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Google Offers Expand to Miami

Google Offers launched in Portland and has been kinda quiet since, now people in NYC and Miami are getting targeted banner ads to get them to sign up. Continue reading

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IE9 no workie on Win XP

Microsoft added another nail to the Windows XP coffin in the release of IE9.  If you don’t know already, the new browser from Microsoft will not work on Windows XP.  Windows XP continues to be used by millions of individuals … Continue reading

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Gmail Prioritizes Email and My Life… Again

Google-a-holic.  Perhaps that is what I have become, along with millions of others.  I depend on Google to surf the web, provide my favorite browser, run the OS and apps on my cellphone, take care of my personal email, and … Continue reading

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What to do – Where and When – Courtesy of Google

Life automation (“BioEfficiency”) could soon be a reality – courtesy of Google.  Amit Singhal, a fifteen year veteran of the search business is a Google Fellow and engineer, speaking often on the development and potential future of search. TechRadar reports … Continue reading

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Google News Undergoes Redesign leaves brains at home

Google NewsI’ve used iGoogle for about 7 years after leaving myYahoo after iGoogle did it better. I’ve read via Google news and iGoogle – ALL of my news for seven (7) years. Google tracks everything. They know how many times I read each story in my predetermined News configuration. So when Google rolled out a news update, they have a convenient little bar that shows how your Google News Setup is progressing. Now, they want me to identify for them which news I read on a Never/Sometimes/Always basis. WTF, THEY ALREADY KNOW WHAT I READ!!!

This is a flaw. Google, I trust you to know what is best for me. You know what stories, genres, sites and headlines I like to read. You know what I click through to, what a read via FastFlip – can’t you customize my news for me after all this time? Continue reading

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Google Earth Art – Free Masterpieces Await

Google Eart as ArtGoogle Earth, well known as an incredible tool along with Google Maps (and on my Droid, Google Navigation) – but some people are taking it to a whole new level as art. The image shown here is a portion of an image which was originally a $1MM photograph by artist Andreas Gursky, yet re-created by Florian Freier using Google Earth, photoshop and an inkjet printer. Continue reading

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Microsoft and Google Playing Nice? My Stars!

Microsoft and Google Playing Nice on Office Live WebsiteMicrosoft providing a solution, I mean A LINK STRAIGHT TO GOOGLE, of how to sync Outlook with Gmail? I thought this day would never come, and stumbling around on the Microsoft Office Online website today, here, staring me dead in the face, is proof that the apocalypse is near. Continue reading

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