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Google IO 2011 – signing in from Australia

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I’m currently watching the bginning of Google IO Develoers conference from Australia ~

so exciting ~ it’s the 1st I’ve listened to ~

I’ll give live updates ~ (though on the Google IO 2011 website, there are also live streming, updates and announcements)

  • Update to Honeycomb, Ice-cream Sandwich (I mised this)
  • Android market + Movie rentals (like on YouTube)
  • Google Music Beta – online iTunes replacement in the cloud with auto sync
  • Open accessories - anyone can make any type of accessories that work with Android
  • Android at Home – Android can work with any item in your house, if inbuilt, or if you connect to a receiver

I can’t believe how smooth and amazing the Google IO live stream is ~ there must be thousands watching and it doesn’t skip a beat~

There were 2 main streams on the live streaming  ~ Android and Chrome – both of which I’m really interested in – wish I could watch it all ~ I think it will all be released soon~

And huge news for browsers and the killing of IE6

  • There is a plugin called Google Chrome Frame, which can be installed on machines without admin privaliges, that renders web pages through Chrome in IE if the webpage has opted in (with a meta tag) – so websites can use HTML 5, modern flash, 3d graphics etc. in IE6 with this plugin.

Also Google Open Fonts is exciting:

  • Rich fonts like what is used in print, Google hosts them, so there isn’t any down time, there is no licencing issues, because it’s open, and Google handles cross-browser quirks and browser updates etc., option for compression, optimisation, only download characters you need, caching.

Stylebot Chrome Browser Stylish

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Stylebot – I love this plugin.

It’s like stylish/ greasemonkey for FireFox, but simpler to make your own edits to websites.
You just go to a website you want to edit, and click areas of the page you want to change, or add your own CSS to add to that domain.

Maybe not that powerful, but It could get better ~

Here are my first ones, completely cleaning some websites:

SMSfun.com.au

This website can be so obnoxious, covered in bright colours and flashing images, but now theres:

body {
background-image: none;
background-color: #ccc;
}

#contentright, #tblrightcolumn, #sitebanner, #leftcolumn , #sitebanners, #featured, #regright, .features, #weeklypollbox, #joinnowbox, #welcomeblock {
display: none;
}

#sitenav {
margin-top: 97px;
}

 

Before:

2After

1

whois.domaintools.com - Removing the Sidebar

.main_right_content, #center-content-right, #main-left-content, #google-ads-container, iframe, #aswift_0_anchor, .whois-social-media float-row, .addthis_toolbox, .whois-social-media {
display: none;
}

.main_left_content, .float-row, .rounded-grey-tab, .tab-panel, .whoisTabs, .tab-panel-header, .unselectable, .tab-panel-header-plain, .tab-panel-body, .tab-panel-body-top , .tab-strip-wrap, #center-content-left {
width: 100%
;
}

.right {
float: left;
}

domaintools.com

#dt-nav-wrapper-banner, .right-column, .things-to-do, .float-row, .vert-pad-10
{
display:none;
}

YouTube

.homepage-side-block, .yt-alert-promo, .shmoovies-list-container, #ALL-content , .watch-sidebar-section, #watch-sidebar , .browse-content , #__ffYoutube3, #ad_creative_1, #homepage-side-content, .h2-links-black {
display: none;
}

FaceBook – remove the blue bar at the top (make it white)

.slim #blueBar {
border-bottom: 1px solid #fff;
}

#blueBar {
background-color: #fff;
}

#pageLogo a {
background-color: #fff;}

biblegateway.com

#home-picks , #votd-box, .section-box, #merch-bottom, #rotate-link, #social-media-links, #top-link, #gospel-com-results, .with-alert, .results-head, .passage-share-buttons , .share-buttons {
display: none;
}

#body {
min-height: 200px;
}

mobile.biblegateway.com

#merch-bottom, #home-picks, .with-alert, #sections-left-col, #welcome-box , #mobile_block , #social-media-links, #top-link {

display: none;
}

.max_width {
max-width: none;
margin: 1px 5px 0 ;
}

#main-col {
min-height: 10px ;
}

#sig p {
position: relative;
float: left;
padding-left: 30px;
}

 

Idea/ Request for Google+

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July 18, 2011

Yeah ~ can’t wait for more powerful options ~ ~

What I would really love is to be able to add one circle in another…
so when a person is added to one circle, that contact could propagate through the other ones, (and same if removed)

EG:

Work -> my work -> Boss

3 circles, where the one on the right is in the left one etc.

Work -> my work -> co-workers

etc.

you could do this, but you’d need to add people into more circles one by one..
and if you wanted to remove someone you’d need to do it everywhere…

inherited circles?

Google+ is a Photo Book win

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Just added 1,200 photos to Google+, done in 2 hours, what I did on FaceBook in 5 years ~

Photos in Google+ is amazing O__O
just drag and drop as many photos as you want, and can drag in more while the others are loading.. can also have multiple pages loading photos at once, even on an internet connection that cuts out 10 times in 2 hours !!! ~ ~

Also, on Google+ they claim to allow unlimited high resolution photos that are under 2,000 pixels ~

that means that my computer can now be empty, and just hold stuff that I’m working on at the moment ~ (hence the ChromeBook~ operating system that is just a browser.. lightning fast)

so Google, you can upload ALL your Microsoft Office documents (docs), Videos (YouTube), photos (G+) and have them all in the cloud, easy to share/ collaborate, access from anywhere, and backup forever for free. ^__^  taking over the internet and the world – hooray ~

win ~

The Web is what you make of it

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Google have had an interesting marketing scheme, using the phrase “the web is what you make of it”

Like most things in the world, the Internet can be used for huge destruction, harm and pain

But it can also be used for great good and positive impact.

It isn’t good or bad, it is simply a tool to be wielded by people.

What it does, is up to you and me.

I recently had a prayer meeting over Google+ video chat, it was awesome, a new experience, bringing us closer through the web like never before ~

I know there are more amazing things that can be discovered to help people and change the world. Anything is possible, as long as you can imagine it.

What are some things you have seen on the web that have touched you?
What will be the next big thing to make an impact?

Minimalist Google short URL g.co

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I have made a mockup of what http://g.co could be ^__^

http://Pushka.co/g.co/

Google Simple short URL

I have been wanting to apply/ work at google for a while, and one thing I wanted to do was to register g.co for Google. They have already announced that they will do just that ~

This is the design I was thinking was would be good for this shortlink ~ minimalistic and fast ~

What they could also do is make these shortlinks:

It would save a lot of cumulative seconds with less typing ~

Android Update, Use Apple earphones

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When I first got my shiny Nexus S Android phone, I was so excited at the new unjailed possibilities, fascinated with the new things I could now do with this Android smart phone OS happiness ~

But I was displeased when i put the earbuds in my ears, and they would fall out, not hooking to my ears. And when I tried my old iPhone headphones, the buttons did nothing…

But in the recent update, Android also slipped in the functionality to use apple earphones to start stop music etc.

Just a small thing that made things better… I wonder how many people this affected~

Fight spam, help Book scanning – ReCaptcha

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I had seen ReCaptcha forms around the internet a lot, and thought that maybe it was some giant company that was keeping websites secure, maybe too expensive for the little people to use ~ like SSL or something.. But only recently did I find the awesome facts about ReCaptcha~

Recaptcha by Google

Why do we always need to type in these annoying things?

The reason why many websites use these forms, is that people can write programs to go through the internet and collect data or send data…

Google uses this to scan pretty much the whole internet, so we can search it, but it can be used for harm too. EG: you could write a program to search for the “@” symbol, and try to find email addresses (to send spam to), or find forms, to send comments, messages and emails that have spam in them…

One way to stop this, is to never type your email address anywhere on the internet… (you can use an email form…) and if you do have an email form, use a captcha image to test whether the thing sending the form is a human, or internet virus robot.

Why ReCaptcha is awesome

ReCaptcha is a free service that was aquired by Google, and is actually used to help scan books. When book scanners fail to read a word, the word is send to many ReCaptcha systems and people solve it.

Security + helpful function.

Awesome ~