Google Calendar and Its Uses
Google Calendar is a free time-management and event tracking tool by Google. It easily lets you organize your schedule and share events with your friends and loved ones.
With so many things to do 24/7, Google Calendar is a great web application tool to have. But, what are the various uses of Calendar?
1. Remembering important events and happenings
Google Calendar is a great help to remember birthdays, anniversaries, children’s school activities, and other important occasions. You can set and customized reminders to notify you in advance so that you can prepare without hassle and stress.
2. Easy sharing of calendars
Google Calendar allows several calendars to be created and viewed easily by your friends, family or co-workers. Schedules can be shared with specified people or everyone via public calendars. You can also add other people to calendars you create, allowing them to add items. Use this to have a collaborative work calendar for your team.
3. Send invitations and track RSVPs
Having a party? Well, with Google Calendar you can invite other people to gatherings and events on your calendar. Guests can RSVP via email or respond through Google Calendar also.
4. Reliable Task Gadget
You can also accomplish your to-do list using the task widget to easily manage daily tasks.
5. Can be integrated with various Google services
Gmail: If you see words such as dates, times, or meetings in your email, an “add to calendar” button is displayed that lets you add the date, time and event to your Google Calendar.
iGoogle: The calendar is shown as a module on your Google homepage. This tool offers you to edit how time can be displayed, what date, and a link to “Add Event”.
Google Desktop: The mini-calendar gadget lets you view your schedule without opening your browser.
Picnik Joins Google
Google has been very busy shopping lately. Last week, we talked about Aardvark being acquired by Google. Now, it’s time to discuss Google’s acquisition of Picnik.
If you are fond of fixing and tweaking your photos online, you may be familiar with Picnik– an awesome and fun website that lets users edit digital photos easily without having to buy, download, and install any software. Yeah, you heard it right! You can rotate, resize, and crop images in real-time as well as used advanced controls to fine-tune or add cool stuff to your photos right in your web browser.
Picnik users or Picnikers don’t have to worry. You don’t need to have a Google account to use Picnik. It’s really free to use, and your previous account and settings will still be the same. You can still access other social networking sites from Picnik without any hassle at all.
With this great merger with Google, more and more people could benefit from this easy-to-use yet powerful photo-editing site. And, I bet new and exciting features will be on their way very soon.
How Does Google Make Money?
Google’s functionality as a search engine enabled it to conquer the world so to speak entirely through word of mouth. Satisfied users are impressed with its utility and they inevitably shared their new find to their friends and family.
From a business perspective, the company is able to generate massive revenue through advertising. Their AdWords program provides webmasters to have cost-effective and measurable advertising that is relevant to their target audience.
Meanwhile, the Adwords program has its counterpart, the AdSense program. The Adsense programs allow website masters to display relevant advertising on their sites; these publishers will have an additional revenue stream even as they enhance the overall experience of their visitors.
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Google Web History
If you have a Google account and you are logged in while using the Search service, it is most likely that your searches are saved in Google Web History. This is different from what are saved by your browser. Those that are saved in your browser are removed differently, while those on web history are saved and can be removed online..
So, what are saved in your own search history? A lot of your online activity in Google Search and other search related products:
- the keywords you typed, and the date and time you searched them.
- websites you visited, and how often you visit them.
- images you viewed on Image Search
- news articles you viewed through Google News.
- Products you searched and viewed through Google Products
- the Sponsored Links you clicked.
- the videos you watched from the search results.
- the addresses or places you searched in Google Maps
- blogs you visited
- and books you read or acccessed on Book Search
If you think of it, it seems Google knows a lot about your life if ever they access it. Your searches most likely tell what lifestyle you have, your wants in life. You wont search the web of something that doesn’t appeal to you or doesn’t mean to you in any way. Somehow your searches tell about your personality.
If your best friend or special someone also knows the login information of your Google account, then he/she will know any secrets you have, well, if there is. They just login to http://www.google.com/history/. It doesn’t matter if he/she uses a different computer.
Despite the privacy issue it can brought up, ‘Web History’ is helpful especially if there’s a website you visit again but forget what the site was. You can just google your own web history or just scan through your activity in a specific date ( if you remember when you’ve gone to the site). You can also analyze your own web activity. Know what are your top ten queries, sites, and clicks. You will be amazed to find out what they are.
Anyway, if you are concern about your privacy you can delete your Google web history. And when you search again, make sure you are not login to your Google account. You will find that out if you see your email address at the upper right corner of the Google search page. If you do this, what you will just worry about is deleting your search history on your browser.
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5 Google Reader Features I Like
Reading the feeds in my Google Reader regularly is one of the habits I want to develop this 2008. So I explored more its features and chose what features would work best for me.
Here are the features I like:
- The drag and drop feature – Once I have subscribed to a feed, and forgot to put it in a folder, I can just drag the feed and drop it into the folder it is supposed to be in. This feature is also handy whenever I decide to re-organize my feeds.
- Friend’s shared items – My Gtalk friend though doesn’t share as much as I do. He has less free time now to check his reader. But I like sharing interesting stuff. So when he logs back in in his reader, he can just scan my shared items for a quick update on what’s interesting the past days he isn’t on. Since I only had one friend I am sharing my items with, I am not really much affected on the privacy issues other users are concerned about this feature.
- Reading Trends – I bet I will like this feature in the near future. As of now, there is no enough data to be analyzed, but my friend Chris did have once. Through the trends feature, he was able to see what were the blogs he frequently read and rarely read. And with the statistics he figured out which feeds to unsubscribe from.
- Search - There are times I just want to read post on particular topics like Apple or Facebook. Though I am subscribed to blogs related to these topics, it would be better to see posts about them from other blogs I am subscribed from. So with search in Google Reader, I can easily type in the search box what topic I am interested to read at that moment, and the results to what I am looking for will be displayed.
- Offline Viewing – I work at home, and don’t travel much. I don’t own a laptop either, so this feature will not work for me. However, I like to share this to you because I think most of you would find this feature extremely useful especially if you travel a lot, either on a plane or on a train. With this feature, you can keep yourself updated even you are offline. Just don’t forget to install Google Gears and download your latest 2,000 items in Google Reader before you go offline.
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Google Adsense Reminders for Beginners
If you’ve ever wondered how amateur web site owners ‘earn’ their keep, then you probably have not heard about Google Adsense. Google Adsense is an advertisement program run by Google for advertisements to appear on a particular web site. Google AdSense is a service which will match the content of your web site with related advertisement. For example, if you run the website of a small construction company and you have a Google Adsense account, then advertisements about construction materials and a host of other construction-related items and services will be advertised on your web site.
Basically, you will start earning once a visitor of your web site clicks on any of the advertisements posted through Google Adsense. Here are some useful tips to make the most our of your Google Adsense account:
1. Before signing up for Google Adsense, make sure that your web site is up and running, all the links are functioning, has a lot of content and is regularly being updated.
2. If you do not already have a Gmail account, sign-up for one and then you can use the same login information for your Google Adsense account.
3. Once you have a Google Adsense account, learn about site optimization to increase your chances of earning a decent revenue. Finally, do not choose advertisements which involves adult content, or those which would need a copyright before they can be used.
With careful planning, research and a little business sense, you can definitely turn your web site into a lucrative online career with Google Adsense.
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