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Googleholic for September 12, 2008



Welcome to Googleholic, your weekly fix of everything Google!

In this mega-huge-fantastic edition:
  • YouTube and Pulitzer Center launch journalism contest
  • More iGoogle bling
  • Gmail Labs introduces new Reply options
  • Open source sample Android applications
  • New features for Google Docs
  • Google Mobile App for BlackBerry
  • Mobile Search adds My Location

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Filed under: Internet, Google, Googleholic

Googleholic for June 27, 2008

Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!

In this edition:

  • New Google Mobile homepage
  • Improved search results for BlackBerry
  • Free Google webinar for webmasters
  • Google Finance data API released
  • Google Media Server gadget

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Filed under: Productivity, Web services, Google, Googleholic, Search, web 2.0

Googleholic for June 7, 2008


Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!

In this, day late, dollar short edition:

  • Inside the Google favicon redesign
  • Get transit schedules from Google Maps for mobile
  • Explore the Magic Kingdom in 3D
  • Location-aware Applications now available to 3rd party developers
  • Round-up of other Google stories we covered this week

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Filed under: Fun, Internet, Text, Features, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm, Productivity, Web services, Google, Commercial, Freeware, Open Source, BlackBerry, Mobile Minute, iPhone, Search, web 2.0

5 things missing from your mobile life in 2008: Google Mobile and more

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Life's getting mobile, and it seems that's the way it's always going to be. Humans don't come off as the traveling type, yet we do. From horse carriages to cell phones, we're always looking for ways to do more on the move, so what's missing from your mobile life in 2008 and how can you fix it? The following list may help.

1. Full access to YouTube in Windows Mobile: Everyone's got a solution for playing YouTube Mobile videos on a Windows Mobile phone, but it seems no one's giving Windows Mobile users a way to access YouTube.com's full, flash video library. Oh wait, there is a solution. It only requires users to install a specific version of TCPMP and the Flash Video Bundle, an add-on to TCPMP to give it the ability to play flash video. Use Pocket IE to navigate to YouTube (a few other flash video sites are also supported). Clicking on a video will open TCPMP to play it. Easy, right?

You could also install Orb on your PC and use the Orb mobile client to find YouTube videos on the go, but that solution requires you to leave your home PC on all the time.

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Filed under: Google

Google Mobile Ads

google mobile adsYou feared it, and now its here. Google Ads on mobiles. Google's new mobile ads are shortened versions of AdWords that will appear when users search from Google on mobile devices. The users then have the option of connection to an advertiser's business phone after clicking on the ad. The mobile ads will be limited to 12 or 18 characters per line depending on the language used, and the destination URL will appear on the third line. Currently, Google Mobile Ads are only available in the US, UK, Japan, and Germany. Only drawbacks for advertisers, no tracking ability, and they are only available to be bought by advertisers with a billing address in Japan.

UPDATE: Christian Cadeo in the comments has just informed us that he was able to set up Mobile AdWords being based in the US, with a US address.

Filed under: Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm, Web services

WAMPAD: A personalized home for your phone

WAMPADWAMPAD's tagline is "Your Internet Speed Dial." Essentially it's a home page for your mobile browser, giving you quick access to a number of different sites and services from one place. Rather than "widgets" WAMPAD's different services, like Flickr, del.icio.us, MySpace, Wikipedia, movies, horoscopes, etc., are displayed with a single search box and a drop-down menu to choose what service you want to query, and you can customize which options are presented. The lack of true customization may turn off some users, but its simplicity may appeal to others. Notably missing is any RSS feed functionality, but if you're after something more complex there's always Google Mobile.

[Via Read/WriteWeb]

Featured Time Waster

Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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