JAYanthem blog

By tomorrow morning Google Personalized Homepage will be no more, but worry not- it’s not disappearing but rather reinventing itself. The Google products team has announced the name will change to iGoogle (love it) and a ton of new features will be available. Some of those features include the ability to create your own page [...]

Lifehacker editor Gina Trapani recently released a new Firefox extension called Better Gmail, and let me tell you it really does make your gmail experience MUCH better. It is basically a collection of some top Greasemonkey scripts that deal with increasing productivity for Gmail. For those unaware Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you [...]

Lifehacker just posted their Top 10 list for free system recovery tools. There are some good ones on here, although I haven’t used them all- many have great reputations for getting you out of a jam in a pinch. Check it out if you run into trouble…although most aren’t for the novice user, so be [...]

So I’m home working on some things while listening to my tunes and one of favorites comes on, “Keep the Car Running” from Arcade Fire’s latest album Neon Bible. And I think to myself, I love this song but I can’t figure out what exactly it means from the lyrics. So I busted up a [...]

Saw this on Techcrunch, thought it was worth passing along. The Kegulator is a site you can visit to determine how much beer, ice, and cups you need for a party. You tell it how many drinkers there will be and how much they will be drinking and it calculates your needs. Gotta love the [...]

Looking for that tool that will help you be more productive both online and your life and general? Who doesn’t, right? Well there is a good chance you’ve looked right at it everyday that you go online and didn’t realize it.
YOUR GOOGLE HOMEPAGE
That’s right, it’s more than just a search page it can help you [...]

Here’s a neat service that I found recently and am now using to create my own custom wishlist to help my family in completing their Christmas shopping for me this holiday season. The service is completely free and pretty easy to use, although it could be improved and I’m sure it will over time.
The basic [...]

Well if you read this blog then you know I’m a big fan of Google so this by no means is a posting to tell you to start using a different search engine. But I believe it using multiple tools so check out this search engine which thinks outside the box and creates “cluster” groups [...]