Google Web Fontsare a great way to get started using new typefaces on the web without paying for a service likeTypekit. The problem is that Google hasn’t made it very easy to download these fonts for use on the desktop. For designers, that makes life harder — unless you begin your design in the browser, you need those fonts available in programs likePhotoshopwhen you’re creating your design comps. Fortunately, Joe Maller has collected the fonts made themavailable for downloadin a tarball....

Google provides its employees with a number of perks, most notablysnazzy offices, unlimited food and the ability to spend 20% of your time working on a personal project, aptly named the “20% Project.” Although, it can be argued that all of these “perks” are just Google’s way of keeping its employees at the office for as long as possible (have you seentheir sleep pods?). The latest success to come out of the 20% Project is Amit Sood’sArt Project, which lets users browse thousands of works of art, online by collection and in extraordinary detail....

A Turkey court has issued a statewide ban on Google serviceBlogger, locking 600,000 Turkish bloggers out of their personal diaries. The ban was imposed in response to a complaint from satellite TV companyDigiturk. The company claimed that soccer matches it was broadcasting had been posted on Blogger. Turkish copyright law allows the government to shut down or block an entire service, rather than simply seeking to have the infringing content removed....

Google’sBloggerplatform hasn’t had any big releases for a long time now and has almost gotten lost in the race with the likes ofSquarespace,VirbandTumblr. Hoping to catch up, Google hasjust releasedpreviews of five new dynamic templates that will be available publicly to use and customize. Google says these new templates make use of the latest web technologies like AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3 to offer the wholesome goodness that they do. Some remarkable features of these themes include:...

Taiwanese economic news publication CENSis reportingthat Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is to embark on an Asian tour in the second half of this year, where he will visit vendors and component suppliers to push the Android platform in person. Schmidt is expected to visit Taiwan, where he will meet with mobile vendors HTC and Asus, speak with contract makers Hon Hai and Wistron and component suppliers such as Mediatek and AU Optronics, companies that either either have fierce rivalries with Apple or are actively supplying components for the company’s iOS devices....