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10 useful time-saving keyboard shortcuts for Chrome

10 useful time-saving keyboard shortcuts for Chrome
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 [...]
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Google mobile app to identify people’s faces

Google mobile app to identify people’s faces
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 [...]
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How to quickly view all unread messages in Gmail

How to quickly view all unread messages in Gmail
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 [...]
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Can Google search webpages from the future?

Can Google search webpages from the future?
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 [...]
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Teach your parents how to use the computer

Teach your parents how to use the computer
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 [...]
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Google Goggles can now solve Sudoku puzzles

Google Goggles can now solve Sudoku puzzles
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 [...]
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Chrome – Move tabs to the side on your widescreen monitor

Chrome – Move tabs to the side on your widescreen monitor
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 [...]
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Control Google Instant with your keyboard

Control Google Instant with your keyboard
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 [...]
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Track the spread of the Flu at Google.org

Track the spread of the Flu at Google.org
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 [...]
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Find related images with Google

Find related images with Google
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, [...]
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How to take an offline backup of Google Docs

How to take an offline backup of Google Docs
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, [...]
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How to easily capture large maps from google maps

How to easily capture large maps from google maps
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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