SERVICES PROVIDED BY GOOGLE

Services provided by Google

Google is not only a search engine it also provides so many different services which makes it different from other search engines. There are so many services provided by “google”.

                                                           

                                                     When we open the webpage of google, we just type in the content we want to search & press “enter”. But many of us do not know that google provides many other services other than being a search engine.

                                                      If you want to know & enjoy all these amazing services, go to the google page, click on “more”. You want to know more, click on "even more". Besides of providing services like “images”, “map”, “news”, “gmail”, “orkut”. Google also provides services like groups, books, scholar, blogs, Translate, youtube, calendars, photos, documents, reader, sites, alerts, Blog search, “Google chrome”, Directory, Mobile, Code.

Let us explain the above given services:-

Search & communication

1. Web :- This Service of Google Enables us to search over 8 billion web pages. When we open the home page of google it enables us to search over internet through this service.

2. Images :- A click on this option leads us to surf through the Images of our choice. Type in which kind of image would you like to look at & enjoy a numerous number of related images.

3. Map :-This option as the name itself suggests shows the map of the world. You can even locate your home. Parameters for zooming in & zooming out are provided through which you can focus at the place you want to focus. The names of the cities States, even institutes, street etc are being provided. It really is a remarkable service provided by google.

                           Google Earth is also a service just like google map which offers maps and satellite images for complex or pinpointed regional searches.

4. News :- This option provides us the news both national & international. It gives us all kind of news from all over the world.

5. Video :- Through this option we can enjoy the videos from all over the world & can upload the videos which we want to share with other people. This service is generally supported by youtube.

6. Groups :- Google groups enables us to create a group as a friend circle or a team which is working on any task or discussion group with which we can share our technical or any other issues. 

7. Books :- Google books shows the preview of the books. It helps us in choosing the book. It suggests us the books which we should go for. It tells us about the books from all over the world & of different author.

8. Scholar :- Its something which searches research papers the white papers , 

& the articles etc. It really has a very good collection of research papers.

9. Blogs :- As the name suggests the google blog provides the name & the category of the blog we are searching for. 

10. Translate :- This is my favorite option because It lets me learn so many languages. It translates one language to the other, & this way it lets everyone to learn other languages.

11. Youtube :- This is the video service provided by google. It lets us to view the videos of all over the world. We can also upload the videos to this site to show our favorite video to the world.

12. Calendar :- Google Calendar lets us to organize our work, Appointments, anniversaries, tasks etc. It reminds us for every organized tasks. You can even change the organized tasks. It works as your daily dairy or mobile reminders.

13. Photos :- Google photos lets us to share our photos with our family members & friends. We can even upload our photos & they can be viewed online. Picasa is the software lets us to organize our photos, change them into video, Share it with others etc.

14. Document :- It is a web based word processor, spreadsheet, application form etc. we can work on it as we do on MS Word or word pad. We can even open or doc email with google documents.

15. Reader :- Through Reader we can subscribe to our favorite websites & hence new content comes to us when it's posted.

16. Sites :- It lets us to create a site of our own. We simply have to login to our google account & proceed to create your own website.

17. Alerts :- Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on our choice of query or topic. Just choose the topic on which you need alerts, how often do you need it & where to deliver (your email address). Alerts are of great use, you can keep a tab on your sports team, favorite celebrity, competitors etc. 

18. Google Chrome :- This is a web browser developed by Google. It is very fast, easy, Security oriented & stable. .

19. Desktop :- This one is very interesting service provided by google you can customize your desktop & make it very beautiful by adding sidebars & other stuffs. It can make Windows XP look like windows Vista.

20. Directory :- It is an ocean of knowledge, you can use directory for everything you want to search. It gives different category to make your search easier. It also provides the name of the relevant sites. You can browse the web by topics with help of this.

21. Notebook :- You can maintain your notes & important information here in this notebook. It can be called the electronic notebook. It has all the options as any editor should have as in / MS Word or Word pad like “Bold, “Underline”, “Font” etc.

22. Specialized searches :- Here can do our search within the specific topic. It narrows down our search to the specific topic.

23. Toolbar :- Through this we can add a google search box to our browser.

24. University Search :- Here we can search for the website of a specific school, college or university.

25. Web search Features :- This is the special feature to help us to find exactly what we are looking for. It contains of the most popular features. 

For tech-savvy Guys & Girls

26. Code :- This service is actually meant for the tech-savvy persons as it provides Developer tools, APIs and resources.

27. Labs :- We can try out new google products from here & suggests improvement to its developer. It contains the new products which are not yet being approved & launched yet & need your suggestions for improvement.

Communication oriented 

28. Blogger :- Blogger lets us to create our own blog & express ourselves online. It is a boon to those to wants to do blogging & create there own site. It gives uses the extension “.blogspot.com”

29. Talk :- It is again a social networking service provided by google. It is an instant messaging system. We can also call a friend from computer. 

Mobile services

30. Mobile :- It facilitates lets u to use mobile in our own mobile.

Software

31. Pack :- It provides a number of softwares to keep our computer in good condition & up & running. This software pack is completely free of cost.

Others

32. iGoogle :- iGoogle helps us to customize our Google homepage. We can add gadgets, background themes etc to make our homepage look good.

                         Apart from all these services google provides many more services.

How to access multiple email accounts with gmail??

Accessing multiple email accounts with gmail accounts is very easy.. We are just required to follow some of the very easy few steps:--

Let us check them out.

Step 1). Login to your gmail account..

Step 2). Click on "Settings" tab from your Gmail Account Window.

Step 3). From the window of Settings, go to "Lab" tab

Step 4). Scroll Down the page. We have lots of options there.. Go to "Mutiple Inboxes" & check the Radio button beside "Enable"

Once you do that you will see an additional box next to your inbox panecontaining search results for “is:starred” and “is:drafts”..

If you have starred or draft emails, you’ll see them there. If you don’t want to have a pane dedicated to drafts or starred emails you can remove those panes by going to the "multiple inboxes" settings.

Step 5). Now Go to the "Settings" again.

Step 6). Now Click on "Account" tab.

Step 7). From the "Account" window go to "Get mail from other account"

Step 8). Enter your "Email Address", "Password" & all relevant answers asked there..

During this setup process you’ll be able to apply a label to the new incoming mail and if preferred, archive it as well (both recommended). You can also take advantage of the “custom from” feature which allows you to send emails from those addresses through Gmail.

You have succesfully added your external email accounts..

Step 9). Now Go to "Settings", then Go to "Multiple Inboxes" tab..

If you haven’t touched these settings yet, by default you’ll see that pane 0 is occupied by “is:starred” and Pane 1 by “is:drafts” (I opted to remove those on my account). Simply enter the new email address or any other search criteria you might want displayed beside your Gmail inbox. Also note the additional settings, which provide the ability to increase or decrease the number of messages that will be displayed in the extra inbox panes as well as their position.

For adding additional email accounts simply repeat steps 2 and 3 to add more inboxes or labels as well as anything searchable that you want displayed in its own pane. And this is just one of the many advanced features found in the Gmail Labs tab which can take your webmail experience to the next level. Enjoy.

How to forward mails to other email account from gmail automatically?

If you are maintaining any more than one email accounts, & you use the other account more than you do use gmail you may avoid every time signing in to gmail & checking your emails..

You may simply forward your mails from gmail account to the other account you are using ...

Let us see how we can do that:--

Step 1). Login to your "Gmail" account..

Step 2). Click on "Settings" tab from the window of your gmail account..

Step 3). Click on "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab..

Step 4). Enter the email address to which you'd like your messages forwarded.

Step 5). Select the action you'd like your messages to take from the drop-down menu. You can choose to keep Gmail's copy of the message in your inbox, or you can send it automatically to All Mail orTrash.

Step 6). Click Save Changes.

You may also create filters to forward messages that meet specific criteria...

Mozilla Thunder bird!!!!

Mozilla Thunder bird is more flexible than most of the online mail services due to addons and customizations..

Setting up a mail account

The first step is to set up a mail account in Thunderbird..

(a).Click on Tools > Account Settings.

(b).Click on Add Account to create a new one.

(c).Choose the type of account you want.(Email account in this case).

(d).Click Next.

(e).Enter your name and the exact email address provided to you by your mail provider and click Next.

(f).Choose from a POP3 or IMAP server. IMAP requires you to be online while you are going through your mail as it only downloads header by default. POP3 will download all the mail locally. Enter the mail server address and click Next.

(g).Now enter the user name for your mail account and click Next.

(h).Finally give a name to the mail account you have provided. Proceed and complete the account creation process.

Sending emails using Thunderbird

To send an email in Thunderbird:-

(a). Click on Write Button and a new window will appear.

(b). Select the email account you want to send email from dropdown box.

(c). Enter the recipient's name, the subject and then the main body of the mail.

(d). The formatting tools for the mail are available in the toolbar right under the subject input line.

(e). To attach any file to the mail click on the Attach button on the toolbar and choose a file or web page.

(f). Clicking on Save>Draft will save the mail into the draft folder for later use.

(g). Click on "send" to send the mail.

How to setup your Gmail account in Thunderbird.

Thunderbird can be used to download and send mail through your Gmail account.

(a). First, POP3 or IMAP needs to be enabled from your Gmail account

(b). Login to Gmail, then go to settings. Click on Forwarding and POP/IMAP. Choose to enable POP or IMAP.

(c). Create a new account. Finally, modify the account settings to set Google's server information.

POP3 server address; pop.gmail.com; Port995

IMAP server address;IMAP gmail.com;PORT 995

Remember to enter your username as the enter email address and enable SSL security on the account..

When you have multiple accounts, you can check mail from all accounts simultaneously by clicking on theGet Mail button on the toolbar.

If you click the arrow on the Get mail button, you can select the mail service you want to retrieve mails from

How to maintain an address book in Thunderbird?

Thunderbird like other email clients has an address book features that stores your list of contacts so you don't have to go looking for an email address.

Add Contacts:-

(a). Click on new card button to add a new contact.

(b). Enter the information you have for your contact and click on OK to save it.

Insert contacts from address book to email.

(1). Start typing the first few characters of the name (to write a mail)

and thunderbird will auto-complete the nickname for you.

(2). The other way to send email to the people in your contact list is to click on the address book first and then right click on the nickname & click on write.

How to filter and sort out mails into seperate folders.

The filtering features in Thumbnails can be activated by clicking on Tools> Message Filters.

(a). Choose the mail service you want to filter.

(b). Click on New.

(c). Choose the keywords and parameters you want Thunderbird to check before filtering the mails.

(d). Based on parameters selected, the filtered mail could be copied into another folder, deleted or even forwarded into another account.

(e). Click OK once you are done with Settings.

(f). You can choose filters on any of the present folders in your mail box using dropdown menu at the bottom of the window.

(g). Click on the Run Now to run the filters...

Download videos embedded in Flash

 


Videos on Youtube , metacafe, dailymotion and facebook are embedded into webpages using Flash and users have no way of storing these videos for later views.You can download such videos by using Free Download Manager. 

To download a video from a video hosting site these are the following steps:

Step 1 Click on Flash Video download tab.



Step 2 Click on Create flash video download button.



Step 3 Enter the URL of the site you want to download the video from.



Step 4 Click on View list of supported sites to get an idea of which sites are supported by Free Download Manager.



Step 5 Enter the exact address of the Youtube video you want to download in the URL text box and click OK.




Step 6 FDM will first download the page and then download the video from the site to C:\Downloads.The video will saved as .flv video which you can play using VLC Player.

Block Or Unblock Websites without software !

Block Or Unblock Websites without software !

Many times in schools, colleges & offices surfing some sites like orkut,etc are banned !

To overcome this you can unblock these or block some other websites and play pranks !

Do The Following :

For eg you want to block www.xyz.com !

* Open the folder C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

* There you will find a file named HOSTS

* Click on the file and press SHIFT and now right click on it .

* From the right click menu select Open with .

* Now, select Notepad to open the file from the list !

* Now, in the file under the line 127.0.0.1 localhost add another line as127.0.0.2 www.xyz.com.

* Now, File>>Save !

Now, open your web browser and try openning www.xyz.com , it will not load !

To unblock sites just do the opposite !

Make Your Own Icons In Windows XP !

Make Your Own Icons In Windows XP !

Now even personalize your ICONS with Windows XP !

To make your own ICON :

1. Start>>All Programs>>Accessories2. Click Paint
3. In toolbar select Image4. Click Attributes

--------------------- Note : The size of a icon is 32 x 32 pixels ! ---------------------

5. Type 32 in both Height and Width and sure that Pixels is selected under Units6. Click OK
7. Now add your photo or design .
8. File>>Save As
9. Type name.ico10. Click Save
Enjoy your New ICON !!!

Hide Files in Image Files !!!

Sometimes we are eager to hide some files on the system !!!
(I won't ask Why ???)

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So, now i have got a trick to hide files in image files !!!
Here it is :

** You require WinRAR installed on your PC for this trick.
** First add your files to .rar and i.e. say files.rar
** Say you have a image as img.jpg** Now, save files.rar and img.jpg in c:\ drive.
** Click start >> Run** Type cmd** Now in command prompt type cd..** Again type cd..** Type copy /b img.jpg + files.rar new.jpg

-------------- Please Note --------------
>> This command will concatenate the two files into the new file new.jpg
>> Don't type files.rar + img.jpg instead of img.jpg + files.rar.
>> Now, (size of new.jpg) = (size of img.jpg) + (size of files.rar) .

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*** Mission Accomplished !!! ***

Now, we have new.jpg consisting of both img.jpg and files.rar .

Accessing the files :
** Double click new.jpg and img.jpg can be viewed.

** Now, to access files.rar :
# Right click on new.jpg >> Select Open With >> Choose Program...# Select WinRAR archiver.
# Now, simply Extract your files !

Enjoy... Please Comment if you liked my work !!!