By Franklin Davis on Feb 2, 2009 within Apple, Google | Comments
This is just a quick note to inform everyone that you can now manage your Gmail Tasks from your iPhone (or other web enabled phone). Simply go to gmail.com/tasks from Mobile Safari and log in. Pretty cool, huh?
P.S. Personally I prefer the paid app Things, but I know some of you out [...]
By Bill Wagner on Nov 4, 2008 within Featured, Lists, Technology | Comments
Recently, MIT’s Technology Review published their list of the ten emerging technologies that they feel are most likely to change the way we live. Sadly, the ‘Hotdoll’ and the ‘USB Stripper’ were left off the list, but the list does include ‘Modeling Surprise’, ‘Probabilistic Chips’, ‘NanoRadios’, ‘Wireless Power’, ‘Atomic Magnetometers’, ‘Offline Web Applications’, ‘Graphene [...]
By Franklin Davis on May 29, 2008 within Apple, Featured, Google, Tips | Comments
This is just a quick tip to explain how to sync your Mac Address Book (Leopard 10.5.3 only) with Google’s Gmail without needing an iPhone or a .Mac account. If you have an iPhone then you don’t need this tip and can follow these instructions. If you don’t have a Gmail account you’ll [...]
By Franklin Davis on Apr 22, 2008 within Apple, Featured, Google, Guides | Comments
I am a BIG fan of Google’s Gmail service. It has the best webmail interface by far and offers nearly unlimited storage. Now that Gmail allows IMAP access I am using it as my primary email service via Apple’s Mail.app. I’ve configured Gmail to check all of my other email [...]
By Riley Porter on Feb 14, 2008 within Coffee Break, Google | Comments
If you have read some of my other posts you may realize that I enjoy “decorating” my computer, often by choosing a fun Desktop theme or changing my system icons. In this same vein, I’ve also become a fan of iGoogle (short for interactive Google) which is a customizable homepage that includes lots of different [...]
By Franklin Davis on Oct 15, 2007 within Coffee Break, Google | Comments
Google’s free telephone directory assistance tool has graduated from Google Labs to a full-fledged Google service. If you haven’t tried GOOG-411, simply dial 1-800-GOOG-411 from any phone and follow the automated directions. The voice recognition is actually quite good and FREE sure beats the big telephone companies trying to charge $1.50 [...]
By Franklin Davis on Sep 13, 2007 within Coffee Break, Google | Comments
Fresh on the heels of securing a $1.3 million annual parking permit for their corporate jet (Boeing 767) at NASA’s airfield near Mountain View, CA the search giant now appears ready to offer up the largest X Prize to date ($20 million for the first competitor to land a robotic rover on the Moon that [...]