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Christine Buske

8 Ways to Track the Swine Flu with Google Maps

A few months ago, we mentioned on GT that Google Trends can be used to track the spread of a flu. With the recent outbreaks and ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Pages is shutting down in June: how to save your data

Do you have a website on Google Pages? Be wary guys, the service will be discontinued in June. But this won’t be like Yahoo! pulling the ...

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Christine Buske

The 5 Most Awesome Google-Twitter Combined Applications

Here is a TwitterMap with my latest Tweet & location I blogged about using Twitter to distribute interesting links directly from Google Reader last week, and since ...

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Christine Buske

Gmail getting smarter: Email groups faster with Labs ’suggested recipients’

Gmail has come out with yet another cool new Labs feature: suggested recipients. To paraphrase Google, this function will help you avoid forgetting people in group ...

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Christine Buske

Twitter from Google Reader easily with Treader

Google Reader has many merits, one of them being the fact that you can share the stories you like with your friends, contacts, and website visitors. ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Profiles

Have you guys ever tried editing your Google Profile? Wait, are you guys even aware that you had a Google Profile? Me neither. For a self-confessed ...

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Peter Jalbert

How to insert images in Gmail

So you want to put in an image on the email that you’re composing in Gmail. It’s funny and brilliant, and you know that a picture can ...

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Christine Buske

14 Add-ons that make Gmail more awesome(ly productive)

Gmail has been my email client of choice ever since I managed to get my hands on an invite years ago (ah, the days of Gmail-by-invitation-only, ...

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Peter Jalbert

Use Gmail Sender Time Zone to keep in sync with your contacts

Let’s say you get an angry email from your friend who’s halfway around the world. You receive it in the middle of the day, and you’re ...

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Christine Buske

My Top 4 iGoogle Gadgets

I like using iGoogle because it makes me feel like I am already multitasking just by looking at my home page. The usual gadgets most people ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Calendar tip: use GMinder for easy Gcal access

Ever had a time when all you just needed to do was to go to your Google Calendar and just check out the events that you ...

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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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Christine Buske

New, Easier, Lazier Ways to Search in Gmail

Whenever I think Google can’t possibly add more features to Gmail, they prove me wrong. Currently, I have 1908 messages in my Gmail inbox. I’m sure there ...

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Christine Buske

Google Health Partners with Medicare

First of all, I have to admit I never even knew of Google Health’s existence. I found out at the same time of reading about its ...

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Peter Jalbert

Search on a different search engine… with Google!

So if you’ve been using Google as far back as 2001 (heck, I don’t think I’ve graduated out of Hotmail yet during that time), you might ...

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Christine Buske

Drawing in Google Docs

Google just announced a new function for Google Docs: Insert Drawing. This brings Google Docs closer and closer to a fully functional replacement/equivalent of other word ...

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Christine Buske

Street View is Taking me Home

I grew up in Holland, and one of my favorite cities in the world is still Amsterdam. It’s no surprise that I’m very excited about Google ...

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Peter Jalbert

Save yourself from sending out embarrassing emails

It all happens to the best of us. We send out something and we fail to attach the all-important file that was the reason for the ...

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Christine Buske

Google Chrome a La Carte!

Google took the ‘beta’ tag off Google Chrome back in December, after the fifteenth update! This left us with two Chrome options: a stable user version, ...

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Peter Jalbert

YouTube, Picasa, Flickr and Yelp previews are in Gmail

Sometimes, we just want to save time by choosing which links in our emails are worth clicking or not. It really isn’t a pleasant feeling if ...

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Christine Buske

Time Travel with Google Earth

Google Earth has added a large number of older images to their database. This was announced officially on the Google Lat Long Blog yesterday. Why bother ...

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Peter Jalbert

How to opt out of Google Targeted Ads

Recently, Google announced a new ad-targeting system that tracks where you go on the web, and tailors future ads to your interests. According to the announcement: These ...

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Christine Buske

Google Earth Exploring Mars in More Detail

Are you a bit tired of staring at planet earth? Does our planet seem a bit mundane to you and you want to explore new heights? ...

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Christine Buske

How to Collaborate (or Procrastinate) More with Google Reader

Back in the good old days people would often gather around a water-cooler to discuss the latest news. Forget tradition, Google is adding to our already ...

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Peter Jalbert

Use Gmail Tasks to increase productivity

Let’s say you have a hundred things to do and there’s just no way to keep track of your tasks. That’s where Gmail Tasks come in ...

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