How to use Google Search to find the latest news and blog posts for keywords using RSS
Posted on July 4, 2007 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 2 Comments
You can use Google News search and Google Blog search to keep track of the latest news and relevant blog posts through RSS feeds of the search. This is a very simple way to create your own news feed of information from reputed news sources and also the blogosphere.
For example, let’s say you want to keep abreast on any developments with Presidential candidate Barack Obama in the blogosphere, then you could type in “Barack Obama” and either setup Blog Alerts or choose to subscribe to the RSS or Atom feed for that search.
Google Code Projects - FaceBook gadget for your Google personalized homepage
Posted on July 1, 2007 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | Leave a Comment
For all of those faithful people who use Google for search and FaceBook for staying in touch with friends and family, then you’ll like the new Google gadget that has been created for FaceBook. It still has not been officially released, but the beta FaceBook gadget allows you to view your latest updates, your friends latest updates, photos, and perform searches from within Google’s homepage.
How to use the new Map Your Photos feature in Picasa Web Albums
Posted on June 27, 2007 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | Leave a Comment
Google introduced a new feature today for Picasa called “Map Your Photos” which lets you show everyone where you took your pictures on a map. It’s a feature that’s been around in Flickr for ages, so it’s about time Picasa users don’t feel like lonely ducklings. The new feature is quite easy to use and adds a little bit of jazz to the site. Once you login into Picasa Web Albums, click on any album and click on the new button at the top called Map Photos.
Google Analytics gets upgraded! New version is cool!
Posted on May 8, 2007 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | Leave a Comment
If you monitor your web site or blog stats through Google Analytics, then you’ll be in for a big suprise when you log in the next time! Google has just updated their Analytics program with a whole new interface (that is really nice) and a couple of nice features such as the ability to email or export reports in PDF format, customize the main screen when you first login, and compare different time periods on one graph.
How to configure your Google search preferences & search within results
Posted on April 17, 2007 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 5 Comments
I’ve been searching the Internet using Google for years now and yet I have never bothered to set my Search Preferences until TODAY! Quite late considering some of the options are actually quite useful! This post is inspired by the fac that I was trying to perform a search within a set of search results and could not figure out how to do it in Google for about 10 minutes! So without further adeiu, here’s how to setup your search options.
Improve GMail by suggesting improvements
Posted on April 15, 2007 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 2 Comments
If you’re a big time user of Google’s GMail service to handle all of your email needs, then it’s pretty much certain that you would like it if a few things were tweaked or added that would make things a lot easier! Or maybe you wish GMail intergrated with some other program or maybe you want something removed completely! What it may be, Google is surveying people who use Google to give their feedback and ideas on what they would like to see in the coming versions of GMail.
