Filed under: Web services, Google, Googleholic, web 2.0
Googleholic for October 31, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic, your weekly fix of everything Google!
In this Ghoulishly-Google edition:
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Filed under: Business, Internet, Google
Googleholic for February 12, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!
This edition covers:
It looks like Google Toolbar beta 5 carries a little surprise for 404 pages - a new default view. Instead of being served up a vanilla browser generated page when you encounter a 404, the Toolbar will come to your rescue with alternate recommendations and a Google search bar. If this is not to your liking, the Toolbar does enable you to disable this feature. But, webmasters that have custom 404 pages will have to make sure that their 404 pages are larger than 512 bytes if they want to keep users with the Google Toolbar able to see the custom pages.
Gmail surveys the connection between love and e-mail
According to the survey, Gmail (and other webmail services) have been helping Cupid with his work - with 1 in 3 people having used webmail for sending love-related messages. As might be expected, the age group of these users tends to be on the younger side. But as the young get older, will e-mail become standard fare in the game of love?
T-Mobile: Goodbye Google, Hello Yahoo
T-Mobile users in Europe will no longer have Google be the default search for their mobile phones and will find themselves with a slice of Yahoo instead. Of course, Google isn't one to be dumped without a fallback - as Google will have it's mobile search be the power behind Nokia search.
This edition covers:
- Google "hijacking" 404 pages
- Gmail surveys the connection between love and e-mail
- T-Mobile: Goodbye Google, Hello Yahoo
- Why the Google Logo looks how it does
- Google Ad share drops
It looks like Google Toolbar beta 5 carries a little surprise for 404 pages - a new default view. Instead of being served up a vanilla browser generated page when you encounter a 404, the Toolbar will come to your rescue with alternate recommendations and a Google search bar. If this is not to your liking, the Toolbar does enable you to disable this feature. But, webmasters that have custom 404 pages will have to make sure that their 404 pages are larger than 512 bytes if they want to keep users with the Google Toolbar able to see the custom pages.
Gmail surveys the connection between love and e-mail
According to the survey, Gmail (and other webmail services) have been helping Cupid with his work - with 1 in 3 people having used webmail for sending love-related messages. As might be expected, the age group of these users tends to be on the younger side. But as the young get older, will e-mail become standard fare in the game of love?
T-Mobile: Goodbye Google, Hello Yahoo
T-Mobile users in Europe will no longer have Google be the default search for their mobile phones and will find themselves with a slice of Yahoo instead. Of course, Google isn't one to be dumped without a fallback - as Google will have it's mobile search be the power behind Nokia search.
Filed under: Macintosh, Google
Google Mac Downloads
by Chris Gilmer Oct 11th 2006
Google is sometimes a little slow at releasing Mac compatible applications. They are getting better, and have hired on some additional Mac guys and girls to do the development work. So, now its time to show off the fact that they really do support Mac's.
Google has put together a nice little page for Mac users, which shows their collection of software downloads specifically for Mac users. This list of software includes:
- Google Notifier
- Google Toolbar
- Google SketchUp
- Picasa Web Albums Uploader
- Google Earth
- Google Widgets
Software might take a little longer to develop for the Mac, so we can only hope that Google, and other companies shorten the dev time, and realize that Mac users have been patient long enough.
Filed under: Audio, Business, Internet, Utilities, Web services, Google, Mozilla
Google and Mozilla have another distribution partner
Google and Mozilla know how to push their software out to the masses. People love their software, and do pretty much anything to get it out there, either through word of mouth, or through distribution deals with the likes of Dell and other major players in the technology industry. Google and Mozilla have teamed with RealNetworks to distribute their popular software even further. For the past few years Google has already had a partnership with Real for software distribution. Now another multi-year deal was recently struck between the three companies, giving users the option of downloading and installing Firefox, and the Google Toolbar when they are downloading RealPlayer. Hooray for Google and Mozilla! More exposure for these killer applications.
Filed under: Internet, Security, Text, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, E-mail, Google, Freeware, Browser Tips
Google Toolbar 2 for Firefox released
by Jason Clarke Apr 7th 2006
Google has finally released version two of their browser toolbar for
Firefox. The new version picks up on some of the features that have been in the latest version for IE for some time,
but as they state on the Official Google Blog, Firefox and IE users have different needs, so there are some differences
between the two toolbars. Luckily, it appears that everything I was hoping for is there, including spell checking (including a new 'autofix' feature), Send from Gmail which intercepts mail links online and allows you to use Gmail as your mail client rather than popping up another mail client's window, and some classic features like the ability to go up a level, AutoFill in online forms, and of course the famous PageRank indicator.
Of course enterprising Firefox users have probably found ways to replicate most of this functionality using other extensions. But it's nice to get the "official" one from Google, that contains so much useful functionality all packaged neatly together. Now I can leave my search field in Firefox set to search DownloadSquad and use the search field on the Google Toolbar to search Google.
Lexar to bundle Google apps on USB flash drives
InformationWeek
is reporting that Lexar and Google have made a deal that will ship Google's apps, including Picasa, Google Desktop, and
Google Toolbar, on Lexar's USB flash
drives. The Google apps will be included on Lexar's JumpDrive product line. The article goes on to describe Lexar's
product VP Steffen Hellmold's vision to put users' an entire operating environment on USB drives, stating, "The
vision at some point in the future is to have a complete operating system on the USB flash drive that would be bootable
from the device," Hellmold said. "You could bring your computing environment with you -- your operating
system, data and applications." Will people actually use apps bundled on flash drives, or just delete them to free
up space? Is this the wave of the future, or a strategy doomed to fail?
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
