It wasn’t all that hard to find, but I bet a lot of people will be looking for the song from the Google Nexus S video since they don’t credit it in the video or on the YouTube page. (And since my wife is a French teacher, I thought maybe I could help other French [...]
Tagged Allo Allo, Google, Les Sans Culottes, Music, Nexus S, YouTubeBut none of the recently announced innovations are making my eyes light up like a kid first gazing on his Easter basket. First, from the Gmail Blog: Nested Labels and Message Preview. The Nested Labels thing actually did have me excited as though it were a chocolate egg or perhaps a Peep. But then I [...]
Tagged android, Droid, Gmail, iPhone, Nexus OneWhile it wasn’t one of the major factors I talked about in my previous post, the following is a quick and easy example of another reason that webapps kick ass: No Upgrade Cycle Google launched Buzz 2 days ago, and already their making changes based on user feedback. But the best part is not that [...]
Tagged Buzz, Gmail, Google, Web DevelopmentIt’s funny that the these two posts both appeared on TechCrunch just yesterday… First: Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt on the Magical Potential of Mobile Cloud. I will re-blockquote: The mobile platforms, Android and the others, are so powerful now that you can build client apps that do magical things that are connected with the cloud. [...]
Tagged Google, iPhone, Lala.com, Mobile WebThere a few key settings in order to be able to record notes to yourself and have Google Voice transcribe them for you. You can get those from that Lifehacker link, but there’s an addition note I want to make now that I’ve actually tried this. It works, but only sort of, and you have [...]
Tagged Google Voice, ProductivityAn easy way to create an electronic Tickler file is by using Google Calendar, which can send you email, SMS, and “pop-up” reminders (which act as alerts when you sync with the iPhone Calendar), for any and all events you want. But what about stuff that you don’t really want to see cluttering up your [...]
Tagged Getting Things Done, Google Calendar, Mind Like Water, My Memory SucksFrom the Official Google Reader blog, a post about sharing with friends and making new friends. Now, I don’t have a lot of “Google Reader Friends” and I use my Shared Items to feed into a sidebar widget over here, so maybe I’m just not into the whole “sharing” thing enough, but this part seems [...]
Tagged Google ReaderIn searching for the image for my Aardvark post, I just discovered that Google has added the drop-down suggestion list to Image Search! I just used it to find the images for this post! As someone who writes 3 (or maybe more ) blogs, and likes to use relevant images in his posts, I can’t [...]
Tagged Google, Image Search