You can easily check a website’s PageRank and Alexa rank in Firefox and Internet Explorer. Just install and use the Google Toolbar and Alexa Toolbar. In Firefox, if you do not like the Google Toolbar, you can use a nifty plugin called Searchstatus to do the job effectively – this is one of my favorite [...]

I know iGoogle isn’t something released yesterday nor are its artist themes. But it’s still interesting to check out what themes there are where you can use to personalize your Google homepage. Yeah, give that simple boring homepage a face lift! Google has obviously collaborated with many designers/artists to create many beautiful themes for the [...]

Back in August, Google was making a big hype about their brand new application code named “Chrome”. I wondered, “What could this new application be as it’s causing so much hype? It must be big!”. A couple of weeks after the announcement, I found out what was this new application. It turns out that to [...]

The past two weeks were pretty exciting, with all the sport events happening in Beijing Olympics 2008. And for most of you who use Google everyday, you will certainly notice that Google had a different logo everyday through the two weeks the games were held. What’s more interesting is that the logos were mostly based [...]

Recently, there has been a lot of uproar about the introduction of street view feature in Google Maps. Street View enables users to see well, street view images of certain parts of several major cities, including those in the US, Australia and Japan. This is of course very cool. From the looks of the panoramic [...]