Google recently revealed the plan to merge the privacy policies and terms of service for most of the company’s products. This move gives all Google services direct access to all user data. Google search for instance can take into account what kind of emails a user gets in Gmail to personalize the search results based [...]

Categories: Email, Google, Microsoft

Larry Page, the new CEO of Google, is continuing to retire Google services (check out Google retires Google Buzz for additional information about previous retirement waves). This time a set of not overly-popular services face termination: Google Knol, Wave, Friend Connect, Search Timeline, Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal, Bookmark Lists and Google Gears will all [...]

Categories: Google

Sometimes you come upon links that you want to share with someone else. Maybe a rick roll for your online friends, maybe a new photo gallery for your family, or a work related link that you want other employees or your boss to know about. Most users who want to share links open up their [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Google accidentally (or maybe not) published a video on the company’s official YouTube video channel that introduced a new Gmail interface. The video has been set to private shortly thereafter but viewers were quick enough to save it and re-publish it on YouTube. The video announcement highlights many upcoming Gmail design changes and features. This [...]

Categories: Email, Google

If you have a Google account you can chat with your contacts, for instance over at the Gmail homepage. This web based chat works pretty much like a standard instant messenger chat. You get options to send files, use emoticons or call the user. And like instant messenger chats, Google chats get recorded automatically by [...]

Categories: Google

When you read or reply to emails in Google’s mail service Gmail, you see the email addresses and contact names of the recipients and senders. But that’s it. Sometimes you may want to find out more about a person on Gmail, for instance before you reply to an email. While you could do that by [...]

Categories: Browsing, Email, Firefox, Google Chrome

Hypothetically, what would you say if Microsoft would enable an offline mode for Hotmail or Office Live 365 but only for Internet Explorer? Chance is, a lot of users would cry foul play and demand that Microsoft would enable support for other web browsers as well. If you look at Google these days, you might [...]

Categories: Google, Google Chrome

From time to time people want to change their email provider.  It could be that you have been with Hotmail for years and want to move to Gmail, or that you’re worried about the future of Yahoo! and want to safeguard your email account with another provider.  It could even be that you’ve finally had [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

I held back on reviewing Pokki for a long time. That was probably not the best of ideas considering that it is one of those rare gems that you stumble upon from time to time. For now, Pokki is a free software for Windows 7 that adds information, services and features to the Windows taskbar. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows