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Sync between Google Docs and OpenOffice.org

hb — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:42:38 +0000

Working with OO documents and Google Docs?!

This plugin will allow you to export and import your documets to and from Google docs to OpenOffice.org

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Google is producing their ows switches

hb — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:32:04 +0000

Apparently Google is reusing it’s strategy to build their own equipment.

First they build their own PC’s and now an analytic reveals that they may build their own 10G switches.

What if they are followed by other big data centers?

If it is true this may change switch market.

Gmail now supports IMAP

hb — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:25:24 +0000

On Intertop Google vice-president announced that Gmail will now support IMAP.

This will allow account owner to sync their e-mail between different mobile devices.

Google adds presentation

hb — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:31:17 +0000

Google adds web presentation software to its offering Google Docs.

Now Google Docs is fully functional web based office suite.

Is is with basic features (for now), but how many of you are using full functionality of your office suite?

How to add Google repository in CentOS

hb — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:36:36 +0000

Google is adding more apps to his Linux repository.

They also have script to setup repositories, but unfortunately it does not recognize CentOS and yum enabled distribution. I’ve added this code to check if yum is installed:

# Check if yum is installed RHEL v5 and CentOS 4.x and 5 if [ '/bin/rpm -q yum' ]; then PACKAGEMANAGER=yum

Resulting script is here:

Google repos for centos

NOTE: After downloading the file just rename it from .txt to .sh and run with the shell:

bash google-repo-setup_CentOS.sh

Currently you can find there only picasa and google desktop

Google to publish full news stories

hb — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:05:58 +0000

Google news moved from simply linking to news stories to publish full stories after deal with four news agencies.

News stories from the Agence France-Presse (AFP), Associated Press (AP),Â UK Press Association (PA) and the Canadian Press will now be hosted on the Google News site. In addition Google will detect duplicate stories.

Google Earth = Flight simulator

hb — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:35:38 +0000

It is reported that new version of Google Earth includes a Flight simulator of F-16 or SR-22.

It seems that this goodie is included only in Windows version.

Give it a try.

Searching for file listings

hb — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:18:45 +0000

To find file on the web type following in Google:

intitle:”index.of” (mp3,mp4,avi) -html -htm -php

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