Last year, when Google released Chrome I wrote this.
Some might say it was futurology, but I say it was the most logical step of evolution. The fact is, I think I was really close on Google’s plans for Chrome.
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Google launched today Google Sync, a serive that allows you to sync the contacts and calendar in your Google account with your computers and mobile devices.
I wanted to sync my iPhone with my Google Calendar and Contacts, so I adventured myself with Google Sync. It’s not difficult to do it, just follow the instructions here very carefully.
After that, all went well but I wanted two other things working for full bliss: sync all my Google Calendars with my iPhone and my Mac’s iCal. Confused? Well, when I used Google Sync with my iPhone, it only synced my default Google Calendar, I had to access http://m.google.com/sync with my iPhone and specify which callendars I wanted to sync. Easy.
Syncing my Google Calendars with iCal was a little bit more trickyer, but found this article in Google help, that actually did all the work for me. This allows iCal to use CalDAV to access all your Google Calendars. You can configure the settings manually in iCal’s preferences or use Calaboration to automate it.
So, now I have all my Google Mail, Contacts and Calendar synced with my iPhone and Mac 
All this for free. It’s getting hard for Apple to justify a paid MobileMe…
Hope this helps!
As you might have noticed, things are a little bit in the slow here, mainly because I’ve been spending my blogging time writing for 8-Bit Revolution.
So, if you can read Portuguese and you love videogames, drop by.
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Today, Google announced it’s new web browser. In merely 48 hours, the Internet was drenched in all the hype caused by leaked comic book scans and screenshots an plenty of rumors, that in the end became true.
An hour and a few minutes have passed since the beta version of Google Chrome and it’s probably one of the most downloaded browsers in launch day, I dare say, like or close to Mozilla Firefox 3. This only proves that people love everything that’s Google related and that they trust Google.
Google Chrome is like Google.com homepage page: simple and effective. The Chrome team mishmashed a few ideas from existing browsers, like Firefox and Opera, used Webkit (from Safari) and applied some ideas of their own for security and stability. I won’t go in details here, you can read a lot about that in the Google Chrome Comic. The result, from what I’ve tested, is a piece of software that will change the way that we’ll use the web. It’s easy to use for the common user, powerful, stable, very user friendly and fast.
But Google Chrome is not just a browser. It’s the cornerstone of a possible Google OS. I can imagine now a small linux distribution with a small footprint, loaded with Google apps like Google Earth, Picasa and a fully integrated Google Chrome, transforming all those webapps (Gmail, Google Tal, Calendar, etc…) we use into applications (through the Google Gears module in Chrome). Boot that from a USB pen drive and you have a portable OS, a thin client ready for the web, using the cloud for storage, etc… the applications are endless. You can already have this, with Firefox and few quirks, but I believe Google itself will create and optimize it’s own web OS.
After all, the web is Google’s business and, the more it can keep us online, the better.
Mr. Firefox came out with version 3 and your Browser Sync Plugin is not supported. Can you please update it?
Thanks!
Yup… They did it again Just like a YouTube movie, you can now embed Google Presentations into any website.
[tags]Google, Google Presentations[/tags]
This is what happens if you translate Nintendo Wii from English to Portuguese in Google Translate… I smell a conspiracy coming up 
[tags]Google, Nintendo Wii, Sony Playstation[/tags]
The guys at Gmail are making a cool “Add your clip to this video” campaign/project. They show you a video with people passing the Gmail envelope and you just have to print the Gmail envelope, make a video with it and submit it. You can check some of the user submitted clips here and read more about it here.
[tags]Google, Gmail, Gmail Video, mail[/tags]
If you have a Google Account and the Google Toolbar installed on your browser with PageRank enabled, you’re one step away from using Google Web History, a new feature that allows Google to keep track of every page you visit. This can be handy if you want to keep a record of your web surfing but it’s a hell of a profiling tool for Google, actually this is the closer that they profile you without inserting a RFID tag on you. Google’s “do no evil” philosophy is beginning to show some cracks with projects like this. We can use our own browser history for tracking our visited sites, probably in a way not so functional as this new Google feature allows, but it’s a matter of Mozilla, Microsoft or Opera to improve the browsers history features. Giving your data to Google means they will use it some how… let’s hope it’s for the best.
[tags]Google, Google Web History[/tags]
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