George on December 2nd, 2009

This year you can use Gmail to send a Snail Mail postcard courtesy of Google!
This holiday season, as a token of our appreciation to our most enthusiastic fans, we’ll snail-mail a free holiday postcard on your behalf. Yes, through the mail and everything.
- Gmail Blog, Spread some holiday cheer, one card at a time
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George on January 29th, 2009

If you ever take your laptop to places yuo can’t get online, or if your desktop doesn’t always have a connection (or if you are on dialup) you might appreciate this new feature in Gmail Labs – Offline Gmail.
Once you turn on this feature, Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache of your mail. [...]

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George on December 12th, 2008

Google continually evolves everything and Google Maps is no exception to that rule. During the past month or so I’ve noted some really cool new features like updated zoom/pan/navigation controls, new My Maps features, and navigable street view is available in some areas.
Let’s take a quick look at new My Maps features, here’s a list:

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George on December 4th, 2008

I’m amazed at times to I see high profile websites breaking what I consider to be unspoken “laws” of web design. One of the first of which would be to insure that visitors to your site can distinguish between clickable and non-clickable text. For example, you want readers to easily see at-a-glance how to navigate [...]

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George on December 1st, 2008

If you blog, or are just a Technorati freak you might want to give a listen. Dorion Carroll (Technorati VP of engineering) on Indexing millions of blogs in real time.
A little bit beyond that, check out 5 Tips to Better Technorati Indexing including this great bit:
If your blog software supports categories and RSS/Atom feeds (like [...]

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