Chrome gets even faster!

If you haven’t tried out Google’s Chrome browser, you should download and try it. Like almost everything Google does, Chrome’s approach to web browsing is simple, fast, and intuitive. Since the browser is less than a year old and still considered beta, Google continues to improve upon it. Today, Google announced that they have made their already blazingly fast browser, even faster! Google boosts speed in...

Google Docs privacy leak

Headlines garner attention, but do people then read the article. This week an article is making the rounds about a Google Docs security problem. Turns out that the problem only affects an extremely minor number of users who already shared document and then happened to perform a very particular set of steps. In other words, the chances of a problem were pretty remote. Google, however, addressed and corrected the issue as...

Add photos to Facebook quickly and easily – ...

I helped a retired aged computer user today who was cajoled into using Facebook by his family. His Facebook friends hammered him daily about posting some pictures to his online profile. But like many computer users, he juggled time between three different photo management programs. One of them, luckily, was Google’s Picasa and I configured Picasa to locate all his pictures. A quick web search led me to the Picasa...

Google Earth – The Dime Tour – Video T...

If you have high speed Internet and haven’t tried Google Earth, give it a try. Even if you aren’t a geography buff, you will find Google Earth to be a fascinating resource to try out. Google Earth is another free product from Google that combines their excellent searching skills with a fully interactive globe. You can search for street addresses, points of interest, historical locations and then layer on other...

Why Don’t You Picasa 2?

This week’s tip is for everyone out there that says, “I have a lot of digital photos on my computer, but I don’t know where they are.” If this sounds like you, or if you would just like a way to view all your digital photos in an easy collective interface, Picasa 2 by Google just might be for you. Picasa 2 is a FREE program that scans your computer for digital photos and arranges them by the date they...