Google announced the Google Chrome “Operating System” a few days ago , and the world I used to live in is abuzz with people talking about the earthquake this represents for the computing industry. TechCrunch says, “ Google Drops a Nuclear Bomb on Microsoft .” Leo Babauta of Zen Habits has a more thoughtful response , but also subscribes to the “future of computing” theme: “Google is moving everything online, and I really believe this is the future of computing. The desktop model of computing —

A few days ago on the 7th I finally got the all coveted email invite from Google to use their Google Voice service! I signed up for it about a year ago when I first heard of it from one of my college instructors . First off the bat, users cannot give out invitations themselves at this time. At least, I can’t find that option anywhere when I login. So please don’t ask me for an invite. If I could give them out, I would totally do it in the form of a contest! So I logged in for the first

Someone once said, “all search is local.” In most cases, whenever someone goes online to look for something, they are looking for a local service or product from a company that they (hopefully) recognize. To that end, Google has created the Local Business Directory. You’ve probably seen in action. Do a search for a service and add a geotag - the name of a city or a zip code - and you’ll see a little map show up with some listings next to it. Google has recently made some changes to th

It was only a matter of time; 9:37pm Pacific Time on July 7, 2009 in an innocent appearing blog post to be exact. With “cloud computing”—a term used to describe the new world of light weight computing where local storage and processing matters less—on the rise, Google is taking the next generation operating system (OS) war to a new playing field. One that Microsoft is likely unprepared to compete as effectively as it has in the 1980s-era shrink wrap software business (Microsoft Office, Microso

Pet Nutrition and How It Affects Health! As having written a previous article on what pet foods are comprised, I feel it necessary to relay additional information as to how nutrition affects your pet’s welfare. My previous article can be found on Google under the title: Pet Nutrition and Health-Be Cautious.Sometimes a pet can give off an unpleasant odor, the source can be elusive as it can be from breath, infections such as ear or toe, or a bad body odor. We had such an instance with our so