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19 November 2009 ~ Comments Off

Google Labs Adds Cool Android Icon Feature

GMAIL users now have a cool Google Labs setting  they can enable to display Android users’ status in Google Talk as a cool robot (Android). Previously the icon would be displayed as either a circle or mobile phone (the color varies from green to organge to red or gray depending upon availability). With this new [...]

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18 November 2009 ~ 1 Comment

How To Report Trouble With Your Google Voice Number

Last night for a period of only a few minutes my Google Voice phone number played a message to anyone that called saying it was out of service. During this time I wasn’t able to connect via my Droid using the native Google Voice application. I also could not call my Google Voice number directly [...]

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16 November 2009 ~ Comments Off

Pingie Goes Down for the Count

Just this morning I was replying to my friend Mark about a service I’d used in the past to receive automated notifications when a web site posted a new story. My (former) favorite service that I’d recommended was pingie.com which allowed you to enter in an RSS feed and would send  a real time notification [...]

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13 November 2009 ~ Comments Off

Since you asked – here are impressions of using Google Apps for Domains after two years

Yesterday I received this email from a friend wondering what my thoughts were about ditching MS Exchange and going with Google Apps full time for email, documents, calendars, etc. I’ve been a Google Apps for Domains user for about two years.  Prior to that I’d used Microsoft Exchange via an outsourced provider. Google Apps hosts [...]

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