Dressing up the Google page to provide more search information
After virtually a decade delivering online search results, the sparse looking Google page is well known to all. But with a few Firefox extensions, ...
Google Posts
Taking advantage of the new Gmail bookmarkable URL’s
A lot of people were impressed by the recent changes to Gmail especially the feature that gives unique URL’s to folders and emails. So ...
A Very Early Preview of Android
[Updated with screenshots] Before anything else, here’s a disclaimer: Everything that you will see here are screenshots of the Android emulator provided in Google’s Android SDK. Google ...
Is it online suicide to show Google the door?
A blogger called Vlad is so angry at Google for reducing his PageRank that he is effectively telling Google to leave his blog alone and get ...
Google’s Android Mobile Platform
Monday morning was the big day for all the gPhone enthusiasts. It was more or less what people expected, depending on what they were hoping to ...
Is Google’s dominance in search under threat from the “upstarts”?
By Mark O’Neill An article in Newsweek magazine suggests that Google’s position at the top of the search engines could be under serious threat by competitors, including ...
The Basics: Google Notebook
Google Notebook is one of my favorite google tools– it’s a great useful companion for doing online research and annotating things that you find while browsing ...
Google’s Blogging Philosophy
By Mark O’Neill One of the many things that’s so good about Google is their policy of writing official blogs for each of their services. ...
A Fistful of Greasemonkey Scripts To Pimp Up Your Gmail and Reader
By Mark O’Neill In my humble opinion, the two best things to happen to the internet was Firefox and Greasemonkey. With these two tools ...
Google Earth and Sketchup - the perfect pair
By Mark O’Neill Sketchup may have brought out the designer side in everyone with models ranging from the very simple to the very intricate. But ...
There’s a new Gmail in town and it’s rooting tooting fast!
By Mark O’Neill Last night, my Gmail window suddenly logged off. Thinking it was just another Gmail beta snafu, I sighed and tried to log back in. ...
Google Finance Tab in iGoogle
This for those of you who swear by Google Finance to watch the financial market or your favorite companies: iGoogle just added a Google Finance Tab. Here’s ...
The fledgling Google web democracy
By Mark O’Neill Google has an excellent search engine (in fact the best on the web) but I still find myself struggling to separate the cream from ...
Sifting through the Google Phone rumors
By Mark O’Neill It’s become the biggest and fastest rumor mill of all time - what the Google Phone will be like, when it will come out, ...
Want something changed at Google? Form a grouplet…
By Mark O’Neill One of the things I like about Google is the company policy of allowing their employees one day a week to work on company-related ...
Google Spreadsheets Adds Conditional Formatting
Google Docs was recently updated, adding conditional formatting to the increasing feature list of Spreadsheets. Although presented in a different wording (Change format with rules), it’s ...
Google Releases Symbian Version of Google Maps
Google has released the Symbian Version of Google Maps for mobile devices running the Series 60 (3rd Edition) Symbian Operating System. Because this is an OS-native ...
Testing New Features of Google in Google Experimental
One of Google’s biggest reasons for success is that it has able to redefine search during a time when everybody thought that search is a solved ...
The New Google Desktop: Desktop Gadgets on iGoogle
In my previous post I have shown how the Google Desktop team has streamlined the user experience in Google Desktop’s newest beta version. Features are explained ...
The New Google Desktop 5.5 Beta: It’s in the Details
Last week in its Team Blog and in the Official Google Blog, the Google Desktop team announced the availability of the new Google beta version of ...
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 ...
A Quick Guide on the Google Book Search Update
If some of you can still remember, before the Search, Ads and Apps slogan, Google’s mostly known for its vision of “organizing the world’s information.” Google ...
Using Google Shared Stuff
Last week Google launched a link sharing service, not unlike what many social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us, furl, digg and magnolia is trying to do. ...
Wordpress plugin: Google powered 404
I haven’t tested it myself yet, but this new plugin for Wordpress looks pretty nice: AskApache Google 404 is a must-have WordPress plugin that uses some ajax ...
Mortgage lenders cut back on advertising but not on Google
As most of you have likely heard the real estate market here in the US is in a big down turn right now. So much so ...
