Short Films about Google Chrome

Since Google Chrome was introduced by Google just a few months ago, I had fallen in love with the browser for its simple interface and seemingly-better-than-others operations. It is fast. The tabs are simply awesome and finding a word (with Crtl F) is really a quick thing to do. Simply great.

Last month Google invited some creative parties to engineer 11 short movies about the Google Chrome. I spent some time to wath all the 11 movies, and some are pretty good. And I thought I justo share it here. The videos below are "A colloection of short films about a browser" and one of my favourite "You and Your Browser". Enjoy.

Original: 11 Short Films about Browser

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Wallpaper Search using Google Search

Google has recently added a new feature in Image Search that include an options to specify the size of picture you are searching for. It is not just that. You can now look for a photo whose size can fit you desktop size, i.e. you can now search for a picture for your wallpaper!!

These are the simple steps:

1. Go to Google.com and click image on the top left tab.
2. Click on the Advanced Image Search which is located just next to the search box.
3. Select that Photo Content from the list of content types.
4. Select Use my desktop Size to find images that will suit your desktop.

Original: Wallpaper Search

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Finding Published Date of a Webpage

When one is looking for an article online, one would need to find out the details about the webpage. One of the common details is the date when the webpage is first uploaded on to a publus web server so that we can find and read it.

Using some tweak on thr address url on google search result, it is possible to find the published date of a webpage quite easily.

Here are the steps to follow:

1. Go to Google.com, and type the website url.
2. Go to the browser address bar, and add "&as_qdr=y15" at the end of the address.
3. You will notice the publication date.

Original: Find Date When a Web Page was First Published on the Internet.

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Software: Picasa Creates Collages

Create Collages with Picasa

If you like to document loads of pictures and enjoy editing them, making collages (a combination of photos) using Picasa, which is a free software from Google, would be really fun.

These are examples of what I did recently using Picasa (pardon me if you hate Chelsea FC, but I am a big fan of them ;p).




To start off, you need to download Picasa if you have not installed it in your computer.

You can watch this one-minute video to get the idea of how to do this.

The simple step you need to do:

1. Select the pictures you wish to collage (Tips: use Ctrl+click if the pictures are not well-organised in your folder)
2. Go to Create -- Picture Collage
3. You can then change the type, and edit it as you ike.
4. Save it once you are done.

Tips: to change the order of the photos, you can click o on the preview window. If you want to change the layout of the picture, shift+click on the preview window.

Hope this helps.

Disable Enable Google Suggest

How to Enable/Disable Google Suggest

Though I would think Google Suggest is a great tool a Google user would love to use, I understand not all users would need this feature. Therefore this article is a quick tutorials on how to enable/disable Google Suggest.

To do this, follow these simple steps:

1. On the Google.com page, click Preference
2. Scroll down, at end of the options, you should find an option to enable/disable Google Suggest. Tick this option as you like (to disable to enable)

This is what it should look like.

Hope this helps.

Google: Suggestions in Search

Enhance your Searching with Google Suggest

If you have read my post on CustumizeGoogle a few months ago, you will have notice that the addition of Google suggest when you are searching would be of great help, especially if you use Google.com more that any other website in a day.

Just at the end of last month, Google had 'graduated' Google Suggest from its Lab so that now Google users would be able to apply this feature. As you write you search terms, the Google Suggest would give you relevant suggestions that you may find useful.

Here is one shot I took to give you a better idea of what I am talking about.


According to the Google blog, this feature would help in reducing spelling errors, save keystrokes and help in formulating queries.

Personally, this feature help me when I am looking for a terms which I am not sure how to spell. Just a week ago, I was looking for some video of Germany and Bayer Munich player, Bastian Sch%^Personally, this feature help me when I am looking for a terms which I am not sure how to spell. Just a week ago, I was looking for some video of Germany and Bayer Munich player, Bastian Sch%^$&*#(%, and this Google suggest really helped me to find it easier and faster. By the way, now I can spell the name correctly, thanks to Google Suggest too. The player is one of my favorite, Bastian Schweinsteiger.
amp;*#(%, and this Google suggest really helped me to find it easier and faster. By the way, now I can spell the name correctly, thanks to Google Suggest too. The player is one of my favorite, Bastian Schweinsteiger.

If you are wondering how to disable this feature, you can read my other post about disabling Google Suggest.

Hope this helps.

Google News: Find Quotation

Find Quotations in Google News

I like how Google put it in a review of Google News: Words Matter. As part of Google's mission to organize the world's information, Google provides quotations in news articles easy to search and browse in the Google News. It is now very easy for you to keep track of what your favorite politician, actor or sports star is saying.

This is a video to kick start.

This is the simple step-by-step method:

1. Open your Google News
2. Type the person's name whose speech or quotations you are looking for
3. You will see a quote from the person above the search result. Clicking on the name will bring you to more quotations from the person

Tips: you can even search within their quotes for specific topics.



Hope this helps.

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Google: Avoid Google.com Redirection

Google: Clear Past Searches

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Google Trends: Compare Searches

Analyze Google Searches using Google Trends

Google Trends is Lab product of Google that analyze a part of Google web searches to compare and compute how often certain searches have been done for the terms you enter.


The appearance of Google Trends, in general, include Search Volume Index graph, News volume graph, and displays of tops regions, cities and languages in which people searched for the first term you entered.

The Search Volume Index Graph is a display that shows you how often searches have been done, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time.


Below the Search Volume Graph, you will find the News Reference Graph. This graph will show you how often the topic appear in the Google News story. When a spike is detected on the graph, it labels the graph and display the headlines of an automatically selected Google News story written near the time of that spike.


Below the Search and News Graph, the Google Trends displays the tops regions, cities and languages.

Some tips using Google Trends:

1. Google Trends allows you to compare either search words or website.
2. Google Trends will let you compare up to FIVE terms, each term separated by a comma. For instance, if you want to compare words like vista, xp, windows and millennium, type this: vista, xp, windows, millennium
   
3. To limit your search, you can apply the general searching tips (When you use any of these tips (quotation mark, minus signs or vertical bars) Trends will only display the Search Volume Index Graph):
1. To restrict the result, use QUOTES around the term you are searching for. For example: "Barrack Obama" (if you do not put the quotes, by default, Google will look for any words of barrack and obama in any order).
2. To exclude certain words, you can use minus (-) sign. For example, If I am looking for Chelsea (the English football club), and I do not want to see any result about Chelsea Clinton (yes, the daughter of Bill), I will type: "chelsea" -clinton.
3. To see how many searches contain either terms, list them and separate with a vertical bar (|). For example: AVG|Avast.
4. Sometimes you notice that you see ZERO results for one of you search terms, this is so because the terms doesn't have sufficient search volume to be displayed. Or, it is also possible that the terms is negligible compared to the others.
5. The cool thing about this is that you can export the data for you own purpose. It can be exported to a .csv file, which can be opened in most spreadsheet applications.

For more details you can look at Google Help website.

Hope this helps.

Google: General Search Tips

8 General Searching Tips using Google for Better Results

You might be using Google.com as a search tool everyday, just like me. To give the best result in terms of accuracy and relevance, you might be surprised that Google can do much more than just a simple search.

In this article, I will share what Google have in their site: the 8 general searching tips for Google.com.

1. Exact Phrase (using QUOTE, " ")

If you are looking to find an exact words, rather that a collection of words that might not be relevant to you search, put quotes around your search query. Here, if I want only to look for Chelsea Football Club (yes, that Premier League club), not any CLUB (your animals lovers club?) or any FOOTBALL (your kicking ball?) or any CHELSEA (your friend?), I would write it in this manner: "Chelsea football club".


2. Synonyms (~). Stemming (+). Excluding (-)

You can look for wider range of words by include (~) to indicate you are looking for the synonyms of the word too. For example, ~seminar would include words like training and workshop. By stemming (+), you are telling google that the word is a must-have word(s). Writing +"marketing skills" simply means you want to see the phrase in your search result.
The symbol (-) means to exclude certain words you don't want. Here, as you are looking for a seminar, you prefer not to see any book about marketing skills.


3. Site:

This will search only pages which reside on this domain. This is a very specific way of searching and it really helps to give you a better result. Lets say, you know that you are looking for a music video of Good Charlotte, called The River in Youtube.com. Rather than going to Youtube.com, and then type Good Charlotte The River, you can open Google.com (which hopefully is you homepage) and type 'good charlotte the river site:youtube.com'. Smart way of doing it, isn't it?

Important: note that there is NO space after the colon.


4. Related:

This will show all pages or websites that Google finds to be related to the URL you type in the search box.


5. Link:

This will display a list of all pages which Google has found to be linking to your site.


6. Spell:

It will run a spell check on the word(s) you type.


7. Define:

It will display definitions for words, phrases, and acronyms from the Web.


8. Weather:

It shows the weather in a particular city you specify. Here, I type: 'weather:Singapore' to ask Google to show the weather in Singapore.



Look for the Advanced Searching Tips for Google in my next post. Meanwhile, you can read our article on How to Customize your Google page.

Hope this helps.

Google: Avoid Google.com Redirection

How to Get Google.com when you type Google.com

You may have encountered this problem: when you try to type Google.com in your browser bar, what it will bring you is Google page with different domain. Google normally redirect users in countries other than the United States from Google.com to one of their country-specific sites (e.g. www.google.co.uk for Google UK) to provide easy access to country-specific search features.

Google uses your computer's IP address, which is frequently the internet address of your Internet Service Provider (ISP), to determine your location and the corresponding Google domain.

So, what if you prefer your Google.com to appear instead?

Here are the steps you need to follow:

1. Open Google.com. (If you already Google.com page, you can leave this page and read my other posts ;p)
   
2. Click on the Google.com link on the bottom right-hand side of the Google homepage. You will go straight to Google.com. If you still at you country domain, go to step 3. (Tips: If you have cookies enabled, your browser will connect directly to Google.com on all subsequent visits).
3. If cookies are disabled, you'll experience the same redirect each time you visit Google. You can solve this either by enabling cookies.
   

To enable cookies, you can click here for the details.

Here is the video illustrating it.

Alternatively, you can do this:

1. setting a bookmark for http://www.google.com/webhp. In the latter case, you'll be taken to http://www.google.com/webhp, which is exactly the same as Google.com, each time you select the bookmark.

Hope this helps.

Firefox: Open Multiple Links

Open Multiple Links using Firefox Add-On Snap Links

Do you use Google a lot? Are you an active member of social bookmarking websites like Del.icio.us or Digg? If your answers are YES, then this article is worth reading.

In Google search result, sometimes you want to check out the links in the result page, but it is quite time consuming and kind of tiring to open all the links one by one.. However, using Snap Links you can do it in just a click.

As usual, here is the my video as the introduction. If you don't see the flash video below in 10 seconds (I have limited bandwidth), you can click here (I uploaded the video in Metacafe.com).

So the steps that you have to follow are here:

1. Download Snap Links, Open Firefox, go to Tools -- Add-ons -- Get Extensions on the bottom right of the new window popped-up. Then search for 'Snap Links' (Tips: or you can go to Google.com, type ' Firefox Snap Links ')
2. After downloading and restating your Firefox, you can customize the Options, by going to Tools -- Add-on and look for Snap Links, then click Options.
3. If you set right click as your default, then to open multiple links, right-click you mouse and drag it over the links you want to open.

Tips: in the Options, you can set to open the links in new tab or new window.

Here are some of the snapshots..




These are the examples of the uses of Snap Links. I personally use this a lot for Search Engines and websites like Digg and Del.icio.us.







Hope this helps.

Firefox Trick: How to Set Homepage

Set you Favorite Website as your Homepage

This is a basic application that many people probably know. However, there are a lot of people are actually asking this in YahooAnswer. So, again, I thought it would be great if I can share this trick here.

You can set a website to be homepage of you browser (here, I am using Firefox as the example). By doing this, you will go straight to you favorite website when you start your browser.

I made this video to help you understand better. If you don't see the flash video below in 10 seconds (I have limited bandwidth), you can click here (I uploaded the video in Metacafe.com).

Here are the simple steps you need to do:

1. Open Firefox
2. Go to Tools -- Options
3. Under Main, choose Show my Home Page
4. In the box below it, type the website you want to set, e.g. www.google.com
5. Click OK

Here is the screen shot..




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Hope this helps.

Google Trick: Customize Google Homepage

Customize Google Homepage for Better Search

In my previous article, we have discussed the method on how to clear your past history. Now, I will share with you a way to optimize Google as the best search engine (to me at least).

CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhance Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam). All features are optional and easily configured.

If you are using Firefox, follow these simple steps:

1. Go to Tools -- Add Ons
2. On the Right Bottom, click get extension
3. A window will pop up, click Customizegoogle, download it
4. Then to customize it, go to Tools -- CustomizeGoogleOptions

Here is the video I made that may help you better.

Tips: If you are not using Firefox, then you can download CustomizeGoogle here.
Here is an introduction video that may help you.

This software is really helpful to get a better search results. I use Google a lot, and having this application is just great.

Hope this will help you.

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Google Trick: Clearing Past Searches

Clearing Past Searches in Google

I have been answering in Yahoo Answer for quite sometime now. As someone who thinks that I am only good at these computer stuffs, I usually answer in this category. When I browse through this category, I found that there are so many people asking about this topic, so I thought it would be great if I share this tips here.

Tips: You can clear your Google search history from the Google search box, the Google Toolbar, or your browser. I have included instructions for all three methods below.

If you aren't sure which box you'd like to clear, here is a picture for help.

1. Browser History
2. Search Toolbar History
3. Search Box History
   

Here is the instructions...


Browser History
Like your Google search box history, the search history that displays in the address bar on the Google homepage is stored by your browser, not by Google. Instructions appear below for clearing and/or disabling your search history in common browsers.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

1. Go to the Tools menu.
2. Select Internet Options and the General tab.
3. Click the Clear History button. To completely disable the history function, set Days to keep pages in history to zero ('0').
4. Click OK to exit.

MSN

• If you're using the Microsoft Network (MSN), changes made in Internet Explorer (IE) will take effect in your MSN browser. After making changes in IE, you'll need to sign out of and back into MSN for the changes to take effect.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Go to the Tools menu.
2. Select Options > Privacy > History.
3. Click Clear. To completely disable the history function, set Remember visited pages for the last X days to zero ('0').
4. Click OK to exit.

Safari

1. Click History on the top menu.
2. Click Clear History at the bottom of the menu

Google Toolbar History
To clear your search history from the drop-down text box on the Google Toolbar:

1. Click on the Google logo on the Toolbar to access the drop-down menu.
2. Select the Clear Search History option.

If you'd like to completely disable your Toolbar's search history, click the Options button on your Toolbar and un-check the box next to Drop-down search history.

If you have Google Toolbar 4.0 installed, you can clear your Toolbar's search history by starting to enter a search term in your Toolbar's search box. When your drop-down search history appears, simply click the Clear History link.

Tips: Please note that this only clears the search history from the Google Toolbar, which is entirely separate from the search history stored by your browser.

Search Box HistoryThe search history that displays in the search box on the Google homepage is stored by your browser, not by Google. Instructions appear below for disabling this search history in common browsers. If your browser isn't listed, we suggest consulting its online support center.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

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1. Go to the Tools menu.
2. Select Internet Options and the Content tab.
3. Within the Personal information area, select AutoComplete.
4. Click Clear Forms. You can also un-check the Forms box in this window to keep this information from being stored in the future.
5. Click OK to exit.

Alternatively, you can delete individual entries from your search history by using the Down arrow key to highlight a previous search, then pressing the Delete key once.

MSN

• If you're using the Microsoft Network (MSN), changes made in Internet Explorer (IE) will take effect in your MSN browser. After making changes in IE, you'll need to sign out of and back into MSN for the changes to take effect.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Go to the Tools menu.
2. Select Options > Privacy > Saved Form Information.
3. Click Clear and un-check the box.
4. Click OK to exit.

Safari

1. Go to the Safari menu and select Preferences.
2. From the menus that pop up, select Autofill.
3. Go to Other forms line and select the Edit button.
4. From the list of sites for which AutoFill is currently being applied, select Google.com > Remove > Done.

Hope this helps.

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