Archive for the “Google” category

Spore

by Marshall on March 6, 2006

Check out this video up on Google Videos of a new game being created by Maxis. It looks like a cross beteen Civilization, Sim City and Eames’ Powers of Ten video.

Google Text Message

by Marshall on February 3, 2006

I guess you could always send SMS messages through Google using theur toolbar. I have never installed the Google Toolbar since both Safari and Firefox have builtt in Google Search boxes. Now you can text people directly from Googles website. (…)

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Google Maps Disc Golf

by Marshall on January 16, 2006

Google Maps overlayed with Disc Golf courses

Google Rides

by Marshall on July 1, 2005

I stumbled across this neat feature of Google Maps, Google Ride Finder. Milwaukee is one of the 13 citys which work so far. So much for dropping out of the Top 20. There is also a plugin for Address book (…)

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Cheap Gas Google Map Hack

by Marshall on May 24, 2005

Where is gas cheapest in your area?

XmlHttpRequest: Powering Google’s Apps

by Marshall on February 23, 2005

Adaptive Path has a nice article about how the XmlHttpRequest (which they dub Ajax, shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) works in conjunction with GMail and Google Maps. Also, check out XML.com for a nice detailed article with examples of (…)

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GmailFS

by Marshall on August 30, 2004

I wandered accross this while reading Slashdot this morning: GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the (…)

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