It was a Google’s week this time .Consecutive announcements were catching people’s attention the whole week. Furthering its efforts, Google this week launched an innovative iPhone interface for the company’s specific and dedicated Picasa photo service.
IPhone and iPod Touch users who quite often reach to the Picasa Web site via the Apple gadgets’ Safari Web browser are now automatically switched to this new iPod dedicated interface .
Once the user has logged in, he can see their photo albums very comfortably and he can easily drill down to get a full composite view of all the pictures, claims Google. It further claims that the Picasa’s slideshow feature has also been specially optimized for the devices like iPod and iPhone.
New features of this innovative interface of Google also include the ability to search for photos in albums or through community photos. This new service has been launched only in English presently. This is the first step and Google will be introducing further multi language features rich applications with ability to switch between the languages in coming days. At present people from other countries and people who do not use English will have to change their language preference manually.
“Now with this innovative introduction people can also view friends’ albums through favorites: says Google’s representative.
Simultaneously, on Wednesday, Google also released an upgrade of the Google toolbar for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. This upgraded toolbar for Internet explorer has many improvements and additional features. Among the new features is the ability to save settings online, so people can access their bookmarks, custom buttons and information saved in the automatic form-filler from any of their computers at home or work, Google’s representative said.
Other new and collaborative features of this toolbar include the ability to add Google Gadgets, which are the company’s brand bearers for its Web widgets. Widgets are small applications that are used to access online services directly through a click. In the case of the toolbar, an example of a Gadget would be the one that can easily perform a product search immediately after a person highlights a name on a Web page.
Google has also built into the internet explorer toolbar its Notebook application that lets users store text and images from sites. Pre-existing features that have been retained in the upgrade include automatic form filling, pop-up blocking and spelling correction. The toolbar is available on Google’s site.