Imagine that your emailing, blogging, media sharing, planning, project managing, discussing, socializing, and all communications actions could compressed and optimally organized together in one tool. That tool, my friends, is the upcoming Google Wave [See Video Below].

With the announcement of Google Wave at this year’s 2009 Google I/O, we are as excited as ever for the amazing work that Google repeatedly displays. From one point of view, it’s hard to even figure out where to begin talking about Google Wave, seeing that it literally revolutionizes the way we communicate online by changing our old digital snail mail methods to something that one would expect if Email was reinvented in the 21st century – oh wait… Google Wave DID REINVENT the Email system.

So exactly how is Google Wave so revolutionary? Will for starters, rather than having a traditional email system that basically emulates snail mail except through the Internet, all communications in Google Wave exists on a so called “Wave.” This Wave is basically one (1) and only one instance of data that lives either on the Google Wave server (similar to how your Gmail mails are also hosted on Google’s servers) but can be accessed and edited by different participants of a that Wave. This way, people can communicate in real time and any edits, comments, messages, remarks, inserts, uploads, links, etc that a participant of a Wave makes, everyone else of that Wave with eligibility will also see, instantaneously. Sounds confusing? You should be, seeing that, once again, Google Wave is changing everything about the way we communicate.

Just speaking of the surface of this new platform, there are many new features and functions of Google Wave. For instance, rather than your traditional email with a Reply or Forward mode to carry on a message or conversations, Google Wave offers messaging with a different perspective. Anyone of a single Wave can edit the message and text anywhere he or she desires, whether it’s at the end of a Wave message, like in the case of a Email reply, or it’s directly in the middle of a Wave. The good news is that all this commenting and editing is stored in one Google Wave to prevent syncing problems with multiple instances of Waves. Read the rest of this entry »

Following last night’s post about the soon-to-be-released-in-a-few-hours Google Chrome browser, we’ve found screenshots of this exciting new software.

Here are some screenshots of Google’s own web browser software: Chrome, which is speculated to be released for Microsoft Windows XP/Vista today at 14:00 EST.

Google Chrome Screenshots [Google Blogoscoped]
A fresh take on the browser [Official Google Blog]
Google Chrome Comic Book [Google Books]
Google Chrome, Google’s Browser Project [Google Blogoscoped]

Wow, leave it up to Google to publically announce the release of its new Web Browser program: Chrome the day before it is released. That’s right! Google will release Google Chrome, a Googlified version of a tabbed web browser based on Firefox 3 and Apple’s WebKit. Not surprisingly, Google decided to announce its release by publishing a 38 pages long comic book featuring techies discussing about the feature of the new Google Chrome.

Here’s some point-to-point features of this new Google Chrome browser software:

• Open Source
• Tabs located above the address URL bar, not below it
• URL auto-completion feature called ‘Omnibox.’
• Super “Incognito Windows” where any browsing that occurs will never be logged and will remain private
• Phishing defender
• Auto web-application launch feature without the need of a URL based application address.

Now, Firefox 3, Opera, and Safari are all great web browsers applications. (Actually, most tech-savvy people would no doubt prefer Firefox.) But come on… this is Google we’re talking about. Just the title “Google Browser” will make you dance in your chair and well, OMG. Like I said, leave it up to Google to sparkle us with wonder.

A fresh take on the browser [Official Google Blog]
Google Chrome Comic Book [Google Books]
Google Chrome, Google’s Browser Project [Google Blogoscoped]

This is a VERY LONG VIDEO. Therefore, the best way to watch this is to not watch this. Just turn up the speakers and listen while you do some other easy task. Actually do listen/watch this… because it actually helps and is useful. This Google Tech Talk seminar beautifully describes methods to not burn all your time on emails but rather process them efficiently. Good luck with Advanced Common Sense…

“I haven’t shown you anything here that you don’t already know how to do. But if you actually do it, you’re gonna see extraordinary differences.“

Slides of this Presentation: Inbox Zero [Slide Share]

Most of us have already heard of Google Pack, a collection of useful programs, Googlers believe we should possess. These free applications include StarOffice (the original Sun Microsystems office suite that became the OpenOffice.org foundation), Google Earth, a neat Google Photos Screensaver, Picasa, RealPlayer, etc. However, the greatest two softwares carried for free by Google Pack is its two antivirus/spyware protection programs. Spyware Doctor Starter Edition kills and stops spyware, adware, and internet related malware while Norton Security Scan is designed as a pure virus scanner and destroyer for hard drives. When ran side by side, Spyware Doctor and Norton Security Scan creates a formidable defense for your computer, stopping all types of evil junk. These two applications are not just free as in free trials. They are absolutely free because they were special editions designed for Google Pack.
To get them, simply click on the white Google Pack button and select the check boxes for Norton Security Scan and Spyware Doctor in the menu. Then just click download Google Pack and the programs will automatically download and install when Google Pack is started. Read the rest of this entry »