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An unofficial blog that watches Google's attempts to move your operating system online since 2005. Not affiliated with Google. Send your tips to [email protected]. While Google Drive lets you upload any file, the support for files that can't be edited using Google Docs/Sheets/Slides is limited. For example, you can embed PDF files and videos, but Google doesn't offer permalinks for images. So you'

An unofficial blog that watches Google's attempts to move your operating system online since 2005. Not affiliated with Google. Send your tips to [email protected]. The Google Apps blog announced that Google will drop support for Internet Explorer 9, now that Internet Explorer 11 is available. "We support the latest version of Google Chrome (which automatically updates whenever it detects that a ne

The desktop Google Search has a cool feature: search for [set timer for 5 minutes] and you'll see this interactive timer box. You can stop the timer, reset it and Google even has a notification sound you can disable. You can search for [set timer for 30 seconds], [set timer for 10 minutes and 10 seconds], [set timer for an hour and a half]. You can also use shorter queries: [timer for 30 seconds],

An unofficial blog that watches Google's attempts to move your operating system online since 2005. Not affiliated with Google. Send your tips to [email protected]. Google prepares a new service that's called Google Mine. It's integrated with Google+ and it's a way to keep track of the items you own or you'd like to have and share some of them with your circles. Right now, the service is tested int

It took awhile, but Google's unified storage is finally here for almost everyone (some people got the new feature earlier, it was gradually rolled out). As previously mentioned, the 25GB plan is no longer available and the most affordable plan offers 100GB for $4.99/month. You get 15GB of free storage for Gmail, Google Drive and Google+ Photos and you can buy additional storage (100GB, 200GB, 400G

Google found a funny way to show the anonymous persons who open a document in Google Drive. Instead of only using different colors for each person, Google Drive associates each person with an animal, so you'll see things like "anonymous anteater", "anonymous moose", "anonymous chupacabra", "anonymous axolotl", "anonymous kraken", "anonymous gopher", "anonymous jackalope". Google also uses special

An unofficial blog that watches Google's attempts to move your operating system online since 2005. Not affiliated with Google. Send your tips to [email protected]. Update (March 19): The extension is back, but Google Reader and iGoogle have been removed from the list of default feed readers. Apparently, the extension was removed by mistake. {via François} Three years ago I tried to convince the Ch

An unofficial blog that watches Google's attempts to move your operating system online since 2005. Not affiliated with Google. Send your tips to [email protected]. What if you want to include a link to a Google search results page and the URL needs to be short? Instead of copying the URL from the address bar and including a lot of unnecessary parameters, you can manually build a simple URL: http:/

An unofficial blog that watches Google's attempts to move your operating system online since 2005. Not affiliated with Google. Send your tips to [email protected]. WebP is one of the best thing that happened after Google acquired On2 in 2010. While WebM doesn't have a strong adoption outside YouTube and Firefox started to support H.264 after a few years of fight, WebP is an image format that's alr

When Google Reader dropped support for the built-in sharing features and integrated with Google+, the settings page added a long list of JSON files you could save to your computer to export your followers, the items you've shared or starred, your notes and more. Until then, you could only export your subscriptions. Now all these files can be downloaded from Google Takeout, a service that lets you

Gmail added a lot of new search operators. Now you can finally filter messages by size, find old messages and mail that has no label. Here are the new operators: - size: lets you "search for messages larger than the specified size in bytes". For example, search for [size:512000] to find messages larger than 500 KB (1 KB = 1024 bytes). It's important to note that MIME encoding adds 33% overhead, so

An unofficial blog that watches Google's attempts to move your operating system online since 2005. Not affiliated with Google. Send your tips to [email protected]. Update (June 2014): This no longer works. Missing Google Sets? It's one of the first Google Labs projects and it was discontinued last year. Google Sets allowed you to generate lists of similar items by just typing a few examples. The g

An unofficial blog that watches Google's attempts to move your operating system online since 2005. Not affiliated with Google. Send your tips to [email protected]. Google has a new favicon that looks like the icon from Google's mobile search apps for Android and iOS. The same icon was also used for the Google Search app from the Chrome Web Store. Most likely, Google wanted to use the same icon irr

An unofficial blog that watches Google's attempts to move your operating system online since 2005. Not affiliated with Google. Send your tips to [email protected]. Chrome 22 (currently in the Dev channel) has a cool feature that lets you set keyboard shortcuts for extension buttons. Just open the extensions page (click the wrench icon, then select Tools and Extensions), scroll to the bottom of the

An unofficial blog that watches Google's attempts to move your operating system online since 2005. Not affiliated with Google. Send your tips to [email protected]. If you try to create a Google account from Google's homepage, you'll notice that Google redesigned the page, but that's not all. You'll now have to create a Gmail account, a Google Profile and you'll automatically join Google+. Until no

An unofficial blog that watches Google's attempts to move your operating system online since 2005. Not affiliated with Google. Send your tips to [email protected]. Google closed a lot of useful services to focus on Google+ and other core offerings. One of the best services that was recently shut down is Code Search, a search engine for open source code. If you go to google.com/codesearch, you'll s

If you change your Google account's password and you try to log in using the old password, Google shows a special message: "Your password was changed X days ago. Didn't change your password?" and links to this article. It looks like you've attempted to sign in using an old password. If you remember changing your password, just sign back in using your most recent password. If you remember changing

An unofficial blog that watches Google's attempts to move your operating system online since 2005. Not affiliated with Google. Send your tips to [email protected]. Now you no longer need to use Wolfram Alpha to plot Math graphs. Google shows an interactive graph when you search for a Math function or a list of functions separated by commas. "You can zoom in and out and pan across the plane to expl

An unofficial blog that watches Google's attempts to move your operating system online since 2005. Not affiliated with Google. Send your tips to [email protected]. Google has recently announced a new interface that hides the navigation menu until you mouse over the logo. If you'd like to try to interface before, you can edit your Google cookie and use some values that trigger the new UI. If you us

An unofficial blog that watches Google's attempts to move your operating system online since 2005. Not affiliated with Google. Send your tips to [email protected]. If you miss Google+ notifications when you're not visiting a Google page, you can now install a Chrome extension and always get the latest updates. "Whenever you have a new notification (for example, when someone adds you to a circle or

An unofficial blog that watches Google's attempts to move your operating system online since 2005. Not affiliated with Google. Send your tips to [email protected]. The new Google Reader interface is finally here and it also brings some functional changes: all the social features are removed and replaced by a Google +1 button. It's important to note that clicking the +1 button only adds the page to