Google news in the last 2 weeks

By Chris on March 6, 2009

Ok – being a Google fan I enjoy seeing everything new about the Google products. I like this all Google Labs concept. Unlike Yahoo, Google tries to bring everything that’s new and powerful to its users [my personal opinion, of course]…

Ok – let’s see what’s new this week:

1. GMail browser title bar tweaks

Turn on the title bar tweak from the Labs tab under settings and you will have something like this:

title_tweaks

2. Multi select and progress for uploads

This is another great stuff introduced by Google in GMail, the ability to select multiple files for upload & see the upload progress for each one:

multiselect progress_bars

3. Import or Export your GMail Filters

If you are a GMail user I’m almost sure you are using the filters. It’s a great way to organize your email [this goes here and this goes there]. Well – from now on you can easily import/export your created filters.

Here are some other ideas for things you can do by importing and/or exporting your filters:

Download all your filters. If you’re using POP or IMAP to get backup copies of your mail messages, now you can include your filters too.

Share filters with other people. If you have a set of filters that is especially good at organizing particular kinds of mail that others also receive, you can now make those filters available to them.

Temporarily “disable” a set of filters by exporting them and then deleting them. To “reenable” them, just re-import them from the file you exported.

If you’re comfortable editing XML, you can make new filters that are similar to existing filters. Export the old ones, edit the resulting XML file, and import it back again. For more information about modifying these XML files, see Gmail Labs user group for Filter import/export.

4. Google Calendar goes Offline

2 days ago Google announced: “In addition to offline access to Gmail while you’re traveling or without a strong internet connection, you can now see your Google Calendar events when you’re disconnected. Offline Calendar lets you view your existing schedule and events, but not edit them, so you don’t have to print out calendars the night before a trip. This feature has been available to businesses and schools using Google Apps for about a month; we’re now turning it on for everyone.”.

So – that’s more than excellent ;)

gcal_offline

5. Google Analytics for Flash [+ tutorial]

2 weeks ago [or something like this] Google launched the tracking of Flash applications from Google Analytics. A week ago, Matthew McNeely from InsideRIA has created a great step by step tutorial on how to integrate the Google Analytics tracking in your Flash – here is the link