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Moving on from Google Reader to The Old Reader

With Google Reader getting discontinued from 1st of July, every user is now looking for best possible alternative. With best possible option, people are also looking for the ease of switching. The Old Reader stands good on both the points. I made that transition today using the following simple steps, which I would like to [...]

Quick Way to get Answers to Questions – Aardvark User Guide

With lots many sites offering answers to questions, competition is stiff. Top sites being Answers.com, Yahoo Answers, Rediff Q&A and Blurtit which get loads of traffic. I recently explored another such great service called Aardvark. Its a Google product. Aardvark lets you send your questions even through IM and mostly you will get the answer [...]

Galactic Inbox – The Gmail Game

Its a fun HTML5 game, intended to promote and show the capabilities of HTML5. Its created by Paul Truong, a Gmail team member. Its reminds me of the classic arcade game Galaga. Its a basic shooting game, with Gmail envelope logo as the hero and meteors as villains. If you are a regular Gmail, do [...]

Automatically Invite People to Chat with whom you Converse Frequently – Gmail

This is yet another cool feature of Gmail. It allows people to automatically send invite to those with whom they send emails frequently. For eg. if A sends emails to B frequently and B is not yet added in the A’s chat list, and if this feature is enabled then B will automatically get a [...]

Gmail Notifier – Check Gmail Messages Without any Browser

Gmail is one of the widely used services for email. With over 7 GB of space provided and lots of Google labs features integrated has made it the choice of millions. I have already discussed about the Firefox addon which lets you view the number of unread messages from the favicon itself. Today, I am [...]

Update Twitter Status From Google Talk With an IM

Why take pain to go to Twitter site to update your Twitter status when it can be done right from your favorite chat messenger, Google Talk. Yes, you can update your Twitter status with just an IM from Google Talk. You just need to add a bot. I have already discussed about English to Hindi [...]

10 Simple Google Search Tricks Everyone Should Know

Google is God of today’s internet. I needn’t say more, even a person just entered into the internet world is familiar with Google. Google’s power can be seen from the fact that it contributed to the 65% of the total web searches made in US as per comScore release. Although many people use Google for [...]

10 Most Useful Google Labs Features for Gmail users

Google Labs has provided a lot of features which has completely revolutionized the way Gmail worked. But how the name comes “Labs”? Its because these features are not fully ripe and still in testing phase. They may crash in between or simply stop working. But how someone can resist the really cool features it provides. [...]

How To Download Any Song for Free via Google

Today I am gonna show you, how to download almost any song for FREE. And what you need for it – any software or application? Nope, just Google would do the task. So, to start with, we have to formulate a Google search query as follows – song name intitle:”index.of” “parent directory” “size” “last modified” [...]

View Number of Unread Gmail Messages in Favicon

This is for Firefox users only.It is a Userscript, hence you need to install greasemonkey addon first to make it work.Install Greasemonkey from here. Now you need not change your tab to the Gmail to view the number of unread messages in the Gmail account. The script I am gonna show to you allows you [...]