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Search Google from your Cell Phone Using SMS

contributed by David Kirk on January 31, 2012 under Google

Find the nearest gas station, discover the definition of a word, or find out flight information. Even when you are without internet access, you can access the power of google using only text messages.

Always open Google Search Results in a new tab

contributed by Lê Hoàng on January 30, 2012 under Google

When you open a new Google search result by default, it will open in the same tab. This may be time consuming when you have to go back and forth trying to find what you really want. To be more productive, you may want to always open the result in a new tab, and then close it if that is not what you want. Luckily, you can set this to the default behavior in Google Search.

Google Chrome: Reopen Closed Tabs

contributed by David Kirk on January 28, 2012 under Google

We have all accidentally closed a tab in Google’s Chrome browser. This can be a very frustrating situation. Chrome is quite forgiving and allows you to easily reopen the closed tab, even if you have closed other tabs after it. These instructions for windows and mac computers will show you the different ways for restoring or undoing an accidentally closed tab. Updated with new methods and to point out the different methods used on Windows and OS X systems.

Google: How to disable Google+ posts in search results

contributed by Rob Rogers on January 20, 2012 under Google

Google’s search includes personalized posts in your search results. This means that it will include posts and images by people that are in your Circles in Google+. While you may enjoy reading their posts, their information may not be useful to your searches. Here’s how to keep these posts from cluttering up your search results.

Google Docs: Use a custom image as background in a Presentation

contributed by Lê Hoàng on November 17, 2011 under Google, Internet

Although Google Docs is a great tool to create presentations, its theme collection is quite basic. In order to make an attractive presentation, users should consider adding their own images as the presentation’s backgrounds. Here is how to do it.

Google History: How to enable, disable, view and delete

contributed by Lê Hoàng on November 4, 2011 under Google

The Google History can save searches and web history to your Google account. With Google History enabled, you can access your previous visited sites, searches on any computer and get more personalized search results base on your data. This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the service. A tutorial on how to view and delete history is also included.

Google Earth: Change cache size for better performance

contributed by Lê Hoàng on October 17, 2011 under Google, Internet

If you experience any performance issues while using Google Earth, it may be a good idea to increase the memory and disk cache size of the program. By doing so, Google Earth will run much smoother. This step by step guide will show you how to do this.

How to Post Updates to Google+ Using SMS

contributed by Rob Rogers on October 6, 2011 under Google, Internet

If your cell phone doesn’t have a data plan, you can still post updates to Google+ using SMS. Some people may even find this to be a quicker method of updating Google+ than using the iOS or Android apps.