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The Complete Guide To Google Wave Preview Available Now

4:00AM Adam Pash | The preview edition of Gina and Adam’s new book, The Complete Guide to Google Wave, is now available in PDF form for your offline, ebook-reading pleasure. More »
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Google Real Estate Adds Obvious Search Option

10:30AM Angus Kidman | Google Maps has already made one upgrade to its real estate search since introducing it in July, and now there’s another why-didn’t-they-do-that before? option: searching for property by adding the words “real estate” to a map search. More »
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First Glimpse At Google Chrome OS

7:00AM Kevin Purdy | Google offered up everything but a finished Chrome OS today, releasing its source code and explaining how it’s different from other operating systems. Here are the features, functions and screenshots you’ll want to know about. More »
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Remember The Milk Gadget Puts To-Dos In Google Calendar

12:30AM Kevin Purdy | Google’s own Tasks to-dos are a bit too under-powered for many goal-oriented types. If Remember the Milk’s more your speed, they’ve released an integrated Google Calendar gadget that puts your tasks, along with a command line–like Smart Add bar, just to the right of your calendar or agenda view. And Google Apps users, you have, for once, been highly looked after, as explained at RTM’s gadget page. [Remember The Milk]
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How To Manage A Group Project In Google Wave

4:00AM Gina Trapani | Google Wave has the potential to be used for just about anything, but Wave’s best real-world use boils down to this: it helps a group get things done together. Here’s how to manage a group project in Wave. More »
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Refine Your Image Search With Google Image Swirl

11:00PM Lisa Hoover | Google released Image Swirl today, a new experimental Labs feature designed to make it easier to find related images on the internet and tease out elusive images from the millions already on the web. More »
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Customising Google’s SafeSearch Options

1:00PM Angus Kidman | Worried about some of the content your kids might run into while searching the Internet? Customise Google’s SafeSearch options to keep them away from potentially undesirable material. More »
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Google Translate Adds As-You-Type Translations, Pronunciation

3:00AM Kevin Purdy | Google Translate added a few features to its main web home, including instant translations as you type. What’s really helpful is a bit more tucked away: phonetic pronunciations for non-Roman alphabets, like Chinese and text-to-speech pronunciations for translating to English. More »
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Chrome’s Sample Extensions Add Gmail Checking, Feed Subscribing

12:30AM Kevin Purdy | If you’re running Google Chrome’s development version, or a Mac or Linux nightly build of Chromium, you can already install three sample extensions from Google developers. Two of them add some pretty nifty Gmail and feed conveniences to your browser. More »
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Google Tasks Client Puts Tasks (Or Any Google App) On Your Desktop

9:30AM Whitson Gordon | Windows/Mac/Linux (Adobe AIR): We’ve written about a lot of desktop clients that are essentially site-specific browsers (SSBs), but free AIR client Google Tasks helps you consolidate your clients by allowing access to most Google apps in mobile form. More »