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Get Reading with GoogleBooks

August 25, 2010

Have you discovered the free ebooks and magazine available at Google Books yet? Although their My Library interface is functional, now there’s a graphical interface for Windows desktop that’s much more visual, and a lot more fun to use. GooReader is free application for searching, downloading and reading Google Books. A premium version is available [...]

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Get Answers with Aardvark

August 18, 2010

Aardvark is a crowdsourcing platform for asking and answering questions, that was recently acquired by Google. When a question is received, Aardvark finds the perfect person to answer it by looking through your social connections, and others who have a knowledge of or an interest in the topic you’ve asked about. Although you can ask [...]

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New Features Available for Gmail Users

March 17, 2010

Last week Google released a number of new Gmail features to the public, taking them out of Gmail Labs, which is a beta or testing platform. These include message color coding, search autocomplete, forgotten attachment detector, YouTube previews, and vacation away messages. At the same time, some test lab features were killed. To learn more, [...]

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Are You Buzzing?

February 17, 2010

Google recently announced Google Buzz, a social media platform that integrates social networking into Gmail and other Google products. To check it, login into your Gmail Account and look for Buzz in the left-hand column. Is this going to impact Twitter or Facebook? Will you be jumping on the bandwagon? Let me know what you [...]

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How to Use Gmail to Manage Email Newsletters

January 7, 2010

Email newsletter subscriptions can pile up, and the start of a New Year is as good a time as any to finally unsubscribe from email you don’t want to receive. Here’s a Gmail tip for finding most subscriptions in your mailbox, so you can either go through one by one, or set filters to organize [...]

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How to Recover a Hacked Google Account

December 22, 2009

Amit Agarwal is a professional blogger, and despite what he knows about choosing secure passwords, his Gmail account was hacked. Going through the recovery process to regain control of his Google accounts, he learned some interesting things. In this article he offers advice on what you should do now to make it easier to recover [...]

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How to Use Google Voice Mail with your Existing Phone Number

October 28, 2009

Although it is still only available with an invite from an existing user, Google Voice recently opened up their free voice mail service for use with your existing phone number. With Google voice mail, you get voice mail messages with attached audio files delivered to your email inbox along with a transcription of most messages, [...]

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What is Google Wave?

October 4, 2009

On October 1, 100,000 lucky users got an invitation to preview Google’s new real-time communication platform: Google Wave. It combines email, instant messaging, chat, project management and social networking in a client that sits within the browser. To learn more, read Mashable’s guide or watch Google’s video .

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How to Automatically Archive Old Messages from Your Gmail Inbox

October 4, 2009

Email experts advise against using your email inbox as storage and instead suggest frequently cleaning it out and storing old messages in archive folders instead. For Gmail users, here’s a filter that will move all messages older than a certain date to your archive. Click “Create a Filter” and in “Has the words” enter “before:2009/07/01″. [...]

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How to Port Your Data In and Out of Google

September 22, 2009

Although Google creates wonderful, free products that so many of us love and use, from a purely information management viewpoint, we should all be a bit more concerned with data portability. And Google agrees! The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose one goal is to make it easier for users to [...]

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