Google Search’s Magical functions

I would like to share my knowledge on Google Search functions. I am sure you will be benefited at some extend.

All of us know that Google search is an excellent tool to search required information. But we are unaware of excellent features or utilities of Google search which help us on day to day life. I am quickly put it down here.

Google as a Clock:
Google search has an in-built clock that let you know time of desired location. You can check TIME of any CITY/LOCATION by typing following command on search box -
TIME {name of the place/city/country}

It also let you know sunset and sunrise time of any city of the world.  To know it, type “sunrise” or “sunset” followed by the city name.
Example: sunrise Ahmedabad

Google Search as a Weather forecaster:
Google search gives weather information of desired city. To see the weather, type “weather” followed by the city.
Example: weather Ahmedabad

Google Search as a Spell Checker:
Most of you have noticed that while searching a particular word or phase, Google auto completes it and show you on drop down. Even if your type wrong spelling and hit search button, Google will show or inform correct work by “Showing results for” (more common spelling) or “Did you mean: (more common spelling)?
Example: calcoum

Google search as a Dictionary:
To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word “define” then a space, then the word(s) you want defined.
Example: define marketing

Google search as a Calculator:
According to me, this is one of the very useful functions of Google search for web users who are all the time on internet. Google solves your mathematic calculation right on the web browser. To use Google’s built-in calculator function, simply enter the calculation you’d like done into the search box.
Example: 12*345-67/89

Google search as a Unit Convertor:
You can use Google to convert between many different units of measurement of height, weight, and volume among many others. Just enter your desired conversion into the search box and Google will do the rest.
Example: 1 meter to feet

Google search as a Currency Convertor: 
To use Google’s built-in currency converter, simply enter the conversion you’d like done into the Google search box and it will provide your answer directly on the results page.
Example: INR to dollar OR 1 dollar in rupees

I think this is enough for today. I’ll share more tips or information some other day.

Quick guide: How to send an invite to friends on Google+

Here is my first post on Google+.

Google+ (Google Plus), the new social networking service by Google is out. Currently Google+ is enabled to limited users only and you can invite limited friends only. People with Google Plus+ invitation can only access the new social network site.

Once joined, you can invite your friends to Google+. Don’t know how to? Here is a quick help guide to invite theme.

Step 1: Login to your Google+ account and go to h

omepage.

Step 2: On home page, click on Circles.

Step 3: Click on Add a new person and add your friend by their email address or name. If your friend’s contact

details are already stored in Gmail address book, it’s will appear in drop down.

Step 4: Now go back to the Home page and do a Steam Update (the way we do Status Update on Facebook). Write your content that you wish to. I would write - You’re Invited to Google+.

Write email address of your friend that you previously added to circles. Finally click on the Share button.

Now the person will receive your invitation as an E-mail. Your friend can follow the link in order to sign in to their Google+ account.

:::Updated on 11th July 2011:::

Today, new feature made available by Google Plus.

You will find Send Invitations feature on left side of your screen which makes your task easier than ever before.

Here you are done with your task!!

P.S.: As Google+ is running on test mode, functionality may change in coming days.

I have Google+ invites - to get one: post your comment with your email address.

Swayam

Test – Blog entry from MS Word

I am trying to post this entry through MS Word directly.

Technical Writing – Distance Learning Way

This article was published in Sakal Daily (Pune) on 16th June 2009.

In the last one decade, education format has undergone a drastic change in India. Virtual Training & Distance Learning have become a part of an educational process. The quality and effectiveness of Distance Education have improved in the subsequent years. This emerging educational process is widely being used in universities and institutions around the globe. With the recent trend of technological advancement, Distance Learning is enjoying more recognition because of its potential in providing individualized attention as well as communication for the international students.

Pursuing a good Distance Learning course can help scores of people in scaling new heights in their respective organizations. In this fast growing world, Distance Learning helps students in saving their time as well as improving their quality of study.

Considering the advantages of Distance Learning, Technowrites has launched its best seller Diploma in Technical Communication course in the Distance Learning mode. This unique course has been designed and conceptualized with an industry as well as training experience of 16 years and 9 years, respectively. Training will be imparted in synchronous as well as asynchronous mode. Synchronous mode focuses on online delivery, where all students are present at the same time. They coordinate with their trainer through Chat Sessions & Telephonic Conferences. Asynchronous mode involves online delivery, where students can access Technowrites’ state-of-the art training materials, Training Videos, and Interactive Computer Based Tutorials (CBTs) as per their own schedule. Students need not gather for interaction at the same time.

This course is useful for graduates from any discipline who want to shape their career in this lucrative and well-paying field of Technical writing. This course focuses on communication basics, writing and grammar, technical writing theory, processes & practices, and technical writing tools. The course is 100% job-oriented and will make the student an industry-ready professional. Students are trained by experienced faculty members. Technowrites is getting a good response for the course. Many of our students have been placed in reputed MNCs. Any graduate with good command over English will definitely benefit from this course.

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Saving For A Rainy Day

Archive from company's news-letter - Published on January 08

Some time back there was news on The Los Angeles Times that Sprinter Marion Jones is down to her last $2,000. The same athlete who had won five medals, including three gold medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, shone on magazine covers, and signed multi-million dollar endorsement deals. She has been declared bankrupt in year 2007. This is something similar in the movie 'Ta Ra Rum Pum' where the hero plays a car racer who travels a similar path from wealth to insolvency.

The film had an important message: one should save for a rainy day and plan well for the future. The reason is clear: history shows that any income can be spent. Becoming and staying wealthy is not a matter of earning more, but of keeping what you earn.We have seen similar stories of business tycoons, builders, brokers, media celebrities, and sports stars going bankrupt, due to several reasons, including:

• Faulty business plans
• Excessive concentration of assets in one asset class
• No written plan for managing money for the future
• Inadequate savings to maintain one’s current lifestyle in the future
• Purchase of unproductive assets
• Foolish financial mistakes or other decisions gone wrong

The current scenario is an era of unprecedented opportunities and income levels.

At the same time, there are also more ways than ever before to consume and spend. No matter where one lives in India, chances are that he can have his favorite brands of coffee and pizza, and the latest car.

Which makes that one basic financial rule all the more important: plan your finances, not just to create wealth, but also to leave some of it behind for the next generation and for the society. It is easier to keep the money earned without sacrificing the good life.

Those who appear rich are not necessarily rich. What ultimately matters is not how posh one looks but that of having a high net worth. The important point is not how much an individual earns but how much he is able to save and more importantly how much of it is put to productive use by investing.

People who earn in thousands can become millionaires by diligently following the path of savings and investments. There are several examples of them in current economy. At the same time, people who have earned in millions have later faced bankruptcy, including some of the noted film stars and celebrities.

There is a tendency today among many people to live a page three lifestyle on a working class income. Current lifestyle has become more important than saving for a rainy day or for one’s future. One would like to boast that he or she is enjoying the life each day to the fullest or that he or she never plans ahead saying today is important than tomorrow. This may sound fashionable, but it’s certainly not prudent and sounds a future bankruptcy. People often give into impulse buying without considering what such purchases are doing to their financial lives. Its marketer’s job to strike an emotional chord and get one to buy things that he or she can’t afford or don’t need, and perhaps don’t even want. A gentleman in Dubai thought nothing of shelling out Rs 20,000 for a day’s drive in a Hummer, and then complained that saving was a tough thing to do.

He drew up many spending budgets, but somehow the savings never piled up. Don’t keep an expenses budget; keep a savings budget. Implementing and following an expense budget is tough. One might keep it up for a month, several months, or even a year. But such budgets are doomed to failure, a time will come when one just can’t resist the temptation of some new gadget, a new car, or a nice vacation. Better to just set a savings target of 15-25% of gross annual income, and invest this amount in gainful returns.

The money should be deployed productively in investments whether cash, debt, equity, mutual fund or real estate. If this plan is followed consistently an individual will surely end up wealthier and safer than even people who earn more than him and show off by looking rich.

Keeping money is as important as making money. What you do with your income today determines what you can do with it tomorrow, whether it goes up or down. It’s just not productive to think one will be able to definitely start saving when he makes more money or his earning is not enough to save, and he must increase his income.
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Article is also available at http://www.technowrites.com/spell_2008/Saving_for_a_rainy_day.htm