Posted by Rob Stacey, Software Engineer and Steve Cheng, Product Manager

Two weeks ago we updated our mobile homepage in the US so that it would load more quickly. Today, were releasing in the US a number of improvements to our mobile search results pages for BlackBerry browsers. These new improvements are designed to help you find the information you want more easily.

• Improved comprehensiveness: Our mobile search now incorporates results from Product Search, Blog Search, News archives search, and more.
• Blended results: Instead of showing you web, image, local and news results in separate sections, we now combine them to improve relevance. Weve also made it easier for you to focus your search on any one of these categories -- notice how the links are now placed at the top of the results page.
• Longer snippets: Web results include longer snippets so that your answer may be right on the results page.
• Related searches: At the bottom of the search results page, youll find a list of related searches to help you refine a query.

You may notice that many of these improvements mirror our desktop search capabilities. We have taken desktop elements that have tested well on mobile and further optimized them for the mobile use case. Improving mobile search is a continuous process and we hope you find the releases this past month to move the needle on what we care most about: quality, speed and ease of use.

To watch a demo of our new mobile search results pages, take a peek at the video below. Or better yet, test drive our new search results page yourself. Its simple. Go to google.com on your BlackBerry browser and search away!

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Pixlr-o-matic is a free photo editing software that can be relied upon. The use of photo editor software is fairly easy and simple. The main requirement is needed to install the software Pixlr-o-matic is a computer must have Adobe AIR installed. When the computer is not terintal Adobe AIR, do not worry because Pixlr-o-matic provides options to install Adobe AIR as well.

Pixlr is actually-o-matic also provides online photo editing that requires no software installation process. With just a click, click and click you can edit photos via-o-matic Pixlr online. Photos to be edited can be taken from the Webcam and your computers hard disk.

As discussed above, Pixlr-o-matic is a photo editing software with two effects, namely superior vintage and retro. you can edit photos online or offline.

If you want to install applications Pixlr-o-matic on your computer, the main requirement is a computer must have Adobe AIR installed. if your computer is not already installed Adobe AIR, Pixlr-o-matic to provide options for installing the Adobe AIR and Pixlr-o-matic as well.

How to install software Pixlr-o-matic is as follows:

• Drove to Pixlr-O-Matic
• Click Install Now on the flash file that is on the right.
• If your computer is not already installed Adobe AIR, will appear the option Install Adobe AIR, click Yes to install Adobe AIR.
• After successfully installing the Adobe AIR, will be immediately followed the process of installing applications Pixlr-o-Matic.
• Software-o-Matic Pixlr successfully installed and ready to use for editing photos.

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Today we are happy to announce the 1.3.5 release of the App Engine SDK for both Python and Java developers.

Due to popular demand, we have increased the throughput of the Task Queue API, from 50 reqs/sec per app to 50 reqs/sec per queue. You can also now specify the amount of storage available to the taskqueue in your app, for those with very large queues with many millions of tasks. Stay tuned for even more Task Queue scalability improvements in the future.

Additionally, in this release we’ve also added support for precompilation of Python source files to match the same feature we launched for Java last year. For Python, you can now use precompilation to speed up application loading time and to reduce CPU usage for new app instances. You can enable precompilation by including the following lines in your app.yaml file:

derived_file_type:

- python_precompiled

This will start offline precompilation of Python modules used by your app when you deploy your application. Currently precompliation is off by default for Python applications, but it will be enabled by default in some future release. (Java precompilation has been enabled by default since the release of 1.3.1.)

To give you a taste of what this feature is like, we tested this on a modified version of Rietveld (which included a copy of Django 1.0.4 in the app directory, and which did not use the datastore in its base url). The latency and CPU usage results for the initial load of the application, after uploading a new version of the app and requesting the homepage, were:

Before precompilation enabled:

Test 1: 1450ms 1757cpu_ms

Test 2: 1298ms 1523cpu_ms

Test 3: 1539ms 1841cpu_ms

After precompilation enabled:

Test 1: 805ms 669cpu_ms

Test 2: 861ms 702cpu_ms

Test 3: 921ms 803cpu_ms

Of course, any individual app’s performance will vary, so we recommend that you experiment with the setting for your application. Please submit your feedback and results to the support group!

In addition to Task Queues and Python precompilation, we have made a few changes to the Blobstore in 1.3.5 We have added file-like interfaces for reading Blobs. In Python, this is supported through the BlobReader class. In Java, we have implemented the BlobstoreInputStream class, which gives an InputStream view of the blobs stored in Blobstore.

More information on this release can be found by reading the release notes for Python and Java.

Posted by the App Engine Team

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Straight from the Nokia World 2010 show floor here comes a bunch of photos created with the Nokia N8 that might seriously shake you up. Or at least if you are one of those guys who thought mobile phones will never match digicams for image quality.

Prepare to be seriously impressed and check out some of those shots. Of course, quite a lot of effort has gone into creating those shots so chances are you won’t be getting as impressive results each time you press the shutter key but the potential is all there for you to exploit.

Nice, eh?

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