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 for most people.  Then its pretty easy to enable the offline settings. It works in Internet Explorer and Firefox, but if you set it up on Firefox the decide to switch to IE you will need to perforn the install again and vise versa.

The first thing to do is see if you were offered it yet. Google say’s its rolling it out over the next few days so if you don’t have it yet you will be shortly.

So here goes, Head over to your inbox and click the little green beaker to get to the Labs section.

Look for Offline and click Enable.

Scroll doen to the bottom of the page and click Save Changes.

You will now be taken back to your inbox. At the top of the page next to Settings you will now notice a new option called Offline. Go ahead and give it a click.

You can now click next to install offline access.

Place a check mark in the I trust this site to use Google Gears. If you click Deny and want to change you mind later you will need to sign out of Gmail then sign back in and start the process over. This will give Google permission to use your hard drive to store your mail.

Create a shortcut next so you an access Gmail offline.

Now the installation will complete.

And the Synchronizing begins, depending on the amount of mail you have and the speed of your internet connection this could take a few minutes or in my case about an hour.  The good news is you can still use Gmail while your waiting.

Now you’re all set of offline use.

And now back to your setting screen.

That all there is to it.

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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. All of the search queries we studied are anonymous — no personal information was used.

Here are the top 10 Global searchs.

1. Sarah Palin
2. Beijing 2008
3. Facebook login
4. Tuenti
5. Heath Ledger
6. Obama
7. Nasza Klasa
8. Wer Kennt Wen
9. Euro 2008
10. Jonas Brothers

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.

Google Home page: http://www.google.com/m/gp

iGoogle, your custom home page: http://www.google.com/ig/i

Gmail: http://mail.google.com/mail/x/gdlakb-/gp/

Google Reader, RSS feeds: http://www.google.com/reader/i/

Google Calendar: http://www.google.com/calendar/gp

Google News: http://www.google.com/m/news/i

Google Talk: http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/m

Google Doc’s: http://docs.google.com/m?iphone=true

Google App’s home page: http://www.google.com/m/a/”YOUR_DOMAIN”

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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 account. (don’t laugh its happened) Here’a a program I found that will backup all your mail and attachments to your local computer and the backups are able to be opened in many desktop programs. The App is called Gmail Backup you can download it here.

After installing the program enter your Login info and password then choose where you want the backup stored then in the date field choose the date of your oldest email then click Backup, its that easy.

As you can see above you can also restore a backup if need be. Enjoy.

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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, U.S. zip code, or city and country.

3. To see current market data for a given company or fund, type the ticker symbol into the search box. On the results page, you can click the link to see more data from Google Finance.

4. To see the time in many cities around the world, type in “time” and the name of the city.

5. If you’re looking for results from Google Book Search, you can enter the name of the author or book title into the search box and we’ll return any book content we have as part of your normal web results. You can click through on the record to view more detailed info about that author or title.

Ready For a few more.

6. You can use Google to convert between many different units of measurement of height, weight, and mass among others. Just enter your desired conversion into the search box and we’ll do the rest.

7. To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word “define” then a space, then the word(s) you want defined. To see a list of different definitions from various online sources, you can type “define:” followed by a word or phrase. Note that the results will define the entire phrase.

8. Google’s spell checking software automatically checks whether your query uses the most common spelling of a given word. If it thinks you’re likely to generate better results with an alternative spelling, it will ask “Did you mean: (more common spelling)?”. Click the suggested spelling to launch a Google search for that term.

9. If you’re looking for a store, restaurant, or other local business you can search for the category of business and the location and we’ll return results right on the page, along with a map, reviews, and contact information.

10. To see home listings in a given area type “housing”, “home”, or “real estate” and the name of a city or a U.S. zip code into the Google search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google Search button. Clicking the “Go” button on the results page will display details of individual homes that Google has indexed.

A couple more.

11. To see flight status for arriving and departing U.S. flights, type in the name of the airline and the flight number into the search box. You can also see delays at a specific airport by typing in the name of the city or three-letter airport code followed by the word “airport”.

12. To use our built-in currency converter, simply enter the conversion you’d like done into the Google search box and we’ll provide your answer directly on the results page.

13. Looking for a map? Type in the name or U.S. zip code of a location and the word “map” and we’ll return a map of that location. Clicking on the map will take you to a larger version on Google Maps.

14. You can track packages by typing the tracking number for your UPS, Fedex or USPS package directly into the search box. We’ll return results that include quick links to easily track the status of your shipment.

15. To search for U.S. patents, enter the word “patent” followed by the patent number into the Google search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google Search button.

16. To see the geographical location for any U.S. telephone area code, just type the three-digit area code into the Google search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google Search button.

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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.

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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 Chrome is the way it handles its tabs, each one is run as it’s own instance in Windows, what that means is when you look in the task manager each tab has its own entry so when you close a tab all that memory is released, also if a page crashes it won’t crash the whole program.

On the down side I miss my Firefox extensions and don’t think I can use it in place of Firefox until those features are added, But judge for yourself and check out the comic below.

Look under the hood of Google Chrome in this comics interpretation of key engineering decisions, by Scott McCloud.

Chrome also has a privacy mode, so that nothing that occurs in that window is ever logged on your computer. aka the “porn mode”

The default homepage also presents you with a kind of speed dial feature, like the one Opera has. On that page you will see your most visited webpages as 9 screenshot thumbnails. You will also see a few of your recent searches and your recently bookmarked pages, as well as recently closed tabs.

From Googles site:

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

One box for everything
Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.

Thumbnails of your top sites
Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.

Shortcuts for your apps
Get desktop shortcuts to launch your favorite web applications.

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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.

Calendar spam arrives like all other spam, as an unwanted e-mail. But the problem is it also shows up as a meeting request in your calendar. That means at the time specified in the spam message, time on your calendar will be blocked off, triggering an annoying reminder at the appointed hour.

Your spam filter may still catch it and move it to the junk mail folders. but ignoring calendar spam doesn’t make it go away. Because of the way Microsoft Outlook and Google calendars work, unanswered calendar spam will usually find its way into your calendar.

To stop Microsoft Outlook from automatically accepting meeting requests follow the steps below.

1. In Outlook click Tools > options.
2. Calendar options.
3. Resource scheduling.
4. Remove the check mark next to Automatically accept meeting requests and process cancellations.
5. Click Ok 3 times and your set.

Outlook Express users don’t need to worry because Express doesn’t have a calendar.

To Fix Gmail

1. In Gmail’s calendar go Settings > General tab.
2. In the  “Automatically add invitations to my calendar”, Put a ? in No, only show invitations to which I have responded
3. Click save.

As much as my Yahoo mail account is a spam magnet I haven’t had that problem yet.
if anyone has drop me a comment and we’ll try and get it fixed.

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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 the song to your computer and bam free music. ( always scan the files before you open them with a good anti-virus first.) You can also change “mp3? to avi to find movies.

To download the files:

In IE7 right click and choose > Save target as.

In Firefox right click and choose > Save link as.

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It work on Windows Mac and Linux. To get the Flight Sim working for the first time Open Google Earth the press Ctrl+Alt+A for windows for Mac Command+Option+A

They only include 2 aircraft now a F-16 and a SR-22 and only a few airports to take off from but its a cool start. Here’s a look at the takeoff screen.

After you run the Flight Simulator for the first time you can restart it by starting Google Earth then go to Tools > Enter Flight Simulator

Here are the keyboard shortcuts

Google keyboard shortcuts

And another screen shot.

Update 9-3-07 Here’s a video from the  Google Earth Blog 

Update 9-1-07 Here’s a video of it in action by Eric S. over at http://www.insidedesign.info/blog/

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With about a hundred million stars and two hundred million galaxies, Sky in Google Earth lets you explore the heavens like never before.

With Earth’s new Sky feature, you can:

Zoom in to distant galaxies and nebulae

View constellations and the movements of the planets

Learn about the lifecycle of a star and different kinds of galaxies

Create and share your own imagery, placemarks and more

When you use Sky, the view is above your current location on Earth. For example, if you go to Paris and open Sky, you will see what is in the sky above Paris at the current time. When you exit Sky, you return to this same location.

(From Google)

Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. Gears provides three key features:

* A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server
* A database, to store and access data from within the browser
* A worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background

System requirements:
• Windows XP/Vista
• Firefox 1.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+

Google Gears (BETA) is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux
This is an early release of Google Gears (BETA). After installation, please pay attention to the warning dialogs and grant access only to websites that you trust.

Google Gears is currently an early-access developers’ release. It is not yet intended for use by real users in production applications at this time.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=8770

Get Google Notebook [here]

1. Why would I want to use Google Notebook?

With Google Notebook, you can browse, clip, and organize information from across the web in a single online location that’s accessible from any computer. Planning a trip? Researching a product? Just add clippings to your notebook. You won’t ever have to leave your browser window.

2. How do I get started?

Simple. Just sign in to the Google Notebook homepage with your Google Accounts username and password, then download the Google Notebook browser extension (if you haven’t already). As soon as you restart your browser, you’ll see a Google Notebook icon in the bottom-right corner of your browser window. Click on this icon to open your mini Google Notebook, where you can save all the clips of content you want.

Organize your notes.
Keep all your notes organized by creating multiple notebooks for different subjects or by dividing a single notebook into several sections. You can also easily rearrange your notes by dragging-and-dropping them from one section or notebook to another.

Add your own thoughts.
Click the “New note” button and start typing to add text notes to your notebook, or click the “Add comment” link within a note to add comments to clippings you’ve collected.

Search the full text of your notebooks.
Easily find any information in your notebooks using the search box at the top of the page.

http://labs.google.com/goog411/index.html

To try this service, just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) from any phone.

As part of our ongoing effort to make the world’s information universally accessible, we’re testing a free service called Google Voice Local Search. Using this service, you get fast access to the same local information you’d find on Google Maps. But you don’t need a computer, you don’t need an Internet connection, and you don’t even need to use your cell-phone keypad. It’s voice-activated, and you can access it from any phone (mobile or landline), in any location, at any time.

Here are a few of the features:

• You can find a business listing by category. Just say “pizza,” for example.
• You can send the listing details to your mobile phone via SMS.
• The service is fully automated, so it doesn’t rely on human operators.
• It connects you directly to the business, free of charge. However, your telephone company may apply regular charges for making a phone call or receiving an SMS.

Google Voice Local Search is still in its experimental stage. It may not be available at all times and may not work for all users. We’re fine-tuning the service to get better at recognizing our user’s requests and at finding the businesses they are looking for. It’s currently only available in English, in the US, for US business listings.

If you’re like me you have lots of information on your computer. Wouldn’t it be great if you could find it all when you need it? You can use these programs to locate your files, emails, past IM chats, and web pages you’ve seen. Internet search engines help you find what you need online. Desktop search engines, on the other hand, are small software programs that can search millions of files on your computer and network in seconds. The best desktop search engines give previews of the files in the results. That way you can find that lost e-mail and forward it right from the search engine.

Google Desktop

http://desktop.google.com/index.html

Google Desktop makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google. It’s a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you’ve viewed, and more. By making your computer searchable, Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks.

Google Desktop doesn’t just help you search your computer; it also helps you gather new information from the web and stay organized with gadgets and sidebar. Google Gadgets can be placed anywhere on your desktop to show you new email, weather, photos, personalized news, and more. Sidebar is a vertical bar on your desktop that helps you keep your gadgets organized.

Windows Desktop Search

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/default.mspx

Windows Desktop Search (WDS) is the software that enables users to quickly find and retrieve e-mail messages, documents and files on a PC and company network. Windows Desktop Search is included with your Microsoft Windows License. Windows desktop search is built-in to Windows Vista. If you are running Windows Vista, you do not need to download this software. Windows Desktop Search offers key benefits for end users, including

Find Information Fast: You can find the information you need from the thousands of documents and e-mail located on your PC in seconds, improving your productivity.

Search Across Many File Types: Finds results from common file types (such as e-mail, Office documents, images, video, .pdf) with one tool.

Better Together with Office 2007: Office 2007 takes advantage of the technology in WDS 3.01 that enables instant search functionality in Microsoft Office Outlook.

Search from Familiar Interfaces: Enables you to quickly initiate searches from the Windows desktop, Outlook or Internet Explorer, offering familiarity, convenience and ease of use.

Privacy Protection: Adheres to Windows security and privacy model and doesn’t index sensitive data such as temporary Internet files and cache.

Yahoo Desktop Search

http://desktop.yahoo.com/

Yahoo! Desktop with the power of X1 often gets excellent scores in reviews, and Yahoo! usually ranks second for best Internet search engine (behind Google). So if you want one integrated product that covers all the bases, Yahoo! is a good choice. Yahoo! Desktop, when used with a free expansion kit, searches the most file types, and reviews praise the way it filters and previews results. It uses Yahoo! to search the web, and the Yahoo! Toolbar includes anti-spyware tools and a pop-up blocker.

Copernic Search and Discover

http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/index.html

For searching your own files on a hard drive or network,Copernic Desktop as the simplest to install and use, and best for most users. Reviews also like its security — since it’s a stand-alone software program that keeps all information on your PC or network, no data is ever transmitted online. It uses a minimum of system resources and file space, and indexes most files, including Outlook e-mail messages, as soon as they’re received. Copernic works with Exchange servers, but it can’t see inside zipped files.

First, the free version of Picasa Web gets 1 GB of storage (up from 250 MB), enough to host 4000 high-quality photos. It’s interesting that Google says “1 GB (and counting)” so the storage could increase like it does in Gmail.

Like in Flickr, you can also search the public photos posted by other people. Until today, you could search only your photos and the public photos uploaded by your contacts. Google wanted to be polite and ask you before including your public photos in the community search, so you must go to settings and enable this.

What more needs to be said. Want more click below.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/03/major-update-for-picasa-web-albums.html

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Gmail Podcast: http://www.chuckchat.com/gmail/

Gmail podcast is a collection of short tips,tricks and hints to get more from your Gmail account. From the respected Chuck Tomasi of ChuckChat.com. Most tips are under 5 minutes in length. If you have a Gmail account and you should, this podcast is a must. Or if you are uncomfortable downloading podcasts you can listen from the webpage.

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Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips.

Zoom from outer space to street level in seconds. View geographical imagery, 3D buildings, maps, and local business information. Whether your business depends on location-related information or you simply love to explore, Google Earth is for you.

From popular destinations like Maui and Paris to local restaurants and schools, Google Earth puts a wealth of Earth imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. See satellite images of your childhood home or read articles from Wikipedia. Google Earth is free for personal use. No registration is required.

Take virtual tours around the world

It’s the planet inside your PC; an atlas, encyclopedia and flight simulator, all rolled into one. Just point and zoom to any place you want to explore. Cities, mountains, and valleys are depicted in high-resolution 3D, along with related information.

Find local information and plan trips

Search for local businesses, and get driving directions. Results are shown on-screen. You can easily layer multiple searches, save results to folders, and share placemarks with others.

Explore multimedia content

Find rich multimedia information from the web community and popular sources like National Geographic. Explore the left sidebar and look for the Geographic Web and Featured Content layers as well as layers for 3D buildings, parks, schools, hospitals, airports, shops and more.

Share information about your travels

Placemark places you have visited, then share them with friends. Google Earth lets you add tons of information to placemarks, for example – photos, notes, restaurant reviews and more. View thousands of such data points created by other Google Earth users, using .KML, the Google Earth file format.http://www.kevinscrate.com/blog/program-crate/

invitations will no longer be required to join the nearly 3-year-old “Gmail” service in the United States, Canada, Mexico and a swath of Asian and South American countries where the Mountain View-based company previously limited the number of users.With those restrictions now lifted, Gmail will be open to all comers worldwide for the first time since Google unveiled the service on April Fool’s Day in 2004.

“It’s a pretty momentous time for Gmail,” said Keith Coleman, Google’s product manager for the service.

Although it will no longer require invitations to sign up, Gmail is retaining its “beta,” or test, status, signaling that Google still considers the service to be a work in progress. By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer

What more needs to be said. Want more click below.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070214/ap_on_hi_te/google_mail;_ylt=Amg0SryAOD4xKGdAaMzTvZdk24cA

Looks like Google is at it again with a kick-ass new Search Engine. Give it a try.

SearchMash lets you search the internet in new ways. It is constantly evolving as we come up with ideas and figure out what works and what doesn’t. Check back here from time to time to see what has changed, and also to tell us which ones are useful to you. Please bear with us when the site is unavailable as we are limiting its use.

Start typing! You can search Webpages, Images, Blogs, Videos and Wikipedia all in one search. You don’t have to have your cursor in the search box to start typing your query. Your previous query will be replaced with whatever you type.

Want to search click here. http://www.searchmash.com

Want more info click below.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Google Inc. said on Friday its board of directors had agreed to pay executive officers a bonus of up to $1.5 million total for 2006, but it was not clear if the plan applied to the billionaires who started the Web search leader.

Co-founders and Presidents Sergey Brin and Larry Page and Chief Executive Eric Schmidt received salaries of $1 each in 2005 and were not included in a separate 2006 plan for executive bonuses of up to $3 million each filed with federal regulators in October.

The company said on Friday in a regulatory filing that a committee would determine how to allocate the bonuses, which are in addition to payments in the plan from October.

In 2005, four Google (Charts) senior vice presidents received bonuses ranging from about $636,000 to nearly $838,000, according to a recent proxy statement.

Schmidt and Page received bonuses of $1,630 while Brin earned a bonus of $1,723, and all three received further compensation, chiefly tied to use of chartered aircraft in 2005.

During 2006, Google stock gained about 11 percent, slightly ahead of a 10 percent rise in the Nasdaq exchange.

Earlier this week, Google said quarterly profit nearly tripled, helped by a lower tax rate and expense controls, and that revenue jumped 67 percent to $3.21 billion.

Revenue growth is closely watched as investors gauge Google’s ability to capitalize on Web advertising against rivals such as Yahoo Inc. (Charts) and Microsoft Corp (Charts)

Picasa Find the pictures you forgot you had.

Picasa organizes your entire collection while you watch, scanning the images on your computer and automatically sorting them by date.
Move and re-name pictures from inside Picasa.

Want to clean up messy folders and move pictures around on your computer’s hard drive? Simply drag and drop pictures from one folder in

Picasa to another. Picasa will make the change permanent after double-checking with you. Want to change a picture’s filename from 671056398a.jpg to Lisa.jpg? In Picasa, it only takes seconds to re-name one picture or a group of pictures.
Make an album.

Use the “Albums” collection to tag your photos into quick groupings inside Picasa. Viewing and sharing the pictures you grouped under an album is easy – they make great slideshows and movies or you can email them to friends.
Add a star rating.

Give a gold star to any photo you love: it turns your favorites into visual standouts at a glance. Picasa even has a star search that reduces your entire photo collection to the best of the best in less than a second.

Keep one picture in multiple albums.

Picasa creates a new “instance” of each photo you label without taking up more space on your computer, so you can put the same picture into multiple albums.
Password-protect collections.

Have photos you want to keep to yourself? You can add passwords to any of your Picasa collections (this does not affect which pictures you and otherscan see on your computer’s hard drive).

Send photos via email that are a joy to receive.

Take the guesswork out of sending photos. Picasa automatically resizes and attaches pictures to email messages at sizes your friends will be able to open. Works with most email programs, including Google’s Gmail.
Put pictures on your own site, for free.

Picasa Web Albums is the fast and easy way to put your photos on the web. Just select the photos in Picasa that you want to share and click to publish. In seconds, those photos are on your own web page, ready to share with

the people you know. Check out a few things you can do with Picasa Web Albums.

If you’re looking to post multiple photos onto your blog, Picasa’s “BlogThis!” button does the hard work for you by automatically transferring selected photos directly to Blogger.
Make beautiful slide shows.

With Picasa, you can turn a group of photos into a presentation with one click of the “Slideshow” button.