But the comments on the videos are marquee top to bottom. They just keep on rolling down.

Not much to say, but do check out the YouTube Leanback looks great and could be for the coming Google TV.

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Well fortunately all the Google Apps have been so great and awesome that they came out of the Beta stage and evolved to something useful. The best thing about this invitation system is that no matter how useful or good that particular App is everyone wants a hold over that invitation.

Way back in 2007 Google bought something very revolutionary, a startup which was called Google Voice from Grand Central. The usage of Google voice is very simple, you register your number, get your Google Voice number and use it as you use without paying any extra charges. It uses your 3G network to establish calls to google voice numbers. 2006 was the year where it was first started by GrandCentral and went under serious testing and development, later almost 2 years later Google introduced Google voice to Grand Central subscribers, the only catch was that it was completely invitation based ( same trick worked for Google Mail, Gmail as we know now ). Now being very successful in promoting via ‘invite only’ methodology, Google has over 1 million Google Voice users.

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Now as we all know Google voice is out of that phase and open for all. Wait what? Open for all!! Without wasting any time I went and logged in my Google Voice account ( I had a invite account, but never worked for me as it was in beta for US customers only ) to check how finally it looks like. But to my disappointment it was still open to US customers only.

Google says that there are now over one million people actively using the service. You can expect that number to balloon now that anyone can go to the site and sign up. So do register if you want to but only US customers would have the please to use it for now.

Google Voice is open, Open for Everyone

Even YouTube has joined the bandwagon of  Twitter mania.  Now you can Share your video on Twitter too.  The same way you twit a post/blog/thread even Videos can be Twitted along with the name and Video. The lacking part is the url shortener.

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Its an application that helps people access and share information over the Internet using public digital noticeboards. Using Google Noticeboard, communities can access a variety of relevant information. People can create text messages or record voice snippets and post them to one or more noticeboards. Typically each digital noticeboard carries publicly accessible messages. Compared to the notion of personal communication using email accounts, the Noticeboard metaphor allows user to engage in public communication with communities.

Noticeboard uses a Firefox extension and requires to enable IMAP in Gmail to send messages. The service seems to be aimed at people that don’t own computer and don’t have an email address, but the interface is very basic and limiting. Google Noticeboard’s user guide (PDF) has more information.

I am not sure how useful this is, lets see how people use it.

Office 2007 FREE for 60 days!  Download a free trial.

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Office Applications :

Open Office

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It is a open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages.

Think Free

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Online as well as a offline. Think free is one of the Stable Office Application other than Microsoft Office 2007. Thought works a little slow compared to Open Office, but the online accessibility makes it good with everything.

Google Docs

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The best hands have made Google Docs. Google Docs is probably the easiest to use of the various online word processing applications.  I’ve never had any issues logging into Google Docs and accessing my documents, but the same can’t be said for my experience with its competitors.

And using Gmail as the email service you can integrate Google Docs with it and get the best possible outcome.

Zoho

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Zoho has a bundle of Online Office Tools to make your work more easy. Zoho has the best Spreadsheet online tool. Zoho presents the most familiar feeling application of the bunch. They offer a large number of functions and very nice charting and graphing features. Some are free and many are paid services. Try the Spreadsheet tool it works wonders.

IBM Lotus

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Award Winning Online Office Tool . IBM Lotus Symphony is a richly-featured set of productivity tools and has three applications that make up Lotus Symphony: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, Lotus Symphony Presentations. Easy to use because of its smooth interface. Basically based on Open Office so works great.

There are loads  of more such online office tools and applications, i have cropped them down to these few favorite, user friendly, resourceful and really simple list. Do post a comment and let me know your favorite.

Now google made its way through and got into Twitter to be more closed to their users. Not just Google but most of the famous Google Products are a part of Twitter now. Check the list below

* YouTube, which has more than 14,000 followers

* Blogger, which answers many questions from users

* Google Reader, which share useful tricks for using the feed reader more effectively

* Google Apps, a feed that shares articles about the evolution of Google’s software-as-a-service business

* App Engine – a not-so-frequently updated list of Google App Engine news.

Keep Googling and keep Tweeting!!!

But as zillions of users are using this service, Google has been filled up by users adding up their feedback and new suggestions to the Email service. Now these dudes, don’t just read them and discard the emails, rather they work on the legitimate and good ones to give us Gmail Labs. Seems to me a part of Experimental Google Labs extension.

How to access Google labs? Simple just log in your Gmail account and check your setting page or simply just click on the green labs button on the top of the page. There are many new things in the lab as they are made by different working Gmail teams in their Silicon Valley office. I just sorted out my favorite and must have Lab Applications

Offline - Access your inbox through your browser and use Gmail’s familiar features when you’re offline. You just need to have Google Gears installed and configure it properly to get started.

Muzzle – If you access your Gtalk via Gmail then this is a must. Our friends usually add up a long Status message which we hardly ever read. Now Muzzle can help you remove them, so what you see throught muzzle is just the actual name of your friend and nothing else .

Multiple Inboxes - Well reading all your emails under you single Gmail account was never a big task (Settings > Accounts ). But Multiple Inboxes helps you create multiple inboxes for various other labels of yours, so that each label shows up as different Inbox to you.

Custom Label Colors - Got rid of those default colors for your labels? Now using this you can create your own combination of colors for labels.

Create a Document – Append your Google Doc with Gmail. Create a new document with a just a click in your Gmail Account

Google Docs gadget – Adds a left panel listing your Google Docs in your Gmail Account just as the Chat and Labels in the sidebar.

Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat – Allows you to send and receive text messages (SMS) in Chat. US phones only for now.

Here are some tricks you should try and should know :

-An email sent to tech.blog@gmail.com or tech.blog+best@gmail.com will all be redirected to one common email address and that is paris.hilton@gmail.com.

Gmail does not recognize characters after the PLUS symbol but the gmail search filter can distinguish between the different address and you can therefore redirect these email to separate gmail folders or apply different labels for your convenience.

- Gmail cannot recognize dots or periods in email addresses or the user names – this means an address like tech.blog@gmail.com is the same as t.ec.h.blog@gmail.com or tech…blog@gmail.com.

When you create a Gmail account, you actually get two email addresses – one is the regular @gmail.com while the second email address has @googlemail.com in the domain.

Gmail accounts cannot be used with hyphens (-) and underscores (_) can’t be used in a Gmail address. Also, gmail user names are case insensitive, so it doesn’t matter if you enter upper case or lower case letters.

This is just some random things you can have with your GMail accounts. Would update some mroe hacks and tips & tweaks.

Getting the Pre-Beta Version :

Install Google Chrome google.com/chrome . Now, Subscribe to the developer preview channel. This is required even if you’ve previously subscribed to the channel. Wait until the new version is downloaded (you may force the update by opening the “About Google Chrome” dialog).

Some New Added Features :

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1. Autocomplete

2. Autoscroll by middle clicking on page

3.Profiles- Very different from other browser profiles, can be used anytime and can easily be managed. No need of Browser Restart to switch to new profile. Isn’t that great?

How was your experience? And,If ever while experiencing the Beta Version, you feel the urge to stop using this Beta due to some problems, you can downgrade to lower version, just by reinstalling Chrome again.