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MyFive: Services Google Should Introduce

July 13th, 2008
6 Comments Written by Ashley

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With Google's latest project called Lively being released this week, we thought we'd take a look at some of the services that they should introduce. Google seems to want to cover every topic out there, and we're sure eventually they will.


  1. Music - why music you ask? It just sounds like something Google would get into. And besides, there's already been traces of
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In a somewhat interesting move Ask.com ditched their own mapping service today, and has teamed up with Microsoft to use their Virtual Earth service. The switchover has already been made, and you can see the new service up and running over at Ask City. Most people, however, probably won't notice the switch since nothing feels any different than it did.

I'm actually surprised that Ask.com went

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Google Docs Adds PDF Upload Support

June 13th, 2008
2 Comments Written by Ryan

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We knew it was coming, but it's not even close to everything we were hoping it would be. Google announced just a short while ago that Google Docs users could begin uploading, storing, and reading PDF's on their Google account. It's nothing fancy, and for the most part it does the basic things you would expect from an online PDF

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One thing that can become really frustrating is when you go a site only to find that they have a long Flash introduction. Your options are to sit and wait for the 10 or 15 second introduction to finish, or you could search the page for the "skip intro" button which is never in the same spot on every site. On the bright side, at least there is the option to skip the

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One of the my favorite things in Firefox and Opera is having the ability to perform searches right from the location bar using keywords. In fact I've always removed the search box from the browser simply because I never use it. But when I found out about the Peers extension I thought it was going to be the extension that would actually get

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Peers: Like Inquisitor for Firefox

May 30th, 2008
6 Comments Written by Ryan

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You might recall that earlier in the month Yahoo! purchased a popular Safari add-on called Inquisitor. With it users could start typing in the browser's search box, and instantly see search results from a menu that popped down. What I was really hoping for was that a Firefox developer would take that idea and run with it.

They have! A nifty little extension called Peers

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CyberNotes: Get the Best eBay Deals

May 13th, 2008
3 Comments Written by Ryan

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Time Saving Tuesday

I don't know about you, but I've gotten some really tremendous deals on eBay before. The general consensus that I've found when talking with people, however, is that they normally make impulse purchases before they take the time to see if they are getting a real bargain. Today we're going to walk you through a 5 step process that can save you a lot of money

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