Google's program SketchUp, the 3D design program that is simple and easy to learn has been released for the Mac OS X. Google explains the program as a 3D modeling program that allows you to explore the world in 3D. SketchUp also allows you to take your 3D design and place it into Google Earth.

SketchUp has gotten good reviews from PC users, and is now

Have you ever wondered what time it was in another state or another country? Leave it to Google to put that information right at your fingertips. If you want to find out what time it is in San Francisco then just search for it: time in San Francisco. This may not be a completely new feature but it is extremely useful!

On the same note Google Blogoscoped

Prete'c new iDisk USB Drive is bullet proof. Yes that's right, bullet proof! The new iDisk, a 20 Mbps thumb drive is made in different capacities from 32MB to 2G. They are designed to withstand a bullet, water, and even fire! This reminds me an episode of Walker Texas Ranger. You know, when Walker is in the middle of a fierce fight and the bullet

Robert Scoble had just announced the other day that he will be leaving Microsoft to move to another company. So who is going to be the almighty blogger that will replace him? Well, a "robot" will.

A Microsoft news aggregator, which can be found at www.msreadr.com will get news from all of the Microsoft product team blogs. The best part is the alternate URL that

How many instant messenger services does one person need? As many as they can fit in the system tray! I just noticed that MySpace has released their own instant messenger (I don't know how long it has been out), and in my opinion it must be because people still have room left in the system tray.

So you probably want to know what kind of great features it

Windows Live Messenger was once expected to be released on June 16, but that expectation has gone away. The next generation Messenger can't be too far away though because Microsoft has sent out emails thanking Beta Participants for their feedback, and letting them know that the Beta Program for Windows Live Messenger is now over. Well, I guess all we can do is go huddle

Garett Rogers from Googling Google noticed that there were some new additions to Google's robots.txt file. The new addition references some sort of calling feature that looks like it will have caller ID. If you try and visit what the robots.txt is blocking then an XML file is displayed. A picture of the XML file is above.

There isn't much information there but by looking at