[sotd] Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Search: 19 Cool Tips [January 25, 2010]

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To: sotd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:35:43 -0400

        Site of the Day for Monday, January 25, 2010

        Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Search: 19 Cool Tips

Today's site, from popular PC World magazine, offers a helpful collection of 
useful
tricks to get more mileage from the most widely used Google applications. Gentle
Subscribers who turn to Google for their e-mail, searches, and maps should find
some of these tips handy to have at their disposal. 

"You probably use Google Search, Gmail, and Google Maps all the time, but you're
only scratching the surface if you limit yourself to using their basic services.
Here are 19 tips that can help you get the most from each of those great free
Google tools ...You can bookmark a Gmail message, track stocks in Google's 
search
box, quickly estimate a taxi ride's cost in Google Maps, and do much more. We 
tell
you how." - from the website

Some of the most useful tips relate to Google Search. For example, by simply
entering "time Vancouver", without the quotes, in the search box, the top 
result in
Google replies is "7:01am Monday (PST) - Time in Vancouver, British Columbia".
Another time-saver from the Google Search facility is the movie times feature,
while tracking packages with the big three U.S. delivery services can be done
directly from the Google Search page. Other notable options include a selection 
of
downloadable scripts, suitable for use in Firefox's Greasemonkey, such as the 
one
which facilitates swapping between multiple Gmail accounts without logging out
between each and one which makes downloading a YouTube Flash video a snap.

Wheel over to the site for a convenient assortment of time-saving Google tips 
at:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/163758/gmail_google_maps_and_google_search_19_cool_ti
ps.html

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