Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts

Monday, January 17, 2011

6 Must Have Android Apps For Bloggers


If you are a blogger owning a smartphone powered by Android, your options are plenty for Mobile blogging without any compromise on quality of the content or presentation of the post and not just that you do it all on the go without your notebook, with the Apps that you get these days one can do it all from planning a post, designing the image to checking the analytics for the post once it is published, here are 6 apps that you should have in your Android phone if you are a blogger.


WordPress:
WordPress is a gem of an application for Android which will allows you to edit post, add images, publish it and even easy to manage comments too. With latest version you can easily add pages and media to your post to make it more useful and you will receive comment notifications as well. It’s a must have application for bloggers.

Photoshop:
Images are always an integral part of any blog post and what better than Photoshop to make it 'picture perfect'? Photoshop app will provide you all the features to edit your image and you can add them in your blog post. You can easily crop, rotate, color correct, add different texture and effects to your images and upload it online.

Blogaway:
Blogaway is useful for those who use Blogger. It provides you features like multiple account support, tags and labels, interlinks, managing drafts. You can even add images from Picasa and videos from YouTube. The new beta version is providing you WordPress option as well. If you are Blogger user, it’s well worth trying it out.

Quickpedia:
Quickpedia is an easy to use app that lets you search through Wikipedia pages and do some quick research on the topic of your choosing and can prove very handy for quick search on your topic and get all the vital informations in no time.

Evernote:
Evernote is in a sense mandatory for all bloggers, on your notebook or mobile phone. We get ideas everywhere and thus it’s vital that as soon as any idea knocks you can note it down, and what better than Evernote to do it? Evernote gives us options to save text, snaps, voice memos and lots more.

Google Analytics:
Google Analytics is awesome application for those who want to keep track of their Google Analytics data on the go. You can check out the summary of your blog. It provides you features like Date range comparison, custom reports, reports via geolocation, regex enabled searches and lots more.

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Monday, January 17, 2011 by Sridhar · 37

Saturday, November 27, 2010

HOW TO: Make Your YouTube Video Go Viral


All those who are crazy about using YouTube and uploading their videos aspire for one thing in common, they want their video to go Viral. Its not easy, but its not very tough either, Follow these steps below and sure your video is the next viral video in YouTube.


Hold on before you start, download few of the top viral videos and check the following golden rules:

☞ Why is it a huge LOL product?
☞ What’s the USP of the video?
☞ What makes it look offbeat?
☞ And finally why people are crazy to share it?

Now here are some steps to follow once you get started:

Should look real:

The unique fact about viral videos is that they don’t need to look professional. Strangely enough, many of the top videos are created by very expensive videographers… to look home-made. Plan your videos before starting. Script the main scenes. Do it take several times till you are convinced that it is perfect.

Video Length:

Short is Super. Create 20 minutes of video if you want but then edit it back to 100 seconds. Use good video editing tools like Adobe Premiere, If the video is short, its file size is small meaning it’s easy to send/share across the web and mobile phones.

Engaging Headlines:

When you upload it to YouTube, DIGG and others, write highly engaging headlines that make people want to click on it and see what’s inside.

Again, study how other videographers do this and then copy their style. Look at the top 20 videos on DIGG every day and you’ll get the idea.

Selecting a Category Wisely:

Predict where people will look for your videos and enter them in the right category. Its better if you you avoid crowded categories. Look at areas that others tend to ignore and focus on those.

Spin a Story:

Even if you have a reallly good video, its all about how you promote the video with a story spun around it by a series of promotional videos about the main video. People generally fall for stories use it to your advantage, but never cross the line.

Use Social Media:

The biggest weapon for you to promote your video is Socail Media and its all about using it effectively. Use Twitter and Facebook extensively to promote your videos and slowly it will go viral.

Remember success is not instant, keep working on your video and sure it will go viral.

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Saturday, November 27, 2010 by Sridhar · 37

Friday, October 8, 2010

5 Damage Control Tips For Social Media [Social Media]


1. goggles

Turn on Mail Goggles before heading out for drinks. The feature, which is a hit with party animals, prevents you from sending out reckless declarations of love or hatred. It makes you do some math before allowing you hit 'Send'. Cant't do the math? You'll need to log off and return tomorrow.

2.Message Recall

Some office mail applications have this option but it only works if the message hasn't been read yet and if the recipient lets you recall it.

3. faux pas

And finally one for FB, Did your friend upload an unflattering photo of yours and ignore requests to delete it? Click on 'remove tag'. It will still be online but won't show up in your list.

4.No comments

If you made a comment on a public forum and there's no delete option, change your display name so it doesn't show up in search results for your real name.

5.Confidential chat

On Google chat, select "Go off the record" to prevent chats from being saved and reproduced.

Friday, October 8, 2010 by Sridhar · 0

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Top 6 Google Search Secrets [Google]


If you’re a typical Internet user, you access Google several times a week, if not several times a day. As a typical user, you also don’t use a tenth of Google’s search power—which means you’re not searching as effectively or as efficiently as you could.

Read on, then, to discover the secrets of Google searching—and become a Google power searcher.

1.Why Google Delivers More Targeted Results Than Other
Search Engines?

Like most of the major search engines, Google assembles the pages in its search index by using special “searchbot” or crawler software to scour the Web. Found pages are automatically added to Google’s ever-expanding database; when you perform a search, you’re actually searching this database of Web pages, not the Web itself.

The results of your Google searches are ranked according to Google’s trademarked PageRank technology. This technology measures how many other pages link to a particular page; the more links to a page, the higher that page ranks.

2.Resurrect Dead Pages


What do you do if you click to a Web page in the search results list, but that page no longer exists? (It happens; thousands of older Web pages go dead every day.) You may still be in luck, because Google saves a copy of each page that it indexes as it existed at the time it was indexed. So even if a page is dead and gone, you may still be able to view the cached (saved) version of that page on Google’s server.

To display a specific cached page, use the cache: operator, like this: cache:URL. For example, to display the cached version of Mashable home page, enter cache:www.mashable.com.

3.List Pages That Link to a Specific Page


Want to know which other Web pages are linked to a specific page? Because Google works by tracking page links, this is easy to find out. All you have to do is use the link: operator, like this: link:URL. For example, to see the thousands of pages that link to Microsoft’s Web site, enter link:www.microsoft.com.

4.List Similar Pages


Have you ever found a Web page you really like, and then wondered if there were any more like it on the Web? Wonder no more; you can use Google’s related: operator to display pages that are in some way similar to the specified page. For example, if you really like the news stories on the CNN Web site (www.cnn.com), you can find similar pages by entering related:www.cnn.com.

5.Find Out More about a Specific Page

Google collects a variety of information about the Web pages it indexes. In particular, Google can tell you which pages link to that page (see the link: operator, above), which pages are similar to that page (the related: operator), and which pages contain that page’s URL. To get links to all this information on a single page, use Google’s info: operator. For example, entering info:www.mashable.com. displays the information about Mashable.com

6.Narrow Your Search To A Specific Domain or Website


Maybe you want to search only those sites within a specific top-level Web domain, such as .com or .org or .edu—or, perhaps, within a specific country’s domain, such as .uk (United Kingdom) or .in (India). Google lets you do this by using the site: operator. Just enter the operator followed by the domain name, like this: site:.domain. For example, to search only those sites within the .edu domain, you’d enter site:.edu. To search only Indian sites, enter site:.in. Remember to put the “dot” before the domain. The site: operator can also be used to restrict your search to a specific Web site.

In this instance, you enter the entire top-level URL, like this: site:www .website.domain. For example, to search only within cnn.com, enter site:www.cnn.com. To search only within Microsoft’s Web site www.microsoft.com, enter site:www.microsoft.com. Your results will include only pages listed within the specified Web site.

Saturday, October 2, 2010 by Sridhar · 1

Monday, September 27, 2010

12 Years Of Google


We are all used to seeing Google’s homepage logo change throughout the year, depending on what event is being staged at that time. It could be a logo at Halloween, Christmas, Father’s Day,New Year. But today its their own occasion, we will see an image of a “Birthday Cake”. This is to celebrate Google’s 12th Anniversary.

There has been a little confusion as to exactly when Google’s birth date is? In the past the search engine has celebrated on September 7, and although its domain was officially registered on September 15 1997, reports have suggested that today, September 27, is the day that we can show our appreciation for Google.

The huge search engine serves as an information and advertising service to millions of users each day, and since its release, the site has now added Gmail e-mail software, social networking tools and Orkut. As well as this, Google have extended its service to the desktop with applications such as “Google Chrome” web browser, “Picasa” photo software and “Google Talk Instant Messaging”.

It also ventured into Smartphone OS Market With its 'Android' which is 2nd in the market already,the list goes on and its sure that there is lots more to come, So lets hope Google keeps us saying 'Wow!' forever.

Happy 12th Birthday to Google!

Monday, September 27, 2010 by Sridhar · 0

Monday, September 20, 2010

Why does Google hit Bullseye all the time?


First thing first whatever Google does, it hits bullseye with its simple and cleverly engaging design and absolutely no non-sense. For instance you look at the google home page you have what you want and nothing else, understanding user needs and innovating is the USP of Google's dream run in the WWW.

Google is renowned for its interest putting its hand on almost everything on the Tech world, it has its own Social Network Orkut, its own cloud OS Chrome(one of its kind), its own Browser Chrome, its own Smart Phone OS Android, its own Messenger Gtalk, its own blog service Blogger, its own Mail Gmail, its own location service Google Earth, its own Video hosting site YouTube, the list goes on now the point is in each thing mentioned above google has revolutionsed the field and topped some as well.

There no stopping Google and its Innovations, it continues to impress one and all, Fact of the matter is that it is here Stay and Rock.

Monday, September 20, 2010 by Sridhar · 1

Sunday, September 19, 2010

3 Best Alternatives For Internet Explorer [And Why?]


The stories on how each of you hate IE in your own way never ends,here are 3 browsers which will make you dump IE

1.Mozilla Firefox

The Most Trusted and the one with Most Users is Really a Comprehensive browser. The USP of Firefox is its thousands of 'Add-ons' which lets you have Fun and Geekier Browsing Experience. The next thing is that Firefox is a 'Complete' browser with very good JavaScript support and faster page loading, And to add to that it is secure browser with absolutely no loopholes.

2.Google Chrome

This browser from the Internet giant Google is the is the one to watch out for,with its simplicity and clever design,overall support makes it real contender for Firefox.Its Support for JavaScript is awesome,thus it makes Social Networking faster and not to forget that its a Cloud browser,so you can call it the Most Secure browser. Something that will make you say 'Wow!!' is that it is the Fastest browser along with Opera. The Add-ons support is really good as well. So a browser that you should try.

3.Opera

Opera is a 'Mixed-bag' ,it has its ups and downs. It is the joint fastest browser as mentioned earlier, But still it lacks on fronts like JavaScript and 'engaging' Add-ons. But still it does things that other browsers dont do,for instance this feature is 'Wow!!' stuff for sure: You can host a file in your PC and let your buddy download it, or even you can access content from your PC when you are on the move and thereby you can play a server with 'Opera Unite' that is offered by Opera.

Sunday, September 19, 2010 by Sridhar · 0