Over the past few months I cannot tell you how many times I have seen a Facebook status message that says something like “I lost all of the contacts on my phone. Please message me your phone number if I should have it.” or something like that. I have also talked to a few people… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Google
Google Voice SMS Displaying Random Numbers For Users
This morning I discovered an interesting issue. I sent 2 texts to my BF using the Google Voice website. A few minutes later he called and asked if I got his reply. I said “no”. He also asked “How many phones do you have over there?” Apparently each text came to him from a different… Continue Reading
The Differences in Time Warner Cable and Google’s Fiber Network Rollout
Last June, Google made an announcement that it would be launching what is known as Google Fiber in Kansas City. For the price of $70 for internet service and $120 for both the internet and television connection, consumers would be able to get symmetrical gigabit speed, Google TV, the use of YouTube and Netflix, a… Continue Reading
I Loved My Google Nexus 7… Until the Endless Reboot Loop Took Over!
I was all prepared to tell you about my first impressions of the new Google Nexus 7 built by Asus. I even started a post. I pre-ordered and it arrived on July 17, which was earlier than some other folks, so I felt special. And I instantly fell in love. Yes… I have tried other… Continue Reading
How To Configure Your New iPhone or iPad to Access your Gmail and Google Services
When I’m out talking to friends I often get into a discussion about why XYZ in Gmail is not working right on their iPhone. Of course the biggest advantage of having a smartphone is the ability to access your email and calendar while on the go. Google’s Gmail service is the most popular mail service… Continue Reading
Google Friend Connect is Going Away
Google Friend Connect (GFC) was the cute little box over there in the sidebar —–> that is similar to a Facebook LIKE box. GFC allows readers to ‘sign-in’ or join a blogging site. This basically just shows that they like you. And, they will see your blog listed in their account if they log into… Continue Reading
Have You Setup a Google Plus Page for Your Blog? I Did.
I did it a few days ago. It was super easy. Almost too easy. Once pages are setup, some have expressed difficulty in figuring out how to switch between your own profile and your page profile. I admit that they need to make this option more prominent. On your main page, there is a little… Continue Reading
Google + First Impressions
I have been poking around on Google + for the past couple of days. So far, I think I like it. I am a little hesitant to get into yet another social network, but it’s Google! How can you not check it out? As I always say, Google is going to take over the world.… Continue Reading
Guest Post: Google announces NFC Google Wallet
Smartphone giants Google have just announced that they are planning to turn the devices of Android users into wallets, but not everybody is pleased about the news… The latest technological innovation from Google promises to allow users to be able to pay for items with their Android smartphones when they are out shopping; the app… Continue Reading
Google Asked Me How I Use Google Calendar
How could I forget to post about this?? It’s been on the Google site for about 3 weeks! Quite a while ago, I got contacted by someone on the Google Calendar team to be in the first edition of a new site they were putting together, “User Stories”. I answered a simple series of questions about how… Continue Reading
Google Deactivated My Adsense Account
Yep. A couple of days after Amazon.com Fired Me, I got an email from Google saying that my Adsense account was deactivated for “invalid activity”. I am just writing about it now because I was trying to get some help and waiting to see what happened with my appeal. I had no luck. Here is… Continue Reading
Increase Your Gmail Storage
I recently wrote a post about how I was cleaning up my Gmail because I was so close to quota. I got a warning that I was 98%. That is a LOT of mail!! That means I was using almost every bit of my 7+ GB that they allow. It turned out that problem was… Continue Reading
The Big Gmail Cleanse
My Gmail usage hit a peak this week. And for the first time ever, I got a popup today that said that “You are dangerously close to your quota. Delete some mail or purchase more space.” Or something like that. I should have taken a screen shot, but I was too busy deleting mail. I… Continue Reading
Google Voice now Open to the Masses! Go get it!
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… Continue Reading
Goosync FREE is back!
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… Continue Reading
Google PageRank update this weekend
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.… Continue Reading
GMail Tips and Organization
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… Continue Reading
Google Wave invite giveaway
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… Continue Reading
Upload a 250MB file to Google Docs
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… Continue Reading
How to make GMail open in a new window with mailto: links in Chrome
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… Continue Reading
Forward your cell number to your Google Voice VM
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… Continue Reading
What is going on with Gmail Spam???
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… Continue Reading
Goosync Free Being Discontinued today
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,… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
Well, well, well.. ATT did have Apple pull GV Mobile
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… Continue Reading
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. LittleTechGirlKris… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading