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Five Hacks for Google Command Line

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Google Command Line

The folks over at Lifehacker compiled five really handy Google command line tricks. If you remember, the Geeks mentioned Google released the command line tool a few days ago.

The Lifehackers show you how to use your Google command line as a Google Docs backed up text editor, how to quickly add events to Google Calendar in plain English, how to upload a folder of images to Picasa, how to upload a video to YouTube and how to backup your Google content (including Docs, Contacts and Photos).

Really cool stuff!

GoogleCL is Command Line Tool for Google Services

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For you command-line junkies out there who would like to interact with your Google services in a likewise manner, your prayers have been answered. GoogleCL (Google Command Line) lets you interact with Blogger, Calendar, Contacts, Docs, Picasa and YouTube.

Now you can do things like:

google calendar add “Lunch with Jim at noon tomorrow”

or

google youtube post –category Education killer_robots.avi

There are tarballs available as well as a .deb for Debian. For Mac and Windows, you’ll have to go offsite, but that’s possible too. You can get more info on the wiki page for the project.

Google Pacman Helpdesk Call

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Remember when Google updated their home page to look like a Pac Man game as a tribute to Pac Man’s 30th anniversary? Well, a lady decided to call support to get help on removing the Pac Man game from her “homepage”. I love it when the lady asked “how many calls did you get on that one?” to only be answered by the support guy, “this is actually the first one we got.”

Brian, the support tech on the call, deserves a “Real Men of Genius” Bud Light ad spotlight for holding it together.

Check out the phone call after the jump…
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Google completes roll-out of new Search Engine Index, Caffeine

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Caffeine, Google’s codeword for the latest incarnation of their search engine, has been in slow rollout mode for almost a year now. Today, Google announced that the migration is complete and now their entire search engine index is ‘caffeinated’ so to speak.

Google claims a twofold increase in speed (how long it takes to return search results) and indexes even more of the Web. Caffeine now pays greater attention to newer results such as news and real-time updates especially facing down an age of Twitter and Facebook. The symbolic image of the difference between the old and new indexes is particularly telling.

Caffeine vs Old Google Index

Some amazing statistics on the aptly-named Caffeine (which will presumably only keep growing) include:

  • processes hundreds of thousands of pages per second
  • takes up over 100M GB of storage (that’s roughly 100 followed by 15 zeroes bytes or 100,000,000,000,000,000 bytes!)
  • Adds new information at a rate of 100,000s GB per day

New Gmail Lab lets you see Maps of addresses embedded in e-mails

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Gmail has long had an automatic link to a map to the right of the e-mail if it detected an address in the body. But now, there’s a new Gmail Lab called “Google Maps previews in mail” that will let you preview the map right in the body of the e-mail.

Preview Maps in Gmail

It takes a few seconds to load, but it seems quicker than either clicking that automatic link or copying & pasting the address into a separate Google Maps window.

Gmail Labs rolls out Message Sneak Peek and Nested Labels

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gmail nested labelsMore Gmail Labs goodies. First up is the Message Sneak Peek which when enabled, lets you preview a message without having to open them first. There is either a keyboard shortcut (‘h’) or you can right-click. Strangely enough, this only worked in Firefox for me and not Chrome.

Next is the much desired and anticipated Nested Labels which mimics hierarchical folders in traditional e-mail and file systems. Although already offered in extensions like Better Gmail, many folks wanted it built-in and/or offered directly by Google, as the extensions tended to break from time to time when Gmail was updated.

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