Google Notebook - Yet another Google Product!
May 17th, 2006
Yet another product from the Google Labs: Google Notebook! It’s a simple internet browser (Internet Explorer and Firefox) add-on that lets you quickly and easily make notes from any web page right there within your browser.
Once the add-on is installed, you can make notes in your Google Notebook simply by first selecting the text/image you want to make a note of and then right clicking to bring up the context menu, as shown on the right. Upon clicking on Note This (Google Notebook), a note is automatically made in your Google Notebook and a small window (known as the mini Google Notebook) pops up on the bottom right of your browser confirming this (See screen shot below). You can then add your own comments to those notes or also make them public!
It’s a simple idea but whether it is for research, holiday planning or online shopping, Google Notebook promises to be a very effective tool.
Other features of the service include multiple notebooks and public notebook search (to be available in a few days).
Although opening a Google Notebook account is free and does not require an invitation, the account won’t give you access to GMail. If you need a GMail account, we are giving away free GMail invites! To request one, email us and type in GMail Invite in the subject line.
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1. The Apple Files » S&hellip | June 26th, 2006 at 10:46 am
[...] Firefox Getting a good internet browser for the MacBook was very easy. The browser I was used to, Firefox was also available for Mac, and so was the extensions I used for it: Google Toolbar, FasterFox and Google Notebook. However, since I switched to Mac OS 10, I found myself using Safari (the internet browser built into Mac OS 10) alongside Firefox as Safari’s starts up a lot quicker than Firefox. However, I cannot do all my browsing the way I’d like to without the help of the Google Toolbar and the Google Notebook extension. So, I will probably continue to use Firefox for my most of my internet browsing needs and use Safari on the side, when I need to look up someting fast. Microsoft Outlook vs iCal and Address Book Thanks to iSync and my Nokia N70, moving from Microsoft Outlook to iCal and Address Book has been a breeze. Back on the PC, I needed Nokia’s PC Suite installed so I could synchronise my Contacts (Address Book) and Calendar with Outlook. But on the Mac, it only took a couple of minutes to configure iSync to import the Contacts and Calendar entries from my Nokia N70 mobile phone to Address Book and iCal. And iSync even worked over Bluetooth which comes built in with the MacBook. I was very much pleased with this because I was expecting to have to import all my Calendar data from Outlook manually. It just worked out of the box, without having to install any Nokia Software or bluetooth drivers! MSN Messenger/GAIM vs Adium Back on the PC I was using GAIM for all my instant messaging (IM) needs. At the time I thought GAIM was way better than MSN messenger which by the way is plastered everywhere with ads and consumes a lot of unnessary screen space. I liked GAIM for its chat with tabs feature and its ability to connect to a wide variety of IM networks: AIM, MSN, Yahoo, etc. However, after using Adium, I found it not only had the same (if not greater) level of functionality as GAIM but also Adium also had a very slick user interface. One thing I particularly like about Adium is the way it shows extended information about your contacts and their display picture when you hover over their screen name. This helps save a lot of screen space and that way, you only see the extended information when you need it. Flickr Uploadr Just like Firefox, Flickr Uploadr was available for Mac OS 10. However, the switch to the Mac version of the uploader wasn’t as smooth as I was expecting. I experienced a general sluggishness with the system while Flickr Uploadr was at work. I suspect this may be due to the fact that I only have 512MB of RAM on my MacBook and I have been used to 1GB back on my Inspiron laptop. Overall, the switch has gone smoothly for me as far as the main applications are concerned. And I really enjoy the Mac way of installing a new program by simply dragging and dropping a file to the Applications folder. Quick and simple: I would also like to mention that I have found Apple’s Switch 101 page to be a very useful resource to help me understand how things work on the Mac compared to the PC. So, if you are also in the process of switching or are considering it, don’t forget to visit the Switch 101 page. [...]
2. The Apple Files » S&hellip | June 27th, 2006 at 7:10 pm
[...] 3. I really miss the Firefox designed Find feature that is ‘docked’ to the status bar within the Firefox window. Aside from being neater than having a pop-up window to find text within a web page, the Firefox Find feature also allows for highlighting of all the words it matched within the web page: I find this highlighting feature really helpful when I’m scanning through a web page looking for a specific word. It’s a lot more efficient than looking searching through the text word by word: However, there is no such feature within Safari, simply a pop-up window: 4. The Google Toolbar and Google Notebook extension for Firefox is not available for Safari. I tend to use Google Notebook a lot when browsing as it is a lot quicker and stores a lot more infomation than manually copying and pasting content into a text editor. Google Notebook will also automatically store images within a web page, the URL as well as the text. [...]
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