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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 [...]

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 [...]

Teach your parents how to use the computer

January 21, 2011 0 comments

If your parents would like to learn to use the computer but if you are too busy to take time to teach them or are not near them, here is a perfect tool for that. Some of the folks at Google have been thoughtful enough to create teachparentstech.org. It provides you with a template for [...]

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 [...]

Find related images with Google

October 25, 2009 1 comment

Google is a great source to search for images. But sometimes when you are searching for a particular image, you find an image that is related to what you are looking for but not exactly the one you are looking for. However, Googles new labs feature called similar images, which you can find at similar-images.googlelabs.com, [...]

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, [...]

Make your GMail secure with Https

July 8, 2009 0 comments

By default Gmail uses just Http protocol to transfer data. While it may not be an issue if you are just a casual email user, for people whom security is the primary concern, http may not be good enough.

How to easily capture large maps from google maps

June 12, 2009 7 comments

Google Maps is a great place to find vastly detailed street maps. But it is basically an online tool and Google doesn’t offer a way to save a map. You could use the Print option to save the map as a pdf file but the limitation is that you would be able to print only [...]

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