Identifying a mystery celebrity in a photo, or finding websites that have stolen your copyrighted images has gotten a whole lot easier with Google’s Search by Image. Images can be dragged and dropped, uploaded, specified by URL, or (with a …[Continue]
How To Back Up Your Web Based Email Account
Although free web-based email services such as Gmail (and Hotmail and Yahoo! mail) offer great features and convenience at a great price, they are subject to outages and data loss. The simplest way to protect yourself is to make a …[Continue]
How to Save Files Directly to Online Storage From Websites
Free online storage from Google Docs or DropBox allows you easy browser access to files from anywhere. But have you ever wondered how to save a file from the Internet directly to your online storage account? For example, what if …[Continue]
How to Use Gmail to Manage Email Newsletters
Email newsletter subscriptions can pile up, and the start of a New Year is as good a time as any to finally unsubscribe from email you don’t want to receive. Here’s a Gmail tip for finding most subscriptions in your …[Continue]
How to Recover a Hacked Google Account
Amit Agarwal is a professional blogger, and despite what he knows about choosing secure passwords, his Gmail account was hacked. Going through the recovery process to regain control of his Google accounts, he learned some interesting things. In this article …[Continue]
How to Use Google Voice Mail with your Existing Phone Number
Although it is still only available with an invite from an existing user, Google Voice recently opened up their free voice mail service for use with your existing phone number. With Google voice mail, you get voice mail messages with …[Continue]
How to Automatically Archive Old Messages from Your Gmail Inbox
Email experts advise against using your email inbox as storage and instead suggest frequently cleaning it out and storing old messages in archive folders instead. For Gmail users, here’s a filter that will move all messages older than a certain …[Continue]
How to Port Your Data In and Out of Google
Although Google creates wonderful, free products that so many of us love and use, from a purely information management viewpoint, we should all be a bit more concerned with data portability. And Google agrees! The Data Liberation Front is an …[Continue]
