Environment for the development of Java-based applications for Google’s open-source mobile platform Android. Includes Dalvik VM to allow emulation of mobile devices and a debugging system. Also available as a plugin for Eclipse as well as Android NDK.
Extension for the Google Chrome browser which enables you to access other computers or allow another user to access your computer securely over the internet.
Web analysis program for companies. Supplies information about hits on the company’s web site and the effectiveness of the marketing strategy. Any organisation using Google Analytics must also tell the users of their web site what data is being recorded.
Online calendar and organiser. Allows the management of multiple calendars, sharing data and sending appointment invitations. Calendars can be synchronised with a variety of applications over iCal and XML Sync. The expansion Provider for Google Calendar is useful for Lightning; mobile phones require GCalSync. Requires a Google account.
Web browser with minimal menu and tool bars. Supports searches from the address line using the WebCore component of the Webkit rendering engine as its kernel. Offers activated pre-rendering ‘instant pages’ that load and build entire web pages in the background so they’re ready should the user access them.
Web-based office suite for creating documents, tables and presentations directly in the browser for real-time collaboration with others. Supports the latest formats such as DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV and PPT, and can publish documents as web pages with definable access rights for specific people. Can also be used offline with the help of Google Gears.
Displays satellite photos of the Earth’s surface in high quality. Requires a fast internet connection. Also available as a Pro version (not free) for use by companies. Also available also as an app for mobile devices.
Browser extension. Allows running web applications in offline mode, if the websites are designed for Google Gears. Current beta version is primarily aimed at developers.
Email client providing similar functions like locally installed mail clients via its browser interface. Screens inbox for spam, sorts mail by threads and allows setting of own mail filters. Offers almost unlimited storage space.
Route organiser and interactive online map with satellite images. Displays addresses or places of interest, and can calculate the distance between two points on the map. Contains some images from Google StreetView with real panorama views. Also available as Google Maps Mobile for smartphones.
Visualisation of political, economic and social data from numerous countries which can be accessed according to the idea of Open Data. Data sets for EU member countries are available from Eurostat. Data is visualised as a time series or according to geographical location.
Allows the user to read the news and blog entries from sites they have subscribed to as RSS feeds and manages these in groups. Also available as a mobile version and Android version on the Android market place.
Cleans up long tables and data records and prepares them for upload to online databases such as Freebase. Supports data journalists and open data fans to sort and combine data from government bodies or services.
Tests web applications for security breaches. Uses heuristic methods for automatically detecting vulnerabilities to attacks by cross-site scripting or SQL and XML injection. Creates a report on necessary improvements. Requires Cygwin on Windows.
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