News Posts With Tag Google
MacFUSE and MacFusion: Very interesting development in information management
Google Desktop: Beta Release Arrives for Mac OS X
Version as tested: 1.0.0.
Update 9/5/12.
Google Importer: Use Spotlight To Search Google, Too!
Google Importer Freeware Brings Google Results Into Spotlight
Originally downloaded 5/1/06. What an interesting idea! At first, I thought it sounded silly, but once I looked at the results and thought about it more, it seems perfectly logical. This is the missing piece of Spotlight, in some ways… searching the web as well as your hard drive! This freeware is configurable as a preference pane. Definitely worth a try!
Update 2/22/07. Since installing this Spotlight add-on and its system Preference Pane, seeing Google search results show up in my regular Spotlight result list is something I take for granted. Once you understand that Google Importer will organize the Google search hits in a separate section labeled “Bookmarks,” it’ll make more sense. At first, I didn’t realize that I was seeing Google hits… I thought Spotlight was indexing my Safari bookmarks! The preference pane gives you some useful customization options, including turning the Google results off. You can specify how many results to return and can opt to see a link to the full Google results list. In addition, you can restrict the Google search to one particular website rather than whole Internet. This option would be more useful if you could modify it without having to open the preference pane each time, but it’s nice to know it’s possible. This is definitely one of the free Spotlight enhancements that are worth making.
Version as tested: 1.0.1.
Google Sitemap Automator: Easily Create Sitemaps To Optimize Googlebot’s Site Crawling
Version as tested: 1.3.
Google Web Toolkit Now Supports Safari/WebKit
Apple May Have New Google Cards Up Its Sleeve for Safari 3.0
Amnesty Generator: Convert Google Gadgets to Dashboard Widgets
Version as tested: 0.5b
Google Chief Praises Apple’s “Most Remarkable” Resurgence
Apple is engaged in probably the most remarkable second act ever seen in technology. Its resurgence is simply phenomenal and extremely impressive.
Ain't it the truth?
Small/Medium Businesses Enthusiastic About Google Apps
Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt Joins Apple’s Board of Directors
Microsoft About To Go Down Like IBM?
Googol: Freeware Calculator Uses Google Web Services
Simon Willison Finds GWT Underwhelming
Google SketchUp: Now for Mac OS X
Google Web Toolkit - Build AJAX apps in Java
Good Move, Google! Google Calls Microsoft a Convicted Monopolist
We certainly see a history with that particular company, Microsoft, behaving anti-competitively, being a convicted monopoly
The San Francisco Chronicle also reports that Brin "then talked about Google taking preemptive action against any future abuse by Microsoft, including lobbying the Justice Department."
Way to go, Google! Now, stop pandering to Internet Explorer in all of your software projects, and my faith will really be renewed.
Excellent Explanation of Why Apple’s Product Approach Is Best
Microsoft Still Trying To Scare Google
Google Lets Apple Safari Users Down Again
Google Labs today released another shiny new toy for geeks to play with… this one, a web page creation tool. My colleague says it uses Ajax and a rich dhtml Javascript interface to make page creation fun and simple. I wouldn’t know, since so far it doesn’t work in Safari.
I do plan to go back and try it out with Firefox, but what a pain! How come Windows users don’t have to suffer this way? Safari and the other KHTML-derived browsers are still the browsers of choice for Mac users, so by leaving Safari out in the cold, Google is once again doing the same thing to Mac users. Not good. Not nice. Bad Google!
I hope it’s just coincidence that the Google “Page Creator” abbreviates to “PC” and that it’s not a message from the clot of PC users that appears to be blocking Google’s technical heart.
Later on 2/23… I’ve now confirmed that Safari users cannot get in to Page Creator using Safari’s Debug menu, trying to masquerade as IE 6.0, Mozilla 1.1, Netscape 7.0, etc. That means Google isn’t blocking Safari merely by looking at the user-agent string… there’s some underlying technical reason. My suspicion is that it’s related to Safari’s lack of a “content editable” function, which both IE and Mozilla have (though those two browsers have completely different implementations of “content editable”). This is a convenient, and common, excuse, but it’s not acceptable. There are two other ways to include Safari in the party while waiting for the Webkit team to engineer a content-editable function in Safari: You can either employ a lightweight java rich-text editor, such as Edit-on Pro, or you could use an even lighter-weight DHTML editor, such as the one Dojo provides. Either of these would be pretty simple to accomplish technically, so I ascribe Google’s failure to do so to commonplace PC prejudice.