Finding images for articles and presentations can be a nuisance. Unless you’re an expert in creating your own images, you probably use Google Images to find pictures that will fit the theme of your project or article. Most people use Google Images because there’s a huge selection of high quality images there, but visiting unknown sites to open full size images is risky. You could get yourself a nasty virus, and what about when you are looking for images with children? Do you cringe as much as I do at what might pop up? When searching for pictures, half the time, you find the image wasn’t even what you were looking for, or it was a broken image and you have to start over again. There has to be a better way!
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Search Images Safely and Quickly With Google Image Ripper
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How to Create A Google+ Page For Your Business
By | November 8, 2011 | 4 Comments
Facebook Page has been insanely popular with web owners that if you didn’t have a Facebook page for your business/website, you are not participating in the social game at all. In order to get a piece of the big pie, it is not surprising that Google has also come out with the Google+ page (for their Google+ social network) that allows anyone to create a page for their website/business. Here’s how you can create a Google+ page for your business.
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How to Get Google To Show Your Profile Picture In Search Results
By | October 7, 2011 | 8 Comments
If you have noticed recently, when you perform a search in Google, some of the search results have a profile picture (of the author) displayed beneath the link. There are no special privilege for these authors, nor did they pay Google to do it. If you are a blogger or content creator, you can get your picture in the search result as well, for free. Here is how to do it.
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7 Useful Chrome About Pages You Didn’t Know Exist
By | September 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
Back in 2008, Damien wrote an article going through various Firefox about page tricks. Well, Chrome has similar functions behind the scenes, whereby accessing various about pages lets you turn on and off features that you might not otherwise have access to. They can also provide a window into information that might be useful in debugging a problem you might be having, or useful for some other purpose.
Backtracking for a second, you might be wondering what exactly these “about pages” are that I keep speaking of. You may notice that when you open a new tab in chrome, the address bar contains the text “about:blank”. That code simply tells Google Chrome to display a blank page. Varying the text after “about:” allows you to access special pages. I outline some of the most interesting and useful of these below.
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Google Docs Tips For Beginners
By | September 12, 2011 | 1 Comment
Google Docs is Google’s online document creation and management application. If you haven’t used Google Docs and you have a Google account, it is really worth checking out. It could easily save you from purchasing MS Office or upgrading.
Like many Google applications, Google Docs has been doing some testing behind the scenes. Being able to use and manage your documents well can save lots of time. Here are a few tips to help you be more versed with Google Docs.
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6 Tips To Make Google Reader Easier To Use
By | September 4, 2011 | 3 Comments
RSS readers are immensely useful tools for more than just keeping up with your favorite sites. In the past we have talked about different tools to use your Google reader. Some were about bettering your reading experience with Google Reader.
I know I use Google Reader to catch up on my favorite sites. The hard part is making your experience easier. Usually easier means you will use it more. Here are a few ways to make Google Reader easier to use.
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Blekko Review: A Worthy Google Challenger
By | August 27, 2011 | 3 Comments
The vast majority of people online, nerds and non-nerds alike, use Google for all of their search needs. Statistics place their market share between 80-90% depending on your geographical area. In Australia, where I’m from, their market domination is closer to 95%. That raises the question – is Google really the best offering out there? Are there any up-and-coming challengers that are worth checking out? Bing practically throws out the same results as Google, which might have something to do with the fact that they were caught out copying Google’s results.
A search engine I’ve been hearing mentioned more and more lately is Blekko, so I decided to take a closer look to see if it actually offers anything different to El Goog’s algorithm. I don’t know if many of you have noticed, but Google’s search results have been looking more and more “gamed” lately, with spam becoming pervasive.
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How to Integrate Google Reader and Google+
By | August 25, 2011 | 3 Comments
Like many of you, I use a lot of Google products. It’s hard not to – they’re usually useful and free. To date, nearly everything Google has released has been a game-changer in its field. Earth, Maps, Gmail, Android, and countless other tools have each raised the bar for what we expect out of software, particularly on the web. When Google released Google+ a short while ago, that left many of us “power users” wondering if/when it would be integrated with Google Reader, the fantastic RSS feed reader. There have been a few plugins/extensions/etc released by third parties with the aim to fill this gap until Google makes it official, but so far the best of the bunch seems to be RSS Share for Google+ and Google Reader. It connects the two services so seamlessly that it’s easy to forget that it’s an addon.
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Google Catalog App Made Shopping On the Internet Much Easier
By | August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Have you noticed that you aren’t receiving as many catalogs in the mail these days? Most likely it isn’t because the stores are going green. Instead, look to the Internet as the likely culprit. Shoppers are less likely to open a paper catalog when they can do the same shopping on the Internet at any store imaginable, rather than just the ones they receive mailed catalogs from. The Google Catalog App just made that whole process even more easy.
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5 Ways To Make Good Use Of Google Forms
By | August 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Google Documents is a very popular application for many web workers. You can create a document in the cloud and access it from anywhere as long as there is Internet access. Many applications like Google Docs for Android also allow you to access your Docs account from anywhere you are.
One of the options within Google Docs is Forms. The most common use for Forms is as a survey. There are articles galore on how set them up and incorporate them into a page or email; here is one to get you started.
If you are looking for more ways to make use of the Google Forms, here are some useful means to spark your creativity.
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