What's Coming Next in Gmail and other Google Products

At the Google Analyst Day, people got to see the upcoming version of Gmail that pre-fetches all email messages on the page, so your emails load instantly. Another addition is YouTube Streams - basically you get a collection of videos, with a related chat box; you can also do search and add videos to the stream ... read more

Get Free Licenses of PPTminimizer for Compressing PowerPoint Files

PPTminimizer will quickly compresses your large PowerPoint Presentations into smaller files (without sacrificing quality) so that you easily send them as email attachments or upload to any of those PowerPoint hosting sites.

The software costs money but you can have it for free as we have ten licenses of PPTminimizer to give away ... read more

Advertising on Facebook Using Flyers - Is It Effective ?

As an experiment, I recently ran two advertising campaigns on Facebook - one used Flyers Basic (CPC) and the second used Flyers Pro (CPM). If you are wondering how effective are Facebook ads in terms of clicks, here are the results ... read more

Create Email Signatures With Links To All Your Social Profiles

MyBlogLog has just added a very convenient feature that allows members to create rich text HTML signatures for use in email programs like Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express.

If your web presence is spread across lot of sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Digg, Del.icio.us and more, you can put links to all those social profiles in the email signature ... read more

Nokia Toolkit for Reporters and Citizen Journalists

Nokia has released an N-95 mobile phone based kit for journalists to file news reports and multimedia stories (images and videos) while they are in the field without having to visit the news studio.

This mobile journalist kit contains an N95 phone, a Sony microphone for recording interviews, keyboard for typing text-based stories, tripod and a solar charger (so you can even report from locations where there's no electricity). ... read more

Google Wants a Candidate Who Is Proficient In Microsoft Office

According to a vacancy posted on Google Job website, they are searching for a candidate who is a specialist in Microsoft Office applications. The requirements are "Proven mastery of Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook" ... read more

Verify The Characters in Password Field To Prevent Typos

When logging into your online bank account, if you type the wrong password more than three times, the account access could be locked for the next few hours. And it's not uncommon to make typing mistakes especially when you have a strong password. To prevent password typos, try this ... read more

Embed SWF Flash Movies in Web Pages Through Adobe Share

You can now embed a Flash movie in any website (including blogs and wikis) without having to write any complex HTML code.

Just upload the SWF file (like a screencast created with Jing or Camtasia Studio) to the Adobe Share website and get the HTML code - it's almost as simple as embedding a YouTube video ... read more

Turn Your USB Drive Into a Plug-n-Play Computer

If you work across multiple computers that are not connected to each other, you probably use the good old USB drive (or external hard drive) to store and carry your Office documents, Photoshop drawings, pictures, videos and other files.

Perfect. Now imagine a situation where you have all these data files on the USB drive but the computer you are currently working on (say in the cyber café or a friend's place) doesn't have the necessary software programs that are required to view or edit those files ... read more

Insert Smiley Faces (Emoticons) In Your Gmail Messages

Yahoo! Mail, and Hotmail web clients have excellent support for emoticons but for some unknown reason, Google has not included smileys in Gmail yet. If you cannot imagine life without Gmail but would still love to see smileys in Gmail, here’s a simple trick for you ... read more