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Lifehacker’s Ultimate Google Easter Egg Guide

Google takes itself very seriously these days, but that hasn’t yet stopped its engineers from creating “easter eggs” — unexpected features and games which appear when you search for specific terms or hit special keys in other Google products. Here’s our complete list.


May 1, 2012
Communicate

What Should Senator Conroy Ask Google?

Federal Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy will be hanging around Google HQ in Mountain View soon. What should he be asking the Big G?


April 27, 2012
Communicate

Google Play Starts Offering Movies In Australia

Lifehacker AU

The Google Play brand looked rather pointless when it first rolled out in Australia, since it offered neither movies nor music. Google has now rolled out movie rentals for Australian customers,


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Keep Your Paid Gmail Or Picasa Storage Plan For Cheap Google Drive Storage

If you paid for extra Google storage space (shared across Gmail, Google Docs and Picasa) before the company introduced Google Drive on April 24, you’re in luck. That move gets you a huge discount on its new file storage tool Google Drive.


April 26, 2012
Work

Which Bits Of Google Drive Come From Australia?

Lifehacker AU

Google Drive launched yesterday, which was a public holiday for everyone in Australia. Chances are that a lot of Google’s Sydney development team were nonetheless crammed into the Google’s Aussie HQ, since a fair few of the key features in Google Drive were built down under.


April 25, 2012
Work

Drag And Drop To Automatically Encrypt Files In Google Drive Using Automator On Mac

Mac: Google Drive is finally here, promising awesome Dropbox-like online storage and file syncing — but also the same security and privacy caveats that come with storing information on cloud servers. Macworld offers this handy file-encryption tool that works with Google Drive for drag-and-drop encrypting on your desktop.


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Desktop File Syncing Faceoff: Dropbox Vs Google Drive

Google’s new file-syncing service is finally available, and it looks pretty great. But how does it stack up against the current king of file syncing, Dropbox? Here’s where each app shines (and falls short).


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Google Drive Is Alive: 5GB Of Free Storage On Google’s Servers

Google Drive, the long-rumoured web-based file storage tool, launches for real today. It’s a little Dropbox, a dash of Google Docs, all with the amazing organisation and search power you’ve come to expect from the people that created Gmail. Here’s what it has in store.


April 23, 2012
Work

Google Just Killed Off A Few More Products

Lifehacker AU

Google’s shutting down of niche projects as it turns all guns blazing to trying to make us care more about Google+ continues. The latest batch of products to get stopped includes page suggestion service Google Related, the BlackBerry version of Google Sync, the Linux version of Picasa, Mac uploading tools for Picasa, and the web app version of Google Talk.


April 22, 2012
Work

Top 10 Clever Tricks Built Right Into Gmail

Gmail is amazing. It’s chock full of more shortcuts, settings, and features than you could shake a stick at. Even if you consider yourself a Gmail ninja, though, there are quite a few tricks you might not know about (and some that Google didn’t even intend). Here are our top 10 clever tricks built right into Gmail.