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Finding Local Businesses with Google Maps

Published on March 12, 2011 By George

I wanted to drop some things off at the Dry Cleaner tonight and found out that both of the ones I used had closed recently- probably due to the economy. At any rate, I was able to easily find several options by typing the following into Google Maps (this also works on Google Local, http://local.google.com): [...]

Free Google Snail Mail Postcards

Published on December 2, 2009 By George

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 [...]

Google Enters Browser Wars with Gusto!

Published on November 26, 2008 By George

ANDROID, OPERA MINI and the MOBILE BROWSER WAR Google’s Android operating system has become the latest entrant in the mobile browser war since Opera’s Opera Mini now runs on it. It seems Google is not only entering the mobile browser war, but may soon be jumping feet first into the desktop browser war, too. Considering [...]

Blackberry and Google Sync

Published on November 26, 2008 By George

Synchronize your calendars with Google Calendar. Google SyncNow supports the open CalDAV protocol and works with Blackberry mobile devices, Android devices, Mozilla Sunbird, Microsoft Outlook Apple iCal, and basically anything that supports/uses the CalDAV protocol. Wow! I’ve been waiting for this as I’ve been trying to switch to Google Calendar from Mozilla Sunbird so my [...]

YouTube Connects Your Music Purchase

Published on November 22, 2008 By George

Maybe like me you listen to music on YouTube, I sometimes refer to it as my YouTube Radio or Youtubio. Now some music and video game YouTube movies will have advertising at the bottom of the viewing window where the movie plays. Says the Gmail Blog: Today [October 7, 2008], we’re taking our first steps [...]