Google’s latest offering, Google Gears, is making quite the buzz, and deservedly so. Much of the talk is centered around the technology itself. Google Gears is an open sourced framework for creating off-line web applications. Basically, it is a plug-in to web browsers which will allow the sharing and storing of local and remote data. […]

It didn’t take long for the new Street View feature of Google Maps to cause a stir. A user at Boing-Boing has posted that she managed to find her apartment. In fact, if provides a rather clear look into her window, and shows her cat minding its own business. She mentions that she is concerned […]

Google Maps has released the new “Street View” feature to the wild. With this, you can access a street level view of certain areas within the US. Apparently the Silicon Valley, Las Vegas, Miami, Denver and New York are available with this new feature. It appears to be a series of still images that are […]

Peter Fleischer has posted an opinion piece covering personal search using Google. It addresses the benefits of using this technology, including keeping a history of your searches that can be used to keep searches more relevant to your interests. This is an undeniable advantage to someone looking to get better results.
Of more interest to me […]

There is a new version of Google Desktop, version 4.5. It offers a few visual enhancements such as transparency, and includes updates for compatibility with Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Firefox 2.0. The 2.07MB download is available at the Google Desktop site.
Source: Google Desktop Blog
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Google Earth is allowing its user to travel back in time, sort of. As of today, when you load Google earth you can choose to overlay a collection of historic maps. There are several to choose from including Lewis and Clark 1814(see picture above), world globe 1790, Tokyo 1680, and many more.
This marks another round […]

The search bar that is integrated with Firefox has been a tremendous help in my web surfing. Internet Explorer 7 has added a similar search capability, but by default offers only the Microsoft Live Search. Fortunately adding Google or your search engine of choice is quite easy.

The first step is to click the little down […]

Google has today released a free Java based application for accessing your Gmail account on your Java enabled mobile device. While one could access their Gmail account already using the built in browsers of their mobile device, “Gmail for mobile devices” has several features that Google believes will make it easier for Gmail users.

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