Backupify – No that is not an actual word. It is the name of a lifestream cloud backup service we are going to look at today. We use a lot of cloud services, social networking websites, share pictures, save interesting links online and they are all scattered everywhere in the Internet. It is not that […]

Free Lifetime Backup for Gmail, Flickr & Twitter
on December 23, 2009 in Blogging, Featured, Gmail, Google, Social Networking, Tech for Life, Web Apps

Free Google Voice Notifier App – GVNotifier.NET
on December 11, 2009 in Google, Google Voice, Tech for Life, Windows, Windows Freeware
Google Voice is a great communication tool, no doubt. Now, how can make it even more easy to access and use? GV Mobile iPhone app makes it easy to use it from your iPhone. But, i just came across a cool tool that puts Google Voice in your desktop taskbar. GVNotifier.NET is a free Windows […]

What Google Public DNS Actually Means To You?
on December 4, 2009 in Featured, Google, Google Public DNS, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks
Google has been in a mission to make the web faster than it is now. In that effort they have released Google Public DNS Service. You might have heard about it and probably wondering what the heck it is and if you should do anything about it. I am going to try to help you […]

How to Setup Google Analytics Intelligence Alerts?
on November 23, 2009 in Featured, Google, Google Analytics, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks
Google does a lot of things right and Google Analytics that help monitor your website traffic is definitely one among them. Google Analytics is a free and powerful website statistics gathering application. If you run a website(s), you are probably using Google Analytics to measure your site traffic. Google Analytics just added a cool new […]

How You Too Can Try Google Chrome OS
on November 22, 2009 in Google, Google Chrome OS, Tech for Life
Google Chrome OS made the splash on Friday with it’s announcement that it’s been open sourced. So, what if you wanted to try Google Chrome OS to get a hands on feel for its awesome features like the 7-second boot time? TechCrunch has posted a nice tutorial on how to run Google Chrome OS yourself […]

TrakkBoard – Adobe Air Google Analytics Dashboard
on November 9, 2009 in Adobe Air, Featured, Google, Google Analytics
Google Analytics is an excellent analytics program for webmasters to keep track of website statistics. Google has a winner with this free tool for webmasters and I use it on every site I run. It offers a myriad of features and I hardly use maybe 50% of the features in there. I like to spend […]

Was My Gmail Hacked This Morning?
on November 4, 2009 in Gmail, Google, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks
I really thought that was the case when I saw a bunch of emails marked as read when I know for sure I hadn’t opened them. I was in a 3 hour meeting. My first thought was to check to see if anyone else is logged into my Gmail account elsewhere right now. You can […]

How to Add Facebook Events to Google Calendar?
on October 31, 2009 in Facebook, Google, Google Calendar, Social Networking, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks
I use Google Calendar all the time now that I can sync Google Calendar with my iPhone. Go to Events page in Facebook (see the bar in the bottom of the page) Look for Export Events link in the Events page Copy the url in the popup window Go to Google Calendar – Look for […]

Google Reader Steps Up Personalization Efforts
on October 23, 2009 in Google, Google Reader, Tech for Life
Google Reader has yet again stepped up against an invisible opponent (seriously is anyone else even close now?) in the web based RSS reader space with more personalization options. Google Reader team has been busy introducing features that aim towards making it easy to find good web content, sharing it with your friends, leaving a […]

Quick Tip: Create a Shortcut to Your Unread Gmail
on October 12, 2009 in Gmail, Google, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks
Gmail has been the center of my online universe for the past few years. And I appreciate every little help to make me even more productive with my emails. Gmail already has a ton of features that can make you a productivity ninja. Labels, Filters, etc to name a few. You probably knew already that […]

Quick Tip: Gmail Down? Access Gmail using iGoogle
on September 1, 2009 in Gmail, Google, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks
Gmail has been down, reportedly worldwide, for a tleast an hour for me now. But there is a workaround. If you have POP access or IMAP enabled accounts setup, you can still access your Gmail. It works fine. Here is a list of supported POP clients if you don’t have one. If you don’t have […]

Gmail Gets More Netbook Friendly
on August 5, 2009 in Gmail, Google, Tech for Life
Google is definitely taking the Netbook space seriously. Netbooks are great for their portability but running Windows XP on it with limited hardware resources can be really painful. Google recognizes this and recently announced the open source Google Chrome OS aimed squarely at Netbooks. It is an extension of its Mobile OS platform – Android […]

Quick Tip: How to Change your Google Voice Number?
on July 29, 2009 in Google, Google Voice, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks
I have had a Google Voice number since it was in it’s original form as GrandCentral. I even gave away GrandCentral number invites to my readers here. At that time GrandCentral did not have a local number for me in my area. Even though the number was the same area code as my place it […]

Quick Tip: Add your Twitter Favorites to Google Reader
on July 15, 2009 in Google, Google Reader, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks
I use Twitter pretty much every day now and it’s probably no news for those of who follow me on Twitter. Although I rely on my Google Reader feeds to stay informed and get creative with blogging, Twitter is more and more becoming my source for good information for this blog. Plus, I use Twitter […]

Troubleshoot RSS Issues with Feedburner Status Blog
on January 27, 2009 in Blogging, Feedburner, Google, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks
Most of us who use Feedburner to publish our feeds have been seeing issues for the past week to 10 days. The feed count here dropped from over 900+ to around 600. And I didn’t even write something to piss you of. It was same story around the blog world and Twitter was buzzing with […]
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