‘Backup and Sync’ is the name of Google’s all-new Google Drive desktop client. The rejigged and refreshed app is being released later this month.
This post, Ugh, It Doesn’t Look Like Google’s New Google Drive Client Is Coming to Linux, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.
This post is not a typical post. I’m not going to change your life, or teach you a new trick. Instead I’m going to drag you down the rabbit hole…
This post, ‘Why Use Linux?’ Answered In 3 Short Words, was written by Joey-Elijah Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.
Google Earth 7.1.7.2600 changes:
The latest bug fix update to Google Earth desktop app finally allows Linux users to see Panoramio photos without pesky workarounds, and adds a new app icon.
This post, Google Earth Update Fixes Several Linux Bugs, Adds New Icon, was written by Joey-Elijah Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.
Want to access your Google Drive files natively on the Ubuntu desktop? You can, and here’s how.
This post, How to Access Google Drive On Ubuntu 16.04, was written by Joey-Elijah Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.
Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release
Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.To fix this error on Ubuntu/Debian 64-bit, the repository must be specifically set for 64-bit only – this can be done by adding “[arch=amd64]” after “deb” in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list file. To do this automatically, you can use the following command:
sudo sed -i -e 's/deb http/deb [arch=amd64] http/' "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list"sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
sudo apt-get remove google-chromeBy Vasudev Ram
Google Capital is coming to India to set up base from which invest in Indian startups, says the Economic Times.
Excerpts:
[ is setting up its growth capital arm in India to double down on startup investing as it turns bullish on fast-growing local emerging companies that have drawn attention from big investors across the world.
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will hire a team and invest in growth-stage companies in India, a market in which investors ranging from Japanese communications group SoftBank to Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba have recently made big bets. “It made a lot of sense to focus a lot of attention here now,” David Lawee, partner at Google Capital
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A serial entrepreneur, Lawee counts the move to set up office in India as “the most important” decision Google Capital has made in recent months
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“I want to invest up to the limit of what’s reasonable,” said Lawee, who was the head of corporate development at Google until 2012.
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While Google Capital, founded in 2013, has invested nearly $500 million in 11 companies globally, India will be its first destination where it has an office outside the US.
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The California-based company also invests in early-stage companies through Google Ventures. “The companies that I’m seeing here have much more upside than most companies I’m seeing in the US,” said Lawee. ]
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$ pip install pattern
# test_pattern_google_search.py
from pattern.web import Google, plaintext
google = Google(language='en')
for result in google.search('"python"', cached=False):
try:
print unicode(plaintext(result.text))
except UnicodeEncodeError:
print "UnicodeEncodeError, skipping this tweet"
except Exception:
print "Exceptions happen"
$ python test_pattern_google_search.py >t
$ less t # more coffee
The official home of the Python Programming Language.
Python is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows ...
The original implementation of Python, written in C.
Learn to program in Python, a powerful language used by sites like YouTube and Dropbox.
Python is an easy to learn, powerful programming language. It has efficient high-level data structures and a simple but effective approach to object-oriented ...
Welcome to the 3rd Edition of Learn Python the Hard Way. You can visit the companion site to the book at http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ where you can ...
Python 3.4.2 documentation. Welcome! This is the documentation for Python 3.4.2, last updated Jan 01, 2015. Parts of the documentation: ...
Try Python in your browser ... Best way to learn Python for Raspberry Pi? ... Are there any python package that can intelligently parse strings containing numbers
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Python 2.7.9 documentation. Welcome! This is the documentation for Python 2.7.9, last updated Dec 28, 2014. Parts of the documentation: ...
You can get xkcd shirts, prints, and posters in the store! Python ... Image URL (for
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(Did you know that the English word bank supposedly comes from the old Italian word banca (for bench)?
An Indian couple has bought a small bank in Weir, Kansas, USA, and is using it to innovate in the online financial payments / money transfers space (while preserving and improving the existing brick-and-mortar business of the bank). The site through they allow faster / cheaper payments or money transfers from the US to India (and currently, or soon, other countries), is globalremit.com. Their rate for sending a payment under $1000 USD is $2.50, which works out to 0.25 percent. For above $1000, it is free (disclaimer: all this is according to what I saw on the site recently).
Suresh Ramamurthi earlier worked at Google on the Checkout product, and Suchitra Padmanabhan earlier worked at Lehman Brothers and Bankers Trust.
I saw this news via this tweet by Quentin Hardy (@qhardy), Deputy Tech Editor, The New York Times. (Saw it from a retweet by Bernard Lunn.)
The tweet goes thusly:
“Guy from India learns payments at Google, buys tiny Kansas bank, transforms money. Great, from @nathanielpopper dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/12/13/sma…”
And here is the New York Times article referred to in the tweet:
Small Bank in Kansas Is a Financial Testing Ground
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I saw this via a tweet by GigaOm:
Google launches Contributor, a crowdfunding tool for publishers
Excerpts (shortened and partly re-worded) from the GigaOm article:
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… Google Contributor, which is designed to allow web users to pay sites that they visit a monthly fee, and in return see no Google ads when they visit those sites.
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the new feature is launching with 10 publishing partners, including Mashable, Imgur, WikiHow and Science Daily
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the user who goes to the Contributor web site sees a list of participating web sites, and can decide to give them $1, 2 or 3 per month.
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The site gets paid when the user actually visits it. The formula for payment is not specified in the GigaOm article.
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Earlier, Google also launched a contribution system for YouTube video creators called “Fan Funding,” which allows viewers to donate anywhere from $1 to $500 to the channel of their choice.
]
Here is the Google Contributor site.
Based on the article, Google Contributor seems like a potentially good idea for web publishers, such as big sites as well as small sites and blogs. Time will tell, though, how useful it turns out to be. I signed up for an invite, and if I get invited, I’ll try it out and may write about my experience with it, here on this blog.
Update: Here is another article about Google Contributor, by NextWeb:
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