15 Dec
Mama, ich hab das Internet gelöscht.
… und dabei wollte ich nur Google Chrome (auf Deutsch) deinstallieren, um ihn anschließend auf Englisch wieder auf meine Arbeits-Windose zu packen…
Posts Tagged ‘Google’
12 Mar
Google Latitude has been broken for days…
For a few days, I have been unable to connect to Google Latitude on my mobile phone. Dr. Schäuble will not be amused.
Other services such as Web, E-Mail, IRC, SSH — “everything else requiring a data connection” — do work on my phone, as does the “regular” map service of the Google Maps Mobile app. Latitude shows up correctly on iGoogle, too.
Update: At least, I am not alone with this problem. No solution in sight, though. 
Update 2: And it’s working again. Nice.
29 Oct
Improving your GMail IMAP experience
GMail (or “Google Mail” for the rest of us outside the U.S.) has introduced IMAP access to their users’ mailboxes quite a while ago. Fred has written about using your GMail IMAP account with popular mail clients such as Apple’s Mail.app or Mozilla Thunderbird, I was giving my two cents on the GMail Trash folder.
Today, I learned about a new feature from Google Labs (it’s beta, just in case…): you are now able to fine-tune how deleted mails are handled. So far, all deleted mail stayed in the “All mails” folder. Forever. If you really wanted to delete that crappy newsletter from your favourite airline, you had to log in to the Google Mail website, find that particular mail (you still remembered that you planned to delete that mail when you actually accessed GMail over the web, didn’t you?) and trash it there.
With Advanced IMAP Controls in GMail, you will now be able to either delete your a mail if it is not visible in any view or (that’s the feature I was really looking for) you can even delete an e-mail right away. Click and gone. Nice. That’s how it’s meant to be.
02 Sep
Google Chrome
I’m sure you didn’t miss the hype about Google Chrome. I just installed it within a Windows VM (using Parallels on my Mac) and it feels… incredibly fast! I’m impressed.
I really like the website thumbnail tiles used as home screen (but I’ve been told that feature has been “borrowed” from Opera). And then… the browser is reduced to what you really need. Very nice indeed.
Nevertheless. I’ll keep using Firefox.
26 Aug
Come on, Google.
Who’s in charge of your SSL stuff? First the certificate for your SMTP servers, now google.de? WTH?
Oh, and before I forget it: you’re also extending the two-class society [technical and non-technical staff] on campus.
