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How to Setup Gmail for Offline Viewing

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Google Labs has now released the long awaited Offline viewing option for its famous Email client Gmail. So now you can sync your mail and read it offline if you wish. It does require you to install Google Gears found here. and it will only sync you newest 10,000 messages but that should be enough [...]

Google’s Most Popular Web Searches of 2008

Google is out with this years Zeitgeist for 2008 showing the most popular searched for items.
In Googles words:
In compiling the 2008 Year-End Zeitgeist, our search team studied the aggregation of billions of search queries people typed in to the Google search box. Except where noted, all of these search terms are most popular for 2008. [...]

Google URL’s for Mobile Phones

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If you use a cell phone with internet access and use Google services check out this list of URL’s optimized for the iPhone, Android and Webkit based browsers. If you use a different browser on your phone check it out anyway it may still work.

How to Backup your Gmail Account

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Many people have switched to web mail for the ease of access and Gmail is one of the best, but unlike desktop software like Outlook, Outlook Express or Windows Mail all your messages are now stored on Googles servers and not on your local computer. What happens if Google has a problem or deletes your [...]

Unlock the Power of Google Search

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Here are a few tips you can use to unlock the power of Google search.
1. To use Google’s built-in calculator function, simply enter the calculation you’d like done into the search box and press enter. 1+1 enter.
2. To see the weather for many U.S. and worldwide cities, type “weather” followed by the city and state, [...]

Find out What the Candidates Said with In Quotes

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Here’s a great new site from Google called In Quotes that lets you compare what the candidates said on various issues in the news. Choose the Presidential candidates or many other political figures in the US then type in a issue you want to know about and click search. Check it out.

Google Launches Chrome a New Web Browser

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Google launched a new web browser called Chrome yesterday, so far it seems to load web pages fasted than Firefox 3 and IE 7 and is displaying pages with no problems on every site I visited. It imported all my bookmarks without a problem. It’s a free download from Google.
One of the nice features of [...]

How to Stop Calendar Spam in its Tracks

 
 
Just when you thought you finally started to get the upper hand on spam in your inbox the insidious spammers have come with a new twist. Calendar Spam, unwanted meeting requests that popup in your calendar. If it hasn’t happened to you yet, O-boy it will. Here’s what happens.

Google Hack For finding MP3 songs

  Here’s a quick tip for finding mp3 music using Google search.
Paste this text in Google to find the song or artist your looking for.
intitle:index.of “mp3″ +”name” -htm -html -php -asp “last modified”
All you need to do is replace name with the song or artist you want to find. In many cases you can download [...]

Google Earth’s Flight Simulator

Last week Google updated Google Earth to include the Sky above you and it looks like they also included a unpublished Flight Simulator, you can take off and fly around the world. You need version # 4.2.0180 you can get it here http://earth.google.com/sky/index.html
It work on Windows Mac and Linux. To get the Flight Sim working [...]