Archive for March, 2008

What’s inside the Google Pack?

Another reason why I love Google is that they offer a lot of softwares that can be downloaded for free, no trial versions! This is what we call the Google Pack. It has 13 softwares so far, and all of these are specifically selected by Google. You have the option to download the whole pack, [...]

Google’s University Search

Today, while browsing the different pages of Google’s services (looking for a topic to write about), I stumbled on Google’s Special Searches page, and found there the University Search. I believe I had seen this page before, maybe around June last year, but I didn’t remember to use the page last January when I was [...]

Using Date Range to Restrict Search Results

I was searching about applying for a visa last weekend, and I wanted to know how long will it take to process the documents. However, I was more interested about the timeline of visa applicants who processed there papers recently. So I used the date range for my query, adjust it to ‘past 6 months’ [...]

Google Photos Screensaver Download

If you are looking for screensaver that isn’t animated but just a slide show of great photographs, then the Google Photos Screensaver is what you need. And since it comes from Google, the photos from the default photo feed will surely make you say WOW! It is really an awesome collection of Creative Commons photos [...]

Most Googled Age-Old Questions

Who is God? What is love? How to Kiss? Google.com users in U.S. were thinking of these questions, and finally googled the answers. Here are the the links that were ranked 1, when I did my search on March 20, 2008.
Who is God?
http://www.allaboutgod.com/who-is-god-c.htm
What is love?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsCXZczTQXo
How to Kiss?
http://www.wikihow.com/Kiss

The screenshot above shows the trends [...]

How to Remove/Add Autofill on Google Toolbar

It’s not all the time that we are using our own computer right? Or maybe someone else are using our computer and change something there. So sometimes, we notice that we are losing buttons on our Google Toolbar, or having new buttons. So in this post, I am sharing to you how to disable or [...]

Google Book Search: Bringing Books Closer to Students

I love books, I love reading new information. If I had enough time to spare, you could see me in the library patiently looking for good books. However, if I had to choose between reliable references (books) and convenience (searching online), I would prefer convenience.
So I searched online, copied and pasted. But most of the [...]

How To Delete Your Google Web History

Your web history is collected by Google when you enable it, and you stay logged in to your Google account whenever you do your searches. It collects not just your keywords and the pages you visited, but also the videos you watched in Google Video, the sponsored links you clicked, the images you viewed on [...]

How to Block a Sender in Gmail

If you are receiving messages from someone you want to ignore, and marking their messages as a spam won’t do, then ask Gmail to automatically delete their messages as it arrive in your inbox. Here’s how:

Simply mark the checkbox next to the kind of message you want to ignore forever.

Then go to the ‘More Actions’ [...]

10 iGoogle Themes I Like

Here are my ten iGoogle themes that I suggest you try. Although these themes are not created by Google, they’re cool. Most of the themes I like have one color with different shades. The other themes give a joyful background, and some are simple yet they create character to my personalized homepage. I would say [...]