Google

Google Voice's "Activate Google voicemail for this phone" isn't new

Posted Fri, 10/30/2009 - 01:38 by Isaac

This is a little lame. I got very excited when I saw the 'new' setting in my Google Voice account to "Activate Google voicemail for this phone". I would love an integrated way to have Google Voice catch calls made to my mobile, but I wanted to know how they did it first. But Google didn't explain the process; they made it seem like this amazing new feature when its actually the same call forwarding function you already had but with one addition... it stops the Google Voice Loop. Read more

Motorola Developes a Droid Phone - and I actually want it

Posted Thu, 10/29/2009 - 10:41 by Isaac

Its been a while since there was a Motorola phone that I wanted to buy but this new Droid phone is very impressive. Google's Android mobile phone OS is exciting to watch but the reviews of previous phones running it were lack luster. Most did not have the processing power to run Android effectively or lacked creative design.

That seems to have changed with the Motorola Droid. The early reviews sound great and some of the features that Motorola has come up with have really improved on Google's OS. The asking price is only $199 on Verison. Read more

Google Blogs uses a static URL to tell us that Dynamic URLs are best

Posted Tue, 05/26/2009 - 23:27 by Isaac

Sure we have heard Google say in the past that it can handle and index dynamic URLs but now I read on the Google Blog that they prefer sites to use dynamic rather then clean static URLs.

  • Clean/Static URL - example.com/archive/january.htm
  • Dynamic URL - example.com/detail?id=31 

From the Google post: Read more

Google CADIE Project released for April's Fools Day

Posted Wed, 04/01/2009 - 00:30 by Isaac

Good morning to you too Google. You had me for just a second with your timely midnight release of the CADIE project. At least it was fairly obvious and I didn't have to read 1500 words to get the joke. Of course this late of night and I am fairly easy to fool. Read more

Google Voice

Posted Sat, 03/21/2009 - 01:59 by Isaac

I have had a Grand Central number for about 2 years but I will confess that I never did much with it. I was always too afraid that the service might fail and I would loose my number. Well, with Google taking over I figured that it was now safe. I will continue to test and mark any tips or issues that I face with the service. Read more

RSS feeds for Movie Theater Showtimes

Posted Mon, 06/05/2006 - 18:43 by Isaac

I saw 3 new movies this past weekend; The Break Up, MI:III, X-Men
III. While I did enjoy the shows this is not a review post. Its a post
on why I can't find RSS feeds for any of my local theaters.
I realized that the normal process I go through for finding my
showtimes is cumbersome. I login into My Yahoo (which I only use
because of the movie listing) and then browse my pre-selected favorite
theaters (edit: Now I use Google Search "movie zipcode" for the desktop
and fandango for my Blackberry). Then I thought, why can't I get these Read more

Google Sandboxes its own services with bad SEO

Posted Thu, 04/13/2006 - 13:57 by Isaac

It appears that today Google has finally launched its Calendar
project called CL2, but you wouldn't know that from Google. In fact you
might not know a lot of things about Google because many of its best
services do not receive top SERP (Search Engine Results Page).

Just in case google changes its tune, I will later link some screen captures of the SERP for gServices. Here is what I found: Read more

Google Calendar Arrives!

Posted Thu, 04/13/2006 - 12:26 by Isaac

Well it took months of patient waiting but now Googles calendar
(CL2) is here! I hope that after trying it out that it was worth the
wait.

Google's calendar includes use of the new AJAX web language, making
the calendar much faster and easier to use that previous offers from
the likes of Yahoo and others. This speed is really noticed when adding
quick events to the main calendar page. Simple clicking on the event
day produces a nice brief AJAX box were info can be filled into the
quick fields. Read more