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I’ve already pointed out the Better Gmail Firefox extension, well now Gina from Lifehacker has released a Better GCal extension. Right now there’s not a ton in it, however it’s worth it just for the ability to text wrap events and for the sweet air skin. If you are a Google Calendar user (and why [...]

Street View allows you to view street level photographs in select cities. It’s pretty fun to play around with, although I wonder how long this lasts until people start to really bring up privacy concerns.
Of course people are already having fun with it and voting on the best images captured.

Last week a co-worker pointed this out this Google tool called Gapminder and I thought it was very cool. I looked into it more this week and found that Google actually acquired it along with the team that built it a few months ago. It is really an amazing way to interactively view statistics, it [...]

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 [...]

Although they aren’t the first to get into this, they are one of the biggest to get into free 411 services. Just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 to use the fully automated service. According to the linked article below from TechCrunch the product test were excellent. Considering it’s free there is no reason not to try it- pop [...]

Ran across this site while looking into something for work, it is a suite of browser based software applications. The site is called Zoho, and it provides a lot of (mostly) free software revolving around productivity apps. There are apps for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, wikis, email, chat, and more. If has a very similar [...]

You can now choose from 6 different themes to liven up your personalized Google homepage. Nothing groundbreaking but I like it. I’m using the Sweet Dreams theme which will automatically match the landscape with the time of day with sunrise and sunset, etc.
Lifehacker- Customize Google Homepage