Posts Tagged ‘google’

For the first time, I’ve found a web browser that makes Web 2.0 apps feel like desktop ones. And, that browser is Safari 4. Safari 4 may lack all those community plugins, a point for which Safari is constantly critisized. But, that’s because people take Safari for granted. That’s right. People take for granted that [...]

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 [...]

Today the media was abuzz about how Apple’s market cap has sustained itself beyond Google’s. That didn’t hold for today, but by the end of business yesterday, Apple was number one in Silicon Valley. And what was the reason attributed by many financial analysts? Word of the impending release of a new MacBook Air. It [...]

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 [...]

NewsGator took a big step forward this week, making all their consumer products free. As a professional news watcher (it’s part of my job description), I bought into NewsGator, over free RSS products. I have to pass through thousands of articles a day to stay on the top of the game… and that means I [...]

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 [...]