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site : restricts results to sites within the specified domain

Sample
“site:vivsingh.com quotations” will find all pages containing the
word Quotations, located within the vivsingh.com domain

intitle : restricts results to documents whose title contains the specified phrase

Sample
“intitle:fox fire” will find all sites with the word fox in the
title and fire in the text

allintitle :restricts results to documents whose title contains all the specified phrases
“allintitle:fox fire” will find all sites with the words fox and fire in the title, so it’s equivalent to “intitle:fox
intitle:fire”

inurl : restricts results to sites whose URL contains the specified phrase
“inurl:fox fire” will find all sites containing the word fire in the text and fox in the URL

allinurl : restricts results to sites whose URL contains all the specified phrases
“allinurl:fox fire” will find all sites with the words fox and fire in the URL

filetype, ext : restricts results to documents of the specified type
“filetype:pdf fire” will return PDFs containing the word fire, while “filetype:xls” fox will return Excel spreadsheets with the word fox

Popular formats : txt, docs, ppt, zip, rar, info

link : restricts results to sites containing links to the specified location
“link:www.google.com” will return documents containing one or more links to www.google.com

+ : specifies that a phrase should occur frequently in results
“+fire ” will order results by the number of occurrences of the word fire

- : specifies that a phrase must not occur in results
“-fire” will return documents that don’t contain the word fire

“” : delimiters for entire search phrases (not single words)
“fire fox” will return documents containing the phrase fire fox

. wildcard for a single character
“fire.fox” will return documents containing the phrases fire fox, fireAfox, fire1fox, fire-fox etc.

* wildcard for a single word
“fire * fox” will return documents containing the phrases
fire the fox, fire in fox, fire or fox etc.

Gspace is an extension that allows you to use your Gmail Space (4.1 GB and growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable system. The interface will make your Gmail account look like a FTP host.
After the installation, you’ll get an option called “Gspace” in your “Tools” menu, which opens the GSpace window.

It’s great for storing/sharing files with your friends. Also very good to backup photos and music files (as you can view/listen to them from Gspace).

Add it from here : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1593

Here is a Video tutorial :

For those of you using newly released Firefox 3, or willing to give it a try, you can take advantage of a new feature that lets you set Gmail as the default for all email links — those that contain “mailto:” in them. If you’re like me and don’t have a default email client set up, then clicking these links typically launches an installation wizard for a destkop mail client, or opens some email software that you don’t actually use.

Now you can configure Firefox to launch Gmail when you click on email address links and avoid the hassle.
1) Go to Gmail and sign in.

2) While in Gmail, copy and paste the following into your browser’s address bar and hit enter.

javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","GMail")

Google Apps users can use this code (but be sure to replace yourdomain.com with your Google Apps domain name):

javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/a/yourdomain.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","GMail")

3) Click “Add Application” when you are prompted. Congrats, you just added Gmail to your browser’s list of mail clients.

4) To set Gmail as your default, click on this link and you will be prompted with a dialog box listing available email applications. By selecting Gmail and checking “Remember my choice for mailto links” you won’t have to tell your browser again. (You don’t actually need to send an email after you click that link.)

Write your own tattoo message, Write your message in the sand, Crave your name in a tree, upload your own photos and create frames plus do a lot more photo tricks with this online tool.

Imagechef offers variety of photo pimping options to jazz up your social community profiles and comments.

You can use 100s of readymade clipart gallery items, customize them with your own text and post them to various social platforms directly.

Have a Look : http://www.imagechef.com/

Fast Dial

Fast Dial replaces “about:blank” page with a panel of thumbnails of your favorite sites. Click on an empty cell, assign a site URL, click OK - a thumbnail will be generated for a site. You can also add sites opened in browser or existing bookmarks by right-clicking them and choosing “Add to Fast Dial” from context menu.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5721

Forecastfox™

Get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable and unobtrusive extension.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/398

Better Gmail

Add useful extra features and skins to Gmail, like hierarchical labels, macros, file attachment icons, and more.

Better Gmail 2 compiles the best Greasemonkey user scripts for Gmail into a single package. All scripts copyright their original authors. Click on the script homepage in the About tab for help and more information. Only compatible with the new Gmail interface.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6076

GooglePreview

Inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites into the Google and Yahoo search results pages. The GooglePreview thumbnail system currently consists of 7 dedicated servers and generates 5 TB of traffic per month.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/189

FireGestures

A customizable mouse gestures extension which enables you to execute various commands and user scripts with five types of gestures.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6366

Firefox, This is the topic of the month. Firefox is not just a replacement to Internet Explorer, its Way Much More.

I will be exploring firefox all this month, and believe me there is more then Tabbed browsing.

Topics to be covered:

- A Geeks view on What is so special about it.

- The Lazy Life : Drag and Drop Magic

- Bookmarking +

- Web 2.0 and Firefox

- Extensions

- Deeper digg : A different approach

Will update soon, Stay Connected….

Have you ever tried Clicking that ” I am feeling lucky ” Button instead of regular Google search?

If your answer is NO, here are few things which can save a lot of time for you:

- If you wish to go to Country specific page of any website/Company website like HP, Dell, Amazon…  just type [ name ] [ country ] in Google search box and click ” I am Feeling lucky ”

For Example if you want to goto HP Australia, type “HP Australia” in google search box and click ” I am feeling lucky “. Google will dirctly open HP australia website instead of showing any search results.

- You can also reach to any Wiki article or IMDB Movie page directly from Google

type [ Wiki ] [ keyword ] Go lucky

type [ IMDB ] [ Movie Name ] Go Lucky

Photoshop Express is an Free to use ( with 2GB online storage ) online photo library, editing and sharing website. Think of it this way. You shot it - not it’s time to do something with it. You can crop, rotate, change colors, enhance, remove red eye, and even some crazy special effects like twirling and distorting. When you’re done, you can share the photos using galleries and even give people a link to go see them. Photoshop Express works with JPEG photos only—the most common format used in cameras.

Features:

Crop & Rotate—Turn it, straighten it, crop out the background.
Auto Correct—Automatic, one-click, optimal lighting and contrast adjustment.
Exposure—Change the brightness of the photo.
Red-Eye Removal—Removes red eyes caused by some camera flashes.
Touchup—Remove scratches and other imperfections.
Saturation—Ramp up the colors to blinding brightness, dampen them down to black and white, or anywhere in between.
White Balance—Ever notice how people look different inside an office with the ugly fluorescent tubes, as opposed to outside on a bright sunny day? Adjust the white balance and you change the type of lighting in the photo.
Highlight—The brightest parts of a photo are the highlights. This control lets you brighten or darken just the brightest part of the photo, without affecting the darker parts (we call those the shadows).
Fill Light—If you take a shot facing into the sun, your subject can end up too dark due to the camera’s automatic exposure adjustment. Fill Light brightens the dark area without overbrightening the background.
Sharpen—It’s like putting in your contacts. Suddenly everything comes more into focus.
Soft Focus—It’s like taking your contacts out. Soft Focus creates a subtle blur for artistic effect.
Hue—This one changes all the colors in a photo at once.
Black & White—Control how the colors are converted when you change a photo to black and white.
Tint—Imagine instead of black and white, you want red and white, or pale brown and white for that old Western look.
Sketch—Makes any photo look like you drew it yourself.
Distort—Stretch, twist, bulge specific areas of your photos.

TOO MUCH?? Don’t worry, they have fully illustrated Video Tutorials for every feature.

Visit : http://www.photoshop.com/express

Tutorials : http://www.photoshopexpresstechniques.com/

I have never found a username of my choice on yahoo , yahoomail is the worlds most popular email service, and it’s hard to get the ID of your choice there.

But they have a solution now.

Yahoo have introduced 2 new extentions, YMAIL.COM and ROCKETMAIL.com

now you can sign up for any ID you want with extensions ymail.com, rocketmail.com; and still have the all features of a YAHOO account.

Get you name now : http://www.mail.yahoo.com

MSN Encarta Encyclopedia contains award-winning content to help you learn about almost anything. Some of the content is available free of charge.

The encyclopedia contains over 5,000 detailed articles and associated multimedia, such as illustrations and photos.
Articles may also include: article outlines, media items, Web links, related items, and further reading lists. Related items give you more information about the topic of the article you’re currently reading. Further Reading lists provide links to recommended books and journals related to the topic of the encyclopedia article you are reading.

Note : Some content is available to subscribers only.

Visit : http://encarta.msn.com

JumpCut is a video and photos sharing website by Yahoo. In there own words:
If creating a video and publishing it to the web seems like a challenge, we think you’ll find that Jumpcut makes it easy and fun. If you’ve been wondering what to do with the video you shoot with your snazzy new camera (or your phone), Jumpcut is the perfect place for you to be creative. If video isn’t your thing just yet and you just want to make cool slideshows with your pictures, Jumpcut is still the best place.

Finally, a free online location where you can use all your media, create great looking movies and publish to anyone you choose. There’s nothing else like it.

Visit them here : http://www.jumpcut.com

The Babel Fish Translation tool uses machine translation technology to translate sentences in one language into another language. Babel Fish can translate either text or full web pages from the internet.
Machine translation is a computer program which automatically analyzes the meaning of a sentence and attempts to produce a sentence in a different language which conveys the same meaning. No computer program can translate correctly 100% of the time, but machine translation is useful to get the basic ideas of a sentence.

Babel Fish support many popular languages like Spanish, french, Latin, Dutch, German, Greek, Italian and a lot more.

Give it a try here: http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

TRIVIA

What does the name “Babel Fish” mean?
The Babel Fish is a creature in the book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. When placed in a person’s ear, it allows him or her to understand any and all languages spoken.

http://games.aol.com/

Making it easier than ever to have fun, be entertained, and stay informed about your favorite type of gaming, AOL Games allows you to play more than 350 Online Games, including your favorite Pogo and Club Pogo games. You can also try free trials of the newest games available. Check out AOL Games today!

http://www.shockwave.com

Shockwave has been giving there large loyal audience its daily dose of online interactive fun since 1998, and Shockwave became a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks in 2006. We’ve got more than 450 games, with new ones added each week. Games to get your heart pumping, games to get your brain buzzing, or games to help you unwind.

Yahoo Games : http://games.yahoo.com

MSN Gaming : http://www.zone.com

MiniClip : http://www.miniclip.com

Lycos Games : http://playsite.lycos.com/

Other small websites with good collection of classic arcade games:

http://www.freearcade.com/

http://www.arcadetown.com/

In addition to providing easy access to billions of web pages, Google has many special features to help you to find exactly what you’re looking for.

Calculator
To use Google’s built-in calculator function, simply enter the calculation you’d like done into the search box and hit the Enter key or click on the Google Search button. The calculator can solve math problems involving basic arithmetic, more complicated math, units of measure and conversions, and physical constants. Try one of the sample expressions below.

• 5+2*2
• 2^20
• sqrt(-4)
• half a cup in teaspoons
• 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories

Click here for full list of instructions : http://www.google.com/help/calculator.html

Currency Conversion
To use Google’s built-in currency converter, simply enter the conversion you’d like done into the Google search box and hit “Enter” or click the Google Search button

Here are some sample queries:

• 3.5 USD in GBP
• currency of Brazil in Malaysian money
• 5 British pounds in South Korean money
• 2.2 USD per gallon in INR per litre

Google may return some search results that include variations of your search words, such as synonyms and plurals. Google may also omit common words and characters such as a, the, how, and other digits and letters which may slow down your search without improving the results. You’ll get indication if a word has been excluded or modified by displaying details on the results page below the search box.

If a word is essential to getting the results you want, or if you want to ensure a word is included exactly as you enter it, add a “+” sign immediately in front of it in the search box. (Be sure to also include a space between the “+” sign and any other words in your search.)

For example, here’s how to ensure that Google includes the “I” in a search for Star Wars, Episode I:

” Star Wars Episode +I “

( Ignore “” )

Synonym search

If you want to search not only for your search term but also for its synonyms, place the tilde sign (”~”) immediately in front of your search term.

For example, here’s how to search for food facts and nutrition and cooking information:

” ~food ~facts “

( Ignore “” )

“OR” search

To find pages that include either of two search terms, add an uppercase OR between the terms.F or example, here’s how to search for a vacation in either London or Paris:

” vacation london OR paris “

( Ignore “” )

Domain search

You can use Google to search only within one specific website by entering the search terms you’re looking for, followed by the word “site” and a colon followed by the domain name.

For example, here’s how you’d find admission information on the Stanford University site:

” admission site:www.stanford.edu “

( Ignore “” )

Numrange search

Feel like a number? Numrange searches for results containing numbers in a given range. Just add two numbers, separated by two periods, with no spaces, into the search box along with your search terms. You can use Numrange to set ranges for everything from dates ( Willie Mays 1950..1960) to weights ( 5000..10000 kg truck). But be sure to specify a unit of measurement or some other indicator of what the number range represents.

For example, here’s how you’d search for a DVD player that costs between $50 and $100:

” DVD player $50..$100 “

( Ignore “” )