In my day, we thought calculators were neat

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Aidan Chopra, Program Manager, Education</span><br /><br />The <a href="http://www.mainelearns.org">Maine Learning Technology Initiative</a> is an innovative program that equips every one of the state's public middle-school students with a laptop computer. This fall, more than 36,000 students will receive brand-new Apple iBooks pre-installed with <a href="http://www.maine.gov/mlte/rfp/index.htm">great software</a>.<br /><br />We think the whole thing sounds terrific, so we're donating <a href="http://earth.google.com">Google Earth</a> and <a href="http://www.sketchup.com/">SketchUp Pro</a> to Maine for installation on every public-school computer in the state. They accepted, and now it looks like Maine will be the first state in the US to have Google Earth, SketchUp Pro, and the <a href="http://www.sketchup.com/?id=1468">3D Warehouse</a> available to every student, teacher, librarian, and administrator who wants it.<br /><br />Information about the SketchUp for Education program can be found <a href="http://www.sketchup.com/?section=education">here</a>. Government agencies that would like to follow Maine's lead are welcome to drop us a line at education@sketchup.com.

In my day, we thought calculators were neat

Posted by Aidan Chopra, Program Manager, Education The Maine Learning Technology Initiative is an innovative program that equips every one ...

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Making AJAX development easier

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Bret Taylor, Product Manager</span><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX">AJAX</a> has the power to make your site more compelling and more dynamic, but AJAX development is often complicated, with much of the development time spent working around browser quirks and the fragility of AJAX components. Trust us, we know--the development of our own AJAX apps, like Google Maps and Google Calendar, caused us no small amount of AJAX-induced frustration. <br /><br />That's why we're bringing you Google Web Toolkit. GWT is a new publicly available software development tool that makes creating AJAX applications much easier. With GWT, you can develop and debug your own AJAX applications in Java code using the Java development tools of your choice. When you deploy your application to production, the GWT compiler simply translates your Java application to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML. <br /><br />Check it out over on <a href="http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/">Google Code</a>.

Making AJAX development easier

Posted by Bret Taylor, Product Manager AJAX has the power to make your site more compelling and more dynamic, but AJAX development is often...

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Talking in tongues

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Mike Jazayeri, Product Manager, Google Talk</span><br /><br />Thirteen more, to be exact. Google Talk has just added some new language interfaces: UK English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, and Turkish.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/talk">Check it out</a> and talk amongst yourselves...

Talking in tongues

Posted by Mike Jazayeri, Product Manager, Google Talk Thirteen more, to be exact. Google Talk has just added some new language interfaces: U...

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Note this

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Bay-Wei Chang, Senior Research Scientist </span><br /><br />Search is all about finding the answers you need. Unfortunately, some kinds of questions--like where you should stay and what you should do on your Hawaiian vacation, or what kind of digital camera you should buy, or what the latest treatments for arthritis are--can't always be answered in one sitting, or by visiting one site.<br /> <br />That's why we built Google Notebook--to give you an online "notebook" where you can organize all your research, add personal notes to it, and share it with others. Google Notebook surfs along quietly with you as you browse, letting you clip and annotate whatever text, images, and links that help answer your question, all without ever leaving the webpage you're on.<br /> <br />If this sounds like something you'd like to try, you can find it <a href="http://www.google.com/notebook">here</a>.

Note this

Posted by Bay-Wei Chang, Senior Research Scientist Search is all about finding the answers you need. Unfortunately, some kinds of questions-...

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Smile! Gmail now has pictures!

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Vadim Spivak, Gmail Engineer</span><br /><br />When Google Talk <a href="http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2006/04/pictures-themes-and-more.html">added pictures</a>, you probably knew they were coming soon to Gmail. But we decided to add a little twist. You can now upload a picture for each of your contacts and display it instead of the one they chose, like I do for my friend with the <a href="http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/uglydog.asp">ugly dog picture</a>. Then, if your friends have Gmail addresses, you can send them <a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=35528">picture suggestions</a> so they can use them as their own (and everyone else can see the cool pics you found).<br /><br />PS: Since Google Talk already has pictures, we decided to share them. So the picture you select in Gmail will appear in Google Talk and vice versa.

Smile! Gmail now has pictures!

Posted by Vadim Spivak, Gmail Engineer When Google Talk added pictures , you probably knew they were coming soon to Gmail. But we decided to...

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Stop, hey, what's that sound?

<span class="byline-author">Terry Lucas, Gmail and Google Talk Engineer</span><br /><br />It might be Gmail. Starting today, Gmail chat will play a little ping sound whenever someone sends you a new chat message (just like <a href="http://www.google.com/talk">Google Talk</a>). Now you can work in other windows or even sit back and watch some TV without worrying about missing a message from your friend. Check out the <a href="https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=35877">details</a>.

Stop, hey, what's that sound?

Terry Lucas, Gmail and Google Talk Engineer It might be Gmail. Starting today, Gmail chat will play a little ping sound whenever someone sen...

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Gmail chats in more languages

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Aaron Whyte, Gmail Engineer</span><br /><br />We're pleased to now offer <a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/help/chat.html">Gmail Chat</a> in 17 more languages: UK English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Japanese, Korean and simplified and traditional Chinese. <br /><br />Here's what some people have had to say about Gmail Chat:<br /><br /><blockquote>"My sister & I love Gmail because it's so cool! We're 3,000 miles apart, but are SO connected now with Gmail Chat. And we love the rotating smileys!" </blockquote><blockquote>"Pretty cool--I just got my 70+ year old aunt to use IM through Gmail." </blockquote><blockquote>"I heart Gmail. The new chat option is marvelous. You people bring joy to my life." </blockquote>Aww, shucks. Well, we heart you--and we hope lots more of you will now enjoy getting in touch instantly this way.

Gmail chats in more languages

Posted by Aaron Whyte, Gmail Engineer We're pleased to now offer Gmail Chat in 17 more languages: UK English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, F...

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