10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with Google

Google is amazing (please thank me for this amazing revelation). There are some things you probably didn’t know Google can do. Take your time and read the information below. You’ll likely learn a few tips and tricks that will make you appreciate Google even more.

10. Find a beautiful wallpaper for your desktop resolution with Google images

Here’s how you do it:

1. Go to Advanced Image Search
2. Next to “Exact size” click on “Use my desktop resolution”. Then, next to “Content types” select “Photo content.”
3. Enter some words. If you want to find cows, enter beautiful cows Let’s see the results:

Notice that many of the images in the results are from wallpaper sites. Google Images makes it very convenient to go through these types of sites and browse them like a gallery instead of going to each gallery site separately.

9. Create unlimited disposable email addresses with Gmail

Take the following example:

That’s right, you can add one or more dots ANYWHERE between your username and send messages to that ‘new’ email. All of those messages will arrive to your old (without dots) email. Hard to explain without a picture. But somehow Google did find a way to do it…

Sometimes you may receive a message sent to an address that looks like yours but has a different number or arrangement of periods. While we know it might be unnerving if you think someone else’s mail is being routed to your account, don’t worry: both of these addresses are yours.
Gmail doesn’t recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they’ll all go to your inbox, and only yours. In short:

• homerjsimpson@gmail.com = hom.er.j.sim.ps.on@gmail.com
• homerjsimpson@gmail.com = HOMERJSIMPSON@gmail.com
• homerjsimpson@gmail.com = Homer.J.Simpson@gmail.com

All these addresses belong to the same person. You can see this if you try to sign in with your username, but adding or removing a dot from it. You’ll still go to your account.

Yep, this is an explanation from Google itself. Now that you understand this, let’s keep going.

8. Search videos durations using Google Video

I’ve noticed there’s not a single video site that allows you to search videos by duration. Let’s say I want to learn Spanish and I want comprehensive videos for that (longer than 20 minutes.) To search, I go to Google Advanced Video Search page and select “Long” next to “Duration”. Here’s what happens:

Now all that’s left is to get some free time and watch those…

7. Want to find an iPad alternative using Google Search?

Sure, you can write ‘iPad alternative’ in Google but that won’t give you the best results. Instead, try this:
Using “better than product” where product=any product will give you not only alternatives but better alternatives to a particular product. Very cool.

6. Detect any unknown language with Google Language Detector

I have a big problem:

What’s the solution? Google language detector.

Another good way to detect and also translate is to use Google Translate and the “Detect Language” option:

5. See what the Dutch haven been searching for recently using Google Insights

Google is the most popular search engine in almost any country in the world. Google Insights (like the name suggests) gives you ‘insights’ of what people have been searching for around the world. For example, Netherlands:

Hyves is a Dutch portal and social network. Weer seems to be a weather portal.

4. When did Google become more popular than Microsoft? Google Trends has the answer

Google Trends helps you discover the trends on various topics and see what people have been searching for over time. In this case, you can see when people started searching for Google more than Microsoft in early 2005.

3. Hate opening PDF files? Google Docs is the solution

So you’ve been searching on Google for a particular topic and found a PDF file:

Instead of opening the file in Adobe Reader (which is a painful process), you can click on “Quick View” and open the file in Google Docs! It takes seconds to open and it’s way more flexible. If you choose later, you can always save the file as PDF by choosing the export option in Google Docs.

2. Scan and Read your RSS feeds like email messages in Google Reader

You probably know how easy it is to open and read email messages in Gmail thanks to the list view. Well, you can do the same in Google Reader:

The default view in Google Reader is ‘expanded’ which makes the items pretty difficult to scan and read. If you change the view from expanded to ‘list’, then it becomes WAY easier to SCAN items and pick what you like.

1. Google can tell you the answer to life and the universe

I wish it was so simple

Google Chrome Extensions For Web Designers And Developers

Google Chrome is not a popular browser yet but still it’s growing fast and as a web developer or designer, you must be among the earliest to adopt new browser technologies. What help you a lot are extensions of browsers though Chrome does not offer many extensions but still there are lots of extensions, those can be very handy for designers and developers.

Here, we have compiled a list of 15 most useful Chrome extensions for web developers and designers. Don’t hesitate to try all of them and if you already have used any of it don’t forget to share your experience with us.

1. Speed Tracer

Speed Tracer is a tool to help you identify and fix performance problems in your web applicationsGoogle’s Chrome OS Wounds Windows, Undermines Android and Lets Apple Advance. It visualizes metrics that are taken from low level instrumentation points inside of the browser and analyzes them as your application runs.

2. Eye Dropper

Eye Dropper and Color Picker extension which allows you to pick color from any webpage or from advanced color picker.

3. Firebug Lite

Firebug Lite is a tool for web developers, that allows you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

4. Chrome SEO

The Google Chrome SEO Extension provides easy access to Search Engine Optimization Tools that can help you with Competitive Analysis, Keyword Research, Backlink Checks, PageRank Checks and other daily SEO tasks.

5. Pendule

Pendule displays linked and embedded style sheets of the current page in a new tab.

6. Aviary Screen Capture

Take a screenshot of any webpage and edit it directly in your browser with Aviary.com applications. Plus convenient access to the Aviary website and tools.

7. Resolution Test

Resolution Test changes the size of the browser window for developers to preview their websites in different screen resolutions. It includes a list of commonly used resolutions as well as a custom option for you to input your own.

8. PlainClothes

This extension styles — or rather “unstyles” — the web. Just imagine: text is black, backgrounds are white, unread links are blue, visited links are purple, all links are underlined. Or any other colors you like.

9. Snippy

Snippy allows you to grab snippets of web pages, save them for future use and upload them to Google Docs.

10. FlashBlock

Flashblock is an extension for the Google Chrome that blocks all Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content.

11. IE Tab

Use Internet Explorer to display web pages in a Chrome tab. Some sites can only be displayed using IE, and with this extension you can now see those sites without leaving Chrome.

12. Validity

Validity can be used to quickly validate your HTML documents from the address bar.

13. BuiltWith Technology Profiler

BuiltWith is a web site profiler tool. Upon looking up a page, BuiltWith returns all the technologies it can find on the page.

14. MeasureIt!

Draw out a ruler that will help you get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.

15. LastPass

LastPass is a free online password manager and Form Filler that makes your web browsing easier and more secure.

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How to increase adsense Income

Ads revenue thru Adsense is one of the most trusted way to generate income on a blog or a website. It makes your life easier by providing well targeted ads related to the content of your blog. If you are using Adsense and not getting the return as per your expectation then try the below mentioned simple changes in your blog and you will see the change.

1. Place Ads On High Click Area Of The Blog

High click area is a region on your blog where the user spend most of his time and there are couple of links over there where user is expected to click most of the time. High click area depends on the template used for the blog but some of the general high click areas are,

• Above the Post content and below the post title – which means between the post title and content
• Below the Page navigation or Category
• Just above the comment section
• In sidebar, just above the recent or popular posts box
• Bottom of the sidebar

If you are a wordpress platform user, then you can us HeatMap plugin to find out the high click area on your blog.

2. Try To Use Text Type Ads

There are different types of ads > provided by Google Adsense where you can choose from Text, Images, Video etc. Images type ads provide only one link by taking so much of space on your blog. But text ads provide more link which means more options to the user and that’s why the chances for hitting the ad increases. As per my experience, the eCPM value of text ads are bit higher than images.

Try to put text ads above the post content and in sidebar. You can use the image ad on sidebar and header section of your blog.

3. Get The Cost Per Click For Keyword Before Writing The Post

The Adsense provide ads based on the keywords on your blog and if they not have a high value of cost per click, you will not get a good return. In that case, you should check the keyword on some online services where you can see the Cost per click for that. For example, the cost per click for financial terms are relatively higher than internet and computers,

Keyword	Cost per Click
Insurance	$0.96 – $16.00
Microsoft Word	$0.58 – $1.78
Chrome	$0.43 – $1.15
Data Recovery	$1.35 – $22.58

Source: Spyfu.com

4. Try To Get Viewers From Search Engine Rather Than The Social Media

People who lands on your blog from search engine hit the ads more than the bloggers or professionals. Always try to write a post for normal internet surfer, they have the potential to click on the ads. Traffic thru Social media doesn’t have that much eCPM value and that’s why you will not get your expected return. Do the SEO for your blog such a way that it should appear on first 2 pages of leading search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN. Use All in One SEO plugin on your wordpress blog to populate the keyword, title and description for each post.

5. Use Similar Theme For Ads And Blog

Google Adsense provides a little bit of customization of ads to its user. You can change the font style, background etc of the text ad from your Adsense control panel. Try to customize the ads such that it should look like a part of your post or blog.

6. Use A Bigger Font For Link Ads

Link ads are very simple ads with a clickable link on anchor text. Try to use a bigger font for those link instead of using more and more links. Which means, if you are having 600px space to show the links, then use only 4 links and show them with bigger font rather than using 5 links.

20 Great Secrets of Google

Top 20 great secrets of google

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1306756,00.asp

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Google is clearly the best general-purpose search engine on the Web (see

www.pcmag.com/searchengines

But most people don't use it to its best advantage. Do you just plug in a keyword or two and hope for the best? That may be the quickest way to search, but with more than 3 billion pages in Google's index, it's still a struggle to pare results to a manageable number.

But Google is an remarkably powerful tool that can ease and enhance your Internet exploration. Google's search options go beyond simple keywords, the Web, and even its own programmers. Let's look at some of Google's lesser-known options.

Syntax Search Tricks

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. Google has a fairly complete list of its syntax elements at

www.google.com/help/operators.html

. Here are some advanced operators that can help narrow down your search results.

Intitle: at the beginning of a query word or phrase (intitle:"Three Blind Mice") restricts your search results to just the titles of Web pages.

Intext: does the opposite of intitle:, searching only the body text, ignoring titles, links, and so forth. Intext: is perfect when what you're searching for might commonly appear in URLs. If you're looking for the term HTML, for example, and you don't want to get results such as

www.mysite.com/index.html

, you can enter intext:html.

Link: lets you see which pages are linking to your Web page or to another page you're interested in. For example, try typing in

link:http://www.pcmag.com


Try using site: (which restricts results to top-level domains) with intitle: to find certain types of pages. For example, get scholarly pages about Mark Twain by searching for intitle:"Mark Twain"site:edu. Experiment with mixing various elements; you'll develop several strategies for finding the stuff you want more effectively. The site: command is very helpful as an alternative to the mediocre search engines built into many sites.

Swiss Army Google

Google has a number of services that can help you accomplish tasks you may never have thought to use Google for. For example, the new calculator feature

(www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator)

lets you do both math and a variety of conversions from the search box. For extra fun, try the query "Answer to life the universe and everything."

Let Google help you figure out whether you've got the right spelling—and the right word—for your search. Enter a misspelled word or phrase into the query box (try "thre blund mise") and Google may suggest a proper spelling. This doesn't always succeed; it works best when the word you're searching for can be found in a dictionary. Once you search for a properly spelled word, look at the results page, which repeats your query. (If you're searching for "three blind mice," underneath the search window will appear a statement such as Searched the web for "three blind mice.") You'll discover that you can click on each word in your search phrase and get a definition from a dictionary.

Suppose you want to contact someone and don't have his phone number handy. Google can help you with that, too. Just enter a name, city, and state. (The city is optional, but you must enter a state.) If a phone number matches the listing, you'll see it at the top of the search results along with a map link to the address. If you'd rather restrict your results, use rphonebook: for residential listings or bphonebook: for business listings. If you'd rather use a search form for business phone listings, try Yellow Search

(www.buzztoolbox.com/google/yellowsearch.shtml).




Extended Googling

Google offers several services that give you a head start in focusing your search. Google Groups

(http://groups.google.com)

indexes literally millions of messages from decades of discussion on Usenet. Google even helps you with your shopping via two tools: Froogle
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(http://froogle.google.com),

which indexes products from online stores, and Google Catalogs
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(http://catalogs.google.com),

which features products from more 6,000 paper catalogs in a searchable index. And this only scratches the surface. You can get a complete list of Google's tools and services at

www.google.com/options/index.html

You're probably used to using Google in your browser. But have you ever thought of using Google outside your browser?

Google Alert

(www.googlealert.com)

monitors your search terms and e-mails you information about new additions to Google's Web index. (Google Alert is not affiliated with Google; it uses Google's Web services API to perform its searches.) If you're more interested in news stories than general Web content, check out the beta version of Google News Alerts

(www.google.com/newsalerts).

This service (which is affiliated with Google) will monitor up to 50 news queries per e-mail address and send you information about news stories that match your query. (Hint: Use the intitle: and source: syntax elements with Google News to limit the number of alerts you get.)

Google on the telephone? Yup. This service is brought to you by the folks at Google Labs

(http://labs.google.com),

a place for experimental Google ideas and features (which may come and go, so what's there at this writing might not be there when you decide to check it out). With Google Voice Search

(http://labs1.google.com/gvs.html),

you dial the Voice Search phone number, speak your keywords, and then click on the indicated link. Every time you say a new search term, the results page will refresh with your new query (you must have JavaScript enabled for this to work). Remember, this service is still in an experimental phase, so don't expect 100 percent success.

In 2002, Google released the Google API (application programming interface), a way for programmers to access Google's search engine results without violating the Google Terms of Service. A lot of people have created useful (and occasionally not-so-useful but interesting) applications not available from Google itself, such as Google Alert. For many applications, you'll need an API key, which is available free from
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www.google.com/apis

. See the figures for two more examples, and visit

www.pcmag.com/solutions

for more.

Thanks to its many different search properties, Google goes far beyond a regular search engine. Give the tricks in this article a try. You'll be amazed at how many different ways Google can improve your Internet searching.


Online Extra: More Google Tips


Here are a few more clever ways to tweak your Google searches.

Search Within a Timeframe

Daterange: (start date–end date). You can restrict your searches to pages that were indexed within a certain time period. Daterange: searches by when Google indexed a page, not when the page itself was created. This operator can help you ensure that results will have fresh content (by using recent dates), or you can use it to avoid a topic's current-news blizzard and concentrate only on older results. Daterange: is actually more useful if you go elsewhere to take advantage of it, because daterange: requires Julian dates, not standard Gregorian dates. You can find converters on the Web (such as

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http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/JulianDate.html

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), but an easier way is to do a Google daterange: search by filling in a form at

www.researchbuzz.com/toolbox/goofresh.shtml or www.faganfinder.com/engines/google.shtml

. If one special syntax element is good, two must be better, right? Sometimes. Though some operators can't be mixed (you can't use the link: operator with anything else) many can be, quickly narrowing your results to a less overwhelming number.

More Google API Applications

Staggernation.com offers three tools based on the Google API. The Google API Web Search by Host (GAWSH) lists the Web hosts of the results for a given query

(www.staggernation.com/gawsh/).

When you click on the triangle next to each host, you get a list of results for that host. The Google API Relation Browsing Outliner (GARBO) is a little more complicated: You enter a URL and choose whether you want pages that related to the URL or linked to the URL

(www.staggernation.com/garbo/).


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8 Useful Google Chrome Plugins And Addons (2009)

Hello dear readers as you all know Google's web browser Chrome is steadily making its space in web browsing market. So far, feedback from the users is encouraging and this browser is giving tough fight to Firefox. Here are some very useful add-ons for Google Chrome web browser.

01. Google Page Rank/ Alexa Rank Checker

Page Rank and Alexa Rank are two popular ranking systems available to check the popularity,authority etc. of any site on the internet. Now you can check Page Rank and Alexa Rank on your chrome browser by simply installing a chrome plugin.

http://www.chromefans.org/chrome-plugins/google-alexa-page-rank-status.htm

02. AdSweep (AdBlock)

AdSweep is another advertisement blocking add-on for Google Chrome, it works similar to AdBlock.

http://www.adsweep.org/

Or try this method:

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=50&topicid=25916

03. Google Chrome Dual View Plugin

This plugin splits the viewing pane into two halves and lets you browse two sites simultaneously.

http://www.chromeplugins.org/plugins/google-chrome-dual-view/

04. ChromePass

ChromePass add-on recovers usernames and passwords that are stored on Google Chrome browser. Simply install this add-on plugin and retrieve all the details.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/chromepass.html

05. ChromeMailer

We can’t send mails through Google Mail by clicking on mailto: links, but chrome mailer plugin solves this problem in Google Chrome.

http://skaelede.hu/downloads/chromemailersetup.msi

06. XChrome - Theme Manager

XChrome is a complete theme manager and installs different skins with a click of button.

http://www.mychromeaddons.com/xchrome-a-google-chrome-theme-manager/

07. Portable Chrome For USB Stick

Tiny version of Google Chrome ideal for carrying in your USB memory stick. Light and zippy with all core features of Chrome.

http://www.mychromeaddons.com/chrome-addon-portable-chrome/

08. Google Chrome Backup

Google Chrome backup add-on creates, backups, restores and manages Chrome profiles. All history, bookmarks and related stuff are maintained very easily with this add-on.

http://www.mychromeaddons.com/chrome-addon-google-chrome-backup/

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