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Google Grabs GrandCentral
If you have never heard of GrandCentral, it is an online phone service, but not the kind you think. GrandCentral brings credence to the “one number for life” mentality. You get a GrandCentral number that you can give out. You can then add your contacts to your GrandCentral address book and then assign the individuals to groups. You can set up those groups so that certain groups can either all or only certain phone numbers (ie work, cell, home, etc). Continue reading
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Power of Information 2007-07-01
This week on the Power of Information, Derek and I discuss minimalist word processors, plans to ban all DVD copying, and identity theft. We also talk about Photography resources and the affects of violent video games. All this and more on this week’s Power of Information. Continue reading
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Google Desktop for Linux Released
Yea, title kind of says it all. Google has released a Linux version of their Google Desktop. I have just installed it and I am going to let it index overnight. I’ll follow up later today as I play with it more. Continue reading
Customizing Your Gnome Desktop (Conclusion)
We have completed our latest series entitled “Customizing Your Gnome Desktop” and it was a nice one. We talked about customizing your background while touching on customizing your icons. We looked at window borders and GTK2.X controls. And to top it all off we went over customizing the Gnome Panel. Continue reading
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Want to Work for Google? Read This First…
It was an interesting read, primarily because I have heard so many good things about working at Google and while this does point out that most of that “good stuff” is true, it comes with some strings. That is just life though, some of the perks are fairly cool. Either way, it is a good read. Continue reading
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Google Docs More Useful
Google Docs got a revamp today. I have to say it looks nice. Everything is so much more organized with this new look and feel of the main page. The actual editing part looks pretty much the same, but with … Continue reading
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