We’re Going Google…
In the search ecosystem Google controls the relevancy algorithms (& the biases baked into those) as well as the display of advertisements and the presentation of content. They also control (or...
View ArticleGoogle Drive Video Embeds, Too Limited
If you thought that you can upload videos to Google Drive and embed them into your site just like you can do with YouTube videos, think again. I’ve uploaded a video to Google Drive, added the embed...
View ArticleDrag and Drop Links to Google Translate
Google Translate has a quick way to translate pages: just drag and drop links to the Google Translate page. You’ll see a big yellow box at the bottom of the page when you’re about to drop the link....
View ArticleUpcoming Google Translate Features
Google Translate has some cool features that aren’t yet publicly released. They’re disabled, according to the source code of the page. The text-to-speech feature will allow you to select the dialect...
View ArticleThe Shortest Google Search URL
What if you want to include a link to a Google search results page and the URL needs to be short? Instead of copying the URL from the address bar and including a lot of unnecessary parameters, you can...
View ArticleSe publica Symfony 2.2.0
El proyecto Symfony acaba de anunciar el lanzamiento de la versi
View ArticleOpen YouTube Links in iPhone’s Browser
If you install YouTube’s app on an iPhone or iPad, all the YouTube links from Safari will open in the YouTube app. What if you want to open an YouTube video in Safari? Maybe you want to bookmark it or...
View ArticleGoogle’s Mobile Image Search Adds Infinite Scrolling
I’m not sure if this is an experiment or a feature that’s currently rolled out. Google Image Search for mobile has a new interface that replaces pagination with infinite scrolling, just like the...
View ArticleSo when is the Symfony CMF release?
In January, Lukas wrote a collection of things left to do. Later I wrote a tentative release schedule that turned out to be too optimistic. I just updated that document with new dates. Sorry about...
View ArticleIf fresh installed sphinx-quickstart fails, read below
One of my first contribute to newest, but quite promising e-commerce engine Sylius.org powered by a Symfony2 php framework is a help to improve documentation for one of bundle from Sylius package. I...
View ArticleGmail’s Sponsored Promotions
Gmail’s personalized ads are nothing new. Back in 2011, Google announced that Gmail would no longer show just ads related to the message you’re currently reading, but also ads related to topics you’re...
View ArticleNew Gmail Smart Labels
Smart Labels is a very useful feature from Gmail Labs that automatically categorizes messages. Right now, Gmail has categories for forum messages, social updates, notifications and promotions. Gmail’s...
View ArticleGoogle Blocks Gmail’s Mail Fetcher
Google has always added great security features that protect user accounts: from SSL access to most services, Google Safe Browsing, Gmail’s spam and phishing filters to 2-step authentication, phone...
View ArticleCreate a Google Account Without a Gmail Address
Last year, I wrote a post about a new sign up form that created a Gmail account, a Google profile and a Google+ account instead of a simple Google account. At that time, the updated form was available...
View ArticleChange Your Homepage When Creating a Google Account
Internet Explorer is the only important browser that doesn’t use Google as the default search engine, so Google tries to convince users to install Google Toolbar, switch to Chrome or at least set...
View ArticleGoogle Quick View
Google Search for mobile has a new feature called “Quick View“. Right now, it only shows up for Wikipedia results and it allows users to load search results almost instantly. “Quick view is an...
View ArticleGapless Internet and Google Fiber
“A gapless album is a type of album in which some or all of the tracks are intended to be heard seamlessly without any pause. Instead of individual tracks being separated by a brief moment of silence,...
View ArticleChrome Viewer for Microsoft Office Documents
Last year, Google acquired Quickoffice, a mobile app for editing Microsoft Office files. The app is still available and it’s not free. It’s probably the only mobile Google app that’s not free (there’s...
View ArticleNo More Quick View in Google Search
The latest Google Search update removed a very useful feature: quick view. The link was displayed next to PDF files and Microsoft Office files and allowed you to open them in the Google Drive Viewer....
View ArticleError 404 (Not Found)!!1
Jack Fellows, a reader of this blog, asked a question about Google’s 404 error page: “Google changed their 404 error pages a couple of years ago now, and yet the title still says (and has from day 1)...
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