Useful Google tips - 2

I have posted some useful google tips in my blog already. You can very well find it out here. Since i was bored to type, dint continue with it and now i thought of continuing it. So, here are the other useful google tips.

Get your day's schedule in Mobile
For this, you have to set up your mobile with google calendar. This can be found under Settings -> Mobile. Once you have set your mobile, just send a message "day" to the number 48368 and you will be notified with your day's schedule.

More Reading Space
If you feel the left sidebar of gmail annoying or feel like need space, just press the U key and you will see the sidebar removed. To bring back the sidebar on, just press the U key again.

Send EXE files
Google has always been concerned about protecting its users computer from viruses. Sometimes this cautionary approach of google surely annoys us especially if we want to mail a friend some .exe files, .dll files etc. Even if we zip it and send google finds it out. To avoid this, just change the extension of the filename to something like .txt, attach and send the file. And ask your email receiver to change it back to .exe or whatever after downloading the attachment.

Search your emails
With a huge mail space provided by Gmail, a lots of email gets cluttered in our inbox and if we want a specific email to look up on, then you can use the search option in gmail. You can narrow down your search by specifying "to:, from:, subject:" etc. And also using "labels:, after:, before: " if you want to search between certain dates.

Google presentations
If you work on presentations in Google docs, then you can directly publish it on webpages using the code generated to embed in the webpage. You can also save it as a pdf file to send it to others.

How much do you read?
Are you having the habit of reading news from RSS? Then find out how much you have read with the help of Google Reader which provides info on RSS subscriptions, what all you have read, shared, emailed etc.

Advanced Search
Google's advanced search spells out all operators, wildcards, restrictions and more you can use while searching.

Alright, hope this is enough for now. Just few tips remaining and i'll post them later. If you want some other Gmail Tips, check it out here.

Useful Google tips - 1

Blogsearch

If you wanna search blogs not just google owned blogger sites, but also other blogs, use this link

Remove dead sites

If you find some sites outdated or dead, you can very well remove it from google's search by reporting it to google. The link used for this is www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals

Print Calendars to PDF

If you have been using google calendar, you can very well print it into a pdf by clicking the "print" link at the top of calendar. Once the formatting is set for the first time, a pdf is generated every month for automatically which can be printed, emailed etc.

Auto update of spreadsheet data

Google docs' spreadsheets can automatically update the datas in its cells such as population count, stock tips etc using goole lookup fuction. To learn more about this,check the functions category in this link.

Convert pdf into editable text

Send the pdf you wish to convert to your gmail. Sign in your gmail id and then open the sent attachement by clicking the "View as HTML" option. Copy paste the opened text in a word processor and there you go, your pdf is now editable.

Search a single site

Using this option, you can search for things in a single site say for rapdishare use this

software site:rapidshare.com

Exact search words

If you donot want any result containg a particular word, use the hyphen ( - ) to mention the word that you donot want to include in your search. Eg. graphics card-ati

hmmm....i feel bored to type the remaining google tips. so, will post those tips later in here. If you want Gmail tips, check it out here.

Internet Security Tips - Part 1

ENCRYPT YOUR E-MAIL

Nowadays, Information theft has been increasing at an alarming rate and many softwares which can automatically interrupt mails or information and divert to hackers are available freely on net. Even if the a mail sender's server was equipped with security techniques, if the recipient's server is not well protected, there is a chance of information being stolen. To avoid these kinds of information loss, Encryption techniques are becoming popular and many websites have taken it to the next level by making it available to the public.

One such site is LOCKBIN. Here is the procedure to send a encrypted message.

Before you start, the mail recipient must know the SECRET CODE which is used to encrypt and decrypt the message. So, let him know about the secret code in prior to sending the mail.

1. Click the above link and get started
2. In the next page accept the license agreement
3. Type the security code so that the site could confirm that you are not Shankar's ROBOT or a spam softie
4. On typing the correct security code, the site allows you to compose your message with all common formatting options.
5. After composing your message proceed to the next stage, where the secret code is asked. Type in the secret code and click continue
6. In the next window, the details about the sender and receiver are presented and the message is sent.

The receiver will receive a LINK in his inbox which he has to click and follow the same procedure as stated in 2, 3 and 5 respectively in order to read the message.

Though the procedure seems to be bit boring, it is a better option compared to losing your confidential data to some unknown person.


HIDE YOUR E-MAIL ID

If you want to receive mails from a community or group, say for example you ask for a solution for a problem in one of the orkut community and give your email address to mail you the solution. At such instances, spammers grab your mail id and start spamming your inboxes. What you want is to receive mails from the website and still avoid spam mails. A remedy for this problem is found at CONTACTIFY.

All you have to do is this. Go to this website and just give your email address and register in it.
The website will create a link specially for your id. Eg. www.contactify.com\your name
So you can use this link in places where your email address are prone to public view. So when a person clicks on the link, a new page gets opened and in that the person types his reply and sends it to you. He never gets to know what your mail id is. Cool isn't it????


KNOW ABOUT UNKNOWN FILES

Are you a person who always download stuffs from internet and yet has no idea whether the downloaded file is a virus or not?? Are you doubtful of a certain file in your system? In that case all you need is to check out what is that file meant for from this website.

Visit the website and give the file name you are not aware of and get information about the file. The database of this site is regularly updated by internet users.