Tags : Google

Time Machine Backup Stuck at “Cleaning Up”

August 10, 2014

It used to be that Time Machine backups transpired smoothly and quickly but these days its not unusual to encounter instances where Time Machine stalls, what seems like forever, at its “cleaning up” phase. Here is a possible solution to overcome this phenomenon.Read More

GoogleTalk on iPhone

July 8, 2008

Google has released its so-called ‘instant messenger’ (IM) for the iPhone. Unlike the popular native iPhone IM, Apollo, GoogleTalk for iPhone runs off the Safari browser on your iPhone. Closing the browser in the middle of a chat sets your GoogleTalk mode to “unavailable”. Its a first step for Google which is after the advertising potential […]Read More

Google Earth Now Available For Mac OS X 10.4

January 13, 2006

Its taken a while but Google has released their Mac OS X 10.4 version of their popular satelite imaging software, Google Earth. A whopping 12.5MB download from Google’s Google Earth download page. Once downloaded it installs into a 29.1MB application. Now, all of us can pretend to be astronauts.Read More

Google Desktop 2.0 For Windows

November 6, 2005

Google has updated its Desktop application culminating in its version 2.0 release. Migrating from its usual home on the Internet onto our Desktops. For non-Mac users, or more precisely non-Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger users (without Spotlight) Google Desktop 2.0 heaps pressure on Microsoft to release its much awaitedLonghorn operating system. Google Desktop 2.0 now available […]Read More

Transform Your Gmail Account Into Online Portable Storage With gDisk

October 15, 2005

gDisk, created by Jean-Matthieu Schaffhauser, transforms your Gmail account into portable online storage. gDisk’s GUI interface makes uploading and downloading a matter of dragging and dropping. gDisk requires Mac OS X 10.3 or higher and a Gmail account. With gDisk you can create folders (called “labels” in gDisk) on your Gmail account and upload/download files […]Read More