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google search stories: what did you search for today?

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Robert Wong and his co-workers at Google’s Creative Lab created a bunch of short and funny clips showing how their search engine helps people not just to find websites but to improve their lives: “In other words, the best search results don’t show up on a webpage — they show up in somebody’s life.”

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November 20th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing just plain fun technology

google chrome os download, almost exactly the same as the browser

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Curious and/or impatient techies! An early developer build of Google (Google’s?) Chrome OS – which was just formally announced – has been unleashed on the Internet for those who want to take an early early early peek at what I like to call the BrOSer. From what I’ve read about it Chrome OS basically offers…

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November 20th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing future tech technology

look ma, no eyes: google working on “eyes-free” phone interface

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There must be a lot of Google employees who like to use their phones while they’re driving. The company is currently working on an “eyes-free” interface for their Android software that utilizes tactile and aural feedback together with a new way of navigating phone menus that will allow users to operate their phones using just…

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June 5th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: future tech mobile tech strange + wonderful technology

download a very early build of google’s chrome browser for intel macs

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A blogger/developer has compiled a very very early build of Google’s browser, Chrome that runs on a Mac. I tested it myself a couple of days ago and it’s fast alright.

It’s so fast that it left most of a browser’s functions at Google’s labs: plug-ins don’t work so it can’t play Flash videos. There’s…

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April 10th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing technology

everything is malware: was google hacked?

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It’s 10:54 pm, Saturday, January 31 here in the Philippines as I’m writing this. I noted the time because, right now, Google is going insane. How?

I wanted to check out Google’s M-Lab after reading about it in Lifehacker. I clicked the link on the article but for some reason it didn’t go through. So…

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January 31st, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

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typography + google maps = geogreeting

Geogreeting Google Maps Typography

In a world full of Google Maps mash-ups, it’s always fun to stumble across one that is truly different. The guys over at geogreeting.com have done just that.

Geogreeting takes carefully selected Google satellite images of buildings and landmarks that happen to look like letters of the alphabet, and creates custom typography from them. You…

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November 15th, 2006 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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