Archive for June, 2006

June 8

Google Browser Sync and your privacy

Posted by Randy
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Today Google released Google Browser Sync, an extension for Firefox that “continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers.” Hold up just a second: settings, bookmarks, history, cookies, passwords? Isn’t this taking it a bit too far? Personally, I’m not comfortable […]

June 7

Something is very wrong with Google Web Accelerator (Part 2)

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Note: This is a continuation of our Something is very wrong with Google Web Accelerator series.
If you recall back to March when we first published Part 1 of this series, we were concerned with Google heavily advertising Google Web Accelerator at the bottom of Google search results pages. The problem is that Google Web […]

June 7

Chat with More than 2 with Google Spreadsheets

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I played with Google Spreadsheets for nearly an hour today with my online friends Randy and Andrew.

The amazing thing here is that, when sharing with more than 2 others, you can actually chat with all of them at the same time. Why doesn’t Google Talk have this feature yet? And this is within a web […]

June 6

Hands-on with Google Spreadsheets V1.1.4

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I played with Google Spreadsheets for a few minutes, since they’ve sent me my invite. Anyone want to try collaborating on something?

This is the main interface. Here I’ve typed some text into cell B2, highlighted it light yellow, and then selected four cells which makes them appear in light blue.

This is the Google Spreadsheets file […]

June 6

Google Spreadsheets from Google Labs

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Google announced the test launch of Google Spreadsheets, available to a limited number of users on a first-come, first-serve basis. It is a web-based spreadsheet application that offers collaboration in real-time with other users.
Features of Google Spreadsheets includes:

Automatic saving of work in progress.
Importing of Microsoft Excel (XLS) files and comma-separated values(CSV) files.
Exporting of Microsoft […]