Cory Bohon

If you’re looking to brighten up your iGoogle (personalized homepage), then look no further than the new iGoogle Artist Themes. There are tons of themes from differing artists that’s sure to make your web browsing a bit happier.

Today, Google launched a preview release of “App Engine” which they are billing as a way to develop for the “web platform.” This is to help developers get web applications out to the public using Google’s infrastructure.

I cannot wait to see where this project goes. Google plans to give away 500MBs of storage and “enough bandwidth and CPU for 5 million monthly page views.”

Also note that Google plans to hold a conference dubbed the “Google I/O” conference on May 28 & 29, 2008. You can learn more about this conference and sign up on the conference website. This topic will no doubt be the talk of the interwebs for quite some time.

[Google Code Project Website]

Google launched Virgle today. “What is Virgle?” you may ask, well, to fully understand, you will need to watch the Google video above. If you are inclined to become a “Virgle Pioneer,” then visit the Google site.

A recent Macworld post suggests that Google may be allowing Google Docs users to work on their documents offline!

“The design goal is to create a seamless experience, with or without an Internet connection,” said Google Docs product manager, Ken Norton

According to the post, Google will be turning on this feature over the next few weeks; starting off with all word processor users. Google does have plans to extend this feature to the entire line of Google Apps, which includes: Calendar, Gmail, and other applications.