100+ new emoticons in Gmail for animated fun

Gmail added handful of new emoticons last year in Oct 2008. This year Gmail has opened flood gates and added hundreds of cool new animated emoticons. Now Gmail users have access to loads of new emoticons to express any feeling with text decorated with animated icons. Related - Add

Play Cricket game on Youtube, 2 overs of fun

Big events always bring fresh and creative ideas and offerings. If it was Youtube celebrity game during Oscars awards season, here is first Cricket game on Youtube during IPL (Indian Premier League) season. You get to bat for 2 overs in this Youtube videos based cricket game and score

Protect spreadsheet & select who can edit it

Google Docs Spreadsheet has added a new feature of 'Sheet protection'. It allows you to invite and select people who can edit and build on content of a spreadsheet document. For example, you have list of 5 friends who can help you build on contents of a spreadsheet file. However, you trust

Browse any website / blog content in Timeline format

Google Labs launched a neat way to read news online at Google News Timeline. Besides top websites, you can also browse content from top blogs. Just enter the name of any top blog / website and hit the enter key to see its content in timeline format. Sadly, this feature does not work with

Access Google Analytics data on desktop – Polaris

Google Analytics is an excellent service to keep statistical records of any website. You can keep track of daily visitors, pageviews, search keywords brining traffic to your website. Ideally, one can access analytics data in web browser by logging into your account at Google Analytics

5 tips for sending reconsideration request to Google

Google Webmaster Tools is very important to stay updated on your website or blog status on Google. You can track number of indexed weblinks, cache, sitelinks, sitemap details and lot more information regarding your website with Google. Incase, something goes bad like traffic drops, Google

See powerPoint & TIFF files within Gmail viewer

If you have received a powerpoint or tiff file, there is no need to download them or look for software to open them. Gmail now supports previewing of powerpoint PPT and TIFF within its online viewer. You can easily preview all slides of a powerpoint presentation on the right side and see

Watch full length movies & TV shows on Youtube

Google needs a way to earn some money from Youtube real quick considering huge daily loses being piled up. Finally, Youtube is showing some spark by showcasing premium video content on the website. Now you can watch full length movies and TV shows online. As expected, most of the content

Is my website / blog indexed by google?

While there is manual way to check and Google around if a specific website or blog in indexed by Google or not, here is more simpler way by using IndexedByGoogle.com - Just type your blog or website URL and hit the GO button. You will get the answer as YES or NO. It also shows the

Read news neatly organized, Google News Timeline

If you are looking for an easy, quick way to gulp lot of news in least amount of time and screen-space, then checkout new experimental feature Google news timeline. It displays news on a on a zoomable graphical timeline extracted from number of news sources. You can browse latest news

Find similar images on Google Image search

Google has launched new experimental feature that allows you to search for similar images among image results using Google Image search. Just type any keyword and hit the search button to see image search results. Click on 'similar images' link under any image to see other image results

Check weather forecast with Google search

Google search can be used for lot of things besides searching for web resources related to specific keywords. We can use Google search for PDF ebooks, music - videos, public phone numbers and lots more. You can also use Google search for checking latest weather forecast of your