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Mark O

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, ...

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Mark O

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 ...

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Peter Jalbert

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 ...

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Mark O

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 ...

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Peter Jalbert

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 ...

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Mark O

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 ...

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Peter Jalbert

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 ...

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Mark O

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. ...

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Mark O

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 ...

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Mark O

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 ...

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Mark O

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. ...

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Peter Jalbert

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 ...

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Mark O

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 ...

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Mark O

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, ...

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Mark O

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 ...

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Peter Jalbert

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 ...

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Peter Jalbert

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 ...

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Peter Jalbert

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 ...

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Peter Jalbert

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 ...

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Peter Jalbert

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 ...

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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

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 ...

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Peter Jalbert

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. ...

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The Tutor

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 ...

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The Tutor

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 ...

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