Everything Google

This title was chosen because google has become an integral part of our daily online and educative activity.

I can hardly remember my days without google. Whenever I want to know something - almost every other minute - I google.

My first blog was in blogger - and it is still there waiting for visits. You no longer need to activate your google reader to get the updated posts as I am not blogging there anymore, but this is a tool that is worth looking at.

My home page is my igoogle - I just love the new artistic themes (they even have Fatima Lopes in it and other Portuguese personalities - How cool!!!). I save most of my docs in google docs so I can retrieve them from wherever I am - I no longer am dependent on one machine (where I saved the document) or have to carry around that tiny memory stick, which I so often misplace. I still need to check the offline version. It definitely seems to be powerful.

My google calendar notifies me of my meetings and upcoming events, and I am able to invite other people in, and also create additional calendars for different groups.

Google groups rocks for the fact it allows not only email communication, but the development of personal pages.

Google earth and google maps are just great - bearing in mind my direction skills are not that good - it has been a great help and fun too.

I have re-started to use picasa. I love the embed widget it automatically generates. I have even included it in one of my google pages - just for fun! It took me less than one minute to do so.

Ramona says google sketch-up is dead easy to use. I still haven't ventured myself in it, but I sure want to give it a try sometime soon.

But before I do, I will probably check youtube and google videos for some video tutorials - it is amazing how much information is shared through these channels. And all thanks to the users' and google's generosity for sharing and making the resources available for free.

It is only a shame I still can't go google mobile - It is clear to me that I need to get myself an iPhone one of these days - but I have heard it is quite handy (maybe someone else is able to share their perspectives on this one)

Orkut is also in my list - my Brazilian fellows says wonders about it.

And I can't wait for more applications to be available. They are always a good surprise. I can already picture myself with that expression of amazement in my face.

Meanwhile, I could only wish that a blogger's blog's author could enable the activation of an option for other members to join in as writers - instead of having to invite them manually. ( a link to "join this blog as a writer" would be great. We as authors could then give permission to the ones who requested such thing.
On my blogger wish list is also the option of more templates or better customization options - for images, etc


Have I mentioned I love gmail and its email tagging feature and that gtalk is also becoming part of my communication channels?