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I was getting caught up on Digg.com and came across an extension for Firefox that allows anyone to sync your browser settings across multiple computers.

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.

I just think this is awesome. It’ll help me keep the same bookmarks on all 5 computers (home PC, home Mac, home laptop, work laptop, and work PC) and the copy of Firefox that I have on my SanDisk U3 USB Drive.

Technorati Tags: Firefox, Google

Google has launched a blog search.

Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and we hope Blog Search will help our users to explore the blogging universe more effectively, and perhaps inspire many to join the revolution themselves. Whether you’re looking for Harry Potter reviews, political commentary, summer salad recipes or anything else, Blog Search enables you to find out what people are saying on any subject of your choice.

Your results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger; our blog index is continually updated, so you’ll always get the most accurate and up-to-date results; and you can search not just for blogs written in English, but in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and other languages as well.

I tried it out and it works pretty well. Under the name of the link, it tells you when that entry was made. If it’s less than 24 hours ago, it’ll tell you how many hours ago. If it’s more than 24 hours ago, it’ll tell you what date it was posted but not the time. You can get your results as an RSS or Atom feed with 10 or 100 results so instead of going back to Blog Search and searching for something months from now, you can subscribe to the RSS/Atom feed, and see when it gets updated.

Technorati Tags: Blog, Google

Google has come out with a beta of their online mapping service similar to MapQuest. Google Maps is a lot nicer looking than MapQuest. It looks and feels like a mapping program similar to Microsoft Streets & Trips or DeLorme Street Atlas but you don’t need it installed on your PC.

Technorati Tags: Google, Maps