Here’s a simple way to find when you’ve created your Gmail account. You can always find the oldest message from your account by visiting this page https://mail.google.com/mail/#all/p1000000: you’ll get an error message and Gmail will redirect to a page that shows the oldest messages from your account. The problem is that this is not a…
There are many extensions and applications that let you see all the images from a web page. Another way to do that is to use Google Image Search. Search for [site:URL], where URL is the address of the page. This doesn’t work for domain names, subdomains and subdirectories because Google shows the images for all…
If you don’t like the tablet interface for Google News, there’s a non-obvious way to switch to the desktop interface. Tap the “gear” button from the top-right of the page, select “Settings“, uncheck “Use the new Google News (uncheck to revert to the old version)” and then tap “Save changes“. The tablet interface was launched…
Gmail is the only Google service that disables keyboard shortcuts by default. They’re for power users and some people could accidentally trigger them, especially when you consider that most Gmail shortcuts don’t use modifiers. Google has recently added some new shortcuts that are enabled by default. The old shortcuts are still disabled by default, but…
I mentioned in the previous post that Google tests a less cluttered interface and there’s now a way to try it. Techno-Net noticed that you can change the NID value of a Google cookie and get the same interface. Here’s how to do this in Chrome: 1. Install “Edit this Cookie“, a cookie manager for…
Since I rely on my Google Account for so much, I decided to give Google’s two-step verification process a try. I didn’t want one day to come to the unpleasant realization that my Google account had been hacked. Just recently Google disclosed a phishing attack originating from Chinese hackers. As mentioned in the Official Google Blog, 2-step…
