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How to Stop Calendar Spam in its Tracks

 
 
Just when you thought you finally started to get the upper hand on spam in your inbox the insidious spammers have come with a new twist. Calendar Spam, unwanted meeting requests that popup in your calendar. If it hasn’t happened to you yet, O-boy it will. Here’s what happens.

Google Hack For finding MP3 songs

  Here’s a quick tip for finding mp3 music using Google search.
Paste this text in Google to find the song or artist your looking for.
intitle:index.of “mp3″ +”name” -htm -html -php -asp “last modified”
All you need to do is replace name with the song or artist you want to find. In many cases you can download [...]

Google Earth’s Flight Simulator

Last week Google updated Google Earth to include the Sky above you and it looks like they also included a unpublished Flight Simulator, you can take off and fly around the world. You need version # 4.2.0180 you can get it here http://earth.google.com/sky/index.html
It work on Windows Mac and Linux. To get the Flight Sim working [...]

Google Earth Now Gives You The Universe

A recent update to Google Earth now lets you search the sky above you. Download it here.
With about a hundred million stars and two hundred million galaxies, Sky in Google Earth lets you explore the heavens like never before.

With Earth’s new Sky feature, you can:
Zoom in to distant galaxies and nebulae
View constellations and the movements [...]

Google Gears (Beta) Now Available

Google Gears. Now you can enable offline mode for Google Reader by installing Google Gears. Synch your RSS feeds and read them offline. It looks like the start of something cool.
Get it here. http://gears.google.com/

Google Doubles Gmail Attachments To 20 Megs

With Gmail, you can now send and receive messages up to 20 megabytes (MB) in size doubling the previous size of 10 megabytes.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=8770

Google Notebook: Another Great App

Get Google Notebook [here]
1. Why would I want to use Google Notebook?
With Google Notebook, you can browse, clip, and organize information from across the web in a single online location that’s accessible from any computer. Planning a trip? Researching a product? Just add clippings to your notebook. You won’t ever have to leave your browser [...]

Google 411 Voice Local Search

Google Launches Voice Local Search
http://labs.google.com/goog411/index.html
To try this service, just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) from any phone.
As part of our ongoing effort to make the world’s information universally accessible, we’re testing a free service called Google Voice Local Search. Using this service, you get fast access to the same local information you’d find on Google Maps. But [...]

Desktop Search Review

Desktop Search:
If you’re like me you have lots of information on your computer. Wouldn’t it be great if you could find it all when you need it? You can use these programs to locate your files, emails, past IM chats, and web pages you’ve seen. Internet search engines help you find what you need online. [...]

Major Update for Picasa Web Albums

Today Picasa Web Albums has the most important update since its launch, in June 2006. Basically, it adds the most requested features and even some obscure features that will make you very happy.
First, the free version of Picasa Web gets 1 GB of storage (up from 250 MB), enough to host 4000 high-quality photos. It’s [...]