Google

16 January 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Google Profiles added some features

Google Profiles has added a new feature called contact info where you can add details for your friends to see it. Actually the information that you add is not totally public and you can control the people who see it.

12 January 2009 ~ 3 Comments

Google Spreadsheets-Extract numeric values from cells

sort number in google spreadsheet

Many times you need to enter two different values into a cell sometimes both text and numbers. By default Google Spreadsheets aligns the numeric entry to the right and text entry to the left. But Spreadsheets will discard the numeric value and consider the whole input as a text value.

10 January 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Google changed its favicon

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Google has come up with new logo, precisely the favicon. Many of you must have noticed that the blue “g” sign that used to appear on your address bar (which is the Google’s favicon) just before the URL of Google, has been replaced by a motley favicon with a white “g” in the foreground and the colors blue green yellow and red as the background. Most of the Google services now have the same favicon.

09 January 2009 ~ 0 Comment

Camouflage your Picasa ID

hide picasa id

You can disguise your Picasa Identity if you do not want others to know your real Google ID. Your Google username is generally shown in your Picasa Web Album address. Like if your Gmail ID is something like grungestar@gmail.com then your Picasa Web Albums Address will look like this:

31 December 2008 ~ 3 Comments

The best places to work at

Creativity flourishes at places where people get to exercise their brains and body in a cool environment. Glassdoor, a site that surveys about the best workstations around the globe has come up with a list of 50 best companies to work at based on the ratings from the employees.

22 December 2008 ~ 0 Comment

Sound enabled in SearchWiki

searchwiki sound

Now you can remove search results in SearchWiki with a sound effect playing along. The sound is recorded by no-one but Google’s cofounder Sergy Brin.

16 December 2008 ~ 0 Comment

Google Friend Connect integrated with Twitter

If you are a blogger services like Google Friend Connect and Twitter can be a boon to you. These services have now been integrated.

03 December 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Don’t type, just speak up your keyword-Google Voice Search

Gone are the days when you used to type those small eye-straining letters on your mobile’s keypad to perform a search in Google. Things have changed and have gone a lot better now. Thanks to Google Apps with its new Voice Search Tool for Mobile Applications.

03 November 2008 ~ 0 Comment

Make your own toolbar and more with conduit

conduit

But if you run a blog or a website, you can also give away a toolbar to your visitors. Hey wait before you brood, you don’t need to be a programmer or empty your wallet for this. Conduit is that powerful tool which lets you do it in a few steps. Its as easy as having an icecream. And believe me, even if you think of paying price to create a toolbar for your site, it won’t be any powerful than the one you can create with conduit.