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You can have a quick view of the images sent to you as attachment in Gmail and then download it on the fly. But what if the attachments are not images but PDF files? Previously Google used to convert the PDF files to plain HTML with the images excluded for your quick view which didn’t look much appealing. But now you can view PDF, DOC and PPT attachments very easily from Gmail using the Google Docs Viewer.
Till now the desktop application Picasa used for uploading photos to Picasa Web Albums was only available for Widows XP and Vista. Mac users were relying upon a standalone Picasa Web Albums uploader and iPhoto album plugin for uploading photos to their Web Albums. But with the release of Picasa for Mac, millions of people using Picasa Web Albums around the globe will be benefitted.
You can read your feeds subscribed via Google Reader or access the Google Calendar’s features right from the interface of Gmail. Here’s how you do it.
Toksta is a browser based messenger service and you can integrate it on your website with ease. This service is completely free. You’ll need to add a few lines of code and you’re done. Or if you use wordpress, a plugin for wordpress is also available.
Power Twitter, a mozilla firefox addon developed by Narendra Rocherolle will amaze you if you are a regular Twitter user. Due to very simple functionalities in twitter, other services like Twitpic, Tweettree etc. have come up to add some flavor in it. You will find this addon to be handy and easy to use.
If you own a website, you must be using Analytics to track your visitors. If you don’t use it then you are missing a gem because a webmaster without analytics is a webmaster in the abyss. Hey don’t take my words gravely. Well if are just a beginner in the blogging world and aren’t getting much visitors to your site, you might not want to show your visitors status to others. But if your website is gaining popularity and more visitors everyday, you might want to show off your Analytics stats to your friends or other bloggers in your niche. Well if you want, here’s a nifty trick that can help you.
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.
Is your PC used by people other than you off and on? Do you want to know whta they do on the computer? Or know the interests of your kids and their favorite websites that make them stick to the computer for hours together?
Do you hate logging in to Twitter everytime you post a tweet or a media link? If yes then 2Tweet makes your work easy and all you’ll need to do is to send an email.
The layout of Gmail may sometimes bore you when you see it for days together. Don’t panic, you can customize it. Here’s how you give some style to your Gmail.
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.
Since cameras with video recording capabilities were introduced into mobile phones, a lot of people have begun using them for capturing some precious moments on the go. But before the revolution in the mobile video technology hit the scene, users were relying upon those low quality camera phones that captured extremely blurry movies with ragged details.
Google Docs has made life easier for many people by helping them edit and share their documents online. But can you imagine using Google docs for drawing? I found a video on Youtube that interested me a lot. Hope you’ll also be amazed.
Recently Youtube has added a new feature that allows the video owners to to see the number of unique visitors watching their video.
Since the public beta launch of Gmail, many people have switched to it as their primary email client from Yahoo, Hotmail and other email services while some still prefer to stick to the previous ones. Well you can customize Gmail in such a way that you’ll be using Gmail and at the same time healthily reading your messages in Yahoo and sending on behalf of your Yahoo address without even opening it.
Microsoft is going to launch the patch for the Internet Explorer’s bug called Zero Day Vulnerability. Because of this bug, several websites suffer from a malicious JavaScript, which targets Internet Explorer 7. It may execute a series of redirections to multiple URLs to finally connect to one of several different domains.
Word or Excel files to PDF and vice versa can be a clumsy job for some people. If that makes you sigh then don’t worry, feepdfconvert can be your all time friend for converting PDF files.
It is good to install the latest version of .NET framework because some programs might not be compatible with the older versions. But checking the version of .NET already installed on your computer and then downloading the latest version can be a bit tedious. But don’t worry, SmallestDotNet.com will make your work easy.
Well just besides tweeting about your daily chores, updates and learning about what the people in your network are doing, you can use Twitter to do a lot of useful things. Besides just gossiping, see how people are using Twitter for good reasons.
A great way to provide information to people is through videos. If you are a blogger, you must have embedded videos from Youtube, Revver, Vimeo etc. to your posts to create much interactive articles. Well the most ubiquitously seen embedded videos in most of the websites and blogs are the ones from Youtube. But the embed code provided by Youtube gives a very general video player which may or may not match the template of your blog.