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Category Archives: Google
Google Earth for Linux Finally Arrives (Beta4)
Downloading now – you can grab yours from the Google Earth Downloads Page, you need to look for Beta 4 on the right hand side.
Playing with Google Trends
Google have a nice new toy called Google Trends – here’s some searches that I’ve come up with that are amusing..
- Wikipedia versus Britannica
- Battle of the Linux Distros (improved by Rich).
- The Coalition of the Willing
- Italian Elections
- Debian versus Ubuntu
- Processors used in VPAC clusters
- Evolution of a web browser
- Scientific American versus New Scientist
- Holy wars!
Fun for all the family!
Configuring KDE’s Kopete for Google Talk
Now that Google Talk is live and is a Jabber service the next question is – how do I connect to it using the KDE Instant Messaging client Kopete ?
It’s dead easy – it’s just another Jabber server with the only restriction that you *must* connect to it via SSL.
So, what you need to do is:
- Go to the
Settings -> Configure Kopetemenu option; - Start the new account wizard with the
Newbutton there; - Click
Nextat the welcome screen to start creating a new account; - Select Jabber as your account type and press
Next; - Enter your Google Mail email address as your
Jabber ID; - Click on the
Connectiontab at the top; - Tick the
Use Protocol Encryption (SSL)option; - Tick the
Override the default server informationoption; - Enter
talk.google.comas your server; - If you are behind a restrictive firewall you can set the port number to 443 (normally used for secure websites)
- You should now have a screen that looks like the image at the end of this article.
At that point you should be ready to hit Next to create the Google Talk Jabber account in Kopete!
Google Goes Psychic
OK, well not quite, but this is fun.. Google has launched a beta version of Google Suggest which analyses what you type and gives suggestions for what you want as you type.
It only gives you a list of 10 suggestions for each word combination you’ve typed, but if it does offer something you are after then you can just select it, and then it’ll give you 10 more (if it thinks there are any).