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10 Very Useful Google Services You Should Know

Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by Alex.Braz.

In only a few years Google has become the king of the Web. It went from a college research project to the most popular search engine that rakes in billions of dollars every year. They’ve expanded to mobile, OSs and, in the past few days, promising the fastest broadband Internet to thousands of homes in the States.

We use the Google search engine on a daily basis, but Google has lots of other great services out there.  Recently, we talked about 5 Great and Unknown Google Products.  I want to dive back into that topic and share a few more services that Google has going that you should know about.

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Firefox Plugin Yoono Puts All Your Social Media in One Place

Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by Alex.Braz.

I admit, I’m almost addicted to all this social media thing. I will tweet about my Facebook and post pictures to Flickr just so I can blog about it. Many of you also use MySpace, Flickr, Imeem, FriendFeed, AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Live.

So let me ask you something. Is it fun having to click a hundred times just to check if there’s anything new on your favorite social media websites? It sure is not for me. I’ve tried many different gadgets and applications to tweet from my desktop. I even enabled the sidebar again! But since Firefox is the program that runs for me most of the time, I had to find something to put it in it.

Yoono is great, but I won’t lie to you, it also has its downfalls. However, once you set the gadget, it works pretty well. You can install it from the Firefox Add-On site, of course for free.

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Miro: The Best Internet Video Application Available?

Posted on 27. Aug, 2009 by Alex.Braz.

Let’s find out.

First of all, Miro has already been mentioned on LostInTechnology last summer, but since it’s so amazing, it deserves a closer look. You can download it from the official web site, GetMiro and it requires 28MB of your hard disk. It’s free, of course.

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60 Search Engine Alternatives to Google

Posted on 14. Jul, 2009 by Alex.Braz.

When it comes to search engines, Google is the first one that comes to our minds. There seems to be nothing it can’t find. Okay, except for the meaning of life and other important questions, perhaps. But mostly it can find everything that inhabits the Internet. “Are there alternatives?”, one would ask. Just like children ask their parents, if they can find their recommended amount of B vitamins anywhere else than in spinach.

Well, yes there are. Even if it sounds impossible that there are websites that can do something better than the praised search engine that invented a verb, they exist. At least 60, as a matter of fact. Of course, Google is able to help you with music, photos, shopping, movies, videos and so on, but other services can do it more efficiently.

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Top 5 Video Applications You Have to Know

Posted on 09. Jun, 2009 by Alex.Braz.

Video has become one of the most popular conveniences on the internet. Almost everyone has a webcam and since YouTube was born, millions of video clips have been uploaded online. But what is beyond YouTube? What else can we do with our videos online?

Let’s find out, shall we?

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