boora.ca

Tag: Google

  • Google Jots

    Google has acquired Jotspot (Google News), a wiki service that seems to be a good fit to Google’s increasing stable of web2.0 apps.

  • Google’s afraid of Kleenex(tm)

    It seems that Google just now noticed (maybe a couple years late) that it’s trademarked name has entered the common lexicon. It’s a Catch 22 for them as the marketing kids are partying it up and the trademark dweebs are playing it down. But is this really a bad thing? And does Google think that…

  • Google Earth Finds Native American Head

    Those of you from Southern Alberta will know the story of how Medicine Hat got it’s name (if not here is Wikipedia to bail you out). But now with Google Earth, people with loads of free time on their hands have found this. I saw this story come up on Digg a few days ago…

  • Picasa now links into Gmail – Custom Google Search

    I just noticed this today, you can now add images from your Picasa web album into your Gmail compositions. This way Gmail is almost as well integrated as iPhoto/Mail (I know it’s not just as smooth). Now with the iPhoto/Picasa plugin. Google has also released their Custom Search. Previous to this, you had to go…

  • Flight in

    Well, the trip out to Hawaii was long, but fun (I was in a plane after all). Landing in San Francisco was a treat – though we could barely see the Golden Gate because of the fog, but after a decent lay over, we left for Hawaii. We were in the Economy Plus section –…