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April Fool’s Day Gag’s on the Internet

// April 1st, 2008 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Gmail’s "Custom Time"

Google Calendar WakeUp Kit

Google and Virgin Agree to make human settlement on Mars

Gmail and Remember the Milk – Talk about Getting Things Done!

// January 14th, 2008 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

The last feature that needs to be added to Google to literally replace Outlook with web-based apps.

Integrate Remember the Milk tasks into Gmail using Firefox addon

iPhone and Gmail working together

// December 27th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // Uncategorized

Accessing Gmail on the iPhone has been a little sticky – mainly since the suggested interface on the iPhone points you to Gmail in mobile Safari.

How to setup email on the iPhone – Access Gmail on iPhone

Sync your MS Office docs and OpenOffice.org Docs to Google Docs

// December 19th, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Sync your Open Office docs with Google Docs

Sync Microsoft Documents with Google Docs automatically

Now no matter what brand of Office documents you use (except the 15 of you using Corel’s WordPerfect) can be sync’d with Google Docs and stored online for eternity. Granted being able to edit docs on any PC you ever touch is awesome, and you can use your favorite software – Google Docs, MS Word, or OO.org Writer to manipulate it.

FYI OpenOffice.org Sync is a Firefox Extension and MS Office Sync is an actual program installed on your PC.

(update: yes I tagged Microsoft, open source and Google in the same post)

Google now indexes your voice!

// December 17th, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Google Built Phone Service to Train Speech-to-Text Software

If you’ve called the 800-GOOG-411 at all chances are your voice is being used to train Google’s speech to text recognition (also read as Skynet). I kinda wish Google would have owned up to this one at lot sooner. On the other hand – a perfect way to get millions of samples of human speech, with different accents, pronunciations, inflections, etc. Whoever thought this one up at Google is getting a pat on the back.

New tool for Google Maps Hackers

// December 13th, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Google Maps API Team has added more control over the LocalSearch box that will show up in the lower left corner if you put
Gmap2.enableGoogleBar()
in your script. Personally what use is the LocalSearch Box unless it searches what you are mashing in the map.

Apparently that was the consensus from all the Google Map Hackers and they rushed out more control over the LocalSearchControl

http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/12/googlebar-now-with-options.html

Watch what you type in the address bar, google.cm or google.com?

// December 10th, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Google.cm and More Used for Typosquatting

Interesting read – I personally use OpenDNS like the article suggests and don’t have this problem. Article has links to OpenDNS FAQ to setup your computer or network to use OpenDNS.