The Google City Tours online application provides an interesting alternative to traditional ways of exploring a city with the help of travel guides or guided tours. It is basically a Google Maps application that provides three day tours for many of the world’s most popular cities. All the user needs to do is to enter [...]

Tags: city tours, Google, google city tours, google maps, google maps mashup, google maps sights, sights, sightseeing
Categories: Google

Google introduced a new feature to Google Search in last month that would allow users to quickly change several important factors of the search without having to configure them in advanced options or using a plugin or add-on to do so. The new features are available by clicking on the options link in the Google [...]

Tags: Google, google image search, google images, google search, image search, search engine
Categories: Google, Search Engines

Google Translate is a web service offered by Google that allows users to get instant machine translations of texts that they paste in the web interface or of websites that they supply the link of. While the translations do not come near the quality of translations made by professionals they are usually enough to give [...]

Tags: Google, google translate, google translator, google translator toolkit, translate, translations
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Google Image Search is a very comprehensive image search engine. It basically works the same way as the standard Google search with the difference that image thumbnails are displayed as results on the results pages. Additional information like the domain name the image was posted on or the size of the image are displayed on [...]

Tags: firefox, Google, google image, google image search, greasemonkey, image search, opera, seamonkey, userscript
Categories: Browsing, Google

There is currently no build in extensions manager in the Google Chrome web browser which makes it quite time consuming to manage and work with extensions. Users who want to enable extensions have to do so by launching the Google browser with a command line parameter. This will change once the extension engine has been [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

About three weeks ago, I finally got an invite for Google Voice, the new phone-managing service from Google that I’d been itching to try out since before it was even called Google Voice (back then, it was called GrandCentral, and I still wanted it really, really badly).
Google Voice has a ton of great features, and [...]

Tags: cell-phone, Google, google voice, mac, mobile, Mobiles, phone, Windows
Categories: Google, The Web, software

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 [...]

Tags: Google, google number, google voice, google voice number, google voice problems, google voicemail
Categories: Google