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Google Calendar Sync with Outlook 2010

December 15, 2009 Google

I use Google Calendar Sync to synchronize my Outlook calendar items with Google Calendar and this worked fine until I upgraded to Office 2010.
Google Calendar Sync did not like Outlook 2010 and I was no longer able to synchronize calendar items. I was almost tempted to go back to Outlook 2007 and then I found [...]

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YouTube Indian Edition

May 12, 2008 Google

As many of you know, the Indian Edition of YouTube is now live @ http://in.youtube.com.
Till now there were a lot of YouTube clones which catered to the local video content and some of them even got considerable funding from VC’s
I am not sure if this edition of YouTube is going to pickup in a [...]

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Pagerank updated and the site is downgraded !

May 2, 2008 Google

There has been another round of pagerank  update and I see that many sites have got a higher pagerank and few of them have even managed to get a PR of 4 within few months !
This site had a PR of 4 from quite some time and even during the last update where few sites [...]

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Cleaning up your Gmail emails

April 16, 2008 Google

I am sure many would be surprised with the title of this post. Gmail for one provides with almost 6.6GB of space and its keeps growing every day. It would be amazingly difficult to fill up this space.
Even on the Gmail’s home page, you would see this marketing statement:

Over 6628.815124 megabytes (and counting) of [...]

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Google Calendar

March 7, 2008 Google

When Google Calendar was launched in 2006, I didn’t find anything unique except the “Quick Add” feature. I might not have spent too much time exploring the powerful features of Google calendar then, but I am sure that most of them would agree that there was no single compelling feature in Google Calendar.
At that time, [...]

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GMail now supports IMAP

October 25, 2007 Google

GMail, the most popular (and my favorite) Email service from Google has added IMAP support in addition to the existing POP3 support. One of the advantages of IMAP is that you can sync your mail from multiple clients. With POP3, even if you read a mail from one client, it isn’t reflected on the other [...]

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Orkut – New Look

August 30, 2007 Google

Orkut’s new look is active on my profile. The Google logo is highlighted in the footer and there is also the link to the official Orkut blog.

Even though there is no major change in terms of features, the new look definitely looks fresh and is a welcome change. What is your opinion on the new look of [...]

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How To: Make your blog mobile browser compatible

July 26, 2007 Browsers

After launching the Internet browser on my HTC Touch, the first site I opened was of my own blog. The browser almost came to halt while loading the home page.
When I loaded other sites such as GMail, Flickr, Google Search one thing I noticed was that all these sites had a page compatible with the [...]

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Search for “Desktop Search”

June 2, 2007 Google

The other day I was reading about the popular Desktop search tools on a popular technology site. The 3 tools featured were

Google Desktop Search
Microsoft Desktop Search
Yahoo Desktop Search

I was immediately keen to know as to how Google, Microsoft and Yahoo display their respective desktop search products on their search engines.
Search on [...]

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Feedburner FeedCount

June 2, 2007 Google

The RSS subscribes for this site is tracked using the Feedburner service. From the past week I have been observing an change in the way the feed count is reported/calculated. I am not sure if I am the only one seeing this change.
The site had an average reader count of around 130 feed subscribers. On [...]

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