Category | Google/Gmail

Experience Google Earth in your browser

Posted on 30 May 2008

Google has recently released a browser plug-in that lets you experience Google Earth inside a browser.

The new plugin is accompanied by an API that web developers can use to easily incorporate Google Earth into their applications which can then be embedded in web pages. The Google Earth API is a free beta service, available for […]

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Google’s Hindi Translation - More fun than useful

Posted on 26 May 2008

Google online translation engine has recently been upgraded to include 10 new languages, one of which is Hindi. That takes the total languages supported to 23. The newly featured languages include Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.
I was particularly interested to see how well the Google engine translates English to […]

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Google Online Spreadsheets Get New Gadgets

Posted on 22 March 2008

Google seems to be never resting. On Wednesday, the powerful company launched a set of brand new tools that will help users to build gadgets, that is small Web applications that can display data from the company’s online spreadsheet application.
Google offers its new Gadgets-in-Docs and Visualization API as a platform in which any interested person […]

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Google Experimental - Check out Google’s latest ideas

Posted on 28 January 2008

Google is a wonderful tool as it is. But there is always room for improvement.
Google is constantly experimenting with new ideas and features targeted towards improving the users’ search experience.
Here is a brief look at some of the experiments presently on.

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Fastest way to import your contacts into Gmail

Posted on 01 December 2007

If you have recently switched to Gmail and would like to transfer all your contacts from your existing e-mail program (client) to Gmail, the fastest way to do this is to use the ‘comma separated values’ (.csv). You need to first export your existing contacts as .csv file and then import it into Gmail.
Exporting the […]

Using Gmail as your Universal Inbox

Posted on 29 September 2007

Nowadays most people have more than one email account. If one of yours is a Gmail account, you can use it as your primary inbox to check all your POP3 accounts in your Gmail browser window. But do remember that you can check only other POP3 accounts only. You won’t be able to check Yahoo […]

‘Gmail - Unusual usage of account’ - What’s happening!?

Posted on 11 September 2007

I have been using Gmail for about 3 years now and have been very happy with it.
Until now.
During the last one week I have experienced something strange with Gmail. On 3 occasions, I was automatically logged out of Gmail and when I tried to log in again I was greeted by the following message.

The message […]

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