Tips to Make the Most of Google’s Nice Goodies

Well, most of you have been using different google goodies like Maps, Gmail and Google Search without even knowing how you can make the best of them and what can really work not to limit you in a particular daily use cycle. There are many who often look for some handy tricks and tips to make the most of different free Google tools. If you are also one of them, here are some tips that can be very handy for you.

Tricks that can make Google Search really effective:

Most of people search only for phrases and words when using Google, but you have lots of other options as well that can be enabled from their search box. You can find details about everything new from Google’s Advanced Operators and Search Features list. Here are some handy things that you can easily find with them.

• If you want to know about the current time in some other city or country of the world, you need not to convert your local setting time according to this far off city, you can exactly know it by typing the name of the city with word time to know about its current time.
• If you want to know about the weather, you can get an instant report by just typing weather and then the name of the city or its zip code which you want to know about.
• You can also get instant results to search within a domain through Google’s search engine. A search box is given on some particular site to search things within a domain, but things become quite easier to find with Google search powerhouse.
• Did you know that before search box could also be used as calculator? If not, you must give Google a try and type your mathematical problem to get their instant solutions.

Things you didn’t know about Gmail before

Gmail offers a handsome amount of tricks that can make composing and reading emails a really awesome experience for you. Recently Google has done some great enhancements in Gmail and the following are really great.

• One nice feature of Gmail allows you to sort out your unread messages with the given string label.
• You can save your searches as bookmarks; it allows you to enter the term of your search along with bookmarks title. You can also develop specific notes with bookmarks; you can bookmark an Outlook calendar appointment and other such things with it.

Google Maps applications

For different sort of basic routing and driving directions, Google Maps is really a tool of choice for many, but you may not find some favorite uses of it and here third party mashups come to your rescue and nicely mix Google Maps power with newly developed applications. Here are some that you would really find quite handy to make the most of Google Maps.

• If you want to track your runs and walks, Gmap Pedometer is a thing for you. With the help of it, you can trace around your neighborhood and calculate the distance and if you want to know about the burned calories just enter your weight and it will tell you all.
• ParkScore is another nice app that is a creation of the Trust for Public Land, it allows you to know about the distance of green spaces near to you with its color-coded map.
• You can also quantify the layout of local grocery stores, drug stores, restaurants, libraries and other destinations within your walking distance.
• TaxiWiz is a great help to know about the estimated costs of taxi ride, it also projects cost of trip and workable in nearly 20 cities between two points. It also allows you to pick from the collections of preloaded landmarks like tourist and airport destinations.

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