Posted in google on March 16th, 2007 Comments Off
At first I thought this isn’t really that handy, but then I thought this could be of use for those whose work has Gmail blocked at the company firewall. Most companies won’t block www.google.com so this may give you a loophole to use Google talk. Add Google Talk to your Google homepage – Lifehacker
Posted in google on March 14th, 2007 Comments Off
If you live in one of the select 30 major U.S. cities then you will now see a new button on the Google Maps called Traffic. It can help you plan a route around bad traffic congestion by seeing what roads are showing as red, then finding an alternate smooth sailing route in green. Not [...]
Posted in google, how-to on February 15th, 2007 2 Comments »
On the subject of Gmail, figured I’d post this article I stumbled on. Luckily I don’t have this problem at work, but I’m sure many of you might- or may in the future. So how can you access Gmail if your work or school is using their firewall to block access? Read this posting from [...]
Posted in google on February 15th, 2007 Comments Off
Today Gmail opened up it’s services for all to use (at least in US, Canada, and Mexico) after having been an invitation only service for the 3 years it’s been running. So now there is no excuse for you not to be on Gmail! I was reading a story today that had another angle about [...]
Posted in consumer, google on January 21st, 2007 Comments Off
Google has decided to give out $10 as a bonus to try it out their (somewhat) new Google Checkout system. There are no strings attached to this,all you need to do is sign up before Feb 15th and then use your free money before March 31, 2007. So sign up and purchase anything over $10 [...]
While viewing another blog today I can across this and thought it was worth a posting. It appears some kids had a little fun on the roof of their school. I’d imagine we are going to see more and more of this stuff now thanks to Google maps! For larger view, click here.
Posted in best-of-web, google on December 6th, 2006 Comments Off
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 [...]
Posted in business, google on October 9th, 2006 Comments Off
Two of the most popular sites are now owned by a single company as Google announced it will be purchasing the rising star of the web- YouTube.com. For those YouTube fans, worry not the site will remain the same it will not be integrated with Google’s existing video service. Should be interesting to see how [...]