3 ways to block spam and organize email in Gmail
Posted on May 9, 2008 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 2 Comments
Looking for a way to block spam in your Gmail account? Personally, Gmail is the best online email client because it can block almost all of the spam coming to my account and don’t worry, I get a lot! Every month I end up having at least 5000 emails in my Gmail spam folder, so it’s pretty good at catching all that junk for email for me.
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Read More..>>How to setup a live real-time polls using Google Docs
Posted on May 2, 2008 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 6 Comments
I don’t think many people noticed, but Google Docs released a new feature a while back that lets you create live polls instantly and share the data with the participants while the poll is going on! That’s pretty neat! They can see the live data of the responses as people fill out the form.
Basically, you have to create a Spreadsheet and then setup a form on the spreadsheet. I’ll go through the steps to do this as it’s pretty easy to do and very cool!
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Read More..>>Add Google Maps driving directions to your website
Posted on April 29, 2008 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 2 Comments
I love using Google Maps “Get Directions” feature any time I need to figure how to get from point A to B. It’s one of the best ways to get driving directions in the USA for sure.
So what if you have a wedding website or a MySpace page and you’re throwing a big party, wouldn’t it be nice if your guests could go to your site, type in the address they will be coming from and automatically get directions to the event location!? Not sure what I mean? Type your address in the box below and you’ll get directions from your address to my house:
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Read More..>>iGoogle - Easy to customize home page
Posted on April 18, 2008 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 4 Comments
Google is familiar to most of us. As the years progress onward, this leading Internet search provider is branching out to develop more products. Now Google has created iGoogle for Internet users. Instead of settling for a boring start page when opening a browser, you can conveniently view some of your favorite items on one page.
iGoogle will allow you to personalize and organize your homepage with a few short steps. Adding multiple gadgets and tabs to your iGoogle homepage gives you the chance to view information at a glance.
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Read More..>>Access Google Docs offline! Edit documents while working offline
Posted on April 1, 2008 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 2 Comments
You may have not heard the big news, but the Google Docs is now rolling out offline editing access to word processing documents over the next few weeks. This is exciting as it’s going to be the first Google web service to use the Google Gears API since Google Reader.
Basically, Google Gears is an open source platform with a Javascript API that allows web applications to work offline. Google first used Google Gears to allow users to keep up to date with their RSS feeds even while working offline. After installing Google Gears in Google Reader, a small green icon appears at the top right. This means you are online.
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Read More..>>Google Talk ChatBack Badge - Free chat for your website
Posted on March 13, 2008 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | Leave a Comment
Looking for a quick and easy way to chat with anonymous people on your blog or website? There are a bunch of freeware and shareware applications that you can use to add chat to your website, but probably my favorite so far has to be Google’s ChatBack Badge. It’s free live chat for any website and all you have to do is drop a couple of lines of code onto your web page.
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