Google Video chat has been available on the PC and MAC for almost 3 years and today Google announced it’s now available on Linux.

Visit gmail.com/videochat to download the plugin and get started. Voice and video chat for Linux supports Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions, and RPM support will be coming soon.

Has your company “Gone Google”?  Are you a google apps system administrator for your company?  If yes, good news on the mobile side.  Google just updated the security controls on mobile users getting 1 step closer to bridging the gap between it’s mobile policies and that which BlackBerry and Microsoft offer via their Mobile devices.  Here’s info from the Blog Post from Google:…

Read Entire Article...>>

Google continued to improve Google Maps this week.  Minor Styles Updated, Major Improvements made!

Minor Style Updates, Major Improvements (Via Google Blog)

The Windows Live SDK for June just popped on the Windows Download Center.

The SDK Will run on Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP SP3.

his SDK is for developing applications with the Windows Live Services.
This download package includes the following:

• Messenger Connect .NET and Silverlight Library: Library for building .NET and Silverlight applications. You do not need this library if

…

Read Entire Article...>>

This morning I received an email from Amazon.com announcing a new storage option in their “Cloud” offering.  It’s called “Reduced Redundancy Storage” or RRS.

Unlike their “standard” S3 storage offering which has an SLA of 99.999999999% at $0.150 per Gig Per Month for the first 50TB used, RRS will only come with an SLA of 99.99% at $0.10 per gigabyte per month.  After…

Read Entire Article...>>

For you Google Docs / Apps users out there, Google just posted a new FAQ about the new Google Docs.  Enjoy the read!

We’ve been excited by how many of you have chosen to try the new Google documents, spreadsheets and drawings editors over the last month. We’ve received a lot of great questions in our forums, in blog comments, on the ideas

…

Read Entire Article...>>

Free is always a great price especially for great products.  I particularly like FREE backup and Network monitoring tools.  The screenshot to the left is an insert from a recent TechNet magazine.

www.gfi.com/tec/

  While Digg is a popular social news site that I read regularly, the thing that I find most annoying is the Diggbar that opens whenever you try to visit a “Dugg” page.  Here is how to get rid of it for good.

Near the giant close button on the right side of the Diggbar is a very small inconspicuous down arrow.  The arrow

…

Read Entire Article...>>

Little bit of Friday fun today.  Yesterday I stumbled across a really entertaining  blog post which shows a pair of Imperial StormTroopers in a variety of life scenes.  Not really sure why… but I really enjoyed it quite a bit.

Stormtrooper’s life on photos – art pack