Really fun episode yesterday with Matt Cutts, one of Google’s most friendly and well-known engineers. We talked about the power of links (even negative ones), net neutrality, Google po... Read more
Leo, Jeff and I jawed about the new Android App Inventor, Picnik in Picasa, mobile local search, my 23andme results, and iPhone 4 in this week’s episode. My tip of the week: setting up... Read more
Jeff and Leo and I chatted about Droid X, Prince, Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and the iPhone 4 in our latest episode of TWiG. Also, listeners are helping send an Android phone into space! My t... Read more
Great conversation today on TWiG with our guest Chris Messina, who dropped knowledge on the history and differences between OAuth and OpenID–which in an age of “Facebook wants to... Read more
This week’s episode of TWiG featured Jeff Jarvis Skyping over 3G from a moving car on a NJ highway, Brad Stone from the NY Times who was a total trooper during our criticism of the Tim... Read more
Android users have a limited number of home screens on their phone (3 to 5, depending on what version you use), but folders group your home screen shortcuts into quick pop-up menus. For exam... Read more
Now that you’re auditing your online account security, log into your Google account(s) and visit the Account Recovery Options page. Here you can update your secret question and answer,... Read more
Just found out about a neat Google Easter Egg for the New Year: on the Google homepage, click on the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button with nothing in the search box, to see a liv... Read more
If you already own a domain name like yourname.com, you want to use your personalized email address–but you don’t want to advertise to the world you’re forwarding to and se... Read more
Update, April 2011: Hi, reader! Before you go any further, you should know this article is out of date. To find out the best and most up-to-date way to root your Android phone, check out Lif... Read more
On each new episode of This Week in Google (details) I’ll highlight a tip for using cloud/Google apps smarter, faster, and better. I’ll document those tips here. If you’ve upgraded... Read more
On each new episode of This Week in Google (details) I’ll highlight a tip for using cloud/Google apps smarter, faster, and better. I’ll document those tips here. This week Gmail engineer... Read more
On each new episode of This Week in Google (details) I’ll highlight a tip for using cloud/Google apps smarter, faster, and better. I’ll document those tips here. You use Firefox, you kee... Read more
On each new episode of This Week in Google (details) I’ll highlight a tip for using cloud/Google apps smarter, faster, and better. I’ll document those tips here. The J and K keys... Read more
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