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Google Maps upgrade

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

I’ve seen a couple places referring to some improvements in the way google maps handles zooming and so I decided to take a look in Firefox. The zoom handling of Google maps is the one thing that I’ve wished for an improvement in for some time. After noticing MSN’s virtual earth had the [...]

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GDrive rumors and screenshot - Platypus

Monday, July 10th, 2006

I saw this ZDNet post today with a tantalizing glimpse of Gdrive. It comes originally from cocaman.ch where he found a login page for something called Google Platypus, which is essentially a remotely used file storage. Now, from the page there are a couple of items that can be gleaned. Currently it’s [...]

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Google has been verbed….

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Looks as though Google (as in… “I’ve spent the afternoon googling for information on ski vacations.”) is now officially part of the English language according to the Oxford English dictionary. Of course, many people realize that google had another meaning. (Was this terminology from the game of cricket?)
intr. Of the ball: to have [...]

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Google Checkout

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Gbuy, Gcheckout, Google Payments etc…. the news has been circulating for months - Google will compete with Paypal. Well, Google Checkout has finally launched and is being covered by most every outlet covering online news (including several of Google’s blogs are talking about this latest product launch from google. It seems to be [...]

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Google roundup…. 55 ways to have fun, ipv6 and schoolkids Social Security Numbers….

Monday, June 26th, 2006

There are a few Google related stories of the last few days to catch up. 1)55 Ways to have fun with Google is an e-book available for purchase on Amazon or Lulu.com, but it’s also avaiable as a free pdf download. (And it’s licensed so you can mix it up/etc…) It’s certainly [...]

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A few Google improvements

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

I thought it might be worth mentioning a few little bits of Google news. Much like the Linux and Windows search areas at google (linux search and windows search)… They’ve launched a Portal (?) giving access to the comlete works of William Shakespeare and a way to search US Government web sites at usgov.google.com. [...]

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Google Earth for Linux

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

One of the big linux news stories yesterday was the release of google earth for linux. Essentially the Google earth team has released “release 4″ which is a beta version of the next release. It looks like there are greater “user contribution” capabilities with this release. I’ve tried the download for linux [...]

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Get ready for GBuy?

Friday, June 9th, 2006

A while back there were rumors of Google Payments, a Paypal competitor on the way. Well, if this is right, it will be named GBuy and will be launched June 28th. Also, it sounds as though there may be no fee for merchants during the test. After that, there will be a [...]

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World Cup coverage

Friday, June 9th, 2006

For anybody that didn’t notice, the World Cup has gotten underway in Germany. (For those that haven’t heard - every 4 years there’s a world football championship (here in the US we call it soccer).) The US National team is scheduled to play the Czech Republic Monday (the US side is in [...]

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Firefox Sync plugin

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

Google has released a new plugin for firefox that synchronizes various settings from one pc to another making use of a google account. Essentially, it saves certain preferences from your browser to your Google account, then when the browser is launched again it retrieves any changes from the Google Account. This sounds like [...]

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