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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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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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The Tutor

Golden Gate Bridge Time Lapse Video via Google Street View

This is very cool. A time lapse drive across Golden Gate Bridge made from screen captures of Google Street View images. Source: joelaz / Jalopnik AKPC_IDS += "3061,";

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Peter Jalbert

Make Gmail Your Own With Custom Colors

Gmail has launched themes just a few months ago, right? I’m sure you all went crazy over the fact that you have 31 pre-made themes to ...

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Peter Jalbert

Teach your friends how to Google

I’m sure you’ve gone through this before. So, you’re the Google expert, right? Everybody knows you know this and that, and hence, everybody’s been asking you ...

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The Tutor

Wow. I didn’t know anything was nuttier than Michael Jackson!

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The Tutor

New forums at Google Tutor!

I just hacked together launched some new forums here at GT. So go play! Any bugs you might find please let me know. I’m sure there are ...

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Phil Glockner

Google haunts you … with energy saving advice!

Google pulled together a great Halloween-themed Haunted House site that features an online calculator with quick ways to save energy in your home this year.  Amusingly, ...

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Peter Jalbert

Activate Gmail Goggles to Prevent Sending Embarrassing Emails

Maybe you’ve had these mornings when after an all-night drinking spree, you wake up with a massive hangover and you don’t know what the heck you ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Gadgets and your webpage

Do you know that you can use/embed Google Gadgets on your webpage? Well we’ve learned before that we can only use Google Gadgets through iGoogle, ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Bookmark Tip: How to add a bookmark

I’m usually hopping from one computer to another, no that is not to torture myself… that’s just the way my week is. If you ...

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Phil Glockner

GTA 4 and Google Maps Mashup

Grand Theft Auto 4 is a big game. Within the game world lies an area as large as New York City. In fact, the in-game ...

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Peter Jalbert

iGoogle Themes: Themed Tabs

When iGoogle Themes first rolled out it was received with enthusiasm. I was one of those that changed my theme…then again…and again. Changing themes is very easy ...

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Peter Jalbert

Playing With The New Google Moon

Google and NASA have a healthy collaborative relationship that they have mentioned before. In their previous announcement, they mentioned that they will “work together on a ...

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Peter Jalbert

Using The Hidden Flight Simulator in Google Earth

Google has some prominent Engineers in Flight simulator development, so it’s not surprising that a recent discovery by a blogger named Marco Gallotta has exposed that ...

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Peter Jalbert

Final Gmail Collaborative Video

Let’s take a break from our regular google tutor programming, and look at the cool things happening with Google. Do you still remember the project started by ...

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The Tutor

How-to get little Bobby ready for his first drive-by…

It’s Friday so I thought I’d share this funny post from my friend Craig who runs a school violence prevention blog - The Complete Guide to Bulletproofing ...

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Peter Jalbert

Collaborative Gmail Video

“The Gmail Approach to Email: Gmail is a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that email can be more intuitive, efficient, and useful. And ...

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Peter Jalbert

Earn a Quick Buck from Google User Experience Studies

AdSense isn’t the only way you can earn from Google. If you’re not the blogger or web publisher type, then you can still earn a quick ...

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Peter Jalbert

Personalize Your Web Search Experience With iGoogle

Back in the early days, Google and Yahoo! were not the search engine giants that they are right now. You would probably remember the portals and ...

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Peter Jalbert

Yahoo Messenger for Web vs. Google Talk for Web

I am a big fan of Instant Messaging. Though I must admit that I favor Yahoo Messenger more than any other IM clients, especially Yahoo Messenger ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Talk for the Web: Making Instant Messaging More Accessible to the Common User

Instant messaging is one of the most essential tools for online productivity nowadays. With brick-and-mortar businesses moving into the Internet and Internet businesses growing into the ...

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Peter Jalbert

How the Google PageRank system changed my life. (Part 1)

I had started my blog-city blog on the 30th of June in 2005. Though I already had a blogspot account, I chose blog-city because it was ...

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Peter Jalbert

g2p: looking for others’ files the dummy way

Back in April 2005, we gave a tip on how to look up files normally downloaded through p2p. Using long commands, Google allows users to find ...

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The Tutor

Tag, I’m it :)

My friend Jace over at the Internet Safety-For Our Children’s Sake blog tagged me for a meme and this one looked pretty easy so I thought ...

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