May 14th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in AIR, Google, RSS
How excited was I when I heard that there was now a Google Reader Adobe AIR application that would let me browser through my feeds outside a browser? Pretty freaking excited! But then I thought "wait - why do I need this?" This doesn’t really help me solve a problem. With Twhirl, for example, […]
April 21st, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Google, social media
Today, Google announced a new site for developers which will help them build gadgets for the iGoogle, the customized Google homepage. In addition to info about the site, available here, the announcement also mentioned some of iGoogle’s new features, including left navigation, a maximized or "canvas view" option for gadgets, and social features for […]
April 2nd, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Blogging, Google, RSS
Social media maven, Corvida (who, by the way has a new URL: http://shegeeks.net/, learn why here) twittered to me today about gReader comments. I just had to laugh because I’ve had the exact page she referred me to open in my Firefox browser for days. That’s how I remember what I want to blog about.
Clearly, […]
March 27th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Google, Mashups
Here’s a service that just misses the mark: TP2Location. This new site lets you enter in a phone number from anywhere in the world and find out who called you. Or at least, that’s what it should do. I mean, that would be filling a void. That would be a useful service. But that’s […]
March 13th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Blogging, Google
The blogger over at bavatuesdays just discovered a little-known feature in Google Docs - a "publish to blog" option. To use this feature, open up your document, click on the "Publish" tab (on far right), and you’ll see an "publish to blog" option. The first time you use this feature, you’ll need to set […]
February 29th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Asides, Google, IT, Microsoft
I put up a long post on Read Write Web yesterday about Google Sites in the Enterprise space. It’s not a quick read (longest blog post ever!), but you might enjoy it. Or you might think it’s completely wrong. Either way, if you actually make it through the whole post, I would love to […]
February 17th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Google
…well, according to this post on Google, you can get that pink version of Google Docs year-round (or at least for a while) at http://docs.google.com/?holiday=vday. Anyone who knows me at all will know I don’t care how un-feminist it may be, I love pink stuff. Sue me. This was the best news I heard […]
February 13th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Firefox, Google, RSS
For fans of Google Reader, Lifehacker has introduced a Firefox extension you’re sure to love: Better GReader. The extension rolls up several Greasemonkey scripts that tweak the popular the online app into doing more. The extension offers adjustments like tweaking the max viewing area, skipping Google’s default subscribe mechanism, and adding keyboard shortcuts. You […]
February 1st, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Firefox, Google
gDocsBar is a sidebar extension for Firefox and a perfect companion for users of Google Docs. With gDocsBar, you can drag-and-drop multiple files into the sidebar to upload documents to the Google Docs service. You can also search your docs and filter them right from the sidebar. gDocsBar sends your Gmail credentials to […]
January 26th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Google
Finally! The tool we have all been waiting for has arrived! On Thursday, Google released a file uploader utility for Google Docs. Although I had wanted to use Google Docs as another platform for online storage (since no one gives you enough space!), getting all my docs uploaded was a tedious process since each […]
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