Make a Local Backup of your Gmail Account
From Wired's How-to Wiki, a nice article detailing how to make a local backup of your Gmail Account. The article currently lists 3 different ways to do this, so you can pick the one that appeals to you. The Thunderbird option is especially nice for anyone already running Gmail and Thunderbird.
Make a Local Backup Of Your Gmail Account - Wired How-To Wiki
35 Gmail Hacks, Tips and Tricks
There are more than a few Gmail tips and tricks posts out there, but if you're like me, you spend a lot of time with Gmail, so it never hurts to learn more about how to use it more efficiently, right? A nice list, worth a read.
Gmail Tips and Tricks - 35 Cool Gmail Hacks
10 Most Amazing Google Search Tricks
Site TECHtracer has a nice article, detailing 10 Google search tricks. Some are probably known to the savvy Google user, but some interesting ones that might be new. Be sure to check out the updates at the end of the article, for more.
10 Most Amazing Google Search Tricksr (Techtracer)
25 Skins, Resources and Tools for Gmail
Getting tired of the same old look for Gmail? Daily Bits has rounded up some nice alternative skins, along with some additional resources and tools. A nice list worth a browse for any Gmail user.
25 Incredible Skins, Resources & Tools for the Gmail Power User
11 Power Tips for Gmail
Google's own Matt Cutts details 11 power tips for Gmail, including leveraging features already present in Gmail or using Firefox extensions to accomplish certain tasks. Be sure to read through the comments too, for more ideas and tips!
gDocsBar: Firefox sidebar extension for Google Docs
Google Docs Bar - Companion for Firefox is a sidebar extension for Firefox for working with Google Docs.
You can drag and drop multiple files into the sidebar to upload documents, search and filter documents all right from within Firefox. Handy!
Addons to Make Google Talk Better
Anyone who uses Google Talk at all might like to take a peek at a nice list of Google Talk Addons at MakeUseOf - Addons to Make Google Talk Better.
How to Migrate Your Custom Domain's Email to Google (and Maintain Your Addresses)
How to Migrate Your Custom Domain Email to Gmail (and Maintain Your addresses) is a nice "how to" take your domain emails to Gmail using Google Apps.
Google Apps allows those with their own domain to move their entire mail infrastructure to Google. That means keeping your email addresses exactly as they are today (e.g. daniel@dmiessler.com) while gaining the benefit of being hosted by Google.
Google Analytics for Beginners
Google Analytics is a great, free site stats program but there's no doubt that it can be a little overwhelming at first. Here's a beginners guide that would be a great read for anyone considering getting started with Analytics. How to Use Google Analytics for Beginners
Useful Google Feature: Better Date Search
Now that Google search results have gotten fresher, Google has started adding search by date options to it's Advanced Search Page. You can get date limited search results without visiting Google though, just by adding some extras to the google search url. See the article for more details and examples.
Useful Google feature: better date search
Tips for Google Reader Search
At long last Google Reader has search! The Google Operating System Blog has some great tips for how to get the most from it.
15 iGoogle Gadgets for Web Worker Productivity
If you're an iGoogle user, you know how many Gadgets there are to scroll through. If looking for some Gadgets to be more productive, Web Worker Daily has done the scrolling for you and offers up some nice ideas.
15 iGoogle Gadgets for Web Worker Productivity
Top 10 Little Known Gmail Features
Official Gmail Blog: Top 10 little-known Gmail features (Part 1) - features the first five. If you're a dedicated Gmail user, you probably "know" about these, but worth a peek, just in case you don't.
Generate your blogroll from Google Reader
Google blog Google Operating System details how to create a Blogroll Powered by Google Reader and it's surprisingly easy! Worth a read for Google Reader users.
7 Google Tricks Worth Knowing
7 Clever Google Tricks Worth Knowing is a great collection of some of the best Google tricks and hacks to make the most of Google search.
Useful Google Bookmarklets
If you like bookmarklets and you use a lot of Google services, Google Operating System is offering up a bunch of them in their article - Useful Google Bookmarklets.
Some handy tools to grab and use.
Manage all your email accounts with Gmail
Manage all your email accounts with Gmail is a nice article that walks through the process of using Gmail for all email accounts and how to properly set it up.
A good read for anyone wanting to set up Gmail to handle all email from multiple sources.
Advanced Use of Google Analytics
If you're a Google Analytics user or aren't but have been wondering whether you should be, you might want to check out Advanced use of Google Analytics and the new interface - a closer look at Analytics advanced features as well as taking a look at the new interface.
A Look at Google Gears working with Google Reader
A Look at Google Gears Working with Google Reader is an up-close and illustrated look at using the new Google Gears running Google Reader offline.
Google Gears Enables Offline Use of Google Web Apps
Seen a lot of places today, but worth a mention just in case you missed it. Google Gears (BETA) enables offline use of Google Applications, such as their office apps, for those times when you need the app but don't have a web connection handy.
How to Crank Through Your Gmail
How To Crank Through Your Gmail - how to get control of our Gmail quickly and efficiently. Some great tips for controlling the email beast.
Top 5 Google Tricks
From tech blog TechEBlog, Top 5 Google Tricks, offering up some mostly fun things to do with Google services, including using Google Maps to find various animals (latitude and longitude numbers included so you don't have to search too long to find 'em).
Pimp Your iGoogle with Greasemonkey Hacks
Pimp Your iGoogle With These Greasemonkey Hacks - some great ideas for leveraging the power of Greasemonkey (Firefox only) to pimp your iGoogle homepage.
Google Reader for Wii and Updated Google Analytics
Wii owners who are also Google Reader users now how a special Wii version available. Just use the Wii browser to navigate google.com/reader/wii.
In other Google news, Google Analytics will start rolling out a significant update, with a simpler interface and easier access to data. You can read a nice review of the changes here.
Integrate Gmail with the new Thunderbird 2.0
Google Operating System: Mozilla Thunderbird, Integrated with Gmail - how to bring your Gmail in to the latest version of Thunderbird (2.0) easily. A quick how-to.
How to make Gmail and Google Calendar rock your tasks
How to Make Gmail/Gcal Rock Your Tasks.
Many people also love Gmail and Gcal as two of their online tools of choice - they’re simple tools that get the job done fast, wherever and whenever you need them. If you count yourself among this group, here’s a guide for using the Gmail/Gcal combination as your online information center.
Some great ideas for Google tool users.
Use Google Groups to Backup Gmail
Made the leap to using Gmail fulltime and worried about backups or downtime? Google Tutor offers up solution by Using Google Groups To Backup Gmail shows how to marry the two Google services to create a Gmail backup system.
The "how to" has quite a number of steps but of course, you'd only have to do it once.
Aside: This is post number 1800 at etc!
30+ Tools and Hacks for Gmail
If Gmail is your email app of choice, you might want to check out Gmail Craze: 30 Tools and Hacks for Gmail, including Firefox add-ons, Greasemonkey scripts, desktop apps and web tools.
Again a big list so there is sure to be something new for everyone here.
Advanced Dork Firefox Extension: Get quick access to Google's Search Operators from Firefox Context Menu
It's one thing to know there are some great advanced operators to focus Google searches, but it's quite another thing to actually be able to remember them!
Enter the Advanced Dork Firefox extension, which puts quick access to Google's Advanced Operators directly from the context menu in Firefox. Here are some of this extension's features:
* Highlight any text, right click, and choose from over 15 Advanced Google Operators. This function can be disabled in the options menu.
* Right click anyware on the page with no text selected to be provided with the active pages HTML title for use with Google's intitle Operator, and the active pages HTML ALT tags for use with Google's allintext Operator. This function can be disabled in the options menu.
* Right click on a link and choose from site: links domain, link: this link, and cache: this link. Site: links domain will only search the domain name, not the full url.
* Right click the URL Bar (aka Address Bar) and choose from site, inurl, link, and cache. Inurl works with the highlighted portion of text only. Site will only search the domain name, not the full url.
Advanced Dork is available for Firefox version 1.0 - the 3.0 alphas and has earned a place in my add-on list!
Advanced Dork: | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation
Three Solid Gmail Productivity Tips
Three solid Gmail productivity tips - a great read for any Gmail reader. I particularly like the Persistent Searches idea, which uses a Greasemonkey script to add the ability to quickly query/filter your inbox.
Turn Gmail Into Your personal Nerve Center
Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center is a great read for any Gmail user (or potential user) who wants to "do more" with this great service.
From the author "... in recent weeks I have started using Gmail as much more than an email host. With its gobs of storage, speed and tremendous search/tagging capabilities, you can transform it into a personal nerve center that's available from any computer or mobile device."
The article is pretty comprehensive and covers
* How to turn Gmail into a massive personal database (Gmail + the Google Toolbar)
* How to get real-time news updates in Gmail (Gmail+ Google Talk + Twitter)
* How to automatically store your bookmarks in Gmail (Gmail + del.icio.us + Yahoo Alerts)
* How to manage Calendar and To-Dos in Gmail (Gmail + Backpack + GCal + GTalk + iMified)
* How to blog from Gmail (Gmail + Wordpress/TypePad/Blogger + IMified)
Worth a read for some great and new ideas.
Google Reader now shows embedded video
Official Google Reader Blog: Getting embedded in Google Reader. - Google Reader just keeps getting better and better. Now you can view video that has been embedded in blog posts etc.(from YouTube, Google Video and other sites) right in your reader. Nice addition!
Google Blog Search and Image Search Changes
A couple of goodies from the Google Operating Systems - Google Operating System: Google Adds Blog Search OneBox, highlighting Google's addition of blog search results (at the bottom of search results pages by adding "blog" to the end of any search terms.
Getting the Old Google Image Search Back - a how to hack your Firefox profile's user.js file to roll back to Google Image Search design.
Hack to force Google Anyalytics to give up the full referring url
Google Analytics Hack - obtaining full referring URL - does just what it promises with a simple addition to any page's body tag.
How to replace Outlook Calendar with Google Calendar.
How to Replace Outlook Calendar with Google Calendar - an easy how-to if you'd prefer the Google version.
Apparently a similar method works to replace Outlook 2007's RSS feeds with Google Reader.
Greasemonkey script to add search to Google Reader
I linked recently to instructions on how to add search to Google Reader and now Google Operating System outlines how to use a Greasemonkey Script for Google Reader Search.
Be sure to read the instructions in the post as the script requires some minor editing.
How to add search to Google Reader
Google Operating System: How to Add Search to Google Reader - a nice and easy "how-to" add the missing search feature to your Google Reader.
New version of Google Desktop and Holiday Gadgets
Inside Google Desktop: New Sidebars for All - featuring transparent sidebar and Office 2007/Firefox 2.0 compatibility.
And to go along with this new version, some timely holiday gadgets, including a Christmas tree that you can decorate, a countdown to New Year and more.
A whole lot of Gmail tips and tricks
Over 150 tips and shortcuts for Gmail the not-so-dumb little man puts out some great information, including this compilation of over 150 Gmail tips and tricks.
Search Google Earth for Giant Toys
Google Earth Holiday Toy Hunt Fun!
"Santa has hidden a treasure trove of presents somewhere in Google Earth (actually, it was a few of his elves, but you get the idea) . Every day from December 12th until Christmas Eve, a clue will appear outside Santa's North Pole workshop which, if you can solve it, will lead you to a toy hidden in a Google Earth satellite image. And every day, the location of the previous day's toy will be revealed."
You'll need to have Google Earth installed (or download it now) and also download the special "Santa Tracker and Toy Hunt" add-on.
10 Tips for smarter Google Searches
Ten Tips for Smarter Google Searches - an excellent read for anyone who wants to search smarter! Tips include how to conduct an either/or search, how to use the correct method of searching, including/excluding words etc.
7 Tips and Tricks for Google Reader
Google Reader user? If so, you might want to head on over and read some thoughts from Johnny's Brain - 7 Google Reader Tips and Tricks. Lots of good tips on how to get the most out of the Reader.
I really like #3 particularly, setting up a Smart Google Reader Subscribe greasemonkey script, which will tell you if you are already subscribed to a feed if you try to subscribe again, as well as offering all the available feed options on a blog when subscribing.
Well worth a read for this and more great tips.
How to customize embedded Google Video Player code
Google Operating System: Customize the Embedded Google Video Player details how you can tweak the embedded Google Video Player code to change a few options. Things that can be changed - the skin, autoplay on or off, looping of the video on or off and whether to show the share buttons.
Google Translation Browser Buttons
Translation Browser Buttons - 20 different translation bookmarklets that you can drag to your Bookmarks Toolbar for quick and easy language translation.
GCalSync: sync Google Calendar with cell phone or pda
SourceForge.net: GCalSync - a neat little, open source program that offers two-way synchronization between Google calendar and a cellphone, BlackBerry or PDA.
Bring Google Reader in to Gmail with Greasemonkey
Google Reader Redux [persistent.info] - use a Greasemonkey script to bring Google Reader in to Gmail. Cool!
Google Reader gets a little bit better yet
Official Google Reader Blog: We made it (a little bit) better.
Google rolled out a couple of small changes to it's Google Reader, which while not revolutionary, demonstrate their desire to respond to user feedback!
I've been using Google Reader for the past week (migrating from NewsGator) and I'm impressed! It's cut my feed reading time in half.
Yesterday's updates include the ability to specify start page, hiding the left side feed list (showing just the feed content), the ability to use the space bar to move between feed items and the addition of a "refresh" button at the bottom of the feed list.
Google's SearchMash quietly rolls out
You'd be hard-pressed to realize that searchmash.com
has anything to do with Google. But a whois search shows it to be true.
According to this article, Google's SearchMash is Google 2.0, a sandbox for playing with search result toys, including Ajax, image search and the ability to re-order results.
How to Add Google Reader Clips to your Blog
Trying out the new and improved version of Google Reader? Interested in putting clips from Reader on your blog? The BFF shows you how.
How to stick Google reader on your blog
Create Google (and other) Sitemaps online
Create your Google Sitemap Online - XML Sitemaps
Gmail Hacks, Tips and blogs, apparently
Cyber-Knowledge.net has a great list of Gmail hacks and tips, with some ideas I'd never seen, including using Gmail to blog ...
Gallina is a proof of concept that Gmail can indeed be used to blog, although when I visited the blog seemed to be lacking its entries. Cool anyway. Check out the screenshot to see it when it was working.
Fix slow GMail login and speed up Gmail
How to Fix GMail Login Problems & Increase GMail Speed - a host of great GMail tips, including how to fix that dreaded "Loading" hang that sometimes stands between me and my mail.
Some tips for using the new Gmail mp3 support
New Gmail Player Tips - including how to play any song on the internet (not just those emailed), as well as how to insert the player on your website.
How to Create and Share Google Maps with ShowMeWhere
Show Me Where: Easily Create and Share Google Maps and more!
With ShowMeWhere, you can drop markers or draw lines on your map, annotate them with any html and when your map is complete, there are number of options available for sharing your map, including emailing it, sharing a link to your map, displaying it on your website (with Google Maps API key). Also a nice feature, the option to host the map on your own server.
Googdesk: Google smarter
Googdesk - Google smarter! - puts all of Google in easy reach on one page. This is not a Google site, just a page that links to all of Google's sites.
How to Google Better
Advanced Google Tips is a great, plain English article that shows how to get more out of Google.
A trio of really handy ones noted in the article would be worthwhile for any web site owner to commit to memory and use regularly ...
site:www.yourdomain.com
Will search google for pages on your domain so you can find out how many of your pages are indexed by google.
related:www.yourdomain.com
Find out which pages Google considers to be similar to yours to find new resources or check out your competition.
link:www.yourdomain.com
See who is linking to your site. Sure to be valuable, particularly since so many people have turned off their trackbacking scripts because of spam (present site included!).
Google Desktop in your Firefox Sidebar
erica's joys :): Firefox Sidebar + Google IG = Useful on any platform - a how-to add your Google Desktop to your Firefox sidebar.
Top 10 Google Apps
I dunno. Maybe if you start to get a top 10 you have too many apps?
Using Gmail as a Universal Email Account
Google Tutor & Advisor � Blog Archive � Using Gmail as Your Universal Email Account - a how-to, which is dead simple and just makes use of existing hosting and gmail features. Simplify your email life!
Google Notebook Live
Google Notebook - now live. Login and check it out!
Google Image Ripper
Google Image Ripper v.0.1.8 - skips the thumbnails in Google Image Search and heads "straight for the good stuff". Cool tool but my advice, consider the page size of selecting "many" "large" images before clicking "Rip".
Google Calendar Review
Vitamin Reviews - Google Calendar - a great walk through by a new Google Calendar user, detailing the learning curve and the features of Google Calendar.
Google Cheatsheet
Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet) - a handy bookmark for advance search operators.
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