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Group Chat with Google Talk Gadget

Finally… Google offers the ability to do group chat by way of the Google Talk Gadget. It’s not available with the client version of Google Talk, though.

To use it, start a conversation with a contact, click on Group Chat and select additional contacts.

To have concurrent group chats, even involving the same individuals, repeat [...]

How to Integrate Google Custom Search Engine Results into WordPress Blog Template

I was checking out the control panel for my blog’s Google Custom Search Engine and saw something under the Code tab that I hadn’t noticed before: Search box and search results code for your website

I was intrigued at the thought of having the search results show up with my blog’s theme. After completing my [...]

How to Log into Google Groups with a Different Account Than Other Services

I have an account that I use for my Google services like Gmail, iGoogle, etc. However, I want to use a different account for Google Groups. Since the sign-ins propagate to different services, I would get logged into the wrong account in the wrong service. Here’s how I’ve figured out to be able to log [...]

Seasonal Scape Spring Scene

Back in March, I chose Seasonal Scape for the theme on my Google Personalized Homepage. All spring, I wondered when Google would update the scenery so that it would show a spring theme instead of a winter scene with a snowman. Since it is almost summer, and I was still seeing a snowman, I went [...]

Ranked #2 for [thu]

Sweet! My blog ranks #2 for my first name, Thu, in Google. And it only took 9 years. Hopefully I don’t jinx myself by writing about this. BTW, my name is pronounced like ‘two’ so that’s why it’s punny that it is #2.

I’ve been using Google since 1998, when it was a student project [...]