Undo discard
Google Gmail is genius. The “undo discard” function just saved my life.
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Free Analytics from Google
Looks like Google’s making good use of their acquisition of Urchin. Like Picasa and Keyhole, Google is turning acquired products into products of their own by applying a Google flavor and then reducing the price (because they can). And having the name of Google behind it is likely to make the new Google Analytics one…Continue Reading…
Popup Blocker may be Preventing Gmail from Opening the Page
I’ve finally solved the problem of: http://mail.google.com “Grr! A popup blocker may be preventing Gmail from opening the page. If you have a popup blocker, try disabling it to open the window.” The problem for me was Norton Internet Security / Symantec Client Firewall. Although you might not think it, this program includes an ad…Continue Reading…
Google at USC
There was an infosession with Google in the Seeley G. Mudd building, room 101. It was quite interesting. There were four representatives from Google there; two of them were USC alumni. Russell gave a nice presentation about Google. Specifically, he’s working on Froogle. I asked a few questions. Perhaps I talked too much. I rarely…Continue Reading…
Google MD5 at USC
I was looking up some stuff about USC and Google, and this came up: MD5 code is used for security, was written by the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, and is derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc. Message-Digest Algorithm. Google Desktop Copyright Notices ISI is even more amazing than I’d thought… supposedly,…Continue Reading…
Googolplex
the fun page about the googolplex is not only neat in and of itself; it also uses a neat abbreviation: qed. It’s the Latin phrase “quod erat demonstrandum” (literally, “that which was to be demonstrated”) my goal is to somehow implement this abbreviation sometime in the next week. it “may be written at the end…Continue Reading…