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Google is rolling out Google Earth 2.0 for the iPhone over the next 24 hours and it brings a long-awaited custom map feature by allowing you to sync your Google My Maps with the app. Along with the custom maps, the update brings more languages and better performance. Anyone managed to get the update yet? [Google Lat Long Blog] - vijay

Filed under: Utilities, Productivity, Web services, Google Google Translate just got a lot better, with a nice, clean new look and several new features. The first thing you'll notice is that you no longer have to click to translate. Translate now works instantly, as you type. If you're trying to translate something into a language with a non-Roman alphabet (like Chinese, for example) Google will also show the phonetic pronunciation underneath the translated characters. If you're translating into English, you've got an even better option: you can hear an audio pronunciation of the English translation. This feature is awesome, and I'm looking forward to a time when Google inevitably implements it for other languages, too. There's a new feature for English-speakers, too, though: if you type in the phonetic, romanized version of a word from a non-Roman language (Google cheekily gives Fake Steve Jobs' trademark sign-off, "namaste," as an example), Translate will attempt to show the proper... - vijay

According to Boy Genius Report, this may be Apple's Black Friday deals. According to this image, they will be applicable only on November 27th. They seem too good to be true: • 25% discount off all Macs. • Up to 15% of all accessories, Apple software, and Apple hardware. • Up to 30% off all iPods. The only catch: The discounts are not applicable to the iPhone or the iPod Shuffle. [Boy Genius Report] - vijay

Slowly but surely, we're getting an idea of what Google's Chrome OS will look like. We know that it will be Linux-based and that the primary interface will likely be the Chrome browser. Still, the search giant was not content to simply turn a Web browser into an operating system. - vijay

Far from taking over as the engine of growth from an exhausted West, China is making matters worse. Its "beggar-thy-neighbour" policies continue to play havoc with global trade and risk tipping the world into a second leg of the Great Recession. - vijay

Alex Dukal - Illustrator (via tea) - vijay

Alex Dukal - Illustrator (via tea) - vijay

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【写真】女流・美少女バカエロ系漫画家！ 宮崎摩耶先生を独占インタビュー！【写真】 - ガジェット通信 - vijay

Filed under: Google, Open Source, Browsers A few months back, the new tab page in Chrome tipped us off to the impending launch of Google's theme gallery. Tonight, there's a new change that could very well mean that Google is getting ready to open the doors to a similar gallery - for Chrome extensions. Up until now, the corner of the page featured a small graphic which linked to the Themes Gallery. Today, that image was replaced with the puzzle pieces you see above which links to https://chrome.google.com/extensi.... Don't get too excited, though. As with the themes gallery thumbnail in July, the link doesn't go where it's supposed to yet. You'll be redirected to Google's search page. According to a recent posting on Google Groups by Chrome team member Neil Baum, extensions are set to hit Chrome's beta channel in early December. The plan may well be to launch both the updated beta and extension gallery at the same time. With extensions one step closer to landing on the stable version,... - vijay

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And they look gorgeous. - vijay

Censorship increases as killings become routine. "I don’t want to die young," says one reporter. Like on any other Monday morning, reporter Bladimir Antuna kissed his family goodbye and set off in his Ford SUV to work the crime beat at a local newspaper in Durango city. Hours later his lifeless corpse was found beaten, strangled and dumped. - vijay

In less than a year, 50 albinos across Tanzania have been murdered for their body parts, shattering the country's image as one of the most liberal and stable in Africa.Convictions have been few and far between, but earlier this month campaigners celebrated four men being sentenced to death for the murder of 50-year-old albino, Lyaku Willy. - vijay

The ramifications of an un-patrolled Internet are even more extensive than anyone might have expected. It’s bad enough that pornography & other noxious sites that abuse our children flourish because there are not enough vigilantes to say they can’t, but now our personal identities & our right to keep them to ourselves are at stake. What can we do? - vijay