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Gmail has unarguably become the most user friendly and feature packed email service out there. The handy plugins developed by Gmail labs, the Voice and Video chat feature etc. are all very popular and have somewhat become a part of our lives. Gmail with its ever increasing array of new and useful features has recently rolled out a very handy functionality, the “Call Phone” feature. This lets you make a call to normal phones with the aid of your headphone and microphone.
Google Analytics, has recently launched an asynchronous tracking feature that will hopefully prove fruitful to large sites and even small ones should get benefited. The Asynchronous tracking feature boasts a significant reduction in website loading time upon its implementation.
A handy piece of information on the internet sometimes isn’t as easy to understand as always. If you are a blogger or an article writer you understand the importance of valued readers and you wouldn’t want any of them to bounce off just because they don’t understand the language your article is written in. The best option is to add a translation gadget to your site.
Photosketch Internet Image Montage is an online application which gives you a complete realistic picture after you draw the basic object sketches and label them.
Calcoolate lets us use a virtual scientific calculator online. You can directly input mathematical commands from the keyboard. The tool looks clean as there are no digits, just a handful of buttons for mathematical functions like sin, cos, tan, log etc. Its best for doing simple calculations.
Playing an untuned guitar makes no sense, however great a musician you are. Tuning a guitar can be easy for professionals but can be a bit cheesy for noobs. Each note should be got right as a single ill-note can make the whole music awful. Well you can also tune your guitar online.
Google announced Google Web Elements at the I/O developer conference. It lets you easily add various Google elements to your site. Google Web Elements allows you to easily embed a Spreadsheet, Maps or News Results to your site.
What does your Twitter page look like? You must be using one of those themes provided by Twitter or have added your own background. But simply uploading an image for a background won’t look much impressive without adding proper elements in right places. Twitter just allows you to change the background image and the colors of the text. So, if you want to design a theme for your Twitter profile, you should go for FreeTwitterDesigner.
You might want to say good morning to all your followers in Twitter as soon as you wake up. Or you’d like to remind your friends of the league matches every weekend. But everytime you may not remember to do these. But do you know that that you can also schedule your tweets to be posted on a precise date and time? Sites like FutureTweets and Twuffer let you easily schedule your tweets.
Sometimes you may get emails in other languages like Czech, Chinese etc. You think such messages to be spam and neglect them. But sometimes, you may also get emails of your interest in your Inbox that are not in your native language. Now if you wish to read such emails, you won’t have to go to Google Translator or Babelfish. Google Labs now has a new plugin that lets you get your emails translated without having to leave your Gmail.
If you are a graphic or web designer you should understand the importance of color combinations. Nice colors and color combinations are much coveted among graphic designers, interior designers and landscapers. You must have used Kuler in Photoshop CS4. ColoRotate is a similar kind of online color palette creator that lets you browse through the color palettes, create new palettes and share them with the online community.
OCR stands for “Optical Character Recognition”. It is the process of recognizing texts in a scanned image by a computer. OCR software are very useful and there are lots of them. OCR is also available through Microsoft Office Document Imaging. But you might not get a software anytime on your demand. But you can also have free OCR service online through some websites.
Encryption is basically a process of transforming data (referred to as plaintext) using an algorithm (called cipher) to make it unreadable to anyone except for those possessing special knowledge, usually referred to as a key. The encrypted information or the ciphertext is the end result that can be changed to the original form using decryption process (the reverse of encryption). Encryption has its wide use when it comes to transferring data securely. There are some online text encryptors as well that are available for free.
The interface of Twitter’s homepage http://twitter.com is not that sophisticated for power twitterers. There are no dedicated buttons for retweeting, no options for uploading a photo and posting its link and so on. Due to this, many people prefer using other third party clients which provide a plethora of useful features. Desktop clients like Tweetkdeck, Twhirl, browser plugins like Power Twitter for Mozilla Firefox, etc. are a lot more preferable. Well you can also have a lot of powerful options with a script called Troy’s Twitter Script.
You share the sites of your interests with your friends and colleagues. Generally you share them over sites like Twitter, Facebook or via IMs. Well if you like, you can also send a whole webpage to your friend via email. Emailtheweb can help you do it.
The latest version of Microsoft Office Excel till date i.e. Excel 2007. The extension of files created or edited with Excel 2007 are saved as .xlsx files. This kind of file is not supported by the earlier versions of Microsoft Excel i.e. by Excel 2003. This kind of file was also not supported by Google docs. But recently they have added a feature letting you to upload Excel 2007 files.
You must have seen those flash ads on some sites with an avatar speaking the words from the advertiser and responding to the mouse movements as you move it along. Well such kind of ads seem quite impressive and eye-catching. Even if you aren’t an advertiser, you may want to make such talking lively avatars to give some cool message to your blog readers or send to your friends. You can create such avatars in a snap without using Flash. Voki helps you do it.
You must have been a comic crazy when you were a child. I won’t need to tell that comics give a quick message to the reader in a very amusing way. But making comics of your own must have been a thing that you wouldn’t have ever thought of. Well if you wish to make short and sweet comic strips to show off to your friends without having much knowledge in drawing, then Stripgenerator is there for you.
POP3 service has now been enabled in Hotmail as well which Gmail has been giving since long. Currently, this service is not available for users all around the world but Microsoft plans to enable the POP3 service in Hotmail for all the countries very soon. At present, the service is available for Hotmail users in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.