Very often old websites does not work in Chrome and asks you specifically to use IE or Firefox. Many a times you would like to change the user agent string in Google Chrome either to check the mobile version of the site on your desktop or to try out it with different browser platforms. Until [...]
Life was easy before the new Facebook changes. You can share articles without any hassles with your friends. Now, whenever you click any shared news article on Facebook, you are greeted by an App. You are forced to install it for reading that article. The new installed App with monitor your behaviour and will recommend [...]
Along with the latest version of Chrome, Google has made significant changes to the in-built extension manager. However, if you install too many extensions then managing them becomes a pain. They take up significant space next to address bar (Omnibox), each one has a separate options page and it is difficult to update them. There [...]
Do you feel Chrome’s new page tab design is boring? Then you must see our previous post on 5 beautiful Chrome new tab extensions. A new addition to this list is Windows 8 Metro UI inspired, widget based aNTP or Awesome New Tab Page. aNTP is fully customizable with widgets, apps, icons, bookmarks and colours. [...]
You have upgraded to the new gaudy Gmail interface and probably you are hating it like many others. Among the other annoying elements such as low contrast between colours, one thing that annoys the most is the repeated little box at the right side bottom of the window. No matter how many times you close [...]
Google plus is somewhat similar to facebook [see Google plus vs Facebook Infographic]. Both of them have profile picture gallery or banner at the top of about page that you can use cleverly to make nice effects. This is an easy way to beautify your profile page and make it more attractive. You can use [...]
Google Reader, the online feed viewer is one of the most used application from the Google factory. Unfortunately, it has only one default theme and there are no options to customize it with backgrounds and colors like in Gmail. However, there is a hidden easter egg, which changes your sidebar style. Officially Google doesn’t provide [...]
Orkut keyboard shortcuts is a great way to improve your speed to browse and it eases many other tasks. Officially, Google does not support any keyboard shortcuts for Orkut like for Greader or Gdocs. But, we can make use of browser capabilities to use key combinations as shortcut keys. use the following keboard shortcuts to [...]
Recently Google did complete makeover of their search page. Now, it has bigger search box with large fonts for more search suggestions. Google’s core business is search and they are very serious about simplicity and user behavior.
Gmail gadgets can really spice up your emailing experience. Just imagine what things you can do inside a single Gmail window by adding custom gadgets. You can use all the services at the same place without leaving the inbox.
UPDATE:You can easily remove ads by using Firefox add-on WebMail Ad Blocker or greasemonkey script Gmail without ads. Chrome users can use extension Hide Gmail Ads. If you don’t want to use addons, you can still remove ads be a simple trick given below. Gmail tries to provide useful information and relevant ads in the [...]
Remember the hoax created by ecoIron that Google could save up to 3000 Megawatt-hours of energy by switching to black screen. There was also an explanation by the Google itself that why it is not feasible to show results in black screen background.
Sachio Search is the Firefox add-on that lets you search for the selected word from the context menu of Firefox. Handy add-on to save time as you need not to copy text and paste it into Firefox toolbar search engine.
It looks like users demand for themes and extensions for Google Chrome is showing some impact on latest developer versions on Chrome, which would also include better working with windows 7.
Gmail by default gives 11 font choices which are more than enough for an average user. But sometimes we would like to have stylish fonts used in our mails to impress our friends or standard font mail for business communication.
Sometimes for research purpose or for getting to the source of the news, it is necessary to categorize the search, based on time. By default there is no option to show particular results in between the dates.
Google Web Elements allows you to add Presentations, News, Maps, Calendar and many more products into your website or blog by just copy/pasting the given code.
Google Accessible is a search engine specially designed for visually impaired or partially blind people. Though it’s still in Google lab but looks promising and helpful.
