Play Google Voice voicemails in Gmail

Posted on September 13, 2009 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 1 Comment

If you’re using Google Voice, you probably love the fact that you can get email notifications whenever a new voicemail arrives right? It’s definitely a cool service, but if you use Gmail as your email client, it gets even better!

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just listen to your Google Voice messages right from the email notification in Gmail? Well now you can thanks to Gmail Labs!

Here’s how to enable the Google Voice player in Gmail:

Google syntax search tricks

Posted on September 4, 2009 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | Leave a Comment

Lately we have shown you how to search for content inside a protected website like Rapidshare.  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. To see the complete list of syntax rules, visit this page: www.google.com/help/operators.html

There are some keywords that you can use to limit searches.  For example, if you want to search for pages where the <TITLE> meta-tag contains your desired keyword, use the “Intitle” keyword followed by the search string.

Turn off SeachWiki customized search results in Google

Posted on June 30, 2009 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | Leave a Comment

SearchWiki is a feature in Google Web Search that lets you customize the result pages manually by ranking, removing, and adding notes.

It basically consists of a few extra buttons on the search result pages, including a green up arrow, an “x” to remove a result, an “Add a result” button and a comment icon, if you want to add your own comments.

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You will see these buttons when you are signed into your Google account. The changes that you make will stick as long as you are logged into Google. Next time you perform that search, the results will be the customized version you created.

Top 9 cool and useful Gmail lab features

Posted on June 27, 2009 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 1 Comment

If you’re using Gmail and have not played around with the new Gmail Labs options, you’re definitely missing out on some cool features! Why aren’t these out of beta yet, you might ask?

Who knows! It usually takes Google a long time to move from their Labs to standard feature, even if people have used those features for years. Anyway, here is my list of ten cool and useful features in Gmail Labs that you should enable.

You can get to Gmail Labs by clicking on the green flask icon at the top right of your Gmail window:

How to use Google Reader to manage RSS feeds

Posted on June 20, 2009 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | Leave a Comment

RSS feeds are way for us readers to subscribe to web providers like blogs and newsletters.  With so much good content out there on the Net, it is good to have a tool to manage RSS feeds.  With Google Reader you can save your RSS feeds to a central location using your Google account so that you can access it anywhere once you are online.

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Your subscribed RSS pages are listed on the left side while the right side contains the content of each RSS feed.

Google Squared – View search results in spreadsheet format

Posted on June 4, 2009 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | Leave a Comment

There’s been a lot of search engine news lately, starting with the release of the much hyped Wolfram Alpha, a computational search engine that aims to give you a direct answer to certain types of questions.

Google has been working on a product called Google Squared, which is aimed to kill off competition from the likes of Wolfram Alpha. So what is this mysterious new tool from Google?

Google Squared is basically Google’s way to take unstructured data on the web, combine it, manipulate it, and spit it out in a nice spreadsheet format for you to analyze to delights end!

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