Back in 2005 Google launched a bookmark management service that was designed to privately store links to your favorite sites. A few months after the launch a Firefox extension called gBrain popped up that used Google Bookmarks in a rather unique way. Once installed it would basically bookmark each and every site that you visited creating a searchable history.
Virtual desktops are one of those things that have been around for ages, and they have been an integral part of the Linux operating system for a long time. It wasn't until Apple released Mac OS X Leopard last year that a virtual desktop system, which Apple calls Spaces, shipped with an operating system other than a Linux distribution.
When we recently read news of Google's new Lively service, it kinda threw us for a loop because it just does not sound like something Google would do. Lively is like Google's own Second Life, it's a place to go for a 3D virtual experience. Users Download Lively for free (Windows only at the moment), and then use Firefox or Internet Explorer to exist in their virtual world.
As the web continues to evolve it seems as though more and more of our information is being kept online. This begs the question of whether your data will be available in your time of need.
Google has just taken an extra step to protect Gmail users from eBay and PayPal phishing attempts by implementing technology called DomainKeys. With the technology, email messages sent by phishers attempting to trick unsuspecting people into giving out an eBay or PayPal password are completely blocked.
Over the last year or two, we've seen Google add feature after feature to Google Maps. Some have commented questioning if there's anything else that Google could really do. They offer standard features like the option to get driving directions or search for businesses and attractions, but they also offer Street View and Traffic modes along with satellite imagery.
The Gmail Team over at Google has just added some new security and protection features that will leave some of their users feeling a bit more at ease that their email account is safe. Starting yesterday, Google began rolling out a feature that will allow users to view the time of their last activity on their Gmail account and whether or not it's still open in another location.
Ever since we launched the CyberSearch extension I've been getting a ton of emails with recommendations on what I can do to make it better, and alongside those emails are also a few dozen from people who are having troubles trying to install it. What happens to them, and I've had this happen to me before, is they are prompted with this warning when trying to install the extension:
There were quite a few of you who were fond of the dark Gmail theme that we wrote about a few months ago, and since then it has received some significant updates to make it even better. Now there is a very similar theme that is designed for Google Calendar, and it's created by the same people who made the Gmail version.
If you own a BlackBerry 8110, 8120, or 8130, you can now use your device in a whole new way. Google has recently launched Google Maps with voice search that will work with the aforementioned devices.
There's bad news today for privacy advocates with Wired.com reporting that a judge is ordering YouTube to provide Viacom with the hsitory of all of their users.
The long-awaited Google Talk for iPhone is finally available, and it's not in the form of an iPhone application. Instead, it's simply a browser app which makes us wonder why it took Google over a year to make something for the iPhone.
Yesterday we announced the new Firefox extension that we launched called CyberSearch (our homepage for CyberSearch). It is based on the original version of AwesomeSearch (now called Searchery), and the reason I decided to create the extension was because I saw how it could make me more productive. Hopefully what I've come up with can be useful for you as well.
Ever wonder what the differences between working at Google and Microsoft are? One of the things everybody seems to mention first is that at Google you get free food while at Microsoft you don't.
Google's Blogger service has turned into one of the most popular blog publishing systems available. Thousands of people use the service pretty regularly, and over the last several years since Google acquired it, they've added some new features which make it even better.
We reported a few months ago about how Google was adding a new social spin to iGoogle by offering a Facebook-style update module. It appears that Google has already put the new system through its paces, and has begun the rollout process that will continue over the next month or so.
It's usually easy to tell which services Google is passionate about and which ones they most want to grow because they update and add new features to them pretty regularly. One service that has kinda been neglected over time is Google News, and people are starting to notice. A recent article over at The New York Times points out how slow Google is at updating the top news of the day.
Some of you were disappointed to hear a few weeks ago that Google doesn't have any intentions of updating the Google Browser Sync extension for Firefox 3. The eagle-eyed Ars Technica has given us reason not to give up all hope quite yet though. Google, believe it or not, has posted the source code for the extension up on Google Code.
Five years ago around this time was a really important time for Google. It was when they officially announced their AdSense program that would allow people to monetize their sites. Little did we know back then that AdSense would be as popular and successful for Google as it has become.
About a month ago Adobe released some of the first Beta apps from their Creative Suite 4 product line, and that included Dreamweaver CS4. The one app that was disappointingly missing was Photoshop CS4, which has left a lot of people wondering what's going on with it.
