Technology The 'Everything Google that isn't Android' thread

[dilla]

DISH Network Sending out Surveys about Google TV | AndroidGuys

My parents have Dish, but I dunno if they'll adopt this.

 

[masta247]

LMFAO!!

 

[THEV1LL4N]

So it is Google Chrome's 2 year birthday today, and they celebrated with the release of a new theme AND more importantly the stable version of v6.0.472.

Google Chrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Happy 2nd birthday, Google Chrome!

Im tethering over 3G, and its much faster than 5 minutes ago when i was on v5 of chrome.

 

[ARon]

I found this at a blog, thought it was funny. It what the new instant search brings up

A is for Amazon, to get all your books.
B is for Bank of America, which holds all your crooks.
C is for Craigslist, no services adult.
D is for Dictionary, to define your result.
E is for eBay, to spend all your cash.
F is for Facebook, web pages like trash.
G is for Gmail, world domination ambition.
H is for Hotmail, Gmail's competition.
I is for Ikea, for a lamp named Bljampäjese.
J is for Johns Hopkins, where they cure your disease.
K is for Kohl's, a store that's old-school.
L is for Lowe's, to buy your tool.
M is for MapQuest, for the place you go to.
N is for Netflix, to add to your queue.
O is for Orioles, a Baltimore obsession.
P is for Pandora, an audio digression.
Q is for QVC, for goods without esteem.
R is for Ravens, another Baltimore team.
S is for Sears, appliances and more.
T is for Target, a Wal-Mart like store.
U is for USPS, where mail you submit.
V is for Verizon, Steve Jobs should use it.
W is for Weather, for forests in flames.
X is for Xbox, a console for games.
Y is for Yahoo, a home page for Chrome.
Z is for Zillow, to value your home.


A lot of people's will be different of course cus of location, but that's just one thing that makes google oh so cool

 

[masta247]

Ok so I uninstalled Chrome while removing everything that remained of it from my computer a few days ago and was presented with a short from, the "why did you remove it, rate Chrome pls" one. I filled it, just because I'm nice like that.
It didn't ask me for any contact info at all, just to tick some boxes. At the very end it said "we will contact you if we'll have any questions" thing and I was like "yeah, right haha".
Today I turn on my Internet Explorer as I do from time to time, because something didn't work on my Opera (a IE only site) and a new pop-up appears with a message from Google and another question, lol.
Yes, a wtf moment.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

health.google.com for anyone that wants to track their time-related records of everything health related.

 

[Casey]

health.google.com for anyone that wants to track their time-related records of everything health related.

Welcome to last year. lol

Peep the Dashboard if you haven't yet - google.com/dashboard

Also, I've started pinning tabs on Chrome. It reduces the tab to the size of the favicon, and the pinned tabs are always there when you open your browser unless you unpin and close them. Very cool. I can defo see where Google are going with Chrome OS and web apps.

 

[Casey]

Google wanna kill JPEG's. Cool.

With WebP, Google Aims To Replace Yet Another Elemental Web Format

 

[dilla]

http://goo.gl/

 

[THEV1LL4N]

Welcome to last year. lol

Peep the Dashboard if you haven't yet - google.com/dashboard

Also, I've started pinning tabs on Chrome. It reduces the tab to the size of the favicon, and the pinned tabs are always there when you open your browser unless you unpin and close them. Very cool. I can defo see where Google are going with Chrome OS and web apps.

i think ive been to this via Google Accounts settings. thanks.

Google wanna kill JPEG's. Cool.

With WebP, Google Aims To Replace Yet Another Elemental Web Format

it'd be good to see a more efficient web, with images loading quicker, it'd certainly be great if supported by mobile devices too.

http://goo.gl/

i saw this last night, and was about to post it here, but you beat me to it. will check it out now.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

So some of you may remember i said that last year i was attempting to use Google Wave for a group project, however only 1 person got the invite in time making only 2 out of 6 people able to use it. so that kinda failed.

I shouldve used Google Groups instead. Ive never really used it before, but it was already available and had all the basics, very easy to use. This is what im doing this year.

I just love how i can use the whole range of Google products with one account - very very convenient, and when im away from a computer i will get notification emails from my collaborators. Then when i get back home or to uni i can log onto a PC and work (if needed). I LOVE IT.

 

[dilla]

Google Engineer Builds Facebook Disconnect)

I do get sick and tired of sites asking me if I want to connect to Facebook to browse their site. Trying this out now.

 

[S O F I]

It Gets Better: Google Employees | It Gets Better Project

Google employees. Pretty nice.

 

[masta247]

To be honest I think that Google is TOO gay. I mean, it's cool that they're a good working environment for minorities and homosexuals but they put too much emphasis on it imho. They funded a gay parade here.
IBM's more subtle way also works and actually amongst IT people they still have a reputation of the best company to work at. At my university Google is the "second" option after IBM and before Microsoft as far as students' preferences go and I think that Google's display of "openness to variations" is a part of why it's not first.

For less tolerant people it's screaming that Google is full of retards, gays and.. minorities.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

i have this annoying thing with google chrome going on at the moment. i click the scroll wheel of my mouse in and most times it opens the same link twice (as a duplicated tab).

i shall check other browsers now to see if this is a chome only problem or if its with all browsers.

anyone else had this problem?

 

[dilla]

To be honest I think that Google is TOO gay. I mean, it's cool that they're a good working environment for minorities and homosexuals but they put too much emphasis on it imho. They funded a gay parade here.
IBM's more subtle way also works and actually amongst IT people they still have a reputation of the best company to work at. At my university Google is the "second" option after IBM and before Microsoft as far as students' preferences go and I think that Google's display of "openness to variations" is a part of why it's not first.

For less tolerant people it's screaming that Google is full of retards, gays and.. minorities.

Sounds like a bunch of fucking hippies. Instead of treating them as equals, they become royalty.


I just downloaded about 1200 posts between two Waves I've had with a bunch of friends, full of articles and pictures and videos we've shared amongst ourselves the past year or so. Then I found this: Google Wave to Become an Apache Project Next Week | Nerd 5 !

And was wondering, what if Wave still lives on through this Apache company? I liked it. It's not Twitter, but I like it instead of flooding several people's inboxes with stuff.

 

[Casey]

I have tons of important documents on Wave that I haven't exported yet. We wrote our whole new album using it - different bandmembers contributing lyrics, dropping MP3's of vocal demos into the waves, etc. And of course you can use the playback mode to document the entire creation of the song from start to finish. I'm really hoping the technology remains online. Otherwise I may have to just build my own selfhosted Wave server.

Smacky, you couldn't be more wrong. Google treats everyone as equals. They are the most tolerant tech company and that is a good thing. Discrimination has no place in the tech world. None.

 

[dilla]

Is there something similar to "about:config" in Firefox for Chrome?

 

[Casey]

Is there something similar to "about:config" in Firefox for Chrome?

I forget what the Firefox one does, but if you're looking for all the experimental options, it's about:flags

 

[masta247]

The coolest April's fool spoof:
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html