Tag Archives: google

gooLego: Google’s software building blocks

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: December 24th, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Over the past few years, Google has open sourced several projects that provide some commonly used building blocks in any large software project. Some of them I was aware of since when they were launched (like protobufs), while others I discovered only recently. I couldn’t find any location where all the projects [...]
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Google (Contacts, Mail, Talk) confusion

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: August 11th, 2009
Image via CrunchBase When Gmail first introduced the ability to import Contacts, I prompty exported my addressbook from KAddressbook. And then I mostly forgot about it, until recently. In the meantime, Google happily kept adding “suggested” contacts to my addressbook. I decided to revisit my Google Contacts after reading some blog posts about new functionality. [...]
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GAFYD slowness

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: March 30th, 2009
I have been using Google Apps For Your Domain (GAFYD) for my floatingsun.net email for a while now (earlier I was using the email setup at my hosting provider, but moved away because of the lack of adequate spam filtering). In the beginning, it was just a joy and everything was nice and peachy. However, [...]
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Google Chrome

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: September 1st, 2008
Its all over the blogosphere anyways: http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/
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uBoggle is a featured application!

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: August 15th, 2008
uBoggle is now appearing as the featured application on the Google AppEngine Application Gallery. Thank you for your votes, and thanks to the appgallery editors! And I have a screenshot for proof and posterity :)
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