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Google Map with Local Search

Google Map with Local Search – 1.1.2

Extension meant for Developer Builds of Google Chrome 4.0+

Via chromeextensions.org

Features of this Chrome extension include

  • § A search box embedded in the map
  • § A series of quick-search links in map
  • § Automatically displays current locale
  • § Automatically displays map of the area
  • § Quickly retrieve up to 10 recent maps

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23

04 2010

Create, explain, and send quick screenshots

Check out this cool extension for Google Chrome that allows you to quickly and easily send augment something within your browser and quickly send it as a screen-shot. Nice.

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Explain and send screenshots - 3.1

    23

    04 2010

    Google Apps Breaks Up with IE6

    I didn’t even know that Google Apps and Microsoft’s IE6 were dating. But today Google Apps posted this on FaceBook

    Dear IE6,

    Nice knowing you. Don’t let the door hit your arse on the way out.

    Love Google xoxo

    P.S.  Stop e-mailing and texting us. We got a new e-mail address and an unlisted number because of you. Take the hint, already.

    Actually what I got was

    Dear Google Apps Admin,

    We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010.  After that certain functionality within these applications may experience higher latency and may not work correctly in older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.

    The Google Apps team

    But I know a Dear John letter when I see one. See ya later, IE6.

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    02

    02 2010

    MashLogic – Google Chrome Extension

    MashLogic is an extension for Google Chrome that automatically aggregates content about high-profile terms and displays it when you hover over the term. The idea is to constantly be in the know about every important concept on every webpage

    Posted via email from practice (redux)

    30

    01 2010

    Fastcase Legal Research App for iPhone

    It doesn’t suck!

    Download the FastCase legal research application for the iPhone at fastcase.com/iPhone

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    Google Chrome OS: What Does it Mean?

    Google Chrome OSThe following is based on a post by Clio in its November Newsletter. Read more about Clio here.

    Last week Google took the covers off of Chrome OS; the first new, significant operating system to be introduced in the last ten years; and the first to be devoted entirely to web applications. What’s significant about Chrome OS?

    • Every app on Chrome OS is a Web app.
    • Nothing is stored on your computer.
    • The operating system is the browser.
    • 10 second startup: boots in 7 seconds; 3 more to login.
    • All data is encrypted; even if you lose your computer the data is secure.
    • Supports only flash-based drives; not hard-disc drives.
    • Open-source (think Linux, but not as geeky)

    In other words, Google Chrome OS is the logical conclusion to the shift away from desktop applications to “the cloud” (itself an echo of the decades-old idea of thinking mainframes and dumb terminals). But is Google too late to make a difference in the OS sphere? Only if it tries to unseat Windows. But that was never the idea. Instead, Google wants to provide the OS blueprint for

    • Netbooks: Subnotebooks can’t be weighed down with a bulky OS.
    • Cloud Computing: Who needs to store and backup data when it’s more secure in the Cloud?
    • Convergence: Your subnotebook, office machine, and phone, are merging.

    26

    11 2009

    Happy Birthday Firefox (p.s. burn in hell Internet Explorer)

    Take a minute to wish Firefox a happy 5th birthday.  Can you believe? It’s been 5 glorious years since Firefox made it fun again to get on the Internet. Sure Chrome has been a noble experiment and Safari is as elegant as Apple itself, but Firefox is the original bad boy of browsers and it can still makes a geek’s heart flutter.

    Happy Birthday Firefox

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