Google Voice now Open to the Masses! Go get it!

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Are you using Google Voice yet? If not, you should be. And now is your chance to sign up if you do not already have a number. Google just opened up the service to all US users. You can now sign up without bugging for your friends for an invite, tweeting about open invites, or [...]

Goosync FREE is back!

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A few days ago I got an email from Goosync stating that since discontinuing the Goosync FREE service back in October 2009, they had received overwhelming demand to bring it back, so…. they did! What is Goosync? (from www.goosync.com/About.aspx) Overview GooSync is a server based synchronisation service that allows you to synchronise almost any mobile [...]

Google PageRank update this weekend

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I just noticed this morning via my Google Toolbar that the ranking on my blog went up to a 4 sometime over the weekend up from 3. This is good news to me. I had problems with Google PR last year and had lost all my juice. All of it! My site was a zero. [...]

GMail Tips and Organization

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I started writing this post about a week or two ago, I am finally finishing. Why the delay? Probably because I was busy checking my email. It’s a bad habit that I have. I check it ALL.THE.TIME. I can’t help it though.  I am always super paranoid that one day I was just going to [...]

Google Wave invite giveaway

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Yes, there are still some folks left that have not joined in the fun (headache) yet! If you don’t have one and you would like one, just do the following: (BOTH REQUIRED) 1. Leave me a comment here telling me that you’d love one! 2. Join my blog by either RSS, Networked Blogs, or Google [...]

Upload a 250MB file to Google Docs

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Yep, you heard that right. Google made some changes a few days ago that were announced on the Google Docs blog. Users are now allowed to upload ANY FILE up to 250mb in size. This is huge. This is absolutely wonderful for collaboration. The email limit is only 25mb, so anything larger than that would [...]

How to make GMail open in a new window with mailto: links in Chrome

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I use Google Chrome as my default browser, and GMail as my default mail client. Of course GMail is web based. Windows is of course setup by default to automatically open either Outlook or Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail, etc. depending on which it believes is default. If you wish to enable your GMail account [...]

Forward your cell number to your Google Voice VM

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I am probably late, but I just found out today when i went into my Google Voice settings that you can now forward your voicemail from your cell number to your Google Voice number. This is awesome if you want to keep all of your voicemails in one place and get them transcribed (although some transcriptions are [...]

What is going on with Gmail Spam???

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A few weeks ago it seemed like I started getting a LOT more spam that I usually do. I have been watching this morning and every 5 minutes or so I have another 5-10 spam messages. That is insane! And to make things even worse, to combat this Google must have upped the power on [...]

Goosync Free Being Discontinued today

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A while ago I wrote the post The Best of Both Worlds: Sync your Google Calendar AND your Exchange Calendar. Goosync was one of the items that I came across for syncing your Google Calendar to mobile devices. The service was free until today. I received the below email. So, if you are using Goosync, [...]

Google Friend Connect bar and widget not working correctly

This is annoying the crap out of me. I use a Mac at work. The Google widget and bar both work fine on Safari 4.0.3 and in Google Chrome for Windows. It also works fine in IE 6. It does NOT work in Firefox for Mac or Windows, or in IE 8. The bar is [...]

Gmail Push for iPhone is Live!!

I am on vacation or I would have been all over this yesterday. Google has enabled PUSH for iPhone & Windows Mobile. YAYYY!!!! I had been using an app called GPush for iPhone for a bit now. It’s pretty flaky and sometimes does not work, but overall it is a decent app. But, I am [...]

Well, well, well.. ATT did have Apple pull GV Mobile

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Someone sent Sean a screen shot of a conversation with an iTunes stores rep. He said flat out that the app was pulled because of ATT. He also issued the user a refund for the purchase of GV mobile which was selling for $2.99 since it will no longer be able to sync with iTunes [...]

GV Mobile: It’s in the App Store, ummm no wait, it’s in Cydia!

Earlier today the iPhone/Google Voice world was buzzing with news that Apple suddenly removed the app GV Mobile from app store, along with other apps that support Google Voice.  This was upsetting to me and many other iPhone users as I watched the news circulate on Twitter. Read my story on my Examiner page.

Google Chat issue – Cannot invite a contact

I was so happy to find a work around for this. A couple of months ago I invited a friend who already uses a Gmail to chat. He never got the invite. He invited me, and I never got his either.  We can chat via AIM, so it was not a big deal. Yesterday I [...]

iPhone Google and Gmail integration

This is something that has been on my To Do list for ages. I always gets in talks with other iPhone users about how I use my phone, cool things to install on it, to jailbreak or not to jailbreak. So, there is SO much that I love about my phone and so much that [...]

The Best of Both Worlds: Sync your Google calendar AND your Exchange Calendar

Last week I wrote about configuring my iPhone to sync with my Google calendar. To do that, I had given up my Exchange calendar at work. Well, I have found a way to do both. I already have my iPhone setup to sync wirelessly with my Google Calendar and Contacts via Exchange Activesync and it [...]

Google Calender syncing is outstanding on the iPhone

I gave in, got rid of my work Exchange syncing, set up my work email via IMAP and setup my Google account to sync with my iPhone. You see, I don’t really have an appointment intensive job. I have only a couple of meetings a week and when they hit, I am at my desk [...]

“Aw, snap!” I love this Google Chrome Error Message. LOL!!

It is not telling me exactly why Chrome is not working in my Windows 7 VM when the other browsers work fine, but it’s still cool.

Google Sync now available for several mobile phones

Google has just announcing syncing available for iPhone, Windows Mobile, and several other phones. This is great news. I am considering temporarily stopping the sync with my work Exchange server to test this out.

Gmail Tasks: Finally available on the iPhone!

How did I miss this announcement? I could have been this happy 3 days ago when they posted the release on the Gmail Blog. Now I am HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!! I have really taken to using Tasks quite a bit. I love the ease of use from all computers at home and work, and I [...]

Gmail: Multiple Inboxes

I fall more and more in love with Gmail everyday. Now this feature in LABS is amazingly awesome. Multiple Inboxes work in conjunction with you Labels to create a multi-pane view so you can see more of your mail and keep organized. This is great if you use labels often. It allows up to 4 [...]

New Type-A Mom article:Using Google Calendar to Organize Your Busy Mom Life

Every busy mom needs to get organized! Check out this article by me over on Type-A Mom for some tips. http://typeamom.net/using-google-calendar-to-organize-your-busy-mom-life/ Enjoy!

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