19 February 2010 ~ View Comments

Google Voice : Everything you wanted to know

Google Voice, as we have covered numerous times on Knowliz, is one of the most useful service you can get for FREE.  You can get one FREE Google Voice number which provides you with FREE SMS, voicemail, voicemail transcripts, conference calling and low priced international calling etc.
However, if you have never used it before, it is indeed [...]

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26 January 2010 ~ View Comments

Finally! Get Google Voice for iPhone – Thanks to HTML5

I don’t know about you but I have been waiting for a native iPhone app for Google Voice.  Because I am a fan of this service since the very beginning when it wasn’t even Google Voice.  It was GrandCentral.   Google Voice iPhone app was rejected by Apple and/or AT&T for whatever weird reason.  But [...]

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14 January 2010 ~ View Comments

Haiti Earthquake Relief: Urging Knowliz Readers to support

As you know on January 12th a major 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. Over 3 Millions of people lives have been affected, over 50,000 dead, and thousands of buildings collapsed because of this natural calamity. Various news services tell us that the damage is even more than has been actually accounted for.
In this [...]

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16 December 2009 ~ View Comments

Use Goo.gl URL shortener for everything using Chrome Extension

Now you can use Goo.gl URL shortener for anything and everything using a Google Chrome extension.  If you have been using Google Chrome and I guess there is no reason you should not be using it, then there are two Google Chrome extensions available right now:

Goo.gl Shortener – Just shortens any URL with goo.gl and [...]

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14 December 2009 ~ View Comments

Socialize Blog posts on Twitter : An Early Christmas gift from Google

After a very long time, I have seen a new feature on Feedburner – a service which Google acquired some 2 years ago.  Today there is a new feature in Feedburner called “Socialize”.  As you can guess, this feature lets you socialize your feed.
Currently you can socialize only with Twitter but I am sure Google [...]

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10 December 2009 ~ View Comments

16 Most Useful Google Chrome Extensions you should try

Google chrome has officially started supporting extensions like Mozilla Firefox does.  If you used the developer edition of Google Chrome, then you probably had been using earlier too.  But now since it is officially supported, then why not take a look at the most useful Google Chrome extensions.
You need to be using the BETA version [...]

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05 December 2009 ~ View Comments

“Sex is like…?” and some other Funny Google Search Suggestions

The other day I searched for Twitter on Google and got some really cool query suggestions.  Then I searched for something else, and then some more suggestions.  It kinda got addictive to search Google for simple terms and to see what Google has to suggest.  Then I read an article on Techcrunch about the same [...]

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13 November 2009 ~ View Comments

25 Essential Bookmarklets to make your life easy on web

Bookmarklets are the innovative way to use a site without actually visiting them.  Bookmarklet is nothing but a kind of shortcut (or bookmark) which has some kind of javascript built in.  When you click it while being on the other site, this bookmarklet performs the task it is supposed to do, such as creating a [...]

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09 November 2009 ~ View Comments

Get Facebook like Friends Suggestion on Youtube

If you use Facebook then you know it shows friends suggestion in the sidebar. Have you ever wondered how Facebook finds who you may know?  That is not so magical as you may think.
Understanding Facebook Friends Suggestion:
Facebook knows your email and has access to your address book. Same is true with your friends [...]

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14 October 2009 ~ View Comments

Gmail Labs : Never send email to a wrong Bob

“Got the wrong Bob?” – a new Gmail Labs feature saves you from embarrassment of sending the mail to a wrong person.
Turn it on from the Labs tab under Gmail Settings, and based on the groups of people you email most often, Gmail will try to identify when you’ve accidentally included the wrong person [...]

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08 October 2009 ~ View Comments

Demo : Knowliz iPhone Theme

I have created a small Demo video for Knowliz readers who are iPhone owners too. This demo shows you some of the benefits of iPhone theme and how you can interact with many features available on iPhone.  Here is the link for Newsletter readers: http://screenr.com/ELH

Please drop in a comment if you have any question [...]

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18 July 2009 ~ View Comments

Knowliz gets its own Short URL – Thanks to Google Labs

As you know there are plethora of Short URL services out there.  These short URL services convert big URL addresses to small links so that you can share them easily in less characters/space.  —   Thanks to Twitter for 140 characters limit and giving birth to this idea.
So for example, a link like –
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d1ddbdc8-627f-415a-9b0a-97362bc9b480&displaylang=en 
becomes
http://bit.ly/RJIpL [...]

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02 June 2009 ~ View Comments

How to send email in Hindi and other Indian Languages

Some days back I wrote about ways to write in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and other Indian languages on any website.  Now what if you want an easy way to send emails in Hindi using your favorite email service – Gmail.  Well its also not tough. Couple of easy steps and you are good to go.
Most [...]

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29 May 2009 ~ View Comments

How to type in Hindi & other Indian languages on any website

Didn’t you anytime wanted to reply to someone in Hindi? Because the respondent likes to read Hindi transcript rather than the ‘Hindi written in English’.For instance, instead of writing “Mujhe pata hai ki tumhe Hindi mein type karna nahin aata hai”, wouldn’t you rather prefer “मुझे पता है तुम्हे हिंदी में type करना नहीं [...]

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21 May 2009 ~ View Comments

Use 25 Gmail Lab Features to improve your email experience today

I am sure almost everyone uses and loves Gmail, but I doubt everyone uses Gmail Labs features.

Gmail Labs is a way for Gmail team to take lots of the ideas they wouldn’t normally pick and let you all (who use Gmail) decide whether they’re good or not. When you sign in, under Settings called you [...]

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