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 [...]
The current home page from the new tab shows the list of installed apps on Google Chrome. Most of these apps are generally links to your favourite sites, but unfortunately, not all websites have their app in the Webstore. So, normally you use “Most Visited” section to go to that specific site. Wouldn’t it be [...]
Suppose you have any important mail to send but not right now. You want it to be delivered at a specific point of time. You want to schedule your mailbox to send mails automatically at specific periods even if you are not in front of your computer. Unfortunately, Gmail can’t schedule your mails to send [...]
[USA Only] Padmapper is a useful Google Map mashup, which helps you find apartments on rents from Apartments.com, Oodle, Kijiji and Craigslist apartment’s lists. Fundamentally, it is another apartment search engine but with the power of Google Maps that makes exploring easy and convenient. Just enter city, address, or zip of a place where you [...]
By default, your Google+ profile is accessible by search engines like Google, Bing and others. This makes it easy for others trying to find you. However not everyone wants their profile to be indexed or searchable through a search engine. If you feel the same, you can easily prevent search engines from crawling your profile with [...]
Many of us use Outlook and Gmail at the same time for professional and personal work connect. Alternatively, some of us use IMAP or POP so that we can get Outlook like convenience on Gmail. But in both of these cases, managing similar contacts is a common problem. A decent solution to this problem is [...]
Though strikethrough is not a feature that we use in our daily lives unlike bolding or making text italics, it is often required in many cases. For the lesser-known people, strikethrough is a type of styling text with a horizontal line cutting through words representing modification or deliberate deletion. For example: I am was a [...]
So, its early morning & you open your Gmail and what you might see ? Yes, this is what you may encounter, if you haven’t entered your Birth date in your Google Account. With the increasing fake profiles on Google+, Google is trying to restrict such fake accounts. Earlier Google Groups and than Picasa Web Albums became [...]
One of the easiest medium for importing and exporting is a CSV file. These files have each attribute value separated by comma and hence called Comma Separated Value File. Calendar, tasks and contacts applications commonly use these files. However, a small syntax mismatch can cause the error during importing and exporting. Google is very strict [...]
Picture-In-Picture For YouTube is an lesser known extension for Google Chrome that gives you a fair easy way to watch YouTube videos while browsing other websites and even when you are working on desktop applications. Once installed, the extension adds a new ‘PIP’ button, next to the existing Share button, on every YouTube video page. [...]
The Chrome download site does not display the latest Chrome version number and hence it is difficult to determine whether you are using the most recent one with the newest features and rectified security flaws. This is because Chrome automatically gets updated from Google servers from time to time. Therefore, Google assumes that you always [...]
When a non-US user visits the Google homepage, they are automatically redirected to the local version of the search engine for that country. This country version can be identified by looking at its tld (postfix after the dot sign in the domain name) which is Google.co.in for Indian users, Google.co.uk for British users, and so [...]
One of the most irresistible-to-ignore differences between Google Plus and Facebook/Twitter is that Google Plus has no provision of messages, inbox or direct/private messages. Google+ has a single home screen, which lists the entire message/share stream just like the Facebook news feed. Within the same home screen, you can share stuff to all or send [...]
Switching internet connections is always a big pain. Fortunately, we have proxy managers that take care of this complicated job. More thankfully, we have browser proxy add-ons and extensions, which makes this job easier than it sounds. When do you need a proxy manager? If you are the type of user that work on different [...]
Is there a way to remind myself of some specific task with advance emails? or there is an email that I didn’t want to receive now but after 4 hours. What should I do? Should I leave it unread? Or should I keep it as a reminder note in diary/mobile alarm/Google Calendar? There is a [...]
Gmail provides the flexibility to change the ‘From’ address while composing mails to anyone. In simple terms, you use only one Gmail account but send emails on behalf of other mail accounts. This is very useful feature for people with multiple mailing accounts. Moreover, the delegated email addresses need not belong to Gmail. For Example [...]
Gmail by default shows reply option in the rightmost dropdown for any mail. However, for a section of people, who use Gmail for business purpose it is very inconvenient to select ‘reply to all‘ each time from the dropdown for keeping everyone in the loop. Note: Just like outlook Ctrl + Shift + r shortcut [...]
Gtricks mobile interface beta is live at http://m.gtricks.com. Its about 7kb size page, so you can easily check of any updates through mobile conveniently. Recently, when we covered 5 tab extensions to fancify chrome some readers mailed me, asking how to open blank tabs for privacy concerns? That is, they wanted to remove or hide [...]
