Play Solitaire and Tic Tac Toe in Google Search

Google Search now comes with 2 games you can play right from your desktop or mobile browser: Solitaire and Tic-Tac-Toe. Just search for [solitaire] or [tic tac toe] and you can quickly start the games.

Solitaire has 2 difficulty levels: easy and hard. The game has realistic sounds and animations (you can mute sounds) and it also shows your stats, just like any other Solitaire app. Unfortunately, Google doesn't save your state, so you can't resume a game later.

Tic-Tac-Toe is much simpler and less pretty. You can choose between 3 difficulty levels (easy, medium and impossible) or pick an option that lets you play against a friend. The easy level always lets you win, the medium level lets you win sometimes, while in the impossible level you can never win.

An older game you can still play from Google Search is Pac-Man. It's actually the interactive doodle from May 21, 2010.

{ via Google Blog }

Free Download VMware Player 12.1.0

Free Download VMware Player 12.1.0 (Review) - VMware Player empowers PC clients to effectively run any virtual machine on a Windows or Linux PC. VMware Player runs virtual machines made by VMware Workstation, GSX Server, or ESX Server, furthermore bolsters Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery plate designs.

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A virtual machine is a PC characterized in programming. It resembles running a PC on your PC.

This free desktop virtualization programming application makes it simple to work any virtual machine made by VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware Server or VMware ESX.

A virtual machine can be an extremely helpful apparatus to have, as it gives clients a chance to run numerous working frameworks on one PC. Do you need to run Windows for work however favor Linux for joy? Not an issue! A virtual machine can give you the best of both universes, and VMware Player is one simple approach to set it up.

The system is plain and natural, with a wizard outline that strolls you through every progression of the virtual machine creation process. The opening menu gives you a chance to choose whether you need to make another virtual machine, open a current virtual machine, move up to VMware Workstation, or perspective the project's HTML Help record. We made another virtual machine, and the project requesting that we pick whether we were utilizing an establishment plate, utilizing a circle picture, or introducing the working framework later. You can choose whether you're introducing Windows, Linux, Novell NetWare, Sun Solaris, or another working framework, and pick the right form from a drop-down menu. You are then requested that pick a name and area for the virtual machine and to set its most extreme size. Click Finish and the system goes to work making your virtual machine. VMware Player is anything but difficult to utilize, notwithstanding for amateurs, and the HTML Help document is elegantly composed and careful. The system may not be as full-included as some other virtual machine applications, yet it ought to address the issues of most clients, particularly the individuals who would prefer not to need to buy programming.

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Google Album Archive

Picasa Web Albums will be discontinued on August 1st, but you can still access your photos from the new Google Album Archive. "The album archive is where we keep all the photos that have been shared or stored on Google products, like Picasa, Google+, and Blogger," informs Google.

As you probably noticed, Google Photos doesn't show photos uploaded using other Google services, so it can't fully replace Picasa Web Albums or Google+ Photos. Google Album Archive lets you see, download or delete photos from Picasa Web Albums, Google+, Blogger, Hangouts, Google Drive and Google Photos.

Album Archive doesn't have a search feature, but there are separate sections for Google services. For example, you can find all the photos uploaded to Hangouts in one place.

If you're wondering what's happening with Picasa Web Albums links, this article has some answers:

Links that will continue to work
* Links to photos and albums whose URLs use your user ID number (and not your username).
* Links to Public Galleries whose URLs use your user ID number (and not your username).

Links that will stop working
* Slideshows embedded on websites.
* Picasa Web Albums & photos embedded on websites.
* Links to photos, albums, and Public Galleries whose URLs use your username (and not your user ID number).

{ Thanks, Brandon Giesing. }

Google Image Labeler Is Back

Google Image Labeler used to be a game that helped Google categorize images and improve image search. It was launched in 2006 and discontinued in 2013. Now Image Labeler is back, but it's no longer a game.

If you go to get.google.com/crowdsource/imagelabeler/category, you'll see this message: "Ready to help Google Image Labeler? Look at a few public images to see if Google is organizing them right."

Then you can pick a category like birds, cats, dancing, concerts, food, cars, mountains, sky. If you use this URL: get.google.com/crowdsource/imagelabeler?label_str=Dogs, you can add your own category (replace "Dogs" in the address bar with something different like Rainbows, Stairs or Moon).

Google shows Creative Commons images from Flickr categorized by Google's algorithms. You only need to answer to questions like "Does this image contain dancing?".

Google Translate Autocomplete

Google Translate's site for desktop and mobile now shows suggestions and autocompletes your text, much like Google Search. This works for English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, but you have to manually pick the input language instead of relying on automatic detection.

The new feature helps you translate faster common phrases, words and expressions, but it's not very useful for long texts.

For example, I picked French as the input language, typed "k" and one of the suggestions was "kin�sith�rapeute", which means "physiotherapist".

It also works when you use the mobile site:

{ Thanks, Emanuele Bartolomucci. }

The Ever-Expanding Knowledge Graph Cards

Sometimes Google's Knowledge Graph cards use more real estate than all the other search results combined. I've searched for [from Paris with love] in the experimental mobile-like desktop interface and got a huge card with images, information about the movie, ratings, cast. Then Google displayed 10 search results and 3 other cards with John Travolta movies, Luc Besson movies and action movies, followed by another list of related searches.

Somehow, the list of search results felt like a placeholder for future Knowledge Graph enhancements. Here's the entire page:

Google Tests Card-Style Search Interface for Desktop

Google experiments with a desktop search UI that looks more like the mobile interface. The experiment uses the same white cards on a gray background for both search results and ads.

When the card-style layout was launched for the mobile site back in 2013, Google mentioned that the new look was "cleaner and simpler, optimized for touch, with results clustered on cards so you can focus on the answers you're looking for".