Archive for the 'Google' Category

Kid falls off bike on Google Street View

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Now this is funny!
Click here to start viewing the Street View bicycle accident for yourself.

WTF: YouTube has country-specific videos

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Since when did YouTube have country-specific videos?! I am in Australia and I cannot play a particular music video off of an official channel on YouTube!
I fear that YouTube is becoming like every other terrible online video website out there.
Thank goodness there are people that re-post videos. Here’s the video I originally wanted to include [...]

Google Maps wallpapers

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Sometimes when I randomly “travel” in Google Maps, I come across places in the Midwestern United States that are just absolutely beautiful from above. Sometimes the landscape is just a view of a piece of crop land, and sometimes it is the abstract nature of the area itself that gives it such an amazing look.
Now, [...]

Gmail eliminates Spam folder, wins the war on email spam

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

The thing I love about Gmail is that it’s always improving. Today I logged into my Gmail account and saw that there was a “New Features!” link posted at the top right corner. Apparently, Google has gotten so good at combating spam that they’ve begun the process of eliminating the spam folder altogether. And sure [...]

Gmail access at RMIT

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s the first day of classes, so this is either a glitch in their system, or somebody in IT finally realized how stupid of a policy it was.
I hope it stays this way.
UPDATE: It looks like all external email works on the RMIT network. I’ve tried Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, and AOL Mail, and all seem [...]

Be INVISIBLE in Gmail Chat

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Starting immediately, you can choose to be “invisible” in Gmail Chat. This means you can see who is on without having to let them know that you’re there.

Full Screen Google Maps

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Full Screen Google Maps is worth bookmarking. It’s useful for when you really don’t need anything but an address look-up. It does away with all of the useless Google mumbo-jumbo. [via]

Subscribe to your Facebook notifications; free your inbox

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I just turned off my email notifications from Facebook and subscribed to my Facebook notifications via RSS feed instead. Why? So that my inbox stays clean and free of any Facebook bacn/junk.
I don’t know why I never thought of this before but I’m sure glad I did.
Just about everything mildly useful these days has an [...]

Alternate Google search URLs

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Did you know that Google hosts alternate search web addresses in order to “hide” your searches? Normally, when you do a Google search, your search query is visible in the address bar. For example, a search in Google for “all your base” will give you the URL http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=all+your+base&btnG=Search&meta= or something like it.
If for some reason [...]

You can now use AIM in Gmail

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Today marks the launch of Gmail & AIM integration. If you are in Gmail, go to the bottom of your Chat list, click Options, and the drop-down menu will now have an extra feature that will allow you to sign into AIM.
As long as you’re using an English version of Gmail, you should see it.
All [...]