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How to easily add Google Map to a web page or blog post

August 15, 2012 0 comments

YourMapMaker is an easy-to-use mapping facility that allows you to easily add Google Maps to websites, emails or blogs posts. It requires no programming knowledge or expertise, and it will take you just a few seconds to create a map. Just go to YourMapMaker.com and under ‘Create Map’, enter a name for your [...]

10 useful time-saving keyboard shortcuts for Chrome

January 2, 2012 0 comments

Using keyboard shortcuts to access features of application can be a great timesaver. If you spend a lot of time on the web and Chrome happens to be your browser of choice, then here are some keyboard shortcuts that could save you a lot of time. 1. Ctrl+Shift+N – Opens a new window in Chrome’s [...]

Google mobile app to identify people’s faces

March 31, 2011 0 comments

You meet someone in the restaurant and want to know his/her personal profile. You don’t even have to ask him. Just take your mobile phone and snap a picture of his/her face and Google will give you the details. Well, this could be a reality in the near future. Google plans to introduce a mobile [...]

Read Google News in a Timeline

March 24, 2011 0 comments

Google News is a great place for finding out the happenings around the globe from a variety of sources. But all those news stuff could be somewhat overwhelming. Wouldn’t it be nice if the news items could be organized into a more manageable form. How about something like a timeline? Well, the guys at Google [...]

Test your knowledge of world geography with Google maps game

March 22, 2011 0 comments

Google maps offers a fun feature called “Where in the world” game which lets you test your knowledge of world geography by challenging you to identify a random set of countries using the mapping service’s satellite imagery. It is a labs feature and so you need to enable the feature in the settings. First go [...]

How to quickly view all unread messages in Gmail

March 19, 2011 2 comments

If you receive a lot of messages in your Gmail, oftentimes you would find that you have mails in your archive that you have not read and have also not labeled. Your inbox link would indicate count of the unread messages inbox but they may not be visible in the front page. Unfortunately, Google does [...]

Can Google search webpages from the future?

February 9, 2011 0 comments

I know Google can do a lot of things and that it can do them wonderfully well. But I never knew that Google can index posts from the future!! Well not really. Today, the 9th day of February 2011, I was searching for “total number of countries in the world” on Google and here is [...]

Google Goggles can now solve Sudoku puzzles

January 12, 2011 0 comments

Google Goggles is a tool for Android mobile phones, which lets you use pictures taken with your mobile phone to search the web. It’s ideal for things that aren’t easy to describe by words. Just open the app and snap a picture, and Goggles will display the result. You can use it to recognize pictures [...]

Chrome – Move tabs to the side on your widescreen monitor

January 7, 2011 0 comments

If you have a widescreen monitor and are using Google Chrome browser, you can move the tabs from the top to the left-hand side. This is an experimental feature and works on the Canary or Dev version of Chrome. In the address bar, enter ‘about:flags’ (without the quotes) and hit Enter. Chrome warns you about [...]

Sign into multiple Google accounts in the same browser

January 2, 2011 0 comments

If you use multiple Google accounts – say one for gmail another for adsense and yet another for Reader, you would know that you can sign into only one account at a time in a browser. Of course you could use separate browsers for each of the account, but it is hassle to do so. [...]

Control Google Instant with your keyboard

January 1, 2011 0 comments

Google Instant is a remarkably faster way of searching as it displays the search results as you type and also suggests the search term for you. But you can make it work even faster by using the keyboard instead of your mouse. To enter the search term, type in part or all of a word [...]

Track the spread of the Flu at Google.org

October 30, 2009 0 comments

We are all familiar with Google.com. But did you know about Google.org? Google.org is Google’s charity branch working towards all sorts of good causes including renewable energy, improving public services and using technology to predict and prevent possible threats like climate change and pandemics. It is part of their efforts to track the spread of [...]

Firefox – Keep your favorite Google doodle all year round

October 29, 2009 0 comments

Google loves to get creative with its logo on holidays and special occasions by customizing their logo for a day. But what if you love one of those logos so much that you want to keep it all through the year. Favorite doodle is a Greasemonkey script, which though developed by a Google employee, is [...]

How to take an offline backup of Google Docs

August 4, 2009 0 comments

If you are a regular Google Docs user, then you might have considered keeping a copy of all of your documents offline. GDocBackup is a free utility that will download a copy of your online files to your hard disk for you. Run the software and it will check whether a back-up exists. If not, [...]

How to get Google Calendar on your desktop

August 1, 2009 1 comment

Google calendar can be a great way to keep track of your events. But since it is web based, you need to be online to keep the website open to check your events. This can be annoying if you do not have an always-on internet connection.

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