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Google Dashboard and preferred language issue

November 6th, 2009

Well that’s annoying…one thing Google doesn’t do intelligently is languages. I am logged into my account, they KNOW I speak English as a preferred language, but when I go to my iGoogle [google.com] page on my iPhone whilst I’m in Belgium it insists on displaying everything in Dutch.

That was annoying enough…but now the dashboard is doing the same, even when I visit the page from my laptop.

Google, you KNOW I speak English, stop overriding my account setting for my language with demographic data based on my IP address. When I’m traveling it doesn’t make me fluent in the local language…

*slaps the company on the nose with a rolled up newspaper* Bad Google, bad bad portal!

– Pete. (c) Comment

That’s one of the reasons I love Slashdot – proper way of commenting the things! :)

Oh, yeah, about Google Dashboard – yep, it’s quite handy and useful! :)

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Google.Sergey Brin on Android Platform

November 13th, 2007

So far, we have Android SDK at Google Code page and already some integration Plug-ins for Eclipse. An interface is nice and simple.CrunchGear also some videos on the architecture structure of Androids’ internals. How soon will iPhone OS X be replaced by Android, and will it be better then Mac mobile solution?..*/me will wait*

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Forest. Connection established

February 15th, 2007

Wooden Brothers

No matter, how far you live, Google Analytics will find you! :D

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Cyprus at Google Map: just another empty spot

February 11th, 2007

May be it’ll sound a bit weird but at the moment, the globe, and usual hybrid geopolitic map of Cyprus contains more information than Google version of Cyprus. At least it maps where Nicosia, Limassol, Paphos and the other cities are.
It seems that no one from the tourist business valued the power of Google mapping system, which would give a great promotion of Cyprus proprietary companies, or tourist environment. If you want to sell a house, or offer the hotel for summer accommodation – use Google Maps, to identify the location of it.
Up to now, more detailed information about Cyprus is in standalone Google Earth client, but concerning a web version of Google Maps – it suffers tones of info.

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Famous Brands: Apple, Google, and Youtube

January 28th, 2007

Is there anybody who still denies the computerization of the world? The latest results from brandchannel.com proved that those people are the minority, since first positions of the brand’s research are mostly taken by computer companies or the ones which are related to IT market.

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As we can see the breakthroughs of Apple Inc. about moving to Intel based processors and San Francisco conference where Steve Jobs released iPhone moved Apple on the leading positions in the society. Youtube which was bought by 1.6 billion dollars and remains the main video exchange source on the Net. Open encyclopaedia Wikipedia won the sympathies of the public. Google? It’s useless to talk about this giant since every blogger ,at least once, wrote about this company or the services they provide.

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Share your notes with Google Notebook

January 5th, 2007

Google brought to the light another solution of sharing all the notes for people who prefer on-line data storage. If Docs & Spreadsheets were quite massive in order to keep small notes, Google give an ability of storing and sharing small notes with their Google Notebook.

Integrated Firefox extension for Google Notebook allows the users to check their notes right in the web browser, I personally find it more convenient in comparison with Google Desktop with its Scratch Pad. By itself, the idea of taking a part of the screen by Google Desktop is not so handy. The other way of making GDesktop using floated positioning makes the gadgets to be covered with primarily opened window. In this case, GNotebook with its position is more accurate, and it doesn’t overload the desktop with another watches, another winamp controller or some other features in a way not so useful.

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