Readers offer their best tips for using touch screens in the cold winter months, middle-clicking with your laptop's touchpad, and staying focused on your work when that work is in your browser. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons—maybe they're a...
After reading Markmcb’s article about the new User Profile and Nerd Rank Changes I, for some reason, started thinking about Google Wave . This also came on the heels of watching their official announcement video at I/O 2009. For those O-Nerds that don’t know, Google Wave is a new take on collaboration software (for lack of better word). It’s being developed by the people who came...
Back in June 2007 my colleague Fiona wrote on this blog about quitting Facebook . A couple of months later, she reactivated her account *, having by then become resigned to at least having a profile on the thing, mainly due to being "in charge of social media at Prompt " at the time. But over the last month or so, and over two years later, that first post has unexpectedly started to attract...
Can you see another animal in this picture? Chances are slim that you could spot another animal’s face in this picture on your left. Yet, apart the animal king there is another, more insignificant animal hiding there. Before you check the solution below, I can give you a little hint: the illusion works in a quite similar way the Hidden Owl Illusion did. This should be more than enough for you....
Hey, funky learners and online gophers! Found a brilliant & easy to use widget for you to enhance your learning day - it's the cool blue BBC World Service one on the right-hand side (scroll down a bit). Use it in this browser to search for stuff - a lot of you have asked how to find good podcasts, and this is one of my answers! Get it for yourself if you use iGoogle here Another useful tool = a...
Many Gmail interfaces lack a basic feature: adding attachments. You can't add attachments if you use Gmail's mobile app, the mobile version of Gmail, iGoogle's Gmail gadget or if you used the offline version of Gmail until today. "Starting today, attachments work just the way you would expect them to whether you are online or offline (with the exception that when you're offline you won't be able...
As any good Cloud evangelist worth his salt will tell you, a browser beats operating system hands down for all the usual reasons, e.g. platform agnostic, reduced complexity etc. etc. However, I get the feeling sometimes that browsers have gone the way of most operating systems lately. Let me explain. Quite often in recent days, I have seen a URL or a subject offline that I have quickly wanted to research....
Seriously. I'm convinced that right before Dante's Inferno actually comes out, they're going to offer free DLC if you sacrifice a goat or something. Anyway, Visceral Games has announced a Facebook app called "Go To Hell" to promote their upcoming Dante's Inferno . With the push of a button, you can send anyone or anything to any one of the nine circles of hell. It launched today on Facebook,...
Do you want TV chef Iain Hewitson in your browser? The answer might well be no, but Google is still hoping to tempt you with a bunch of food-centric themes. (more…)
I can’t thank you enough. You sent me over 300 translations since Saturday, and I’ve already implemented most of them! You should check your iGoogle homepage, and if it’s set to show your home language (at lest set it temporarily), you’ll see the change. I’d like to hear your comments on this. If you notice any misspellings or irregularities, be sure to notify me. Anyway,...
Alton Brown, Google, and YouTube team up to answer the most puzzling Thanksgiving questions from the YouTube community and celebrate Thanksgiving with new themes and gadgets for iGoogle. www.google.com/gourmetthemes. This question is from YouTuber "Hakuo0000" For the big meal, get Alton Brown's roast turkey recipe at FoodNetwork.com/thanksgiving.
James and Rupert Murdoch are increasing their attacks against rival media and things will not get very pretty between now and the next UK general election in the summer of 2010. In the eyes of News International, the BBC is ripe for picking apart, not least because of the amount of "free" services from on-line news to original childrens' programming for an ultimate cost to the consumer far...
Good list of Google's more prominent failures . They are far from perfect, as any heavy duty Google user knows. Time for me to update my Google Quick, Sick and Dead list . Here's the current list, I use pretty much everything except Android. I'm surprised to see that there have been more promotions than demotions over the past 10 months ... The Quick Search and Scholar Android Google Reader Gmail Google...
Filed under: Google iGoogle, Google's customizable homepage, has some pretty sweet-looking themes. In fact, I rounded up the 10 best on Download Squad not too long ago. Google keeps adding themes faster than I can change my homepage, though. The latest fresh batch of themes is food-related, and a bunch of food-themed homepage gadgets have come out at the same time. While this news probably isn't going...
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