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Google Earth Beta 4 Released

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Google Has released GoogleEarth Beta 4.

In this new version, according to the Google Earth 4 download page:

We've released versions of Google Earth in French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
We've made improvements to our GPS support (Google Earth Plus only)
We've improved the terrain, so peaks and valleys are more realistic

Ten Products Google Should Develop

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As we all know, Google has slowly but surely become a part of the lives of anyone who touches the internet in any way. For those of us who us the net on a daily basis for work or research, then this is even more true.

On his site, Google Watch, Mark Otuteye has a very interesting list of the next 10 products Google should (maybe will) develop.

I particularly like the Google Barcode & Google Storage.

Google spreadsheet soon

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As has been reported across the web, Google will be releasing an online spreadsheet presumably today 6/6/06.

Probably limited signup initially, but keep an eye on spreadsheet.google.com.

You can sign-up & (they’ll email you when it’s available).

A few of the features highlighted on Google's site are:

Create basic spreadsheets from scratch.
Upload your spreadsheet files.
Familiar desktop feel makes editing a breeze.
Choose who can access your spreadsheets.
Share documents instantly.
Edit with others in real time.
Edit from anywhere.
Never lose your work.
Easily save and export copies.

MTV launched Urge Music

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From CNET:

A test version of MTV's long-delayed online music service, called Urge, will be introduced Monday.

The service was developed in cooperation with Microsoft, and will be heavily promoted from within the latest version of the Windows Media Player, which also begins public testing Monday.

The MTV service largely matches the price and features of other music services, including Napster and RealNetworks. It will cost $9.95 a month for people who want to listen to music on their computers and $14.95 a month for those who want to download songs to portable players. (The service works with many hand-held music players from Samsung, iRiver and other manufacturers, but not the Apple iPod, which dominates the portable market.)

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New Gmail Feature: Gmail Pictures

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This is sort of old news now, but you can now add photos to your contacts in Gmail. Wo when you mouse over or open the contact, the photos appear.

You can add your own photo, or if the contact is another Gmail user, they can upload their own choice of photo, and you can opt to use what they've chosen.

Also, while adding photos, you have the ability to suggest the photo to the contact. Of course, it integrates with Gtalk as well.

Click on New Features at the top right of your Gmail Inbox.

iPod Directions: Driving directions on your iPod

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iPod Directions is a web service that fetches directions from Yahoo! Maps and gives them to you as a ZIP file full of images to drop into your iTunes photo folder.

It's both simple and ingenius, because all it does is grab the images and text directly from Yahoo! Maps' turn-by-turn directions, convert the text into images, and serve them to you together in a format perfect for a slideshow on your iPod. Of course, this comes with the same caveat as plain old Yahoo!/Google/whatever Maps, i.e you have to remember to get directions before you leave.

The major advantage of having them on your iPod rather instead of printing them out is, I suppose compactness.

If you're going on a road trip with a dozen out-of-the-way stops, carrying your iPod (which you carry around anyway) might be preferable to a sheaf of printouts. Now, what would really be cool would be if it did speech synthesis and gave you an MP3 so you didn't have to look at the iPod while driving.

Source: [DownloadSquad]

New RSS Search Engine

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RSS Micro is a new dedicated RSS feed search tool built with Ajax.

It's a very simple, fast, easy to use and it searches both news feeds and blogs.

It seems to work rather well in my initial simple tests. I like how it combines news and blogs together. It will also soon give you the ability to subscribe to a blog or news feed from inside a search.

The site also retains your search history, but through cookies not user registration.

RSS Micro is in beta and there are a few bugs, still it looks promising.

Source: [MicroPersuasion]

Google Desktop 4 beta available

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Google Desktop 4 beta is now available. One of the new features of Desktop 4 are the "Google Gadgets." Like Yahoo's widgets, Google Gadgets let you personalize your desktop with mini-applications that deliver personalized content like games, media players, weather and news. Google Desktop can also recommend new gadgets and can automatically create a personalized homepage based on what you frequently search and access.

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Internet agency ICANN rejects .xxx domain name

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Faced with opposition from conservative groups and some pornography Web sites, the Internet's key oversight agency, ICANN voted Wednesday to reject a proposal to create a red-light district on the Internet.

The decision from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers reverses its preliminary approval last June to create a ".xxx" domain name for voluntary use by the adult entertainment industry.

ICANN had postponed making a final decision in August after the U.S. government stepped in just days before a scheduled meeting to underscore objections it had received, an intervention that had led some ICANN critics to question the organization's independence.

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AIM Pages launches

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AOL's much-talked-about social networking site AIM Pages launched Wednesday in beta form at AIMPages.com.

Logging in with your AIM screen name takes you to the profile editor, which has a neat drag-and-drop Ajax interface.

By default your AIM Pages profile has a few "modules" like the obligatory photo and "About Me" box, and you can add other modules like RSS feeds, photo tickers from Flickr or AOL, and even games, by dragging them to the column and position you would like them to appear.

Each module has "Edit" and "Style" buttons for changing their settings and appearances. It also has more than 75 built-in themes which range from clean to cutesy to garish, and after choosing a theme you can further customize it.

Source: DownloadSquad

25 Things I Learned on Google Trends

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To give you a sense of its tremendous power for tapping into the world psyche, here are 25 things I learned on Google Trends. Someone should start a blog on this kind of stuff.

1) Almost all of the ten biggest US markets for MySpace are on the West Coast

2) There's more interest in Bluetooth than in Wifi

3) PR is starting to come close to catching advertising. AdAge still bests PR Week

4) David Hasselhoff's popularity in Germany is declining

5) Jerry Lewis's popularity in France is rising

6) Blackberry is widening its lead over the over the Treo

[source MicroPersuasion]

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MySpace launches IM client

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Source: DownloadSquad

Today social networking juggernaut MySpace quietly launched its long-rumored instant messaging service, MySpaceIM.

Fox Interactive product manager Kareem Mayan has the scoop and screenshots on his blog.

MySpaceIM is a desktop client for Windows that has a pretty minimal interface and looks pretty vanilla in terms of features. It does most of what you'd expect of an IM client like text formatting, emoticons, history, and so on, but don't expect anything fancy like VoIP.

MySpaceIM is ad-supported, with a small advertisement sitting at the bottom of the contact list. According to Mayan, the only default contact is the ubiquitous Tom and your other MySpace friends can be added through a web-based interface.

There's an argument to be made for automatically populating it with all of your friends, but on the other hand some people might prefer to exercise different levels of discretion for MySpaceIM than for MySpace proper.

The timing of MySpaceIM's launch is interesting considering that AOL, itself a huge player in IM (and this blogger's employer), made news last night when paidContent.org posted a screenshot of its MySpace-alike AIM Pages.

To download the beta version of MySpaceIM, head over to MySpace.

Keeping Gmail under the storage limit

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Google Gmail gives you more than 2.5 GB of Inbox space sufficient to store hundreds of thousands of email messages. But you can quickly run out of space even on GMail if your friends regularly email you PDF, video attachments, sound clips, large zipped files, or high-resolution photographs.

When you near the GMail storage limit, the quota indicator displayed at the bottom of your account (that says - You are currently using 59 MB (2%) of your 2720 MB) will change from green to red.

If you go over your storage limit, Gmail will hold your messages for a few days while you clear out some space. If you don't delete anything within that allotted time, you won't be able to receive new messages, and messages sent to your account will then be returned to sender.

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New Firefox extension to track memory leaks from other Extensions

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An extension called Leak Monitor has now been developed that is designed to help users keep track of what extensions are leaking memory.

It pops up a message if a leak is found in an extension, giving you an opportunity to notify the author or submit a bug report.

Developers should use this as a tool before releasing.

The Dell De-Gunker

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Those who suffer at the hads of Dell fear no longer. There is a new tool on the block. It's called the Dell De-Crapifier. Despite it's somewhat naughty name, this tool is a godsend. Its function? To remove all the unneccessary programs, like trial versions of software, that come pre-installed on your Dell OEM computer. Yes - all the stuff that you spend forever removing one by one can now be uninstalled all at once!

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Google Earth Beta 4 Released

Ten Products Google Should Develop

Google spreadsheet soon

MTV launched Urge Music

New Gmail Feature: Gmail Pictures

iPod Directions: Driving directions on your iPod

New RSS Search Engine

Google Desktop 4 beta available

Internet agency ICANN rejects .xxx domain name

AIM Pages launches

25 Things I Learned on Google Trends

MySpace launches IM client

Keeping Gmail under the storage limit

New Firefox extension to track memory leaks from other Extensions

The Dell De-Gunker

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