Ah GMail. I can happily say I was one of those users clamoring for a GMail invitation back in the day when you needed one to get on the service. Remember back then? Before anyone could create a GMail account…
Spinning Gears :: Is Apple’s Walled-Garden for iPhone Development a Case of History Repeating?
This is the first in a new series here at Gears and Widgets called “Spinning Gears.” Spinning Gears will hopefully do two major things: encourage me to update more often and provide more original content to GnW. So sit back,…
Sync Google Calendar and Gmail Contacts to Your Desktop
(image courtesy of Lifehacker!) Our fine friends at Lifehacker finally managed to find a way to keep your Google Calendar and contacts synched up with your local calendar, whether it’s iCal on the Mac or Outlook Calendar on the PC,…
Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion
The big news of the week really is that even though last week rumors flew that Google and YouTube were in talks, no one expected Google to actually pull the trigger on YouTube, and no one expected that much money…
Cool Download :: GCal.app & GCal.win!
(image courtesy of Lifehacker) When I heard over at Lifehacker [http://lifehacker.com/ ] that they had found an application for the Macintosh that opened a separate window and kept your Google Calendar open in it all the time, I was pretty…
55 Ways to Have Fun With Google
Philipp Lenssen, author of the book 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google, is giving away free copies in PDF format as an e-book for those of us who are interested in reading it but can’t afford the cash, wouldn’t…
Google Readies Google Spreadsheets
(image courtesy of Google Blogoscoped) Google quietly signed up several people for the beta for their Google Spreadsheets application today, providing a select few access to what will eventually most likely become Google’s newest web-based offering among its already-impressive suite…
First Impressions of Google Desktop 4…(beta)
In perhaps one of the first reviews I’ve seen of the new Google Desktop 4 beta that was released last week at Google’s Press Day, Ars Technica brings the analysis straight talking about the newest incarnation of the Google Desktop…
Google Health, and Other Possible Announcements?
According to Kevin Maney from USA Today, Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of search products and user experience, said to USA Today that there’ll be some big announcements from Google next Wednesday on the Google press day, one of which might…
Google Calendar Launched!
I know I’m a little late to the party on this one, but Google released Google Calendar last week to acclaim and priase from both google lovers and web 2.0 aficianados around the globe. Along with the entire calendar being…