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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.)

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

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/

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 “” )

Saving YouTube Videos:

I will suggest you to get FireFox Browser ( www.getfirefox.com ) to do it easy way, But here is one universal solution:

- Copy the URL of video from the address bar ( Place where you type www.sitename.com ) you want to store. ( something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26_O-S4-JqI )

- Go to http://keepvid.com/

- Paste the url in provided area ( View Image Below )

- Hit DOWNLOAD

- Choose a Format ( View Image Below )

For Firefox Users:

- Install this Extension :
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/27979/video_downloadhelper-3.0.4-fx.xpi

- Read This Guide
http://www.downloadhelper.net/manual.php

Playing Youtube Videos:

Download any one of these:

- VLC Media Player
- Real Player

Convert Youtube Videos:

Download Orbit Downloader ( Cnet PopPick, 1,820,660 downloads )

or

YouTube Downloader ( 1,649,867 downloads )

Archiving moves messages out of your inbox and into All Mail, letting you tidy up your inbox without deleting anything. Messages you archive can be found in All Mail, in any labels you’ve applied, and by searching Gmail. When someone responds to a message you’ve archived, the conversation containing that message will reappear in your inbox.

To archive messages:

1. Select a message by checking the box next to the sender’s name.
2. Click Archive.

If you have a conversation open, you can archive it by clicking Archive at the top of the page.

To move mail back to your inbox:

1. Click All Mail.
2. Check the box next to the sender’s name.
3. Click Move to Inbox.

Labels do all the work of folders and give you an extra bonus: you can add more than one to a conversation. Once you’ve created a label, you can view all the messages with that label by searching, or by clicking the label name along the left side of any Gmail page.

To create a label:

1. Select the message(s) you’d like to label by checking the box(es) next to the sender’s name.
2. Select New label from the More Actions… drop-down menu.
3. Enter the name of the new label in the text box, and click OK.

The selected messages will automatically be categorized under the new label.

To edit a label:

1. Sign in to Gmail.
2. Click Edit labels at the bottom of the Labels box.
3. Click rename next to the label you want to edit.
4. Enter the new label name, and click OK.

All the messages categorized under your old label name will now be categorized under your new label.

To delete a label:

1. Sign in to Gmail.
2. Click Edit labels at the bottom of the Labels box.
3. Click remove label next to the label you want to delete.
4. Confirm that you’d like to remove the label by clicking OK.

* Removing a label doesn’t delete the messages previously categorized with that label.