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25 Aug

Thoughts on Google Voice’s outbound caller ID issues

I’ve been playing with Google Voice and there is just one major thing that keeps me from switching over. Anyone can call or text your GV number, but for outbound calls and texts it displays your real cell phone number instead. (It seems that if you reply to a text sent to your GV number, [...]

31 May

Google Reader now supports offline reading

Google Gears, a browser extension (not just for Firefox!) that will allow you to take all your online applications offline, now supports Google Reader. You can download the most recent 2000 items for offline reading. It promises not to use up all your browser’s memory or slow it down, too. Naturally, being from Google, Gears [...]

16 May

New Google test layouts

Google has a few new test layouts available in Google Labs. You can try out a timeline view, a map view, new keyboard shortcuts, and additional search navigation either on the right or left sides. Check them out here.

12 Nov

Feed readers: Google Reader is my choice

I’ve been using the paid version of FeedDemon ($30) for a couple of years now, and until recently, it would have been hard to convince me to switch.  I liked having a stand-alone app, and there was an unsupported hack that let me use Mozilla as the internal browser, instead of Internet Explorer. (Though I [...]

07 Oct

Quick Links: Google Gadgets and more

Google Gadgets – put all these gadgets on your site Integrating Google Gadgets into WordPress themes AIM Light – tiny version of AIM MedBill ManagerWeb 2.0 solution to managing your medical bills and insurance

21 Aug

Google doesn’t want people to google

This is stupid. Google is cracking down on people who use “google” as a verb (as in, I just googled the new guy at work.)  Google says it has serious trademark issues.  The problem with that is, when I say I’ve Googled someone (as a verb), I really AM using Google! Has Jell-O been hurt [...]

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