Starting today, we are making Google Wave openly available to everyone as part of Google Labs. You no longer need an invitation to wave -- simply visit wave.google.com and sign right in. Likewise, if you are a Google Apps administrator at a business, school or organization, you can now easily enable Google Wave for all your users at no extra cost (more on our Enterprise blog).
Google makes it official: Phone calls now in Gmail | Relevant Results - CNET News
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You can now make phone calls in Google Mail, gmail. Very cool. Of interest to google voice users from the official blog post: "If you have a Google Voice phone number, calls made from Gmail will display this number as the outbound caller ID. And if you decide to, you can receive calls made to this number right inside Gmail (see instructions)." -- http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/call-phones-from-gmail.html
Chrome Web Store - Google I/O 2010 Keynote Day 1, pt. 5
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Apple had best move quickly or Google may beat them at their own game on the desktop. Google is creating a platform for application discovery, distribution, and purchase similar to the iPod/iPhone/iPad appstore all for the desktop - where Chrome, Google's super-fast web browser, *is* the platform.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore
Top 10 Clever Google Voice Tricks
via lifehacker.com
If you aren't using Google voice, you should be. It is to phones what a modern day e-mail client is to e-mail and more.
Google Voice Blog: Google Voice for everyone
Yay! Google voice is now open to the public! It provides all the feature you expect in your other communication mediums e-mail/IM/etc. for your phone! Its free. Give it a try.
Chrome For Mac And Linux Graduate From Beta
via techcrunch.com
As an experiment, I have switched to Chrome on my Macs as my primary browser. My 1Password and Evernote extensions are very early in their development so the experience not quite as smooth as safari. But the browser is fast and seems to hog fewer resources than Safari.
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See also: Why Use Google Chrome.
Google Wave Available for Everyone - Google Wave Blog
Google Wave Available for Everyone
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 | 4:10 PM
This one slipped by quietly.. I need to start paying more attention!
Second Wave - Google Wave Has E-Mail Notifications
Its been MONTHS since I visited google Wave. Its a huge resource hog so I don't leave it open like e-mail. I had about 20 unread messages to catch up on. I also discovered that google wave now supports e-mail notifications so you don't have keeping loading up the bloated thing just to see if there are new posts. Second, when using Google Chrome web browser, it doesn't take up nearly as much memory. Google Chrome (and its child procs) seem to take up about 200M. Safari, 665M. Chrome is also much faster and seems to render Wave better.
It also appears that you can remove people from Waves.. but what about your contacts? The e-mail thing will definitely encourage me to use it more.
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John DupreyJohn Duprey is a husband, father, and geek. He makes his living from the latter as a software developer for Thomson Reuters Research and Development. However, he lives for the former two - his wife Abby and their daughter Emma.
