Google+ lets you respond to notifications right inside the notification dropdown menu. The notification bar is present at the top of all Google pages…pure genius!
Canadian Tech Roundup – Episode 6 – Shaw, CES, Do Not Call List
[podcast]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/480185/podcasts/CanadianTechRoundup-EP6.mp3[/podcast]
Shaw introduces bandwidth overages and 25% reduction in bandwidth caps
CRTC Fines Xentel and Bell for calling number on Do Not Call List
Google Earth features 3D Winnipeg buildings
Yesterday I noticed that maps.google.com now features a built in Google Earth plugin, was pleasantly surprised to see a few Winnipeg buildings presented as 3D models.
Google Chrome, Now More Piratey
Sometime in the past 24hrs my copy of Google Chrome updated to version 6. Along with a more native UI, it now sports a bold red skull and cross bones when you visit a site with an unverified SSL certificate. How awesome is that?!
Sorry Google
The other day I was doing some surfing as googlebot (using firefox’s user agent switcher plugin) to try to debug some weirdly cloaked spammy search results I was seeing. I had accidentally done 3 searches as googlebot when I was redirected to sorry.google.com with this error screen:
Odd.