Author: Trisha

You can bookmark the sites you visit very often and open them later from the bookmarks list without having to type in the URL. But Google Chrome offers an even faster and easily accessible way to open sites – Application Shortcuts. You can create application shortcuts to web sites that you regularly visit. These shortcuts can be placed on your computer desktop, pinned to the taskbar and the Start Menu for quick and easy access.

Cloud computing is becoming norm very fast. You do not really need any office software like Open Office, Libre Office or Microsoft Office installed on your PC. Instead you can use free Google Docs to create, edit, save and print all kinds of documents. But sometimes you need to work on a document using an offline computer using the traditional office software. For situations like this, you can download your documents from Google Docs and save them to your hard disk.

Everything is cool about Google+ except possibly for one thing, they notify you each and every time someone mentions you in their stream post. If you have lots of people in your circles, then it can become a serious problem, your email account would be bombarded with Google+ notifications. If you do not like so many emails or SMS coming from Google+ when someone mentions you in their post, you can disable Google+ notifications.

If you are a busy person and cannot handle all your emails by yourself, then you can seek the help of others like your spouse or secretary so that they can read, send and delete emails on your behalf. You do not have to tell them your Gmail password for doing so, just delegate access to your Gmail account to their Gmail account. This way they can read, send and delete messages but cannot alter password or any other Gmail settings for your account.

If you have become addicted to Google+ by now, it is high time that you connect your other accounts like facebook, twitter, Yahoo! etc., to your Google+ account. By connecting them to your Google+ account, you can see in your Google+ profile relevant content that your friends share on the web on facebook or twitter. For example, if you like Lady Gaga on facebook, then after connecting facebook to your Google+, you would be shown suggested Lady Gaga profile to add to your circles in Google+ page.

More and more digital devices are coming with options for uploading the digital pictures and videos straight to your facebook account. This is a great thing as facebook works like an online backup in this way. Even if you lose your photos on your digital camera, you still have them on your facebook account. But how would you download all the photos from your facebook account ? You can use the free Pick and Zip service to help you download all your facebook photos packed in a single ZIP or PDF file.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and nobody wants to be dull. So why be a dull person at your work? Just turn any web site into an Asteroid like game and have little fun to cut through the boredom of your daily work-load. You can turn any webpage into an Asteroid like video game using the KickAss extension for the Google Chrome web browser.

Often you have tons of emails and contacts in your older email accounts, so making a shift to Gmail is very painful. Situation is even worse for school kids who lose their email address (along with all the emails and contacts) as soon as they graduate from high school. Fortunately, the creators of Gmail have added an import feature using which you can import all the emails and contacts from your older email accounts.