I have been a Google Voice member since it was an independent company called “Grand Central.” At that time, on the advice of David Pogue, I signed up for the service to provide a way to not miss a phone call. Continue reading »
Readdle, a publisher of business and productivity applications for the iPhone and iPad, has updated Calendars, its popular iOS application for tracking events, appointments and tasks on the go, with the “transparent” Google Calendar sync and other additions. With Calendars 2.3 people can incredibly quickly add, edit, delete or re-schedule events and tasks within the application. Continue reading »
Forever Geek’s Robin Parrish was inspired by the recent Les Paul Doodle. A Doodle is the modification of the Google logo to celebrate a particular event. In this case, the 96th birthday of Les Paul. It changed the logo into a playable guitar. Continue reading »
This site has over 3,846 calendars with more being added each day. They are specialty calendars such as:
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Here’s a good series of articles which are actually full chapter excerpts from leading books on important issues of the day . ..
[] Internet Discrimination: Impending Threat to Technology Growth?
[] Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Computing: Errors, Failures, and Risk
[] 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps: In Case of Emergency
[] Android Tablet Development Tips and Tricks
[] Resuming Business Operations After a Virus Infection
This article by Kristin Burnham on the Australian Macworld web site list 10 tips for using Gmail. Continue reading »
Google’s +1 feature success hinges on a paradigm shift as far as social interactions are concerned. Google needs a major partnership (something akin to Bing’s with Facebook and the inclusion of Facebook likes in the SERPs), or a major acquisition, to make social proof work in its search results.
The Yahoo! / MSN Search Alliance, which rolled out in the US late last year – and with mixed results, transitions in Europe imminently. As advertisers and agencies this side of the Atlantic await its arrival, leading search marketing specialist and technology firm Greenlight, is sceptical it will finally deliver on being a serious Google competitor. Moreover, Greenlight has uncovered shortcomings when it comes to paid search with the Alliance and what it really offers the advertiser.
CloudPull is a Mac OS X application that backs up Google Docs to the Mac. CloudPull backs up documents, spreadsheets, and presentations as Microsoft Office files; drawings as PNG image files; and other files in their native formats. CloudPull provides users with a local, independent backup of their Google Docs.
Full title of this Fast Company article by Kit Eaton i “Forget Advertising: In-App Purchasing Is Where the Dollars Are At.”
In it, Kit says that the new way to make money with Apps, is to allow purchasing from within the app.
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Yes, it’s yet another iPad contender, but this one’s getting some serious attention all over the world — probably because it’s from Google. And, riding in on the wings of Verizon could be a major play …
Continue reading »The actual title to this article by Saikat Basu on MakeUseOf is “10 Google Services That Don’t Get the Limelight They Deserve.”
Probably more accurate but too long. Several of these I did not know about.
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There’s still time to Sketch-a-Space for Autism Awareness … Easter Seals has announced the deadline for its online contest Sketch-A-Space, supported by Google SketchUp, will be extended from July 16 to August 20, 2010.
I used StumbleUpon to find this add-in for Firefox and Safari. It seeds Google Map urls to the iPhone via an email.
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Accessing Google Docs on the iPad just became much easier with the release of DocsPortal 1.0 from Kabuki Vision. With its stunning interface, DocsPortal makes it easy to browse, search, and view files stored in a Google Docs account. Files can additionally be e-mailed, imported, and exported from within the app.
