Guess lots of fans in China have noticed about the news for few days. Not very surprised to see the result as I myself felt depressed when I was using Google services back in China. One great morning you woke up as usual. Boiled a cup of coffee and sit in front of your laptop. Opened up Gmail trying to check out what’s new in your mailbox and found nothing but 404 error page. Gmail was blocked. Okay, fine, let’s get some video and found Youtube still outside the Great Wall. Where’s my documents? Google Docs was blocked and where to get my latest essay? It’s great to have a backup in your disk and even better to have a VPN software around.

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Google seems to be running much faster these days. Continued by Google Wave, Google Japanese Input (waiting for the mac version of Google Chinese Pinyin Input) and now comes the Google Chrome for Mac users. It’s still in beta and seems quite simple and missing some features. I usually use Firefox as my default browser and seldom use others. But when I was working on my theme for the site I will use all kinds of browsers to check the compatibility of the theme. Anyway, check it out here if you have a mac.

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Google Wave finally goes into the preview version. Have noticed about this product for a while and eventually have a chance to taste it before official release. Wave offers great features and will sure become the next superstar on the web.

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Well, I haven’t realized that Google had released the Picasa 3 Beta until today. As a fans of this application, I download the software and test on my own laptop. You can see in the sreenshot above, the welcome screen is slightly different between the old one. When log in to the main screen of Picasa 3, it’s more or less the same as before despite the changes in the left sidebar.

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