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How to setup Auto Responder (Vacation Responder) in GMail

chetanz — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:35:31 +0000

GMail Vacation Responder

Many of us will be on vacations sometimes and will may be out of office due to some emergencies. During these days people may feel, you are not responding to their mails. They might be unaware of the fact that you are out of office . To respond to people in these situations you can create an auto responder in your GMail account like as you do in Microsoft Outlook.

Follow steps as below to setup auto responder.

1) Log into your gmail account.

2) Click on ‘Settings’ link in your gmail home page at the top-left. (Last but one link to ‘Sign-out’ link).

3) In ‘Settings’ page you can find ‘Vacation Responder’ section. By default Vacation Responder will be off.

a) Click on ‘Vacation Responder On’

b) Enter first day and End day, during which you want to send vacation responder.

c) Enter Subject, which will act as subject to your vacation responder.

d) Enter Message that you want to convey. May be saying ‘I am in vaction now, will get back to you as soon as I am in’.

c) Optionally you have an option to send Vacation Responder to only contacts in your inbox by checking the check box, below message edit box. Otherwise Vacation responder will be sent to every mail you receive.

Thats it all set go enjoy your vacation :)

How to Save Battery Power or Life on android phones – Nexus One, Motorola Droid

chetanz — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:19:55 +0000

The Android operation system, an open architecture offering features and functionality that threatens to blow away other mobile operating systems in market. All these major features can drain your battery very quickly. So to get better battery life we users of andriod operating system need to be act intelligently.

To save battery power or life, we need to keep in mind, ‘Use only when needed’.

Following are few tips to save battery power life:

1) Reduce your display brightness.

Go to Settings -> Display -> Brightness.

Touch Brightness and reduce to suit your needs.

2) Use Wi-Fi when needed.

Go to Settings -> Wireless & networks -> Wi – Fi

uncheck wi-fi option, to turn off wi-fi

check wi-fi option, when you need it again.

3) Use Bluetooth when needed.

Go to Settings -> Wireless & networks -> Bluetooth

uncheck Bluetooth option, to turn off Bluetooth

check Bluetooth option, when you need it again.

4) Use 2G mobile network, when hi-speed data network is not required.

Go to Settings -> Wireless & networks -> Mobile Networks -> Use only 2G networks

check ‘Use only 2G networks’ to enable 2G mobile network.

uncheck ‘Use only 2G networks’ to use 3G mobile network.

5) Use GPS when needed.

Go to Settings -> Locaiton & Security -> Use GPS satellites

Uncheck ‘Use GPS satellites’ to turn off GPS.

Check ‘Use GPS Satellites’ to turn of GPS.

How to Uninstall applications from android phones – Nexus One, Motorola Droid

chetanz — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:49:22 +0000

If you are bored with applications installed on your android phone or you do not like it or you got a better applicaion than current one, then there is no choice except to uninstall that application from your andriod phone.

How to uninstall applications from android phone ?
There is no direct shortcut provided by android OS to uninstall applications. Following are some of tips to uninstall applications.

1) Go to Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications.

In this page you can see all downloaded applications on your phone. Touch application name you will be presented with Applicaion Info page, where in you can see ‘Uninstall’ button.

2) Go to android market, and search for application you installed earlier. Click on application, you will be presented with ‘uninstall’ button.
This standard way of uninstalling application presents you a feedback page asking reason for uninstalling application.

3) Android market has plenty of applications which ‘uninstall’, intalled applications on your andriod phone.

‘Fast Uninstaller‘ is one of best application for this choice.
‘Fast uninstaller‘ lists applications installed, with date and size. you can simply select application and click ‘OK’ button.
Application will be uninstalled no hassle of presenting with feedback page.

3) Following are some of few other easy uninstall applications present in andriod market.

a) Quick Installer
b) AppRemover

AIRCEL 3G Settings for Google Nexus One

chetanz — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:48:16 +0000

Google Nexus One is among one of the best smart phones available in Android segment.

Following are some of tips on how to enable Aircel GPRS on Google Nexus One phone.

Goto Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Mobile Networks -> Access Point Names

If no APN is defined till now, your screen will be blank.

Click on Menu(second button from left) button on your Google Nexus One and selecte New APN.

Give following details:

Name: aircelgprs

APN: aircelgprs

MCC: 405

MNC: 801

Authentication Type: None

Leave all other fields to their default values.

Click on Back button, and enable APN setting defined just now.

All Set

Make sure ’Data Enabled’ is turned on in Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Mobile Networks screen.

How to make Google Nexus One as Wi-Fi hotspot

chetanz — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:41:15 +0000

Google Nexus One smart phone can be used as Wi-Fi hotspot/Access Point.

Nexus One can be configured to behave as Wi-Fi hotspot/Access Point, so that other gadgets, laptops or PCs which have Wi-Fi enabled devices can connect to Nexus One and access internet.

One and only requirement you need to setup this is Mobile Data Connection.

Step 1) Goto Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Tethering & Portable hotspot.

Step 2) Check Portable Wi-Fi hotspot.

Step 3) Portable Wi-Fi hotspot settings option will be enabled. Check this option.

Step 4) Check Configure Wi-Fi hotspot option.

Step 5) Configure Wi-Fi hotspot page will be shown.

Step 6) Enter a name for your Wi-Fi, in Network SSID field.

Step 7) Select Security type for your Wi-Fi. Security type can be either Open or WPA2 PSK.

Step If you select Security type as WPA2 PSK, then android will prompt for password to connect Wi-Fi.

Step 9) Save your Wi-Fi Configuratin.

Uncheck Portable Wi-Fi hotspot at step 2, to stop Nexus One behaving as Wi-Fi hotspot.

Simplify search in Gmail

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:58:57 +0000

Like how we search on Google for information, you can even search in your Gmail account for email messages.

Google search tips are provided in one of my earlier posts.

Following are some search tips for Gmail messages.

Searching based on E-Mail Headers:

a) use to:{emailid} or to:{contactname} for searching emails that you sent for a specific person.
Ex: to:jacob@gmail.com or to:chetan
b) use from:{emailid} or from:{contactname} for searching emails that are from a specific person.
Ex: from:sjoe@yahoo.com or from:San
c) use subject:{text} for searching emails which has subject
Ex: subject:resume
will list out all emails which have subject resume.
Similarly you can search for bcc: or cc:

Searching for Attachments:

a) use has:attachment , to search all email messages which have attachments attached to them.
b) use filename:doc , to search for email messages with attachments and the attachment file name contains doc.
c) you can combine both searches.
Ex: has:attachment filename:pdf

Searching based on Date:

Searching based on date requires you to put date format in yyyy/mm/dd
a) after:2009/02/09 will search for all emails after 09 Feb 2009, but not on the date.
b) before:2009/02/09 will search for all emails that came before 09 Feb 2009, but not on the date.

Boolean operators can also be used while searching in Gmail.
Ex: to:Dany subject:(stocks|news)
above search query searches for emails which are sent to Dany and with subject messages either stocks or news.

Gmail searching by default excludes Trash and Spam messages, if you want to include these folders, use in:anywhere with your search query.
Ex: from:Dany in:anywhere

Google Translate language count goes on

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:59:38 +0000

Google Translate, language translation tool of google is able to translate 51 languages as of today. According to Google, recently 9 new languages are added making count from 42 to 51.
Following are new languages added to Google Translate:
Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh, and Yiddish

Google Translate also works with other Google Products. You can translate emails in Gmail, documents in Google Docs,
webpages using Google Toolbar, RSS Feeds in Google Reader.

As per Google Translate official site following is list of languages available for Translation.

Afrikaans
Albanian
Arabic
Belarusian
Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese
Croatian
Czech
Danish

Dutch
English
Estonian
Filipino
Finnish
French
Galician
German
Greek
Hebrew

Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian

Macedonian
Malay
Maltese
Norwegian
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Serbian

Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese
Welsh
Yiddish

Google it – Few Search Tips

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:13:51 +0000

In today’s web world, you can’t imagine a day without searching on Google. Here are some of the tips that will be useful while searchig with Google.

1) To get current time in any city anywhere in the world. Simply type time
Ex: time hyderabad or time sanfrancisco

2) Google’s search box can be used as calculator. Simply type calculation you want, and click on search, you will be presented with result.
Ex: (5+4)/2*25/23*12.23=

3) To know more about recent earthquake activity around the world. Simply type ‘earthquake’ in searchbox. If you want earthquake of a city, type earthquake .
Ex: earthquake tokyo

4) Google can also be used to convert between Unit of Measurements.
Type “20m in ft” you will get the answer.
Ex: 130 sq yds in sq ft or 130 sq yds to sq ft

5) To find definition of any word. Simply Type define:, you will get definitions of the word from online dictionaries across web.
Ex: define:web or define:change or define:information

6) Google also provides currency conversion information. Type “100INR to USD” in search box. You will be presented with conversion result.
Ex: 100 GBP to USD

7) Looking for a map of any city. Type city name followed by keyword ‘map’.
   Ex: Hyderabad map
   or
   Mountain View map

8 ) To find related sites that have similar content. Type related: followed by .
Ex: related:cnn.com

9) Google ignores common words such as and, or, the, what, who etc. If you want common word to be included in search, use ‘+’ sign followed by common word.
Ex: Obama +and socialist

10) If you don’t want certain words to come in your search results, just put ‘-’ sign before the word, then google excludes this word from search result.
Ex: obama -twitter

11) By putting phrases(“”) around any word, you can restrict google search for exact word and in the same order.
Ex: “Barack Obama”
In search results, whole word “Barack Obama” will be high lighted. If you remove phrases then you will see search results containing either Barack or Obama or both words.

12) Google search allows you to search in a particular site. use keyword ‘site:’ for this purpose.
    site:
    Ex: Obama site:cnn.com
    will search for word ‘Obama’ in cnn.com
    Ex: twitter site:.in
    will search in all indian sites for word ‘twitter’.

13) If you are webmaster or site owner and want to know, how many URLs of your site are indexed by Google, use site keyword followed by your site name.
    Ex: site:creativeslab.net

14) And last but not least simply type your name or name of the person you just met in Google search box. You will be presented with web page search results of that person.

Tips on Crawling and Indexing sites with Google

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:19:12 +0000

Whether you have website or blog or portal, your intention is let the people know about your content.

How to let people know about content on your website or blog or portal. Submitting a sitemap to searchengines helps them to crawl site and present content in their search results. But how better your site is getting indexed or crawled by search engines, depends on how accurate and efficient your sitemap is.

Google provides some tips on how to optimize crawling and indexing.

1) Remove User Specific URLs
– Remove session id’s or user id’s or post id’s from your URLs that don’t change content.
2) Disallow actions that Google bot can’t perform
– Use your robots.txt file to stop crawling of dynamic pages or user entry forms like login page, contact form etc.
3) One to One mapping between URL and Content
– Make sure URLs point to single piece of content. Never point multiple URLs to same content. This case often
occurs in CMS. Use rel attribute if it is difficult to do so.

Go through following presentation by Google Webmasters to know more.
Optimize Crawling and Indexing

Reference: Optimize Crawling and Indexing

Google on Twitter

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:37:34 +0000

Twitter, the buzzword on web these days, is becoming a powerful tool day by day. Increasing popularity and the reach of Twitter on Web attracted Google, to list all its frequent updates on Twitter.

Google opened acccounts on Twitter to let everybody know what is happening inside.

Following are Google accounts on Twitter.

twitter.com/Google – our central account
twitter.com/Blogger – for Blogger fans
twitter.com/GoogleCalendar – user tips & updates
twitter.com/GoogleImages – news, tips, tricks on our visual image search
twitter.com/GoogleNews – latest headlines via Google News
twitter.com/GoogleReader – from our feed reader team
twitter.com/iGoogle – news & notes from Google’s personalized homepage
twitter.com/GoogleStudents – news of interest to students using Google
twitter.com/YouTube – for YouTube fans
twitter.com/YouTubeES – en Espanol
twitter.com/GoogleAtWork - solutions for IT and workplace productivity

Geo-related
twitter.com/SketchUp – Google SketchUp news
twitter.com/3DWH – SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse
twitter.com/Modelyourtown – 3D modeling to build your favorite places
twitter.com/EarthOutreach – Earth & Maps tools for nonprofits & orgs
twitter.com/GoogleMaps – uses, tips, mashups
twitter.com/GoogleSkyMap -Android app for the night sky

Ads-related
twitter.com/AdSense – for online publishers
twitter.com/AdWordsHelper – looking out for AdWords questions and tech issues
twitter.com/AdWordsProSarah – Google Guide for AdWords Help Forum
twitter.com/GoogleAnalytics – insights for website effectiveness
twitter.com/GoogleAdBuilder – re building display ads
twitter.com/GoogleRetail – for retail advertisers
twitter.com/TechnologyUK – for U.K. tech advertisers
twitter.com/InsideAdWordsDE – for German AdWords customers
twitter.com/GoogleAgencyDE – for German ad agencies
twitter.com/AdSensePT – info for Portuguese-language publishers
twitter.com/AdWordsRussia – AdWords news & tips in Russian
twitter.com/DentroDeAdWords – Spanish updates from the Inside AdWords blog
twitter.com/AdWordsAPI – AdWords API tips

Developer & technical
twitter.com/GoogleResearch – from our research scientists
twitter.com/GoogleWMC – Google Webmaster Central
twitter.com/GoogleCode – latest updates for Google developer products
twitter.com/GoogleData – Data APIs provide a standard protocol for reading and writing web data
twitter.com/app_engine – web apps run on Google infrastructure
twitter.com/DataLiberation – our initiative for complete import/export of all data
twitter.com/GoogleMapsAPI – about using Google Maps embedded in websites
twitter.com/GoogleIO – Google’s largest annual developer event

Culture, People
twitter.com/googletalks – notes from our @Google speaker series
twitter.com/googlejobs – the voice of Google recruiters

Country or Region
twitter.com/googlearabia – news from the Google Arabia Blog*
twitter.com/googledownunder – Google activities in Australia & New Zealand
twitter.com/GoogleDE – Google in Germany
twitter.com/GoogleKorea - News & notes in Korean*
twitter.com/GoogleLatAm – Latin America (en Espanol)
twitter.com/GooglePolicyIt – Notes on Google policy issues in Italy

So folks just follow these accounts on Twitter and get latest updates on google.