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…

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…

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 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…

Google Sidebar is part of the new version 2 of Desktop Search. It works pretty much like Desktop Sidebar, but obviously with all Google services involved. It features an email preview pane, which will pick up your Gmail, if you…

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Great collection of hints and tips for Gmail users here, as linked to yesterday by John Naughton.

Nice profile of Tim Berners-Lee, ‘inventor’ of the World Wide Web, in today’s Guardian: There are, according to recent figures, more than 35 million web users in the UK today. More than 15 million British homes have internet connections and,…

Went on a course today (in Bristol! 3 hours drive! Still, beautiful scenery) to have a look at Snap, a piece of survey (as in questionnaires) software. It was a good course, and introduced all the various elements pretty quickly.…