Google’s Sergei Brin and Steve Horowitz show off multiple prototypes of the Android platform, one of which has a Palm smartphone form factor and one that has a higher-end, HTC Windows Mobile form factor. Sergei talks about how Google has set aside $10,000,000 to reward [...]
Continue ReadingGoogle Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions. Google Browser [...]
Continue ReadingAlthough it’s still considered a work in progress, Google’s online spreadsheet will offer consumers and businesses a free alternative to Microsoft’s Excel application. Google’s spreadsheet isn’t as sophisticated as Excel. For instance, the Google spreadsheet won’t create charts or provide a menu of controls that [...]
Continue ReadingGoogle SketchUp (free) is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program whose few simple tools enable you to create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects – even space ships. You can add details, textures and glass to your models, design with dimensional accuracy, [...]
Continue ReadingWHOOo WHOoo!! Last night Google jumped on board the Mac OS X Widget Wagon (WW for short (pronounced dub dub)) in a big way, and it was about time. Google released 3 new widgets, including one that connects you to a quick view of your [...]
Continue ReadingGoogle has released a Web 2.0 editor. Check it out. Google Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes. It would be cool if Google used this engine on [...]
Continue ReadingAccording to this ZDNet article Google’s GMail has some new features up it’s sleeve. Based on information found buried deep within the javascript source, we can start to see the bigger picture for GMail. This article is comeplete with the lines of code in question [...]
Continue ReadingIn the ongoing war to become the ultimate desktop OS Google is preparing its own distribution called Goobuntu. The Linux desktop based on the newly popular Linux distribution called Ubuntu which means “humanity to others” in several African languages, including Zulu and Xhosa. Google has [...]
Continue ReadingAccording to several sources, Google is getting ready to update the way it indexes the web and ranks pages soon. This time it is more than just a simple algorithm change—this one is datacenter big. “Big Daddy” datacenter big to be specific, as that is [...]
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