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Christine Buske

Google Wishes Sesame Street a Happy Birthday

Have you Googled anything today? If you have, and you used the regular Google homepage, you might have noticed some familiar looking big feet. Google is ...

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Christine Buske

How to Create a Gmail Shortcut for iPhone Home Screen

Although I love the idea of an iPhone, I am not a regular iPhone user unless I can get my hands on one of my friend’s ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Data Liberation Front Helps You Learn How To Backup Your Google Data

One of the areas where Google is often criticized is the ability to quickly transfer data from its services to the user’s computer. While Google has ...

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Christine Buske

4 New Google Docs Features Rock Document Management!

Using Google Docs is getting easier and easier as more features are added. At this point, I could completely imagine using Google Docs pretty much exclusively, ...

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Christine Buske

The Coolest New Picasa’s Photo Importing Feature

Picasa 3.5 comes with a few cool new features. One of them is face tagging, where Picasa scans all your pictures and recognizes the same faces ...

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Christine Buske

Video: How to Manage Your Google Tasks

Yesterday, we mentioned how Google Tasks has graduated from Gmail labs, and you can now access your to-do list from many other Google services you are ...

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Christine Buske

Using Google Tasks Outside of Gmail

Since adding Tasks to Gmail Labs last year, millions of users have moved from paper to-do lists to having a task list right in Gmail. Most ...

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Christine Buske

New Google Maps for Blackberry

Google just announced a new version of Google Maps for Blackberry users. Recently Windows Mobile and S60 already had a chance to use version 3.2, but ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

How To Add External Gadgets To Gmail

The best thing that has happened to Gmail in the last two years is the introduction of Gmail Labs and then the subsequent additions of some ...

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Christine Buske

Preview Google Docs Directly in Gmail

Gmail let’s you preview pictures, YouTube videos, Picasa Albums, and Flickr Albums. It doesn’t stop there, now you can also preview Google document attachments directly in ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Create 3D Buildings In Google Earth With Google Building Maker

Google Building Maker, which was launched recently by Google, lets you add 3D buildings to Google Earth easily. Since Google is keen on adding more and ...

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Christine Buske

Stop! Gmail Feature Prevents Emailing the Wrong Person

Sending an email to the wrong person can be extremely embarrassing, and can even cause you to lose your job. A while ago, a government worker ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Now Draw Better In Google Docs With 3 New Features

If you are a Google Docs user and love inserting lines and diagrams using the drawings feature then you’d be pleased to know that today the ...

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Christine Buske

Google Street View Comes to Canada!

As a resident of Toronto, I’m very excited that Google Street View is now also available in Canada! Google has finally updated Google Maps to include ...

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Christine Buske

Developments in Google Flu Trends

GT first reported about Google Flu Trends last year fall, or in other words: flu season. By the time flu season is rolling around this year, ...

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Christine Buske

Google Barcode Logo FAQ

When doing your first Google search of the morning, you may have noticed a more unusual Google logo than normal: it’s the Google Barcode. Don’t worry, ...

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Christine Buske

New Features in Picasa 3.5: Face Tagging and Geo Tagging

The new Picasa 3.5 is very loveable, considering the very streamlines face tagging feature. Picasa easily recognizes which faces are the same person, and creates albums ...

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Christine Buske

Gmail Ramps Up Productivity with New Labels Feature

Gmail has been my task manager for quite some time now, and I use it on a day to day basis to keep track of what ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Quickly Flip Through the News With Google Fast Flip

Google Fast Flip, launched recently by Google as one of its Labs projects presents a different news reading experience which gives a feel of reading news ...

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Christine Buske

Google Docs Viewer is a Tool You Should Bookmark!

When you receive a PDF, or PowerPoint, file by email you can already choose to view it in your browser, or to download the file to ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

4 Awesome Tools To Enhance Your YouTube Experience

Since its inception, YouTube has steadily surged in popularity due to its great features. The site is now the most popular video viewing and sharing site ...

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Christine Buske

Does Google Docs Translation Tool Really Work?

Not too long ago, GT covered the news on Google Docs new translation tool. Google themselves announced this news on their official blog and also mentioned ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

A Guide to Backing Up Your Google Chrome Profile

Since Google Chrome is probably the fastest browser available, it is evident that sooner or later more and more people will leave their old browsers to ...

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The Tutor

BOTW code Sept 2009

My favorite directory Best of the Web (BOTW) just sent me a note mentioning their new discount code for September 2009. For this month you save ...

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Christine Buske

Hilarious Example of Google Docs Sharing Feature

I came across this video through the Google blog, geared at getting university students excited about Google Docs. It shows a great example of how Google ...

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