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If you are looking on a page that is OpenID enabled and would like to login using your Google OpenID (yes, your Google ID's are OpenID's now) you should enter the following URL without changing anything:
https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id
If you are already logged into to Google Services like Gmail then you should be able to login to any OpenID enabled site in theory.
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Yesterday I have received an e-mail from Google about the beta release of Google Chrome for Mac. The absence of Google Chrome on Mac OS X has been bugging me since the release of it on the Windows platform. Being a browser whore I switch my default browser from Safari to Firefox to Opera and back quite frequently. I have ...more»
As you may already now, Google has decided to pull the plug off Gears. Gears powers offline Gmail, offline Google Calendar and much less used Wordpress Turbo. The rationale behind this decision is the fact that Google is pushing out HTML5 and this standard offers pretty much everything and then some more of what Gears does. Google says that Gears ...more»
Today I have read a piece by Walt Mossberg on Windows 7. In the article Mossberg argues that Windows 7 is not as bad as its successor Windows Vista, but almost as good as Mac OS X 10.6 aka Snow Leopard. I am not sure about this.
I have left the Windows world when everybody was using Windows XP and Vista ...more»
It's no wonder iPhone Mail.app is crashing on me because of Yahoo!. Yahoo!'s web-mail is not even moving e-mails to folders. I have understood one more time how much I like Gmail. ...more»
I have been looking around the web about different web frameworks lately. What initiated my research is the Google AppEngine, for which I had applied when it was in closed beta but have not heard since. I downloaded the SDK, run the Hello World example and proceeded to read about it.
I have read a while and felt that the platform ...more»
I'm writing this post from my PDA over an EDGE connection using Opera Mini. My main computer is away from me, though I don't miss it. Only thing I miss is a keyboard as HTC Prophets only provide the on-screen type. I have been checking my personal e-mails, reading rss news and surfing the web with this device and I ...more»
Today I got introduced to a great little software called HFS (HTTP File Server), which is a way to serve, share your files through a simple easy to use webpage. The beauty however is the size of the software and how it operates. This is actually a single executable file with no installation. Go ahead and try, it is wonderful ...more»
