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Comment Google, Google Plus an Google Apps for your Domain (Score 1) 554

Funny, I've been thinking the same thing lately. And I've been dependent on Google and Android for a while now.

Why. Google plus was the last subtle thing to set it off.

I've used Google Apps for all of my email on my domain since it came out. Works great. I've had my domain for 15 years, and it's me. I depend on Android and my Google interconnects. I use Chrome on all my boxes. Everything works well.

Plus doesn't like Google Apps for your Domain. You've got to create a new gmail account for that. Something that's not me. Something that nobody knows me as. And Chrome/Google account switching will force that to be the default account.

Multiple account switching has also changed around, and it makes this gmail account your primary account, and I've got to keep using my password to get to my regular Google Apps email in Chrome. Now, the email I've depended on for 10 years multiple times a day requires me to keep switching back to my (now) non-default domain account, if I check Google plus also.

It sound petty, but it's made me stand back and say, "Wow, I'm _really_ dependent on Google, and this can get ugly". Being an open-source kind-of-guy, that makes me nervous.

        --Lance

Comment Re:Fonts (Score 1) 215

To me it wasn't so much the printed font, but the lack of all quotation marks which gave the physical text a stark feeling. I have both a printed copy of "The Road" and a Kindle copy, and that starkness came through in both.

My other two cents: The Kindle sucks for any reference type work. I don't like reading newspapers or reference non-fiction because jumping around is awful. This has potential of being solved soon, but now now. The K2 came with a free cookbook that's just painful to use.

However, if you have a straight-though type text which includes most fiction where formatting isn't an issue, then it's a wonderful device. Non-fiction that's mostly text and no graphs that you read through like a plain book is also not bad.

I like having several texts available to read from, and it's in my bag. I think many people have also gotten into reading classic fiction that's out of copyright and freely available. There are lots of good books out there, and I like having them all easily available to read.

    --Lance (Kindle 1 user for 2 years)

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Submission + - Google introduces Voice Local Search

panaceaa writes: "Google launched its latest Labs experiment this morning, Google Voice Local Search. By calling the service on a regular telephone, or mobile phone, you can search and connect to local businesses anywhere in the US over the phone for free. The service is fully automated and returns local business information from Google Maps. To access the service, call 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) and search in English by business name or by category."

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