Better Gmail

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Gmail and tweaks go hand in hand! There are so many Greasemonkey scripts for Gmail, it's unbelievable. I'm sure many of you like those scripts, because they add new functionalities to your Gmail e-mail account. Am I right?! Well, today, I'm going to show you something that will make that process even easier. It comes to you in the form of a Firefox extension and it is called Better Gmail. So, what does it do? Well, it basically combines all the Greasemonkey scripts for Gmail into a single Firefox add on. It even lets you pick and choose exactly what scripts you want to use. How cool is that?! Are you ready to check this one out? Then let's go!

1.) First, you need to download the Better Gmail Firefox extension here.

2.) After Firefox restarts, the extension will be installed. To start tweaking your Gmail, go to Tools and select Better Gmail.

3.) A list of all the tweaks you can choose from will appear.

4.) As you can see, some of the most popular ones have already been checked. But, don't worry, there are so many more to add. Just click on the tabs of the dialogue box to see the rest of them. There's even a Skin tab you can use to change the look of your Gmail!

5.) You may notice that we've talked about some of these tweaks before and you can find all of them in this tip. There are plenty more packed into this extension though and many of them were created just recently. So, let's explore some of them, shall we?!

Disk Usage as a Progress Bar - This one is just a nifty little script that uses a cool little progress bar to show you the space you have used in your Gmail. It gives you a good idea of how much Gmail storage space you have used.

Inbox Count First - This one puts your Inbox count at the front of the tab so that you can see the number of e-mails you have in your Inbox at any given time. You can do it without having to switch tabs too!

Date Search - This particular Greasemonkey script lets you see a list of your messages by entering in a specific date. Just press the Date Search button, enter in a date and a list of messages you sent or received on that particular date will appear.

Attachment Icons - I think this one is really cool! If you receive an attachment in your e-mail, an icon displaying the type of attachment will show up right next to the subject of the message. You can see how it looks with this screenshot:

One Click Conversations - One Click Conversations is a tool that adds a little icon next to each and every message you get in Gmail. Hovering over this icon will give you a little box with access to e-mailing or chatting with the sender of the e-mail, along with a few other things. If you click on the little icon, you'll see all of the recent conversations you've had with that contact. And best of all, it comes with just one click. Get it? One Click Conversations!

Smart Read Button - The Smart Read Button is one of my favorites. When you click on a conversation and you want to make it read or unread, you have to find that option under the drop down menu. That can be such a pain. Well, this script adds a button to your Gmail that lets you mark conversations read or unread with ease. The script determines whether the selected conversations are read or unread and it makes the button say the opposite. Cool, huh?!

Now, in the Better Gmail Properties, if you click the Sidebar tab, you'll see some options you can choose from to hide some of the things you may find annoying, such as Contacts and Invites. But, along with that, you also have the option of adding some pretty nifty things too! Like these:

Saved Searches - We've talked about this one before, but let me jog your memory a bit. Saved Searches allows you to have a list of things you like to search for, right on your sidebar. Check it out!

Folders4Gmail - Many people wish that Gmail allowed you to have folders. If you're one of them, boy, will you like this one! For example, if you have a folder called "Family" and you want to make a sub-folder called "Dad," just rename the label "Family\Dad." Folders4Gmail will then automatically organize your labels into a collapsible folder view. For more information on Folders4Gmail, just click here.

If you hit the Skins tab, you'll have a whole selection of Gmail themes right at your fingertips as well. What do you say we explore some of them?!

If you're a Mac enthusiast, why not try on the Mac skin for size? It looks like this:

Or, if you like everything neat and tidy, try out the Gmail Super Clean, like this:

There are even a few more you can work with. Try them all out and see which one you like the best!

Finally, if you're ever having problems getting a Gmail tweak to work, go to the Better Gmail Properties, select the About tab and then find the particular script you're having trouble with. Click on the link and you'll then be brought to the script homepage. There you can find exact instructions on how to use the particular script you're having trouble with.

Hope you enjoy this one!

Google Search Tips !

You can make your search more efficient by learning some search basics !

Try these tips :
1. Use Of '+' sign :
This ensures that the results returned to you will defiantly consist of the word following the '+' sign. For Eg :
Search: reviews of +iPhone and iPod
This will show results containing the word reviews or iPod but the results will defiantly consist of iPhone !

2. Use Of '-' sign :
Using '-' sign before any word will ensure that the particular word will not be included in the results !

3. Use Of '~' sign :
Using '~' before any word will return the results also containing the synonyms of the word !

4. Search a particular site :
To search a particular website you can use the following syntax in the google search :
Search: site:www.xyz.com abc
For Eg :
Search: site:http://pcremix.blogspot.com/ Google Search Tips

5. Define a word :
To get the definition of a word just use :
Search: define:abc
For Eg : Search: define:Computer
This will return you results which define 'Computer'.

6. Find Pages similar to a page :
To find a page similar i.e. consisting of same type of content, use the following syntax :
Search: related:http://www.xyz.com/

7. Search for exact phrase :
To search a set of words exactly together i.e.
For Eg :
Search: "contact us"
This will return the results containing both contact and us together !

8. Using the wild card '*' :
The * sign can be used in places where the whole word is not known.
For Eg:
Search: friend*
This will return the results containing friend , friends , friendship.

9. Using the '?' sign :
This is used when the full spelling of the word is not known.
For Eg:
Search: fri??d
This will result that in the results in which any alphabet can take the place of '?' sign.

10. Use of boolean operators :
The boolean operators like AND,OR,NOT can be used in search box to connect the words !
The search engine understands them as what they mean but the must be in capital letters !
For Eg:
Search: swim OR float
This will return the results containing either swim or float !

20 Google secrets you must know

Google is clearly the best general-purpose search engine on the Web (see

www.pcmag.com/search engines

But most people don't use it to its best advantage. Do you just plug in a keyword or two and hope for the best? That may be the quickest way to search, but with more than 3 billion pages in Google's index, it's still a struggle to pare results to a manageable number.

But Google is an remarkably powerful tool that can ease and enhance your Internet exploration. Google's search options go beyond simple keywords, the Web, and even its own programmers. Let's look at some of Google's lesser-known options.

Syntax Search Tricks

Using a special syntax is a way to tell Google that you want to restrict your searches to certain elements or characteristics of Web pages. Google has a fairly complete list of its syntax elements at

www.google.com/help/operators.html

. Here are some advanced operators that can help narrow down your search results.

Intitle: at the beginning of a query word or phrase (intitle:"Three Blind Mice") restricts your search results to just the titles of Web pages.

Intext: does the opposite of intitle:, searching only the body text, ignoring titles, links, and so forth. Intext: is perfect when what you're searching for might commonly appear in URLs. If you're looking for the term HTML, for example, and you don't want to get results such as

www.mysite.com/index.html

, you can enter intext:html.

Link: lets you see which pages are linking to your Web page or to another page you're interested in. For example, try typing in

link:http://www.pcmag.com


Try using site: (which restricts results to top-level domains) with intitle: to find certain types of pages. For example, get scholarly pages about Mark Twain by searching for intitle:"Mark Twain"site:edu. Experiment with mixing various elements; you'll develop several strategies for finding the stuff you want more effectively. The site: command is very helpful as an alternative to the mediocre search engines built into many sites.

Swiss Army Google

Google has a number of services that can help you accomplish tasks you may never have thought to use Google for. For example, the new calculator feature

(www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator)

lets you do both math and a variety of conversions from the search box. For extra fun, try the query "Answer to life the universe and everything."

Let Google help you figure out whether you've got the right spelling—and the right word—for your search. Enter a misspelled word or phrase into the query box (try "thre blund mise") and Google may suggest a proper spelling. This doesn't always succeed; it works best when the word you're searching for can be found in a dictionary. Once you search for a properly spelled word, look at the results page, which repeats your query. (If you're searching for "three blind mice," underneath the search window will appear a statement such as Searched the web for "three blind mice.") You'll discover that you can click on each word in your search phrase and get a definition from a dictionary.

Suppose you want to contact someone and don't have his phone number handy. Google can help you with that, too. Just enter a name, city, and state. (The city is optional, but you must enter a state.) If a phone number matches the listing, you'll see it at the top of the search results along with a map link to the address. If you'd rather restrict your results, use rphonebook: for residential listings or bphonebook: for business listings. If you'd rather use a search form for business phone listings, try Yellow Search

(www.buzztoolbox.com/google/yellowsearch.shtml).




Extended Googling

Google offers several services that give you a head start in focusing your search. Google Groups

(http://groups.google.com)

indexes literally millions of messages from decades of discussion on Usenet. Google even helps you with your shopping via two tools: Froogle
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(http://froogle.google.com),

which indexes products from online stores, and Google Catalogs
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(http://catalogs.google.com),

which features products from more 6,000 paper catalogs in a searchable index. And this only scratches the surface. You can get a complete list of Google's tools and services at

www.google.com/options/index.html

You're probably used to using Google in your browser. But have you ever thought of using Google outside your browser?

Google Alert

(www.googlealert.com)

monitors your search terms and e-mails you information about new additions to Google's Web index. (Google Alert is not affiliated with Google; it uses Google's Web services API to perform its searches.) If you're more interested in news stories than general Web content, check out the beta version of Google News Alerts

(www.google.com/newsalerts).

This service (which is affiliated with Google) will monitor up to 50 news queries per e-mail address and send you information about news stories that match your query. (Hint: Use the intitle: and source: syntax elements with Google News to limit the number of alerts you get.)

Google on the telephone? Yup. This service is brought to you by the folks at Google Labs

(http://labs.google.com),

a place for experimental Google ideas and features (which may come and go, so what's there at this writing might not be there when you decide to check it out). With Google Voice Search

(http://labs1.google.com/gvs.html),

you dial the Voice Search phone number, speak your keywords, and then click on the indicated link. Every time you say a new search term, the results page will refresh with your new query (you must have JavaScript enabled for this to work). Remember, this service is still in an experimental phase, so don't expect 100 percent success.

In 2002, Google released the Google API (application programming interface), a way for programmers to access Google's search engine results without violating the Google Terms of Service. A lot of people have created useful (and occasionally not-so-useful but interesting) applications not available from Google itself, such as Google Alert. For many applications, you'll need an API key, which is available free from
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www.google.com/apis

. See the figures for two more examples, and visit

www.pcmag.com/solutions

for more.

Thanks to its many different search properties, Google goes far beyond a regular search engine. Give the tricks in this article a try. You'll be amazed at how many different ways Google can improve your Internet searching.


Online Extra: More Google Tips


Here are a few more clever ways to tweak your Google searches.

Search Within a Timeframe

Daterange: (start date–end date). You can restrict your searches to pages that were indexed within a certain time period. Daterange: searches by when Google indexed a page, not when the page itself was created. This operator can help you ensure that results will have fresh content (by using recent dates), or you can use it to avoid a topic's current-news blizzard and concentrate only on older results. Daterange: is actually more useful if you go elsewhere to take advantage of it, because daterange: requires Julian dates, not standard Gregorian dates. You can find converters on the Web (such as

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), but an easier way is to do a Google daterange: search by filling in a form at

www.researchbuzz.com/toolbox/goofresh.shtml or www.faganfinder.com/engines/google.shtml

. If one special syntax element is good, two must be better, right? Sometimes. Though some operators can't be mixed (you can't use the link: operator with anything else) many can be, quickly narrowing your results to a less overwhelming number.

More Google API Applications

Staggernation.com offers three tools based on the Google API. The Google API Web Search by Host (GAWSH) lists the Web hosts of the results for a given query

(www.staggernation.com/gawsh/).

When you click on the triangle next to each host, you get a list of results for that host. The Google API Relation Browsing Outliner (GARBO) is a little more complicated: You enter a URL and choose whether you want pages that related to the URL or linked to the URL

(www.staggernation.com/garbo/).

Click on the triangle next to an URL to get a list of pages linked or related to that particular URL. Cape Mail is an e-mail search application that allows you to send an e-mail to google@capeclear.com with the text of your query in the subject line and get the first ten results for that query back. Maybe it's not something you'd do every day, but if your cell phone does e-mail and doesn't do Web browsing, this is a very handy address to know.

List of Search Engines

Many people think there are not more than one dozen serch engines.but the blowing fact see below
Open source search engines

* DataparkSearch
* Egothor
* Gonzui
* Ht://dig
* Lucene
* Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
* mnoGoSearch
* Namazu
* Nutch
* OpenFTS
* SWISH-E
* Terrier Search Engine
* Wikiasari
* Xapian
* YaCy
* Zettair



Metasearch engines

* Bioinformatic_Harvester
* Brainboost
* Clusty
* Dogpile
* Excite
* HotBot
* Info.com
* Ixquick
* Mamma
* Metacrawler
* MetaLib
* Myriad Search
* SideStep
* Turbo10
* WebCrawler



Regional search engines

* Accoona, China/US
* Alleba, Philippines
* Ansearch, Australia/US/UK/NZ
* Araby, Middle East
* Baidu, China
* Daum, Korea
* In.gr, Greece
* Najdi.si, Slovenia
* Naver, Korea
* Rambler, Russia
* Rediff, India
* SAPO, Portugal
* Search.ch, Switzerland
* Walla!, Israel
* Yandex, Russia



People search engines

* Zoominfo



Email-based search engines

* TEK



Visual search engines

* Grokker
* Kartoo
* Quintura



Answer-based search engines

* Answers.com
* AskMeNow
* BrainBoost
* Google Answers
* Lexxe
* Lycos iQ
* Windows Live QnA
* Yahoo! Answers



Google-based search engines

* AOL Search
* MySpace Search
* Netscape



Yahoo!-based search engines

* AltaVista
* AlltheWeb
* GoodSearch



Windows-Live-based search engines

* A9.com
* Lycos
* Cialiseo



Job search engines

* Naukri.com (India)
* Bixee.com (India)
* Craigslist (by city)
* Eluta.ca (Canada)
* CareerBuilder.com (USA)
* Hotjobs.com (USA)
* Indeed.com (USA)
* Monster.com (USA)
* Recruit.net (International)
* SimplyHired.com (USA)



Forum search engines

* Omgili



Blog search engines

* Amatomu
* Bloglines
* IceRocket
* Sphere
* Technorati



News search engines

* Google News
* MagPortal
* Newslookup
* Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
* Topix.net
* Yahoo! News



Multimedia search engines

* blinkx
* Picsearch
* Podscope



Code search engines

* Google Code Search
* JExamples
* Krugle
* Koders



BitTorrent search engines


* Isohunt
* Mininova
* The Pirate Bay
* TorrentSpy
* FlixFlux
* pointblank

7 Steps to a Focused Pay-Per-Click Campaign

Ninety percent of USA companies are not taking advantage of the Internet as a marketing tool.Many business owners have a textbook approach to marketing. They read about what typically works for businesses in their industry and that becomes the benchmark for their marketing approach. If taking out Yellow Page ads is the traditional way to market their business, then that is what they do. It becomes a cookie cutter approach to marketing and it may not be the best approach anymore. Just because certain businesses have been successful in the past without using the Internet, it doesn't necessarily ring true that the Internet should continue to be ignored as a marketing avenue.Undervalued WebsitesA website is undervalued when it is being used as an electronic brochure and not much more. Because of old-fashioned ideas, the company can not imagine the application of Internet Marketing to its website. Yet, that is exactly what they should be doing; especially service providers. Service providers need to stop thinking that word of mouth is the only way to get business or that you can only sell products on the Internet. The Internet can be an excellent way to get clients. My wife is an Interior Designer; a profession that doesn't typically advertise on the Web. Yet, we started a Pay-Per-Click program for her that became so successful she couldn't take on anymore clients.Creating an Online CampaignDon't worry about how much competition there is on the Web; putting together a successful online campaign to drive traffic to your website is possible with a focused Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaign. Here's a simplified primer to get you started:1)Research the techniques.Yahoo, MSN and Google control 95% of this online game. The goal is to be on the first page of Yahoo, MSN or Google as the result of a keyword search by your target audience. You can purchase online ads through both Yahoo and Google.2)Establish a budget.Put a limit on the amount of money you spend on a campaign. Every time someone clicks on your ad, money will be taken out of your account, so have a realistic budget.3)Find the right keywords for your audience.Look at the ads being used by your competition and see what keywords they are using. Then compare that to your audience. What other words could you use that would attract traffic? Test those ideas by using the free keyword selector tool at http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/rc/srch/4)Create your ad.Write search listings for each of your keywords. Create a headline for your ad using not more than 25 characters. Exactly repeat your search phrase in the headline and in the body of the ad.5)Bid on the words.Yahoo claims that you'll have the most success by bidding on at least 20 or more keywords. The order of the ads on the pages is determined by the prices bid on the keywords; the higher the bid price, the higher the ad placement.6)Split Test your ad.Test your ads to see which ones work the best. Check your click-through rates to find out which ones are performing the best.7)Have a separate landing page for your ad.Don't send your ad traffic to your homepage and hope they'll find the product or service you are advertising. Create a special landing page for your PPC campaign.If you haven't considered a PPC campaign, now might be the time to give it a chance. Start using the Internet to market your business and get ready for an avalanche of leads and sales.

Get As Many Links As You Can And Get Visitors

One of the best ways to get high targeted traffic and one way links to your site is to write articles and submit them to Article Directories, Ezine Publishers, and High traffic websites that accept article submissions.Keep you web site content fresh and exciting to your viewing audience. When search engines rank sites they look at many different factors, they look at content, links, continuous content that keeps visitors coming back for more, concentrate on this points and your site will take off. Good web site content (next to keywords) has been and always very important for marketing your website and being successful, if you don't market your site will suffer. When you're trying to develop a successful web site you soon realize that your web site content is an important part of your success strategy. If you are looking to get traffic the natural way via the search engines and you have a lot of patience it will take time to get traffic, but if you have money to spend you can shortent the time to get traffic, it will cost you but the traffic will come quite quickly. Warm up your customers by providing great content and they'll be more likely to make a purchase.Another important factor is on page keywords, you need to choose relevant keywords and put them in the body of your text of the site, when you choose the right keywords they become relevant to your site and search engines favor this, the relevant keywords are keywords that are found in the body of your text on your website, keyword weighting in the body of your content is important and, keyword proximity is going to be the difference of your site being listed on page 50 or on page 1 of the search engine results. Put keywords in the headings and sub headings so that the Search Engines have an easier time indexing your pages.Reciprocal linking involves you trading links with other webmasters, be sure that your website topic is relevant to link partners site. Depending on the conditions, some Adwords members pay more for actual purchase made from links from Adsense users.Websites with PR3 and over that have high traffic and exchange links with them. This includes your bio, contact information and links to your site.When looking at how much time you spent on promoting and marketing your website, you could make a graph to show the sites growing traffic and the effort you put into your site (link building, article writing, optimization and reciprocal link exchange) the curve of the graph would be an exponential curve. This is why so many people give up in the early phases of search engine optimization and traffic growth - they simply don't see the results that they feel their effort should have earned them. Ad website optimization techniques, promotion and submission to all types of search engines and you can find your marketing techniques will boost your traffic.In order to drive traffic to a website, getting the website listed in the search engines, either through search engine optimization or through pay-per-click advertising is pretty important.

Seach google for live cams

Here is a cool search on google to find out live cams.
For example if you type into google exactly this : inurl:"axis-cgi/mjpg"
Then you are ablt to veiw shopping center webcams and also office cams or even science lab cams.
So enjoy...Btw its perfectly
Remember to put in how active the cams are in the topic descriptionBtw way guys i dont know if anyone else knows this but htis is really helpful, once u ge tinto this stuff u ll realise that u have to refresh inorder to get new images but if u use Mozilla Firefox u can click the refresh button which osme how refreshes the page every millisecond or so therefore making it like a video with a new image, i think this has about 3 or 4 images a second depending on ur internet connection have fun!

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