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How-to automatically discover your site has been hacked using Google Alerts

Having your site hacked is really common these days and it is growing all the time since it is so easy to do and the payoffs ...

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J. Phil

4 Easy Ways of Subscribing to Feeds in Google Reader

Google Reader is a very popular online tool for reading RSS feeds. As a result, the number of ways to get a new feed in to ...

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Peter Jalbert

New Google Maps feature: The GoogleMap Maker

The scene: You open up Google Maps to find directions before heading off to that holiday trip. Of course, who wouldn’t want to prepare ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Check A Website For Malware With Google Safe Browsing Tool

There are many websites which host malwares but camouflage themselves as nice and authentic sites in order to trap the visitors. Google Safe Browsing tool ...

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Peter Jalbert

GTalk Tip: How do you transfer files?

Google Talk (GTalk) is Google’s approach to instant communication. It works just like any Instant Messaging system. Your main interface is a small window that ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

4 Reasons To Use Remember The Milk With Gmail and GCal

Remember the Milk is an awesome task management app which let’s you manage your tasks from anywhere. It requires you to create an account at their ...

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Peter Jalbert

Picasa Tip : Changing album covers

I’ve been playing around with Google’s Picasa these past days, and I’m loving it. I must admit that I’m slowly becoming a solid fan because ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

5 Excellent Productivity Tips For Google Reader

There are no doubts about the fact that Google Reader is the best browser based RSS reader available. It has some excellent features and helps you ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

How To Go Idle At Your Own Will in Gtalk

Google Talk, as we know has various status options and it allows us to customize them too, however it doesn’t have the idle option. Hence you ...

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The Tutor

Diving right into Google Apps for your Domain

Google Apps is the perfect solution if you want to bring the power of Google into your website. But it can be a bit ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Play With Images Using Google Image Labeler

Google Image Labeler is a nice feature of Google’s Image Search which helps you to label different images and hence help Google to improve its image ...

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Peter Jalbert

GoogleGroup Tip: Modifying Group Views

Google Groups is all about helping users connect with people, access information, and communicate effectively over email and on the web. I have a handful of ...

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The Tutor

An introduction to Google Maps Street View

If you don’t mind the weird looking guy in the orange jumpsuit, this is a good introduction to Google Maps’ controversial “Street View” feature. If you are ...

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Mark O

Put dynamic RSS feeds on your website - powered by Google

Google is now offering website owners the possibility to place dynamic RSS AJAX feeds on your webpages. That’s a bit of a mouthful I know, but basically ...

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Mark O

Google News offers Related Searches feature

Google News has rolled out an interesting new feature called “Related Searches” which will be popular for people who are looking to expand their knowledge of ...

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The Tutor

How to start a blog in minutes on Blogger

For people new to blogging, Blogger provides the easiest way to get started. It’s quick and simple and needs very little technical ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Gmail Labs: Which Feature Do You Like ?

The Gmail team has finally released their much anticipated Labs edition and hence now users have the opportunity to try out some exciting new features while ...

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Peter Jalbert

GMail Tip: Quickly open mailbox from GTalk

Here’s a quick productivity tip that lets you work more efficiently with your Google Talk and GMail account. Imagine you’re on the road and you’re ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Create your online health profile with Google Health

Google Health is a recently launched service from Google and it intends to be your online health profile through which you can store and manage all ...

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Mark O

Asking Google to remove your home from Maps Street View

A Minneapolis suburb has become the first area in the US to ask Google to remove them from Google Maps Street View, after they complained that ...

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The Tutor

Inserting the Talk gadget on your personalized page

There are many gadgets that you can place on your personalized Google homepage and the Talk gadget is one of them. This is ...

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Mark O

Google’s love-hate relationship with software

Google has just released a browser plug-in which allows you to view and use Google Earth inside your internet browser, whether it be Mozilla Firefox or ...

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Peter Jalbert

Get Notified of Changes by Google Docs

One thing I love with Google Docs is that it lets multiply users share and collaborate documents and spreadsheets. This way you can just maintain one ...

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J. Phil

Getting Started with Google Sites

Do you remember GeoCities? Back in the mid-90s, it seemed everybody had one of these free web pages. And pretty uniformly, they all looked ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Use multiple Google Talk accounts at the same time with Digsby

Many of us maintain more than one Google accounts for different purposes. You could easily open 2 Gmail accounts in 2 different browsers and use them ...

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