Happy Birthday Google!

Google turns 10. That's a life time on Internet years.Google has managed to greatly impact the Internet and the way we interact with it. Personally: I don't know how many web searches I perform daily,...

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When will Android land in México?

As we know, the first Android based mobile phone is here, sold in a two year contract with T-Mobile in the US.How long will it take to arrive to México? Will it come unlocked and free of exclusive contracts? Anyway, I've said it before: I still think there's a not so minor Personal Information...

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What verification number (in gMail signup)?

Google has posted a post about What to do if you can't access your gMail and I think all advices are great, but I have one question though...If you read that post, and probably if you created your account recently, you'll notice that there's a new verification number thing going on for your account,...

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More on Chrome

Well, now that a few days have gone and while the hype is still on, I'll share some rants on my Chrome experience.First of all, I need to admit that Google's browser has become my default browser for RSS reading (and yes, actually with Google Reader). You don't really notice all the available space...

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Chrome

Well, everybody is talking about the new Google browser. Here´s my experience so far.Yesterday I gave it a try and at first I thought it was a bit strange, having so much room for the content, it felt like something was missing.One of the first things I noticed was the lack of status bar, which I then...

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Experimental search under experiments?

Google's shortcut search experiment seems to be under maintenance or something, 'cause it ain't working as it is supposed to.A few weeks ago, I released a Firefox search plugin to trigger it from the search bar, and today I discovered that the shortcuts are not working as expected: keyboard keys J and...

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(Google's) Free the airwaves (what about other countries?)

I've heard about freeing the airwaves, a Google initiative (with it's own dedicated website) that will help achieve wireless broadband nationwide Internet, taking advantage of unused airwaves between broadcast TV channels. The Federal Communication Commission in the US has a pending decision concerning...

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Personalized Google top bar

I like the way Google links to more of their services at the top, but I think it will be more useful if it was personalized and linked to what each user uses the most, based on clicks or user logins to each particular service.For example: if the services I use the most are gMail, Calendar and Reader,...

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gMail's 7

I don't know exactly when, but a few days ago, I noticed Google Mail (as it is called in Germany) had reached a new Integer: 7 GB. That is seven thousand mega bytes. I remember when we only had 2 MB in hotmail...What will happen to the the additional storage Google is currently offering once gMail reaches...

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adSense for Feeds

I am starting to get serious about Google adSense (an advertising revenue program you can implement in your website or blog), with my not so new site: Academic Lozbo, in which by the way, the template is still in beta, though it already offers a couple of posts.So I started optimizing every little detail,...

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Google Reader updates me on the world

It's not just Google Reader, it could actually be any reader, but for me, it was particularly this free Google service that helped me.I know what happens in México, even if I'm living in Germany. I don't have to buy a newspaper, or watch TV. It's all online... Though I must admit I have been never too...

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Bug: replying in gMail with keyboard shortcuts

I love optimizing small tasks and saving the most time I can, even if they are seconds. I love keyboard shortcuts.There is a keyboard shortcut for replying to messages in gMail, R, I try to move around in gMail as much as I can with the keyboard only, it's a bit faster. But I've noticed than from some...

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Monitoring gMail Activity, arrives to my account!

I have it and I love it! I don't know exactly when did this feature became available but it's nice to already have it...There was a button that read something like "Sign out all other accounts", though...

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gMail login details for the paranoid!

If you are paranoid like me, you will love this new feature Google is slowly starting to roll out! Now you can check if your gMail account is opened in another place (browser, mobile POP3...) simultaneously, and it's IP address.Read more about it in the official gMail blog.You can even sign out remotely...

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Firefox Add on messing up gMail

There is an extension in Firefox that messes with my gMail, but I am too lazy to search one by one to discover which one is it.Actually, I think I already identified it, it must be either Web Developer or Tab Mix Plus (which by the way is not yet available, at least from the official site, for Firefox...

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Youtube time optimization while uploading a video

Yesterday I was uploading a video to Youtube and I have a rant.I think Youtube should ask all the video meta data after you upload the video. Or better yet: while it's being uploaded. Because I didn't want to think of a description (which I know can be edited later) and just leave the file to upload,...

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I love gMail, now I want folders!

I love gMail, but... there are a couple of things missing that would make gMail perfect for me: label hierarchy (different levels) or folder view, and more powerful filters (and the actual limit be raised, because last time I tried, I was only allowed to have like 10 or 20 filters, which sucks, though...

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Android Contacts Management

I am looking forward to the release of Android, the new Mobile Operative System.Whenever this goes "live" (and as soon as Google launches their long awaited Google Tasks) I will be able to finally migrate from Outlook to Google Apps. Well I am not talking about all Google Apps, but at least those similar...

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What to do

I wanted to use this blog as a Google news related one, but I I think there's no use.I don't like publishing stuff that's already going around everywhere, I like original content, and I think that original Google news will be hard to post here, so unless I have something really unique, or if I think...

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