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Phonebooth an Alternative and Google Voice Contender
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 5:08 PM
For all you anti-google people out there that feel the sting of not being able to take advantage of some of Google's applications like Google Voice checkout Phonebooth. They have some of the same features and each of them have a leg up on the other. Phonebooth is much like google voice in that you get a free phone number that you can forwarded to all your... Read More...
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Google Wave Extension Library Now Active
Friday, March 12, 2010 3:35 PM
Google Wave is great for a lot of things but being able to an extension to your Wave makes the wave just that much more useful. Wave extension are elements that can be embeded and added to a wave that can add things like maps, video conferencing, iframes, and much more. It is by far one of the most powerful features of Google Wave Before now in order to add an... Read More...
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Google Maps Now Helps you Plan your Bike Route
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:51 PM
This has got to one of the most requested features of Google Maps, a full functioning bike layer for the popular Google Maps online map program. The Layer allows you to get directions to and from locations using bike friendly roads and bike trails. You can turn on the bike layer under the more menu and explore your local area for bike friendly streets and bike... Read More...
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Google Buzz Criticized for Exposing your Contacts to the Public
Thursday, February 11, 2010 12:09 PM
Google Buzz as I wrote earlier is the new social network built into Gmail. Google has recently been criticized for exposing the people you follow as well as the people who follow you. This however does not expose their email address and even after both parties follow each other the email address is still kept private. The only time you actually see the email... Read More...
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Google Buzz – New feature added to Gmail and Mobile phones
Tuesday, February 09, 2010 2:58 PM
Google Buzz is new product by Google that adds some social networking like features to Gmail. Google Buzz is kind of like FriendsFeed or like a Facebook status update that you can post right from gmail or from your mobile phone. It allows you to post text, videos, pictures, links, and geo-tagged updates. Google Buzz integrates with gmail and mobile phones and... Read More...
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Google Voice Comes to iPhone and Other Smart Phones VIA HTML5 Enabled Browser
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:11 PM
Google has solved the problem they were having getting Google Voice on the iPhone. As some of you out there might remember Apple had rejected Google iPhone application a while ago. Apple then followed up by pulling other third party Google Voice apps from the app store. Apple claimed the apps were redundant to the iPhone features. Google said from the beginning... Read More...
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Google Indexes Shared Voicemails on Google Voice
Monday, October 19, 2009 12:34 PM
I was reading an article on engadget about the fact that Google is indexing voicemails that where recorded on Google Voice. You can find some of them if you copy paste this into a search site:https://www.google.com/voice/fm/ . When you do you come up with three pages of voicemails that have been indexed with the ability to click on them and listen to the audio... Read More...
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Apple Acquires Placebase a Google Maps Competitor
Thursday, October 01, 2009 1:50 PM
So it seems that the rift between Apple and Google is become more and more apparent as Apple acquired a Map making company back in July that has been a Google Maps competitor from the start. It seems that Apple is trying to free themselves of your Google dependence. The iPhone and iPhoto both rely on Google Maps. Google even helped develop the Maps application... Read More...
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Google Voice Widget for Mac – send SMS and make calls from your Google number
Sunday, August 16, 2009 1:32 PM
Want an easy way to send SMS messages or call people from your Google Voice number? Well Andreas Amann created a widget that does just that. The widget allows you to login to your Google Voice account and send SMS messages to anyone in your address book or your Google address book. Likewise you can also place calls from your Google number and have them connected... Read More...
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Why are Apple and AT&T Afraid of Google Voice
Monday, August 10, 2009 2:28 PM
Porting your Number to Google Voice! Is porting your number to Google Voice what AT&T and Apple are worried about? I wrote a post recently discussing Apple rejecting and removing Google Voice applications from the App Store. Are they afraid that people are going to use Google Voice to place outgoing calls instead of their service? Is AT&T afraid people... Read More...
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Google to Make Full Featured Web Google Voice App
Friday, August 07, 2009 1:47 PM
A couple of weeks ago Apple rejected to official Google voice application saying it had duplicate features the iphone already has. Apple even pulled the third party GV applications from the store as well. This of course made a lot of people very unhappy. Google is fighting back by making a full-featured web app that will allow you to do all the same things but... Read More...
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How to Forward your Google Voice Number to your Skype Account
Monday, August 03, 2009 7:59 PM
When I got Google Voice I was thinking to myself wouldn’t it be great to if you could forward it to your Skype account so you can get calls on your computer without paying for the skypeIn internet number service. And then I was thinking why couldn’t you, so I did a Google search and sure enough it is possible. You have to use a third party website however to... Read More...
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Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple Board
Monday, August 03, 2009 7:01 PM
It seems as if Google CEO Eric Schmidt has stepped down from the Apple’s board of directors. It seems that since Google’s recent products like the Android and the Chromo OS that Google is now cutting into Apple’s core business. Because Google is not in these markets there is now a conflicted of interests. This is the offical Apple statement concerning the matter... Read More...
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Google Tasks List Makes it to the Big Time
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 3:34 PM
A new feature has made it’s way onto the Gmail web interface. The new feature called tasks is a simple to do list that follows you everywhere. Tasks will automatically ad the task to your calendar if the task has a date associated with it. If you move it on the calendar it will change the date in the task bar. You can also make emails into task easily and simply... Read More...
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Google Voice – I can’t wait
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:16 PM
I can’t wait till Google voice comes out. I am super excited about this new free service that Google will be offering. In case you haven’t heard about the new Google voice I’ll tell you a little about it. Google voice is going to be a free online service where you will receive a phone number that has no connection to a location or device. You then connect all... Read More...
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