Google Preferences that are definitely more preferable.

Well since I spoke of Google and the ‘+Show options‘ feature in my last article, let’s explore just a little more about how to get the best out of Googling. For there are dozens of sneaky tricks and special modifiers you can add to narrow your searches down to practically a molecular level. Nevertheless, the [...]

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New options to make you a Time Lord of Googling.

When you perform a search in Google, what do you do? Do you just type in a basic search query and then try to sift through the results or do you do the smart, time saving thing and add a few further refinements. Well courtesy of a brand new feature to Google those refinements are [...]

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Google…not everything is the latest technology.

Those people at Google think of everything. Because what do you do for the Street View feature on Google Maps when the streets in question are too narrow to send the Street View Camera Van down? Obviously you pimp out a tricycle instead. Witness these photos I took while on holiday in Italy recently. And [...]

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AutoPager. Whatever next, immediately.

Sorry Internet Explorer users, this is a Firefox only offering again. I make no apologies, apart from that one above, for if you haven’t yet swapped web browsers to Firefox you should be blatantly confronted with your terrible error. Because this time I’ll be explaining about making Google, admittedly available for several web browsers, even [...]

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Google Alerts. How Clive Owen made me a very happy man.

It’s a funny thing this blogging lark. I toil away with every post, beads of creative perspiration dotted on my brow each time as I try to educate and amuse in equal measure and I’ll be honest with you, I’ve been lucky if I got 10 people a week come visit me. But that’s ok, [...]

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Google Maps, all that’s missing now is a teleporter.

Have you seen Google Maps yet? No, I know you’ve seen it, but have you seen it since it’s all changed? Since they have added Street View, Videos, Photographs and even frickin’ Wikipedia entries!!! It seems that gone are the days when maps were just a source of directions, now you need to feel you’ve [...]

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