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Christine Buske

Google Real Time Search: Watch the World Go Round

Google recently announced some little news about search: Real Time Searching is all the name suggests. In search results for any term, you can see new ...

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Christine Buske

Put on Google Goggles: a New Way to Search

Google just came out with a new way to search information: Google Goggles. This is a new search application for android phones, where you do not have ...

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Christine Buske

3 New Developments in Google Docs

This week, there have been three pretty cool new developments in Google Docs. Two of them make some aspect of managing or finding documents easier, and ...

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Christine Buske

45 Coolest Piano Videos on YouTube

If you are a fan of the piano, like hearing the sound of a great pianist play, or even just like to giggle while a house ...

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Peter Jalbert

5 Hottest Educational Gifts for Kids

This year I’ve been helping my wife a lot with shopping for all the kids in our family. I’ve spent quite a bit of time picking ...

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Christine Buske

Making Website for Free with Google

Back in the early days of web design, there were a few companies that provided the possibility of creating a free personal website. The designs were ...

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Christine Buske

News in Image Searching: Google Image Swirl

Google has changed how we search for images, or rather… how we find images we can use. By introducing features such as similar images, you can ...

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Christine Buske

Finding the Swine Flu Shot: Google Helps You Beat H1N1!

Earlier this year I wrote about how you could use Google Maps to track the swine flu spread across the world. Now that we have an ...

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Corey Freeman

Will Google Rename Their Programming Language?

Google has finally outgrown its shoes and is attempting to build a new foundation by creating its own programming language. Named “Go,” Google aims to create ...

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Christine Buske

Google Dashboard: Informative, or Pointless?

I briefly mentioned yesterday some concerns regarding privacy, in the context of storing our personal data (documents, spreadsheets, pictures) with Google. The many Google services we ...

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Christine Buske

Google Drops Prices on Data Storage – But is it a Deal?

I am sure I am not the only one who emails herself documents, pictures, and spreadsheets as an extra back-up precaution. Basically, using my Gmail account ...

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Corey Freeman

6 International Sesame Street Tribute Logos from Google

Christine already talked about how Google is making its tribute to Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary. However, Google didn’t stop at Big Bird.  Instead, they created logos ...

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Christine Buske

Google Wishes Sesame Street a Happy Birthday

Have you Googled anything today? If you have, and you used the regular Google homepage, you might have noticed some familiar looking big feet. Google is ...

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Christine Buske

How to Create a Gmail Shortcut for iPhone Home Screen

Although I love the idea of an iPhone, I am not a regular iPhone user unless I can get my hands on one of my friend’s ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Data Liberation Front Helps You Learn How To Backup Your Google Data

One of the areas where Google is often criticized is the ability to quickly transfer data from its services to the user’s computer. While Google has ...

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Christine Buske

4 New Google Docs Features Rock Document Management!

Using Google Docs is getting easier and easier as more features are added. At this point, I could completely imagine using Google Docs pretty much exclusively, ...

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Christine Buske

The Coolest New Picasa’s Photo Importing Feature

Picasa 3.5 comes with a few cool new features. One of them is face tagging, where Picasa scans all your pictures and recognizes the same faces ...

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Christine Buske

Video: How to Manage Your Google Tasks

Yesterday, we mentioned how Google Tasks has graduated from Gmail labs, and you can now access your to-do list from many other Google services you are ...

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Christine Buske

Using Google Tasks Outside of Gmail

Since adding Tasks to Gmail Labs last year, millions of users have moved from paper to-do lists to having a task list right in Gmail. Most ...

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Christine Buske

New Google Maps for Blackberry

Google just announced a new version of Google Maps for Blackberry users. Recently Windows Mobile and S60 already had a chance to use version 3.2, but ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

How To Add External Gadgets To Gmail

The best thing that has happened to Gmail in the last two years is the introduction of Gmail Labs and then the subsequent additions of some ...

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Christine Buske

Preview Google Docs Directly in Gmail

Gmail let’s you preview pictures, YouTube videos, Picasa Albums, and Flickr Albums. It doesn’t stop there, now you can also preview Google document attachments directly in ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Create 3D Buildings In Google Earth With Google Building Maker

Google Building Maker, which was launched recently by Google, lets you add 3D buildings to Google Earth easily. Since Google is keen on adding more and ...

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Christine Buske

Stop! Gmail Feature Prevents Emailing the Wrong Person

Sending an email to the wrong person can be extremely embarrassing, and can even cause you to lose your job. A while ago, a government worker ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Now Draw Better In Google Docs With 3 New Features

If you are a Google Docs user and love inserting lines and diagrams using the drawings feature then you’d be pleased to know that today the ...

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