As frankps sees the world!

Just as my first friend bought his Android Developer Phone and releases his first application, another friend of me pastes a link to the site One day without Google. Can you imagine Internet without Google, or are you one of the many that almost think of Google as synonymous with “Internet”. I am almost one of them, as I must admit that I use many of their many services: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Planet, YouTube, Google Video, Google Reader, Picassa, Blogger, Orkut, Google Maps, […] Continue reading →

I am getting more and more sceptical to using any products from Google. I love their simplicity, but for Google it is all about indexing information about you. I try to be quite practical about it, I only use them when there isn’t anything better around. So for that reason I still use Google for searches, maps, chats and mails. I don’t use Picasaweb or their online office applications. When it comes to their newly released browser, Chrome, I have not tried it yet. I didn’t […] Continue reading →

I have not been the biggest fan of Google Earth. I found the application cool and interesting, but never had the use for it as I rarely work with maps. But today I found a news item that shows the potential of the application in a brilliant way. According to Mail & Guardian the United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday unveiled a new partnership with internet giant Google to help track refugees from Iraq to Darfur and raise public awareness of its work. The UN High Commissioner for […] Continue reading →

It’s finally here: I can finally get rid of the stinking AIM client on Windows. Simply go in to the Gmail Settings, under the tab Chat, enable your AIM account! […] Continue reading →

Seems like the iPhone is opening new functionality on Gmail, as Google has just enabled IMAP support: This is awesome, and I hope that they will soon update my Gmail account with this great, new functionality! […] Continue reading →