Who said organizing emails in your Gmail inbox has to be a boring, mind numbing affair? 0Boxer aims at making the mundane email tasks such as reading, deleting, organizing, tagging your Gmail emails a fun task. Once granted access to your Gmail account with oAuth, 0Boxer web app monitors your Gmail account for activity. You […]

0Boxer Makes it Fun to Organize Emails in Gmail
on September 27, 2010 in Gmail, Google, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks, Web Apps

One Site to Instantise Popular Web Services
on September 16, 2010 in Google, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks, Web Apps
A few days ago Google unveiled an awesome new feature in Google Search – Google Instant. Google Instant search enabled seeing results as-you-type and was ridiculously fast in displaying the results. It wowed everyone including yours truly. Inspired by Google Instant, a lot of web developers started applying this to various services like YouTube, Flickr, […]

Get IIT Technical Lectures For Free on Youtube
on September 10, 2010 in Google, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks, Web Apps, Youtube
IIT – Indian Institute of Technology is one of the premium Indian educational institutions. Only the best of the students graduating from high school get into it after rigorous screening. I went to school right across from IIT Chennai and always wondered what it would be attend classes there. Now, thanks to a program called […]

Tips for Using Google Voice in Gmail
on September 7, 2010 in Gmail, Google, Google Chrome, Google Voice, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks
Google announced the ability to make calls from within Gmail recently. It looks like it has been very popular among Gmail users and 10 million calls had been made as of Sep 1. If you have your Google Voice number attached to your Gmail and use it to call people from within Gmail, Google Voice […]

Comprehensive Comparison Spreadsheet of All Known Android Phones
on September 2, 2010 in Android, Cellphones, Gadgets, Google, Netbooks, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks
When it comes to choosing an Apple iPhone, we got you covered in our iPhone blog. However, when it comes to Android based phones if you start looking into the selection available to you, I guarantee that your head will start to spin. The good folks at Portable Electronics Ltd, a New Zealand based electronics […]

YouTube Adds 400+ Free Full Length Movies
on August 27, 2010 in Google, Tech for Life, Web Apps, Youtube
Google is pulling out all stops trying to give out free content. They just announced free calls within US and Canada from Gmail this week. Now they have added over 400 full length movies for us to watch free on Youtube. YouTube had added a few free movies and TV shows last year. Before you […]

Gmail Adds Voice Calls
on August 25, 2010 in Gmail, Google, Google Voice
Google has added voice and video chat to their web based Gmail a while back. But, this required both parties at be at their computers to be able to communicate. They had added the ability to send free SMS messages right from within Gmail too. Now, they have added the ability to call any phone […]

Gmail Contacts Become More Useful
on August 12, 2010 in Gmail, Google
It really is about time. Google has completely revamped Contacts in Gmail and it is a lot more usable now. I use Google Contacts as my primary contacts source and even sync it to my iPhone. So, as you can imagine it was a little underwhelming to use Google Contacts so far. Here are the […]

How to Enable Multiple Gmail Account Support?
on August 3, 2010 in Gmail, Google, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks, Web Apps
Have I mentioned I love Gmail? Gmail makes up for its dull look and feel with powerful functionality to handle the email volumes of this day. But, as most Gmail users I have multiple Gmail accounts and it is a pain to switch between them. I hate to have to logout of one account and […]

Gmail Gets Rich Text Signatures. Finally!
on July 12, 2010 in Gmail, Google, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks, Web Apps
Finally, we can let out a huge sigh of relief. I love Gmail a lot and can’t even consider any other email service for all the features it has. For years, Gmail users have been resorting to various workarounds to get HTML signatures in Gmail. I have regularly covered different ways to achieve this in […]

Top 10 Google Voice Tips and Tricks
on June 29, 2010 in Google, Google Voice, Household, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks, Web Apps
Google Voice recently went public. If you have signed up for one and haven’t started to realize it’s potential, do not worry. I am guilty of that as well. But, a lot of folks who have embraced Google Voice as their main phone number swear by it. So, how do we go about making the […]

Learn HTML5 With HTML5 Rocks
on June 28, 2010 in Blogging, Google, Tech for Life, Web Apps
HTML5 is catching a lot of momentum especially with Apple’s newest and hottest devices – Apple iPad and Apple iPhone 4 gaining huge popularity. What does an Apple product have to do with HTML 5, you may ask? Steve Jobs has banished Flash (which powers a huge number of sites and video players on the […]
Google Voice Goes Public. Finally.
on June 22, 2010 in Google, Google Voice, Household, Tech Deals, Tech for Life
Google Voice was born out of GrandCentral and has been in invite-only beta for more than a year now. Even though it wasn’t hard to get one before you still had to apply for an invite and wait for it to arrive. Google Voice is now open for everyone! Google Voice gives you one number […]
YouTube Offers Online Video Editor
on June 17, 2010 in Google, Tips & Tricks, Web Apps, Youtube
With the multitude of smartphones having the ability to upload your videos to YouTube without syncing to your computer, this is a welcome move. We shoot videos with our cell phones and just press upload. They don’t get any kind of editing and a lot of videos in YouTube have those crappy few seconds here […]

If the BP Oil Spill Happened in Your City
on June 14, 2010 in Google, Tech for Life, Web Apps
The BP Gulf oil spill is a tragedy and my heart goes out to those who are affected. If you want to know how big the Gulf Oil Spill is, there is a Google Maps mashup called If It was my Home. This Google Maps mashup lets you move the Deepwater Horizon oil rig from […]
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