First released no less than ten years ago, Google’s SketchUp has proved to be a popular and powerful 3D modelling app, with the company claiming that a million people a week are all busy knocking out 3D wotsits with the free software.
During Apple’s press launch event yesterday, Steve Jobs was doing his usual ‘big-up’ routine and bragging about the zillions of iOS devices being activated every day, adding what appeared to be a dig at their main smartphone rival, Google’s Android OS.
If, like us, your inbox is a hideous, sprawling, disorganised mess stuffed full of assorted emails of wildly varying importance, then hope may be at hand courtesy of Google’s new Priority inbox system.
We’re still cruelly starved of this feature over here in Blighty, but Google is reporting that their new integrated Gmail calling feature has proved an almighty hit in the US.
Google has launched its new Realtime Search feature, which serves up real-time, live search results from a wide set of sources.
Google has introduced a new feature that lets US-based Gmail users call residential and mobile phones directly from their web-based email client.
Google has announced that their Google Mobile App for Apple’s iPhone has been upgraded to be push notification compliant.
Google’s hugely popular Calendar service works with with an array of desktop applications and mobile devices including iCal, iPhone and iPad, Blackberry, Android, Nokia/Symbian, and Windows Mobile phones, but a notable absentee was support for Outlook 2010.
Google have taken the wraps off their new and all-enhanced Voice Actions app for the Android mobile operating system, and we reckon we’re seeing a glimpse of what could be the future of mobile phones.
First launched as an experimental app in March this year, Google’s ‘Gesture Search’ app for Android is a fascinating concept, letting users search for anything on their devices by just writing a letter on the touchscreen.
We’ve been mightily underwhelmed by the GMail contacts interface for a long, long timer, so we’re highly chuffified to report that it’s finally had a bit of fairy dust sprinkled over it.
We can’t say it’s something that’s ever crossed our minds, but it seems software engineer Leonid Taycher and his team of boffins at Google were simply burning up over the question of how many books there are in the world.
We were baffled by it. Most users were baffled by it – even after Google had released clever videos that explained what it did – so it comes as no surprise to see that Google is throwing in the towel on its Google Wave experiment.
Although Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos has said that the new Kindle eReader experience is sharply focussed on reading books, the company seems happy to serve up a few distractions on its innovative device, with two free games now being announced.
Like a DIY addict on a long Sunday afternoon, Google continues to polish up the GMail experience and introduce shiny new features, and the company has just announced that it’s bolting on more drag and drop functionality to its phenomenally popular GMail browser-based email client.
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