If you’re constantly selecting a different view of your calendar instead of using the default, then you should change the default view to one that better suits your needs. That way, you’ll always see what you want each time you view your calendar.
Google Reader: Move or Clear Your Shared Items
If you use your Shared Items page, a time will come when you will want to clean it up by either moving the existing shared items or clearing them out and starting with a clean slate.
Google Calendar: How to Reset Your Private Address
Have you shared your Google Calendar’s private address with someone who you no longer want seeing your events? Here’s how to reset the private address so they can’t keep tabs on you.
Google Reader: Give Your Shared Items Page a Style
Google Reader’s Shared Items Page allows you to share the various gems you find as you browse the RSS feeds with everyone else. You can give your page a style to have it better fit your interests.
How to Create Google Calendar Events from Gmail
Since emails often prompt one to create events in their calendar, here’’s how to easily schedule a Google Calendar event from the Gmail interface.
Gmail: Delete an Individual Message in a Threaded Discussion
If you have unrelated emails embedded in a threaded discussion in your Gmail inbox, you can delete them without removing the other emails in the thread.
Google Calendar: Add Weather Forecasts to Your Calendar
Google Calendar’s Weather feature displays the weather forecast directly in your calendar to make it easier to see if upcoming events fit with the 4-day weather forecast.
Gmail: How To Display All Unread Email
If you keep a large amount of email in your Gmail Inbox, it can sometimes be difficult to locate all of your unread mail. Instead of scrolling to hunt for them, you can simply perform a basic search and quickly get a collection of anything that you have yet to read.
Google: How to Access Filter by Date Dropdown Box
Filtering google searches by time periods has been one of the most frequently requested features. By manipulating the search url, you can trigger google’s filter by data dropdown box to appear. With this drop down box, you can easily select what time dates you want google to filter the results.
Google Blog Search: Use a Bookmarklet to View Posts That Reference Your Page
Google Blog Search (as the name implies) is a search engine focused entirely on blogs. By using this handy bookmarklet, you can view a list of blog posts that reference the selected page. This makes it easy to see what others are saying about your blog post.
Google Maps: Exclude Certain Search Results
This is a simple but handy tip while using Google Maps in a browser or on an iPhone. Here’s the scenario: I’m in NYC attending a conference near Grand Central Terminal. Needing a coffee fix, I whip out my iPhone, use the locator button to find my rough location, and type ‘coffee’ into the search bar. Nine of the ten results were Starbucks. What if I didn’t want Starbucks? Gasp!
Gmail for Mobile: Remove Promotional Footer from Composed Emails
Google’s java app for accessing your Gmail from your cell phone is a great solution for staying in touch when you’re on the go. However, the application likes to promote itself by placing a promotional footer on every email you send from it. If you don’t want your emails to be sent with the footer (Sent from Gmail for mobile), then follow these steps:
Gmail: Create a Distribution (Group) List
If you are regularly sending emails to a certain group of your contacts, it can become rather tedious to constantly have to select them over and over again. A better method is to create a Group list that contains these contacts, then you only need to select the list when you wish to send those contacts an email.
Google Calendar: Import Event Information from Yahoo! Calendar
Changing calendar applications can seem like a rather overwhelming task due to the need to copy all of your events, appointments, birthdays and such from one calendar to another. Instead of relying on copy and paste or typing in each event, you can easily import your event info from Yahoo! Calendar into your Google Calendar, here’s how:
Google Calendar: Receive an Email of your Daily Agenda
Trying to keep track of all your meetings and events can be a struggle. Fortunately, Google Calendar can make it easier by emailing you a daily agenda of all the events you have posted on your calendar. This gives you a simple listing of your appointments and such that you can print out or easily access.
Gmail: Import Contacts from Yahoo! Mail
If you are wanting to move from Yahoo! Mail to Gmail, one of the first things you’ll need to do is to move your contacts over. Fortunately, both email clients make this an easy and painless process.
By default, Google Calendar uses a Pop-up 10 minutes prior to an event as a reminder to you. If you’re like me, this proves to be rather useless if you don’t have gCal constantly open. A better option, in this case, is to have gCal send you a reminder email at a predefined time period prior to the event. Since I have my email open far more frequently than gCal, I will be more likely to actually get the reminder when I need it.
When group blogging, sharing certain posts from your feeds can be very beneficial. By sharing your starred item with others, you prevent others in your group to having to filter through that same content. Here is how to share your starred items with others…
If you are wanting to move from Microsoft’s Hotmail to Gmail, one of the first things you’ll need to do is to move your contacts over. Fortunately, both email clients make this an easy and painless process.
Recently on google’s webmaster blog, google announced that web site owners and bloggers can directly improve and change the short summary that is displayed for each web result. By improving this summary (aka snippet), you will increase your chances that users will click your link from google and visit your site.
There are some really great features about GMail which I really love: labels, fuzzy address, and filters. Using these tools, you can use your GMail account as your very own personal organizer tool. I will use this tutorial to show you how to create and organize notes within gmail.
DivShare is a web host allowing the unlimited storage of various types of files. This makes it a great source for finding free media. using the following Google queries as a guide will have you downloading in no time.
Badongo is a file hosting service that offers free and premium storage space. People use the space for uploading music, videos, archives, images, and ebooks. By using Google, you can easily search through Badongo’s large number of files to find many free treasures.
MediaFire is a free file hosting service that offers unlimited storage space and up to 100MB per file which equates to a lot of files to search through for free videos, music, and much more. By using Google, you can check to see what others have posted for download.
You spend a great deal of time creating backup discs of your valued CD’s and DVD’s, you don’t want to just use a marker to label them. Placing a well designed label on the disc gives it the look you desire as well as making it easier to find in your collection. Chances are someone has already created the cover or label you need, just pull up Google to find it. Once you have found your image, use a labeling software to print the image on a label and your disc is truly ready for archiving.
Orbitfiles is a free file storage and file sharing site that offers up to 6GB of storage space which equates to lots of files to search through for free videos, music, and much more.
Google has finally made embedding a google map as easy as embedding a youtube video. By following these steps you are just a copy and paste away from placing a google map into your web site or blog.
eSnips is a large social content sharing site that gives its members 5GB each of storage space to upload whatever they want. These files include music, ringtones, videos, ebooks, comics, programs, magazines and much more. By using Google, you can check to see what others have posted for download.
Everyone knows that the internet is a treasure chest for software, music and videos, but did you know you can find comic books on the web as well? There is a large group of people that scan and upload comics both old and new. This can be a revisiting of one’s childhood or the beginning of a new hobby. Finding these is as simple as pulling up Google and letting the hunt begin.
By default, Google opens the links from your search result in the same window. This means that you’ll have to go back to get to the original results, sometimes you’ll even have to redo the query which can be a real pain if you have already weeded through several results. By following this tech-recipe, you will set Google to open the links from the search results page into a new window, keeping the search page intact for you to return to if the link didn’t give you what you were seeking.
If you use the Google Desktop to search for various items on your computer, you should think about also having it index and search the email in your Gmail account. It makes this useful tool even more valuable.
By default, Google filters explicit images by utilizing moderate filtering. Since it is doubtful you were looking for explicit language in the first place, you can filter out explicit text as well. You must have cookies enabled on your browser in order for this to work.
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