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Loving the Google Homepage Themes

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Ok, maybe I’m a little slower than others, but I’ve not tripped across any posts about the new dynamic Google themes for my Google Personalized home page. It’s available in the upper right hand corner of your screen and is flagged “new” — which is why I noticed it this morning.

The design (I picked the beach one, since I’m still missing my sunrises every morning) actually changes during the course of the day, based on where you are. So, at night it’s dark, during the morning it’s a morning view. You may pick from a handful of themes (and I’m hoping more are coming soon).

It’s a small thing, but quite cool, so I thought I’d share.

Google Helper Website

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I found an interesting blog-style website with the tagline “Tutorials, Tips and Advice for Google Users” which I found to be entertaining and worthy of investigation. It is a user’s-eye-view of all things Google all in one place! Visit the Google Resource for yourself, and let me know if you find it to be useful. I’ve bookmarked it to return to later and investigate a bit more… and a bit deeper.

Google Competes With Microsoft’s Office Suite for Big Business

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Google has just announced that it will offer an online-based office suite to large businesses. The suite, in direct competition with Microsoft Office (during the current Vista push) will offer email, calendar management, spreadsheets and word processing tools for a competitive $50 per year per user — far below the current cost of maintaining the latest version of office.The current free version of Google Apps will be upgraded for the business users and will include full technical support, the promise of 99.9% uptime and larger email boxes (10 gigs!).

The timing of this roll out has been called “brutal” toward Microsoft, while the big boy MS is in the midst of convincing current clients to upgrade to Office 2007 (which carries a pricetag that begins at 239 for an upgrade/$399 for a full version of the standard and soars to $539 upgrade/$679 for office, according to the Microsoft site).

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Conspiracy Theory: Does Google Know Too Much About You?

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You know, I love Google’s offerings. I use alot of them. I have a gmail account. I use Google Docs, analytics, customized search pages. Google IS my home page.

I’ve always felt that the sign of a good education was not what you know as much as how good you are at being able to “ferret out” any information you need on any topic. I thought this before the invention of Google, and I think that Google has enabled the masses to be more “educated” by my own definition.

Google is how I work and play without having to store an inordinate amount of detailed information in my head — I know how to find it… on Google. But there have been a few people (myself included) lately, that have become a bit concerned with the sheer mass of information Google now possesses about individuals.

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Google and Yahoo! Dabble in Real Estate Listings

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Most of you have probably heard of — even played with — the new Yahoo! Real Estate Search Tool, but I’d be willing to bet that very few of you have seen a “sneak peak” of the new Google Real Estate tool.

It’s still in what I’d call “pre-alpha” — although I have no idea what the Google developers are calling it — and has been discovered via the back end by some people so geeky they make me look chic!

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