Has Gmail gone all AOL on us ?
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008I am was a great fan of gmail. Lots of storage (I haven’t deleted anything since June 2004), excellent spam filtering, accessible from anywhere that has a ‘net conenction (including my phone).
Unfortunately, I loved it so much that its entrenched in all my Social Nets, personal contacts, domain registrations etc. Unfortunate, [...]
Make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail Client
Friday, August 1st, 2008If you rely on online mail clients such as Gmail then you might like the following tip coming directly from the official Gmail blog that describes how to to make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail client (i.e. the mail client that is loaded whenever a mailto link is clicked in Firefox 3.
You’ll need to [...]
Export the Feeds from a Google Reader Folder
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Most feed readers let you import and export subscriptions using the OPML format. For Google Reader, you find this option in Settings > Import/Export. But what happens if you want to export the feeds from a single folder so you can share them with a friend or upload them to a site? Google Reader [...]
Google Docs now have templates
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Google Documents now have templates
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Finding the name behind the gmail address
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008From the SecuriTeam blog
You can get hold of the first name / last name behind a gmail / google account. There’s a bug / feature in the google ecosphere that displays the first / last name associated with an account when you share a google calendar with that account.
A different way of getting [...]
Backup Your iGoogle Page
Friday, May 9th, 2008
from GoogleSystem at Blogspot.com:
iGoogle (the personalized Google homepage), offers two options to backup your gadgets and feeds at the bottom of the settings page.
There’s an option to backup the iGoogle page on Google’s servers. While this may seem pointless, it’s useful to backup your page before adding gadgets that might create problems.
This is [...]
Google data center locations
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Pingdom (a paid service that, amongst other things, can alert you when your site is down) put together a map of Google data centers based on approximate information from the unofficial Google Data Center FAQ. From Pingdom :
If you include data centers that are under construction, Google has 19 locations in the US where they [...]
Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008From the Official Australian Google Blog:
An interesting side-effect of YouTube’s recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube. Until now, you could only get FLV files from your browser’s cache or using one of the many websites that let you download YouTube videos. In [...]
Bookmark Google Search Results
Thursday, January 31st, 2008An interesting side effect of Google Notebook’s integration with Google Bookmarks is that you can now bookmark search results without having to install plug-ins or use bookmarklets. If you search using google, while logged in to a Google Account, a new option appears next to each search result: “note this”. If you click on “note [...]
50 Google Calendar Tips
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008Christina Laun has compiled 50 tips to make the most of Google Calendar. An example of the usefull tips ….
View the weather. You can see if your weekly events will sync up with the weather or if you’ll need to bring an extra umbrella by integrating the weather report right into your calendar. Go to [...]
