Archive for the 'Google' Category

WebRunner: Distraction free browser

The folks over at Mozilla have a cool little app called WebRunner. Basically it is a stripped down version of Firefox that lets you run single applications. For example, when you install WebRunner you will automatically get shortcuts to add to your desktop (if you want) to run Gmail, Google Groups, Google Docs and Google Calendar. [...]

Video: Inbox Zero

Merlin Mann of 43 Folders fame has a new video up of the talk he gave at Google the other day. In this one he discusses his Inbox Zero concept of email management.

Technorati tags: video, seminar, email, organization, how-to

How Come I Have No Readers? Part 2 - Search Engines

In the first installment of this series (How Come I Have No Readers? Part 1 - Feeds) I described how to provide your readers a way to subscribe to your blog. Now that you have that all set up correctly it is time to help people find your blog.
Great, you told your family and friends [...]

Gears at the Google Developers Conference

More on Google Gears from the 2007 Google Developers Conference in San Jose, California.
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Technorati tags: Google, Gears, API

Google Gears

CNet: Google engineers have enabled what Internet surfers for years have yearned for–Web applications that work offline.
Google Gears is meant to be a standardized way of adding offline capability to web apps.
 
Technorati tags: Google, Gears, Web2

Google to buy Feedburner?

I need to ponder this rumor for a bit but it wouldn’t surprise me. They both have ads and it would give Google nice foray into the feed market. They could even roll their analytics together and provide a nice package. Just as long as they don’t mess with the service and the Feedburner attitude.
 
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Google Developer Podcasts

If you like to code with Google APIs and enjoy podcasts you might want to check out the Google Developer Podcast.
The Google Developer Podcast covers,

Interviews with Google engineers, discussing areas of their expertise
New features, applications, and APIs that matter to developers
Open source projects that we work on and/or care about at Google
Projects that use [...]

EPIC revisited

Tonight I had dinner with Todd Cochrane of Geek News Central and a couple other guys from San Diego. The topics of conversation were mostly around podcasting and a bit of new media.
During the course of conversation someone mentioned the short film EPIC 2014. This was a little movie I reported on back in February [...]

How to use Google Talk and Gmail with other IM services

Do you do a lot of instant messaging? I have started to do more now that Google Talk is built into Gmail. The beauty of that is that I don’t have to install a client and it is available anywhere I have a browser. If I want one of the other services then I need [...]