Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

I’ll be speaking at Google on Monday next week, talking about iConsole and home theater options. It’s free and open to the public. I know it’s short notice, but click over to the MechaWorks blog post to see the details. I’ll be sure to post notated slides afterwords at least, and possibly video if we [...]

While I suggested mainstream techies avoid Flash 10.1 Beta 1, the new beta is much better. 1080p YouTube now works flawlessly in Windows and Mac OS X. It’s actually quite impressive, especially considering Apple won’t let folks author QuickTime X plug-ins. I do have to take this moment to warn Apple that 2014 could very [...]

I had to vaporize all cookies in Google Chrome today, because Google kept defaulting to www.google.com.pr instead of allowing me to switch back to www.google.com. It appears this problem is mostly limited to anyone (and everyone) that pulls up Google while traveling to Puerto Rico. When you travel, Google loads up the in-country version of [...]

I will now posit a logical stream of reasoning that explains how Google Chrome OS is, in reality, Android for Desktops. Google Chrome and Android share a common browser platform and screen drawing API. Google Chrome OS uses the same on-screen drawing system as Chrome and Android. Google Chrome OS is Linux combined with Chrome. [...]

eBay has gotten rid of the ability to give buyer’s negative feedback at the end of an auction. I held back my dismay from public view… until now. For the third time, in a single week, I’ve had an international buyer back out due to shipping. They didn’t run the shipping calculator until after purchase. [...]

If you’ve been using Google Gears for Mac, you might have noticed sometimes that the Gears setup for a particular web site… sometimes vanishes. You have to re-enable Gears for each web site which you had approved it for. Why is this? Well, Google is deploying the Gears setup inside of /Users/yourname/Library/Cache (or, ~/Library/Cache as [...]

I saw this one coming a million miles away… and today, it happened. You may have noticed that PhoneNews.com stopped using AdSense Referrals quite a long time ago. Well, today, Google announced they were shutting down the program. It will be replaced by the Google Affiliate Network, formerly DoubleClick Performics. This is all part of [...]

Here’s something troubling I’ve run into over the past 24 hours. I was moving someone over to the free Google Apps for your Domain setup, which provides free Gmail services @yourdomain.com. The client had an iPhone and wanted to move away from POP3 to an IMAP environment. Sounds straightforward, right? So I thought, I had [...]

A lot of people are going to start flaring their arms up about Flash adding H.264 today. I think it’s a good thing, you should all head to Adobe.com and update right now. Competition is always good… well, except when your “competitor” sends you a letter saying that if you don’t pull the plug on [...]

Google, sometime in the past 48 hours, has updated Google Earth for Windows. The new version stands at 4.2.0205.5730. As with most Google point-releases, there does not appear to be any change list available. Update: The Mac version got updated today too… so go update. I’d post the version number, but Finder just crashed on [...]