language in Yahoo! Messenger with just a few clicks

System requirements: Microsoft Windows XP, Vista.

Other versions: Mac, Web, Mobile, iPhone

More Features

Instant message with one friend, or conference in a bunch
All-new Insider with Yahoo! Mail, news, weather, search and more
Easily find or invite friends from other services to come chat with you
Send text messages (SMS) to friends' mobile phones for free*
Make free PC-to-PC calls and PC-to-phone calls for as low as 1¢ a minute (plus free voicemail!)
Use the built-in media player to watch web videos and view photos with friends
Show your style with emoticons, Avatars, audibles and IMVironments

Yahoo Messenger 10 Beta Demo Video : Yahoo! Messenger 10 Beta comes with new features. Improved Video Calling, Social Media status integration

Yahoo! Messenger 10 Beta comes with new features. Improved Video Calling, Social Media status integration (Twitter).

Aug 28, 2009

The Tour de France in Google Maps Street View (Google Video) : Experience the famous French race like never before.

Experience the famous French race like never before. Le Tour de France and Google Maps invite you to ride the 2008 route using Street View. Now, you can feel like part of the race no matter where you are!

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Mozilla Service Week (Firefox Video) : Announcing Mozilla Service week, Sept 14-22 2009!

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You can now switch to local currency reports to view your earnings in Euros : Now you can make change to receive payments in Euros.

In Blog post Arlene Lee - Inside AdSense Team says:

If you're a publisher located in Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, San Marino, Slovenia, or Vatican City, you can now switch to local currency reports to view your earnings in Euros. Once you make this change, any earnings generated from advertisers paying on other currencies will be converted to Euros each day. This also means that if you're receiving payments in Euros, there won't be any additional conversions at the end of the month when payments are issued.

Before you switch to local currency reports, we suggest you download and save copies of your past reports in U.S. dollars for your records. Once you've done that, look for the green prompt in the upper right hand corner of your Reports Overview page. Click the link in the prompt, and you'll be asked to agree to a new set of Terms and Conditions. If you have questions or need legal advice on interpreting the new Terms, please don't hesitate to contact your attorney.

We encourage you to switch to local currency reports soon, since we'll be requiring this update in the future. You can learn more about these new reports in our Help Center, and we also recommend reviewing answers to a few FAQs we covered on the blog before.

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Generate More Revenue From Adsense using multiple Google-certified ad networks to compete for display ad space on your site: Adsense Tips and Tricks

Sean Harvey - Google Business Product Manager said in his blog post:

They have been hearing your requests for new ways to generate revenue in AdSense, and new ways to maintain control over the ads that appear on your sites. With that in mind, Adsense pleased to announce plans to give you the ability to allow multiple Google-certified ad networks to compete for display ad space on your site.

Who are these ad networks? They're ad agencies and companies that partner with advertisers and publishers to buy and sell ads on sites they don't own themselves (much like AdSense). You'll now be able to allow advertisers from these networks to compete with AdWords advertisers for your ad space. All reporting and payments will still run through AdSense as they always have, and the available ad formats will be the same as those offered for AdWords ads.

He further adds finally, some ad networks use tools similar to Google's interest-based advertising to show more relevant ads to users on the sites they visit. We'll allow certified networks who comply with user privacy guidelines to show ads using these tools, but they won't be permitted to collect data from your site for the purpose of subsequent interest-based advertising. You'll be able to opt out of receiving ads based on user interests from these certified networks, and we have changed our requirements for third-party ad serving to reflect this.

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Is Google putting more weight on brands in rankings? (Google Webmaster Video) : New Search Engine Rankings Place Heavy Emphasis on Branding

On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video.

Monica from Madison, WI asked:

Can you verify that Google is putting more weight on "brands" in search engine rankings? If the answer is "Yes" -- what is Google's definition of a brand?

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Big Brands? Google Brand Promotion: New Search Engine Rankings Place Heavy Emphasis on Branding

Originally when we published this we were going to make it subscriber only content, but the change is so important that I thought we should share some of it with the entire SEO industry. This post starts off with a brief history of recent algorithm updates, and shows the enormous weight Google is placing on branded search results.

The Google Florida Update

I got started in the search field in 2003, and one of the things that helped get my name on the map was when I wrote about the November 14th Google Florida update in a cheeky article titled Google Sells Christmas [1]. To this day many are not certain exactly what Google changed back then, but the algorithm update seemed to hit a lot of low level SEO techniques. Many pages that exhibited the following characteristics simply disappeared from the search results

* repetitive inbound anchor text with little diversity
* heavy repetition of the keyword phrase in the page title and on the page
* words is a phrase exhibiting close proximity with few occurrences of the keywords spread apart
* a lack of related/supporting vocabulary in the page copy

The Google Florida update was the first update that made SEO complicated enough to where most people could not figure out how to do it. Before that update all you needed to do was buy and/or trade links with your target keyword in the link anchor text, and after enough repetition you stood a good chance of ranking.

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