brijmin on Tech

When will people learn to ASK GOOGLE before asking the family or company geek a dumb ass questions? 99% of the questions I get asked, I don’t know the answers either, but i sure as hell know how to use Google. If someone asks me “How to import my contacts in to Outlook?” I simply [...]

If you’re a power searcher, or other people think you are, and you’re getting tired of constant requests for answers to questions that a quick Google search would provide, try Let me google that for you.

Android only: Android users looking to switch over to Google Voice full-time like I am, check out GV. GV provides calling and SMS support via your Google Voice number that isn’t perfect, but is close.

Using the AutoHotkey scripting language we can throw together a tiny script that assigns the Ctrl+Shift+C shortcut key combination to automate coping the text to the clipboard, and then opens your default web browser with the Google search for the selected text.

Everything comes around full circle. First we had Joost, Babelgum, Veoh, and others create standalone client software for watching online videos, but the ease and ubiquity of watching directly in the browser trumped whatever technical benefits a standalone client provided. The rise of YouTube, and more recently Hulu, proved that. But now that watching videos [...]

Google announce a free web service called PowerMeter that’ll let users track energy consumption in their homes or business, provided there’s a means to upload the data. That part of the equation’s gonna be up to other companies to create compatible devices, and while no manufacturing partners have been named, we’d suspect strange bedfellow GE [...]

Use Gmail? Get Xoopit! Upgrade Gmail to search, browse & share files, photos & videos. Use Google Search while composing mail in Gmail. Get information about people in a Gmail conversation. Xoopit works for Gmail, Google Mail and Google Apps users.

Preparing to Get Root on your Phone. Getting root on your phone involves exploiting a security hole that existed in an early version of Android. The versions with the security holes are known as RC19, RC28, and RC29 (or RC7 or lower for UK phones). As of RC30 (RC8 on UK), Google patched the security [...]

Well don’t worry you can manually update your G1 Phone firmware to RC33. Fortunately some has extracted the RC33 from official update package which can be used to update g1 Phone firmware to RC33. Here is guide on How to Manually Update G1 Phone firmware to RC33.

It looks like Google just updated their favorite icon for the second time in less then a year. Don’t see it? Visit  http://google.com/favicon.ico and refresh the page. Below, more about the old, new and newest ones.