Category Archives: Google

How to remove green checkmarks on files and folders – Google Drive for Desktop

I setup this wonderful application – Google Drive for Desktop – to sync files and folders I create on desktop to Google Drive. I specifically created a separate Gmail account just for backup and linked it through the application. That’s a free 15GB cloud drive. This application has an option to show up Google Drive… Read More »

Google URL Shortener – GOO.GL

Google has now introduced the facility of posting your RSS feeds directly onto your Twitter account in FeedBurner. You can now say good bye to all your plugins that you used to post your articles onto Twitter. If you are publishing feed through FeedBurner, just log into FeedBurner and add Twitter account. All your post… Read More »

Google adds English-to-Telugu and Telugu-to-English dictionaries

Google has added English to Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, and Bengali dictionaries and vice versa to its Dictionary section. English-to-Hindi dictionary has been available for a long time. Go to http://www.google.com/dictionary and click the drop down menu and hover the mouse on English. It shows available languages menu and from there you can… Read More »

Google SMS Channels – Create free SMS-based communities

Google SMS Channels is a new product out from the Google India Labs available to only Indians.  It lets you create SMS-based communities for free.  SMS Channels allows you to create your own channel(s) to publish content that other users can subscribe to. You can also create groups over SMS to communicate with your friends,… Read More »

Happy birthday Google!

Today is Google’s 10th birthday.  Google has grown to the point where without using a Google app, our Internet browsing is not complete.  Everybody knowingly or unknowingly will be using a Google product. We may be using Gmail for our mail needs, Blogger for a blog, Picasa for editing and sharing photos, SketchUp for building… Read More »