Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to edit videos within a browser window? With YouTube’s recently announced TestTube feature you can do just that. By the way, TestTube is YouTube’s version of Google Labs where YouTube engineers test new YouTube tools to get feedback from users like you and me. YouTube’s Video editor is still [...]

Aside from being an amazing application to manage thousands of pictures, Picasa also does a pretty darn good job of capturing images and videos from a webcam attached to your computer. In this guide I will show you how to configure Picasa to capture images and video and how to save those captures to your [...]

Wouldn’t it be nice to group albums in Picasa based on what the images are used for? Working with over 10,000 images and trying to keep family and work apart in Picasa can be quite tedious. Thankfully you can use Collections in Picasa to keep your two lives separate. Collections allow you to group folders [...]

This morning I fired up the Chrome browser to get online and check my Gmail and I was greeted by a slow loading Google home page with white text and shadow effects. A couple of seconds later a horrendous image appeared in the background. I knew Google was allowing you to customize your Google Search [...]

If you are looking for a way to share contacts across several services to ensure that you will have access to said contacts regardless of being offline or online, you first need to to know how to pull your contact list from a specific service. In this guide along with subsequent guides I will detail [...]

The number of Google Chrome extensions is growing extremely fast and now stands at well over 4,000 different extensions. For those of you that don’t know, Google Chrome is a web browser much like Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera. These are all applications that allow you to browse the internet. As people spend more time [...]

One of the latest features coming from Google Labs is the ability to insert images into email messages by dragging and dropping the image into the body of the email message. This is an enhancement to a recently announced feature that allows you to insert attachments in the same manner. The screenshots below will show [...]

If you use Google for email and to keep your life organized, chances are that you have a Contact list with Google as well. If you want to keep the your contact list on all of your devices synchronized you could pay for MobileMe to synchronize over the air, but if your Contact list can [...]

Google Calendar looks great on the iPad in Safari, but wouldn’t it be nice to access and use your Google Calendars in the iPad’s native Calendar application (which by the way, is gorgeous)? Good, I thought you would. The how-to below will show you how to add your Google Calendar account to the iPad so [...]

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 [...]