Google Hotpot is a mash between Google Places, your recommendations, and those of your friends. The service matches your likes with those of your friends to give you recommendations to places you will actually like. All you have to do is head over to the Hotpot website and begin rating the places you’ve been to,…Continue Reading
Last week Google launched an update to Google Maps for Android devices. The latest update brings a new design for Place page reviews, more options to filter search results, and a Google Latitude real-time updating option. Check out the latest version of Google Maps in action so that you can become familiar with the new…Continue Reading
One of the things I hate about almost all weather apps is that I either have to add a gadget (Android phones) or open an App to see what’s going on. In the latest refresh of Google Maps for Android devices this is no longer an issue. In the new version you get to use…Continue Reading
As I write this, cyclists in France are on their way to Morzine-Avoriaz in Stage 8 of Le Tour de France. With 17 stages to go le tour will be ending July 25th which means you still have plenty of time to catch up and follow the rest of the tour. To help you catch…Continue Reading
Do you want your local business to potentially reach millions of prospective customers? Then you need to add your business listing to Google’s Local Business Center. The Local Business Center from Google gives business owners the opportunity to add their businesses to the search giants database and to control the information that is displayed about…Continue Reading
Want to use your bike to commute to work and stay safe? The head over to Google Maps and use the new Bicycling option when looking for directions. Google has partnered up with Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and has included over 12,000 miles of trails in biking directions on Google Maps. They have also included a Report…Continue Reading
I’ve always been a fan of Google Maps, and became even more enthusiastic about the product when Google gave developers the ability to create web applications (mashups) that used Google Maps data in conjunction with other data to display anything on a map. It has been a couple of years since this occurred and the…Continue Reading
I was just at Google’s homepage when I noticed a link below the search bar. "Explore eco-friendly travel with Google Maps" it caught my attention, so naturally I followed it and found that Google in partnership with Earth Day Network have created a travel destination portal (not to buy tickets or anything, just a reference…Continue Reading
The Google Maps team announced the ability to save Google Maps locations (addresses) to your Google account when you are logged in. View a screenshot here. Read the announcement below. “One of the most common requests we’ve received is for the ability to store a list of personal addresses on Google Maps — and now…Continue Reading
In collaboration with NASA researchers at Arizona State University Google has been able to create a high resolution map of Mars. There are three ways that you can view the map; elevation, visible, and infrared. Check it out!
This website will allow you to view Google Maps @ Night! Visit Google Nighttime to see for yourself.
If you’re building up an extensive collection of movies in the new Blu-ray format, chances are that you’ve spent a couple of bucks putting it together. To help protect that small fortune that you call a movie collection, there are a couple of apps out there that will help you backup these discs so that…Continue Reading
If you are looking for a quick, easy and FREE method to convert your favorite movies and TV shows to a format you can take with you anywhere, you need to check out BDlot Video Converter. BDlot Video Converter is part of a greater suite of applications that allows you to convert videos to any…Continue Reading
With the imminent launch of iOS 5 for the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is moving forward with its new music offering for iTunes, Match. iTunes Match stores your entire music library in iCloud (another new service from Apple debuting this fall). When you store your music in iCloud you can access it from anywhere…Continue Reading
One of the settings I always enjoyed in Outlook is the ability to customize work hours so that my available time (work time) would appear on the calendar as a reminder not to schedule anything past a certain time. Google has taken this concept event further and now allows users to hide those morning and…Continue Reading
Just the other day I needed to print a monthly calendar in Mac OS X and realized that I had never done it before. When I opened the print dialog box I was amazed at the number of options available to print a calendar in iCal. So I decided to write this guide to help…Continue Reading
Have you ever found yourself looking for a particular set of files that are either named similarly or are of the same file type? Rather than perform a search in Mac OS to locate these files each time you want to access them, you have the option of creating a Smart Folder to simplify this…Continue Reading
