If you are a fan of Google products (I must say its getting increasingly hard to come across someone who is not) you might be using Google related software on your computer. As I am about to buy a new computer, I was looking up what is new that Google has to offer. Google Pack is a nice one stop shop to download various Google related software you might want to download in one go.

About Google Pack

• Visit the Google Pack page, and look up which Google affiliated software is missing on your computer.
• You can check which one you want installed and start downloading.
• Google Pack includes Chrome browser, Google Earth, Google Talk, Google Apps, Google Desktop, Picassa, Real Player, Adobe Reader, Google Toolbar for Firefox and Internet Explorer and Skype.
• All these software applications can be downloaded from just once installation if you are using a Windows OS.
• If you are using a Mac, you might want to check out their Mac page which also is a one stop page to download various mac related Google applications.

Try it out and let me know what you think about Google Pack through your comments.

Links: Google Pack (Win) | Mac

Recently I visited the AdSense for feeds blog of google & I found that now it even easier to configure their blogs to work with FeedBurner and AdSense for Feeds, with just a few clicks, are able to do both at the same time.

To set this up, go to Blogger and select the blog you wish to monetize on your Blogger Dashboard, and select “Monetize.” This will give you some basic options for configuring ads, and if you already have connected your Blogger feed to FeedBurner, will confirm that the proper feed is being configured. AdSense for feeds will automatically pick the right ad sizes for your users, content, and end medium.

After setup, you will be able to view your AdSense reports (including feed revenue) directly from the Blogger Dashboard, as well as from your AdSense account. Additional feed management options for your feed and feed analytics will be available from http://feedburner.google.com.

Source : Adsense for Feeds Blog

Hey ! Just what we needed. In its endless efforts to make the life easier for webmasters, Google has now understood that indexing RSS feeds and Atoms could be yet another value addition to their arsenal of indexing tools.

Google generally would use incoming links, sitemaps, etc to index new files and websites, and with  this new addition newer websites won’t find it hard to get indexed on Google. All you need to do is set up your RSS/Atom feed and as an added measure make sure your Robots.txt file doesn’t block it.

In my opinion this feature had been in practice for quite some time, but its only now that Google announced it officially.

Anyways, all good for webmasters.

Via : Google Webmaster Central Blog

Can’t wait anymore to get the ultimate Google product, the Chrome OS, on your PC? Wait no more. Built from SUSE Studios, the Chrome OS Linux basically is a light install of SUSE Linux containing the latest developer build of Chrome for Linux. Although not the official launch from Google, the unofficial Chrome OS Linux project aims at giving users a feel of what they can expect once Chrome OS is released.

The OS can be installed to your hard-drive like any other OS or you can run it inside Virtual Box or VMware.

Some screen-shots:

Featured software in Chrome OS:

• GNOME 2.24 desktop environment
• Google Chrome 4.0.220 web browser
• OpenOffice.org 3.0 office suite
• GIMP 2.6 image editor
• Flash Player 10.0 plugin
• and much more!

• Processor: Intel Pentium, Xeon or newer; AMD Duron, Athlon, Sempron, Opteron or newer
• RAM: min. 256 MB
• Hard disk: min. 1 GB
• Graphics card: supports most modern graphics cards

You can download the Chrome OS from the official site at https://sites.google.com/site/chromeoslinux/home. [via labnol]