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  • Play Google Voice voicemails in Gmail

    Posted on Sunday September 13th, 2009 at 05:11 in google software tips

    If you’re using Google Voice, you probably love the fact that you can get email notifications whenever a new voicemail arrives right? It’s definitely a cool service, but if you use Gmail as your email client, it gets even better! Wouldn’t it be...

  • Google syntax search tricks

    Posted on Friday September 4th, 2009 at 05:17 in google software tips

    Lately we have shown you how to search for content inside a protected website like Rapidshare.  Using a special syntax is a way to tell Google that you want to restrict your searches to certain elements or characteristics of Web pages. To see the co...

  • Turn off SeachWiki customized search results in Google

    Posted on Tuesday June 30th, 2009 at 05:01 in google software tips

    SearchWiki is a feature in Google Web Search that lets you customize the result pages manually by ranking, removing, and adding notes. It basically consists of a few extra buttons on the search result pages, including a green up arrow, an “x” to ...

  • Top 9 cool and useful Gmail lab features

    Posted on Saturday June 27th, 2009 at 05:38 in google software tips

    If you’re using Gmail and have not played around with the new Gmail Labs options, you’re definitely missing out on some cool features! Why aren’t these out of beta yet, you might ask? Who knows! It usually takes Google a long time to move from ...

  • How to use Google Reader to manage RSS feeds

    Posted on Saturday June 20th, 2009 at 05:08 in google software tips

    RSS feeds are way for us readers to subscribe to web providers like blogs and newsletters.  With so much good content out there on the Net, it is good to have a tool to manage RSS feeds.  With Google Reader you can save your RSS feeds to a central ...

  • Google Squared – View search results in spreadsheet format

    Posted on Thursday June 4th, 2009 at 05:16 in google software tips

    There’s been a lot of search engine news lately, starting with the release of the much hyped Wolfram Alpha, a computational search engine that aims to give you a direct answer to certain types of questions. Google has been working on a product call...

  • What’s new in Google Chrome 2?

    Posted on Thursday May 28th, 2009 at 05:23 in google software tips

    Eight months after releasing Google Chrome, a new version has finally been released, Chrome 2.  The new browser’s version is claimed to be even faster than its predecessor, which became a benchmark in browser speed last year. Over 300 bugs were al...

  • New Google features – Search Options and Rich Snippets

    Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 05:09 in google software tips

    Yesterday Google clued us in on a couple of new features they are working for the search engine at their annual Searchology event. Last year they released Universal Search and this year had some exciting new innovations. Firstly, one change you will ...

  • How to transfer emails between two Gmail accounts

    Posted on Monday May 11th, 2009 at 05:28 in google software tips

    Recently, a friend of mine created a new Gmail account that included her full name instead of a generic screen name she had been using for the last several months. She called me up and ask me how she could move emails from one Gmail account to anothe...

  • Search patents online using Google Patents

    Posted on Friday May 1st, 2009 at 05:10 in google software tips

    Do you think you have a noble idea worth patenting?  Whether it is a new recipe for cooking stew or a new banking scheme that will save the world economy – before publishing it with claims of ownership, it is a a good idea to check if that idea is...