Two Mad Geeks

Google’s App Engine is the latest service to reduce operating costs for Web startups.

A few weeks ago, Google launched a test version of App Engine, an infrastructure service aimed specifically at Web developers. The product is one of several offering cheap infrastructure to Web businesses, so that they can rent storage and processing power and avoid expensive hardware purchases.

Link: Technology Review

You’ve finally decided to move all your email online to Google’s web-based service, Gmail. Great! But what about messages still going to your old email address(es)? You don’t have to notify all your contacts that your email address has changed—again. Gmail is not only an email host, it’s an email client, which can fetch mail from any number of external services and consolidate it all right there in your Gmail inbox. Here’s how to move your email to Gmail without missing a single message from an existing account.

Link: Lifehacker

Developed for the conceptual stages of design, Google SketchUp is a powerful yet easy-to-learn 3D software tool that combines a simple, yet robust tool-set with an intelligent drawing system that streamlines and simplifies 3D design. From simple to complex, conceptual to realistic, Google SketchUp enables you to build and modify 3D models quickly and easily. If you use Google Earth, Google SketchUp allows you to place your models using real-world coordinates and share them with the world using the Google 3D Warehouse.

Link: Google SketchUp

Your $5.50 donation will buy a tree, lifelong care and feeding, scientific study of the forest that it becomes a part of, and the exact coordinates of where that tree is on our big beautiful Earth. Linking that data with Google Earth shows the precise location (on the island of Borneo) of the tree, as well as all of its hundreds of neighbors.

Link: EcoGeek