Sprint allows you to upload your pictures and videos to its website. Here's the google search to find them all.A buddy of mine just sent me a URL to his Sprint PCS photo collection. They were so funny, I decided to see what other people had uploaded from their cell phone. Here's the google search that worked well for me. google: intitle:"Pictures from Sprint:View Thumbnails" site:pictures.sprintpcs.com Some examples found... This, for example, reminds me of office space. Is this band any good? And what about these crazy kids? If somebody will post in the comments other similiar cell phone services, I'll try to pound out the google searches for those too...... Read More

 We all knew it was going to happen. Here's the first review of Google Reader -- Google's RSS Aggregator.It's AJAX, it's sexy, it's an RSS Reader to kill all other RSS readers. reader.google.com You first login with your typical google sign-in. The stepwise drawing the user into a portal system is taking hold. "Why not just hit gmail and my RSS at the same time?" many people will ask. The AJAX "everything slides around" eye-candy is there. Google is obviously embracing tags... although they call them labels. Every subscription and every post in every subscription can be uniquely tagged for later search quickness. Feeds and feed entries can also be starred (like gmail) or easy recovery. OPML importing and exporting is easily handled and will many users to switch very quickly. Speaking of quickness, google is fast. Speed has been my biggest complaint against all the online web aggregators so far... and so far Google Reader is fast. Of course, you could argue that it is not under stress ye... Read More

 The New RSS Reader from Google will allow you to import your subscriptions from other services. Here is directions on importing those feeds into the google service.First you must export your subscriptions into an OPML file. Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) is the typical format that RSS aggregators import and export the subscription list. Now to import your OPML file into Google: 1. Login to Google Reader 2. Click Your Subscription 3. Click the More Actions dropdown 4. Select Import 5. Browse for your OPML file 6. Click Open 7. Click Upload 8. You will see the following displayed until it is done: Your subscriptions are being imported...... Read More

 Google has recently added the ability to search for copyright-free, license-free information.Looking through the results returned, I am not sure how google decides what information has a license and what does not. Information under the Creative Common License is included in this search. How to Search for License-Free or Creative Common License Material: 1. Goto google advance search 2. Input your search text in the Find Results box 3. Under Usage Rights select: can be freely modified, adapted, or built upon 4. Hit the Google Search button Here's a license-free search for XP At the top of the search page you can easily see the option to search for license material or not: Search only pages that can be freely modified, adapted or built upon Examing the URL you can see the new search options... http://www.google.com/search?as_q=xp&as_rights=%28cc_publicdomain%7Ccc_attribute%29.-%28cc_noncommercial%7Ccc_nonderived%7Ccc_sharealike%29 cc_publicdomain cc_attribute cc_noncommerical cc_nonderiv... Read More

 Type in anything in the Google Search box without clicking on it.Okay, so you want to search something using the Google toolbar. Instead of clicking on the Google search box, there is a easier way to do this! If you don't have the Google toolbar then you can get it at http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/ (for firefox) Then when you want to use this "quick trick" all you do is press Alt+any key. But make sure that you don't use the keys that activate any other feature (if you use numbers you can avoid unexpected reactions). For example if you press Alt+F the file menu is going to open up. You can press any other key. This way if you want to search anything from the window all you do is press Alt+key this is going to automatically take your cursor to the text box in Google search bar. Type in what you want to search and click on enter. Note: This "quick trick" only seems to work in FireFox.... Read More

 Navigating analytics can be painful. This explains how to see what people are linking to your site using google's new free service.When setting up a new site with google analytics, the most frequent question I get is this: How can I see who is linking to me? The information is there; it's just hidden away. How to see the Full Referrer Path: 1. Log-in to Analytics 2. Click Marketing Optimization 3. Click Marketing Campaign Results 4. Click Referral Conversion 5. You probably want to increase your display amount 6. Click the + beside each site to see the pages within that site are linking to you. Sadly, they do not provide you an easy link to click to view the referring site...... Read More

 When using google SiteSearch, you can have the search box default to google or to your own site. It is not obvious how to change this choice so this should point it out to you. Google SiteSearch is an excellent tool to add to your site. It allow people to search your site with google's excellent search engine... and it gives you an additional way to make money through adsense. Although SiteSearch typically defaults to searching the web first, you can change the default if you wish. You change it by selecting the correct button in the Search Type example. I have highlighted this area in red for you below: After you click this button, copy the adsense SiteSearch code and place it within your site. By defaulting to your own site first, you reward your users by allowing them an easy way to search through your site. However, if they don't find it on your site, the sitesearch will give you an additional chance to yield an ad click from them.... Read More

 Google has a new service that will allow you to send an SMS message from your browser to a cellular phone.So sending SMS through email is not good enough for you? Google has recently released a service that will allow any person on the web to send a SMS message to any cell phone carrier. Fun, free, and easy. Good job, google! http://toolbar.google.com/send/sms/index.php... Read More

 Blogger keeps all the blog photos. You can easily search for them using google's image search. Does google keep blogger.com photos forever?Tons of people use blogger.com to create their blogs. People upload photos to blogger.com to post as photos on their blog. Well, these blogs can be viewed by anybody in the public with a couple of crafty google searches. Google Image Search 1: site:photos1.blogger.com Google Image Search 2: site:photos2.blogger.com Makes for some interesting searches! "Owned" pictures on blogger.com anybody? Google Image Search: site:photos1.blogger.com owned And yes.... there are much more interesting terms for which to search than that. Although fun, this is mainly a warning that whatever you upload to blogger likely stays in the bowels of google image search forever.... Read More

 Google has plugged everybody into Google Talk from their gmail interface. However, a lot of people who use gmail, don't want Google Talk displayed within gmail. Here's how to turn it off.Getting google talk out of gmail is not tough. However, google has just made it difficult to find. Scroll down to the very bottom of gmail after you log in. You should see the standard view without chat link. Click it and you are set. I've included a quick screenshot that shows where it is:... Read More

 Google calendar is here. Importing from a CSV or iCal file is easy enough.What to import your schedule from outlook into google calendar? Actually importing from any CSV or iCAL file is very easy. Here is the tutorial to go from Outlook to Google Calendar: 1. Open Outlook 2. Click File menu 3. Click Import and Export 4. Click Export to a file 5. Click Comma Separated Values (DOS) 6. You may be required to install the possible translator here. Just follow the directions on the screen. 7. Select folder to export from: Calendar 8. Browse, name, and save the file some place easy to find it. (Desktop) 9. Click Next 10. On the follow actions will be performed screen click the Finish button. 11. Allow the export to perform 12. Open Google Calendar 13. Click Settings link in the upper right hand corner of the screen 14. Click the Import Calendar link under Calendar settings 15. Click the Browse button and select your exported file 16. Choose your calendar 17. Click Import and wait. It may take... Read More

 Learn how to integrate your mobile device or cellular phone with google calendar through SMS.First Register Your Phone/Mobile Device Number: 1. Log in to Google Calendar 2. Click Settings link in the upper right corner 3. Click Notifications tab 4. Input your phone number and select your carrier 5. Click Send Verification Code 6. Receive the SMS message on your phone 7. Insert your verification code and click Finish Setup 8. Your phone is now registered Select what Notifications you want on your cell phone/mobile device: From the Setting Link / Notifications tab, select what events you would like reported to your phone through SMS. Just click the SMS checkbox under the Choose how you would like to be notified: section.... Read More

 Previously we have shown how to get google calendar to send notifications to your cellular phone or mobile device. This tutorial will explain how to control your calendar by sending google SMS messages.Adding events and controlling your calendar through SMS messages from your cell phone is a nice feature. Here's how to do it. First, make sure that your cell phone is registered with google calendar. The Google Calendar SMS short code is 48368 or you can remember it as GVENT. Then just message your events via SMS message to GVENT. The calendar understands SMS messages fairly well if you follow the formats suggested by google's quick add feature. Simple text like this works well: Flash Meeting tomorrow at 4 at school You will receive a confirmation message if it works. Sadly, there is no way to pick which calendar your SMS-submitted events go. It goes into your primary calendar only. Other commands that you can SMS to google: next - Will SMS you back you next appt day - Will SMS you back ... Read More

 Google has released a firefox extension that sends web content to your cellular phone.Not surprisingly, google wants to make it easier for you to get web content onto your cell phone. This google extension allows you to send information from your firefox browser to your cell phone. There is no charge for this service for sending. (Many cell carriers however do charge a small fee for incoming messages.) You may read more information and find the installation instructions here: http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/sendtophone/index.html... Read More

 Google Search now allows you to focus your recipe searches by ingredient and type. I love it when google comes out with these awesome ideas.When searching for a lunch meal to grill, I happened across this. When searching for recipes on google, you can now focus your search! Google: recipes For example, for lunch I wanted a hot vietnamese squid dish! Perfect!... Read More

 Googling is becoming an art--both for the user and the webmaster. It's very interesting to see what the leading and declining search terms are for all of google. http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html links to the latest google trends.... Read More

 Using the * wildcard in google helps focus searching results.When searching in google for a particular phrase, you can use the * wildcard to replace any specific words you might have forgotten. For example assume that you were searching for one of Napoleon Bonaparte's famous quotes "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." What if you couldn't remember all the words? Google: "Never * your enemy when he is * a mistake" The result above will still get you with the results you want... without knowing the exact phrase.... Read More

 Tutorial in the use of boolean searching with Google.Dictionary.com gives the definition of Boolean: Of or relating to a logical combinatorial system treating variables, such as propositions and computer logic elements, through the operators AND, OR, NOT, and XOR: a browser that supports Boolean searches. AND With AND google tries to find all the words listed. Google searching defaults to AND. Therefore... - Google: tech-recipes hacks hints is the same as... - Google: tech-recipes AND hacks AND hints OR With OR google will search for either of the terms. For example... - Google: "North Carolina" OR university OR college The "|" symbol is treated the same as OR by Google. Thus, this search would yield the same. - Google: "North Carolina" | university | college If you are sure you want to include one term but also want to include a choice of other terms, you can group your search. For example, the search below is much more powerful search that the similar OR search above. This will look ... Read More

 Filetype allows you to limit your google search to particular types of files. Filetype allows you to limit which type of files to return in your search. These at least include the following formats: DOC - Microsoft Word Files PPT - PowerPoint Presentations XLS - Excel Spreadsheets HTML - Web Pages HTM - Web Pages PDF - Adobe Acrobat For example to find powerpoint presentations on medicine one could search for: filetype:ppt medicine... Read More

 Finding open index pages, directories, or folders is often used by hackers to gain access to information. Often these open directories contain pictures or movies that were not meant for public viewing. Google is a well sharpened tool. Let's use it. intitle is a google limiting term that searches for words or phrases only in the titles of pages. The structure of this would be: intitle:searchterm When you realize that most open directories on the internet have "index of" in their title, it makes searching for these directories very easy. The following link will provide you will tons of open directories filled with jpg files: intitle:"index of" jpg If you combine this will additional search terms, it's amazing some of the stuff you might find. intitle:"index of" jpg wife Enjoy! Anybody else have any other suggestions?... Read More