• 5 Tricks Every Google Talk User should know:This is a guest post by Shankar Ganesh for Quick Online Tips. Add truck loads of functionality to Gtalk using these 5 simple tricks.

• 22 Firefox Extensions to Turn Gmail into a Powerhouse of Productivity and Manageability: A super comprehensive list by Speckyboy which turns your Gmail into a super-service. Digged 747 times and counting.

• Ultimate List of Tips and Tricks for Google Chrome: Keith Dsouza of Techie-Buzz compiled a the ultimate list of resources, tips and tricks from around the web, for Google Chrome.

Even if you didn’t fall for Google, or didn’t fall enough – do visit these links for some amazing tips and tricks.

Think you can top these lists? Drop us your comments or ideas in the comment box.

However do note that this feature is not there in Gtalk.

All the more reasons to enjoy your videos! Try it for yourself.

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What is the Google Sandbox?

The Google Sandbox is a filter used to filter new blogs or websites by Google. This filter maintains the purity of search engine rankings by preventing any new website or blog from rising very quickly in the search rankings. It does so to prevent false websites from making it to the top of search engine rankings and to prevent spam.

• The Sandbox maintains that new sites must not manage a large number of backlinks without spending considerable time on the internet
• It is a kind of probationary period for websites during which the search ranking and traffic would be quite low despite unique daily content and a large number of backlinks
• It is meant to maintain the quality and authenticity of Google’s search rankings

You know your website is in the Sandbox when:

• Your search engine traffic drops considerably in only a few days
• Your website’s Google indexing rate has dropped

How to come out from the Sandbox?

• Your blog will not stay in the Sandbox forever so keep writing good quality posts and ignore the low traffic for a while
• Content is king so keep up the unique content
• Remember that Google Sandbox’s probationary period lasts from one month to six months, the average bein three months
• Don’t over do SEO in the beginning, it doesn’t go down well with Google
• Sandbox is specially harder on sites which target popular and competitive keywords like ‘Make Money Online’
• Do not try spamming to get traffic – this will definitely lead to the Sandbox
• Check for too many inbound, unrelated links
• Remember Content is king! Just keep writing good stuff and one day you’ll emerge victorious out of the sandbox

So don’t let the Sandbox push your website to oblivion, rather keep working through the hard times so that as soon as you are out of the Sandbox you climb instantly to the top of the Search engine ladder. Best wishes!

Go to Google.com and key in “make google black and white” and click on ‘I’m Feeling Lucky‘

Once you click on ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’, you’ll be taken to another page which will have the Google Logo in Black and White

Via: Google Blogoscoped

Open source test cases have been provided along with this handbook to quickly implement and evaluate these characteristics. This book will be immensely useful for Web developers, browser engineers, application developers and security researchers. This handbook deals with security properties of several popular web browsers and addresses issues that haven’t been touched upon before.

Download The Google Browser Security Handbook for FREE.

There is nothing as frustrating than getting lower ranks just because the site you linked to or got linked from, is flagged for malicious spyware or suspicious activity. So the sooner you diagnose your links for malware, the safer you are. Here is how to do it for free – the Google way!

Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic Tool:

Google provides you a quick, easy and free method to check a domain’s recent history for infections and suspicious activity. This becomes essential to check and verify all your link drops and exchanges and all outgoing links from within your content.

Type this simple query in your browser’s address bar:

http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=the-site-you-want-to-check.com

Replace the text after the ‘=’ with the name of the site under your investigation.

For example, if we want to check Google’s history for attempts to serve malware, the link becomes:

• http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=google.com – This will generate the following report

You’ll notice that although they try really hard, even the most popular websites are not safe from malware attacks. You can imagine what such a threat can do to your website’s reputation. The results of this diagnostic might not be very comprehensive as of now, but it is pretty handy in verifying the safety of all links.

It is also advisable to check your own website once in a while just to be assured about your health. Make this tool a part of your webmaster tool box and stay safe. Best Wishes!

This book is authored by Philipp Lenssen who is also the the author of the famous Google related blog, Google Blogoscoped. You can either download the ebook for free or buy the hardback version of this book on Amazon (it costs approximately $17 and is totally worth it).

Here are the list of chapters if you would like to know more before buying the hardback version of the book, something that I highly recommend if you are a happy Google user.

Chapters

1. Egogoogling: Susan Is…
2. The Google Snake Game
3. Memecodes: Survival of the Fittest Web Pages
4. The Google Irritation Game, and the Google Image Quiz
5. Googling Proverbs
6. Browsing Images of a Site
7. A Brief History of Googlesport
8. What is Google, and what do people consider fun about it?
9. How Much Time Google Saves Us
10. Google Cookin’ a Lemon Chicken
11. Douglas Adams and the Google Calculator
12. Oops, I Googled Again
13. The Disappearing Google Logo, a Magic Trick
14. Fun With Google Maps, the Wiki Way
15. Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack
16. Google Q&A
17. Celebrate Google Non-Weddings, and More
18. Design Your SketchUp Dream House
19. Kevin Bacon and the Google Network
20. The Google Alphabet
21. Google Search Tips
22. Googlepark
23. Googleshare
24. The Shortest Google Search (and the One Returning the Most Results)
25. Google Rotated and Mini Google
26. The Google Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Google?
27. Recreate Google From Memory
28. The Strange World of Google News
29. Aliens Attack Google!
30. Top Ten Signs You Are Addicted to Google
31. Dig a Hole Through Earth
32. Googlebombing
33. Google Ads Gone Wrong
34. Life in the Age of Google
35. Google Hacking
36. Googlepolls: Ask the Crowd
37. Googlefights
38. What If Google Was Evil? Plus: Five Inventions of the Google Future
39. The Google Adventure Game
40. Egobot, Voice of the Web
41. Fun Google Gadgets
42. Forty-Two, or: A Science-Fiction Interlude
43. The Google Book of World Records
44. Spelling Errors Galore
45. Google Groups, Time Machine
46. Growing a Google Word
47. Most Popular Words, and PopSents
48. Create Google Poetry, Prose, and Collages
49. Funny Google Videos
50. The Realplayer Fish, or: Telling a Story in Synonyms
51. Google Parodies
52. The Google Images Prediction Trick
53. Fun With Google Translations
54. The Giant Google Painting
55. Googledromes

Go ahead and buy the hardback version of this book on Amazon (highly recommended) and download the ebook for FREE!

Backing up your Gmail Account using Gmail Backup is a very easy and a single click affair. Enter your email id and password, choose the destination folder, duration for backup and click on ‘Backup’ to start your backup.

Check out Gmail Backup to backup your Gmail account.

However when you are working on some other computer, one which is not aware of your saved password, then you have to exert your grey cells and remember it. In case you have forgotten what your saved password was, never fear, Google Chrome is here!

Chrome, like all nice browsers, saves your passwords for future reference. Here is how to access those saved passwords:

How to access saved passwords in Chrome?

• Open Google Chrome and click on the Customize and Control Chrome Icon on right most corner of the address bar(the one with the spanner). In the menu that opens, click on Options

• In the Chrome options, click on the Minor Tweaks tab and click on the Saved Passwords tab

• The Passwords window opens which shows a list of websites and your usernames on those websites

• Navigate to the username for which you want to discover the saved password and select it
• Click on the Show Password tab and lo! Your password is revealed

• Here you can also remove some or all passwords

Happy browsing!

Related: How to find forgotten passwords in Firefox

The Chrome Inspector opens up in a new window.

Features of Chrome Inspector:

1. Elements: In the Inspector elements tab, you can find HTML, CSS and Javascript elements buried deep in a page. You can edit these values here and notice the change in the background. You can also use the console to run commands. It also offers a complete detail about:

1. Styles
2. Metrics
3. Element Properties

2. Resources: The resources tab tells you about the resource consumption of each element on the page in terms of size and time. So now you can know which element is pulling down the loading speed.

Google, by incorporating the Inspector, thus stays faithful towards Webmasters and developers and helps immensely in the task of developing efficient and high performance websites. Who knows, the Inspector might just fine Chrome a few converts from the beloved Firefox!