Pin Itemailprint Google has released a contacts manager that Google users can utilize without having to use Gmail to do so. Google Contacts, formerly the part of Gmail that allows you to edit and manage your address book, is now a standalone service. In Google Apps you will need to add the service via the [...]
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Gmail has announced that you can now not only check your Gmail inbox while offline, you can now view your Calendar too. Offline Calendar allows you to view your existing schedule as well as your events, but not edit them. This feature was previously available only for businesses and for schools using Google Apps. The [...]
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No, the seventh seal of Hell has not opened up. Gmail was simply down for a while. Although you would have thought that the world was ending from various posts and tweets we’ve seen around the internet. Trying to open Gmail resulted in a “502 Server Error: The server encountered a temporary error and could [...]
Image via CrunchBase Back at DEMO 08, Best Buy‘s social media team created Giftag, an online gift registry and social sharing application. After learning about Google App Engine, however, the Giftag development team decided to move Giftag on to Google‘s App Engine. They then proceeded to re-launch the Giftag application just in time for Black [...]
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Image via CrunchBase A while back, Google launched Tasks for Gmail, in an effort to improve upon good old pen & paper. As they are quick to point out, pen & paper is actually pretty hard to improve upon. It’s portable, can easily be edited, and works offline. It’s not a very good organizational system, [...]
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Image via CrunchBase As the economy continues to tighten and Google looks for additional revenue streams, it looks like they’re gradually minimizing free access to their Apps. Google says that most of the one million businesses that use Google Apps choose the free version that is supported by advertising. To reduce the attractiveness of this [...]
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