Google Cloud for Microsoft Office

by: Local Find - February 28th, 2011   Filed under: Google, News, Videos 2 Comments

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Teach your old docs new tricks with Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office. Google Cloud Connect is a free plugin that improves Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 on Windows PCs. It adds simultaneous collaboration, revision history, cloud sync, unique URLs and simple sharing to the Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint applications.

Google Cloud Editing

Simultaneous editing for Word, PowerPoint and Excel files, no document or paragraph locking, Google Docs sharing URLs for each Microsoft Office file, Revision history for Microsoft Office files stored in Google Docs, Offline editing with smart synchronization of offline changes, No Microsoft Office upgrade or SharePoint® deployment is required so now you can get rid of your local sharepoint server.

Google Cloud

Mazda Raceway Using Google Cloud

Mazda Raceway turbocharged collaboration in their workplace using Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, Google Docs and Google Sites. See what happened when they got behind the wheel of high-performance web applications for sharing, gathering and co-editing information. Hear from different employees about how Google Apps lets them work faster than ever.

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Google SketchUp Designing Game Uncharted 2

by: Local Find - February 28th, 2011   Filed under: Google, News, Videos Add Comment

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Art Director Robh Ruppel explains how he used Google SketchUp to help conceptualize the look and feel of the award winning video game Uncharted 2. Google SketchUp is intuative, fun and free for anyone to use. You can model anything you can imagine, redecorate your local living room. Invent a new piece of furniture. Model your local city for Google Earth. There’s no limit to what you can create with Google SketchUp. You can build models from scratch, or you can download what you need.

Google 3D Warehouse

People all over the world share what they have made on the Google 3D Warehouse. There are dozens of video tutorials, an extensive Help Center and a worldwide user community which means that anyone who wants to make 3D models with SketchUp can now do it very easily. You can build models from scratch, or you can download what you need. People all over the world share what they have made on the Google 3D Warehouse.

Google Sketchup Features

Every Google SketchUp model is made up of just two things: edges and faces. Edges are straight lines, and faces are the 2D shapes that are created when several edges form a flat loop. For example, a rectangular face is bound by four edges that are connected together at right angles. To build models in Google SketchUp, you draw edges and faces using a few simple tools that you can learn in a small amount of time. It’s as simple as that.

Extrude any flat surface into a three-dimensional form with Google SketchUp’s patented Push/Pull tool. Just click to start extruding, move your mouse, and click again to stop. You can Push/Pull a rectangle into a box. Or draw the outline of a staircase and Push/Pull it into 3D. Want to make a window? Push/Pull a hole through your wall. SketchUp is known for being easy to use, and Push/Pull is the reason why.

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Google Translate Demo Hungarian Bingo

by: Local Find - February 28th, 2011   Filed under: Google, News, Videos Add Comment

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Watch the video and see how three people run a local bingo game in Hungarian using Google Translate.

Google Translate on iTunes

Google Translate for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad is now on the iTunes store at:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-translate/id414706506?mt=8

Google Translate words and phrases between more than 50 languages using Google Translate for iOS. For most languages, you can speak your phrases and hear the corresponding translations. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later. You can translate a section of text, document or webpage, into another language. It accepts voice input for 15 languages and allows translation of a word or phrase into one of more than 50 languages. Translations can be spoken out loud in 23 different languages.

The new Google Translate app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad is a must-download for every international business traveller. It’s got voice recognition, a button for remarkably fluent computer generated spoken responses in the target language, and an incredibly useful full screen option for showing the translation to the person you are talking to. This app will be revolutionary for business travellers overseas who cannot speak the local language and it can handle 57 languages in text.

Voice recognition works well in 15 languages (including English), and you can have translations spoken aloud in 23. The accent and intonation of the computer generated spoken translations is really impressive excellent tones in Chinese, and good accents in all the other languages we tried.

Google Translate

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Google Earth Enterprise Islington Council

by: Local Find - February 28th, 2011   Filed under: Google, Local Search, News, Videos Add Comment

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The London Borough of Islington uses Google Earth Enterprise to provide a better service to its local residents by being able to make more informed and relevant decisions.

Google Earth Enterprise in Organisations

Google Earth Enterprise helps organisations with imagery and other geospatial data make that information accessible and useful to all employees who need access via an intuitive, fast application. Visualise, explore and understand information on a fully interactive 3D globe or 2D browser based maps. Enable workers to collaborate, improve decision making, and take faster, more informed action based on geospatial information.

Google Earth Enterprise gets rich geo-data to your users with amazing speed and full context. With over 400 million product activations worldwide, Google Earth is a familiar, consumer-tested product that lets users get up and running quickly without extensive training.

Organisations with existing investments in geographic information system (GIS) technology and data realise the full potential of these existing investments by using Google Earth as a cost effective means of making GIS data usable by the organisation’s end users. Google Earth’s technology integrates with your organisation’s current geospatial, GIS and LBS solutions, providing additional value with rich styling, attribute search, multiple hosting options and familiar end user tools. The Google Earth Enterprise solution completes the life cycle of your geospatial operations by distributing GIS data to your users via the fast, easy to use Google Earth Client and Google Maps. Google Earth Enterprise is an enterprise class solution for authoring and serving stand-alone earth databases that includes imagery, terrain, vector and KML data.

Google Earth Massively Scalable

Massively scalable hundreds of daily users can be supported from a single server, thousands from a small cluster. Unparalleled speed patented 3D technology provides fluid game like access to remotely hosted multi-terabyte databases. Compatible with legacy GIS incorporate data in dozens of industry standard raster and vector GIS file formats. The Google Earth Enterprise Solution is comprised of three software elements, Google Earth Enterprise Fusion to store, style, and organise data into a seamless viewable globe or 2D browser based map and Google Earth Enterprise Server to host and stream data to end user software and Google Earth Enterprise Client or Browser-based 2D Maps view for viewing, printing, searching and data authoring.

Google Earth

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Android App Make Android Your Own

by: Local Find - February 26th, 2011   Filed under: Google, News, Videos 2 Comments

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Androidify App which is available for free from the Android Market lets you take the little green Android and turn it into a copy of yourself, or your friends, your family, anyone! Stretch it , shrink it, add a hoody, style its hair, throw on some shades, or even give it a parrot and a pirate hat.

Personalize Android

Once you have made your avatar you can share it with your friends, set it as your local avatar, set it as a photo in your contact book, or use it in some inventive way we have not thought of yet. Have fun, and we can not wait to see what you come up with.

What Can You Do With The New Android App ?

Androidify allows you to create an avatar and personalize it to your likeness and style. Customize skin, hair type & color, tops, bottoms, footwear, eyewear, facial hair and accessories. For a good chuckle you can Randomize an avatar all in good dorky fun. Once complete you can save with your collection in My Androids or via email, social media, save as contacts picture or wallpapers. 

To jump start you there is a virtual tutorial. Otherwise you slide the body parts to desired length or width. Tap the torso or legs to toggle through clothing choices or tap the hanger icon to get a list of options to choose from.

After opening the Androidify app for the first time you are presented with a green Android mascot. Before starting with any specifics, the mascot’s shape can be modified. To do this simply lay your finger on any area, whether it is the head, torso, arms or legs, and move around a bit to adjust the various shapes and sizes.

Select the clothes hanger on the bottom left part of the screen. This will bring up the options for further modification. The bottom bar indicates the various modification sections whereas the left bar shows the different options per section. The sections include skin color, hair type, hair color, shirts, pants, shoes, glasses, facial hair and other peripherals.

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Nexus S Mobile Google Maps

by: Local Find - February 26th, 2011   Filed under: Google, Local Search, News, Videos 2 Comments

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Explore the world in 3D from the palm of your hand using Google Maps 5.0 with Navigation, Places, and Latitude. Zoom, tilt, and rotate the map with two fingers to explore cities in 3D. Orient yourself with compass mode, which automatically rotates the map to the direction you’re facing. Keep viewing the maps you use the most, even if you lose your connection.

Nexus S Local Search

Find local spots like restaurants and ATMs using Places. Then, use Navigation for free turn-by-turn GPS voice guidance with offline rerouting. Google Maps 5.0 looks pretty incredible. It looks even better running on Google’s flagship device, the Nexus S. 

Obviously, the big thing here is the inclusion of 3D buildings but it will also include offline caching which will allow you to view stuff you have already seen, new multitouch gestures, and vector images instead of tiles.

Nexus S has Gingerbread Pre-Installed

Gingerbread builds on some of the most popular Android features like multi-tasking and Wi-Fi hotspot and adds a refreshed user interface, an improved keyboard, near field communication (NFC) support, and more. With Gingerbread, copying and pasting text is easier than ever. Use the new text selection tool to copy and paste when entering text or viewing a webpage.

Gingerbread allows Nexus S to place Internet calls with a SIP account. This allows for enhanced VoIP dialing to other SIP accounts and even phone numbers. Nexus S can function as a Wi-Fi hotspot for up to six portable devices such as laptops or tablets. Once connected, these devices will have access to the Internet. Nexus S has a dedicated Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Playing mobile games, browsing the web, and watching videos are fast, fluid, and smooth. It’s like having a pocket-sized multimedia and game console.

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Google Nexus S and Youtube 2.0 Integration

by: Local Find - February 26th, 2011   Filed under: Google, News, Videos 5 Comments

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The Nexus S smartphone has been updated with the YouTube 2.0 application, with an improved user experience for personalization, high-quality viewing, and captions.

Youtube Entertainment On The Go

More people are watching Youtube videos on the go, and using the latest YouTube app for Android means having millions of videos right in your pocket. So when you go to the local shops you can take the videos with you and have full access. Nexus S is manufactured by Samsung, and it is the first smartphone to launch with a Contour Display. The curved glass screen fits comfortably in the palm of your hand and along the side of your face. A brighter screen with higher contrast means colors are incredibly vibrant, text is crisp at any size, and luminance is up to 1.5x higher than conventional LCD displays.

Take Nexus S outside, there’s 75% less glare than on other smartphone displays. Your videos, pictures and games look their best and the sun won’t wash them out. Nexus S comes pre-installed with the best of Google apps, including Google Search, Google Maps with Navigation (Beta), Mobile Instant, Voice Actions, Gmail, Google Earth, Youtube and more. With Nexus S, be the first to receive upgrades, features and new apps as they become available.

Youtube For Android Redesigned

YouTube for Android has been redesigned to include a personalized home screen feed, in-page playback, and a rotate-for-fullscreen gesture. Nexus S blazing speed makes it easy to browse, play, and upload photos.

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Google Nexus S With Voice Control

by: Local Find - February 24th, 2011   Filed under: Google, News, Videos 8 Comments

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You can talk to your Nexus S smartphone from Google, and it’ll understand. Send texts, get directions, or dial using voice control and lots more. You will see in the video the Nexus S being used by voice to perform a Google local search to get directions so now you can use your mobile to search for just about anything by using your voice.

Google Voice For Nexus S Mobile

The Nexus S comes pre-installed with the best of Google apps, including Google Search, Google Maps with Navigation (Beta), Mobile Instant, Voice Actions, Gmail, Google Earth and more. With Nexus S, be the first to receive upgrades, features and new apps as they become available. Nexus S listens to you. With Voice Actions, press and hold the Search button from anywhere and speak almost anything.

Google For Android Nexus S

The best Google Mobile applications are available for phones that run the Android operating system including the Nexus S. Search Google and your phone’s apps and contacts. Type or speak your query. Instantly message your friends and family using your voice.

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Social Media Policy Facebook Comments

by: Local Find - February 23rd, 2011   Filed under: Social Networks, Videos 1 Comment

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A Social Media Policy is the process of creating guidelines that respect the rights of your employees while protecting your brand online while your employess are using Social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

Should Your Company Have a Social Media Policy?

“Companies are realizing that people are talking about them whether they like it or not. As a result, they’re deciding whether they should consider having a social media presence, and hence, a policy. A social media policy outlines for employees the corporate guidelines or principles of communicating in the online world.”

Social Media Comments

This was highlighted recently when a Police Officer listed on his Facebook page that his occupation was “Human Waste Disposal” forcing a reaction from his employer and a total review of the city’s Social Media Policy. This also extends to schools and the interactions of teachers with their students on Social Networks.

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Power Ranger Brand to Engage Social Media

by: Local Find - February 23rd, 2011   Filed under: Social Networks, Videos 1 Comment

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Elie Dekel, president of Saban Brands, talks about the repurchase of the Power Rangers franchise from Walt Disney Co. and Saban’s strategy to revitalize the brand. Dekel, speaking with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television’s “In the Loop,” also discusses Saban’s acquisition strategy (Source: Bloomberg). Power Rangers is a long-running American entertainment and merchandising franchise built around a live action children’s television series featuring teams of costumed heroes.

The Benefits Of Social Media

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Saban Brands To Use Social Media

Watch the video below and see how Saban Brands are planning to use Social Media to revitalise the Power Rangers brand.

Power Rangers Social Media

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