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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 22nd, 2009
  • Comments: 6

Google Voice Number Not Reachable

Google Voice is Google’s latest (currently invite only) service that assigns Google phone numbers to users which has the advantage that the number is not tied to any phone or other device. The Google Voice users decides where to route the Google Voice number to with the possibility to route it to multiple devices at [...]

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Categories: Google

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 21st, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Gmail Starts Displaying Images Automatically For Contacts

Gmail’s previous stance on images in emails was to hide them from the user initially because of two reasons. The first was that images in emails could be used by spammers to track if a user read an email or not if the email was embedded in the mail and not attached to it. The [...]

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Categories: Email, Google

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 20th, 2009
  • Comments: None

Add Google Service Shortcuts To Firefox

Google fanatics who regularly work with multiple Google services such as Google Mail Gmail , Google Reader, Google Docs, Blogger, Orkut and a few dozens more might find the Gbutts add-on for the Firefox web browser helpful. That is, if they have not created keyboard shortcuts for the Google services that they use or installed [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 20th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Google Unified Search

You need to search on multiple search engines if you truly want to research a search term, as opposed to simply finding a solution to it. Some users might think that searching in Google is enough to find all the relevant information about a search term and while that may be true more often than [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 19th, 2009
  • Comments: 10

Google Chrome Gestures Extension

Google has added extensions support to dev versions of the Google Chrome web browser (Google Browser). The feature is still not finalized and the only way to enable the extensions engine is to add a command line parameter so that it gets loaded during the start of the Internet browser. Google has made available several [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google, Google Chrome

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 16th, 2009
  • Comments: 15

Google Maps Downloader And Joiner

Google Maps is one of the most popular map services on the Internet. It can be used for several purposes including looking at maps at different zoom levels in the world or to get directions by entering two locations.
One problem that many users experience when using Google Maps is the inability to create maps that [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 15th, 2009
  • Comments: 8

Google Account Recovery Per SMS Available In Additional Countries

Google introduced a new account recovery option some time ago that allowed Google users from the United States to add a cell phone number to their account. The user could then use an SMS to recovery the Google account password, something that many users wanted to do but could not because of the country limitation. [...]

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Categories: Google

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