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Gmail Now Allows for Custom Background Image Themes (Official)
Change Your Gmail Background Look & Feel:
If you are bore from current background of your Gmail, then Gmail has brought new feature to change Gmail background from list of predefined images by Gmail, or Create Your Own Theme. You can change background of upper body of Gmail as well as its footer.
Gmail user can select background image of Gmail, and add any text. Gmail user can change color of text and image to appear on the background image. For this, just follow these steps:
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- Go to ‘Gmail Settings Panel’
- Click ‘Themes’
- Click ‘Any Image from the list’ or Click ‘Create Your Own Theme’ link.
- Select your own favorite background image to set as your Gmail Background image, for upper body and footer.
- Set any text to appear in the subject of background image
- Change color of image and text
- Click ‘Save’ button to apply your new own Gmail Background theme setting.
Gmail Users! Gmail has provided this to give you some interesting change to look, and feel while using Gmail. So, change your Gmail Background image setting and enjoy.
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Microsoft Office 365 for Professionals and Small Businesses
Today I was wondering to search about cloud computing and systems working around it, I does not rely on my local space to save my documents and access.
However I found a great set of tools from Microsoft to get into the new era of technology, I think you must check it.
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Microsoft is near to launch office 365. This is set of web-enabled tools that let you access your email, documents, contacts, and calendars from anywhere. You can access it by using any device. Also any browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari) can be used to access these set of tools. It has online professional communications and collaboration tools that help you to collaborate with your team easily by using online meetings, tasks, document sharing, project management tools and chats etc. you can view and make edits to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote documents no matter where you are and what device you have.
Now what about anti spamming, Microsoft helps to protect you from spam and viruses with Microsoft Forefront Online Protection, which includes multiple filters and virus-scanning engines.
Microsoft is running a huge data center behind the scene to make it more reliable, cost effective and secure. You can register to www.office365.com for more updates from Microsoft.
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Google +1 Button will Act as a Vote Up for Search Results
+1s of the Famous Google:
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With +1 of Google like ‘Like’ of face book, Google user while searching will be able to make that search link your recommendation as of your great interest. Using this improved search facility, your contacts, friends, colleagues, or family members will be able to find good interesting things when these people will make search on the Google search engine. On next search, these things will appear in the search results very easily, and fast. To use this feature, you must be a Google User having Google account. Google is providing this feature because:
- +1 will provide you your most relevant search results, which will be of your interest
- +1 will provide you your contacts’ and friends’ recommended search results for you, and such results will be containing +1 at the end of such links. Note: These contacts will be from your Gmail, Google Talk, Buzz, and Reader contact list.
- +1 will also display you the recommended search results from your contacts of Twitter network.
- In future, +1 might be shown on the search results recommended by friends’ contacts of Flickr and Quora open web applications
- +1 might be available in banner advertisements in future
To experiment this interesting feature of +1, use link: Google.com/experimental. For this great new experience of +1:
- Google user must be in login state using his/her Gmail Account
- Google user must click button, ‘Join this experiment’
- Google user will make search for anything, Google user will want on Google search engine using www.google.com.
- Google user must click the ‘+1’ button; mark the search results, advertisements, and other web data.
+1 or recommended search result is now available to your all contacts using Google applications. After using this, your Google Profile will contain a new tab having your +1s. This tab will available to whole users of Google, or so, if you will make this tab as shared.
Soon in few weeks or so, +1 feature will be available for the Google users.
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Google Talk Guru Instant Messaging Service (Updates)
Google has launched another feature on the Google Talk instant chat messenger. This feature is Google Talk Guru, as responder to the inputs of Google user against predefined search query in a predefine format. Google Talk Guru works on chat applications having support of Google Talk instant chat messenger. Let’s see below, that how one can use this new feature:
- Login to the Google Talk instant messenger, using your Google Account Credentials
- Add a new contact of Google Talk Guru, using this email address: guru@googlelabs.com
- Google Talk Guru will accept your chat invitation in no time
Once Google Talk Guru is added to your Google Talk contact list, you will see it in the contact list, which are online
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- Send chat query ‘Hi’ to the Google Talk Guru
- Google Talk Guru will reply with the predefined queries of ‘sports results, weather forecasts, definitions, translations, calculations, conversions’
- Use following query formats to get the required instant chat results from the Google Talk Guru:
- For sports results, use format: score Pakistan
- For weather forecasts, use format: weather Islamabad
- For definitions , use format: define Aero plane
- For translations, user format: translate Marriage to Swiss
- For mathematical calculations, use format: 737*469
- For currency conversion, use format:
- As, you send the chat query in correct format, Google Talk Guru will reply on chat any available answer specific to your query
In this unique way of interesting chatting, you will get much information as you like.
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Yahoo Instant Search Facility
Get Yahoo Instant Search Facility! But, how? See below, how you can use this feature of Yahoo? This search is very fast, informative, and easy. Yahoo Instant Search feature is actually answering your search query, by guiding you to your search results.
Enter url: search.yahoo.com in the address bar of yahoo. Press enter on your keyboard or click ‘Go’ in front of address bar. You will get panel of this new feature of instant search of yahoo.
What the Yahoo Instant Search panel contains? See the answer below:
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Panel contains:
Yahoo search Bar
Search Button
What to do on this Yahoo Instant Search Panel? Use these steps below:
Give your search keyword, or phrase in the Yahoo Search bar
On entering the search keyword, you will see that help list has been shown to the yahoo user
Just put your mouse over any help topic from the list
You will see side overview pane giving the overview of the resultant page having websites links related to the help topic
Just click on the help topic from the list or click required website link related to your search in the side overview pane of the help topic
Here you go! your intended website will open for you to surf .
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Search Weather Updates on your Mobile Iphone Android
Now you can have fun with weather updates from your Iphone or Android Powered devices .
How to find weather updates on mobile.
If you wants to see the updates of the weather just open the googe.com on your Android or Iphone devices and Search the weather in search bar of google.com.
When you hit the search. I will show you the weather forecast for next few days. Move slider over the next 12 hours, now you will see a details hours by hours weather conditions.
You can also add custom location to find weather forecast.
The weather keyword does not mean that Google search will not return the rest of the result related to weather keyword. As you scroll down it will show you the regular web search for your keywords (query)
Important to notice
This new weather search experience is available only in English, but we have more updates on the way. We hope you’ll enjoy using it!
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How to group messages by subject on your BlackBerry smartphone
Friends Again good news for Blackberry user’s and most important for those who use message most of the times due to massive amount of message some time we miss some important messages. But thanks to BlackBerry they are providing are way to group message by subjects.
If you are using BlackBerry Smartphone with BlackBerry 6.0 or later you can use the facility to group your message by subjects.
Steps to enable group message by subjects for BlackBerry
- Open Messages
- Click the Menu button and select Options
- Select Message Display and Actions
- Toggle Display Style from Singles Messages to Group by Subject
You can use the feature with following Blacberry OS.BlackBerry smartphone running BlackBerry 6 OS, such as the BlackBerry® Torch™ 9800 smartphone, the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 smartphone or the BlackBerry® Style™ 9760 smartphone.
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New version of Skype for Mac is now available (Video)
Skype launched the new version of skype 5.0 beta for Mac.
Skype group Calling features.
1) Call control bar,
2) Group video calling
3) The ability to search chat content
4) Integration with the OS X Address Book
5) Smaller floating contacts monitor.
More Details features as highlighted by Skype
We’ve reduced the minimum window size, so that those of you who prefer to keep Skype to one side of your screen, for example, can do that more easily. We’ve also tightened up the contact list, so that you can see 30% more contacts at once. We’ve reduced the amount of whitespace in the sidebar too.
In addition, we’ve tweaked the way instant messages are displayed to reduce the amount of whitespace, allowing you to see more of your conversations without scrolling.
The contacts monitor is a great way to keep track of your closest friends, or your team at work, and in this version we’ve made it much easier to find – it’s in the Window menu.
You’ll be happy to know that we’ve brought back full screen mode in video calls. When you’re in a call, click the button to switch to full screen mode, and click it again to return the call to the Skype window.
It’s also easier to chat while you’re on a call – again, just click the button to reveal the chat panel, and click it again to hide.
Skype Group Video Calling Cost
Group video calling is free for a week, but after that, a day pass is $4.99, or a monthly subscription is $8.99, and customer support is included.
Download Free Skype for MAC OS
There is also a free version available if you do not want to pay for group calling,Click Below link to download free skype with out group calling but the rest of the features will work including voice chat,one to one video chat and Instant Messaging.
Donwload free version of Skye for Mac With-Out Group Calling.