News : What’s New in Google Accessibility | Episode 4 | American Sign Language !

News : Google new online game .

Look for 25 of the most-searched people, places and things of all time, hidden in our Most Searched Playground. Play now.

The idea is to Uncover 25 of the most searched people, places, and moments from the past 25 years.

News : Google trending in 2023.

I was born in Romania, and I will stay here for a long time, especially in Falticeni when I arrived a few years ago.

See what was trending in 2023 - in my country Romania:

• The times of the year
• Cutremur
• Chat GPT
• Rona Hartner
• Israel Gaza conflict
• Iphone 15

News : Changes in Google BARD.

You can test BARD on the official google webpage.

This is a short video from google youtube official channel.

Last news:

2023.11.21

Expanding Bard’s understanding of YouTube videos

What: We're taking the first steps in Bard's ability to understand YouTube videos. For example, if you’re looking for videos on how to make olive oil cake, you can now also ask how many eggs the recipe in the first video requires.

Why: We’ve heard you want deeper engagement with YouTube videos. So we’re expanding the YouTube Extension to understand some video content so you can have a richer conversation with Bard about it.

News : Chart with sizes values from Google Drive.

Visual data representation in graphical format can solve many of today's issues.

Here is a tutorial with a Google Apps Script script that allows you to view the size of the files in Google Drive in Chart Pie format and modify it.

You can find more tutorials about Google Apps Script on my Google site.

Let's see the source code:

function generateDriveUsageReportPie() {
  var drive = DriveApp.getRootFolder();
  var files = drive.getFiles();

  var data = [['Nume Fișier', 'Dimensiune (KB)']];
  
  while (files.hasNext()) {
    var file = files.next();
    var fileSizeBytes = file.getSize();
    var fileSizeKB = fileSizeBytes / 1024; // Convertim dimensiunea în KB
    data.push([file.getName(), fileSizeKB]);
  }

  // open Google Sheet
  var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  var sheet = spreadsheet.getSheetByName('Drive Usage Report');
  if (!sheet) {
    sheet = spreadsheet.insertSheet('Drive Usage Report');
  }

  // clean sheet
  sheet.clear();

  // write values
  sheet.getRange(1, 1, data.length, data[0].length).setValues(data);

  // clean charts from Google Sheets
  var charts = sheet.getCharts();
  for (var i = 0; i < charts.length; i++) {
    sheet.removeChart(charts[i]);
  }

  // create and add the Pie Chart with all values
  var chart = sheet.newChart()
    .asPieChart()
    .setTitle('Utilizare Google Drive')
    .addRange(sheet.getRange(2, 1, data.length - 1, 2))  // Exclude header row
    .setPosition(5, 1, 0, 0)
    .setOption('title', 'Utilizare Google Drive')
    .setOption('legend', {position: 'top'})
    .build();

  sheet.insertChart(chart);

  Logger.log('Raport generat cu succes.');
}

Here is the result obtained:

It is obvious that human interface and design are closely related. The law obliges us to a specific design for displaying Google ads.

Beginning January 16, 2024, Google will require all publishers serving ads to EEA and UK users to use a Google-certified Consent Management Platform (CMP). You can use any Google-certified CMP for this purpose, including Google's own consent management solution. If you are interested in using Google's consent management solution, start by setting up your GDPR message.

This message indicates that your website currently lacks a Google-certified Consent Management Platform (CMP) for GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). As a result, your sites will cease to display AdSense ads and receive AdSense revenue for traffic from the European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom (UK) in accordance with Google's EU user consent policy.

Using the second option from google settings will set GDPR message by goodle adsense ...

Use Google's CMP in AdSense: If you prefer, you can use the CMP provided by Google directly in AdSense to create your GDPR message. Like the first option, this will help you remain GDPR compliant.

You can see in the next image how the message that will be the protagonist of this new implementation will look like:

News : Gogle comes with Project IDX.

Google comes with idx.dev.

Project IDX starts with a web-based workspace that'll feel familiar for coding but fresh. And we're just at the beginning of this journey. We'd love your input as we work to make application development better.

Project IDX makes it easier to start building an app that works across multiple platforms using a variety of templates for popular frameworks, such as Angular, Next.js, React, Svelte, and Flutter, with Python and Go support coming soon. You can also import your existing applications from GitHub, with support for most tech stacks.

News : ... the new GMail design from Google.

Take your email game to the next level! With mail merge through Google Sheets and custom layouts in Gmail, you can easily personalize your messages and make a lasting impression ...

Shader Editor mobile application.

This android application from google play lets you create shaders and use them like wallpapers for your phone.

The application is named Shader Editor and can be found on the Google Play website.

News : Geographical-Adventures game.

A little work-in-progress geography game about delivering packages to different countries around the world.

This intro come from the GitHub project page.

Today the author of this project build with Unity game engine come with new video:

News : Noto emoji ...

In 1999 — back when Snake 🐍 was the best thing about your phone 📱 — there were three phone carriers in Japan 🗾 . On these phones were tiny, beautiful pictures called emoji (meaning “picture” and “character” in Japanese 🥰). These 176 images were very simple — think 8-bit tech — and as a result were exquisitely abstract and tremendously useful when texting ✨ Twenty years later 👶🕛🕐🕑🕒🕓🕔🕕🕖🕗🕘🕙🕚🧓, emoji are a global phenomenon 🌎. Now, our phones have fancy retina screens and somewhere along the way an important part of what made emoji so handy was left by the wayside: their simplicity. That’s why we’ve created a new emoji font: a monochrome Noto Emoji (a black and white companion to Noto Emoji Color).

See this article on the google webpage.

News : Poly was shut down ...

Poly was shut down on June 30, 2021. What does this mean for you? The ability to download assets was disabled on June 30, 2021. The ability to upload new 3D models on poly.google.com was disabled on April 30, 2021.

See the official website from Google.

News : $140,000 USD in prizes by Core Games.

Enter the Core Invitational game dev competition from July 29 to August 30 with $140,000 USD in prizes, including a grand prize Tesla Model 3! Visit https://invitational.coregames.com to download and create for free today!

Core is the easiest way to build, host, and run multiplayer games and worlds.

This team provide all you need to build a game from assets, servers, and all the code needed to get your first game built and published in minutes.

You can see more on the youtube official channel.

News : Paint With Music from Google Arts & Culture.

What if you can hear your painting? Turn your paint brush into musical instruments and compose on sensorial canvases!

, see this online tool here.

The Google Arts & Culture is a non-profit initiative with cultural institutions and artists around the world.

Firebase and Unity 3D.

Even is an old feature the Google team comes with this new option for the new developers and show how to use them.
The goal is to add Firebase to your Unity project.
The Google webpage tells us:
Power up your Unity games with our Firebase Unity SDKs. To show how easy it is to plug Firebase into your Unity project, we made a sample game, MechaHamster, that you can download from GitHub, the App Store, and the Google Play Store.
... and show a short video about how can be used to create a application named Mecha Hamster, see the GitHub webpage project:
You can import the project with GitHub commands:

https://github.com/google/mechahamster.git
...

The game is pretty funny, see the Youtube channel from Firebase:

The content of the folder downloaded ...

$ ls
Assets   CONTRIBUTING.txt  LICENSE.txt      readme.md  UnityPackageManager
console  docs              ProjectSettings  Resources

Blockly for young programmers.

Blockly is an open source library that makes it easy to add block based visual programming to an app, see the official webpage.
This tool has a good graphics and one great design to understand the flow of programming issue.
This project is good for kids and teenagers to start programming and see the source code into programming languages.
For example, the program build with this tool can be convert into programming language like: Java Script, Python, PHP, Lua and Dart.
You can see a simple video tutorial from the official Google Developers Youtube channel:

Chrome App : Marmoset tool.

The Marmoset is a Chrome App which lets you create gorgeous code snapshots.
This video tutorial let you see how can be used:

Google hidden tools and features.

This tutorial is about Google hidden tools and features.
Many of the tools and online games are hidden in the Google search area.
Open your browser and search this: 10 value spinner.
This will show a spinner and you can test it.
You can find into the bottom of this online tool many features: Flip a coin, Color picker, Rol a die, Metronome, Meditate and Calculator.
This is a screenshot with the 10 values Spinner tool.

Thunkable : Create online mobile applications for iOS and Android.

Thunkable is the platform where anyone can build their own mobile applications for iOS and Android.
This online tool is free to use with a google account.
The Thunkable platform charges a maintenance fee for the use of certain components such as Ads by AdMob and Payment by Stripe.
You can start build your on an app is as simple as dragging and dropping your favorite components and connecting them together with blocks.
Learn how to make your first app from this video from official youtube channel:

News : About Google Design .

Google Design is a cooperative effort led by a group of designers, writers, and developers at Google. We work across teams to create content and produce events that showcase Google’s design work and champion innovators in our field.
This website is a great option to learn and take a look at google design area.
The website share us this infos and data:

• LIBRARY
• NEWS
• RESOURCES
• JOBS
• ABOUT

Because I'm into EMEA easten part area I don't think I will find jobs.
The job area is a redirect to google careers page .
Very good website with news and resources from google team.