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Add URL Shortener To Google Maps

By Mark on Sunday, July 11th, 2010 | No Comments

It’s no long necessary to use a third party URL shortener because Google Maps has its own.

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Google To Launch Facebook Replacement

By Mark on Thursday, July 1st, 2010 | No Comments

I have it from a good source that Google is to launch a Facebook replacement. Kevin Rose CEO and founder DIGG leaked in a Twitter post that he had some inside info about the new service that Google is working on. Called “Google Me” Google has plans to give Facebook a run for their money.

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Google Apps

By Mark on Thursday, June 24th, 2010 | No Comments

If your like many of my friends your running a small business, organization or school. You know you  can’t afford to through money away on your IT management. You need a file server, MS Exchange server  and lots of complicated software. Then you need to pay a contractor for set-up, repair and maintain this system. [...]

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Mount Skydrive As A Network Drive

By Mark on Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 | No Comments

I really like Skydrive Explorer. It creates a virtual folder so you can drag files into it but if you wished to use Skydrive to backup data automatically you are out of luck. Here’s a method to mount Skydrive as an actual network drive. It requires what I can only call a kluge. It requires [...]

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Qik

By Mark on Saturday, March 13th, 2010 | No Comments

Record, play, share, embed even stream live video with your mobile phone using Qik. Qik is a website and application that captures video with you phone to save share an view your videos from the Qik website or any site you embed the  the Qik embed code. The incredible thing about it is that you [...]

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Gmail Tip

By Mark on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 | No Comments

The email from all of my account goes to Gmail so I have to go to different sites or open and email program. I go to Gmail and it’s all there.  See Lifehacker. But that’s not the tip! Google does not check your POP account frequently so you may have your Gmail open but your [...]

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LastPass

By Mark on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 | No Comments

I’m always saying use good passwords. Use upper and lower case letters and numbers. I do all of this but one has to have an algorithm to remember ones passwords. The problem is in order to use the password algorithm it has to be easy. Something you can do in your head. My algorithm is [...]

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Jungle Disk

By Mark on Saturday, February 20th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Jungle Disk is an application that lets you store files and backup data securely to Amazon.com’s S3 ™ Storage Service. S3 does not have an application So Jungle Disk provides you with one. Jungle Disk creates a network drive in your computer and you just drag folder and files over or you can setup an [...]

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Gmail Uploader

By Mark on Monday, February 8th, 2010 | No Comments

Have you recently moved to Gmail but still have a most of your contacts and all of your Email still in a program like Outlook on your Windows computer. The Google Email Uploader is what you need. The Gmail Uploader will take those contacts and messages preserving your folder structure and import them right into [...]

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My New Google Phone

By Mark on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 | No Comments

About a week ago I receive my new smart-phone “the Nexus One” form Google. I am still putting it through it’s paces and trying to get use to the touch screen (hard for someone coming from a Blackberry with the keypad). Gmail, Calendar, Voice and Google Maps all integrate seamlessly. The new Google map application [...]

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