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AJAX API Playground v2

The Google API team has launched version two of its AJAX API playground.

So if you’re a developer and looking to play around in the new playground, now you can!

Google Announces New Mac Projects

Google has announced some new Mac projects. Here is a list of the projects:

Precipitate: Search your Google Docs and Bookmarks from Spotlight or Google Desktop.
Google Toolbox for Mac: collection of source from different Google projects that may be of use to developers working other Mac projects.
Vidnik: Record video segments using your iSight camera [...]

Google’s “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Web”

Google recently published their own “hitchhiker’s guide to the web,” more commonly known to the public as the Google Doctype.
In short, Google Doctype is a guide for everyone (including Google), on how to go about using and creating the web. I say, “creating the web,” because in essence, that’s what we do everyday. That’s [...]

Universal Google Search with Code Snippets

Google Labs is at it again, this time with Code Search being included in universal search results.
As seen below, Google Search now let’s you view code snippets within normal search results while browsing around google.com. The search is for “substr“.

Google to Compete with Amazon S3 Web Service

Just a few moments ago, at 12:00am PST, Google launched its Google App Engine platform which will be a direct competitor to Amazon’s S3 service.
Amazon S3: “Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.”
Google App Engine: “Google App Engine enables developers to build web applications on [...]

Google Strongly Supports Development of Open Source Wine

Google has proven itself as a strong supporter of many Open Source projects. This week, they officially announced their ties to the Wine application [Windows emulator]. Google has hired CodeWeavers to “make Photoshop CS and CS2 work better under Wine.”

Dan Kegel of Google writes, “I work for Google, and part of my day [...]

Google Strongly Supports the Joomla! CMS

As it’s pretty clear by the title, this announce comes in the form of an event. Google, as we already know, is a strong supporter of Open Source projects. With that in mind, this announcement about Joomla! doesn’t come as a huge surprise. I am glad to see that the event happened right here in New York City (where I live now), but a shame that it wasn’t too widely marketed aside from the Joomla! community site. I might have attended if I had been paying a little closer attention to the Joomla! community news. Joomla! has some great things in its future, but for now, I’m still going to stick with my trusty Wordpress platform.

Code Jam in Latin America

Google has opened up a Code Jam competition in Latin America. Cash and prizes totaling up to R$75,000. Click here to register.

Fix the Google Homepage Tab Limit

If you’re using the Google Personalized Homepage ( www.google.com/ig ), you may know there is a 6 tab limit. As spotted on Lifehacker, there’s a little code-hack to get around that limit. (via)
Copy and paste this code into your address bar while you’re at the personalized homepage:
javascript:_renameTab(); _dlsetp(‘at=10′)
Where 10 is the number of tabs [...]

Rock Out With Your Code Out

Google Code Jam 2006 is here! Dr. Oge View the agenda here.