3 More Awesome Google Services That You Probably Never Knew Existed

Though it’s where its fame and fortune first came from, Google has advanced far beyond just being the world’s most popular search engine. You and I both know that Google plays host to many amazing services that we use on an everyday basis. Gmail is a great example. I have Gmail. I bet you too have Gmail! How about the late, great Google Reader? That was a service that so many of us would already love to have back. Why Google, why?

These are just two examples, and you’d be pretty surprised to know how many other goodies Google has floating around out there. Beyond their alerts system and floundering social network, Google has developed a wealth of web applications that just aren’t given enough shine. We’ve done articles in the past that help highlight some of Google’s hidden treasuresthat don’t get the limelight they deserve, but Google is always changing and pumping out more. In this article, let’s look at another three.

Google Trends

Google Trends is a great place to go when you want to see what is hot on the web. When that sort of content comes to mind, the first thing you might think of are Trending Topics over on Twitter. Trends is to Google what Trending Topics are to Twitter, except without the social aspect. You’re getting what is on the rise in Google Search.

As the above screenshot manages to capture pretty well, what you’re normally going to see on this list are things like national or world news and events, movie releases, sports stories, and things of that nature.

Beneath each result, Google gives a rough estimate of the recent increase in searches for terms related to this subject and an immediate link to a related article to help explain the change in search volume.

Google Trends is a localized list, and you’re able to see results from the US, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, India, and more.

Google Fonts

Google Fonts is a really quick and simple way to look at hundreds of different font faces through the web browser, offering features that cater more specifically towards webmasters.

This website allows you to view 629 fonts by word, sentence, paragraph, or poster. You’re able to sort this list of fonts by alphabet, when the font was added, by how it’s trending, and more. When you find a font you like, you can add it to your collection of saved fonts for later use.

When you’ve selected the fonts you’re interested in using for your website, simply click theUse button in your collection and you’ll be offered several different ways to import the font to your website.

The best part is these fonts don’t need to be downloaded or anything to be used on your site. You only have to include a single line and a bit of CSS code to your page and you’re able to make use of them, all thanks to the powers of the Google Fonts API. Here is my colleague James taking a look at how you can use Google Fonts in a web project.

Google Sky

While Google Sky is a feature from Google Earth, it does have its own standalone interface on the web.

I don’t need to go on about how awesome Google Earth is, because you’ve surely heard of it by now. How cool is it that we’re able to go practically anywhere on this planet and get an interactive view of the area, all through a website? Google Sky offers this same experience, but the imagery is provided by NASA satellites, the Hubble Telescope, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Put simply, it is the Google Earth for space exploration. Although the search feature was recently disabled, you’re able to drag and scroll all through the galaxy and zoom in to ridiculous resolutions to see beautiful images of our sky in detail.

Google Sky is a project that was put together by developers during their 20% time, and while it lacks some of the major functionality of services like Google Maps and Google Earth, it’s worth appreciating. If Google keeps up at this pace, we’ll be on track for a Google Universe in the next however-many years!

It’s a short list of services, but a list of very purposeful ones that I can only hope never experience the termination that services like Google Reader and iGoogle are going through. Have you ever used any of these three services before? Which one seems most interesting to you? Leave me a line in the comments below and let me know!

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Is MX Player The Best Do-It-All Movie Player For Android? [Android 2.1+]

That seems to be the overwhelming opinion of our readers whose recommendations placed the MX Player on our Best Android Apps page. But will you be one of the satisfied users of this do-it-all movie player for Android? That’s the purpose of this brief review. So, download and install the favorite and test it out with your favorite movie even as you scroll down to the end of this review.

MX Player goes up against quite a few challengers like MoboPlayer, DoubleTwist, and then a few others like VPlayer, RealPlayer, and Meridian etc. It remains standing, and if download figures are anything to go by even wins the bout. When you go to the Google Play Store to install the app, you will see that nearly 230,000+ people have downloaded the free version of the media player. There has to be something good about it, right?

The Do It All Movie Player

MX Player comes packaged with all the popular codecs and video formats you can think of for instance – 3gp, avi, divx, f4v, flv, mkv, mp4, mpeg, mov, vob, wmv, webm, xvid, and many more. You can select extensions and the decoders for them manually too.

MX Player can scan your SD card in seconds and list only those folders and sub-folders that contain movie files. You can also specify the folder manually. A nice little touch is that movies which have been freshly copied can be made to display a NEW tag. Movie folders can also be grouped, though there is no playlist creation feature. You will also notice that the thumbnail preview displays the name of the last watched movie and finished movies in different color. By default an Edit menu feature is present which allows you to rename a video file.

Playing Your Movies

Start movie playback by tapping on the preview thumbnail of a movie. The user interface is very clean cut without any extra frills getting in the way. All the frills are hidden below the interface. The main features of the video playback are –

1. Along with the usual controls, MX Player also supports touch gestures. For instance, you can pinch to zoom and drag vertically on left half of the screen among other gestures. Play and pause can be toggles with a single tap. It also supports keyboard shortcuts.

2. You can also click on Display – Settings and go into the controls for all aspects of your viewing experience. See the screenshot for an idea.

3. A single button sequentially sets the video zoom levels ranging from Fit to Screen to Stretch. You can lock your selection and enjoy an uninterrupted movie.

4. MX Player comes with full subtitle support. You can sync subtitles with gesture movements. You can also control how the subtitle appears on the screen.

5. There’s a nice Background play feature that ensures that the video file plays in the background while you work on other apps. An audio option can be used for just the audio playback.

6. MX Video Player remembers resume position for all video files and gives you a choice of starting over or resuming from the last position.

Performance

The feature that’s most often cited about MX Player is its support for multi-core decoding. That is to say in simple words, the media player takes the full support of multiple processors to render the movie. That results in smoother playback and decoding of the codecs used in the movie file. MX Players says that according to test results on dual-core devices, it showed up to 70% performance improvement over single-core decoding. So, if you have a phone like the Samsung Galaxy S2 or Samsung Galaxy Note, you should be able to verify those claims.

Switch Decoding Modes between Software and Hardware

You can quickly toggle between software and hardware decoding modes with a tap on the button as shown in the screenshot. By default, hardware decoding is used as it is better in the way it uses full processor optimization to process the video while software decoding depends on the app which in the case of a mobile app might be weak.

End Credits…

I threw quite a few videos of different formats at MX Player and it handled them seamlessly. Video playback wasn’t a problem at all. What I like about MX Player is that I can use it immediately after install without bothering too much about file formats. It has a few nice touches that give me extra control over the way I switch on with my Android. For instance, gesture support and the ability to control subtitles are invaluable for a smoother experience.

MX Player has an ad-supported free version which in my opinion is adequate for the job. MX Player works with Android 2.1 and above. It also is supported on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Does MX Player have the oomph to be the default media player on your Android? If not, which video player is your first pick? Let’s argue in the comments.

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Win8 version of Office 15 will be the traditional desktop applications

According to reliable sources, codenamed Office 15 is the next generation of Microsoft Office suite, Windows 8 will be adjusted on the interface to make it more user-friendly interface, which includes a radial menu system, but it will not be redeveloped into one based on WinRT Metro style apps under full. According to sources within the Office interface will be more flat, more simple-to-use functions, it will use less content to achieve the best results.

But anyway, Office 15 is still a traditional desktop applications. While we can not immediately confirm all of the statements, but in addition we have also heard that ARM version will also be a traditional desktop application, currently limited Power Windows 8 ARM Desktop mode.

Select the Windows 8 version of Microsoft Office 15 attributed to the traditional tables meet the program seems to be because of time constraints. According to a source said because in order to truly WinRT-based Metro style full Office suite Office team, then it would be great to modify the whole package, which will increase the software development time, so to create a real sense of Windows eight versions of Office programs will be delayed. Microsoft's chief designer Steve Kaneko on improved package optimistic attitude, he said, users will be unforgettable for Office 15.

Although there will be no full-Metro style of Office, but Microsoft has developed two products based on at least WinRT Metro style Windows 8 Office applications. OneNote and Lync will be as a full Metro style apps on the new Windows Store launch. May be to ease everyone's desire Windows 8 Metro style and iOS port problems (they've landed the iPad, presumably to attract more users to the users such as SkyDrive and Office 365 Microsoft-related services), the two Applications will also be paid more than Word and Excel and other software more easy to use, Microsoft has announced yesterday Office 15 has entered the technical preview stage, we hope to hear more about this month's news Office suite.

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New look Office 15 Preview new features Glance

Pro morning Beijing time today, Microsoft held its next-generation code-named Office 15 Office product launches. Currently, the new Office eventually named yet to be determined, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer also just call it: The new Office.

Office 15: The new Office

New releases will inevitably bring some new features, then this Office 15 and what new features it? Let's take a quick look at it. (The following screenshot from winsupersite.com)

Office 15 to use video

Office 15 (Office 2013) Preview Download: Attention must be Win7 or more systems, the installation will force uninstall Office 2003 and earlier products.

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New UI style: Metro

Office 15 New UI style

Office 2007 Ribbon style menus to bring a new menu operation experience, now with Windows 8 Metro to become the new benchmark, Office 15 also followed, using a flattened Metro style interface.

In addition to the interface UI, the application icon regard Microsoft also made corresponding changes to make them more suitable for Metro Start screen.

Office 15 applications magnets

Office 15 taskbar icon

Account Integration

Office 15 fully integrate a variety of cloud services and their associated accounts. For most people, coming just a Microsoft account you can access a variety of online services. For example, SkyDrive service has become a storage location Office 15, users can save files directly to SkyDrive on.

Application interface background

Although While Office 15 uses a Metro style flattened appearance, but Microsoft also offers an optional background pattern to add some changes to the interface. There are six kinds of background images to choose from: Calligraphy, Circle and Stripes, Circuit, Clouds, Straws, and Tree Rings. In the installation process of this step, select the background, the background may not be used of course. Remember the Windows 8 Metro Start screen customization options do?This background has a similar pattern selection.

Begin to experience

Begin to experience the new Office 15

The main components in Office 15: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft offers a new beginning to experience full-screen, before you can start using the first select a document template. If you do not select a template, you can press the [ENTER] key to open a new blank document. Also, you have the option to turn off this new feature.

Alignment Guides

Office 15 Alignment Guides

In Word, PowerPoint, add a very useful alignment guides to help users align charts, photographs and other elements.

Online Image Support

Including Word, PowerPoint and other core components, support from Office.com, Bing image search results, Flickr, SkyDrive and other online photo source add pictures.

Auto Continue

The core components of Office 15 will support automatic labeling, in the application before the closure of the last user's browser automatically record the location, you can jump directly to the next record after opening a position to continue working.

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Win8.1 characteristics to explore the details of improvements Metro version of IE

Win8.1 the Metro IE Metro IE compared to the original system also has three improvements, when you re-open the 8.1 version of the Metro IE, interesting variations on the show in front of us, let's take a look.

New features one: dual view

Also known as split-screen browse, open Metro IE, the thumbnail of the tab, right-click pop-up menu and select "Open in New Window Tab", the screen will automatically become dual view, allowing users to simultaneously browse and operate two different websites.

For example, the following figure, Xiao Bian while browsing "Sina" and "Phoenix" two home, and both sides kept open and close various pages nor cards, dual-window simultaneous operation fluency and previous single browser window, there is no difference .

Dual screen while browsing

Side brush microblogging, while watching the news with wood?

Split-screen mode, the user can open the side of microblogging site, he opened the news sites, while watching (function does not know whether practical, very hyun wants anyway.)

Brush one side while watching the news blog

New features two: focus on the bottom of the Actions menu

Different from both above and below the Win8 Metro IE menu operation interface, Win8.1 the Metro IE Options are concentrated in the bottom of the menu, use more convenient.

Focus on the bottom of the menu

Three new features: unlimited open label

In theory, as long as your PC's CPU and memory to withstand the stronger, you can open as much as possible close to an unlimited number of labels.

　

Unlimited tagging mode

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Microsoft released a developer preview version of IE 11 for Win7

Microsoft has just as Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 system released a developer preview version of IE11. Of course, for ordinary users, this version of IE11 may still be slightly jerky, like the early adopters of users caution installation.

Developer preview version of IE 11 for Windows 7

IE11 is Microsoft's latest browser products later this year will accompany Window 8.1 with the official version available. Microsoft is IE11 added some new features, such as support for WebGL, as well as do not touch optimized site for better touch experience, as well as keyboard navigation support, an upgraded version of favorites and so on.

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How To Grant Access To Others To ANother GMAIL Account Without Sharing Password

Gmail is one of the most popular mailing service today. It gives many facilities to it's users. such as
Use Gmail Without Internet Connection
Schedule your own time, and send emails in Gmail
Remove Spam emails automatically in Gmail

In this list now gmail gives one of the greatest facility to its users. Its called as grant access. This means you can give grant access to your gmail account to a friend, without sharing your password.

Most important thing is in this, other person can't change any setting or password of your gmail account. And also can't chat from your account. This feature only allows the other person to 
read inbox mails, 
can delete read mails, 
and can send mails from your account. 
More than this, particular person can't do any changes in your gmail account. 

How to active this feature?

Login to your Gmail account

Go to Settings

In Setting, Click on Account and Import tab

Now go to Grand access to your account section

Then click on Add another account

Now a pop-up window will appear, in that window type the particular person's email address that you gonna give the access.

Then click on Next

In the next appearing window click on Send Emails to grant access

Now particular person will get an email to conform the grant access. He/She should conform the grant access to access your account.

How to conform the grant access?

He/She can conform by clicking accept this request link

That's all, you have done.
After 30 minutes the particular person can log into your Gmail account.

How to login?

The particular person have to login to his/her gmail account and should click on his/her name in the top-right of the window.

Now he/she can see another new email id with the word (delegated), below their email id.

If he/she click on that new email id, they can access to your Gmail account without password require.

Note:
If he/she send an email to anyone from your account, the mail receiver will get the particular person's email id in sent by section. So he/she cannot misuse your email account, you don't need to worry about misuses !!!

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How To Enable Google Multiple Account Login Same Browser

We all know that Google developer team has introducing lots of new features everyday for Google lovers.
They have introduced Google rolling out multiple account sign-in feature for Google users. Now you can login to multiple account at the same time. Most of us have more than one account for several different reasons. So hereafter you don't need to use different web browsers for logins.

How to Enable this feature

While you login to your account make sure to tick “Stay signed in” check box.

Go to this page and click enable this feature.

After that, you can add multiple accounts in the appearing window.

Note : Do not enable this feature on public computers.

It will ask ur account to choose ur one account

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Free Data Recovery Software

Have you deleted your important files permanently from your computer?
Here I'll give you a powerful data recovery software . It's fully free !!!

You can restore files with the help of "Recuva" that have been accidentally deleted from your PC. It's a complete freeware windows utility software to recover files.

And also this powerful tool bring back files that have been deleted from your
Digitel camera memory cards
MP3 Player
iPod

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How To Get Gadgets Back in Windows 8

Gadgets are like mini widgets which offer information at a glance and provide easy access to frequently used tools. Microsoft introduced Gadgets for the first time in Windows Vista, however there was a big improvement in the usability and functionality of Gadgets in Windows 7.

Unfortunately, Microsoft decided to remove the gadgets from their latest operating system i.e. Windows 8. This was a shocking news for all the users who loved gadgets and used them frequently.

But here is some good news for them. We are here with a freeware which will help you to get your awesome gadgets back in Windows 8. 

The freeware is named Windows 8 Desktop Gadgets and comes from WinAero, who are one of the leading names in Windows Customization software's. 

• You can download the app directly from here.

Here's how to get back Gadgets in Windows 8:

(1) Once the app has been downloaded to your computer, extract the ZIP file to get the installer. 

(2) Then go ahead and run the installer named DesktopGadgets.N.

(3) Here select your desired language and click OK. 

(4) Now click on Next and and let the installer complete installation.

(5) Once the installation has completed, right click on the desktop and Voila you will see Gadgets option in the right click menu, just like Windows 7.

Now you can add the gadgets the same way you were used to do in Windows 7. 

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