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[Tip] Link Google Analytics Profile To Webmaster Tools

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If you own a website or blog and using Google Analytics and Google Webmaster tools services on your site, you can now link both these services to more quicker access within one service to the other. A post on Google webmaster central blog describes that once you link your site’s Google Analytics profile to the corresponding Google Webmaster Tools account, even though you won’t be able to see data sharing like your linked Adsense – Google Analytics account, you can still see some quick links to access few Analytics features right inside the Webmaster Tools. For instance you can now see the referring pages report of the Google Analytics profile from the “Links to your site” page in Webmaster Tools.

Links to site in Google Webmaster Tools

Follow the steps to link the Google Analytics profile of your site to the Webmaster Tools provided you have both of them on the same Google account.

1. Go to Google Webmaster Tools dashboard and locate the site for which you want to link.

2. Click on the “Manage” drop-down button to expand the menu and click on the “Google Analytics profile” link.

google analytics profile link webmaster tools

3. Choose your site’s Google Analytics profile from the list and click the “Save” button.

Link Google Analytics account to GWT

That is it.

[Download] Google Goggles 1.3 For Android

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Google Goggles

Google Goggles app for Android and iPhone devices has just been upgraded to a newer version. Google Goggles 1.3 for Android can now scan barcodes faster, and recognize print ads in popular magazines across US and finally it can also solve any Sudoku puzzle if you scan the puzzle with your camera. While the improved barcode scanning is available for the Android client, the other two features, recognition of  print ads and Sudoku solver are available for  both Android and iPhone versions of the client.

Google Goggles Sudoku solved

Google Goggles for Android (and iPhone via Google Mobile app) is touted to solve Sudoku puzzles faster than a Sudoku champ. If you make a mistake somewhere while solving a Sudoku puzzle and just stuck there for hours, just scan the picture of the Sudoku puzzle using the app from your Android or iPhone and the solution will be there just in case you wanted a hit to proceed further. To test it yourself, grab the app now and see how quickly it solves the Sudoku puzzles or how it accurate information about the print ad scans are.

Download Google Goggles 1.3:

>> Android users: Download from market place or visit this link from the browser: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.unveil

>> iPhone users: Visit the iTunes app store link to install the Google Mobile app

[via] Google Mobile blog

Make Phone Calls From Gmail For Free All Through 2011

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If you are located in US and Canada, Google has some very good news for you. You can now make free phone calls to all your pals till the end of 2011. When this feature was launched initially in August 2010, Google said that it would offer free phone calls service to the U.S. and Canada till the rest of 2010. According to a recent blog post at Official Gmail blog, the free service has been extended through 2011.

gmail phone call free

To get started with calling phone numbers in Gmail, get the Gmail voice and video chat plugin click on the “Call Phone” that appears at the top of your chat list and you will see the dial pad. You can either dial the phone number or enter a contact name to start a voice phone call. If you have a Google Voice phone number, you can even display it as the outbound caller ID and receive calls made to this number inside Gmail as well. It may not be as good as other leading VOIP solutions like Skype but still a decent one.While calls to the U.S. and Canada are free, calls to phones outside the United States are charged as per the following rates list.

gmail phone call rates

For more information, go visit gmail.com/call.

[Download] Google Voice App For iPad & iPod Touch

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Google has just added the iPad and the iPod touch support for the Google Voice iPhone app. The newly released Google Voice app version 1.1.0.636 lets you access our Google Voice account right from your iPhone, iPod touch or  iPad. With this app installed on your iPad or iPod touch, you can make use of all the features of the iPhone version of this app (except making like cellular calls) sending and receiving text messages for free.

The new “Click2Call” feature, you can can an call to any of your phones right from the iPad or iPod touch. The other improvements in the new version of the app are auto-disabling of Text forwarding when the Push Notifications are enabled (to avoid multiple alerts for the same message) and the new “Do Not Disturb” feature (available under the Settings tab)  that lets your callers directly connect to the voicemail when you are busy. Head over to iTunes App Store from link added below to download the app to your iPad or iPod touch devices running iOS 3.1 or later.

Download Google Voice App (via iTunes App Store)

[via] Google Voice blog

[Tip] Enable Web Apps In Chrome 8

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Google has recently launched the Chrome Web Store, where you can find number of web apps  , extensions and themes for Google Chrome. If you want to enable the web apps in the recently released Google Chrome 8 (they’ll show up when you open a new tab), follow these steps:

1. Make sure Google Chrome is not running on your computer.

2. If you are on a Windows machine, right-click on the Chrome shortcut, and choose “Properties” from the context menu. In the “Target” filed under “Shortcut” tab, append it with   “ --enable-default-apps" (without quotes but with the initial space). In general, the target field should look like this:

C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --enable-default-apps

Chrome shortcut properties

3. Click “OK” to save the settings and close the properties window.

4. Click  the wrench icon, chrome tools menuTools > Extensions.

5. Expand the “Developer mode” Developer mode iconicon.

6. Click on the “Update extensions now” button.

chrome extensions page

7. Open a new tab and now you must see the all the web apps that are currently enabled for your Chrome. The default web apps are Google Docs, Google Calender, Gmail etc.

Apps page in Google Chrome

This tutorial is intended for Google Chrome 8 running on Windows machine, if your are on Mac or Linux, you might want to read the original story at  Google OS blog.

Get A Cr-48 Chrome Notebook As Part Of The Google’s Pilot Program

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Google Chrome OS

Google has yesterday officially announced the details of the upcoming Google Chrome OS and also showcased the first ever Chrome OS laptop called “Cr-48 Chrome Notebook”. The netbook will have a 12.1-inch screen with a full sized (but tweaked a bit) keyboard, Qualcomm Gobi 3G chip (Verizon-only in US), Wi-Fi, more than 8 hours of usage on battery, a webcam and flash storage. The keyboard has been made such a way that there are no traditional “Caps lock” and “function” keys on it. Instead a new “Search” key has been added in place of the “Caps lock” key, which lets you quickly access the Google search just with a click. The full keyboard looks almost similar to that of Apple’s keyboard.

Cr-48 Chrome OS laptop

Google has launched a Chrome OS Pilot Program, through which it will initially distribute the Cr-48 Chrome OS laptops to those who are really interested in testing them out. Later, by mid-2011, laptop makers Acer and Samsung should be coming up with their own laptop models based on the Chrome OS. If you want to get this laptop, go here and apply.

Test drive Chrome notebook

Google is giving away only limited number of models for testing to interested users and if you are lucky (if you are in the US, chances are high!) you could also be one of those who get their hands on this notebook even before most of the others could get, Good luck!

via Engadget

Related: Is Chrome OS virus free?

[Tip] Disable Or Remove GoogleUpdate.Exe Process

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When you install Google products like Google Chrome, Picasa and others on your system, new Google Update service gets installed on your computer, responsible for running “googleupdate.exe” process in regular intervals. This process regularly contacts Google servers to check if there are any updates available to the Google products that you have installed on your system. Agree, this is essential to keep your Google products up-to-date by installing the important security updates etc., but definitely you may not like to dedicate some of your CPU resources to the process to keep it running continuously. The same process is responsible for the Automatic Silent Update feature in Google Chrome. If you don’t want to run Googleupdate.exe process on your computer, follow these steps to stop running it on your computer.

GoogleUpdate.exe process

You can’t find the GoogleUpdate.exe in the start up items using msconfig, but you can surely find it in the Task Scheduler as it gets added to the Windows Task Scheduler.

Steps:

1. Go Start Menu, type “tasks” in the search box and click “Task Scheduler” from the results under “Programs” section.

Task Scheduler from Start Menu search result

2. Find an entries starting with “GoogleUpdate” in the tasks and disable or remove them to stop running again on your computer.

GoogleUpdate in task scheduler

disable google update tasks

3. Press Windows + R to open the RUN command box, type “regedit” and hit OK.

regedit in run command

4. In the registry editor, try and see of you can find an entry with value “Google Update” in the following paths:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run                                                     
                        and       
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

If you could find a value with that name, right-click on “Google Update” and select “Delete”. Restart your system to see the changes in effect.

Please note that when you remove GoogleUpdate.exe, the Google software will not be updated automactically you might need to download the updated versions manually. Also when you install any other products like Google Earth, the GoogleUpdate.exe comes back to your system and you might need to repeat the above steps all over again!

[Download] Google Chrome 8 Stable Version

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Google Chrome 8

Google Chrome has just been updated to stable version 8.0.552.215. Google Chrome 8 is coming with over 800 bug fixes and other minor improvements. The big feature enhancements in Chrome 8 is the addition of a built in PDF viewer (and yes, it is secured in Chrome’s sandbox) and the latest version also updated to support the upcoming Google Chrome Web app store .

Download:

If you are already using an earlier version of Chrome, just click the wrench Chrome Tools button and choose “About Google Chrome”. Google Chrome’s “Auto update silent mode” should get you the the latest version of the Chrome. If it didn’t, it’ll for sure now when you choose to open “About Google Chrome” as shown here:

Google Chrome updating

Or if you may choose to download the Chrome online installer. If you want to download a standalone offline installer so that you can install it on any other computer without an active internet connection, you can do so by downloading the exe setup file from the following link:

Download Google Chrome 8 Offline Installer [23.42 MB]

[Tip] Start YouTube Video From A Specific Time

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We all love YouTube and the ever increasing millions of videos continually posted on it. We like to share the videos with friends over various social networking platforms (yeah, for the same reason, youtu.be URL shortening service was launched by Google!). Everything is fine and cool, no problem with sharing and watching as long as videos that you share are short in length. But what do you do when you need to share a video which is a bit longer and you wanted to emphasize on only specific portion of the video? Yeah, YouTube has added support to quickly skip or start any video from specific time frame. To do this, you just had to append the time (“t=”) parameter to the URL of the video. Where you can specify the time in seconds (or in minutes) to instruct the video to load from that particular time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suTDT6-Q8NE#t=61s                
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suTDT6-Q8NE#t=1m1s

If you open the above URL in your browser, you can see that the video starts from 1 minute 1 second mark.

Now YouTube has decided to cut down this manual work on the users’ part. When you watch any video, just right-click on it and you will see a new “Copy video URL at current time”. You will now have the URL with “t= “ parameter appended to the video automatically corresponding to the point of the time in the video at which you selected this option.

Copy Video URL at current time

[Via] Labnol

Official Google Reader Android App

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Official Google Reader app for Android is now available in the Android Market. The Android supports all the basic features that you would expect it to have like count of unread items, sharing, liking, starring etc. In addition to these, the app also has options to use multiple accounts, setting synchronization preferences, full subscriptions features and even searching the subscriptions feature.

Google Reader Android Screenshot

And of course, Google as always, included few surprise features additional features along with the app  like volume-key navigation, easy unsubscribe, rename subscriptions by long-pressing on a folder or subscription etc. Just enable the Volume-key navigation in the settings and you can quickly go through the feeds using volume key to go to next and previous items (similar to “j” and “k” shortcuts in the desktop version).

Scan the following QR code to go the to the app link in the Android Market and install it.

Google Reader Android App QR Code

[Via] Google Reader blog