Tag: QUESTION

Bots -- like the kind which automate IRC rooms and Google Wave -- are a good thing to know about. There are plenty of useful bots worth knowing about, too, including the Google Talk Guru. Just add guru@googlelabs.com to your GTalk buddies, and you can start firing off questions. Lifehacker suggests that the same types of queries supported by Google SMS will work, though we didn't have any luck ...

I use Firefox for work. I interface with Blogsmith, our CMS, using Firefox. I use my primary email in Firefox. I eschew multiple plugins and add-ons because I want to squeeze as much performance as possible out of the "main window" to my work world. Today I see that there's a 3.0.6 update -- but I'm not updating yet. Why? Because I don't trust it. Until I poke around and see that my (few) ...

We've all been there. You're working, and an instant message window pops up. It's your friend, who I'll call "Captain Obvious," and he wants to know what that new James Bond movie is called. Even if you know, why is he asking you? That's what Google is for. Instead of answering his question straight away, just say "Here, let me Google that for you." Let Me Google That For You will give your ...

Answers.com, the pretty comprehensive reference site that holds information on close to four million topics, has teamed up with Yahoo! Answers to launch question and answers content. This new service will add human insight into the mix. How will it work? Yahoo! and Answers.com will be sharing its user base and connecting people to the information they are looking for, with the people that can ...