{"id":12950,"date":"2010-04-01T11:12:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T18:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/04\/01\/12950.html"},"modified":"2010-04-01T11:12:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T18:12:04","slug":"todays-google-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/04\/01\/todays-google-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Google features"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As usual this time of year, there are a whole bunch of nifty <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google%27s_hoaxes#2010\">new features<\/a> and other changes in various Google services today. Follow link for full list. Here are my favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Google <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/different-kind-of-company-name.html\">changes its name to Topeka<\/a>. (You should also follow the \"brand equity\" link from that entry.)<\/li>\n  <li>You can now <a href=\"http:\/\/googledocs.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/upload-and-store-anything-in-cloud-with.html\">upload and store <em>anything<\/em><\/a> in Google Docs. House keys, pianos, whatever. \"[S]imple pricing at $0.10 per kg, along with free pickup and delivery from any location on the planet.\"<\/li>\n  <li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgooglejapan.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F04%2Fgoogle.html&sl=ja&tl=en\">full Japanese keyboard<\/a> lets you type any kanji character with a single keystroke. (Link is to auto-translated version of Japanese post.) There are even single keys for emoji\/emoticons. After sketches of various possible keyboard layouts, the entry shows photos of the final layout, which is based on a drum set.<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/lifesize.html\">LifeSize&trade; your photos<\/a>! Picasa Web Albums can now convert photos of your friends to life size, and then you can print them on your home printer to produce full-size cardboard cutouts.<\/li>\n  <li>Funniest new feature: <a href=\"http:\/\/wave.google.com\/getwavewave.html\">Google Wave wave notifications<\/a>. When you enable this feature, an official notifier person will find you in person and wave to you whenever a wave is updated. Be sure to watch the video and to look at the list of available notifiers at the end of the post.<\/li>\n  <li>Awesomest (but most technical) new feature: <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/gag\/\">Google Annotations Gallery<\/a>, a new Java library that lets you add a bunch of entertaining sorts of annotations to your Java code. The part where this goes from just fun to totally awesome is that it includes a set of literary annotations. Yes, now you can mark your code as containing alliteration or representing a haiku; you can mark the meter of the code (their example shows a line of trochaic code: <code>public abstract double axisOffset();<\/code>); you can indicate a palindrome or an oxymoron or a metaphor; and you can even note a use of synechdoche or a hapax legomenon. <3 <3 <3 If you know anything about programming, even if you know nothing about annotations, you should read the non-literary examples as well; I'm particularly fond of <code>@ThisWouldBeOneLineIn<\/code>, at the end of the page.<\/li>\n  <li>I also like the \"View in 3D\" features of Google Books and Google Maps Street View, but I don't have any 3D glasses on hand so I can't try them out.<\/li>\n  <li>If you have an Android phone, you can download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/intl\/en\/landing\/translateforanimals\/\">Translate for Animals<\/a>, which lets you understand what the animals around you are saying. If you don't have an Android phone, you can watch their brief demo video.<\/li>\n  <li>YouTube is providing a new text-only mode called TEXTp, showing videos as animated ASCII art. For example, here's an ASCII-art version of the nifty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iDe4v318f64&feature=featured&textp=fool\">Lego Matrix Trinity Help<\/a> video. You can switch back and forth between ASCII and normal on the fly, using the resolution menu near the lower right of the video.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual this time of year, there are a whole bunch of nifty new features and other changes in various&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,55,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-net-video","category-programming"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}