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We all know Google’s famous home page. Plain and simple with a white background. Google has announced the addition of wallpapers for the classic home page. Finally, users can customize the classic homepage with their own backgrounds by uploading them, choosing an image from Picasa Web Albums, or an image from Google’s gallery. To get started, visit the classic Google.com homepage and click... 

Did you enjoy this weekend’s Google Pac-Man doodle and game? Disappointed that it’s no longer on the front page? Well don’t be! Google has just announced that the Google Pac-Man game will permanently be available at www.google.com/pacman. This new page looks and works exactly like the regular Google home page, except that Pac-Man is there, so everyone can now play Google’s version... 

Google is famous for changing its home page logo, known as the doodle, to celebrate various events and holidays. Today is no exception. Google has changed its front page to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the classic game, Pac-Man, involving the yellow pizza shaped Pac-Man and the 4 ghosts, Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde. When you first visit Google.com, a static Pac-Man doodle will appear. After... 

Remember Google Wave, Google’s new communication and collaboration tool introduced last year during Google I/O 2009? TechAirlines covered it last October and even had an invitation giveaway. However, as time went by, the buzz about Wave gradually disappeared because of the slow performance and many users didn’t find it very useful. But that doesn’t mean Google hasn’t been working... 

Remember the redesigned Google prototype we explained back in November? If you’ve been using Google Search today, you may have noticed a very similar design was being used. According to the Google Blog, the new looks for Google has officially been rolled out to all users today. Google has always been about simplicity. How could they possibly make the home page more simple? By changing their... 

Are you trying to keep your website compliant with current web standards and free of validation errors? Validation helps ensure that your website will work properly on the widest range of web browsers. Often times, validation errors don’t do any harm to your site, however, it’s usually best to be as standard compliant as possible. Plus, all the big companies try to validate their page.... 

Do you own a website or blog? How fast does it load? Do you think that your site’s speed may be affecting the number of visitors you get? It just might. You may have been aware that Google has recently announced that a site’s performance will now be calculated into the Page Rank formula in a new Webmaster Tools blog post. Google Webmaster Tools features Site Performance information, which... 

Many companies online take April 1st very seriously by launching new innovative products like Gmail. Or not. April 1st is April Fools Day and 2010 was no different. We always have the usual suspects pulling off pranks, especially Google, but its more than just Google having fun. Here is a list of my favorites from April Fools 2010. YouTube TEXTp YouTube provides a HD videos and more than 24 hours of...