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Blogging platform WordPress just released their 3.0 “Thelonious” update, debuting, among other things, an attractive and modern-looking default theme and a bulk plug-in, theme, and installation updater. The release also includes over one thousand bug fixes and enhancements. More »









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The ability to share my Google Docs is crucial to my productivity. My teammates and I often add comments to docs, collaboratively organize our feature-planning spreadsheet, and send links of interesting company presentations to each other. Like anyone, I want to make sure that I can share these materials with my colleagues easily and efficiently. This is why I’m happy to announce some improvements that make sharing your Docs easier while giving you even more control:

• Improved visibility options indicating how private or shareable a doc is: Google docs can now be identified as: private; anyone with a link; or public on the web.

• Private: Docs start out as private. When you first create a doc, you are the only person with access to it. From there, you can give access to other people.
• Anyone with the link: If you set your doc to “Anyone with the link,” it’s like an unlisted phone number. In the same way that anyone who knows an unlisted phone number can call it, anyone who knows the web address or URL of that doc can view it.
• Public on the web allows anyone the ability to find and access that particular doc on the web. For example, you could create a flyer for a concert, save it as a public doc, post a link to it on your blog. Public docs are automatically indexed by search engines like Google, so they may appear in search results as well.
• Access viewable at a glance: Visibility options for your docs now appear next to every doc title and in the docs list. You can easily see the full list of editors and viewers by clicking on the visibility option next to the doc’s title or on the Share button
• A cleaner, simpler interface: We’ve removed the three tab interface and replaced it with one dialog that lets you see who has access, manage access and invite others.
• Resettable doc URL: For a doc set to anyone with a link, you can reset the doc’s URL at anytime, which helps you better control who has access to your doc.
• Bulk changes in the docs list: You can now modify the sharing settings of multiple docs at a time by selecting multiple docs and selecting Share > Sharing settings.

To learn more about how these new visibility options work and for an overview of sharing in Google Docs, check out the videos below:

These changes are rolling out now and should be available to everyone in the next week. These improvements have really made a difference in my Google Docs experience. I can share much more quickly and always tell at a glance who has access to my docs. I hope you find them helpful too. Let us know what you think in the forums.

Posted by: Vikki Chou, Software Engineer

The federal government will introduce a bill Thursday that could pave the way for RCMP members to unionize.

So here I am, playing some Kinect, and Jason, who’s photographing me, spots someone in the background. You spot him? No? OK. ENHAAANNNCCEEEE!!!! More »









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It’s a color we know so well, but it looks like Microsoft would like to dissociate itself from its RROD heritage, or perhaps just ran out of red LEDs: the new Xbox 360 only has a green ring around its power button, so even if you wrap the thing in a blanket and set it on fire, it won’t be flashing red to tell you how it feels. This was unearthed in a spec sheet that Joystiq received from a tipster, along with all the other fancy specs you can see above. Overall the console is 17% smaller, which really goes to show that Microsoft was much more interested in noise and heat reduction than sliding the new 360 into a smaller crevice of your home entertainment center.

New Xbox 360 loses ability to flash a red ring, can still probably die a fiery death originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Canada must follow Europe’s example and implement open-access rules that will force internet network owners to share their infrastructure with smaller competitors if the country is to compete in the digital age, a Senate committee report says.

Sure we’ve already had our eyes all over Logitech’s CE4100-powered Google TV box and given its WiFi controls on iPhone and Nexus One a try, but we didn’t know exactly what to look for (or, according to Steve, what we’d probably be avoiding) when it hit stores. That’s been put to rest, as the above picture we received reveals we can expect the Logitech Revue with Google TV. Obviously reminiscent of the “with Google” Android branding on handset, the name also ties into its ability to bring together multiple forms of entertainment, we’ll see this this fall if slick branding is enough to get buyers and developers behind the return of Web TV.

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Logitech’s ‘companion box’ gets a name: Revue with Google TV originally appeared on Engadget HD on Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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I had high hopes for PlayStation Move since its announcement. Having played around with various titles for about an hour today, I have to say: if Sony’s technology is better, it isn’t showing in its first-gen software. More »









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San Francisco could soon start requiring retailers to post notices showing how much radiation is emitted by the cellphones they sell.

Microsoft’s decision to merge Live Mesh with Windows Live Sync was a good one, and timely too. These days, backup is still important. But peer to peer data sync is arguably even more important.

Canadians may finally have a minor reprieve from the clutches of their cellphone provider.

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Microsoft’s next big version of its office suite officially goes on sale today in retail stores across the world. The highly anticipated release of Office 2010 has been through months of beta testing since November of last year. TechNet and MSDN subscribers were the first to get Office 2010…

You may be familiar with the photos layer on Google Maps – it’s a great way to explore user generated photos from countries all over the world right within Google Maps. Over the last couple of years since launching this layer we’ve made various improvements so people can explore them more easily. Like being able to slide from a gorgeous view along the bank of the Seine at dawn to another at sunset, simply by clicking the dots. Today we have another great way you can take that round the world trip you always wanted.

Remember Pegman, the little orange man that you can drag and drop on to the map to jump into Street View images? As of today, he has a new trick up his sleeve. He’s becoming our official photo tour guide, helping you not only navigate our Street View imagery where it’s available, but also helping to highlight the amazing geo-located photos the Panoramio photo community has contributed, as well as public images from Picasa and Flickr. There are images from pretty much every corner of the globe, so there is almost no end of sights and scenes to keep you busy.

When you drag Pegman, you will now see small blue dots to show where user-contributed photos are available (they look a bit like the squares you see on our Wikipedia layer on maps).

If you drag Pegman over one of the blue dots, you get to see a preview of a photo taken at that location.

Then if you drop Pegman onto one of the blue dots, you will be able to view that image in our photo browser, which will let you navigate further into neighbouring pictures.

The photos you can explore this way are the same as those that you can find in the Maps photo layer, giving you a full interactive tour. It’s also a great way to explore images taken from places in out-of-the-way locations – say, the top of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park.

Dragging Pegman onto a photo is another handy way to see all the types of images available in Google Maps. So go ahead and let Pegman be your tourguide to parks, forests, lakes and more.

Posted by Dennis Tell, Software Engineer, Google Zurich

According to the Windows Team Blog, Microsoft has begun rolling out its much anticipated Wave 4 revision of its popular Hotmail cloud-based webmail service. Slowly but surely, users will begin seeing the new features. The upgrade will take place over the course summer. There is no word as to…