Google Calendar updates are rolling out. Announced yesterday, the changes include updating the repeating event editor, a scheduling assistant to find free times for meeting participants, and for Google Apps, you're now able to set working hours. The update also includes, we're told, significant updates to the code behind the scenes to improve performance and consistency. … [Read more...]
Archives for 2010
Google Makes A Newscast Out of Google Trends
Google has started a channel on YouTube to cover the hottest Google Search trends for the past week. The channel uses Google Trends and Google Insights for Search as their source of information. Here's the first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNxXVWag7fc You can find the weekly updating channel at www.youtube.com/googlebeat. … [Read more...]
First Beta of Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch
Microsoft released the first beta of the Visual Studio LightSwitch IDE earlier this week. It's designed to allow non-programmers create business applications and allow programmers of various levels to create applications quickly. It simplifies the process and allows doing many common functions like coding a database interaction to be done from a visual perspective. If you need … [Read more...]
Digg Launches a More Social Digg with Version 4
Digg's latest iteration, version 4, went live today to the public. It sports an overhauled look that gives an updated appearance and puts more emphasis on the social side of the site. Digg is a news submission site where all the coolest things on the Internet can be found. They have now made that experience more customizable by following certain profiles and seemingly have … [Read more...]
Google Offers VoIP Right in Gmail
US users of Gmail will be getting a new feature in their inbox, the ability to make and receive calls right inside of Gmail. This seems like a perfectly predictable expansion of the Google Voice service and chat/video chat already offered within Gmail. Google seems to think it's a natural evolution of society going by their promo YouTube … [Read more...]