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Google Mail is becoming Gmail in the UK – just don’t change if you use Android

As the title of this post says, UK Googlemail users can now change their email address from ..@googlemail.com to ..@gmail.com. If I remember correctly, there was a trademark issue with “Gmail” in the UK, but it looks like this has now been resolved. I decided to change my Googlemail account to use the .gmail domain [...]

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Google Storage

A few weeks ago, Google announced that they had dropped their prices for extra Gmail and Picasa storage. You can now buy 20GB for $5USD/year (about £3 at today’s exchange rate), which is very cheap indeed. Their full price list (which goes up to 16TB) is as follows: 20 GB ($5.00 USD per year) 80 [...]

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Embedding Google Maps Just Became Easier

Embedding a Google Map into your website just became much, much easier. Gone are the days of signing up for an API key and fumbling through the “Hello World” example, just so that you can show directions to your house. It’s now as easy as embedding a YouTube video – all done with a snippet [...]

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