My Mind Leaks... » Google http://mymindleaks.com Live with Feel of Technology and Blogging Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:31:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Google integrates Video Chat and Voice chat into GMail http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-integrates-video-chat-and-voice-chat-into-gmail/ http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-integrates-video-chat-and-voice-chat-into-gmail/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:31:03 +0000 SM http://mymindleaks.com/?p=693 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Google integrates Video Chat and Voice chat into GMail", url: "http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-integrates-video-chat-and-voice-chat-into-gmail/" });]]> A long waited feature has been added into the GMail. Yes, the Video chat feature has been introduced into GMail’s integrated GTalk Chat application.

Get the video and voice chat application installed for both Mac & Win. Start chat your video conversation right from your Gmail inbox.

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Installation for Mac.

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Once you have got the application installed, your default web browser is opened with the your gmail settings page.

This page allows you to customize your chat settings.

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And once all the settings are done, now it’s time to do a video chat.

You will notice that a video icon will be placed on the Gmail’s chat window.

Click on a person to chat and start the video chat. Make sure that the opposite party has the google video application installed.

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And viola! it’s all set and you can see your friend’s video inside you google mail account.

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]]> http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-integrates-video-chat-and-voice-chat-into-gmail/feed/ Unclutter your Google Reader http://mymindleaks.com/google/unclutter-your-google-reader/ http://mymindleaks.com/google/unclutter-your-google-reader/#comments Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:09:47 +0000 SM http://mymindleaks.com/?p=677 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Unclutter your Google Reader", url: "http://mymindleaks.com/google/unclutter-your-google-reader/" });]]> I’m a fan of various blogs and have a habit of subscribing to the feeds of the blogs and sites which I like to read it daily. But over a period of time, my Google Reader got piled up with the lots of RSS feeds. So, now I’ve a difficult time to read each and every RSS items. And most of the news items seems to be duplicated over various blogs and sites.

If you are a beginner to the internet and blog world, you would just have started your subscription and all you have to do is just to know how to manage the subscriptions. But for the advanced readers and the blog addicts, piling of the feeds will happen frequently. Now it is the high time for me to clean up my RSS shelf.

So, the big question is, how do I know which RSS should I get rid of?

Here is the arranged view of my google reader. There are 1000+ items in each section that is still pending with me to read. But I’m sure I gonna click ‘Mark as Read’ and I gonna get rid of all items ( including important and interesting stuff).

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Now i’ve to clean up all these unnecessary stuffs, but at the same time I can’t miss out my favorite stuffs. Here comes my saviour the Google Reader Trends that helped me to sort out my problem.

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Trends Link in Google Reader
The Google Reader trends shows up my reading trend and habit of reading. There are two types of Trends available
  • Reading Trends
  • Subscription Trends
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Google Reader Trends
Reading Trends
The Reading trends answers the question ‘which feed you are reading the most?‘
The top 5 blogs that I read CrunchGear , Lifehacker, AppleInsider , Engadget and Ars Technica. Also the “#Read” count shows, how many posts you have read in the shown RSS feed and “%Read” shows you how much of the published content you have read. In CrunchGear, i’ve read 24 items, but it is just the 2% of the items that I’ve read from the published content. So I’ve more content to read in CrunchGear. Similarly, in ‘Doing Jalsa and Showing Jilpa ‘, I’ve read all the items published, which shows 100%
Google Reader - Reading Trends
Subscription Trends
The subscription trends, answers the question ‘Are you intrested in blog feeds which publishes huge number of posts per day?‘Subscription trends, shows the frequency of the items getting published from a blog. In Gizmodo, about 46 items published per day but the trends shows that, I don’t ready any of Gizmodo’s item. Also, CrunchGear publishes 32 items per day and I’ve read 2% of the items from CrunchGear. So, even though Gizmodo publishes a large volume of news, I’m not much interested in the news item from Gizmodos. So, I might conclude that I’m not reading the subscription ( but might change in future ) that publishes more than 40 posts per day.
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]]> http://mymindleaks.com/google/unclutter-your-google-reader/feed/ Google Docs adds print preview http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-docs-adds-print-preview/ http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-docs-adds-print-preview/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:15:27 +0000 SM http://mymindleaks.com/?p=670 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Google Docs adds print preview", url: "http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-docs-adds-print-preview/" });]]> Google Docs adds a new features in it to make the document manage feel close to its rival Microsoft Office. Now recently Google Docs has added a new feature ‘Print Preview’ which acts exactly like Print Preview mode in the Microsoft Word. View and edit documents like you would on real paper with the new fixed width page view mode.

(Credit: CNET Networks)

(Via Google Operating System )

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]]> http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-docs-adds-print-preview/feed/ Drag n Drop to Organize your feeds in Google Reader http://mymindleaks.com/google/drag-n-drop-to-organize-your-feeds-in-google-reader/ http://mymindleaks.com/google/drag-n-drop-to-organize-your-feeds-in-google-reader/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:18:35 +0000 SM http://mymindleaks.com/?p=605 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Drag n Drop to Organize your feeds in Google Reader", url: "http://mymindleaks.com/google/drag-n-drop-to-organize-your-feeds-in-google-reader/" });]]> Google reader features a lot of features where most of them are still un explored. One good feature in Google reader is a quick way to organize the feeds in Google Reader. If you are a blogger or voracious reader, you would have sure subscribed to more than 50+ blogs. You later on as the count increases you might feel changing the current way you organized the your feeds. So, you have 3 options

1. Change or Update Folder

Click open each feed and update the folder in which it wants to reside.

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But this is just good only if you have about 10+ feeds. But as feed count goes on increasing you will find it more difficult and you might feel getting rid of the Google Reader :-)

2. Bulk Organising

You can do bulk organising of the feeds in the settings mode.

Go to Settings -> Subscriptions, you will find all the feeds listed. This panel gives you a way to do bulk organization!

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3. Quick Organising

Here is our trick that I want to explain. Google reader provides you a Drag n Drop facility to organize the feeds in the reading mode.

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You keep your drag any of the feeds and move it across your folders and drop it, viola, that’s it. That’s really a faster and quick way or organising the Google Reader feeds.

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]]> http://mymindleaks.com/google/drag-n-drop-to-organize-your-feeds-in-google-reader/feed/ Google releases Google Movies http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-releases-google-movies/ http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-releases-google-movies/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:49:17 +0000 SM http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-releases-google-movies/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Google releases Google Movies", url: "http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-releases-google-movies/" });]]> It’s a good news for the movies and the Multiplex lovers in India. Google had started indexing the details of the movies, it’s show time, the theatre / multiplex where the movie is picture. You can grab all those details via Google Movies.

 

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You can get the movie details for the next 3 days starting from current day.

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You can make Google sort the results based on the distance, film popularity and film title. This lists down which movie is so popular and it could tell you the index of movies running in a city with the theatres

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You could see google tells you which movie is so popular , so that it runs in most of theatre & multiplexes.

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]]> http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-releases-google-movies/feed/ Google Adsense issues word of caution http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-adsense-issues-word-of-caution/ http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-adsense-issues-word-of-caution/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:36:39 +0000 SM http://mymindleaks.com/?p=585 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Google Adsense issues word of caution", url: "http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-adsense-issues-word-of-caution/" });]]> Due to the increase in the money making strategies after the online boom, Google Adsense is one of the major revenue creating source. People around web had written lots of books, created CDs, presentation on how to make more money on Google Adsense.

For the customers who buy such products, Google Adsense has issued a word of caution for the customers.

It’s been reported that the customers of the above said product would be offered a Google Adsense account on the purchase of the CDs, Presentation etc. Google verifies that they are not affliated with any 3rd party and Google doesn’t receive any payments to allow into the Google Adsense program. Google reiterate the statement,

Google Adsense is a free product offered to publishers by Google Inc.

Read more about Google Adsense and the Program policies.

Source: Google Adsense

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]]> http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-adsense-issues-word-of-caution/feed/ Google App Engine - Write you own web application using Google’s infrastructure http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-app-engine-run-your-application-on-google-infrastructure/ http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-app-engine-run-your-application-on-google-infrastructure/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:27:53 +0000 SM http://mymindleaks.com/?p=548 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Google App Engine - Write you own web application using Google’s infrastructure", url: "http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-app-engine-run-your-application-on-google-infrastructure/" });]]> Google App EngineYou will surely feel great when you see your application runs as fast as Google Search. Isn’t it? And now even you can write your application and run at the speed of Google and scale to the size of Google

Google has finally revealed the great Google Apps engine, which is used to build Google Docs web application. You can grab your copy of Google Apps Engine and you can start writing your own web application at the prize of ‘0′.

Google App Gallery, which showcases some sample apps that can be created using Google Apps.

Why Google App Engine is great?

  1. You don’t have the pain of assembling and integrating the components.
  2. Fully scalable engine. Means it you write one application & it will support 10 or 100 or 1000 and more users. Without any modification
  3. Finally it’s free :-)

Visit their FAQ section to learn more about knowing the Google App Engine and Developing the Apps.

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]]> http://mymindleaks.com/google/google-app-engine-run-your-application-on-google-infrastructure/feed/ 4 Steps to Convert any document into PDF using Google Docs http://mymindleaks.com/google/4-steps-to-convert-any-document-into-pdf-using-google-docs/ http://mymindleaks.com/google/4-steps-to-convert-any-document-into-pdf-using-google-docs/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:10:56 +0000 SM http://mymindleaks.com/articles/google/4-steps-to-convert-any-document-into-pdf-using-google-docs/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "4 Steps to Convert any document into PDF using Google Docs", url: "http://mymindleaks.com/google/4-steps-to-convert-any-document-into-pdf-using-google-docs/" });]]> Google Docs is such a simple and powerful application which helps you to take the office docs online and work on it. In most of the cases you would have a need for PDF format of the document you work on. And probably you would have tired searching and downloading a PDF print driver or any PDF convertor to do it.

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The process of converting a document is as simple as the above picture. Just open up the Google Docs, upload the document / text file and save as PDF format and it’s done. You get a PDF document on the fly.Let us see how do we convert a document into PDF.

1. Open up Google docs and Click ‘Upload’

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2. Now you will be asked to upload the document which you want to convert either from your local system or from any website.

And just name the file accordingly. And click ‘Upload File’

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Now your document would have been uploaded and will be seen in the Google Docs Document Editor.

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3. Now select File -> Download As -> PDF

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4. Selecting this option will ask you for some print configurations

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Configure your options and click ‘Ok’ and that’s Done. You will get your PDF files ready in seconds for download.

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Here is the pretty PDF document ready for you!

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]]> http://mymindleaks.com/google/4-steps-to-convert-any-document-into-pdf-using-google-docs/feed/ Note Google Search results into Google Notebook http://mymindleaks.com/google/note-google-search-results-into-google-notebook/ http://mymindleaks.com/google/note-google-search-results-into-google-notebook/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:48:51 +0000 SM http://mymindleaks.com/articles/google/note-google-search-results-into-google-notebook/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Note Google Search results into Google Notebook", url: "http://mymindleaks.com/google/note-google-search-results-into-google-notebook/" });]]> Google Search now allows you to note the search results in to your Google Notebook. You will find a link in each Google Search results ‘Note This’.

 

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You should be logged into Google for saving the results into your notebook. You don’t need any plugin installed to do this. Just the Google take care to mark the note into your notebook.

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Google will open up a small popup interface for your Google notebook. Similar to the Google plugin notebook.

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Also, you can get the Google notebook plugin for your Firefox browser to make notes from any webpage.

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]]> http://mymindleaks.com/google/note-google-search-results-into-google-notebook/feed/ Display tags in Google Search using Google Bookmarks http://mymindleaks.com/google/display-tags-in-google-search-using-google-bookmarks/ http://mymindleaks.com/google/display-tags-in-google-search-using-google-bookmarks/#comments Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:19:12 +0000 SM http://mymindleaks.com/display-tags-in-google-search-using-google-bookmarks/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Display tags in Google Search using Google Bookmarks", url: "http://mymindleaks.com/google/display-tags-in-google-search-using-google-bookmarks/" });]]> Google Search is getting better and better as time flies. Google Search starts displays the tags that you have given for the post. Wow!!! This is cool!!!

I just tried to search How is my post on GMail hacks part1 & part 2 doing in the Google Search Engine. And I found an interesting stuff around the search result of my post. Google Search had listed tags. I wondered how it could index the tags. Then the findings had lead me to know that Google Search results make use of Google Bookmarks to fetch the relevant tags for for the search results.

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How to make Google Search display tags?

This is very simple trick. Google Bookmarks is a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us. Google Search indexes your saved Google Bookmark too. Add your post to Google Bookmark and give appropriate tags to your post. And the job is done. You would see Google Indexes your Google Bookmark and displays the tags post.

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Note: The Google Bookmark tags are displayed only when you are logged into Google.

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