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How many times have we seen this? Company A becomes awesome. Some of Company A’s employees hate the management or think they can do things better so they leave Company A to launch Company B. Company B winds up being pretty good, but you still like Company A’s stuff better.
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It appears that Google was in a giving mood over the holidays. I’ve watched my email capacity climb from 3GB to over 6GB in a matter of weeks. Regular GMail users probably have probably seen their capacity increase already, but us Google Apps users tend to be an afterthought. Kudos to Google [...]

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Logging in to check my email this morning yielded a pleasant surprise. It appears that Google has given those of us using Google Apps for Your Domain an extra gigabye of storage space for our email.
In the past, regular Gmail users are usually the first to see new features - weeks and sometimes months [...]

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When I fired up Google Reader this morning, I noticed an alert to let me know that Google Trends can now report on my feed subscriptions.

I’m curious to know if a click-through is measured as a “read”. Or is the simple task of scrolling through items in Google Reader, which automatically marks them as [...]

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Last week, it was reported that approximately 60 GMail users had all of their email accidentally deleted (Dena and I weren’t affected, thank goodness). Then no more than 24 hours ago, a vulnerability was discovered in that a malicious website can swipe your email address from a cookie if you’re logged into GMail at [...]

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The NHL announced that it has partnered with Google to offer hockey games on Google Video. The NHL is the first professional sports league to offer its games online for no charge. There aren’t any live broadcasts and there seems to be a 3-5 day delay from when the games take place to [...]

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Often, I need to do some quick arithmetic involving multiple operations and don’t have a good calculator handy. There’s a calculator application on my cell phone, but I’m an atrociously slow cell phone typer. Most simple calculator apps, like calc.exe in Windows, are fine for single operations like 2+2 or 67 * 1.14, [...]

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I know it seems like my blog is becoming Google-centric. That’s not on purpose, and it’s totally not my plan. I just call it like I see it. Chalk this up to another Silicon Valley company moving into our neighbourhood.
McAfee was the latest Silicon Valley heavyweight to open shop here. Communitech [...]

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Nobody wants to sit through another one of my gripe sessions about how the majority of Google’s services don’t allow GMail for Your Domain users to login with their domain email address, thus forcing you to use a Gmail address, correct? I’ve done it before and perhaps for the last time…
Last evening, I received [...]

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Perhaps I’m dense and nobody’s had the heart to tell me. There’s been a whole lotta hoopla about Google offering new services to their “For Your Domain” service. I’ve been using this service for over a month. Albeit, like every other Google offering, it was in beta. But still, the only [...]

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Last time, I gushed about how great Google has been at handling the duties of managing domain email for Dena and me. I do have one issue to gripe about. Google offers various other handy-dandy services: Maps, Video, Bookmarks, Browser Sync, Notebook, and so on. All of which allow you to sign-in [...]

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I use Google as my search engine of choice, and have done so for many years now. I use Google Maps to find driving directions and locations of places that I need to go to for the first time. I’ve wasted many moments of my life seeing what I can see with Google [...]

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