Google Dashboard Provides a Top-Down Look at Your Google Use
November 7, 2009 at 9:18 am | Posted in Lifescape | 1 CommentTags: Dashboard, Data, Google, Google Dashboard, Google Docs, Privacy, Search Engines, Searching
Ever wanted to take a step back and look at all the Google apps and data you’re hooked into? Google’s offering that top-down view with Google Dashboard, a central clearinghouse for app settings, privacy information, and use statistics.
The main value to the average user at the Dashboard, reachable at google.com/dashboard when signed into a Google account, is a peek at all the services you use, the data Google’s acquired from you, and quick links to each app’s settings. You also get direct links to your Google calendars, your most recent Gmail messages and Google Docs documents, and secondary settings, like changing your personal information in apps that use that data. Those with privacy concerns also get quick links to the policies of every app they’re using.
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Google Wants To Be Worlds’ Librarian
September 15, 2009 at 9:24 pm | Posted in Lifescape | Leave a commentTags: book, Companies, Google, Search Engines, Searching, Tools, Web, Weblogs
Could Google be the final chapter for books? 
Google wants to become the world’s librarian and bookseller. They have digitised more than 10 million volumes in more than 100 languages and have agreements to scan millions more. Will this help make our literary heritage more accessible or signal the end of traditional books? Will it lead to more readers? Will authors’ and publishers’ rights be disregarded for the sake of profit?
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My Digest: Of Every Day Happenings Around The World
September 4, 2009 at 9:07 pm | Posted in Lifescape | Leave a commentTags: Gmail, Google, Microsoft, Nintendo, Search, Search Engines, TechCrunch, Weblogs
My Digest
My Digest
The US Constitution is one of our most remarkable inventions of all time. A lot of people in other countries think so too. It is a robust self-correcting legal OS. But it was written in an arcane code long ago. To make any sense from it you need some help. This lively graphic novel adaptation of the Constitution is by far the best aid I’ve found to deciphering its code. It is the comic book versi
The Gmail blog has a post up right now that’s interesting for a few reasons. First, it was posted around midnight of a Friday (this is supposed to be my no-news quiet time, Google). Second, it’s written as a chat exchange between two Google employees. And third, it has a kick-ass new Nintendo-esque theme. Truth be told, the Nintendo-like theme (called “High Score”, undoubtedly to prevent any trade
video This was making the rounds a couple months ago, but I don’t think we posted it on MAKE – Rob Spence is a filmmaker who lost his eye and decided to replace it with a wireless video camera… Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Culture jamming | Digg this!news
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My Digest : Of Every Day Happenings Around The World
August 30, 2009 at 10:23 pm | Posted in Lifescape | Leave a commentTags: Google, IPhone, Manufacturing, Penny-farthing, Prototyping, Rapid prototyping, TechCrunch, Technology
My Digest
Google Voice users have been complaining the last couple of days that calls using the service are unceremoniously terminated after 15 minutes. The service is still in beta, but as we’ve written before, users expect perfection when it comes to voice calls. Problems like this make it hard for people to trust the service. From one user: “almost every call I make now dropping at 15 minutes and some s
Where do I start with this thing? It has some many elements of awesome! It’s a model of an old-fashion Penny-farthing bicycle that has been brought in to the modern world with the incorporation of 3 cutting-edge technologies: It was built, layer-by-layer, using laser sintering rapid prototyping. It’s a demonstration project by Italian firm CRP Technology to demonstrate their capabilities. It’news
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The Queen And The U.S. Presidents
August 30, 2009 at 9:16 pm | Posted in Lifescape | 2 CommentsTags: Google, Health care, Kids and Teens, Queen, Skegness, Tea, Tools, United States
The Queen and 11 U.S. Presidents
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Yahoo Customizable Content
July 21, 2009 at 2:31 pm | Posted in Geeking, Technology | Leave a commentTags: Customizable Content, Directories, Google, Homepage, Search, Slider, TechCrunch, Yahoo
What’s Up Next For Yahoo? Better Search, Customizable Content (How Fluffy Do You Want Your News?)
- TechCrunch – Submitted: 6 hours ago
Yahoo showed off a couple of new upcoming features during my briefing today on the new home page to launch tomorrow.
The first is a tool, called Customizable Content for now, to dial how “fun” or “serious” you like your news. Want hard core serious stuff? Pull the slider to the right. Fluffy fun stuff to the left. Leave it in the middle for a mix. User testing for this product begins in August,… » Full Story on TechCrunch
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Feed Translator in Google Reader
November 19, 2008 at 4:04 pm | Posted in Lifestyle, Reviews | Leave a commentTags: Google, Google Reader, Google Translate, Machine translation, RSS, Translation, Web feed, World Wide Web
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Is Your Web Truly World-Wide?
Monday, November 10, 2008 by Chrix Finne
The Reader team is happy to announce that another 20% project has come to fruition: automatic translation in Reader! Post by 20% volunteer and glottology expert, Brett Bavar.
Believe it or not, the web truly is world-wide. That means there is a lot of interesting content out there in languages other than your own. You might have missed out on this content in the past, but now, with automatic translation in Reader, you don’t have to miss a thing!
Next time you find an interesting feed in another language, just subscribe to it as normal in Reader. When you view the feed in Reader, check off “Translate into my language” in the feed settings, and (voila!) the feed will be immediately translated for you. Also, this setting will be saved so you can always view this feed in your own language.
Many thanks go out to the awesome engineers on the Google Translate team, who have provided the technology to make this possible. As they continue to make their translation systems better, you will get to reap the benefits automatically.
Have fun discovering all the great content out there on the truly world-wide web!
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