26 Tricks to Help You Tame Google Calendar
Desktop calendar applications are great if you’re always at your desk or if you’re diligent about syncing with your PDA or phone. But if you like to travel light, it may be time for you to switch to a...
View ArticleThings You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Google
Every time I turn around, Google’s come up with something new, cool, or innovative. It’s no wonder it has Microsoft on the run. Nifty Google Features Calculate This: You can use Google Calculator to...
View ArticleMake Your Own Video Mashups for YouTube
You’ve seen the infamous Mentos-and-Coke video, the treadmill dance, and the puppy versus robot–and maybe mashups like one of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acting as if he were in an iPod commercial. Now...
View ArticleExperts to Facebook: Mind Your Manners
Facebook could have avoided the strident, weeks-long controversy engulfing its Beacon ad system if, when designing and deploying it, the social-networking company had followed basic social etiquette...
View ArticleFacebook Puts Users to Work Pitching Products
Will Facebook’s new ad strategy turn the social network into an ad network for corporate America? I hope not. A new advertising strategy could have Facebook users getting far chummier with marketers...
View ArticleSpammers Hit YouTube’s E-Mail Servers
Spammers are using YouTube’s servers to send massive quantities of unsolicited email, according to security firm Marshal. The company has warned email users to be wary of messages carrying YouTube...
View ArticleYahoo Sharpens Search Term Precision
The latest version of Yahoo Inc.’s search engine senses when people are trying to find the right keywords and offers suggestions, an improvement the company says reduces “search fatigue.” Yahoo rolled...
View ArticleReviewTest Report Pricing YouTube
Our number-one favorite place to waste time on the Web, YouTube is the only service in our group that could possibly lay claim both to uncovering scandals and to posing quirky questions to Democratic...
View ArticleTrends in Web 2.0
It’s hard to put a seriously negative spin on Google’s $1.65 billion acquisition of online video startup YouTube. But opinions differ on the exact import of the biggest internet deal to date. Some say...
View ArticleLatest Version of Firefox Is Here
Mozilla’s upstart open source web browser Firefox heads for a big milestone with the release of Firefox 2.0. We put the beta through its paces to see what changes are in store. On the surface, Firefox...
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