Custom email apps and more for Google Domains

Posted by Ben Fried, VP and CIO

(Cross-posted on the Google and Your Business Blog.)

Last year we introduced Google Domains in the U.S. to make it easy for your business to get online with a domain name and website. We wanted to make finding, buying and managing domains for your business simple, and we partnered with best-in-class website builders like Blogger, Shopify, Squarespace, Weebly and Wix to help you create your site – no technical experience required.

Since then, weve helped people register hundreds of thousands of domain names and create tens of thousands of websites, many of whom are businesses like yours looking to build and expand their online presence. Through your continued feedback, today we’re introducing upgrades to improve the Google Domains experience by adding:

• Custom email addresses – create an email address like, you@yourdomain or sales@yourdomain via Google Apps for Work.
• Over 90 new domain name endings – purchase domains with new endings like, .life, .world, .business, .cool, .pizza, .gifts, and .football (here’s the new full list).
• Domain ownership transfer – allows you to always make sure the right person is managing the right domains (learn more here).

Custom email addresses are a key part of building your online identity. Email addresses such as you@yourdomain help you establish credibility when you communicate with customers. Setting up a custom email address with Google Domains is an optional service for $5/month/user, and with that you’ll also get the full Google Apps for Work productivity suite. Google Apps for Work includes helpful business tools like video meetings, shared calendars, online document editing and 30 GB of file storage.

New domain name endings offer more choice and flexibility as you pick a memorable address for your business website. New endings are continuously opening up to the web, like .legal, .accountant and .services, and can help you create a name that matches who you are and what you do. Check out some of the people on Google Domains already using these new domain name endings: sublimation.kitchen, smilesnap.social, thecooler.ninja, and marcblair.photography.

It’s our mission to help your business easily get online and succeed with a domain name, and we want to make sure we continue to offer you the best tools and experience possible in our beta. So, if you have any input, questions or feedback, please don’t be shy!

See you online at www.google.com/domains.

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Memory Booster v5 8 APK Full

Memory Booster is a powerful mobile memory & RAM boosting tool specially designed for both Android smartphone and tablet users. It is designed to tackle the difficult yet crucial problem of memory management for all Android devices. Memory Booster reclaims lost memory for your programs by defragmenting your devices memory and recovering memory leaks from poorly behaved applications.

Supported language: English, Korean, Japanese, Italian, French, Russian, Spanish, German, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Features:
* Real-time Memory Status Report & Monitor
Memory Booster provides a live chart to demonstrate your devices total/free memory and current memory usage.
* Setting Your Performance Target
With Auto Boost Threshold set, Memory Booster keeps your memory higher than desired level, and act immediately if memory drops down.
* One-click Quick Memory Boosting
Besides automatic memory boosting, Memory Booster also allows you to manually boost your memory by Quick Boost.
* Auto-boosting in the Background
With Auto Boost Interval, Memory Booster runs in the background and automatically reclaims memory for your Android at interval.
* Android system crash protection
Memory Booster always watches your system resources and cleans up system memory once it reaches a critical point.
* And there is more…

Other features include embedded Task Killer, Whitelist Manager, Boost Level Manager & Memory Boost Log, which assist Memory Booster to perform more efficiently and friendly.

Whats New
Changelogs:
v5.8
- Optimize Quick Boost performance
- Fix issues reported by users
- Optimize the animation
- Add Share feature?users can share the app via Email, SMS etc)
- Other improvement
v5.7
- Optimize Notification Bar: Show free memory, percentage and running processes
- Optimize Quick Boost
- Fix widget failure issue
- Fix white list does not keep issue
- Remove Kiip Rewards
- Other Bug fixing

Read Here: How to Install APK

Requirements: Android 1.6+
File Size: 1 MB
Download Link: Mediafire.com

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Introducing Google Actual Cloud Platform

Posted by Greg Demichillie, Director of Product Management

(Cross-posted on the Google Cloud Platform Blog.)

At Google Cloud Platform, we strive to deliver innovative cloud computing technology to developers at low costs with massive scale. Currently, our cloud offerings are powered by best-in-class data centers, virtualization software and container-based applications, but as we consider the future of cloud computing, we realize there’s a major opportunity ahead that would allow us to deliver an unprecedented improvement in the power, efficiency and reliability of our infrastructure. We can elevate cloud computing like never before.

We’re answering the question that’s been in front of us the whole time: why isn’t cloud computing built in actual clouds? Well, as of today, it is. We’re excited to announce Google Actual Cloud Platform: all of our incredible services and products running in actual clouds in the troposphere.

Starting on April 1, Google Actual Cloud Platform brings with it a number of exciting new features:

• New compute zone: We’ve added a new compute zone, troposphere-1a, to make it easier than ever to provide your app with non-earth-bound availability. Now, you no longer have to make a choice between high availability and high altitude.

• New machine types: Alongside our current machine types, we’ve added a new category of “physical” devices: actual-cloud machine types. Choose from cumulus-16gb, cirrus-32gb and stratocumuliform-64g (created specifically for data intensive workloads).

• Stormboost: Drawing on charges from electrical fields during thunderstorms, we’re able to supercharge read/write performance on all persistent disks and offer 50% higher IOPS.

• CloudDrops: A new, game-changing content distribution system. CloudDrops can provide blazingly fast content delivery to all of your users using—you guessed it—rain drops.

• Weather Dashboards in the Developer’s Console: With new weather-dependent performance features, you need a way to monitor the atmospheric conditions of your servers. Now, you can monitor humidity/request, watch your app’s altitude and see a 7-day forecast right next to the rest of your stats.

• Bare-metal container support: Applications deployed on Actual Cloud Platform can run in containers too. The lightweight shared kernel model of containers makes them ideal for non-terrestrial deployments.

From all of us on the Google Cloud Platform team, here’s to clear skies ahead.

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Introducing the HTC One M9

The most anticipated phone after the HTC One M9 is finally here! Lets take a closer look at what HTC offers in the M9s "big brother":

Luxurious Design – The HTC One M9+ leverages HTC’s iconic, all-metal design and combines it with significant enhancements including a 5.2” 2K display with Fingerprint authentication, HTC BoomSound with Dolby Audio surround sound, new-and-improved Duo Camera, and support for up to 2TB of microSD storage.

Sense 7: An Extension of You – Your smartphone should make a statement about who you are, and HTC Sense 7 puts you in control of everything. HTC Themes puts you at the center of your smartphone experience; Sense Home reinvents the home screen to deliver the most useful apps to your homepage based on your location; and a more intelligent HTC BlinkFeed makes it easier to uncover the hidden gems that surround you by using location data to recommend points of interest, news and information.

Immersive Viewing Experience – The HTC One M9+ comes with a new 2K display wrapped in a 5.2” WQHD (1440 x 2560) screen. Even with a larger display, the size of the phone rests comfortably in the palm of your hands. With the new MediaTek Helio X10 processor, you will experience smooth movie playback and sharp photos.

Incredible Imaging – The HTC One M9+ comes with a 20-megapixel rear Duo Camera wrapped in a sapphire glass lens cover that protects it from scratches. For vivid video that looks like the latest blockbuster, the camera also shoots movies in 4K resolutions. For low-light, front-facing selfies, the HTC One M9+ comes with the new and improved HTC UltraPixel front-facing camera.  And to take creative pictures to the next level, the HTC One M9+ comes equipped with the HTC EYE Experience software for easy editing and the new HTC One Gallery to access all of your photos, wherever they’re stored.

Exhilarating Audio – The M9+ comes with a larger-than-life soundtrack courtesy of HTC BoomSound combined with 5.1 channel Dolby Audio surround sound simulation. This gets you even closer to the action, delivering extraordinary, multidimensional cinematic listening.  

Connect Your World – Smartphones are fast becoming the central hub for home entertainment and HTC Connect makes it easy to enjoy your multimedia experience beyond your phone. A three-finger swipe on the screen connects the phone to compatible TVs or external speakers from leading manufacturers including Harman Kardon. For the ultimate connected smartphone-powered TV experience, the HTC One M9+ comes exclusively preloaded with the Peel Smart Remote app.

Security at a Finger’s Length – The HTC One M9+ comes with a new fingerprint sensor. Located at the front of the phone for easy access, just one touch unlocks your phone. With the multi-directional sensors, all you need to do is to place your finger on the sensor in any direction to unlock your phone.

Full device specification:

Size: 150.99 x 71.99 x 9.61mm

Weight: 168g

Display: 5.2 inch, WQHD (1440 x 2560)

Platform: Android™ 5.0 (Lollipop) with HTC Sense™

CPU: MediaTek helio™ X10 octa-core CPU, 8 x 2.2GHz, 64-bit processing

Memory: Total storage: 32GB, available capacity varies

RAM memory: 3GB

Expandable: microSD™ expansion supports additional memory cards up to 2TB 

Network:

2G/2.5G - GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900MHz

3G UMTS: 850/900/1900/2100MHz

3G TD-SCDMA: 1900/2000MHz

4G LTE: FDD: Bands 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 28; TDD: Bands 38, 39, 40, 41

Sensors:

• Ambient Light Sensor

• Proximity Sensor

• Accelerometer

• Compass Sensor

• Gyro Sensor

• Magnetic Sensor

• Sensor Hub

• Fingerprint Sensor

Location:

• Internal GPS antenna + GLONASS

Connectivity:

• 3.5 mm stereo audio jack

• Bluetooth® 4.1 with aptX®

• Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4 & 5 GHz)

• HTC Connect™

• DLNA®

• HDMI MHL 2.0

• CIR

• micro-USB 2.0 (5-pin) port

• NFC

Sound:

• HTC BoomSound™ with Dolby Audio™3

Camera:

Main camera

• 20MP Duo Camera with sapphire glass lens

• Auto-focus, BSI sensor

• f/2.2, 27.8mm lens, 4K video recording

Front camera

• HTC UltraPixel™

• BSI sensor

• f/2.0, 26.8mm lens, 1080p video recording

Multimedia:

Audio supported formats:

• Playback: .aac, .amr, .ogg, .m4a, .mid, .mp3, .wav, .wma, .flac

• Recording: .aac

Video supported formats:

• Playback: .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .wmv, .avi, .mkv

• Recording: .mp4

Battery:

• Capacity: 2840mAh

• Talk time: Up to 23 hours for 2G / 13 hours for 3G

• Standby time: Up to 598 hours for 2G / 626 hours for 3G 5

AC adapter:

• Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60Hz

• DC output: 5V and 1.5A

Additional features:

• Dual-tone metal unibody

• Themes

• HTC Sense Home

• One Gallery

• Photo Editor

The HTC One M9+ is currently available in China only and will be ranged in other markets, to be confirmed locally at a later date.

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Google for Education hits the road

Posted by Kate Howell, Product Marketing Manager, Google for Education

(Cross-posted on the Google for Education Blog.)

Remember back in 2008 when the Google for Education team road-tripped across the US, visiting universities using Google Apps for Education? We hardly do, either, which is why we were itching to get back out on the road. This time in the UK. And we brought along a pop-up classroom instead of a bio-fuel bus.

In four weeks, we visited seven schools in England, Wales and Scotland that are doing inspiring and creative things with education technology. We wanted to hear more about how Google for Education tools are helping them to transform their approach to teaching and learning, and we wanted to provide an opportunity for other educators nearby to hear and learn from them, too.

Our pop-up classroom at Wigan UTC

And we werent disappointed. We heard from Cramlington Learning Village in Newcastle, where Physical Education students have become more engaged by doing their own real-time personalized fitness tracking with Google Sheets on their Chromebooks. That’s what we call healthy competition!

Students of GSCE Physics were getting a last-minute helping hand with their study thanks to revision videos created by the science department hosted on Youtube at The Streetly Academy in Birmingham. “What’s great about them is that we’re used to their style of teaching and their voices – and our teachers know how we learn best,” says Jack Webb, a student of The Streetly Academy.

City Heights E-Act Academy in London also gave media teachers some great ideas, by showing us how their students utilized Google Drive when creating their BBC School Report and giving us a demonstration of their HTML writing abilities.

Students at City Heights E-Act Academy showed off their HTML writing capabilities

We also loved how inquisitive students at the Horsforth Campus of Leeds City College used Google Draw to document and track changes to nearby wetland areas over time, based on their hypothesis about how a nearby motorway is affecting the surrounding ecosystem.

Students at Preston Lodge High School working collaboratively in our pop-up classroom

We toured the world’s first controlled-environment agricultural facility using a Vertical High Density Growing system in an educational institution at Wigan UTC. There, budding food technicians can get hands-on with technology that can help to combat current and future food production issues, working together to track production levels collaboratively with Google Sheets.

In East Lothian, the pipe band at Preston Lodge High School treated us to a roof-lifting performance to start the morning!

The Preston Lodge High School Pipe Band warming up

We heard lots of teacher tips along the way, but our favourite was from Assistant Headteacher David Beesley, who uses boomerang for Gmail to set his emails to send at times he knows his staff are at their desks.

Asst. Headteacher David Beesley sharing his favourite Gmail tips

Students at St. Julians showed us their favourite apps on Google Play

One day Google for Education might pop up—or roll into—a town near you, but in the meantime you can check out a video of our pop-up classroom being built, captured by the impressive media students at St. Julian’s in Newport, Wales.

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