Customize Google+ With GGGG GUI on Chrome
I do not spend more than a few minutes of my time per day on social networking sites such as Google+, Facebook or Twitter. When I'm on there I like to get […]
Google Caught Red-Handed Reaching Into Internet Explorer's Cookie Jar
The Wall Street Journal a few days ago described how Google and other advertising companies bypassed a user privacy feature of Apple's Safari browser to drop "ad-tracking cookies on [..] Safari users". […]
Google Drive Supposedly Launching in the Coming Weeks
Rumors of Google Drive, or GDrive as it was named in the beginning, started to emerge at around the same time that the popular file synchronization and hosting service Dropbox opened its […]
Google Wallet Pin Vulnerable To Brute Forcing
Google Wallet is the name of Google's recently launched cell phone-based credit card payment system. The system uses Near Field Communication (NFC) to exchange data between the cell phone (that is containing […]
Google to Start Paying You To Monitor Your Browsing Habits
As soon as you start using the Internet, your actions are tracked by specialized companies. This not only includes web server logs but also third party tracking through advertisement, social networking scripts […]
Is Google Making Another Homepage Layout Change?
Google is running yet another design test on their homepage currently. With the frequency of layout changes increasing, it feels as if the search giant does not really know what they really […]
MediaFire Download Links On Google Search Not Working Anymore
Mediafire was one of the file hosting sites that benefited from the Megaupload take down in January 2012. The site managed to increase its traffic significantly and it appeared as if it […]
Microsoft Slam New Google Privacy Policy in Newspaper Advert
Last week Google announced changes to its privacy policy that, on the face of it seem perfectly reasonable. In essence they want to treat all the different Google services you use as […]
Blogspot To Start Redirecting To Country Specific Domain Extensions
Users of Google's blog hosting service Blogger may notice quite a significant change in the coming weeks. Instead of being able to access blogs hosted on Blogger directly, they may now be […]
Microsoft's Guide For Gmail Users To Switch To Hotmail
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. […]
YouTube Browse, Video Editor And Manager Updated
While closing some of the company's lesser popular services, Google's popular services such as Google+ or YouTube have received plenty of updates in the past. Google today announced that they have updated […]
Google To Start Tracking Users Across Services
An announcement was posted yesterday on the official Google blog that indicates that changes are being made to Google's privacy policies and terms of service. What first looks like a reasonable thing […]
Export all Google Docs Files with Takeout
Google Takeout is a service that Google users can make use of to export their user data to their local PC. Not all Google services are supported by Takeout though, which limits […]
Google Don't Be Evil Bookmarklet Released
Google has a distinct advantage that other companies on the web do not have. Google Search at the time of writing has a market share of more than 50% of all searches […]
Google Dumps Six Services, Including Picnik and Google Sky Map
Google has just announced the third wave of product retirements after retiring Google Buzz and Knol, Wave, Friend Connect and Google Gears previously. The official Google blog lists six products that will […]
Too Many Ads Above The Fold Are Bad, Says Google
Advertisements are what keeps many of the sites going on the Internet, including the site you are currently reading. As a user, I do understand that too many ads, or ads in […]
How To Enable Phone Notifications In Google Calendar
If you are using Google Calendar to keep track of things, you'd probably notice that you only get notifications on your desktop computer if you are on that computer and have the […]
NoCrap Removes Annoyances From Google Search
Google in recent years has started to make many modifications to Google Search, from auto suggestions over live previews to Google Instant. Not every user likes all or even any of those […]
Display Direct Website Links in Google Search
Sometimes I'm searching on Google to copy the search results link into another application. This is an extremely frustrating experience as links are manipulated by Google. When you copy a link in […]
App downloads jumped by 60% over the Holidays
Christmas was a good week for all of us, but a great week for apps with analytics firm Flurry reporting a 60% leap in app downloads on the previous week. The figures […]
Synchronize Google Docs documents With Local PCs
Google Docs users have quite a few options to synchronize their online documents with local computer systems. Among them Gladinet Cloud Desktop, the Microsoft Office add-in OffiSync or DocSyncer. Insync is a […]
Google Health Retired, How To Export Your Data
Google Health was a centralized health information service that allowed users to manually or automatically upload health records to the service. It acted as a management central for those records. The service […]
Google+ Gets Multi-Admin Pages, Stream Filters And More
Google is putting lots of effort into their social networking service Google+. Changes happen on a weekly basis and it is often hard to keep track of everything that gets added, modified […]
Customize Google's New Services Menu
Update: Google has modified the layout of the toolbar on Google properties. It removed the toolbar and replaced it with a couple of individual icons and links that are displayed instead. The […]
YouTube launches Schools Website
Those of you who follow me will know that in addition to writing here, being an author and all the other things I seem to do, that I'm also a teacher. I've […]
Just How Much Revenue Does Google Have Anyway?
There is an intriguing infographic that has been released showing how much revenue Google had in 2010. In typical infographic style, and you can view the whole thing below, there's all manner […]
LastPass Password Manager Now With Google Authenticator Support
One way to improve online account security is to use so called 2-step verification systems when they are offered by companies and services. Companies like Google, PayPal or Yahoo are already offering […]
Android Store hits 10 Billion Downloads
Google's Android store has had it's 10 billionth download this week, and the news was announced on the Google blog. To mark the milestone the company has also announced that for the […]
Google Starts Rolling Out Yet Another Design Change
Google about six months ago started to roll out the black bar on top of most of their properties. This bar displayed the logged in Google user's username, linked to popular Google […]
Clear Your YouTube Viewing History, Workaround
Did you know that YouTube saves information about every video that you view on the video hosting site when you are logged into your Google account and also when you are not? […]
Google Retires Knol, Wave, Friend Connect, Gears
Larry Page, the new CEO of Google, continues 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 […]
Google Enables Forward Secrecy For HTTPS Services
Last year Google started to push the HTTPS protocol on many of their services which basically meant that users always connected to the https version of the site regardless of their own […]
McAfee Singles Out Android for Malware Problems
It would appear that Google's unfortunately lax approach to vetting apps submitted to the Android store is counting heavily against the platform, as McAfee have released figures showing it is now becoming […]
Gooverbatim, Add Verbatim Button To Google Search
I have already talked about Google Verbatim, a new search tool that is currently rolled out for all users of the Google Search engine. With Verbatim, users can search for contents that […]
Google Music In A Nutshell
Music in the cloud, that's where the journey goes. At least if you trust Apple, Amazon and Google in this regard. All three companies have introduced a cloud hosting and streaming service […]
Google Verbatim For Exact Search Results
When you search on Google you often get results that have nothing to do with your original search query. Take the search for Appel for instance. You probably would not expect sites […]
Taking Google+ Profile Banners to the Next Level: Animated Banners
Update: Animated Profile images are no longer supported by Google. The company modified the main banner space to include a single image instead of five separate images. A few days ago I […]
Free Android Anti-Virus Apps are Proved Useless
Of all the smartphone and tablet operating systems available at the moment, the one that I simply can't recommend to people is Google Android. Unlike Apple, Microsoft and some other companies Google […]
How To Add A Profile Banner To A Google+ Profile
There are not many Internet users left on this earth that do not have an account at a social networking site like Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The same can be said for […]
GoogleLookup Discontinued
Update: as of November 2011, GoogleLookup has been discontinued. It cannot be used anymore and cells that still query it will return an error message instead. With Google Labs projects being discontinued […]
