The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave

The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave is an online “book” (in this case, in sort of wiki form) about Google Wave and how to use it.

bingandgoogle.com – Faceoff!

Wondering if you should use Google or Bing for searching? Why not try both and compare the results!

bingandgoogle.com shows side-by-side results from each search entered.

Step-By-Step Guide to a Deal-Finding Homepage

The Simple Dollar has a post on A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating a Deal-Finding Homepage.

The page uses iGoogle as the base, and builds from there.  It shows “the best deals from tons of different online sources all in one place, customized to show me just the deals I want. Better yet, I can access this page from any computer.”

SketchUp Sage

SketchUp Sage‎ is the place for advice on using Google SketchUp.

Tips on using it with Google Earth, making SketchUp run faster, using the 3D Warehouse, issues with your system, and many more topics.

Google Can Do 11 Things That You Should Know

Smashing Apps has a post on 11 Great Hidden Things Google Can Do That You Should Know.

For example, a number of calculator tricks (including converting currency).

Enter your flight such as “American Airlines 5584″ to see the current status.

Convert measurements: “98.6 degrees Fahrenheit in centigrade” for example.

Define word to get a dictionary definition.

And other tricks.

How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website

How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website is a Digital Inspiration post with practical instructions on how to handle RSS feeds, videos, audio, photos and slideshows, web albums, events from Google Calendar, very large photos, charts and graphs, animated gifs and screencasts, chat functions, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheet data, PDF files, Flash (SWF or FLV files), LinkedIn profile, Google Maps, another webpage, Windows Media or QuickTime movies, other fonts, and FriendFeed lifestreams.

Whew!

Google Apps for education

Google Apps has:

• 7.293249 GB / account of email, shared calendar, and collaboration tools right from the browser
• Free with no advertising for students, faculty and staff
• Ready to integrate with many APIs and use of Open Standards
• Add-on security and compliance tools available at a 66% educational discount
• Google Video for education.

Address Finder: Get The Address of Any Point on Google Maps

MakeUseOf.com has a post on Address Finder which is a “Google Maps mashup application (build on top of Google Maps) which makes it easy to find out the exact street address of any point on a map by clicking on the spot you need. To get started, use the provided search box to get the map of the area you need and then click on any point on the map to see its address.”

Lifehacker has Top 10 Ways to Speed Up Your Web Browsing

Lifehacker’s Top 10 Ways to Speed Up Your Web Browsing involve Google, Gmail, Firefox and TraceMonkey, Safari and Opera, DownThemAll for downloading, tweaking your cache size, using DD-WRT or Tomato to tweak your home router, RSS, OpenDNS, and others.

How to Sync Any Desktop Calendar with Google Calendar

LifeHacker has instructions on How to Sync Any Desktop Calendar with Google Calendar from Outlook and iCal to Sunbird and Thunderbird.

5 Useful Google Calendar Tricks

5 Useful Google Calendar Tricks is advice from GoogleTutor on how to improve your use of this online service.

Google Chrome is the new browser on the block

Screenshot Tour: Google Chrome First Look is an earlier impression of the new browser from Google, called Chrome, as seen by Lifehacker.

Gmail security using SSL

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer keeps your web use a little more secure.  You’re using it when the URL begins “https://” because that “s” refers to secure.

ZDNet has instructions on the quick way to turn on SSL for your Gmail.

GSpace for Firefox – store your files in GMail

If you have a Google GMail account, you might be able to use all that space they give you for something other than email.

GSpace is an extension for the Firefox browser that helps you to store files, even large ones, in your GMail space.

“This extension 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).
If you have any problems with the extension, please look at the FAQ page (http://getgspace.com/faq.html). If your question is not listed or the solution doesn’t apply to your specific question, please email the current developer (Fon Labs).
* DISCLOSURE: Gspace uses statcounter.com service to track the usage of the extension”

Note: this is NOT an official Google GMail function, so use at your own risk.

Make your website friendly for cellphones

MakeUseOf recommends Google Mobilizer for adapting any website for use on a cellphone.

Google Mobilizer will take “any website and make it viewable on your mobile phone or PDA. Simply go to Google Mobilizer and enter the website URL, indicate whether you want images on/off, and click ‘GO’. Mobilizer will present you with a neat, add-free and stripped down version of the website. You also get a navigation menu to easily browse through website’s pages.”

Note: this is a very brief page with a place to enter the URL, and a checkbox if there are no images.  This does not actually change the website; it just reformats a copy of it and makes it available.  Handy if you need to see something on a page intended for a full screen view only, and checking the HTML may give you some ideas on how to create a mobile-friendly version of your own website.

Over 150 tips and shortcuts for Gmail

[updated 2008/7/14]

Dumb Little Man is not so dumb — this useful and interesting site has links to several lists with tips and shortcuts for your Google email account.

GMail: Beyond the Basics gives tips on how to use GMail more effectively.

Master Google list

Google has so many services that it’s hard to keep track.

Try the Simply Google web page, which covers services, blogs, RSS feeds, software, and more.

DocSyncer for Google docs

Somebody had to come up with a way to synchronize the documents you edit in Microsoft Office so they are available in Google Docs.

Try the free service at DocSyncer to migrate files to Google.

Google a single site

To use Google to search just one site, enter your search and follow it with site: and the url of the web site.

For example, to search the UA Fort Smith web site for anything on football, try football site:uafortsmith.edu

Google Maps and moving your arrow

The Google LatLong blog has a post on using Google Maps.  The location shown in Google may not be exactly what you intend to show.

For example, the official address of the University of Arkansas – Fort Smith is “5210 Grand Avenue.”  But there’s not really any such place; it’s a sort of generic address for the entire campus.  If you wanted to direct somebody to the Stubblefield Center, or the Baldor Technology Center, or even the Boreham Library, none of them are even on Grand Avenue.

So, directions like these allow you to move the “here” arrow to the actual location so people can find you, on campus or wherever you want to indicate.  You can then use this map to give directions in emails, web pages, etc.