One of the most prominent features of Google Translate is the text-to-speech capability that allows you to listen to the translations. You have to enter the text in the given field and then translate it to your desired language. Now you can see a speaker icon below the translated text field. You can hear the translated text by clicking on this speaker icon. Click on the preview image below to enlarge it and see the…

iCal is a calendar application that comes bundled with Apple’s Macintosh computers. Google Calendar is an online cloud based calendar application that allows you manage your tasks and schedule online if you have a Google account. You can sync both these calendars to ensure that both show the same schedule and events. Syncing calendars enable you to keep in touch with your schedule irrespective of where you are. Since Google Calendar is a cloud based…

IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) allows you to download your email from Gmail to your computer using an email client like Microsoft Outlook or Apple Mail. Gmail supports IMAP, it syncs your mailbox so that changes made in your email client is reflected in the online mailbox. For example: You read an email downloading it to your email client; that email will reflect as read in your Gmail page too.   This feature is useful for those…

A Gmail account is more than just an email account. Signing up for Gmail gives you access to other Google products as well. Google offers a single log in system for accessing all the other services like Youtube, Blogger, Picasa, Google Documents. Creating a Gmail account is as simple as filling up an online form. Follow these step by step instructions to create a new Gmail account: Go to the Gmail account creation page by clicking…

With Google sketchup, you can create some of the finest 3D modeling and let your innovation drive the designs. The question is: Is Google sketchup enough? It is a 3D modeling program in itself but there are some Google sketchup plugins that you just can’t do without! These Google Sketchup Plugins will make most of your design tasks much easy at the base, upon which you can build your own ideas fast. Whether you are…

Google, one of the biggest Internet companies with products ranging from email service to complete office suites on the cloud, is also one of the companies who believe in providing good customer support through email interaction only. Google has multiple customer support systems, and different products have different support systems, though most of them are email support or forum support. Being a huge internet public giant it might be obvious to avoid telephonic support for…

Google recently pulled the plug on their Google Toolbar software for the new Mozilla Firefox 5 version. Google recently announced that they are discontinuing their support for all newer versions of the Firefox browser. You can nevertheless use the toolbar like you used to in the previous versions. The current version is still up for download here. One of the main official reasons given by Google is that the features offered by Google Toolbar are…

Google Maps is a web mapping service launched by Google as Google Local in 2005. Google Maps has evolved into a large non-commercial service used by millions of users around the world.  Google Maps include Google’s Google Maps service, Google Transit and Google Ride finder. The Google Street View is an extension of Google maps that allows users to walk through streets of major cities around the world. The significant improvement to the satellite data and…

Google earth is basically an application developed by Google Inc with which one can view various contours and imagery of earth in 3D. Initially at the time of launch, it was available as the stand-alone app PC app, but now it can be used as web plug-in inside the browser. This plug-in is compatible with all major browsers such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Firefox.  Download and Installation Google Earth Plug-in The plug-in can…

The Gmail POP3 client is, in spite of its appearance, not complicated to handle and setup. Follow these simple steps and you should be up and running within a few minutes. The simple step that many users overlook (including me in my first attempts), is the fact that pop3 has to be enabled from Gmail itself before it can be used over other mail clients. Using pop3 is, therefore a two-step process: 1) Enabling it…