Posts Tagged ‘google’

Exclusive: A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid

Sunday, July 6th, 2014

#Blackphone, Android for the paranoid – w/o #Google apps
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/exclusive-a-review-of-the-blackphone-the-android-for-the-paranoid Has useful services: Disconnect VPN, SilentCircle, SpiderOak

apenwarr

Saturday, July 5th, 2014

MT @mims: Googler basically saying that #Google is detached from the real world &… [overconfident] http://t.co/yzUpK9jMxg Sure of company?

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201407#01

Exclusive: A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid

Friday, July 4th, 2014

#Blackphone, Android for the paranoid
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/exclusive-a-review-of-the-blackphone-the-android-for-the-paranoid Has useful services (Disconnect VPN, Silent Circle, SpiderOak) but little $GOOG

Compare: How London Looks on Google vs. Paintings From the 1700s | Wired Design | Wired.com

Saturday, June 21st, 2014

How #London Looks on $GOOG v #Paintings From the 1700s: Not too different! Fun to see this timetravel on a real visit
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/03/stunning-comparison-london-using-google-street-view-centuries-old-paintings

The ten images include a few central London, including:
Westminster Abbey, 2 near Trafalgar Sq, Covent Garden Market, the Strand & Bank Jct (coordinates 51.513433°N 0.089045°W)

Other similar write-ups:
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/feb/25/london-paintings-google-street-view-canaletto-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/modern-london-with-historic-paintings-2014-2 http://imgur.com/a/jdIM0

Also, from @geocodedArt :
Paintings matched to location, w/StreetView: FR, UK, IT,
US DE NL http://goo.gl/2D97Jm . Or w/mobile http://goo.gl/oRZpQw

GDoc Track Changes

Saturday, June 14th, 2014

Track-changes in #GDocs, plug-in that provides some functionality. However, wish #Google just had this built-in.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/track-changes/pgjeblaieehjmmahlikmifaggjckpcnp?hl=en

Compare: How London Looks on Google vs. Paintings From the 1700s | Wired Design | Wired.com

Friday, April 11th, 2014

@geocodedArt :
@markgerstein Paintings matched to location, w/StreetView: FR, UK, IT, US DE NL http://goo.gl/2D97Jm . Or w/mobile http://goo.gl/oRZpQw

@markgerstein :
.@geocodedArt http://goo.gl/2D97Jm is a great site. I’ll use it on my next trip!

How #London Looks on $GOOG v #Paintings From the 1700s: Not too different! Fun to see this timetravel on a real visit
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/03/stunning-comparison-london-using-google-street-view-centuries-old-paintings

Compare: How London Looks on Google vs. Paintings From the 1700s | Wired Design | Wired.com

Thursday, April 10th, 2014

How #London Looks on $GOOG v #Paintings From the 1700s: Not too different! Fun to see this timetravel on a real visit
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/03/stunning-comparison-london-using-google-street-view-centuries-old-paintings

What Happens When Amazon and Google Go to War? — Daily Intelligencer

Tuesday, April 1st, 2014

What Happens When Amazon and Google Start a Price War Over the Future of the Internet? Large #AWS price cut!
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/03/what-happens-when-amazon-and-google-go-to-war.html $GOOG

Sign in, sign out, and change your password – Gmail Help

Monday, January 6th, 2014

Password change on mobile

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/3114694?hl=en
+
www.google.com/settings/security

Burkhard Bilger: Inside Google’s Driverless Car : The New Yorker

Friday, December 13th, 2013

A REPORTER AT LARGE

AUTO CORRECT

Has the self-driving car at last arrived?

BY BURKHARD BILGER

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Has the self-driving car at last arrived? Almost, thanks to DARPA challenges, maps & machine learning
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/25/131125fa_fact_bilger via @gigajordan