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Explore Google’s Many Mac-Friendly Applications

14. August 2009

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Explore Google’s Many Mac-Friendly Applications

Google has many excellent, free applications and services for Mac. I rely on many of them literally almost every single day I use my Mac, both at home and at work. Some of the apps are desktop-based (you download and install them on your Mac’s hard drive), while others are browser based (you run them [...]

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Personalize Google Start Page

2. February 2006

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You can personalize Google for your start page. Open Google and in the upper right corner is a link, Personalized Home. Click on it. On the page that appears, sign in on the upper left corner of the page (unless you already have a Google account). Fill in your email and a password of six characters [...]

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Google School

29. November 2005

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Since Google appears to be taking over the world, or at least the virtual world, we should all brush up on how to take advantage Google’s capabilities. Just about everyone knows that searching for small dog electronics versus “small dog electronics” is different, and some of us even know that you can use Google to define [...]

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David Pogue’s Google Tips

8. November 2005

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Phrase your question in the form of an answer, “After all, you’re not looking for Web pages that ask your question,” explains director of technology Craig Silverstein. “You’re looking for pages that answer it.” So instead of typing, “What is the average rainfall in the Amazon basin?”, you might get better results by typing “The [...]

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