Wikipedia on FireFox

With the Google Toolbar for Firefox installed, I never use the little search box built into the browser on the right of the address bar. But since I had a play around, I found that by visiting here, I could search Wikipedia straight from Firefox. I didn’t realise how useful this was until this morning … Keep reading

Google Office to be announced today?

Looks like some sort of announcement will be imminent. An online office suite is a very smart move by Google – whilst it couldn’t be as fully featured as the current version of OpenOffice.org, let alone MS Office, for the majority of users what would be on offer would be more than enough. Here’s where … Keep reading

Palimpsest 2.0

My quietness of late is largely down to the massive amount of work I have been putting into Palimpsest, head over there and take a look for yourself. Basically, the old phpBB forum software just wasn’t up to the job. I think that when they get round to releasing version 3 this might chnage, but … Keep reading

Katrina stuff

This is pretty remarkable: before and after aerial photos of New Orleans, from MSNBC. Also, Google provide a Katrina specific websearch, including searching for missing people.

Google Talk

Google have released their IM client, Google Talk. But not only is it an IM client, but you can also use it to phone other Google Talk users – for free! Won’t get to have a play until I get home tonight.