I love the idea of two factor auth, and I think Google has generally done a good job on it, they have certainly tried to make it easy to use…
Tag: Google
So the new “Chromebook Pixel”:http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/02/chromebook-pixel/ is out, and it is an interesting move. Nice hardware, but expensive, and of course limited to whatever software runs on Chrome. Being the “proud”…
“Privacy Fix”:https://www.privacyfix.com/start is instructive. Who knows how accurate it is, but I bet it is directionally correct. And it says that FB makes about 5 cents a year off ads…
“Big move for yahoo”:http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/googles-marissa-mayer-tapped-as-yahoos-chief/?hp. I’d make job 1 cozying up to Apple and help supplant all the Google services on Apple devices. If Yahoo could become the most relevant internet…
Some interesting commentary on “Google’s business model by Gruber”:http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/08/23/swartz-google-evil — a total Apple fan, doesn’t view ads as inherently evil, but says you need to be very respectful of your…
OK I am sure I will buy one of these when I can because, well, I am a classic early adopter and will get sucked in. But as mentioned at…
Yesterday was a brutal technology day. First, I wedged my Kindle between my rear and a chair and heard a nasty “crack”. My Kindle display has a nice shattery image…
OK the missteps that Google has made with Buzz this week are well chronicled. They jammed a product out without really thinking it through. That doesn’t hit me that much…
* Scanaroo. The idea of something to manage all my cards is cool — one place to see account numbers, 1800 customer service numbers, etc etc etc. But this isn’t…
Seven Must-Have Offline Apps For Your iPhone/iPod Touch – ReadWriteWeb. — MightyDocs is great if you are a google docs users.
Google Mac Developer Playground – Google Code — fun mac stuff here from google
Office 2007 for Windows has some really cool features. I love the table formatting in XL, a totally obvious and good feature. And the fact that it is only in…
Add a Table of Contents to Google Docs and More — great tip here, just paste “javascript:mr(“TocSettings”);” into the address bar and you will get a TOC dialog. probably will…
Google Docs: Google Docs Template Gallery Launches. Awesomeness Gmail Superstars. Not as useful as tags but still kind of cool Open It Online. Send docs straight to google docs Cookiepie. …
After activation woes, the experience has been pretty good. The things I like: * The Exchange support. Wasn’t completely obvious how to enable. You have to delete your old imap/webdav…
* Google Docs: Style Your Google Docs with CSS, wow, reminiscent of old word stylesheets * Monitoring airport client performance — thanks rich * WHatpage for rotating through start pages…