Yannick Stucki's Blog

New Google Desktop Article

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:42:34 PDT

While creating the Movies Gadget I had a lot of work to do with lists and scrollbars. That's why I wrote an article about it for the knowledge base.It was pretty cool that I could announce it on the Official Google Desktop APIs Blog

Movies Gadget v.1 released

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:22:36 PDT

As some of you might have already seen (on my page or on Googlified) I've released a new Gadget for Google Desktop which lets you see the most popular movies playing in a cinema near you. Kai from Google helped me with the design and I can't thank him enough because else it would never look as good. He also came up with the idea of a "mosaic view" to watch movie posters. To switch between views,

New Google Blog: Desktop API

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:34:50 PDT

Google is throwing a lot of blogs out there lately. Now there is a Google Desktop API blog, to help the coder community. Good idea in my opinion. They also want to extend the knowledge base and Teo made the start with this interesting article.

Movies Gadget prototype for you to test.

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:02:29 PDT

Long time no post and long time no gadget, but I worked hard on my new gadget: MoviesIt's not finished yet (both missing some features and having some bugs), but you can still try it out and give me some feedback if you wish.Download it here.When steve jobs was praising their own movies widget yesterday, I experienced a deja-vu, since mine has a lot of similarities. And before everyone starts to

More news from Google Desktop

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:40:05 PDT

Yesterday, Google released a mac version of Google Desktop. As I don't have a mac, I can't say much about it. It doesn't have gadgets either (yet), though I am sure there will be soon other versions out (as for windows, where it currently is v.5).So, as time passes on, this mac version probably will be become more and more functions...Google also created a Developers' Hall of Fame for all the

New Google Desktop 5

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:22:11 PST

I recently started blogging at Googlified and my first post is about the new Google Desktop. Read it here

Homepage update

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:51:26 PST

Hey everyone, I haven't posted in a while, nor done anything. I haven't even updated my old page with the new gadget "Mind Cloud", although it's not even that new anymore. But now, I gave the homepage a new design. I hope you'll like it. If you are new here, just subscribe to the blog and you'll always know when something new happens.Enjoy the new design!

Youtube Results in Google Video

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:34:28 PST

I dunno how long this is live, but I just noticed that if you search for videos on Google video, you also get Youtube results... This is the first step on interaction between those two video platforms owned by Google. I haven't seen any Google Videos on Youtube yet...maybe we can see this in the future.I think this is very cool, since now I can use Google Video also search the huge Youtube

Mind Cloud Wikipedia Google Custom Search Statistics

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:34:28 PST

Wow, long title;) Google lately released a new feature, so you could watch your CSE (Custom Search Engine) stats... apparantly all major blogger about Google that posted screenshots didn't have a CSE running with more than 20 hits, so there wasn't a nice graph to be seen. Well, I don't have a huge one either, but this few 100 hits is better than nothing.It's from people who search wikipedia

Happy Holidays with Google Desktop

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:34:34 PST

Besides Google Desktop 4.5 being released in addition 27 languages they also feature now cool holiday Gadgets!Check them out, there are sweet Christmas trees, count downs and more.I am also happy to see, that some of my friends (Teo, Catalin and Bijoy) made their own gadgets.Thanks a lot guys and merry Christmas

Google with 2 mapping deals - aquisation in my city

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:38:30 PST

Today, there is again lots to be said about Google. Besides their deal with NASA about real time weather, better maps for Mars and Moon and some other cool stuff to come they also aquired the Swiss company Endoxon.Endoxon is based in Lucerne (This is where I live - really exciting) and they also created the site: http://maps.search.chThis is kind of a Google Maps for Switzerland only, so it has

Google Web Tookit gets open source

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:36:25 PST

The open source movement got a new and interesting project today. Google announced that GWT will be completely open source. What a huge step. I really loved this, because I believe in the power of open source. It makes sense to share code with each other to make itself better.BTW. Google Gadgets as I create them are mostly also open source. So if you want to get started and code one, you can

Google Desktop SDK gets cleaner

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:33:26 PST

For all Google Desktop lovers (or those who will be soon) who didn't dare yet to create their own gadget they now get an additional chance: Google Desktop SDK updated and is now cleaner and gives you an easier overview. Also the offline SDK for download is new.So, don't wait anymore; get started and code.Check out the new SDK

Gmail just did it AGAIN!

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:30:40 PST

As if it were not enough... Google's Gmail just ownes the rest of the free emailers out there once more.You can now (or soon, depending on your account) fetch up to 5 pop3 accounts - this basically makes a thunderbird or outlook out of your gmail. On top of that, it makes switching to gmail (which I highly recommend) easier than ever before.Techcrunch reports more on the quietly launched

Google Reader Firefox Extension

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:53:54 PST

This Firefox extension is really cool: It shows your unread Items in your Google Reader and makes Google "Reading" much easier.I hope that some kind of alert will be integrated into Google Talk directly, but until then the extension will do.

Fishtank Refilled Christmas Edition!

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:45:02 PST

Hey everyone, advent is coming and Fishtank Refilled will include an advent calendar. So basically, every day of advent, a new item will be in the tank. If you have items to send me (pictures, or better drawings). Feel free to email them. Thanks a lot and I hope I can include your pic!Here is a little screenshot showing the first day: (If it's not advent for you yet, you'll have to wait a few

Mind Cloud - New Google Gadget

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:43:35 PST

There is a new Google Gadget by me. It's called Mind Cloud (download). You can brainstorm by typing into the text field and get real time related content (through Google Suggest) .It's also fun to do this with a friend and see his content and yours at once (click on the speech bubble). You can also use those queries to quickly search Google or Wikipedia. If you click on a keyword in the cloud,

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:44:48 PST

Google Docs & Spreadsheets InterviewThis (mp3) interview about Google Docs & Spreadsheet is really interesting. Just listen to it...They also mention how people like blogging using Google D&S, so I just tried this myself with this post. Therefore, if you read this, it worked well:)

Google News Sitemaps available

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:26:41 PST

Today, Google released Sitemaps for Google News. That means that if your page is indexed by Google News, you can tell them what parts of the website you want to include and what not. Looks like you have perfect control now, so you can protect your content.If you think Google News is bad for you (you might ask why someone thinks free traffic is bad, but some people will never learn), you can

How does the next iPod look like?

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:48:49 PST

That's a big question; does it still have the click wheel or not? Well, new patent fillings from Apple suggest that every user can choose what he wants for his iPod, or his Laptop.This is a really interesting article about it. Just amazing, those ideas.

Search Engines Unite in using Sitemaps

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:30:11 PST

Today, all the three major search engines announced that they are all going to use the sitemap protocol developed by Google. They have a common site for this: sitemaps.orgThis is a really interesting announcement and it's making SEO easier for webmasters.Btw, funny how the search engines announced it:"Yahoo, Google and Microsoft join forces (really !!) behind Sitemaps" (Yahoo)"Microsoft, Google,

YAY, new Google Desktop

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:44:48 PST

For all Google Desktop lovers: A new version is out: It's called GD 4.5. And the new sidebar is tranparent and looks super cool:) It's awesome just see it yourself here.It makes also the older Gadgets look cooler, just download it and you'll see. This is always nice to see for us Gadgets developers how GD keeps improving. + On top of that, it's now Vista compatible so u won't have to use the

Google Apps for your Domain supports Starting Pages

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:38:01 PST

Google Apps for your Domain supports now starting pages. To set up your own one, get started here.It's really easy to use, I made one too. Check it out

New Gmail features!

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:47:05 PST

Gmail is again rolling out new features: And they will never stop doing it. That's what we all love about it. Yesterday, I wrote about Yahoo trying to catch up, but when they get there, Gmail will already be miles ahead.You can read about the five new features here.

Yahoo continuing to copy Gmail?

noreply@blogger.com (Yannick) — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:54:17 PST

Znet reports something really interesting about Yahoo Mail embedding IM and mail. That's what gmail already does for quite a while. The catch for Yahoo users. It will take another "few months". Well, why waiting I would say....