Archive for the 'Google' Category

The Google engineers have been hard at work in another bid to change the way we work. Today they will be releasing a new open source browser called “Chrome”.
As is common with announcements these days, the internet soon got wind of the project when someone at Google clicked the “Send” button just a little [...]

Woohooo!!! Gmail has finally got IMAP support:

I read about this earlier today and couldn’t wait to give it a go. This is one of the big features I’ve been waiting for.
Well, so far so good. Your “Labels” appear a folders and it seems to function as you would expect a normal IMAP server [...]

I do love some of Google’s error messages. I got this one in Google Reader today:

Very descriptive.

The recent YouTube purchase by Google is one of those familiar stories from the dot com boom of the late ’90s.
As true with most of the old dot com stories, YouTube was started by three guys in their garage and evolved into a huge success and take over opportunity, which Google duly took up for [...]

Hmmm, I guess Google’s huge server farms still can have errors. I encountered this lovely fella this morning:

Google has just released a new Firefox extension that, as they quote,
…continuously synchronises your browser settings - including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and save passwords - across your computers.
They’re very good to point out how things are encrypted so it’s harder for some hacker to get your persistent cookies etc, but one thing that [...]