Archive for Google Tech

A day at the Google Office (video)

A tour of Google’s Zurich HQ, where staff ride a slide to lunch and shimmy down a fireman’s pole.

Posted by: Andy on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Giant dog terrorizes neighborhood (?)

It’s surprising what is assumed - especially from a Satellite view.
Someone wrote in to Google Sightseeing and pointed out a giant dog apparently terrorizing a Florida Neighborhood. [see the post here].
Umm yeah it’s a concrete truck. The construction behind the house it’s outside of kinda helps build the case too.
They’re really nice [...]

Posted by: Andy on Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Why use the Google toolbar?

ummm mostly because it’s awesome!
There are lots of toolbars made by every company out there that do a whole lot of things. My favorite feature is the favorites, I like to keep my favorites in Google because they’re not on my computer and have less of a chance of being lost.
Here’s a video [...]

Posted by: Andy on Thursday, December 13th, 2007

What is Google Documents?

Google posted an excellent video explaining, in very simple, effective terms what exactly Google Documents is and what it can do for you.
As tech and web app minded as I am I have to admit that I don’t store as many of my documents online as I should.
I have some items in Google Documents but [...]

Posted by: Andy on Friday, December 7th, 2007

Make people smile - use GrandCentral

I use Grandcentral to take most of my phone calls.
 GrandCentral is great! firstly because it’s free, also because it’s Google
Anyway, I can’t begin to tell you how many people have commented on how funny the ring is, they’re even laughing when I pick up the phone, I’ve gotten email comments on it too. [...]

Posted by: Andy on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007