>7 Google Features Only Available in Google Chrome

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Google Chrome is at the forefront of the new technologies and Google services are the first to use them. Here are some examples of features only available in Google Chrome:


1. Native printing in Google Docs. You no longer have to download PDF files and use Adobe Reader or a similar PDF reader to print documents. Google implemented a W3C working draft from 2006.


2. Uploading folders in Google Docs. While you can install a Java applet in other browsers to upload folders, Chrome is the only browser that supports this feature natively.

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>10 Ways to Find Blogs You’ll Love

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April 11, 2011 by Jolie O'Dell

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The Content Exploration Series is presented by Mashable Explore, a new way to discover resources and information on your favorite Mashable topics. Mashable Explore is brought to you by the all-new, 100% reinvented 2011 Ford Explorer. Drive One.

Every now and then, we all get stumped when looking for a good online read.

Whether your feeds need a refresh, you’re delving into a new topic, or you’re just new to this whole “blog reading” thing, we’ve got you covered. There are dozens of services on the web dedicated to helping you get the most out of the universe of regularly updated blogs, and many of them are focused on helping you find the most high quality content as well as the content most relevant to you.

As an added bonus for the aesthetes out there, some of them are also an absolute pleasure to consume from a design perspective.

Here are ten tools we like to use to get out of a blog reading rut. In the comments, do share your tips and tricks with us and other Mashable readers.

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First, take a look at these encyclopedic catalogs of blogs. You’ll be able to browse or search by topic, so you’ll find the content and bloggers you’re looking for.

1. Alltop

Alltop is the granddaddy of all blog discovery tools. The site, which was cofounded in 2008 by Silicon Valley person of interest Guy Kawasaki, is known for its tight, topic-based groupings of the creme de la creme of blogs and a handful of other informative sites.

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>New in Gmail Labs: Smart Labels – Official Gmail Blog

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New in Gmail Labs: Smart Labels

Wednesday, March 09, 2011 | 10:00 AM

Posted by Stanley Chen, Software Engineer

People get a lot of email these days. On top of personal messages, there are group mailing lists, social network notifications, credit card statements, newsletters you might have signed up for, and promotional email from a shopping site you used once months ago. Gmail’s filters and labelswere invented to help manage the deluge, but while I have about 100 filters that triage and label my incoming mail, most of my friends and family have all their messages in a giant unfiltered inbox.

Last year, we launched Priority Inbox to automatically sort incoming email and help you focus on the messages that matter most. Today, we're launching a complementary feature in Gmail Labs called Smart Labels, which helps you classify and organize your email. Once you turn it on from theLabs tab in Settings, Smart Labels automatically categorizes incoming Bulk, Notification and Forum messages, and labels them as such. “Bulk” mail includes any kind of mass mailing (such as newsletters and promotional email) and gets filtered out of your inbox by default (where you can easily read it later), “Notifications” are messages sent to you directly (like account statements and receipts), and email from group mailing lists gets labeled as “Forums.”

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>Summarize your data with pivot tables – Docs Blog

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Summarize your data with pivot tables

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Labels: Google Apps Blog, googlenew, spreadsheets

Starting today, we're rolling out pivot tables in Google spreadsheets. Pivot tables make it easy to process and summarize large data sets in seconds. Check out the video below for a look at how pivot tables work in Google spreadsheets:

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>New in Labs: Background Send – Official Gmail Blog

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New in Labs: Background Send

Monday, April 25, 2011 | 3:22 PM

Posted by Patrick Doyle, Software Engineer

We’re always looking for ways to make Gmail faster. One of the most common delays happens after you hit that “Send” button, when you’re waiting patiently for a couple seconds for Gmail to send your message. If you send a lot of email, that can add up to a lot of lost time.

To help give you that time back, there’s a new feature in Gmail Labs called Background Send. Once you turn it on from the Labs tab in Settings, you can get on with what you’re doing while Gmail quietly sends off your mail in the background. You can keep reading your inbox, compose new messages, chat with people — all the things you’d usually do. You can even send more than one message in the background at the same time.

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>Store up to 25,000 contacts – Official Gmail Blog

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Store up to 25,000 contacts

Wednesday, May 04, 2011 | 9:29 AM

Posted by Mike Helmick, Software Engineer

Gmail used to have a limit of 10,000 contacts. For most of us, this was way more than enough, but we heard from some of you who use Gmail to communicate with more than 10,000 people. We want you to be able to store all of your contacts in a single place, so starting today, we’ve increased the limit for all Gmail users, including all those of you who use Google Apps, to 25,000 contacts.

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>إحصائيات، حقائق وأرقام عن يوتيوب

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3 هو ترتيب الموقع على مستوى العالم حسب إحصائيات اليكسا بعد موقعي جوجل وفيس بوك.

13 مليون هي عدد الساعات التي تم رفعها على الموقع خلال عام 2010.

35 هي عدد الساعات من مقاطع الفيديو التي يتم رفعها كل دقيقة على الموقع.

700 مليار هي عدد مشاهدات مقاطع الفيديو على الموقع في عام 2010 وحده.

100 مليون هي عدد مشاهدات مقاطع الفيديو عن طريق الهواتف يومياً.

50 مليون هي عدد الضغطات على الصفحة الرئيسية للموقع كل يوم.

70% هي نسبة مستخدمي الموقع من خارج الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية.

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>Microsoft Buys Skype in $8.5 Billion Cash Deal – Yahoo! Finance

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Microsoft Buys Skype in $8.5 Billion Cash Deal

By Stacy Curtin | Daily Ticker – 13 hours ago

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Microsoft announced an $8.5 billion acquisition of the Internet telephone service Skype Technologies SA from eBay and a group of private equity investors including Silicon Valley heavyweights Silver Lake Partners. The deal is Microsoft's largest cash purchase in its 36-year long history.

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>10 Skills Required in Every Blogger – Is Blogging For You? | OMG EUREKA

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It always feels good when you get to know that what ever information you are sharing with others are appreciated by them and your content is viewed by thousands of people and they are taking advantage of it. These all things makes you really feel good. But how this information should be available to others, this has to be well planned and a thorough study is required. I know that blogging is really a nice way to make your presence available at Internet but what are your targets, how long you are going to do that, what are your expectations and many other things are their which comes in mind before you start anything. However, their are few important skills which every user who is interested in blogging should consider and analyze by asking these things to himself. if you want to make your content available on the web, blogging is not the only solution to it. There are other platforms available to you which you can use like forums, website etc

It depends what are your needs and how you want your information should be available to others. But to become a successful blogger, these 10 skills atleast should be available in a blogger.

1. The Biggest and The Most Important Skill For Bloggers – Writing Habbit

If you want to be a blogger or should i say a good blogger, then you should enjoy writing. Because blogs are required to be updated periodically. And for successful blogging, you have to write more than 1 article daily. If you don’t like writing, then blogging is not for you. You have to reply to your viewers emails, comments, tweets etc. Hence writing is the core thing of blogging which should be in your blood.

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>كمبيوتر واتصالات – التواصل عبر الإنترنت شكل جديد من أشكال الجنون الحديثة

>دراسة أمريكية حديثة تؤكد أن الطريقة المحمومة للناس في التواصل عبر الإنترنت من خلال شبكات التواصل الاجتماعي التويتر والـ"فيس بوك" تعد شكلاً جديداً من أشكال الجنون الحديثة

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