For quite some time now I’ve been using the Google Toolbar and Google Bookmarks to store many of my preferred websites and resources.
I noticed about a week ago that there seemed to be a new feature in Firefox when I opened a new tab. Instead of being a blank tab, Google was presenting me with thumbnails of my most visited websites, recent bookmarks and even my recently closed tabs.
What a great feature and yet another reason to use Firefox and Google Toolbar. Neither of which seem to have the same features in Internet Explorer 7.
Image: Snagit of New Tab …read more

It’s been a very busy day today but I figure it’s time for me to throw my $.02 into the ring on my thoughts of the new Google browser, Chrome, that was released today. I’ve just now had a chance to download and install it and I’ll share just a few of my initial reactions.
My first thought that came during the setup process was why in the world do I not have the option to import bookmarks from my Google Bookmarks? I could only specify to import them from Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer. Do what?
Hand-in-hand with that …read more

In my previous post I was wondering how in the world to change the icons on my Google Toolbar. Then Greg gave me exactly what I was looking for in the comments!
Before he gave me the solution my Google Toolbar looked like this:

After the solution, it looks like this:

EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR IN THE SOLUTION!
For anyone that’s interested and has these same icons in their toolbar, here’s the Base64 code you’ll need to paste into the configuration.
Custom twitter icon for Google Toolbar

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</icon>

 
Custom GoDaddy icon for Google Toolbar

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</icon>

Custom TinyURL icon for Google Toolbar

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I’m a big fan of Google and one of the products of theirs that I use regularly is the Google Toolbar. I’ve started customizing it more than just accepting the standard set of icons that they recommend, but I’ve run into a bit of a snag.
As you can see from the image above, I’ve got three icons that are all the same, but they’re for three different things.
Does anyone know how in the world I can change the icon that’s being displayed there?
It’s really annoying. I want to achieve something like Facebook uses (the icon next to them) that …read more