Tag Archives: Google

Laptop Robbery Gets Violent in SF Cafe

Here’s what the victim had to say about the incident at a wi-fi enabled cafe in San Francisco:
“I looked up, and I saw this guy leaning into me as if he was asking a question,” he said. “I leaned forward, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw someone fiddling with the computer [...]

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Google Video, Peanuts and Comcast DVR

Remember the kids’ “Peanuts” video from last year? Well, I uploaded it to Google Video last week and it’s now live! It got formatted funny though ’cause it’s got black space to the right and bottom of the video. I think it has to do with the fact that I submitted it as a .mov [...]

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Pusit Good

Friendster’s a hit in Manila, according to this Wired article. It “first gained traction with the large Filipino community in the San Francisco Bay Area, then spread across the Pacific.” Although part of this community, I have for years not succumbed to signing up at the social-networking site. I share the same sentiment as this [...]

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Google Does X

“Google X is virtually identical to regular Google, but features neat icons for Google’s services that enlarge when you move your cursor over them,” according to Mac Observer. The creation by Google Labs is down at the moment, but someone put a mirror of it here. And if that goes down too, here’s a screenshot [...]

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I Love Competition

With Yahoo! Mail’s new basic service, I can now send 10MB messages and have 50MB more space while looking at a somewhat sleeker interface. This is no doubt precipitated by better offerings out there.

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