Wednesday, December 10, 2008

the wonders of GOOGLE =)

Google has been innovating many applications or whatchamacallit that I find soooo valuable. It has been my favorite search engine long before it became popular and I’ve also been using gmail way back in time when you can’t just sign-up unless you’re invited by another gmail user. Downloading email attachments is made very easy there and very few spams go through it and are filtered anyway. I simply love it!


Their picasa photo editor is also fantastic. It enables me to edit my photos in no time. It’s a powerful tool yet so easy to use…and need I say more about youtube? I guess not…Well, these are just among their many free services/products.



Lately, I am sooo fond of using their STREETMAP. I’ve been taking enjoyable virtual walks at New York’s famous streets and many places in the US, Australia and here in NZ (NZ’s streetmap was just launched recently). Searching for an address is fast too! You don’t even need to put the country anymore. Say, when I put our street address and suburb/city, voila! I immediately got this:

this is exactly it!

looking around...
looking farther...


Whew! Felt like I'm walking outside our street. Really. Amazing eh?! My only comment about it is that they should have taken the street images anytime but winter here. You can’t appreciate the beauty of NZ because it’s gloomy But all in all, it’s truly praiseworthy!



I definitely heart google and I am looking forward to what it has to offer in the near future. I just hope all their products/services remain free hehe



Kudos to google!

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