September 5, 2008
Recap of Google Chrome Hacks Blog This Week!
Remember we made a new blog to cover tips and hacks for the Google Chrome? Here’s a re-cap of interesting hacks and tips this week: Resize your textbox - Google Chrome lets you resize any textbox of any website Video of Story behind Chrome by development team - Listen to what Google Developers have to say on the Chrome browser. Getting start ... More
September 3, 2008
Google Chrome Hacks Blog Launched!
Google Chrome Hacks Blog Launched! Google Chrome Hacks Blog was launched today. We had to settle on Chrome-hacks.net although we wanted to get Chromehacks.com. We will be doing a lot of posts on the latest tips, hacks, and other news just for the Google Chrome browser so make sure to subscribe to RSS feed. For the mother of God and for whatever rea ... More
Google Chrome EULA in question?
Google Chrome EULA in question? Google Chrome EULA has been confusing some of the bloggers recently, check out what the fuss is about at Zedomax.Net. In a recent post over at Gizmodo about the Google Chrome’s End User License Agreement (EULA), Google supposedly owns everything that you “do” on the Google Chrome. Of course, we think that the E ... More
Google Chrome Logo and Simon are Distant Relatives!
Google Chrome Logo and Simon are Distant Relatives! Simon is a long pastime of Americans, a memory game which has been popular in the 80s and the 90s. Although we agree that Google Chrome’s logo does remind us of the Simon, there’s a clear difference in that the Google Chrome logo has 3 buttons on the outside whereas the Simon has 4. ... More
September 2, 2008
Google Chrome Browser Launched by Google!
Google Chrome Browser Launched by Google! Google launches their own line of web browsers called, “Google Chrome” and so far after couple hours of use, I am damn, fine impressed. For more information on features and whatnot, head over to Zedomax.Net blog as I just wrote bunch of stuff about Google Chrome. A+Featured, A+Featured Web, br ... More
August 14, 2008
Gmail HACK - How to Protect yourself from Gmail Session Hackers!
Here’s an interesting video that shows hackers sniffing the Wifi to retrieve Gmail cookie. Of course, this is when you are using Gmail without HTTPS secure access. For secure Gmail, simply use https://gmail.com instead of http://gmail.com. via hackszine Related: For analyzing your network whether that be Wifi or wired, you might want to co ... More
August 8, 2008
Google Hack - Get Olympic Scores/Schedule on Google!
Google is providing some live scores and schedules if you type, “xxx olympics”, where “xxx” is the name of your sport. Try this for soccer Search Engine Land noticed that Google now shows a onebox* for certain Olympics-related queries, like tennis olympics or taekwondo olympics. This seems to work in the US and China but no ... More
August 5, 2008
Some Cool Hacks for GMail, GoogleDocs, and more!
Lifehacker has a new post that features some cool hacks for GMail, GoogleDocs, and some other hacks you can’t miss. Are you using Google Spreadsheets as your web-based spreadsheet editor alternative to desktop programs like Excel? If you do, give the “magic” auto-completions a try. To understand what this does, enter “Super ... More
July 3, 2008
Google Talk for the iPhone
Google Talk is now available for the iPhone without any modifications other than pointing your Safari browser to www.google.com/talk. There are some differences from using Google Talk on your computer. For instance, in order to receive instant messages with Google Talk on your iPhone, the application needs to be open in your Safari browser. When y ... More
GoogleMaps working on Voice Search with Blackberries
Google is working on voice search functions with their GoogleMaps on Blackberries. Now, this is really old news as I have covered Microsoft’s TellMe service which does exact same thing for more Blackberries except using Microsoft’s LIVE search and LIVE maps. Now, in the long run, I would predict Google win this voice-search race sinc ... More
July 1, 2008
Google Media Server bridges the gap between Google and your TV!
Google has just announced their new Google Media Server, which supposedly bridges the gap between Google and your TV or any UPnP devices such as PS3. It looks like a great way to organize your media files in your PC, especially if you are displaying them to your TV or simply want to access them from your PS3, XBOX, whatever. Google Media Server is ... More
June 22, 2008
Trackstick for Google Earth Tracking your Travels!
Check out Trackstick if you are interested in automatically logging your travels so you can view them later on Google Earth! It works anywhere on the planet. Traveled locations can be shown via a red line that is traced on satellite photos and 3D terrain using the latest mapping technologies from Google™ Earth. Trackstick continuously records it ... More
June 12, 2008
Google’s Co-Founder Sergey Brin invests in Future Space Flights!
Yey, let’s see if Sergey can take himself to space soon with his $5 Million investment. A new investor is likely to occupy one of the two available seats on Space Adventures’ 2011 flight: Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google. He made a $5 million investment in the company that will serve as a deposit on a future flight. Space Adventures pla ... More
June 10, 2008
GeoQuake brings you GoogleMaps Driving Game!
Now, you can drive on GoogleMaps or fly on GoogleEarth. It’s really fun, I think there’s a potential for dozens of games and money to made off these types of apps. The first, taking advantage of Google Maps’ new ability to work with Flash applications, lets you drive a car, bus, or truck around Google Maps. It won’t bat an ... More
June 1, 2008
North Oaks, Minnesota tells Google Maps to Fu** off!
Uh oh… It looks like Google Maps Street View is invading privacy of private lands. Although most people probably won’t care that much but how did Google Maps get pictures of private lands in the first place? Since the introduction of Google Maps’ Street View last spring, the feature has caused controversy in several cities an ... More
May 31, 2008
Google has a new favicon, a smaller “g” instead of the big “G”!
Today, I’ve noticed that Google (GOOG) now has a smaller favicon, a “g” instead of the big “G”. It seems like they have replaced the first letter with the 4 th letter. Why??? big g, Consumer, Cool, Entertainment, favicon, Funny, goog, Google, Google, google favicon, google new favicon, th letter, Web ... More
May 29, 2008
Google Earth API now let’s you put Google Earth in your website!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a great news that you can now put Google Earth into your website using Google Earth API. The Google Earth Plug-in and its JavaScript API let you embed Google Earth, a true 3D digital globe, into your web pages. Using the API you can draw markers and ... More
May 21, 2008
Bike the “flies” Google Earth!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, this is thing is AWESOME!!! This guy could make a lot of money making this into a “world” travel virtual world. Sun has been very successful in spreading Java to over 6 billion devices throughout the world. Well over a billion cell phone run Jav ... More
May 13, 2008
GreenGoogMouse - Google’s Recycled Plastic Mouse!
Here’s a cute green wireless mouse from Google (GOOG) that’s made out of recycled plastic. Great job Googlers! The recycled mini wireless mouse is in fact made from recycled plastic, as is the packaging that it comes with. But the in general the mouse is a typical wireless mouse with the dongle hidden inside the red or blue mouse bo ... More
May 12, 2008
Safari Browser Plugin
Do you use Safari to surf the web? There’s a Safari Browser Plugin that can help you search faster called, inquisitor, recently acquired by Yahoo. Yahoo acquires Inquisitor, a Safari Browser Plug-in. Safari is the default browser on MACs but you can download it for PC too. I find that Safari is actually a pretty good browser, a lot better ... More
May 10, 2008
GooHoo, a Google Yahoo search engine, was just launched!
Google and Yahoo has just launched GooHoo, a search engine composed of Google and Yahoo! (I am dead serious!) Google (NSDQ: GOOG) co-founder Sergey Brin recently said, “We have been talking to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and we are very excited to be working with them.” The goal? Tie the two companies into an advertising powerhouse… via Zedomax ... More
May 5, 2008
Google doesn’t care about Mexican people?!?
Lol… Google doesn’t care about Mexican people? Well… that might be over-analysis. Did you know that 5/5 is also Children’s Day in Korea? With the high number of Latino community, I believe Google could have easily given their custom graphics to celebrate the 5/5 day. Oh well, every day is a new day. The richer get riche ... More
April 30, 2008
SiteHoppin Toolbar Private Beta Launched and Invites for Zedomax.com readers!
Hi All, We just launched private beta testing of SiteHoppin Toolbar. You can e-mail me at zedomax [at] gmail.com to get a private beta invitation code then go here. Remember, we are only looking for 1,000 beta testers at this point so I highly suggest you get in early as the doors will close within couple days. Here’s a screenshot of the new ... More