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Christine Buske

Picture-Perfect Mac with Picasa

Macworld is the event enthusiasts look forward to in the wait for new exciting features and software for our MacBooks. It’s not entirely surprising Google waited ...

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Peter Jalbert

How To: Automatically buffer YouTube videos

As much as I love YouTube, I totally hate YouTube when the internet is slowing down and I’m stuck with a video that buffers on me ...

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Christine Buske

Your Wish, is Google Mobile’s Command…

Although it’s no longer the time for compiling wish lists and letters to Santa until 12 months from now, there is still an outlet for your ...

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Peter Jalbert

How to watch YouTube Videos non-stop with Infinitube

If you ever had an urge to watch YouTube videos non-stop for whatever reason (I, for one, like to watch videos of my favorite bands non-stop ...

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Peter Jalbert

Looking back on Gmail 2008

2009 is almost upon us! I’m sure when 2009 rolls around, we’ll get more and more features in everybody’s favorite webmail client, Gmail. But let’s not ...

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Christine Buske

Google Connects Calendar to iCal

Not long ago, our only good options to sync Google Calendar with iCal on a Mac was either CalDAV, or Spanning Sync. Google ‘Simplifies’ CalDAV This month, Google ...

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Christine Buske

3 Awesome Image Search Tricks for More Useful Results

Although Google Image Search is still the best and most comprehensive search tool for images, it can still be hard to pick through the results for ...

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Peter Jalbert

Search Wiki: Make Google Your Own

Some logged-on Google users may have noticed a few changes to their Google search results. You may see two buttons with every listing in the results. ...

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Jonathan Dingman

Google AdSense for Domains

Last week, Google announced that they were going to roll out AdSense for Domains to all publishers. It’s really easy to get started and serve ...

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Peter Jalbert

Play Snake on your Gmail with Old Snakey

I’m assuming everyone here is old enough to remember that addictive, mind-numbing and time-consuming game called Snakes that we used to play on our computers, cellphones, ...

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Christine Buske

Import Gmail Directly into Google Docs

Working from the idea that an email can sometimes contain the information you need to start a new document, Google has made the link between the ...

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Jonathan Dingman

Google Friend Connect to Integrate with Twitter

Google recently announced the launch of Google Friend Connect, a tool that will let you connect and interact with other people on a site. Yesterday, ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Cache Tips

Ever needed to find some information on the web, googled it, and then to your dismay, you find out that the site has changed, been edited, ...

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Christine Buske

Chat Anywhere: Send SMS with Google Talk

Even when your friends are not logged into Google Talk, you can use it to send them messages. Instead of using Google Talk just for chatting, ...

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Peter Jalbert

Get Tasks Done With Gmail

Ever want to have all your tasks included in a single window so you won’t have to juggle your calendar, email, and your to-do list? Luckily, ...

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The Tutor

A Blogger’s best friend - Insights plugin for WordPress

Recently I had the pleasure of using Vladimir’s WordPress service for some help with my Google Reader Shared Items plugin. Vlad impressed me with his knowledge of ...

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Christine Buske

The 5 Coolest Google Applications for Blackberry

Google and Blackberry are a great match, and I’ve already written on this topic a few times recently. Although Google mobile applications work on more models ...

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Peter Jalbert

Embed High Quality YouTube Videos

Unknown to many, YouTube has, for a time, been quietly offering high-quality versions of a few of their videos via a “watch in high quality” link ...

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Phil Glockner

Get Social with Google Friend Connect

Walled Gardens You are probably a light user of a social networking site, whether you know it or not.  MySpace, Facebook, Twitter are all examples of ...

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Christine Buske

Top 5 Google Docs Templates for Christmas

Google Docs doesn’t just save you money by basically eliminating the need for desktop software, but it can save you a bundle of time (and money!) ...

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Peter Jalbert

Use Gmail Backup to Save Your Emails from Oblivion

We all know how awesome Gmail is. It, however is not without downtime, as with all online services. What if you need your email on one of ...

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Christine Buske

How to Turbo-Charge Wordpress with Google Gears

Anyone who runs a blog, and loves Wordpress, is in for a little surprise in the latest WP version. If you log into version 2.6, you ...

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Jonathan Dingman

Google to Start Hosting Yahoo! JavaScript Libraries

Google and Yahoo! have partnered together and Google will begin hosting the YUI! libraries. This is really important for one primary reason: choose the content delivery network ...

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Peter Jalbert

FoxGlove: Google Apps Portal

I find myself increasingly using a separate Firefox window for my email, online office suite, and RSS reader to separate them from my browsing experience and ...

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Christine Buske

Google Fighting a Virus and Publishing in Nature

Google didn’t grow to the company it is today by just being interested in simple search queries. If any company has succeeded to transform ’search’ into ...

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