Gmail quicklings is a new feature rolled out in Google Labs for Gmail which enables you to create some links for frequents searches, but it can be used for much more. Not all of you have this feature yet, so if you don’t see any “Labs” option in your settings, try navigating to this link [...]
Image searching that works by TinEye
What Google has done for text search, TinEye is trying to achieve with image search. Instead of typing in keywords to find images, you can upload an image, or copy a link to an image and you will be presented with all the occurrences of that image on the net. At first you will see [...]
Lively – SecondLife from Google
As a tech blogger I am really embarrassed to say I haven’t heard anything of this service before it was rolled into beta today. However, this means I was thrilled this morning to try it. Lively is a social playground made by Google, more in common with SecondLife than any other site, but for my [...]
Fun and cool way to manage multiple twitter accounts
I stumbled on to a service for managing multiple twitter accounts and at first I thought it was going to be one of those second rate sites, I was put off a bit by the 16×16 logo I saw on the referring page. However when I got to Matt I was instantly pulled in.This is [...]
Redesign your Google Calendar with a custom skin
If you’re a fan of skinning your apps you probably already know all about user styles for web pages. There’s a great plugin for Firefox that enables you to change the look of webpages using css called Stylish. Once you have it, you can download (or create) user styles and change the look of any [...]
Google sites – a different type of Wiki
I don’t know how many of you have tried Google Sites, which is a Wiki like application available for Google Apps users. Although the application itself lacks a lot of features (more on that a bit later), the framework, the development and the way things are going is awesome. You can use Google Sites for [...]
How to cope with a toothache
Well, I know this has nothing to do with technology, but I thought I’d share some tips I’ve learned in the past 2 days. I didn’t have access to any dentists since I was away and I had very limited pain medication, which didn’t work anyway. So here are some tips totally unrelated to technology, [...]
Why I’m not switching to Firefox 3 just yet
I don’t usually write opinion posts so much here on gHacks, but I thought I’d share my views with you about all major Firefox releases (and all open source major releases in general). Since Firefox, WordPress and other big-big community oriented projects rely so much on the community force behind them, when a new release [...]
Destroy Flickr for Adobe Air
Do you want to take a bomb and destroy the whole of Flickr? Well, no luck then, but if you want a cool way to navigate through your pics and even download them, Destroy Flickr is a great Adobe Air based application to try. Once you enter and verify your information, you can immediately access [...]