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Close All Open Google Chrome Tabs With One Click
Too many tabs in Google Chrome makes it unresponsive and hogs system resources. Here’s how to close all open tabs with one click.
Google Voice For iPhone Has Finally Been Approved By Apple
Want to use Google Voice on your iPhone? Finally, there is an official app for that. Earlier today Apple and Google finally worked through their differences and brought the real Google Voice to the iPhone. The app works as expected, much like what many Android users have been enjoying for some time now.
Fight Spam with Customized Gmail Addresses: Never Give Your Email Address Out Again
By now, we all know the pain of signing up or registering for a website, product or service. Regardless of how reputable the company is, entering your email address into that contact field amounts to one big matzo ball hanging out there. In spite of ubiquitous promises not to sell your address or spam you, [...]
Try Google Instant Previews Now
Google’s all about the instant these days. Hot on the heels of Google Instant search is a new feature called Google Instant Previews. Google Instant Previews places a little magnifying lens next to each of your search results. When you click it, it pulls up a thumbnail of the website. Not only that, it even [...]
Chrome 8 Has A Groovy Built-in PDF Reader
On Thursday the Google Chrome team rolled out a new feature for Chrome 8 Beta, a PDF viewer. Say goodbye to adobe reader and other PDF plugins, Chrome is taking over. If you’re running the latest beta version of Chrome you can already test it out and view PDF files without any extra plugins.
Friday Fun: Google Reader “Play” Feature Review
Even though Outlook and Thunderbird make formidable RSS readers, Google Reader completely dominates the market for most geeks out there. So, if you subscribe to RSS feeds you have probably used Google Reader at some point. With that said, did you know you can make Google Reader fun with the new “Play’” feature. Well, I [...]
Google Introduces Google Place Search: A Faster Way to Find Local Businesses
This week, Google announced the roll out a new feature that allows you to quickly find businesses, landmarks and other places of interest in the geographic area where you are searching. “But wait,” you say. “Google Maps has always shown me results from Google Places!” And you’re right. But the big change is that now, [...]
Convert Currency the Easy Way With Google’s Free Online Tools
Today at work I needed a free online Currency Converter and after a little digging I stumbled across a few groovy techniques that I think you might find useful. This is especially true for those of you who do any kind of international travel since all 3 methods I discovered can be used from both [...]
Get Google TV For Free By Becoming A Google TV Developer Company
Three weeks ago we covered the launch of the first ever Google TV device, the Logitech Revue. In the community forum, members posted up some great screenshots and stats on the tech. Are you interested in getting one? What if I told you that the price was free. 7,000 Google TV devices are up for [...]
Virgin America Goes Google
Today one of my favorite airlines, Virgin America, has gone Google. It was bound to happen. After all, Google and the airline have been teaming up since 2008 when they did the first ever live YouTube stream at 35,000 feet in the air. It really gives a literal sense of “cloud computing.” The YouTube stream [...]
Friday Fun: Be A Tech Demo Master At Google Demo Slam
Do you like to make demo videos showing off new technology? Or maybe you might be interested in watching said videos… Either way, Google Demo Slam has you covered. Videos featured on Demo Slam are fun, entertaining, and unique. There is even a virtual trophy and slight competition! Like said above, Google Demo Slam [...]
Google Docs Now Supports Image Drag And Drop
Google Docs has been trying to catch up to the functionality of Microsoft Word for a while now. Yesterday they took a major step forward and introduced drag-and-drop image support. That’s right, now you can simply drag images from your computer straight onto your Google Docs page in your web browser. With this [...]
Google Chrome Keyboard And Mouse Shortcuts
Chrome might be a faster browser, but what good is all that speed if you can’t keep up as a user? Learn these Google Chrome mouse and keyboard shortcuts, then you can take on the browser’s speed with your own two hands. Navigation And Browser Shortcuts Ctrl+N Opens a new window. Ctrl+T Opens a [...]