30/03/2010 12:17:49
It’s very hard to find a Chinese (or Japanese) input method which supports Azerty keyboards.
By default most of the input methods use a Qwerty layout, in fact I couldn’t find a single one
which supports Azerty out of the box. It’s strange that even Google doesn’t support us.
While there is no option to select the keyboard layout in the Google IME,
it’s possible to manually change the layout to Azerty. The procedure is more or less
the same for all versions of Windows. (Windows 2000 and up that is).
6/03/2008 11:14:14
Google finally released a Contact API.
It allows you to access your contact or authenticate users using their Google ID.
You can read more about it in
this blog entry or take a look at the
Contact API page.
13/02/2008 1:15:49
Google is probably one of the biggest SOA providers in the world,
offering a broad range of services to the public and making them
accessible through a set of
well defined API's. The developers at Google are
always open to questions, ready to help you implement software using their API.
Here's a list of some of the most frequently used services provided by Google
This list is by no means complete, but there are API's available for nearly all of the above.
There is one API though that has always been missing: An API to manage contacts.
We have contacts in
GMail,
Google Docs,
Google Talk, etc... but no way to access or modify
them through a well defined API. At first I figured it was simply a matter of time, but endless
searches on the internet, didcussions in the mailing lists and questions to the developers have
led me to believe the problem is bigger than simply a lack of time.
The odd thing is that while the developers are usually very willing to answer just about
any question, they are very evasive when it comes down to answering questions about
the posibility of a contact API or the reason why it doesn't exist yet. Asking questions
about how certain sites such as
Facebook and
LinkedIn have the ability to access your
GMail contacts doesn't help either. The answer you'll get is simple:
It's a valid question, but I can only say that
there is no supported way to access GMail contacts at this time.
I really wonder what the problem is. I believe the addition of a contact API can
be a very important factor for individuals or small companies who want to move away
from lets say Microsoft Exchange and don't have the resources to deploy a similar solution
on Linux. (Yes Linux is free, that doesn't mean it doesn't come at a price).
24/01/2008 12:08:02
There's a new group for the GData.NET project.
Until now messages were posted to the general group for the GData API.
So if you are a user of the .NET client libraries who wants to know about
new features and updates, please subscribe
here. (
gdata-dotnet-client-library)
4/12/2007 20:01:08
Google just added the ability to assign colours to labels in GMail.
They seem to think it's a big deal but personally I'm not to happy
with the whole label system. I especially hate the "All mail" label and
how it's translated to IMAP access.
Anyway, read the official Google blog for more information.
31/10/2007 1:35:04
It's no secret that, even though I'm a mac fan, I really like
Windows Live Writer. I consider it to be the perfect desktop
blogging tool. The ability to create your own plug-ins makes it even better.
It's also no secret that I'm a Google fan (some might hate me for it...),
so I decided to create a plug-in which allows me to insert images
from my Picasa Web Album (or any other Picasa Web Album) with just
a few mouse clicks, from within the Windows Live Writer user interface.
To show you what it can do, I uploaded a demo video to Youtube.
As you can see from the video, inserted images are first class objects
which can be updated at any given time. It's also possible to add
multiple images from various
Picasa Web Albums.
The plug-in is licensed under the GPL (version 2) and can be downloaded
from
http://wlwgoogleimageselector.googlecode.com. At the time of
writing there is no downloadable package, but you can check out the
source code from the subversion repository. Please note this is still
an alpha version and that it may (
and probably does) contain a few bugs.
Suggestions are always welcome and if you need help installing
the plug-in, feel free to contact me. (
I'm sure you'll figure out how.)
Finally, if someone can suggest a good blogging tool for Mac OS, please do.
24/10/2007 10:58:32
Various sites are reporting that Google is now offering
IMAP support for their GMail accounts.
This is great news, in fact... when combined with
Google Apps (custom configuration for your domain),
Google Services are now the perfect replacement for
a Microsoft Exchange server... think about it.
I've tried enabling IMAP on my account, but it would
appear I don't have access yet. Guess I'll have to wait a while?
Sources:
Downloadsquad.com
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19/10/2007 16:38:25
The
Google Data API SDK for .NET has just been updated.
This version (1.1.1.0) includes a few fixes amongst which a
Google Calendar fix that caused me a few headaches over the last few days.
A few new features have been added as well. Most importantly (
for me),
they've added an
EventId property to the
EventEntry class. This will save me
the effort of parsing the
atomID URI, something which resulted in ugly code.
The funny thing is, I only reported my Calendar API problem this morning :-)
The latest version of the library, including samples and documentation can
be downloaded from the
Google-GData project site.
9/10/2007 22:39:05
Google
just informed the world that it has acquired
Jaiku.
Personally I love the idea and I hope they'll implement the ability
to replace current Jaiku accounts with Google ID's.
But Google still doesn't provide a contact API :(
4/10/2007 17:37:42
Google has released an update to their
.NET calendar API libraries today.
Since I'm using the libraries in a few projects, I decided to create a diagram
of the Calendar API object model.
(
You can get the full sized version right here)
I added commonly used classes and their direct parent. If you're developing
Google API applications using .NET, please let me know so we can share :-)