Google has updated the clickable area in its text links offering.
Previously, the clickable include the the text link and its surrounding rectangular white space. This has caused some accidental click thereby incurring cost to advertisers. With the new update being rolled out, only the text link becomes clickable minimizing accidental link.
The Google Apps suite is still in beta but a big business consultancy firm named CapGemini closed a partnership with Google. CapGamini’s desktop offering will include SaaS (sofware as a service) value (pdf link) to its clients with the help of Google Apps Premier Edition.
I’ve been a Gmail user for quite some time already. I love the interface and logging in is as secure as I want it to be. However, once a user has provided the correct user name and password, the system redirect the request to a unsecure site for accessing the mails. That’s not good. I don’t know why Google is doing that but I just don’t like my emails being sent as clear-text to and from my terminal.
Recently, I figured out a way to redirect to the secure version of the mail interface. To do that, type https://mail.google.com/mail on your browser’s address bar or click here. Now, your browser will be redirected to an SSL secured version of the mail interface upon a successful login.
Following emerging development in online/offline computing like Adobe’s Apollo platform or Microsoft’s Silverlight platform, Google releases Gears which will allow developers to create applications using JavaScript that will run in offline mode and could synchronize to a remote application (e.g. server application) when available.
Google Gears group writes:
Google Gears allows developers to enhance their AJAX applications to be able to run even when their users are offline. This is the official discussion group for web developers interested in using Google Gears in their applications.
Google Gears provides application programming interface (APIs) for offline application access and data storage (using SQLlite). Licensed: BSD
More on Google Gears
Whew! After months of on and off blogging, Google finally gaved me a PR 3 rating today(? not so sure about the exact index update). I used to have a PR0 rating so I guess having a PR3 is a big jump.
Source: PRChecker.info
Thank you very much Google for that wonderful 3/10! Most importantly, thank you to all the incoming links and blog readers.