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Monday
Sep052011
Ricardo TrejoGoogle pays tribute to Freddy Mercury with flashiest doodle ever - (Video)
Google pays tribute to Freddy Mercury with flashiest doodle ever - (Video)
Lead singer to Queen, the man whose vocals could be likened to rainbows shooting out of a Death Star piloted by none other than Matthew LeBlanc just probably received the greatest Google Doodle to date. Taking three months to accomplish, it comes right in time for what would’ve been Freddy’s 65th anniversary of his birth.
Friday
Aug262011
Google teaches you how to properly ignore people on Google + (Video)
Google teaches you how to properly ignore people on Google + (Video)
Blocking people on social networks can be a little hard to figure out; whether you don’t want them to see your stream, photos, or just your status updates. So to make things easier in this modern Google+ world, the team who created the tools to “ignore” people are here to give you a guided tour on how to do it properly.
Friday
Aug052011
Gmail adds preview pane for quickly sorting through emails
While other email clients like Apple’s email or even Outlook have had preview panes for what seems like forever, it’s taken Gmail up until this very week to throw in the feature. But man, are we glad they did. Checking the mail has never been easier than just giving it a quick glance instead of having to go back and forth between emails and the inbox. — Learn how to enable it after the break!
Wednesday
Jul202011
According to the Google+ Terms of Service, they aren't stealing your information
So everyone is raving about Google+ and nobody expected it to take off this fast. Google seems to be making all the right moves, and Facebook seems to be slipping out of the limelight with fellow geeks packing up and flocking over to Google+ with mainstream Facebook users becoming curious. You’d think Google+ is gaining popularity because of it’s nifty features, or tie-ins with existing services, but it appears as if it’s a little more complicated than that — people are loving Google+ because they are treating your info they way they should (according to their TOS) — Let’s hope they don’t fudge this up…
Sunday
Jul172011
Facebook Bans Google+ Advertisements (even from users)
Facebook for a very long time has been one of the worlds most targeted and successful advertising networks, displaying relevent ads to users and their friends. In some cases, Facebook ads are purchased by users to show off cool things to friends and maybe a few other people who take notice — This is what happened when Michael Lee Johnson decided to buy advertising space to promote his new Google+ profile on Facebook.
Thursday
Jul142011
Google officially announces What do you Love?
Google officially announces What do you Love?
The service seems un-necessary, but it is really cool, none the less. It’s essentially a service that taps into all of Google’s information destinations when you search for something. It’s more like a demonstration of Google’s services more than an actual service itself, but WDYL is still pretty neat!
Wednesday
Jul062011
Google Plus Invites are back... want one? We have lots of them!
Update — Apparently Google just opened up Google+ to everyone with a Gmail address!
If you haven’t heard, Okay Geek is now on Google+ and ever since we arrived, we can’t help but feel a tad lonely. I mean, everyone is here, just sitting and waiting to get a taste of the Google+ fun, and all the fellow Okay Geek readers are still left in the outskirts of the Google+ front gate. Well not if we can help it! We want to give all of our Google+ invites to you, and you can find out how to ask for one after the break!
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