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Ano Raw?

Just sharing today's 'huh?'

ano raw

Submitted by gary on Fri, 03/18/2011 - 09:56

Google Having Way Too Much Fun

Finally managed to set up my Desktop PC. After installing Ubuntu for some odd reason Google always sets the default language as Russian or some Cyrillic alphabet. Trying to fix it, I discovered two new types of languages.

Elmer Fudd

elmer fudd bork

and Bork

elmer fudd bork

For the uninitiated (and when I say uninitiated, I mean the younger generation), this is Elmer Fudd:

Submitted by gary on Tue, 02/15/2011 - 14:49

Today In Gmail Awesomeness And A Sign Google Hates FB

This is way old news, as in 2009, but I recently encountered one of Gmail's awesome 'why didn't anyone think about that before' features when I tried to mark a newsletter I was subscribed to as spam instead of going through the process of unsubscribing.

You know the feeling, when you're on an mailing list (either voluntarily or otherwise), and you wanna get out, but you don't care to spend the time to get out of it? Yes I know you do. Marking it as spam or telling Gmail to auto archive it and mark it as read is far easier, so when I opted to do the first, I got this:

unsubscribe gmail

It says:

In addition to marking the mssage as spam, Gmail can attempt to automatically unsubscribe you from ** by sending an unsubscribe request on your behalf.

Wow.

Submitted by gary on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:01

Can't Go To Google DevDays (Again)

I signed up to Google's DevDays Manila leg the other week but when I got the approval I had to beg off due to distance and the fact that I wouldn't be able to attend the full thing (8:30am to 6pm).

google devdays philippines

I figure better to give my seat up to someone more deserving. Sigh.

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 07/03/2010 - 23:55

Google Brings Back The Command Line

I'll admit I'm a command line (aka terminal) fan. When I first started using Linux it was unavoidable (giving you an idea of how long ago that was), but instead of freaking out I instantly fell in love. There's nothing like the complete, utter power you feel, for lack of a better word, when controlling things via terminal. Alas, I recognize however that this is a dying art.

Until yesterday, when Google announced YOU CAN NOW CONTROL YOUR BLOGGER, GOOGLE CALENDAR, GOOGLE CONTACTS, GOOGLE DOCS, PICASA and YOUTUBE accounts VIA COMMAND LINE.

Let me just say, AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME.

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 06/23/2010 - 08:39

Google Docs Now Has Semi-Sorta OCR

OCR (Optical Character Recognition), is the ability to translate text from (usually scanned) documents. You usually find bundled OCR software when you buy a scanner. Once scanned, you can start cutting and pasting the text onto document publishing apps like MS Office or Pagemaker.

Google Docs now has the ability to allow you to upload a PDF file and convert this to text. I decided to try this out using a PDF file I got from Nokia about the new X8.

google docs pdf convert

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 06/22/2010 - 14:57

Google 'World Cup' And You Get

this..

google world cup

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 06/10/2010 - 17:03

Google Does What I Would Do

By now you'd have heard how Google has removed all Windows from their offices.

ban windows google

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 00:00

Much Ado Over PacMan

Even in its heyday I wasn't a big fan of PacMan, (probably because I sucked at it. Yes. I suck at PacMan).

At any rate as everyone already knows, Google celebrated 30 years of PacMan two weeks ago (yes this is mega late) via a Javascript powered playable version of its logo, made permanently available at http://www.google.com/pacman/.

google pacman

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 00:00

Google Chrome Extensions and Bookmark Sync

I'm a Google Chrome convert because let's face it, Firefox has become unbearably slow.

You gotta hand it to Google. Making their browser, they delivered on the one thing that's most important to all of us = speed.

It opens fast, it surfs fast, it just does everything neat, quick and blazingly fast, and inasmuch as I don't like change with the tools I use for work (I tend to use one app or tool and stick to that forever, which is why I'm still using Photoshop 5.5), Firefox's slowness was getting to me so a change was in order.

Problem was, I am a big fan of Firebug, a Firefox extension which is an amazing help when figuring out complicated web design projects, particularly when you're trying to figure out which css calls are screwing up, etc.

Which is why I was excited when I saw this: