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YouTube Updates Interface with Time Scrubber

The immensely popular YouTube service has just updated its interface a teensy bit, and every video now comes with a small pop-up time scrubber notifier as you mouseover the timeline of the video. Check it out for yourself over at YouTube.com. It’s these small little things that makes YouTube such a great service. In the [...]

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Google Updates iPhone Gmail Interface

Google last night unveiled a completely reengineered interface of the iPhone Gmail Web Application. As with the web-2.0 fad nowadays, the new iPhone Gmail incorporates more AJAX features, and hence is much snappier to the average consumer. Check out the screenshots below:

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Did Apple Provide Skype with Private APIs?

Remember back when Google first released “Google Mobile” for the iPhone, and the media was all over how Apple secretly provided Google with private APIs that are not publicly available to developers? Well, one of those APIs included was the ability to use the proximity sensor, i.e. when the phone is brought close to one’s [...]

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Google Voice Coming to the iPhone

Google Voice is a service which allows VOIP-like functions. GVMobile will soon be available to the iPhone and iPod touch. Do we have another skype-like hype situation on our hands?

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Google Updates iPhone Image Searching

Google this week has just updated its Google Image Search interface for Safari on the iPhone. It’s finally starting to shape up as a rugged web app now. The main interface sees changes to the labeling of the images: gone are the long, useless original URLs and image titles. Now, all that’s left are the [...]

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Google Search Applet

This is a simple AppleScript Application bundle that starts a search in Google. I recommend that this script is assigned to a keyboard shortcut or mouse button (if you’ve got a Mighty Mouse) in System Preferences. Add this icon to your dock, and every time the shortcut is pressed, a Google search is just a [...]

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