Archive for February, 2008

A Creative Russian Gmail Ad

A few days ago, I was busy browsing videos about Google in YouTube, and found an interesting Gmail advertisement created by the Google Team from Moscow, Russia. It seemed they had wasted their time considering all the technology available right now, but for me the team did an amazing, brilliant job!
And when I just woke [...]

How to be Invisible in Gmail Chat

I really wanted an invisible mode feature in Google chat since I started using it. It’s obviously not all the time I wanted to show to my chat friends that I am online. But since there was no option to be invisible in Gmail chat, I should either be online and get distracted with unwanted [...]

Free Website Submission To Google Search

Most of the blog owners out there want to earn from their blogs, but it would not be an easy task. They’ll have to make sure that their blogs are optimized for the search engines to get visitors or traffic especially from Google.
Each month, there is an average of over 4 billion searches conducted on [...]

Save Multiple AutoFill Profiles with Google Toolbar 5 (Beta)

Filling up web forms over and over again could be frustrating. Especially when you could not use the AutoFill button because the master user’s information was already saved there. Well not just to a shared computer, but even to someone who wanted to keep different profiles: of his mom, of his girlfriend, or of his [...]

Firefox and Google Toolbar, a Perfect Combination

Since its initial release in November 2003, Firefox has been a popular web browser choice for internet users worldwide, second to Internet Explorer. In fact, OneStat.com recently reported that Firefox now has an increased global usage share of 13.76% (IE has 83.27%, with all versions combined). Mozilla also reported that Firefox has reached 500 million [...]

Translate Page To English With the Google Toolbar

I stumbled upon an interesting article one time but it was not written in English. Since I really wanted to understand the article, I clicked the arrow in the Translate button of the Google Toolbar, and chose ‘Translate Page Into English‘. In just a few seconds the page was translated into English.
I certainly don’t know [...]

How to Remove the Search Box in Google Toolbar for Firefox

Some Firefox users do not install the Google Toolbar. It’s not like they don’t find the features of the toolbar helpful but simply because they don’t want another Google Search Box in their browser. But actually, it is easy to remove this additional search box.

First, right click on any of the toolbars then choose customize.

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12 New Cities in Google Maps’ Street View

Just a few hours ago, I blogged about the role of Google Earth and Google Maps in an interracial relationship. I mentioned in that post how surprised I was to find out that Salt Lake City, where my boyfriend lives, finally has a street view in Google Maps. Yep. I was really happy to see [...]

Change Language Interface in Gmail

Spanish, Bahasa, French, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Japanese, and even my native language Filipino! Amazing. I guess the trend nowadays of major websites is to reach the non-English users.
We recently heard of social networking sites translating their websites to different languages, and now we have Google starting to roll out a new version of Gmail in [...]

U.S. Kids, Called to Doodle for Google

I am always amused every time I go to the Google homepage and see a Google Doodle. I admire Google for their inventive minds but am more curious who is the man behind those Doodles. And finally I met him, the skilled artist Dennis Hwang. Well…just in an amazing video, which is originally posted in [...]