As I previously wrote, I’m recently back from both a spectacular wedding and honeymoon, that included a much needed trip to some small deserted islands of Fiji, more precisely Matamanoa and LikuLiku. My favorite pic from the trip is to the right on an eve when the moon rose above Matamanoa in a most amazing […]
It must have been announcement day over at the GooglePlex, but they released the Google Video player, which:
Watch videos downloaded from Google Video
Browse scenes within a video using thumbnails
Skip to anywhere in the video, even if that portion hasn’t downloaded yet
Sit back and watch videos in full screen mode
Resume video downloads automatically
The system requirements seem […]
In fiddling with Google’s Da Vinci Code search, I discovered that Google
can perform currency as well as unit calculations/conversions in addition to a slew of other features.
You can read more about it here: http://www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator
In a great and positive move, Google recently released a new and FREE version of SketchUp. The new application highlights some of the wonderful basic features of SketchUp and lets users build 3D models and render them in a sketch view, as well as add them to Google Earth. There remains a Pro […]
In exploring the labs section of Google, I recently uncovered a pretty neat little tool entitled Google Sets (http://labs.google.com/sets).
Lets first discuss the fact that I don’t understand why Google has to use unaliased text in their logo on a page that is hit by who knows how many millions of users. All it is, […]
I had proposed the idea that Google was becoming the new Netscape, on the heels of news that Google had acquired Writely and MeasureMap, and later learned that they had also acquired @Last Software, makers of the fun-yet-powerful Sketchup.
But in a seemingly odd cue of events, I stumbled upon a couple of articles that talk […]
A collection of some interesting and noteworthy Gmai tips for those of you fellow Gmailers out there.
Google idealism of “do no evil”, while admirable, is still not necessarily practical. What I mean by that is that Gmail users like myself have contended with the fact that Google thought, in their original release of Gmail, that 1gig of space is so profuse and excessive that users would never really need to […]
After a long, long wait, we Mac users can rejoice in the beauty that is Google Earth. Download it here.
