The holy grail of bookmarks synchronization has arrived! I googled for “bookmarks sync” hoping there’d be an update to this old Firefox extension for such.
To my delight, Google has put out a marvelous one. Check out the Google Browser Sync tool. I did it between WinXP and my Mac and it worked flawlessly!
Instead of dialing 411 or even having to print out directions, check out the Google SMS service. I was recently looking for a restaurant in the area and my friend said, “just text Google for the name of the restaurant followed by a nearby zipcode and it’ll give you the phone number and address back”.
So I tried it. I texted Google at GOOGL (there’s no ‘E’). This corresponds to the number 46645. I entered:
Cafe India 98101
Though I had the zipcode wrong (it was in the same city though, so we just picked my friend’s home zip code) – this listing came up. He was right. Address, phone number – it was all there. Bingo.
Very cool.