Posts Tagged ‘google’

Google Presentations Now Live

Under wraps for a few months now, Google recently released their Powerpoint knockoff, Presentations.

You can access it by going to your Google Docs and creating a New > Presentation.

Adding and editing slides is very easy and as simple as you would expect from Google. Importing Powerpoint files is a breeze, but don’t expect any fancy transitions just yet.

Like Google Docs and Spreadsheet, group editing and revision logs are… » Continue

September 19 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: google | 3 comments»

Keyword Google Music Search

Here’s a quick browser keyword to add to the list. This one will make it mega easy to find MP3s hidden amongst open internet directories.

Create a bookmark in Firefox

Use the URLs in this text file as the bookmark location in your Firefox bookmarks

Assign a keyword to it - eg. music

Type the keyword (eg. music) followed by the search term (eg. beatles) directly into the address

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July 18 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: google, music, search | 38 comments»

Use Google Beta Search Shortcuts from Firefox

Google Beta Shortcuts is the same Google search, but with some handy Google-Reader-like keyboard shortcuts.

Why not use this fantastic feature for all your searches? It’s a simple Smart Keyword function for Firefox that you may have already set up. But for those who haven’t, try it out and cut out a little bit more of that mouse.

Make Firefox Quick Search Use Google’s Beta Search Keys -… » Continue

July 10 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: google, shortcuts | 3 comments»

Google Docs Gets A Facelift

More than just looking pretty, Google Docs & Spreadsheets has gotten an organizational facelift.

Now instead of just tagging your documents, you can drag and drop everything into folders. You will also notice anything you’ve tagged previously, is now in a corresponding folder. The Google team have additionally added a Google Suggest-esque seach to your docs - but I’ve, personally, never seen much use in this.

It’s a welcome change to make… » Continue

June 27 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: google | 5 comments»

Increasing your Credibility in 30 days: How to Brag without Bragging

The meek have not inherited the earth and it appears they won’t anytime soon. The people who get ahead are the ones who know how to brag without coming across the wrong way. There is no one right way to do this but having enhanced credibility paves the way to becoming a successful braggart rather than a boor.

At its simplest, building credibility in the public realm involves creating… » Continue

June 6 2007 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: credibility, google, writing | 15 comments»

Google Gears powers Reader with Offline Function

Google has released a new extension called Google Gears for both Firefox 1.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+. The extension itself won’t do you any good. But with application like Google Reader, which already utilizes Gears’ API, will let you to take your data offline - in case of Google Reader, it means you can read your latest feeds (2000 items) without any Internet connection. This is such a great… » Continue

May 31 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: google, offline, software, web | 4 comments»

20 Ways to Use Gmail Filters

One of the coolest things about Gmail is its filters — set up properly, filters can add loads of functionality to your already-powerful Gmail account. Save time and space, rid your inbox of unwanted emails, and turn your Gmail into a multi-functional tool with simple filters.

There are some limitations to Gmail’s filters that I’d like to see improved in the future, including:

the inability to mark a post as read
the

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May 29 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: gmail, google, gtd | 105 comments»

Cool Things You Can Do With Google

No one would argue the fact that Google is one of the most useful sites on the Internet. Unfortunately, most people only use about 3% of its power.

Smart Google users, on the other hand, know how to turn Google into a quick calculator, translate foreign sites, create their own customized search engine, and search for movie reviews and stock quotes with special search queries. In this article, we’ll show… » Continue

May 21 2007 | By Kim | Tagged: google, search, tips | 69 comments»

Find A Place Between Us

Trouble deciding which cafe to meet friends? This little Google Map addon will show you the spots right around the middle ground of two starting points.

This way no one travels further than the other, and you aren’t ‘umm’ing and ‘aah’ing about which Starbucks to meet at.

a.placebetween.us - [US only]… » Continue

May 14 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: google, googlemaps | 3 comments»

Simply Google from one page

For those people who can’t be bothered learning the shortcuts or creating smart keywords, this page puts everything Google has to offer on one page.

A year ago Chris McEvoy created a version of this site that put all of Google’s little secrets up front. Here is the 2007 revamp. Particularly good for anyone not familiar with Google yet.

Simply Google by Confusability.com… » Continue

May 14 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: google | 5 comments»

10 Smart Hacks for Google Reader

If you’re like me, then you probably have a serious case of information overload. In today’s web of information, it’s easy to get caught up in the constant news stream. In fact, I have over 50 RSS feeds in my feed reader. Talk about a mental meltdown.

So, what do you do when you wake up to thousands of new items in your feed reader, with hundreds of items which
don’t… » Continue

May 10 2007 | By Kim | Tagged: google, googlereader, Productivity, rss | 63 comments»

What Google Needs

Google has some insanely useful applications, the top of their field in many cases — and by mastering these tools, you can become a productivity ninja. But these apps — Gmail, Gcal, Google Reader, Google Docs, et al — they aren’t perfect.

Don’t get me wrong — I love these apps. They are awesome, and I couldn’t bring myself to use anything else. But although they’ve come out with some… » Continue

May 4 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: google, software | 135 comments»

Track Internet History On Any Computer

I previously wrote about Google’s new Web History as a handy tool to bookmark sites in retrospect [rather than on the fly] and monitor internet usage through RSS. [see Google Web History for Bookmarking & Monitoring].

However, the main feature of Web History is to record the sites you visit, ala your browser’s history.

Always on the Web

The first benefit of using this instead of your regular history… » Continue

May 2 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: bookmark, google, history | 5 comments»

Google Web History for Bookmarking & Monitoring

I’ve become quite interested in Google’s new Web History feature.

What it does is essentially record every site you visit and is enabled through the Google Toolbar for Firefox. So it’s like your browser’s History, but online and reaching as far back as when you enabled it.

Google was already basically tracking what I was doing since I had Google’s PageRank feature enabled in the toolbar, so I’m not too… » Continue

April 23 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: bookmark, google, history | 2 comments»

Get Productive With Google Talk, Split Browser and Firefox

If you’re like me you’re probably using multiple VoIP/ VoIM (Voice over Internet Protocol/ Voice over Instant Messenger) software clients to communicate with friends, family and business clients. I use all of Google Talk, Skype, AIM Pro, Yahoo Messenger, and Live/MSN Messenger nearly every day. That not only gets annoying, it also uses up loads of computer RAM, leaving little memory for other applications. It’s also difficult to work in… » Continue

April 19 2007 | By Raj | Tagged: google, Productivity, software, web | 11 comments»

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