Search the Web without leaving your doc in Google Drive

Are you a Research Scholar, Student or a writer who uses Google Drive often and ofcourse we need Google search some information and capture some images and/or some snippets from Other websites. 

Here is the Great way to search Internet with out leaving your Document in Google Drive. 

• In Middle of your writing just click on Tools --> Research to open a Search Dialogue with in your Document . 

                          

• Once the Dialogue opened start typing what you wanted to search and it gives you all the Information about your search including Location, Related Links and Images.

                                                       

• With Research Feature You can also select to see which Images you can use it for free on your Document for personal Use or Even Commercial Use. 

  

• And its not limited to just searching, you can also do Preview of each search result , you can insert your search result directly into your working Document as well as you can even do Citation. 

  

Happy Research........... !! 

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Auto Awesome, Holiday Special by Google+

Google+ has added two very cool AutoAwesome features for its user exclusively for Holidays.

1) Twinkle: upload a new photo of something that sparkles (like a Christmas tree or a chandelier), and we'll gift you a version with lights that actually twinkle.

2) Snow: upload a new photo with snow to Google+, and we'll gift you a version with snow that’s actually falling.

So, Why waiting .. start uploading your cool pictures to Google+ to get the Twinkle or Real Snow fall on your photos. 

Here is some of the sample photos, You can also checkout the #AutoAwesome to see what other Google+ users have created. 

Twinkle Example:

Snow example:

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What is this crap about Twitter #hashtag ?

In the Social media age, every one might read some where or heard in Radio, News about the Twitter #hashtag . Every one is talking about #hashtag , and every one is using #hashtag . Here is some basics of #hashtag if you are not using it yet.

#hashtag is one of the most powerful tools around the Social Media world. 

#hashtag instantly links a social media post to a group of others about the same topic and updating a group of likeminded users on that topic in real time.

#hashtag can occur any where in the twitter , at the beginning, middle or end of the tweet. #hashtag will not appear in search if your account is protected or private.

So, If you are not into using #hashtag yet, start building your brand using the meaningful name with #hashtag. 

Happy #Hash Tagging.  

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Free Web/Video Conferencing Software

When you are working with Remotely located Teams for Giving a Presentation, Meetings, hosting a webinar , Online Trainings are difficult with out having an Online Meeting Program. There are many Web conferencing softwares available as Paid Service. 

AnyMeeting It's a free alternative to GoToMeeting software available in the Market.. Unlike other softwares claim to be free, AnyMeeting Free Service will give you almost equal capabilities as other Software paid Service.  

You can host an Online meeting for up to 200 member for Free of cost, But Yeah, you need to bare with the Ads for Free Accounts to support their Software. You need to opt for a paid service to avoid advertisements.

You can do lot many things other than sharing our computer screen . Here is few:

If you are really looking for a Free alternative to GoToMeetings or Webex , It's worth Giving it a try. 

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Convert Your Presentations Into Talking Videos

If you have slides or powerpoint Presentations and you wanted them to convert into Talking Videos, SlideTalk made that possible with easy and Free interface.

SlideTalk provides different voice modulations and in different languages, you can select which ever the modulation you wanted.

You can upload your individual slides, images or you can upload your entire Powerpoint Presentation at same time to add Voice to it and convert them into Videos.

It's very easy to share with your friends via Social network as well.

It works with THREE simple steps:

Checkout the below Video created using SlideTalk

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How to Use Dictionary on the iPhone and iPad

One or the other time we have a need to use the Dictionary for some of the words, especially smart phone world its very hard to open up a dictionary to know the meaning of something when you are reading any thing.

Here is the simple tip on how you can use the Dictionary on your iPhone or iPad right from where you are reading.

• Open your browser or even on your Notes taking Application and wondering you needed to use Dictionary for a specific word, and just select that word and look for "Define"

• Once you Click on Define You will be taken to the Dictionary Preview mode with meaning of the selected word. 

• In case if you don't have a Dictionary available on your smart phone or if your Dictionary is not working after iOS update, OR you are getting "No Definition found" ? you can fix it with few simple clicks. 

• To add or to Change the Dictionary you are using on your iPhone , simply click on "Manage" button right from the same screen and select the Dictionary you desired to use and thats it , you are ready to use. 

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Awesome Facts about Languages

Here is Some Awesome facts about languages:

• There are 7000 languages in the world.

• Chinese language has 5000 characters

• To read daily news paper in Chinese languages, you need to know at-least 2000 characters in the language.

• There are 2,200 languages in Asia region.

• 1/4 the of the world population knows at least some basic English language.

• There are 13 ways to spell the 'o' sound in French.

And there are more.. checkout the below Info-graphic image for more awesome details.

Source: Edudemic

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Must Know Social Media Shortcuts

Every Internet user is browsing through Social Network Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+  and Youtube on daily basis. And its Obvious that every one wanted to get the things faster and which intern needs a keyboard shortcuts to perform the repeated tasks.

Many people don't know that social networks like Facebook, Google+ have Shortcut keys. If you want to be the Expert Level user on the Social Network , you need to start using the shortcut keys. Maybe you need some time to get used to all the commands, but its worth trying for whose loves to become a Pro.

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Screen Share with a friend on Facebook?

One or the other Day every one should have experienced the need of Desktop sharing software. Though you have some of the tools available in Internet, its not an easy to have screen share with out having some soft of software installed.

Deskhop is a Facebook app that enables you to share your computer screen with a friend on Facebook. By using Desktop you can share your screen to your Facebook friend also you can request to share your Friends Desktop with you .

Screen sharing with Deskhop is completely safe and the connections are encrypted end-to-end using 128-bit AES Technology. So there is no chance for a third party to interpret your connection to steal your data.

Deskhop is currently Free to use , and it's created from RealVNC , the inventors of VNC remote access and control Technology.

This Deskhop works in 3 easy steps.

1. Choose a Friend from your Facebook friends list.
2. Choose whose screen to share ( Yours OR Your Friends ) 
3. Download and Run small temporary file, That's it .. !! 

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Drive Smarter by Connecting your Smartphone and Car

Automatic is an iPhone app that pairs with a little piece of intelligent hardware called "Automatic Link". The Link plugs into your car's OBD-II port, connecting your phone to your car's onboard computer while you drive.

All cars since 1996 have an OBD-II port, and most cars are compatible with Automatic Link, Check Here if your car is compatible with Automatic. 

Automatic is a Smart device, helps you make small changes to your driving style that can lead to huge savings on gas overtime. 

Automatic can detect many types of serious crashes using built-in accelerometer  and Contacts Local authorities and also call your loved ones.

Automatic connects to your Car's onboard computer and helps explain any "check engine" problems and explains what is the problem. 

With Automatic you don't need to remember where you parked your car, Automatic Does. 

Find out more about Automatic Here.

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How to Convert your Sound files to Professional Audio standard

Auphonic is a free service which helps you convert your Sound files to a Professional Audio standard with its web-service and uploads to your favorite Cloud services like Youtube, SoundCloud, Dropbox or your FTP location. 

Auphonic does Automatic Audio leveling, normalization, noise reduction and encoding and cleans up to a Professional Standard and sends your Audio/Video to your podcasting Service and you can also backup your podcasts from your cloud drive .

Auphonic is a free service, Its one of the must have Service for all the Bloggers, Broadcasters, Podcast creators, and Screencasts.

It balances levels between speakers, music and speech to new broadcast standards with noise reduction and filtering of disturbing low frequencies and uploads  your formatted file to Dropbox, FTP, SFTP, HTTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, YouTube, SoundCloud, Libsyn, Blubrry and Archive.org 

Auphonic has also have Mobile App's for both iOS and Android with on-board recorder. 

Source: One Thing Well

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Must have Creative apps for iOS

iPhones and iPads became most powerful and popular educational/presentational tools , A Case Study demonstrates iPad's are widely being used in Educational and professional presentation / learning. To take advantage of more creative and interactive presentations, these are very few must have iPad/iPhone apps. 

• Pic Collage  ( Free , Compatible with iPhone/iPad) 

 Pic Collage lets you arrange your photos into frames - or get creative with freeform collages, cutouts, boarders, stickers. Its just like photoshop with your fingers. This App is useful for the ages from 5 to 100 with free pic Collage and dress up your photos.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pic-collage/id448639966 

• FlowBoard ( Free, Compatible with iPad ) 

FlowBoard is a Story Telling and Presentation App that allows you to make side-scrolling presentations with images, text, videos, pdf's and links. FlowBoard allows to share an idea, tell your story, present a document right from your iPad.  It also allows you to create your with your content in the cloud like Google Drive, SkyDrive, Dropbox.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/flowboard-touch-publishing/id630717527

• Funny Movie Maker ( Free, Compatible with iPod/iPhone/iPad ) 

Funny Movie Maker - Replace your face instantly and create hilarious movies to share with friends. Choose any face photos of friends, celebrities, politicians or even yourself and record videos by replacing their mouth with yours, Adjust the pitch of your voice and add music to complete your movie. By using this you can make even your pets talk, or your body parts talk and share it with your friends and family. 

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/funny-movie-maker-replace/id430623298 

•  TouchCast ( Free, Compatible with iPad, soon for Desktop ) 

TouchCast , Its a new way of experiencing the Web inside Video,  It's unique Authoring environment allows you to effortlessly add any thing from web, images and other interactive features into your video. In a simple words, you can create a responsive , fully browsable and live Videos, just like having TV Studio at your home. 

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/touchcast/id603258418

• J2E-Just2easy ( Free, Compatible with iPod/iPhone and iPad ) 

J2E is an online creativity tool purely designed for education purpose, It brings the power of web 2.0 presentations into your life.  It's so easy to use, versatile yet so powerful, You can add text to speech to your master peace and you can do realtime collaboration with other j2e registered users at same time.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/touchcast/id603258418 

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Future Technology Device: Leap Motion

LeapMotion is a brand new and high technology device, Leap Motion controller is a very small peace of hardware , compatible with both Windows and Mac computers, that allows users to control the device without touching the keyboard, mouse or the screen . This smart device is available in market for $80 , which will be very useful for presentations , class rooms and meetings to present in a innovative way.

We can use LeapMotion controller to use zoom in and away from the sun/ google earth, the planet of our solar system . As an added bonus LeapMotion has a many apps which support 3D environment with 3D glass. 

This device will be useful for Video Gamers, School teaching for visual demonstration of the solar system , Corporate Meetings and presentations. 

Eventually , we may expect to see most of the organizations/users using Leap Motion in all of their demonstrations.. 

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How to Create cartoon style bubbles for your photos ?

By using Phrase.It we can create our own Comic style speech Bubble images, Its 100% free and you don't even need to register or provide your email address. 

It's one of the very best speech bubble photo editor.  You can create Comic strips by uploading your own photos, or you can even import from facebook or you can select random stock photos from internet and use those. 

Once you create your Cartoon bubbles you can edit your photo with vintage look or shady look ... they are have different themes. 

After your creation , you can download your art to your computer or you can share to your friends over Social network or using link.

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How to create a word clouds ?

How to generate your own "Word Cloud" from the text you have provided ? Word Cloud gives very stylish way of arranging the words you wanted to see on a image .

Wordle is very intelligent toy for generating "word clouds" from the text provided by you , The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

You can change your text with different fonts, layouts and different color schemes. Wordle provides the way to print your word cloud after creation or you also save them to Wordle public gallery to share with friends, But it will be visible to every one in the internet, there is sign-in, or protection to your images once its uploaded to Wordle Gallery.

Actually , Where can you use word Clouds ?  Well, its up to your imagination & based on your needs , You can use word cloud on Business Cards, on your Blog , Print it on your T-shirt , as a book cover , as a poster, as a flyer , or even as a wall poster in your Office or bedroom.

Happy Wordle.. !!

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Create Panoramic from scattered photos : PhotoStitcher

PhotoStitcher is a very new and innovative easy to use tool for combining multiple overlapping pictures into a single panoramic image.

Many times we have been out for vacation, road trip or hiking, to capture the complete view of the picture is not an easy.. We do have panoramic on iPhone, but its not easy to capture than a certain limit, Teorex has recently released this very useful software PhotoStitcher. 

Here is the very simple steps to get the PhotoStitcher get to work for you to create a beautiful Panoramic for you. 

PhotoStitcher automatically addresses the technical issues like alignment, distortion, overlapping . Its going to be the best tool for graphic designers or photography lovers. 

• Download the PhotoStitcher for windows or mac Here

• Select your Scattered photographs from your computer 
  

• Click "Stitch" and let the program stitch the photographs ( even Overlapping photos ) 
  

• Change the clipping rect based on requirement and crop the photo per your needs. 
  

• Enjoy the beautiful PhotoStitch Panoramic picture. 
  

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Google 2-Step Verification

 2-Step Verification

Why 2-Step Verification

It's easier than you think for someone to steal your passwordAny of these common actions could put you at risk of having your password stolen:

• Using the same password on more than one site

• Downloading software from the Internet

• Clicking on links in email messages

2-Step Verification can help keep bad guys out, even if they have your password.With 2-Step Verification, you’ll protect your account with both your password and your phone.

How to register 2-step verification

Go to https://security.google.com/settings/security?ref=home

• click edit at 2-step verification, then you will navigated to start setup page

• Click start setup and then enter your gmail password 

• Key in your mobile number and select option to call or send sms

• Key in the verification code or receive the call when asked and complete the process

Keep sign-in simple

• During sign-in, you can tell us not to ask for a code again on that particular computer. From then on, that computer will only ask for your password when you sign in.

• You'll still be covered, because when you or anyone else tries to sign in to your account from another computer, a verification code will be required.

source: Google

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How to send encrypted email from Gmail

Adding security to your emails is very important in the fast growing internet world, Email is playing a major part in everyone's life these days for their communications. To protect our privacy its always better to encrypt the email. 

SecureGmail using SecureGmail we can send encrypt emails using Gmail or accounts provided by your organization , school or Business. 

You may also like: How to email files directly to Google Drive, Dropbox or SkyDrive ?

It's very easy , to get started login to SecureGmail and download a small extension for your browser. 

Once you installed the extension, your "Compose" icon in your gmail gets new look with a little lock icon. 

It will open a new compose screen to send your encrypted message. 

Your message will be encrypted with symmetric encryption to encrypt and decrypt each message and Password id decided by the user and assumes the recipient already knows it , also you can send a hint about password to the recipient. 

Your recipient will be asked to Decrypt message with the password .. Its that Simple.. 

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How to backup your cloud Drive?

Does your cloud Drive needs to be backed up ? Yeah, there are multiple reasons why your cloud drive needs to be backed up, incase your data is corrupted , or your account is compromised or you made a mess and need to go-back to previous date of data ..

MyBackupBox will allow you to  transfer data between your cloud accounts and take backup of your website data. 

Login to MyBackupBox and add Source and Destination cloud accounts and perform Scheduled transfers ( in Archive format ) .. 

You may also like : How to host your website on Dropbox

What else can be done with MyBackupData :

• Automate and Schedule your Cloud backups.
• Easily create schedules to handle transfers of your data
• Archive and Timestamp your transfers for easy identification
• Perform Incremental backup's or full backups
• Backup your Wordpress websites, database.

Additional advantage of this is, you can do all the above mentioned activities with out installing any software.

Initially you will get 10GB worth data transfers for free of cost and there after you need to pay $1 per 1GB. 

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How to host your website on Dropbox ?

If you are looking to host your website quickly and easily without paying to any hosting providers, Dropbox is the great place for you.. It takes less than 5 minutes to setup your website. You can publish this site with just txt  files and you don't need to have any knowledge with css, javascript.

You may also like : How to backup your website

Here is the Steps to host your website on Dropbox. 

• Create your Account on Dropbox:  If you don't have an account with Dropbox already , You create one here. 

• Login to my Droppages site where you will get to pick a name for your website by logging into DropPages and click SignIn. 

• It will ask you to authenticate with your Dropbox credentials and once you login you can create your website like yourname.dropopages.com , Here is the site i have created http://beautifulwebsite.droppages.com

• It creates a simple website displaying Hello World page, To make it a full website, download this website template and copy it under your website folder in Dropbox and make necessary changes to the .txt files under Content folder to modify the text on pages. 

• After that you can make necessary changes as needed by modifying the Default.html page under Templates folder. 

• If you don't want to use the url with .droppages.com , you can upgrade your account on my.droppages.com and you can pick your own domain name as increase the Data size as needed. 

Share if you like it. 

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Google Digital Wallet Now available on iOS

Google Wallet a digital Wallet App by Google is now available on iOS devices. This has been on Android devices quiet long time, after NFC requirement changes today Google extended its digital Wallet to iOS devices also.

Google Wallet allows users to send money between the members, make purchases online by storing the Credit/Debit card into your account. It also let you save Reward membership details, coupons driven for Google Wallet.

Google also monitor's all of your transactions 24/7 for a fraud and if you ever loses your Smart phone, you can goto Service website and disable remotely. 

As of now This App will work only in United States, and you can download from here. Lets expect Google to release this App soon across the world. 

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Battery life after iOS7, Tips to Save Battery on iPhone

Awaiting iOS7 has been Officially released to all the Compatible devices of Apple. Ofcourse iOS7 is soo neat and yeah sexy :) 

As per Apple iOS7 has been optimized to increase the Battery life, Well there are many folks facing Battery Drain issues on the iPhone 4s/5 .  

Here are some simple clicks where you can improve some of the features with out losing the key features of the iOS7. 

• Close All Background Running Applications after done using it. 

• Disable Background App Refresh:  It's one of the feature contributes to suck the Batter life. To Disable it, Goto Settings --> General --> Background App Refresh 

• Disable iAds:  If you are not too fancy about getting location based Ad's , Disable it to save some Batter.  To disable it, goto Settings --> Privacy --> Location Services --> System Services 

• Disable Reduce Motion:  This feature will reduce the motion of the User interface , icons and alerts.. You can save some more by disabling it. by navigating to Settings --> General --> Accessibility --> Reduce Motion

• Turn off unused Location Services : yeah, we need Location Services to be enabled for better user experience of iPhone, But we can same some battery life by disable Location Services for the Apps which we don't use often.

• Finally, By Turning off Bluetooth, Wi-fi , Air Drop when we are not using with just one swipe . 

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