If you are a Gmail, or GoogleCal user you may have noticed they finally took off the beta tag that has been on there for about a million years now, who knew they would ever take that off?  This new change led me to think of a few things, first I wonder if there will be some exciting new changes coming to Gmail or they only took it off since millions of people and over 1.5 million businesses use Gmail and GoogleCal they thought it is finally the finished product.  But for some reason the main thing it made me think about is two of the little known Google services I use almost everyday that I thought every person in the world knew about, and that is Goog411.  I still talk to people all the time who say they have never heard of this, so here is a run down.  I don't know many people who like paying 75 cents to call 411 to get a number, so next time you are in a jam just call 1800-GOOG-411 (466-4411) it is totally free and has maybe one or twice not been able to find the number or business I was ...

If you haven't yet made the jump to firefox, GO DOWNLOAD IT! Try it for a week, and you'll be converted. The install file is only 7.1 megabytes. It has an extremely small system footprint, which uses much less RAM than IE. By comparison, Internet Explorer 8 is around a 60 MB download. One of my favorite features of Firefox is the ability to add plugins (small addons which perform specific functions like viewing special graphic formats or playing multimedia files). Here is a quick list of some of plugins I find most useful. Greasemonkey - "Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript." This addon really deserves its own category. With Greasemonkey you add your whatever funcionality you want through scripts downloaded from their site. You can change the way Gmail looks, remove ads from Facebook and Youtube, or you can download apple movie trailers with a link placed next to the movie. Whatever you want to do, there is probably a script to do it. You can search the different scripts at their website. Adblock Plus - Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to ...