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]
5 Image Search Engines You’ve Never Heard Of
Google Image Search is perhaps the best know image search engine. But MakeUseOf reveals five others worth knowing about, including Cyclo.ps, a meta-search engine that lets you search up to eight stock photo sites at once, including Flickr, Shutterstock, and …[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]
What is Google Wave?
On October 1, 100,000 lucky users got an invitation to preview Google’s new real-time communication platform: Google Wave. It combines email, instant messaging, chat, project management and social networking in a client that sits within the browser. To learn more, …[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]
How to Create a Google Reader Feed Bundle
The bundles feature of Google Reader is a really simple way to create OPML files for sharing with even your most- technology challenged friends. An OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is an xml file that contains links to other RSS …[Continue]
Efficient Use of Gmail
Efficient use of Gmail (Google’s free email service at http://www.gmail.com ) requires a paradigm shift in how you think about your email inbox. Other email services and clients treat email as you might a piece of paper in your office. …[Continue]
Adware Defined and What to Do About It
There are so many new threats coming at us from the Internet age that is hard to keep up. Adware is one of those new threats. Millions tolerate Adware because it isn’t damaging to the computer like viruses and worms …[Continue]
