Old Toys Tagged "google"

GCal PopUp Makes Calendaring (almost) Fun!

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this November 18th, 2008 12:31 pm

I’ve not written anything on a paper calendar or DayTimer for more than two years; my cal is on the clouds with Google Calendar– We have all of the NMC stuff using it on our enterprise set of GoogleApps, for individuals and several group/project ones, and I can access and schedule them with my typically [...]

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Gmail Gone All Widgety

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 27th, 2008 9:44 pm

I’m already pretty wired into iGoogle as my home, been so for like, well ever since it came out. But now, Gmail is getting the widget business to, as the Google Labs now offers options to add to the Gmail side bar, small iGoogle-like widgets for seeing your calendar, recent docs, etc.
As described in [...]

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“Next Thing You Know, Grommit, They Will Prove The Moon Is NOT Made of Cheese!”

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this August 18th, 2005 7:01 am

If you hear things repeated enough and from different sources, they grow into self truths, and next thing you know you help to spread them. In a week it is an Urban Legend. It’s interesting to see how some new tools can help poke holes in folk tales.
Have you ever repeated the old adage that [...]

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Google News Squirrelly Feeds

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this August 12th, 2005 6:53 pm

Good News: Google News and custom searches are available as RSS/Atom Feeds.
Bad News: Has anyone at Google actually googled the RSS 2.0 formats? They have taken a weird approach to the format, double listing the title and publication date items inside the description! Okay, technically it meets RSS 2.0 rules, but functionally, it is doing [...]

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Logogle - Make Yourself Into Google

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this July 27th, 2005 11:54 am

More fun, graphics creative Frivolity. Logogle, the Google Logo maker, allows you to turn any text into the style Google’s word log. See for example, the new monetizing entity, CogDogBlogoogle:

This was found via a curious site trendalicious which bubbles up popular sites that have recently been tagged in del.icio.us:
trendalicious is a near real-time [...]

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Google AdWords Ego Searching

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this June 3rd, 2005 7:15 pm

C’mom, admit it, you’ve ego surfed… typed your name into Google to see what you come up with, or if your site is in the top ten. No? Just me?
Well here is a new game to play, see what ads a Google search leads your name to.
This all came about since a colleague mentioned [...]

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