Google announced a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the [...]
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Spotted by the Google Street View van. I wonder who won this battle.
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Google has released its first developer preview of an “experimental” search application for Mac that allows you to search for files and applications on your computer as well as initiate a Google Web Search. This seems a lot like Google Desktop to me. [via Google Mac Blog]
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Google has a new favicon again. This time it is based on some user-submitted designs, mainly that of André Resende. [via The Official Google Blog]
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Google has released the standalone Picasa application for Mac. Picasa is a photo organizer and editor that integrates with Google’s Picasa Web Albums. In building Picasa for Mac, we’ve tried to make sure it “plays nice” with iPhoto. Picasa takes a special read-only approach to editing photos stored in the iPhoto library, duplicating files as needed, [...]
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Google is making available the ability to search through magazines online with their Google Book Search. See the example below for a November 1982 Popular Science article on personal computer graphics. [via The Official Google Blog]
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Google announced today in their blog, that they have undertaken a project to put historical news archives online. I gave it a quick test drive myself, and it works quite well. Click-and-drag or scroll to navigate pages. There are also several convenient zoom options, as well as a full-window option. Click on headlines, and link [...]
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