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5 Great and Unknown Google Products

Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by Prasanth Chandra.

Google has made one’s life on Internet easier. Whether I’m talking about the million pound gorilla, Google Search Engine or Gmail, Google Documents, Google Reader, Picasa, or Google Calendar, each of these products plays a huge a role in our daily lives.

Google lets us discover new things, send mails, organize our stuff, share pictures, and much more. That’s just covers the mainstream Google products.  Google is always experimenting and trying out new things. If I ask you to name all the Google products, you will probably miss several of their lesser know products.  This article is going to tell you about 5 great Google services that aren’t very well known.

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Learn or Teach Online with WiZiQ

Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Nelba Quintana.

It is not always easy to find the right time to learn additional skills, or if you are a teacher, teach additional skills.   Everyone is so busy these days with work, family and all the other activities you find yourself doing.  Learning and teaching virtually is becoming more and more common, because you can learn or teach at a time that fits your schedule.

One service that can help learners and teachers get together is WiZiQ. WiZiQ is a web based education platform that “enables teachers and learners to collaborate.”

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Top 5 Google Chrome Extensions

Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by UzEE.

About 16 months ago, Google took the world by surprise, when it announced its intention of launching a web browser of its own. Touting it as the web browser for the next generation, Google made several innovations and modifications to the architecture and style of the existing web browsers.

Google Chrome is based on the Webkit layout engine, which is known for its excellent rendering speeds. Besides that, Google introduced a number of other features and enhancements such as the JavaScript processing engine V8, and insanely fast loading speeds along with other improvements such as sandboxing and private browsing mode for improved security. Even though Chrome had all the ingredients for a perfect browser, it still lacks when it comes to add-ons or extensions.

While Google Chrome is still no where near Mozilla Firefox when it comes to extension support, there are still some pretty good add-ons out there which can greatly enhance your browsing experience. Here’s my list of the top 5 extensions that are a must have if you are a Google Chrome user.

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Find the Fastest and Cheapest Traveling Route with routeRANK

Posted on 07. Jan, 2010 by srikanth.

routeRANK is a web based travel planning service that considers every type of travel route available for the destination including rail, road and air connections. Users can sort their best travel routes based on priorities like price, travel time and carbon-di-oxide emissions. It also gives information on the amount of luggage suitable and the time of travel to reach the destination.

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5 Sites to Get Free Medical Textbooks

Posted on 06. Jan, 2010 by Anthony Crognale.

Are you one of those students or professionals that thrive on continuing your education?  There are lots of ways to continue your education, and one of them is through reading textbooks.  The problem with textbooks is that they can be amazingly expensive.  Through my research around the Internet, I’ve found several sites that give you great medical textbooks for free.

Most of the books are in PDF or some other type of online format, but when the price is free, the format doesn’t really matter.  Let’s dive into my top 5 sites to get free medical textbooks.

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How To Backup All of Your Holiday Photos for Free Online

Posted on 30. Dec, 2009 by Squealing.Rat.

Photos are so beloved that to lose them would crush a person. Many people keep them just on their computer, but doing that can be especially dangerous. Hard drives fail all the time, and losing all your pictures would be heartbreaking.

In a worst case scenario, you always want to have backups elsewhere. While backing them up on an external hard drive is a fine backup, here are some tools that will backup your photos online for offsite backup.  Offsite backup gives you that extra layer of protection, so you can keep your memories around forever.

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Top 5 Google Docs Tips

Posted on 29. Dec, 2009 by UzEE.

In the recent past, we have seen more and more cloud computing services pop up, and they have been getting consistently better. Of course the concept isn’t new, in fact about 30 years ago, the same approach was used by most enterprises which would use dump terminals to access computer servers for all their computing needs. The only difference now is the availability and widespread use of the Internet. We can now access and use our data from anywhere in the world.

The idea has gained so much momentum that entire Operating Systems dedicated for cloud computing have started to emerge, like JoliCloud and Google Chrome OS. The major characteristic of these operating systems is the fact that they don’t store anything locally on your machine and rely on Web Applications for all the processing work.

This is where applications like Google Docs come into play. For those who don’t know, Google Docs is a fully featured online productivity suite which is available to anyone with a Google account. You can create, edit and share documents, presentations, spreadsheets and even web forms in just about any format available. And the fun doesn’t stop there. You can actually use a ton of different tricks and features which aren’t usually visible to be even more productive. Here is my quick list of 5 top tips and tricks you can use Google Docs for.

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How To Create a Collage Using Photovisi

Posted on 23. Dec, 2009 by Sharninder.

Photographs make up an important part of many of our lives.  They capture a moment in time that we want to relive again later in life.  We get to see these moments and remember them through photographs.  We all have lots of photographs, and we often want to do something fun with them.

Collages are a great way to get lots of memories in one place.  You can make one of your European vacation or that great summer you had with all of your friends.  It really doesn’t matter.  It just needs to be fun.  One of the problems with traditional collages is that they take work.  You need a big sheet of paper, some glue and time.

Photovisi is a great online service that makes it super easy to make a collage out of your favorite pictures.

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