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  • Google Chrome OS by Phil Bradley's blog on Nov 22, 2009 in Google specific

    Image by FreeCliDent via Flickr You've probably seen mention of Google Chrome as a browser - it's now becoming an OS or operating system. The video below explains it in more detail, but if you want to get a quick handle on it - Google ChromeOS turns...

  • Limiting Google results to seconds! by Phil Bradley's blog on Nov 21, 2009 in Google specific

    Let's face it - the 'Recent' option on Google results is great, but if you're looking for really recent material, you don't have much control over it. At least, until now. A nice post over at SearchEngineLand explains how you can limit your results t...

  • Google Image Swirl by Phil Bradley's blog on Nov 18, 2009 in Google specific

    Google is continuing to explore the possibilities of image search. They've recently done work on images and Creative Commons, Google Similar Images, and Google image size search. They're now playing with something they call the Image Swirl, and you c...

  • Why It's a Bad Idea to Send Huge Files by Email by Phil Bradley's blog on Nov 18, 2009 in General internet related

    Image by Getty Images via DaylifeWhy It's a Bad Idea to Send Huge Files by Email. Gmail has increased the maximum attachment size to 25 MB in June, but some people want to send larger files. Daniel (at Google) wrote a thoughtful comment that explains...

  • Lists of Twitter users; a few thoughts by Phil Bradley's blog on Nov 1, 2009 in Twitter

    The first thing to say is that I said 'lists of Twitter users' not 'Twitter lists'. Now that Twitter has rolled out the lists option to everyone there's a lot of discussion about the basic concept of putting people into lists, yet this isn't new - it...

  • Revisiting Google Squared by Phil Bradley's blog on Oct 30, 2009 in Google specific

    Suppose that you need to collect data on English castles, to include an image, description and details on a nearby town. Unless you've got a helpful book to hand (!) it might take a while to drag all of this information together. Then of course you r...