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Google's word processor does the write thing

Digital Living This week I got the chance to check out Writely, the online word-processing application that was purchased by Google earlier this year. And according to comments on Writely's blog, getting links to people to read your document can present confusing...

14 August 2006, 12:07

Daddy, what was it like to be clueless?

Digital Living I saw the author Douglas Coupland speak recently about his new book, Jpod, flagged by his publisher as 'Microserfs for the age of Google'. The second was Google. Google dominates his book as it does the lives of his characters: they spend hours...

10 June 2006, 8:00

Web 2.0: this time it's lucrative

Digital Living You may have been to Flickr, Wondr, Del.icio.us, Orkut, or Listl (note the daringly misspelt or awkward names, to ensure a nice Google ranking -- very Web 2.0). For example, terrorists can look at Google Maps and work out dense population areas...

1 April 2006, 8:00

Best Firefox extensions

Digital Living GooglePreview When you perform a regular Google search, your keyword turns up a list of links that fit your search, along with text snippets from each of the pages. Loki Firefox Google is great for global information, but what if you want to search...

24 August 2006, 11:00

Never trust a webbed politician

Digital Living From British politicians we get something much less exciting: Tony Blair at the recent Labour party conference talking about the "Google generation", which has "moved beyond the idea of 9 to 5, closed on weekends and Bank Holidays.

Tags: party, talking, face, comments

13 October 2006, 8:00

Outlook horror stories

Digital Living When you perform a Google or Yahoo search, the lightning-fast results come courtesy of the index. Search engines like Yahoo and Google don't actually scour every page on the Web each time you plug in a search term; if they did, you'd grow cobwebs...

9 May 2005, 14:50

Leaving Las Vegas

Digital Living In the remarks I wrote before setting out to CES I described the way the show illustrated the clash of two tribes -- the computer guys versus the consumer electronics guys -- and Google's CEO couldn't have fought his corner more directly.

11 January 2006, 15:45

Speed up your bootup time

Digital Living If so, just do a Google search on the name for more details. If that's not enough info, right-click any highlighted Registry entry and select Google on the context menu to search the Web for more information about the highlighted item.

2 August 2006, 15:56

The new podcasting tools

Digital Living These podcasting portals are helpful, but they resemble the early mode of Internet searching, back when people still browsed Yahoo subcategories that were maintained by humans, rather than searching Google.

Tags: stations, searching, mix, talk

9 May 2005, 14:48

The digital won't let me go

Digital Living I'm searching with a nephew for a song by an obsure Japanese band when Google freezes. Helping to launch this Web site has given me plenty of time to think about a simple question, one I look forward to trying to answer in this weekly column.

16 May 2005, 11:40

Email on a Motorola Razr V3

Digital Living If you want to access your own email account, like a Google Mail or Yahoo Mail account, you need to find out if you have POP3 or IMAP4 access, which basically lets you access emails from a mobile phone.

22 May 2006, 15:35

Gates keynote: move along, folks, nothing to see

Digital Living And like Google Desktop, Vista lets you search your Windows desktop quickly and easily. Ah, the Bill Gates keynote. If you've never attended CES, this is the hot ticket the night before the show officially opens, packing out a huge theatre at the...

6 January 2006, 9:57

Chatting in the third dimension

Digital Living If they could take you in their virtual office, home or park, or show you their address on Google Earth or their mansion in Second Life? Yet it's social and entertaining enough to now include chat avatars, cute little pictures of your virtual self...

8 August 2006, 16:33

What do bloggers want?

Digital Living Before chronicling the historic rise of Google via his own Web site and book, he rode out the last boom as publisher of the Industry Standard, a business magazine and Web site chronicling the evolution of the business side of the Web, which became...

15 July 2006, 8:00

CES: Drama in the desert, but what's the story?

Digital Living There will also be keynotes from Terry Semel of Yahoo and Larry Page of Google, reflecting the way in which search technology has come to dominate the digital media landscape. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada is a massive...

4 January 2006, 11:43