Google has added a new feature to Google Maps: Area border!

Obviously, a city is really wider than a point on a map.

Google Closure Book

Closure: The Definitive Guide

Tools for adding power to your JavaScript

Download this book here.

Father of Java Joined Google

At the end of March James Gosling joined Google.

Google Transliteration (Persian)

Thanks Google :)
Last week Google has released Persian version of its Transliteration in Gmail.

They have also released their IME client in Persian too.

But still we can not download it from Iran. :(

Android Google Tasks

Can't you find tasks in Android Calendar application?
Just go to http://gmail.com/tasks through the browser. Very clean layout!
You can add it to your android desktop by bookmarking it.

Upload any file

From now on, you can upload any file in any format to your Google Docs account, including audio and video.
They stay in their original format and you can share them as documents.

Google Wave Invitation

Who wants Google Wave invitation?

Leave me your email address in your comment please.

Right To Left in Google Wave

In order to change the text directionality in the Google Wave, use CTRL + 8 and CTRL + 7 key combinations.

Google Wave bot extensions are written in Java and Python

I'm supposed to wait to receive the sandbox!

Google Transliterate

Have you ever wanted to update your blog while you are on a trip? When you are in an internet cafe, and there is no Persian (or your non-English language) keyboard layout installed on the machine?

No worries!!! From now on you can write in your own language using English scripts and Google converts it for you!

Google Transliterate is a new service, invented for such situations!

You can find the Persian version here.

Right To Left Editing in Gmail

Finally, Gmail team added the feature of changing text direction to the Other languages! :)

Google Helps IE Again

Chrome Now Runs Inside Internet Explorer

Google just announced the launch of Chrome Frame, a new open-source project that will allow Chrome's rendering engine to run within Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6,7, and 8. This plugin, which is available now, will give developers the option to ask users if they would prefer to switch to the Chrome rendering and JavaScript engine. Users simply continue to use Internet Explorer and the switch will be completely seamless, with no noticeable changes to the user interface.

What OS is used by Google currently?

I love Google and naturally I like to know more about it. I was wondering what OS they use on their machines? Or on their servers?

I surfed the net but I could not find an official statement! :(
It is said that they use a customized version of Debian Linux. Cool! We, as lovers, have many things in common! ;)

Check the links and share your idea please:

• http://www.itworld.com/040618googledebian
• http://news.netcraft.com
• http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.google.com
  

I have always loved Google

...Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform...

Google is removing the conflict between developing Desktop apps and developing Lovely web apps.

Google Goof in Picasa for Linux

I use Picasa 3 for linux on my Ubuntu. I pressed the Movie button moments ago and Picasa showed me a dialogue box which contains this message: "This feature is not supported for Windows 2000"!

Google Suggest Tutorial

In the web sites and web applications most of the users are not aware of the exact and complete name of terms they are searching for! So it is a good idea to give them suggestion while they are trying to write the name of the desired words. Similar to what is happening in Google suggest.

In this tutorial we will do the same thing for a search in a group of people whose information are stored in a table of database. The same as the previous tutorials we use prototype.js as Ajax/DOM framework.

Since the steps are too simple and so similar to the previous tutorials, I let you download it and check it out by yourself! ;)

Good Luck!

Back and forward buttons

Ajax is excellent, of course, but it has its own problems as well. One of the most popular ones is that Ajax requests are not registered in the browser history. So you can not undo or redo them by means of the browsers Back and Forward buttons. Google, Gmail and GWT (Google Web Toolkit) support these functions and the reason is in Google Web Toolkit all the Ajax functionalities are not amazingly based on XMLHttpRequest object! Yes they use IFrames as well, so they can handle the browser history with back and forward buttons.
They started developing Gmail as their first Ajax application many years ago and that time XMLHttpRequest was not supported by all the browsers and it was not accepted by W3C also. But in the current time what is the best solution for keeping the history of Ajax requests and handling them by Back and Forward buttons???