If someone shares their Google Calendar with you and you want to meet with them, check their availability. Without even viewing their calendar, you can see suggested times to get together in Google Calendar online.
Source: How to Check Someone’s Availability in Google Calendar
Say hello to your new online friend, wdyl.com. An eagle-eyed TechCrunch tipster spotted this freshly launched Google portal, whose purpose it seems to be to gather up all of the company’s multifarious web services under one umbrella. A Google search for Google products, in other words. Punching in a topic brings up its popularity in Google Trends, lets you set up Google Alerts, plan related events in Google Calendar, email someone in Gmail, or hit up Picasa, YouTube or Google News with the same query. You get the picture. It hasn’t yet been made official and hitting up the site without the “www.” prefix throws up a bad URL error at the moment, but it’s there and seemingly fully functional. Give it a try and let us know which search terms bring up the most humorous results.
What do you love, asks Google with a new portal to its many web services originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Jun 2011 02:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Do not be alarmed, your Netflix.com experience has been updated today “with a new look and feel to make it easier for you to find something to watch instantly.” While the header introduced late last year remains and sticks on screen as you scroll vertically, box art of queued movies fills the screen horizontally. The redesign takes significant cues from the HTML5 UIs recently rolled out to most streaming devices, but it’s not clear if this related to some of the queue shuffling we’ve been seeing recently. Responses on the Netflix blog have been mostly negative, although just like Facebook and Twitter revamps some complaints about any change are normal.
That said, we’re not fans either because it still requires an additional click to find out if a movie is in HD or has subtitles, a misdirected click starts playing the wrong movie too easily and selecting “your queue” still takes us to our discs first instead of Watch Instantly. If the new front page isn’t working there’s always alternatives in Netflix queue managers like InstantWatcher.com and FeedFliks, or any number of mobile apps. Let us know if you’ll be riding with the redesign or hitting the back button in the comments here.
Netflix.com’s new look is focused on streaming, cribs UI elements from connected TV apps originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Google’s Android Market now has a web client. Finally! And guess what else, it’s already live. Hit the source link below to get exploring. It’s very simple, really, you can browse the entire Market catalog on your desktop or however else you’re accessing the web, you can purchase anything that takes your fancy, and then — via the magic of over-the-air transfers — it downloads and installs onto your Android handset. A neat My Market Account section will let you nickname your registered devices to make them more recognizable as well.
Google has also just announced that Android will soon support in-app purchases. Widespread developer interest has been cited as the major reason for doing it, so you’ve got those lovable coders to thank for the oncoming wave of micropayments you’ll have to deal with in your Android apps. The in-app purchasing SDK is releasing to devs today and will be “live to users prior to the end of this quarter.”
Update: Invalid request. Yep, that’s the message we keep getting when we try and download an app. Google promises that it should be working soon…
Update 2: And now it appears to be working!
Android Market gets a web store with OTA installations, in-app purchases coming soon originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Updated: Ah, it really is all about Flash, isn’t Toshiba? Ina Fried over at AllThingsD noticed that if you try and load Toshiba’s new tablet site on an iOS device the following message appears: “Such a shame… if you had a Toshiba Tablet you would enjoy the entire internet. Yep, Flash sites too.” That’s true Toshiba, but we don’t have your tablet right now, do we?
Toshiba launches Flashy tablet teaser site, still doesn’t have a name for said tablet originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We all have our own favorite sites to consult for the latest movie, music or video game releases. With a cleanly designed site called ‘When it Drops,’ though, Web surfers can now find all this information with one click of a mouse. Each week, When it Drops gives a snapshot of the latest movies, DVDs, albums, books and video games to hit the market that week, as well as the products released the week prior and those scheduled to drop over the next two weeks. Hovering your cursor over each icon will also give you some basic information about the newly released item. If you’re interested in seeing the latest movie to hit theaters, for example, you can instantly check the film’s rating on RottenTomatoes, find links to buy tickets, or view trailers. The concept may sound simple, but that’s exactly what makes ‘When it Drops’ so useful.
‘When it Drops’ Gives You the Latest Movie, Music and Book Releases originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
As the summer heat drags on, one Explainer reader wonders why soda or beer from a can tastes so much fizzier than the stuff that comes out of a bottle. Is there really any difference in the carbonation?
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Just adding the fmt=18 bit to the URLs in a video’s regular embed code won’t work. You have to add a couple of small pieces elsewhere, too. Here are the changes to make:
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