I am sick of fan requests from Facebook. Even if they change their name from “fan” to “like” I am still going to want to projectile vomit when I get one. I do not understand the benefit or value of requesting this of me. If I like bananas, I like bananas, if I am into [...]
Google has taken some steps that help you keep you claim your Google gadgets and allow you to remove gadgets that are claiming to be you or your brand, but are not. This happened often, and made the google gadget directory look strange as shown in the screen shot. There were over 100 “clones” of [...]
This as a parody of a Micheal Grey post…
I was recently contacted by a fellow Google gadget developer and he mentioned his new venture called Snapabug.com and asked me to take a look. I did, and I am pretty impressed. It is a widget solution that streamlines a website/company support process. Imagine someone is having a problem with your website and contacts your [...]
The next 5 people to request a Google Wave invite will get one. Please email me or leave a comment.
Want to have your video viewed alot? Here’s a great way to do so. YouTube is asking people to submit videos about… YouTube help topics. Videos like this one answering the question “Why isn’t my video showing up in the search results?” – This video has over 300,000 views. Here is another with about 1 [...]
This is the first in a series of tutorials which will describe how to create extensions, themes and gadgets for the Google Chrome browser and OS. How to add an extension to your Chrome Browser Chrome extensions allow you to customize your browser, just like Firefox extensions. To use or create extensions requires the developer [...]
In my Google gadget tutorial I had included a quote gadget example. The quote example from that tutorial has since been improved on and I thought I would share it with you. The quote gadget we will make today has random quotes, random photos, and a nice re sizable border that looks nice that you [...]
What Google gadgets are available for Twitter? This post highlights fun and useful Twitter Google gadgets for your iGoogle homepage that you might not know about.
I have been testing how many times users attempt to view the canvas page of a Google gadget. The test involved two parts… 1) How many people clicked the “maximize” button (this is the button that wold take a user to the canvas page of a google gadget) without being prompted. 2) How many people [...]
