I’ve been back from Iceland for two weeks now, but Google Translate is still in Icelandic. Any ideas on how to fix this? Other Google services appear to have reverted to English again.
Spotted on google.com: people searches return rich contact data in autosuggest box:
Predictably, it only works for people with Google+ data.
Turns out that selecting that option and pressing return doesn’t navigate to aaronpareki.com, or even a Google+ page, but adds a weird state indicator and a “this option does not exist” warning:
(just in case anyone’s wondering, the reason I was searching was to attempt to reproduce this)
For anyone else reading @baconmeteor’s talk wondering how to see how Google targets ads at you, the URL is google.com/settings/ads
#TIL there’s a URL-based API for Google street view. Spent this afternoon making a tool for automating hyperlapses with it developers.google.com/maps/documentation/streetview
Chrome users: I added installation instructions for #weave, as Google demands payment for submission to the Web App Store and makes it difficult for you to the run software you want to run. Fortunately they’re fine with you dragging+dropping the extension in. Hopefully that makes things easier!
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John Nye:
@BarnabyWalters last time I used mozilla it was poor experience (2011), but validation of extensions was a manual process by someone.
John Nye:
@BarnabyWalters last time I used mozilla it was poor experience (2011), but validation of extensions was a manual process by someone.
.@john_nye all the stores I’ve submitted extensions to do manual reviews. Mozilla:
- gives two review options (fast and slow),
- runs loads of automated tests in a web interface to suggest things to fix,
- gives you the choice of which review to use, and creates a public URL from which the extension can be installed while the review’s in process
Safari and Opera have fairly basic, boring forms for uploading stuff, and are extremely picky and unclear about exact image sizes for screenshots and icons. There’s also no “review in progress” page, but otherwise acceptable.
Obviously I’ve not been able to actually submit an extension to the Chrome store, but I’d hope that it’s a damned good experience for $5. If they are doing automatic reviews, then the price becomes even more counter-intuitve. If they’ve automated it, surely it’s cheaper and quicker for them?
Jack Way.Jack Way no other extension store (mozilla, apple, opera) demands payment, or requires it for verification. Also, Mozilla offers a far superior extension upload experience. Google has no excuse :)
Google demands developers pay them $5 for the privilege of letting people put extensions on the Chrome Store.
I think not.
I love it when there’s lots of snow on the ground. It enables us to see in (blurry) 4D.
And I get to draw googly eyes on all the bins.
If you traverse google street view in the opposite direction the camera was going, you're going back in time