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Peter Jalbert

Mobile Browsers Get Google Docs Viewer

Just last week Google shared with us that the Google Docs viewer would now support both .doc and .docx attachments – great news for those of ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Apps for Education Growing Everyday

Google and the educational systems of Iowa and Colorado shared some exciting news on Monday – that the two states would be the next to sign ...

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David Van

Getting around an “Oops..” message in Chrome

Users of Google’s Chrome web browser may sometimes get an error message that says “Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to www.xyz.com” when they try to ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Chrome Now Has Flash

A couple of months ago Google announced, with Adobe, that the Flash Player would soon be automatically built into Chrome.  Well, that’s now the case!  As ...

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Peter Jalbert

YouTube Wins Case Against Viacom Copyright Violation Claim

Exciting news for Google and YouTube as a Manhattan judge threw out a $1 billion lawsuit brought on by media giant Viacom.  If you hadn’t previously ...

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Peter Jalbert

Blogger – New Video Player and Accurate Post Previews

Earlier this month, Google made some pretty exciting changes to Blogger by introducing the new Blogger Template Designer. However, that’s not everything they’ve done for ...

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Peter Jalbert

Small Details Make a Big Difference in Google Maps

For the past few years Google Maps has been giving other web mapping service applications like MapQuest a run for their money. Free for non-commercial ...

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David Van

Save on waiting to download files with Chrome extensions

If you’ve ever tried to download large files (warez anyone?) for free from a file hosting site, there are usually waiting times of up to five ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google releases WaveThis

If you didn’t already know, Google Wave is both a conversation and document which is shared in real time with its users.  People can discuss topic ...

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David Van

Enabling Chrome extensions in incognito mode

In an earlier GT article on using Google Chrome’s incognito mode, I noted that extensions are disabled when this mode is active. This is still the ...

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Peter Jalbert

YouTube’s Video Editor

Do you love to make movies but aren’t a professional?  The guys at YouTube firmly believe that editing your videos should be fun and easy – ...

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Peter Jalbert

New Languages Added to Google Translate

With Google being accessible across the world and the Internet so widespread, it makes sense that the Big G would have a translation service available to ...

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Peter Jalbert

FIFA Chrome Extension

Do you love soccer?  Wish you were in South Africa at the World Cup?  Well, wit6h the FIFA Chrome extension, you’ll definitely feel that you’re part ...

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Peter Jalbert

Updated Google Earth now Available on iPad

Google Earth has remained a very popular application since it was first released, and proud owners of Apple’s new iPad have been longing for an updated ...

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David Van

How to add World Cup team colours to your browsing experience

Sometimes even something as basic, trusty, and inoffensive as the white and sky blue interface for Chrome can get a little tiresome. Luckily, there are scores ...

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David Van

How-to Extend Google Chrome Security – extensions that allow for safe and hassle-free websurfing

Google Chrome is touted as being the fastest internet browser. Google also points to Chrome having less security flaws than competitor Internet Explorer. The use of ...

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David Van

Changing the Default Background for Classic Google

If you’re bored of multicoloured letters on a matte white background, it is possible to change the default background for the Google search page to an ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Google and World Cup Football 2010

The World Cup Football (or Soccer) buzz is at its peak, and it seems the entire internet is immersed in news, information and pictures related to ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Gone Google Wants You To Switch To Google Apps

Google has been pushing Google Apps, especially to businesses, ever since it launched it. Google Apps is generally perceived as a competitor to Microsoft’s office suite, ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Caffeine is Now Google’s New Search Index

Remember we mentioned Caffeine, Google new’s ranking checking tool, when Google first introduced it last year? We also created a Caffeine bookmarklet and talked about 5 ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Google Maps Previews In Gmail and Google’s World Cup Easter Egg

The Gmail team has introduced an interesting new Labs feature. And a quite useful one too. It’s called Google Maps previews, and as the name suggests, ...

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