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  • How to use Gmail's 'Multiple Inboxes' for extra Gmail accounts

    Posted on Sunday February 8th, 2009 at 06:17 in Software, google, e-mail

    When I heard the news that Gmail was offering "Multiple Inboxes" as part of Labs, the first thing that popped into my head was "finally--now I can check multiple accounts from the same place!" Unfortunately, that's not how it works. Instead, Google's...

  • Google rolls out offline Calendar access

    Posted on Thursday February 5th, 2009 at 11:07 in internet, google, utilities

    Early last year some folks started finding clues that Google was building offline support for Google Calendar. Now it looks like the company is finally rolling out that feature. Mark Mathson of Keenpath noticed an offline access button in his Google ...

  • Gmail rolls out tools to make labels easier

    Posted on Tuesday February 3rd, 2009 at 20:23 in google, web, e-mail

    About 4 years after Google confused millions of people by telling people to tag their email messages with "labels" instead of sorting messages into folders, the company is rolling out a new feature that could make labels a little easier to use. Here'...

  • Google gets overprotective, flags whole internet as malware

    Posted on Sunday February 1st, 2009 at 20:17 in search, google

    Google has some built in tools that will warn you before you click a link that could take you to a website running code that could harm your computer. And usually that's a good thing. But this morning Google started returning warnings for virtually e...

  • Red Alert! Google warning errors persist in Gmail

    Posted on Sunday February 1st, 2009 at 20:17 in internet, google, blogging

    While the more glaring problem of flagging the entire internet as untrustworthy was quickly resolved yesterday, it appears as though the google bug hasn't been completely crushed underfoot.I was originally tipped off by our own Christina Clark, who a...

  • Is Google working on an official GDrive for cloud storage?

    Posted on Monday January 19th, 2009 at 20:52 in internet, google, Web 2.0, web services, utilities

    Just about everyone with a GMail account likes the sound of apps like GmailDrive and Gspace for Firefox, but some users are hesitant to use them. What if google decides to pull the pin on apps like these? What about my data!? An official GDrive has ...

  • It's the end of Google Video, Notebook, and Jaiku as we know it

    Posted on Thursday January 15th, 2009 at 20:44 in news, google, web

    Google has announced plans to close, stop development of, or dramatically alter a number of services including Google Video, Google Notebook, Google Catalog Search, Jaiku, Dodgeball, and Google Mashup Editor. Some of the services will still be around...

  • How To Run Chrome on 64-bit Windows 7 [Windows]

    Posted on Wednesday January 14th, 2009 at 11:08 in google, windows, Microsoft

    So you got your windows 7 64-bit running, complete with new BSODs, and now you want to install Google's chrome just to discover it doesn't work. Don't worry, because you can fix it. Just right click on the Google Chrome Icon, modify the Chrome Prope...

  • Google Image Search adds search by style feature

    Posted on Saturday December 20th, 2008 at 22:41 in search, google

    You know that feeling you got the first time you realized you could search for images on the internet using Google Image Search? You know, the one that made you waste three hours of your day looking for pictures of yourself, your friends, that kid yo...

  • Gmail Gets a Built-in PDF Reader, Lets You Avoid Acrobat Reader [Gmail]

    Posted on Monday December 15th, 2008 at 21:19 in Software, google, adobe

    I've always found PDFs to be supremely annoying thanks to Acrobat Reader's slow, crashy behavior. Now, Gmail is allowing users to skip the Reader altogether. Now, when you click "View" on an attached PDF, you'll get to view it inside your browser wit...

  • Google: Gmail gets the Google Docs PDF viewer

    Posted on Saturday December 13th, 2008 at 08:51 in google, windows, e-mail

    Google has long offered Gmail users the ability to open PDF attachments as HTML files without downloading the file and firing up Adobe Acrobat, Foxit or any other PDF viewer. But you lose a lot in the translation when you convert a PDF file to HTML. ...

  • Google Chrome hits 1.0

    Posted on Friday December 12th, 2008 at 13:35 in google, beta, browsers

    Just in case you needed any proof that software version numbers are meaningless, Google has updated Google Chrome, it's web browser to version 1.0 (or 1.0.154.36 to be exact). Yesterday the latest version of the software was version 0.4.154.29.So why...

  • Android First-look: Amazon.com MP3 Store

    Posted on Sunday October 26th, 2008 at 20:57 in google, audio

    Buying music directly from the Amazon.com MP3 store is one of Android's coolest features. Although it might not be the "killer feature" that some were hoping it would be, it offers a great way to get quality, DRM free music directly to your device. T...

  • Googleholic for September 7, 2008

    Posted on Sunday September 21st, 2008 at 01:43 in internet, google, Web 2.0, web services

    Welcome to Googleholic, your weekly fix of everything Google! In this, "Happy 10th anniversary, Google" edition: A decade of Google Germany hates Google Chrome Picasa and Picasa Web Albums get updated Gmail code base updated for IE 6 Google ti...

  • Googleholic for September 12, 2008

    Posted on Sunday September 21st, 2008 at 01:43 in internet, google, Web 2.0, web services

    Welcome to Googleholic, your weekly fix of everything Google! In this mega-huge-fantastic edition: YouTube and Pulitzer Center launch journalism contest More iGoogle bling Gmail Labs introduces new Reply options Open source sample Android applic...