Cool Tips for Using Gmail, Google Maps and Google Search

Cool Tips

You may be using the Google search and the related tools like Google maps but it would be surprising for you that you are just touching the surface of these applications and you are unaware of the depth of knowledge which you can get from these applications. So awareness for the usage of these applications is mostly required at this time and in this article I am going to discuss some of the cool tips which can help you in exploring more information from them.

First of all I will start with Google search engine and I will try to explain those activities which you mostly don’t perform here but they are highly beneficial for you. The activities have been divided in some simple steps so let’s have a look.

1. If you want to know the time of some distant place than simply write time city, i.e. time Washington and it will give you the time of that city and you’ll get to know either you are disturbing your friends or not.
2. If you want to diversify your search by  limiting your search on a particular site and then searching within that site, then just type search term site: domain name for example laptop review site: t3.com.
3. If you want to get the search results in a particular file type than this is also very simple just type search term filetype:three-letter type for the three-letter type you will write the extension of file type like doc, pdf or pub etc. the term you want to write will be written in place of search term.
4. This search box can prove to be more powerful than the calculator if you want to perform any conversion or solve any math’s question just write your expression like 89*22/(16) or 100 yards = ? Meters and the rest of work will be shown to you by Google.
5. You can also get the movie times within your city by typing movie: city or zip code and you can also click for more movies for better and more details.

The tricks told to you about the Google search must be surprising for you and now get ready for some more surprises as now I am going to give you some details of Gmail which would be your favorite email application but you are unaware of some very big benefits of this application.

1. You can speed up your navigation while using Gmail with the help of some useful shortcuts. First of all click the settings link on the top of your Gmail page click keyboard shortcuts on and then hit the save button. After that you will be just needed to hit C for compose mail, R for reply, O to open and some other very interesting shortcuts.
2. You can sort out the unread messages by with a simple search string label:unread, label:inbox and for one click reference save the search as a bookmark and this technique has be described below.
3. You can save the search queries as URL’s and therefore as bookmarks and this lets you enter your search term and bookmark title. All you have to do now is to just click Generate and then drag the resulting URL to bookmark bar for easy access.

Like these two applications the Google Map can be enhanced by following some simple steps and all those steps have been discussed below.

1. If you want to track your walks and runs the Gmap Pedometer lets you trace around your neighborhood to calculate the distance and also enter your weight and it will tell you how many calories you have burnt.
2. The TaxiWiz is another very smart application provided for the Google map and it cross references local Taxi fares with the Google Map and it will tell you the projecting trips cost. It works in between 20 cities between any two points.
3. You can also let Google Map discover your location without GPS as it works like iPhone and gives you your exact location without any need of GPs facility available.

These were some of the very important facilities provided with the Google applications and I hope you might not be aware of them before so from now try experimenting these things and get yourself more benefited from them.

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