Hooray! Google Desktop has finally reached Linux users. It is the first release, and contains a subset of features from the Windows version. Obviously no source is provided, but two package types is ready to be downloaded – .rpm for Red Hat/Fedora/Suse/Mandriva x86, and .deb for Debian/Ubuntu x86 No 64 bit version yet, though. However [...]

Someone at work forwarded me to this video today. Good video to fill up some time… It really looks fun over there in Google land.

I wrote a plugin to import everything that can be found from the feeds Blogger provides. Many people has emailed me since asking me why I would do such a thing, as Blogger is a great platform for bloggers. This is my answer to all of those questions. Why do you write this script/plugin? A [...]

Well, this is not a complaint to the great plugin, but for some themes. Themes like Intense, and AquaGreen does not have any wp_footer call so the tracking code will not show. How to fix it? Open up themes/[themename]/footer.php and add <?php wp_footer(); ?> before </body> resulting in: <?php wp_footer(); ?> </body> </html> Hope this [...]

While playing around with some Google caches today I found this intriguing page. It’s an opening for Malaysia Country Consultant for Google Inc. I wonder if they are planning to open up an office in Malaysia, or better still, a research center perhaps? Digging deeper, Azidin found out that Jeff mentioned that this position has [...]

Google is no longer in talks to buy YouTube. They bought it for 1.6 billion dollars. Some of sites have listed it as 1.6m which is incorrect by three zeros. Let’s see what Chad and Steve (founders of YouTube) have to say about this:

Anyone else uses Google calendar? It’s my favorite web calendar, and I will like it more if it can sync with Outlook 2000 that my workplace still uses. One great feature that have been added a while ago is an option to add your country’s holidays in your calendar: Of course, I immediately added Malaysia [...]

According to this news in BBC News, Google is reported to be in talks to buy popular video-sharing website YouTube for $1.6bn (~856m). For me, it would mean less choice for video bloggers and sharers for them to upload their videos. From the business point of view, Google is once again acquiring one of its [...]

Google has released the beta version of Google Apps for Your Domain, a service where your organization or website will be able to use Google’s services personalized with a unique domain. This means that your users at yourdomain.com will be able to log in into Google’s services using yourdomain.com. Simply put, you will not even [...]

Uh oh… just now, I became the victim of the Melayu Bogel text advertisement. Probably because of the S word in the previous post, plus it has some Malay words.

Google has released its latest release of Google Desktop. Google Desktop 2, now includes a sidebar suitable for nerds like me. Features of Google Desktop 2 includes:  Email: This panel will display all of your latest emails in your gmail inbox. If you think nobody will look over your shoulder or you have nothing to [...]

Although I am a Linux user, I do enjoy from time to time strolling around Windows. Especially since my Windows XP price was included with my notebook For the last few weeks I have been puzzled why my free space on drive C: keep decreasing eventhough I have not installed anything. Yeah I know, temp [...]