Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category

New Google+ Features

Posted: September 25, 2011 in Google
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This week we saw some great new features in Google+. Most of what’s new is to Hangouts. Search – First is the one everyone has been waiting for and that’s search. When Plus first came everyone said, “Are you kidding me no search? It’s Google for Christ sake!” Now it’s here. It is very well [...]

Kindle Web App

Posted: August 27, 2011 in Web 2.0
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Amazon has releast a new HTML5 Kindle app for Chrome and Safari. Now you don’t have to buy a Kindle reader or get eye-strain reading on your phone. You can read books right inside your web browser on your computer. Amazon maked this web application to get around Apple’s wanting a huge percentage of their [...]

Google+ Tips

Posted: August 5, 2011 in Google
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Still trying to figure out how to use Google+? Veronica has a few helpful hints on getting the most out of the newest social network on this Tekzilla Daily.

Turn Off Email Notifications In G+

Posted: August 5, 2011 in Google
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Hate those irritating Google+ emails notifying you that someone’s added you to their circle? On today’s Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you how to make sure that you only get the emails you actually want. Hate those irritating Google+ emails notifying you that someone’s added you to their circle?

Google+ Pros and Cons

Posted: August 2, 2011 in Google
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I’ve been using Google+ for about a month and I think it is fantastic. I’ve been using it to communicate what I think is important in the tech world mostly. I’ve also been reading a lot of post from others, Trey Ratcliff the photographer, Leo Laporte and others in TWiT family to name a few. 

Using Google+

Posted: July 8, 2011 in Google
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I just got a Google+ invitation a few hours ago and I’ve been using it ever since. Google+ is like Facebook (more like Friendfeed but you don’t know what that is). It is a little like Twitter and it is a little like Skype. The really great thing about G+ is that it is easy [...]

Google +

Posted: July 1, 2011 in Google
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Google has finally come out kinda-sorta with their long awaited social application. Well it’s more like applications. Called called Google + it has many great features the first is the ability to create groups and to only share particular things with that group. Your grandmother wont see how drunk you were at that party.

Cloud Music Wars

Posted: June 6, 2011 in Web 2.0
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The war to be the best streaming music site is on. In April the announcement of Amazon’s Cloud Player and last month Google’s cloud based music service Beta called Google Music. I sign up for Cloud Player. I also requested an invitation to the Google service last month and just got the invitation today and [...]

Google has just announced the new Chromebooks to being made by Samsung and Acer. They’ll be sold by Amazon and Best Buy beginning June 15th. The idea behind these computers is everything on the web. Use Gmail instead of Outlook, use Google Docs or Windows Live Office. Watch video on YouTube or Vimeo. Even watch TV [...]

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