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Here is a great example of a good extension written for Google Chrome. The RSS Subscription extension is built by someone on the Chromium team and it brings in the unified feed icon button into the location bar to subscribe to any feeds found on a site. Works perfectly, fits naturally, has a fair amount…

As a sort of pet project of mine I’ll be committing updates to a Google Chrome Extension for Viddler.com. There is very, very little there so far but there will be more over time. If you have a hand for creating cool Google Chrome Extensions feel free to contribute.

I’ve got an idea for the Google Reader team. When someone on Viddler, or Twitter or Facebook "follows" me I get an email letting me know. This gives me an opportunity to identify who is following me, learn about them as people instead of just statistics and perhaps even follow them back if I want…

Google launched its public DNS offering yesterday. Immediate reactions were "ooo, aaahhh, sweeet!" because we all know Google will nail the technology aspects of an fast, open DNS. Immediately following those reactions, however, came the "Oh great, now they know more about me!" statements. But then came this statement by Steven Frank of Panic (whom…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Viewing the source of a page on Google Chrome is, for the most part, a terrific experience. Chrome supports syntax highlighting of the underlying code of a page making it much more readable for us geeks while we look under the hood. However, something I’ve run into of late is that it…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Viewing the source of a page on Google Chrome is, for the most part, a terrific experience. Chrome supports syntax highlighting of the underlying code of a page making it much more readable for us geeks while we look under the hood. However, something I’ve run into of late is that it…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Viewing the source of a page on Google Chrome is, for the most part, a terrific experience. Chrome supports syntax highlighting of the underlying code of a page making it much more readable for us geeks while we look under the hood. However, something I’ve run into of late is that it…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Viewing the source of a page on Google Chrome is, for the most part, a terrific experience. Chrome supports syntax highlighting of the underlying code of a page making it much more readable for us geeks while we look under the hood. However, something I’ve run into of late is that it…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Viewing the source of a page on Google Chrome is, for the most part, a terrific experience. Chrome supports syntax highlighting of the underlying code of a page making it much more readable for us geeks while we look under the hood. However, something I’ve run into of late is that it…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Viewing the source of a page on Google Chrome is, for the most part, a terrific experience. Chrome supports syntax highlighting of the underlying code of a page making it much more readable for us geeks while we look under the hood. However, something I’ve run into of late is that it…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Viewing the source of a page on Google Chrome is, for the most part, a terrific experience. Chrome supports syntax highlighting of the underlying code of a page making it much more readable for us geeks while we look under the hood. However, something I’ve run into of late is that it…

The Google Reader team has added Tumblr to its new "Send to:" list. Nice.

I’ve been playing with recent developer preview releases of Google Chrome for Mac and I got to thinking about how important it is for Google to get the Mac version of Chrome right. Not for Google, really. For us, the users. As it stands Safari is far and away the best browser available on the…

If there is anyone that can grok Google Voice, review it, and relay that information in a way we can all understand – it is Paul Stamatiou. Here is Stammy’s first impressions of Google Voice.

Don’t have 80 minutes to watch the entire demonstration of Google Wave given at Google’s IO conference? That’s ok, Gina Trapini has taken the time to create a Google Wave Highlight Reel showing only the parts of the presentation that show-off the best features of Google Wave.

Google is constantly updating their products. Most of these updates come via their "Labs" where they test out crazy and sometimes even crazier ideas for possible features and updates to their products. Google Image Search somewhat recently added the ability to search by color. Which I think is fantastic! Here is a search for moth,…

The new version of the Google Mobile app for the iPhone has just been released with the ability to speak your search. The application also takes your currently location into consideration when doing a search. In my testing this application works very well and quickly over EDGE on an iPhone 2G. Two little niggles that…

My brother Peter just called me. "Hey, I’ve got a hot topic for your blog." So, this post is for him. Google, and more specifically Google.org, has setup an equally neat and useful system for tracking search trends regarding influenza. Apparently search trends are enough of an indicator to track actual flu activity. In other…

Is anyone else experiencing this? When I first load Google Reader, and I use Fluid to do so, it is showing me the latest post from my subscriptions (see screenshot) in the All Items list.  Even though I have it set to sort the order from oldest to newest. To correct this issue, I only…

Even though I don’t like Spotlight’s window in Leopard as much as I did the one in Tiger, I still use Spotlight extensively to launch applications, find files and directories, and search through documents, email messages, instant messages, and much more. However, more and more data is being stored "in the cloud" and so Spotlight…

The image above is, supposedly, the longest set of driving directions that you can find on Google Maps.  Some guy named Alan Taylor has taken the time to figure this out, and although you could custom drag a longer set of driving directions, he’s pretty sure this is the farthest one. While other countries, and…

This is great.  If you haven’t seen it, or seen my link to it, Google App Engine is a new service provided by Google to help scale web applications built with, as of today, Python. Turns out a few people would like to see PHP support as well. Source: I WANT PHP.

Just released with only a limited number of applications being accepted at the moment: "Google App Engine enables developers to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power our own applications." Interesting tidbits upon first glance: Uses the Python programming language. 500Mb and ~5,000,000 for free! Sandbox: In other words, if someone’s applications…

Hitting ‘?’ at anytime during your use of Google Reader will display this, what I think is an, incredible HUD for Reader’s keyboard shortcuts. Google Reader’s Heads Up Display for Keyboard Shortcuts Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! When I saw this I immediately thought: "Wow, Google really gets this whole web application thing.". But what else…

Lately, and especially since I launched the photos section of this site, I’ve been getting a lot of traffic from Google Images search. At first I thought it kind of neat that people were searching for images, or photos, and ending up finding my site in the results. But then once the traffic began to…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m sure everyone reading this, especially those of you that use Gmail, is aware that IMAP is now available through both Gmail and most Google Apps accounts*. My Google Apps account became IMAP-enabled on Friday, November 2nd, 2007. Once I saw this I quickly moved into action to setup IMAP on my…

I know what you might be thinking. You’re probably thinking: "Isn’t he the guy that said…" … my main reason for not using some of the most popular web applications has been because I can not use them offline. I am a firm believer in having all of my data available to me at anytime.…

The new Docs UI Google announced a redesign of the main Google Docs dashboard that gives you quick access to all of your documents and spreadsheets that you have on Google Docs. In many ways this new interface is much better than the old one – except that Google has seemingly taken tags, or labels…

For those reading this that may not know what Google Gears does allow me to give a little bit of background on the situation and explain how, in general, web applications work. Web applications are different then the applications you run on your computer in two very specific and obvious ways. First, they are run…

I’ve been playing around with Google My Maps ever since they were released and I’m still having trouble using embedded videos. At first I thought that I somehow had to ask Google to whitelist Viddler as a video provider. But since then I’ve tried random YouTube videos to test and I have even had trouble…