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Long Click or LongTouch

The long click is a gesture used on Android mobile devices. Long clicking is a lingering touch and press which activates new options. Long clicks on applications allows you to move them to the desktop, and long touches on the desktop clock allow you to remove it.

Google Latitude

Latitude is a social feature that lets you share your physical location with your friends. Latitude also lets you update your status, change your profile picture, instant message or text your .

Lively

Lively is a 3D virtual chat world. You can create 3D chat rooms and customize the content. You choose your own avatar, which can also be customized by selecting from clothing and hair choices.

Labs

Google Labs is a showcase area for Google tools still in the experimental stages of development. Google uses the term “beta” more liberally than most software developers. The tools in Google Labs would more closely fit the traditional beta definition.

Language Tools

Google Language Tools allow you to translate text from one language to another or to search for phrases within specific languages. You can also use the Language Tools to set your language preference for Google buttons and text

Link Popularity

Link popularity refers to the number of links pointing to a page on the Web.

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