Google Docs & Spreadsheets just got a new look and some new features. Now you can organize your documents in folders, and when searching for a document, it dynamically suggests a query from your document collection. Plus, as they put it on the Official Google Docs & Spreadsheets Blog, another new feature is simply “Looking [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, I got an e-mail and a call from a reporter with the Wall Street Journal. She was doing a story on the social/Web2.0 aspect of personal finance sites, and one of those sites was Wesabe.com. I’ve written about Wesabe a couple of times on here, so she wanted to see [...]
READ MORE »Shock of all shocks. Google has bought yet another awesome service that I already use. If you haven’t used Feedburner before, I encourage you to check it out. It makes things very simple, like podcasting and letting your users subscribe via e-mail instead of RSS, plus they keep things nice and tidy for you. Google [...]
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Google has added the ability to embed a flash slideshow of any of your Picasa Web Albums with just a couple clicks. It’s not the fanciest thing I’ve ever seen, but if you’re looking for a quick flash slideshow of some images with built-in controls and captions (if you want them), then check it out. [...]
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Sweet. Google just completely redesigned Analytics. I love that they keep making their free stuff even more cool and more useful. Over the next month, everyone with an Analytics account will get migrated to the new server, and for a month you’ll be able to access both the old and the new versions without any [...]
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Read a great post over at eMinistryNotes this morning about explaining RSS in plain English. I’ve taken a stab at it on our church’s website before, but this video (from CommonCraft) does a great job explaining things. Check it out. Click To Play play_blip_movie_209879(); There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS [...]
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Google has done it again. They have now quadrupled their storage capacity for Picasa Web Albums. (see the Official Google Blog) I have been trying Picasa Web Albums out for a while now, and I like it, but I wasn’t sold on it because I didn’t know if I wanted to put all of my [...]
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Worried about accidentally running into something online that you don’t want to (or shouldn’t) see? ScrubIT to the rescue! Lifehacker recently posted about using this at home and/or work, but it could also be useful in a church setting as several people have mentioned. It’s extremely simple to setup, and it can either be done [...]
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Google Maps now shows live traffic data for select cities (including Cincinnati). It’s not complete information, but it’s there, nonetheless. There is a new “Traffic” layer that shows up next to the Map, Satellite, and Hybrid choices. From the Official Google Blog: If your route shows red, you’re looking at a stop-and-go commute; yellow, you [...]
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Right now I have a handful of things that I’ve been meaning to post about for a while but just haven’t. This is one of them. We’ve been sort of redoing our budget and diligently tracking our spending lately since we’re new homeowners and whatnot (trying to stay on top of the game), and being [...]
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