Friday, February 6, 2009

Everything Google - ak - Ryan Teeter notes

google is built around communities- people create content

books.google.com

scholar.google.com

maps.google.com integrated with google earth alot -user added photo, video, wikipedia, streetview. satellite, terrain, transportation-buses etc,

Google Earth App -used on CNN, recently updated: added more 3d, space-constellations, Live cloud coverage, includes functions of maps.google.com

google.com/educators has a community of teachers sharing tools

google.com/businesseducators has a community and directions on how to advertise with Google

Tidbits
  • type the following in the search field
  • define word ,-type a word in place of word
  • type math problem- 2*2=
  • spellchecker - did you mean...
  • financial converter= 100 USD to GBP
  • stock quotes= GOOG
  • Area Codes

The reason Google can keep their trademark is because they continue to change the cartooning..kids can input...

Google safesearch is filtering- located in preferences where language defaults

Use Google Language tools to select language-located to the right of the landing Google search page

Google Chrome - will be out near April 2009: Great start page. Type search term in the url window located on the omnibar, does site searches using the tab button (in place of term site:) - works with Google Gears.

Google Gears allows offline access to your documents - Google Gears catches and downloads your information to the computer. You can use a plug-in . The plug-in Google Doc's revision history will aid in any sync issues that may occur if a user is synced from one machine and then finished the doc from a machine that did not have a Google Gears. Currently you cannot create a new doc in offline mode. Google Gears works with Google Gears. Multiple identities in one workstation account works fine.

Video chat- release about two months ago

Friday, December 12, 2008

second life building a hat