AIM + Google whats up with that?

last night while I was on chat in bright red lettering in my gmail read "New! AIM chat in Gmail" You always have to watch out for these unless you want to be like me and be the last one to know I was using the newer version of gmail for some time before i saw the button use older version... their announcements are as subtle as there add I guess. More on it at their blog

Blog.gears: An offline Blogger client

This a a pretty cool feature, for those who carry their laptops around. It gives you the ability to create a Blogger posts off-line and then sync up when ever you get some internet access. More on this on the Google Gears api blog
If you want to skip to the back of the book here is a video which will tell you all about it.

The gOS is out on cd

I'm now running the gOS they finally shrank it down under 700 megs so you can put it on cd, now m not going to spew a lot of blah blah because I just started to use it this morning. I haven't even loaded it into my desk top yet. But my first impression is: This is going to certainly could compete in the mass market, the only trouble I have is when you change the desk top around you can loose your way in the shuffle, if they put a default button for the settings to bring it to the as is in the opening screen that would be great.

you can get it from of course a link in distro watch (excellent linux site)

Google Earth gets weather, new layer layout - Download Squad

Google Earth gets weather, new layer layout - Download Squad
From What I read in the Download Squad submitted by Brad Linder this New layer option will allow you to view the weather updated by both Weather.com and the Naval Research laboratory in Monterey.

If you haven't checked out the new version of Google Earth I would highly recommend it, the Google Sky could keep you busy for hours at a time.

Now you can check out the weather as well ... Nice!

Google launches Search mash

I know I am on the Google Kick lately, but then again this entire blog is made out of almost completely Google products. Here is another one that just cam out.


Pretty Nifty if you wish to see different things about an online friend for example. Just type out the name and then on the right you can see photos or video all by the same person. Im in there but don't believe that i am a cat I'm still trying to work out what Google thinks of me.

Don't let the name fool you this is a google product i think they are branching out with different names that can be confusing if you think about it.

The New Blog

Well within the past few months, I have been looking for the BBD the bigger better deal. Now in my case its not a matter of saving money but saving time. As many of us already know time is a very valuable commodity. You can mess around on the net all day long and never get any thing accomplished. Now I may never be a great organizer such as the likes of Merlin Mann, but my time is as valuable to me as it is to anyone else.

I guess the transition all started when I moved back to gmail, with the great Imap infusion into my gmail. I started talking about and paying more attention to Google than ever before. Two weeks ago or was it last week (things are blending) the great rediscovery of the Google Orkut took place on Jaiku and everyone joined or revamped there Orkut page. it was this integration that forced me to rethink my online presence. Yes I got away from blogging, but the real reason I think it was becoming to cumbersome to keep up with the innovations as well as trying out new things offered on the web at the same time; Something had to give, and since I am naturally curious I gather my blog was thrown by the way side.

Then I sorted out and started to move my photos into picasa which will seem to work out nicely with this blog. Then just to go over the top, I downloaded and completely indexed my computer with Google Desk Top, I know pretty scary, but I did it none the less. Lastly I cleaned out my Google reader and started sharing my reads on the web

So in short this is what I did:

• I stopped hosting my own blog and went with Blogger
• I moved butchbrooklyn.com and masked it to my blogger
• I started an orkut page and friended some of my peeps
• I started posting and tagging my photos in Picassa
• I completely index my computer with Google Desktop I have no fear.
• I cleaned up my Google reader and started to share my reads

Well thats the way I see it, Winter is coming and I am going to be online to keep from freezing. I hope my faith in Google doesn't backfire on me. The real success of this blog depends on weather or not I enjoy it or not. Ok Take it easy