Fun Stuff Posts

May 2nd, 2008
J. Phil

GTA 4 and Google Maps Mashup

Grand Theft Auto 4 is a big game. Within the ...

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October 3rd, 2007
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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September 17th, 2007
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 ...

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August 31st, 2007
Peter Jalbert

Using The Hidden Flight Simulator in Google Earth

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

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August 27th, 2007
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 ...

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August 24th, 2007
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 ...

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August 9th, 2007
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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May 31st, 2007
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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May 21st, 2007
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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May 10th, 2007
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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May 9th, 2007
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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May 2nd, 2007
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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April 30th, 2007
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 ...

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April 9th, 2007
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 ...

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April 2nd, 2007
The Tutor

I’m popular, but not for long…can you help me?

Yes, I'm begging and I'm also testing as usual :) Here's the deal - This post about Using Google Groups to Backup Gmail made it to the ...

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March 23rd, 2007
The Tutor

Blogspot contest free domain winners announced!

Woo hoo! That was pretty fun, thanks to everyone that joined in! Drum roll please.... The 6 *spam free* domain winners are: Vic http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/2007032320511136/ Nancy http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/2007030309484090/ Gdog ...

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March 23rd, 2007
The Tutor

Blogspot is so bad, I’ll buy you a domain just to get your blog off there!

This post and it's comments keeps irritating the hell out of me, not because of any particular comment, but because the issue of having your ...

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March 9th, 2007
The Tutor

Name that finger - Easy 5 bucks to MyBlogLog users! [ends today!]

Ok, here's the deal -- I just updated my author avatar at MyBlogLog to a nasty looking finger and I decided to have some fun ...

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March 9th, 2007
The Tutor

I was Googled and I didn’t feel a thing!

A fun post for Friday - From Pop Art by Janet

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March 8th, 2007
The Tutor

Creepy Closeups on Google Maps

I was stumbling around today and came across this neat trick (or creepy as hell, how ever you'd like to describe it) -- Super Closeups on ...

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February 7th, 2007
The Tutor

Got a Google tip? Share it and get famous!

I wanted to start posting reader submitted tips for time to time, so here's the details - Share a Google tip of 200 words or more to ...

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January 18th, 2007
Peter Jalbert

How to Deflect a Google Bomb

Okay, we recently wrote about someone who stands the chance of getting Googlebombed pretty soon. While we don't condone Googlebombing (the fun activity that ...

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November 22nd, 2006
Peter Jalbert

Naughty Google Finds

We know Google does no evil, but we cannot guarantee that the stuff that Google Search bots index are likewise good. There have been known cases ...

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October 16th, 2006
Peter Jalbert

Google Offers Free Music

Now here's the ultimate in business models for the music industry. Remember that the RIAA is quite fond of suing people for downloading music free (a.k.a. ...

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October 10th, 2006
Peter Jalbert

Google Sitemaps’ Useful SEO Tools

One of the most useful utilities that the engineers and think tank at Google have ever devised is the Google Sitemaps program. The said program, which is ...

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