The latest version of Ubuntu has removed Evolution and replaced it with Thunderbird. For those who are first time using Thunderbird, you will discover that, unlike Evolution, Thunderbird doesn’t come with a Calendar/Task feature. You are not able to add any events/tasks, not to mention the integration of Google Calendar. However, the good thing about Thunderbird is that it supports add-ons and the great number of add-ons in its library makes it one of the best email client around. In this tutorial, let’s take a look at how you can set up Calendar in Thunderbird and integrate Google Calendar with it.
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How to Integrate Google Calendar to Thunderbird
By | October 14, 2011 | 4 Comments
15 Useful Google Chrome Extensions To Get The Best Out Of Google+
By | July 27, 2011 | 4 Comments
It has only been several weeks since Google+ opened its door to limited users and it has already created plenty of buzz. While many people still have not gotten their invites, there are already 10 million users on the platform and a billion items shared per day. If you find yourself terribly addicted to Google+, Here are 15 Google Chrome extensions that make using Google+ a better experience.
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How to Migrate Images from Facebook To Google Plus
By | July 22, 2011 | 2 Comments
Google+ (or Google Plus) is the hot new thing in social networking. Everyone and their little sister have been clamouring for invites to set up their account in this new playground. Unfortunately, users are having to start from scratch without any of their connections, posts or other media cultivated from other social media sites. For example, Facebook is one of the most popular photo sharing websites and so it is likely that users have a lot of photos on it. Unfortunately, it is difficult to quickly export these photos from Facebook to Google Plus as Facebook does not have any automated tool to do so. Fortunately, enterprising users have created a Google Chrome extension that automatically transfers your Facebook photos to Google Plus.
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Search Sidebar Lets You Search Everywhere On Google
By | July 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment
If you want to do a search, the usual choice is to go to Google.com and type in your search. What if you want to search in Facebook, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, or even your own Gmail or Google Docs account? You have to go the respective sites to do the search. Very troublesome, isn’t it? How about getting all the search results in one page? The Search Sidebar extension allows you to do just that.
Search Sidebar is a very useful add-on that allows you to search multiple sites with one query and search interface. The best thing is, all the search results appear in your Google search result page, so you don’t have to get used to any new interface.
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iGlue: Add an Informative Layer on Every Webpage to View Useful Structured Information
By | July 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Normally when you visit a website and find words you are interested, you execute a web search and quickly research these words. These words are mostly people, places, or institutions mentioned on a webpage. Often, the same words are found interesting by other people who have visited the website. Each visitor executes his own web search and quick research about these interesting words on the same webpage they all visit. Wouldn’t it be helpful if the research information about these was share with all site visitors?
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InstantFox Makes Searches From The Address Bar A Breeze [Firefox]
By | March 23, 2011 | 1 Comment
Ever since Google launches instant search, there have been plenty of addons and extensions that attempt to emulate the behavior either in the search bar or address bar. Some of these extensions not only successfully created the “instant” effects, some have even added more features to make it better. InstantFox is one such extension.
InstanFox is a Firefox extension that allows you to perform instant search for several sites directly from the address bar.
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Integrated Gmail: Use All Google Applications From Within Gmail
By | March 5, 2011 | 1 Comment
Google provides internet users with a number of valuable services. These services include Gmail, Reader, Calendar, Maps, Analytics, and many others. Often we find ourselves using many of these web apps simultaneously. The result is a huge clutter of browser tabs between which we are constantly jumping.
Here to tidy up that situation and provide a neater way of using those Google service is a tool called “Integrated Gmail”.
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Google Shortcuts Accesses All Google Services In One Click
By | February 19, 2011 | 2 Comments
Are you a googler? Well, you may not be an employee of Google, but I am sure you have used at least one Google services. If you are like me, who are using multiple Google products (from Google search engine, to Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Reader, Picasa and many more), you will appreciate the beauty of the Google Shortcuts extension for both Firefox and Chrome.
Google Shortcuts displays all Google services as buttons or as a space-saving dropdown menu next to your address bar (or anywhere you like it). You can then access your frequently used Google services with a single click from the toolbar. It currently supports over 110 Google services and it is highly configurable and customizable.
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9 Useful Tools to Get The Best Experience Out Of GrooveShark
By | February 16, 2011 | 17 Comments
Grooveshark needs no recommendation. It is the best online music service out there. It is your one-stop music hangout where you can search for, stream, and upload music that can be played immediately or added to a playlist. It also comes with a recommendation engine where you can find the popular songs other people are listening.
By default, Grooveshark is only accessible via a browser. To use it, the usual way is to open your browser (or open a new tab), go to the Grooveshark site and start listening to your music. This isn’t really the most user-friendly way. What if, with the help of some tools, you can have a better Grooveshark experience? Let’s check them out.
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TelePrompter Autoscrolls Any Page in Google Chrome
By | February 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment
When you are reading a long article, do you always feel tired of scrolling your mouse (or pressing the keyboard arrow key) to reveal the content under the fold? If you are using Google Chrome, there is an extension to help you tackle this issue.
TelePrompter is a simple extension that only do one thing – set any webpage to autoscroll mode. When set, the webpage will scroll up or down by itself at a regular speed. You can switch the scroll direction with the mouse or keyboard shortcut and change the scrolling speed on the fly.
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