Topic: Application software

Google Releases New AdWords Editor : Version 8.5

The Google AdWords Blog announced the new version of the AdWords Editor, a desktop based editing tool to manage your AdWords campaigns. Version 8.5 is available for both Mac and PC and adds several features, they include: WAP image ads: Create and manage WAP (mobile) image ads in AdWords Editor. You can: Download and upload […]

Going Places? Bing Maps Optimizes Your Trips

Bing has added a new tool to its Bing Maps App Gallery — a tool that aims to optimize road trips when you have a lot of places to go at once. The app comes from OnTerra and is called the “RouteSavvy” Route Optimizer. The idea is that, when you have several places to go […]

Google Voice + Gmail = Free Voice Calls For Those In US

Google’s holding a small press gathering today at 9:30am in its San Francisco offices. Topic? The ability to place phone calls using Google Voice integrated within Gmail. Anyone with a US Gmail account will get this rolling out today and over the next few days, along with the ability to make free calls to numbers […]

Microsoft Considering Search Apps, Like In Bing Maps

Microsoft is doing some innovative things in allowing third party apps into the Silverlight version of Bing Maps. And the company may do something analogous in search, according to Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie in an interview at the D8 conference: [Interviewer Walt] Mossberg also elicited a bit of news from Ozzie, who confirmed Microsoft is considering […]

Yahoo Adds Apps & Widgets To Mail, My Yahoo & More

If you’ve ever wanted to send money via Paypal without leaving your email In box, or if you wanted to publish a blog post without leaving your My Yahoo page, today’s announcement from Yahoo is sure to put a smile on your face. Yahoo is adding a number of third-party apps and widgets to several […]

Google Updates AdWords Editor (Version 7.5.1)

The Inside AdWords Blog announced the release of a new version of AdWords Editor, the desktop editing tool for managing your AdWords campaigns. The new features include: Import files via CSV format Option to select which campaigns to download Resume download campaign feature Sort columns in up to three columns Three new conversion tracking metrics […]

Google Reader Expands Friends Sharing, Tagging, Ordering Feeds & More

The Google Reader Blog announced several new features added to Google Reader. Google has expanded the expanded the friends sharing feature to support all “supported” Google Reader languages. You can now tag feed items when you add a note. You can sort your subscriptions alphabetically or using “My Order” through drag and drop sorting. Plus […]

How Bright Is The Outlook For Chrome?

Most of the tech journalists in the San Francisco Bay Area were at Google this morning for a briefing and demo of Chrome. Danny earlier posted lots of detail on the search dimensions of Chrome. And there are quite a few posts and articles about features and first impressions.

Microsoft’s Photosynth Opens To The Public

Microsoft’s Photosynth is morphing from a Microsoft Live Labs experiment — featured on the BBC’s “How We Built Britain” television series and in select other rarefied contexts — to what can only be described as a “totally cool” consumer application.

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A New Addition For Your SEO Toolkit: Acrobat Pro 9

Adobe recently announced their final release of the Acrobat Pro 9 software line, touting new video capabilities that are meant to provide a wider range of interactive publishing capabilities, along with improved engagement methods for end users. What’s unmentioned in Adobe’s press releases on the Acrobat 9 series is that there are some special benefits […]

Microsoft adCenter Adds Instant Editorial Reviews & More

The adCenter Blog announced new changes that have been implemented in the adCenter console. The changes include a real time editorial ad feedback feature, changes to campaign management features, and additional reporting upgrades. The largest change was the immediate editorial feedback on keywords or ads you create in the adCenter console. In short, Microsoft seemed […]

Facebook Opens Application Pages to Indexing By Search Engines

Last month Facebook made user profiles available to everyone — including anyone not logged in to Facebook and search engines. Today it announced it was opening up the application directory and application “about” pages. In terms of privacy, this means that if you comment on an application anyone can see that comment, although anyone not […]

Google Sky: Search The Stars With Google Earth Sky

In Google Earth, a Service for Scanning the Heavens from the New York Times reports that Google Earth has released a new version that allows you to look up at the sky and see the galaxy. The feature is described more here. The new feature will let you virtually look up at the sky, from […]

Sun’s StarOffice Added To Google Pack

Google Pack Adds StarOffice from Google Operating System reports Google has added StarOffice, Sun’s office suite, to the Google Pack. StarOffice has a word processor, a spreadsheet tool, presentations tool, databases, math formulas and drawing tools. Typically, Sun charges $69.95 but it is free with the Google Pack. It is worth noting that Google and […]

Google Desktop Now Out For Mac

Want Google Desktop for the Mac? More than two years after it was released for the PC, it’s finally available for the Mac, says Google (and said also here). And here’s what Mac folks are saying about it on Techmeme.

Version 5 Of Google Desktop Released

Google Desktop has released a version five with new features and updates. Kevin Tom, Product Manager of Google Desktop, explains that they added: A new sidebar with “completely new look and feel.” A gadget redesign to make them “easy to tell apart, easy to read, and easy on the eyes.” Improvements to desktop search by […]

New Features Added To Google’s Enterprise Search Appliance

A Google press release from yesterday announced that Google has added a few features to the Google Search Appliance. The new features clearly labeled include: Clustering of the results Source Biasing Options – define which sources are more authoritative than others Add languages such as French, Italian, German and Spanish and Portuguese for query stemming […]

Google’s Picasa Add Photo Search & Other Features

The Google blog announced that Picasa, Google’s photo sharing application, now enables you to search photos. You can search your own or your friends’ public albums captions, album titles, and album descriptions. Picasa also added the ability to print your pictures with Shutterfly or PhotoWorks and a feature to enable you to upload your videos […]