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Call Phones from GMail

Posted on 08/26/2010 by Mr. Pink

You can now call telephones directly from GMail. All you need is a microphone.

Calls to the United States and Canada will be free “at least for the rest of the year” but international calls will incur a fee. Regardless, this is rather cool on Google’s part. Sadly, I think it’s just a precursor to something sinister considering the recent partnership between the “do no evil” search giant and Verizon.

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The World’s 300,000 Largest Websites Visualized

Posted on 08/24/2010 by Mr. Pink

Nmap compiled icons from 288,945 websites (using Alexa as its source) in an attempt to “visualize” the most popular places on the web – and What The Christ? made the cut!

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Google to Release Tablet Via Verizon on November 26?

Posted on 08/20/2010 by Mr. Pink

There are heavy rumors circulating that Google has plans to launch a tablet device via Verizon on November 26, better known in the United States as Black Friday. If true, the unit would supposedly feature:

  • A 1280×720 multitouch display
  • An Nvidia Tegra 2 processor
  • 2GB of RAM
  • 32GB SSD
  • WiFi/Bluetooth/3G connectivity
  • GPS, webcam and a multi-card reader

Obviously, Google isn’t going to comment on this. However, given the search giant’s recent forging of an unholy alliance with the world’s most restrictive cell phone carrier, it seems as though there’s plenty of reason to take this as near-fact.

Unfortunately, the rumor also says that the device will run Chrome OS, not Android. If true, that would essentially kill my interest in acquiring one.

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The Washington Post Profiles 4chan

Posted on 08/11/2010 by Mr. Pink

In what can only be described as a sign of the coming apocalypse, The Washington Post is running a profile on the power and influence of 4chan. I must admit that it’s an interesting read… but then there’s this quote from former Google employee Joshua Schacter, who created the social bookmarking service Delicious a few years back.

“4chan is one of those things where we get a brief glimpse of what the future looks like,” he said.

I’m sorry… but what? I’ve read a lot of absurd things on the Internet but calling 4chan “the future” of anything is a bit ridiculous.

Then again, I do owe a lot to Moot. This website drew a large fraction of its initial fan following from /b/ and /s/. (I have Mr. Blue and a few others to thank for that.)

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Rubik’s Cube “Cracked”

Posted on 08/11/2010 by Mr. Pink

It took more than 35 CPU years and some donated processing power from Google to find what’s being called the “God number” but a group of dedicated academics, engineers, and mathematicians have finally proven that a Rubik’s Cube can be solved in twenty moves or less from any of the 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible positions.

If you’re interested in the science behind this, check out cube20 – the home of the project.

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt Says 200,000+ Android Devices are Activated Every Single Day

Posted on 08/05/2010 by Mr. Pink

If Google CEO Eric Schmidt is to be believed, then there are over 200,000 Android device activations happening every day. That means that more than 6,000,000 Google-powered phones, desktops, tablets, and laptops were fired up last month alone.

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Google Wave is Dead

Posted on 08/04/2010 by Mr. Pink

Google Wave lived up to its name: it made a ripple across the web and that was the end of it. I’m really not sure what Google was thinking when they unveiled the platform. It was neither revolutionary nor was it particularly useful. You’d think that one of the largest and most successful companies in the world wouldn’t make such big mistakes.

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Google Launches New Image Search

Posted on 07/21/2010 by Mr. Pink

Google just launched a complete overhaul of its image search. Aside from making it much easier to use and generally streamlining the clunky old interface, the developers also included a handy color filter, giving users the ability to narrow searches based on the predominant colors in images.

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Google Games

Posted on 07/11/2010 by Mr. Pink

TechCrunch is reporting that Google just invested somewhere between $100 and $200 million in Zynga, the company responsible for FarmVille and Mafia Wars.

This could be an indication that a Google Games app or product is somewhere on the horizon, although Google hasn’t said anything about the money or their reasons for investing in such a god-awful concept.

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11 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Google Products

Posted on 06/18/2010 by Mr. Pink

If you’re like me, then you get a lot of use out of Google’s web apps. My only problem (until now) has been a perceived lack of shortcut support. Web Design Ledger set me straight with this article, which features links to eleven absolutely indispensable cheat sheets for some of Google’s more popular services.

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Google Dumps Windows Altogether

Posted on 06/06/2010 by Mr. Pink

Citing security issues and even going so far as to blame Microsoft for the recent China hacking incident, search giant Google has announced that they are completely dumping the Windows operating system from their operations. Employees now have a choice between Mac OS and Linux.

Silicon Valley Insider has more details in this article.

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Google: Chrome OS Coming This Fall

Posted on 06/02/2010 by Mr. Pink

Google vice president of product management Sundar Pichai revealed today at the Computex trade show in Taipei that Chrome OS, the company’s much anticipated cloud based operating system, will be released for free this fall.

That’s a fair bit ahead of the search giant’s original schedule!

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