Looking for a Safe Bike Trail this Weekend? Try Google Maps Biking Directions

Want to use your bike to commute to work and stay safe? The head over to Google Maps and use the new Bicycling option when looking for directions. Google has partnered up with Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and has included over 12,000 miles of trails in biking directions on Google Maps. They have also included a Report [...]

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4 Ways to Recover Closed Chrome Tabs and Windows

The Chrome team recently published a tip on their blog about recovering closed tabs in Google’s Chrome browser. As a Chrome user I felt that Google missed out on a potentially useful and sometimes more effective method of recovering closed tabs, the History tool. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I have over 10 [...]

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Use Gmail Lab’s New Refresh Feature to Download POP Messages on Demand

The Gmail team recently announced the addition of a much requested feature in Gmail. Refresh POP accounts allows you to manually fetch emails from your POP accounts from the Refresh link located in the Inbox. You no longer have to run to Accounts and Import in the Settings menu to manually fetch your POP accounts. [...]

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How to Delete Your Google Buzz Posts with a Click of a Button

If you have been using Google Buzz for the past couple of days and find that it is not a suitable replacement for Facebook and/or Twitter and you would like to delete all of your Buzz messages or if you posted a couple of Buzz posts and would like to delete those posts from [...]

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Use a Buzz Filter to Keep Your Inbox Free of Buzzes

Not sure if Buzzes is an actual word, but for now I’ll use it as a plural for Buzz. If you’ve been using Google Buzz you will quickly find out that your inbox will be inundated of Buzz updates all day long. I’ve been using it for 12 hours and I’m already feeling the pain. [...]

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All Buzzed Out? Disable Google Buzz in 3 Steps

If you’re all buzzed out or have privacy concerns like some friends that have contacted me today, then this how-to is for you. When Google introduced Buzz yesterday, Gmail users that logged on to check their email were faced with a splash screen (pictured below) which gave provided them with two options; the first a [...]

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Transfer Your FeedBurner Feed in 5 Easy Steps

If you wish to change your Gmail account (Google Account) and use services like FeedBurner which is linked to your Google Account, you are given the option to transfer ownership of your FeedBurner feeds to another Google/Gmail account. This is extremely helpful because it keeps you from having to publish another feed under the new [...]

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10 Chrome Extensions Every User Should Have

Google just announced the latest release of its Chrome browser which boasts 1,500 new features powered by extensions like the ones listed below. The extension gallery that is growing by the day is chock-full of extension that will enhance Chrome’s user experience and make the browser the hub of everything on the internet. Aside from [...]

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