App Engine at a Conference Near You this Winter!

Happy New Year Everyone!

Were excited to be kicking off a new year, and you can expect to find many new exciting features coming to App Engine in the coming months. In addition to Google I/O 2010 coming up in May -- more on this below -- members of the App Engine team may be visiting a conference near you this quarter. Here is the full list:

2010 Jan 24-30 - Snow Sprint 2010 - Bürserberg, Austria - Nick Johnson

2010 Jan 26-27 - Jfokus - Stockholm - Patrick Chanezon

2010 Jan 28 - PROSA - Copenhagen - Patrick Chanezon

2010 Feb 17-21 - PyCon 2010 - Atlanta - Guido van Rossum, Wesley Chun, Joe Gregorio, Brett Slatkin, Andy Smith

2010 Feb 27 - Dare 2B Digital - Los Altos Hills - Wesley Chun

2010 Mar 10-12 - ConFoo.ca 2010 - Montreal - Patrick Chanezon

2010 Mar 12-16 - SXSW Interactive - Austin - Patrick Chanezon, Brett Slatkin, Sean Lynch

2010 Mar 15-18 - Cloud Connect - Santa Clara - Chris Schalk, Wesley Chun, Ikai Lan

2010 Mar 17-19 - ServerSide Java Symposium - Las Vegas - Max Ross

Although not happening until next quarter, save a place in your calendar and book your travel for May 19-20 to San Francisco for Google I/O 2010. This year will be a blockbuster, featuring your favorite Google technologies and product announcements! There are at least 6 App Engine sessions planned. Register NOW!!

In addition to I/O, Google will be hosting a variety of DevFests in Asia late this winter. Keep an eye out for specific dates and locations on the Google Developer Events Calendar.

We would love to meet with App Engine developers at any of these events! Also be sure to follow @app_engine on Twitter for ongoing announcements as well as our Reddit tag for any relevant App Engine news.

Posted by Wesley Chun, App Engine team

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Greenify App now Works on Non Rooted Devices – Helps you Hibernate Apps with Ease

For Android power users, especially those who are not afraid to root their beloved devices, a world of root-only apps becomes instantly available. One app which is particularly famous among root-users is Greenify. The app provides users with the capability to hibernate apps running in the background, which helps to save precious processor resources as well as improving upon battery life. In combination with an Xposed module, Greenify can be used to hibernate system apps as well, without sacrificing push notification functionality. Click here for our guide on using Greenify.

For the general Android user, who does not want to root his device, Greenify in its previous avatar was useless. For the uninitiated, rooting is process wherein users of the Android ecosystem can gain privileged access or control of their devices. Rooting allows users read-write access to the system partition, which is useful when a user wants to make changes at the deepest level. Our guide on Android’s rooting terms will help you sort through the confusion.

The developers of Greenify have definitely given thought to this fact that most Android users were unable to use their app due to the root access requirement. The latest update to the app today does away with root access and now the app can be used on any Android device. Now you can finally stop Facebook from running in the background and draining your battery.

The only downside to the revocation of the root access requirement is that the apps are not automatically hibernated once you launch them. This is where you can use the Greenify widget which gets installed along with the app. Once you place the Greenify widget on your home screen, just tap it once in a while and it will hibernate all running apps and provide you with better battery life and overall better device responsiveness.

If the performance of your Android smartphone or tablet has started lagging since the time you bought it, and the RAM on your device is 1 GB or less; we would suggest that you give the Greenify app a go – especially since the basic functionality of Greenify is free. Do let us know in the comments below what you think of Greenify. Also for your convenience we have added the Play Store link to the app below.

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How to Keep Strangers From Emailing You Via Google

We are not sure how many times you have wanted to email someone but didn’t have their email address. We also don’t know if that person you wanted to email was on Google+, and you knew that but still didn’t have their email address. So to fix that problem, Google has updated Gmail, adding a couple features to both mobile and PC versions. This may be old news to you but one of which, is the ability to send emails from your Gmail, to anyone in your G+ circles. The thing is, this means anyone can just add you to their circles, and then send you an email, without having to know your email address. Well there’s a fix for that, if you want it.

The added feature seems to be a great one, unless you are the type who doesn’t like to have complete strangers coming to you for whatever reason and fill your inbox. If that doesn’t bother you, than it works great so you won’t have to ask someone for their email address and wait for a response, instead you can just email them and wait for a response. that the feature would receive mixed feelings from users of both Gmail or G+ or both, Google gave options, just another one of the many reasons we love Google.

If you don’t want to use this feature or want to customize it to an extent, just go into your Gmail account, get into your settings menu and stay in the “General” tab. Look through the options and you will find there is a new section called “Email via Google+”. That’s where you will find that you can select exactly who can email you using your G+ account.

The options vary as you might be used to if you have messed with your G+ settings, or even put a G+ account together. The available selections are: No One, Circles, Extended Circles, or Anyone on Google+. So see people who may have been worried about their fragile Gmail inbox, there is hope for you yet. We have already asked what you think about this new feature, but with the newly discovered settings option, has your feelings changed? Or do you still feel the same?

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