Google announced their new Font API yesterday, including a font directory and preview tool. They teamed up with TypeKit, to build and open source the WebFont Loader.

I quite like how they have done it. You just hotlink the CSS right from Google and then reference the font names in the CSS. It’s really easy — view source on this demo.

Why do this? Isn’t this just @font-face? Yep it is just @font-face, which you can do yourself without Google’s help. But there are advantages:

1. Bandwidth savings (weight is on Google)
2. Caching speed (same font used on multiple sites, browser cache kicks in)
3. Speed in general (Google’s CDN is faster than your site)

Loading the extra CSS file is an extra HTTP Request though, but you could hotlink the font fileno support for iPhone/iPad. instead. You may also want to download the font and create your own SVG version, because the Google stylesheets aren’t serving that up, and hence

So what is this WebFont Loader then? It’s a bit of JavaScript which handles the loading of fonts. It’s use is totally optional, but offers some advantages. For example, Firefox will display a font further down the font stack until an @font-face font is loaded, and then flip to the @font-face font when it is ready, causing reflow and general weirdness. It’s called FOUT (Flash of unstyled text). The WebFont Loader can help fight this. This link helps
http://paulirish.com/2010/details-on-the-new-google-webfont-api/

Improved comment collapsing for Google Buzz posts

Official Gmail Blog: Improved comment collapsing for Google Buzz posts: "Any Google Buzz post can turn into a lively discussion. Sometimes these conversations can gather lots of new comments very quickly, turning them into 'skyscraper' posts that can dominate your entire screen, especially if you don't check Buzz for a few days. We've heard from many of you that these big posts can be a lot to skim over."

Google Labs SMS Channel

A free service available, only for Indian Mobile subscribers right now, enables one to subscribe to Google channels and get updates on various services like blogger, reader or any RSS feed. There are quite a few channels available at present giving updates about NEWS, weather, sports, tech trends, fashion, etc.

What is a Channel exactly?

A channel is just like a magazine which you can subscribe to and get the content on your mobile. The content can be subscribed by the channel owner or also by all the subscribers based on the channel settings. A channel generally fetches information from Google services like groups, reader, mails and also from any type of RSS feed.

As a subscriber you can subscibe to channels and thats not all, you can create your own channels and invite others.

Technical123 has its own channel which will keep you updated of all the posts that come of technical123 blog. Subscribe to the service today

For more information visit : http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels/help?cr=in#create_channel

 

Google Ajax Api Playground

Google has introduced for developers a new way to try their ajax api's here : Google AJAX API Playground.

The Google AJAX API Playground is built on Google App Engine, and the code is open-sourced under an Apache 2.0 license

http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/

Creating a Rich User Experience with Ajax

Presenters -- Web Guild

Incorporated AJAX is enabling the creation of applications with better functionality, usability, and an overall better user experience. This panel will discuss how desktop-like applications can be delivered via the browser with Ajax, the efficiency of developing such applications, and the importance of the GUI. They will also share their thoughts on highly successful applications and the shortcomings of using Ajax.

What Every Web Programmer Needs To Know About Security

Contains
Foundations of Security
secure design principles
common web application vulnerabilities
an introduction to cryptography
and much more



http://code.google.com/edu/submissions/daswani/index.html

Linux (Google code Documentation)

Basic Linux Commands
Linux Ownership and Permissions
Text Processing with Grep

Software Configuration Management

This tutorial covers a tool commonly found in industry to support the software development process
http://code.google.com/edu/tools101/scm.html

MYSQL (Google code documentation)

Software engineers are most effective when programming with the assistance of tools, such as debuggers or IDEs. Below you will find tutorials that introduce some well-known and indispensible tools:

http://code.google.com/edu/tools101/mysql.html

Browser security reference

This is reference to key security properties of contemporary web browsers. Insufficient understanding of these often poorly-documented characteristics is a major contributing factor to the prevalence of several classes of security vulnerabilities.

http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Main

google finance currency converter

http://www.google.com/finance/converter?a=3300&from=USD&to=INR

Google Side wiki Launched

Google launched Google Sidewiki

Google Sidewiki is a browser sidebar that lets you contribute and read information alongside any web page.

http://www.google.com/sidewiki

Google Fast Flip

New experiment from Google Labs

http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/

Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics

Google chrome version 3 relased

Google release the chrome browser version 3

http://www.google.com/chrome

Google Launches “Google Internet Stats”

Google Launches “Google Internet Stats”

http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats/

Google has pulled together a bunch of statistics throughout the web and created a small landing page named Google Internet Stats on the Google UK . The page explains that this service “brings together the latest industry facts and insights together in one place.” Google collected this data from many third party vendors, on a wide range of topics

Official Google Blog: New tools for Google Services for Websites

Official Google Blog: New tools for Google Services for Websites