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Search improvements made by Google this week
This week’s enhancements include:
Locking SafeSearch now in 39 languages
Last November, we announced the option to password protect your SafeSearch setting and filter out sexually explicit web sites and images from your search results. While no filter is 100% accurate, SafeSearch Lock helps you avoid content you may prefer not to see or would rather your [...]
Prototyping with Sketchflow
I remember teaching user interface design courses back in the mid-nineties. In those courses there was a slide entitled “Rapid Prototyping,” and on that slide were all the reasons why rapid prototyping was a bad idea. Most of the reasoning centered around prototyping tools being so complex back then, they needed to be operated by [...]
What’s new in Google Apps?
Today’s update includes a handful of experimental features, a bunch from third-party developers and one that lets you build new features yourself. Enjoy!
Fast new windows in Gmail
Working with email in a single window can slow you down, so throughout Gmail there are places where you can launch what you’re doing into a new window and [...]
Google improves integration between Buzz and Gmail
When you participate in a conversation in Google Buzz, we bring that post to your inbox so it’s easy to keep up with the discussion. But we’ve heard loud and clear that buzz in your inbox can get noisy — we feel it too, so today we’re launching two features to help with this:
1) Settings [...]
How to check if an element is empty in jQuery
See the code snippet below to see how you can check if an element is empty when using jQuery:
if ($(‘#keks’).html()) {
//Nothing found
;}
8 weird Android apps
So you told your boss that you bought your Android smartphone so that you could track your business calls, be more effective when traveling for your company, have easy access to Gmail and keep your organization’s Twitter feed current. But we know what’s really going on — you got that smartphone because it was cool [...]
How to Correctly Use ToggleClass in jQuery
See the code below to see how to use ToggleClass in jQuery:
//Toggle class allows you to add or remove a class
//from an element depending on the presence of that
//class. Where some developers would use:
a.hasClass(‘blueButton’) ? a.removeClass(‘blueButton’) : a.addClass(‘blueButton’);
//toggleClass allows you to easily do this using
a.toggleClass(‘blueButton’);
How to clone an element in jQuery
See the code example below to clone an element when you are using jQuery:
var cloned = $(‘#somediv’).clone();
App scripts for Google Docs
The Google Apps team here in New York City is a hotbed of movie fanatics. But while planning a recent movie night, we realized we spend too much time organizing our events and not enough time discussing, debating and watching movies.
To take the hard work out of planning, we turned to Google Apps Script, which [...]