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I couldn’t believe my eyes this morning when I went to Google and seen a link stating “New! Get FREE breakthrough broadband with Google TiSP (BETA)” So I followed the link and found it to be a system for FREE wi-fi via the toilet. This is obviously somone’s joke but is it Google’s? I strongly doubt this is a real page made by Google. I am not sure whether their homepage was defaced or if this is just some sort of prank from our friends at Google. Regardless I took some screenshots as this page may not be up for long. See the screenshots below.

Link : Via Google http://www.google.com/tisp/

Google AdSense banned me from participation in their program last summer. The resons to me are not clear but there seems to be a number of other people in the same boat. Appearntly I was banned for “fraudulent clicks” which translates into the same IP or computer system clicking on ads published by an AdSense account.

If you create an AdSense account at a public WiFi spot or a public network and someone else accesses your ads from the same network then you may appear to be generating “fradulent clicks” to Google and it wont be long until they ban you even if you did not intentionally click your ad’s. So what can someone do once they are banned from use of Google AdSense. Well according to Google they will not reinstate any previously banned accounts. Well I am banned and I plan to try and get unbanned from the program. I will be posting about it here to keep anyone interested up to date on my progress.

Google’s adress
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
phone: (650) 253-0000
fax: (650) 253-0001

I plan to call them this week and see what I can find out. If any of my readers have encountered this problem and have any insight on how to correct this issue please feel free to send it to tips@timmatheson.com

If you have not already downloaded Google Desktop I highly recommend it. Google desktop makes finding your files easy not to mention adding tons of other functionality to your desktop. What if you want to search for only files with a specific extension? Well the answer is simple you just type filetype:jpg or whatever extension you are looking for. This is a great way to sort, categorize, and delete your files and become more organized. Here are some of the different types of files you might want to search for and how to do it.

• search string + filetype:jpg Jpg/Jpeg (Jpeg images)
• search string + filetype:gif (Gif images)
• search string + filetype:doc (Word Documents)
• search string + filetype:xls (Excel Spreadsheets)
• search string + filetype:exe (Executable applications)
• search string + filetype:msi (Search for installation files that use the msi installer)
• search string + filetype:bat (Search for DOS batch files)
• search string + filetype:txt (Search for text documents)
• search string + filetype:png (Portable Network Graphics)

As you can see the filetype: tells Google desktop only to find files with the extension after filetype:. Replace the search string with any other related text you might have to narrow the results.

Now you can get gps directions anywhere from your cellphone. Google Mobile Maps is the latest tool from Google featuring the familiar Google Maps interface in the palm of your hand. To use Google Mobile Maps point your mobile phones web browser to http://www.google.com/gmm and download the free software. Then you only pay for the data transfer fee from your provider. You can usually get a plan to lower the cost of data transmission. For full instructions and an online tour visit http://www.google.com/gmm

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Google has opened up its massive server farms to host user-submitted content that it will index and make searchable. The company opened up Google Base to users today.it allows users to contribute online and offline content to the search engine, and add attributes to the content’s description to help others find it. Depending on relevance, submitted items could appear across Google properties like Froogle or Google Local. That would seem to support the anticipated release of Google’s classifieds service, by giving users an easy way to upload and tag products or services. One item in the Base FAQ also shows that the service is ready to work with classifieds:

Ok maybe I am a little bit obsessed with Google these day’s. I can’t help it there is something about that Google. Anyway I have been having some fun lately and found the Google store. This is really a great idea I already seen some stuff that would make great stocking stuffers this year. I mean what say’s merry Christmas more than a Google LED umbrella come on. Anyway I though I might share this with all you Google fans. visit the Google Store

This concept here is my goal. I want to get my plates to say Google. I think a lot of people would appreciate my creativity in using Google as my personalized plate. This concept would bring a whole new meaning to the words “traffic from Google”. By the time I get around to getting new plates someone will probably have seen this and done it already. That is why I will resort to plan B and use yahoo. I don’t know I just think it would be neat to actually see this on a plate. If anyone out there has any pictures of a plate with Google on it or any cool license plate for that matter email it to me so I can post it.

I think this would make a really cool T-shirt, is anyone listening out there? We have all seen those T-shirts with statements like “Im big in Japan” and so on. Why not make one that say’s im big on Google or even Yahoo? I dont know just a thought.