New Chrome version

I updated Chrome after reading on techcrunch about the new version.

Some have a lot of free time on their hands

… some meaning Google.
Along with the CADIE they also launched Chrome 3D. And this even works. Check the following screenshot:

How to display the page rank

If you are looking for a way to determine the Google page rank for a group of websites, here’s a simple solution:
Download the page rank script and test it on your web server.
Note that the server is forced to query one of Google’s servers each time you call the page rank function. Because page rank [...]

2 great talks

Check the following youtube videos:
Get Rich or Die Trying – Making Money on the Web the black hat way

via hackersblog

Google I/O ‘08 Keynote by Marissa Mayer

via digg

They are both pretty long (1 hour each) so be prepared with some pepsi and popcorn :)

Google Earth Becomes Google Water

Google Earth just hit version 5. Among the new features are:

the ocean floor is now available instead of the blue thingy
you can now see older satellite images of a particular place (we now have the 4th dimension)

More info on the new Earth version on G blog, including a video. Or go straight to the download [...]

Chrome still not good enough

Due to recent troubles with my laptop, I’ve turned to my desktop PC again and decided to try out Chrome since FireFox wasn’t installed. I got to the point where I was accustomed to the new browser interface quite well.
Then the bad stuff began:

some pages looked weird. Probably Webkit doesn’t read a particular CSS correctly. [...]

Why Gmail is better than Yahoo! Mail

… or why I use gmail for business and yahoo mail for fun.
1 – Detailed popup messages
While using an instant messenger (either Yahoo or Talk) you are informed each time you receive a new message. While Yahoo chose to give dumb messages such as X new emails, on Google you can read the title, sender and [...]

Google’s new favicon

Ever wandered what success is?
It’s when everybody blogs about you when you change your favicon.
So here are the ones I know of:
Later edit: post on google blog

Google Reader redesign

Google Reader just got a facelift. After Gmail’s recent theme introduction this is another good news.
Full story from the horse’s mouth.

Let me google that for you

Let me google that for you
This is a great website for those who prefer to ask simple, dumb questions before searching the web. After entering a search phrase you are given a custom URL. By accessing it you’ll see a search done manually (even with the cursor) for you. Useful for handing out on chat [...]