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  • Google Indexes Shared Voicemails on Google Voice

    Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 11:34 in google, Index, voice, voicemails

     I was reading an article on engadget about the fact that Google is indexing voicemails that where recorded on Google Voice. You can find some of them if you copy paste this into a search site:https://www.google.com/voice/fm/  . When you do...

  • Apple Acquires Placebase a Google Maps Competitor

    Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 12:50 in apple, google, pushpin, placebase

      So it seems that the rift between Apple and Google is become more and more apparent as Apple acquired a Map making company back in July that has been a Google Maps competitor from the start. It seems that Apple is trying to free themselves of ...

  • Google Voice Widget for Mac – send SMS and make calls from your Google number

    Posted on Sunday August 16th, 2009 at 12:32 in google, Free, sms, widget, voice, call, number

    Want an easy way to send SMS messages or call people from your Google Voice number? Well Andreas Amann created a widget that does just that. The widget allows you to login to your Google Voice account and send SMS messages to anyone in your address b...

  • Why are Apple and AT&T Afraid of Google Voice

    Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 13:28 in google, iphone, voice, phone number, port, at&t, porting

    Porting your Number to Google Voice!Is porting your number to Google Voice what AT&T and Apple are worried about? I wrote a post recently discussing Apple rejecting and removing Google Voice applications from the App Store. Are they afraid that p...

  • Google to Make Full Featured Web Google Voice App

    Posted on Friday August 7th, 2009 at 12:47 in google, voice, web app

     A couple of weeks ago Apple rejected to official Google voice application saying it had duplicate features the iphone already has. Apple even pulled the third party GV applications from the store as well. This of course made a lot of people ver...

  • How to Forward your Google Voice Number to your Skype Account

    Posted on Monday August 3rd, 2009 at 18:59 in google, voice, forward, skype

      When I got Google Voice I was thinking to myself wouldn’t it be great to if you could forward it to your Skype account so you can get calls on your computer without paying for the skypeIn internet number service. And then I was thinking why ...

  • Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple Board

    Posted on Monday August 3rd, 2009 at 18:01 in apple, google, iphone, ceo

    It seems as if Google CEO Eric Schmidt has stepped down from the Apple’s board of directors. It seems that since Google’s recent products like the Android and the Chromo OS that Google is now cutting into Apple’s core business. Because Google i...

  • Google Tasks List Makes it to the Big Time

    Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 14:34 in google, gmail, features, tasks

    A new feature has made it’s way onto the Gmail web interface. The new feature called tasks is a simple to do list that follows you everywhere. Tasks will automatically ad the task to your calendar if the task has a date associated with it.  If...

  • Google Voice – I can’t wait

    Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 12:16 in google, Free, service, voice

    I can’t wait till Google voice comes out. I am super excited about this new free service that Google will be offering. In case you haven’t heard about the new Google voice I’ll tell you a little about it. Google voice is going to be a free onli...

  • Google Chrome OS Impact on Windows

    Posted on Thursday July 9th, 2009 at 12:32 in google, chrome, os

    So Google announced they have been developing an operating system that will be lightweight and run on Linux. They have also said they are going to make it Web-centric with application that run on the web rather than on your computer. This will make t...

  • New Google Latitude is it Scary or Awesome?

    Posted on Wednesday February 4th, 2009 at 14:19 in google, friends, find, latittude

    So I just heard about a new Google product called Latitude. Latitude will show you where your friends are on Google maps as well as on your mobile phone. This might sound scary, especially for Google conspiracy theorist, to have someone like google b...

  • Google’s Picasa now on beta for Mac

    Posted on Tuesday January 6th, 2009 at 13:15 in google, mac, beta, macworld, picasa, expo

    Wow so Google at the MacWorld expo released the new beta version of Picasa for Mac. Picasa for those of you who don’t know is a free photo management program. It integrates with Google’s free online photo sharing service. So you can manage your p...