How To Send SMS Using Gmail

• Log into your Gmail account. In the Send SMS box above Chat, enter the phone number you want to send a SMS to.
• In the dialog box, enter Contact name of the SMS recipient and check that country and phone number are correct. Then, click Save.
• Type your message in the chat window and hit Enter.
• Your message will be sent to the phone number you entered.

When the recipient replies, the message will appear in your gmail chatbox. All your conversations will be stored in your chat history.

Initially, every gmail account is given a quota of fifty messages. Every sms you send, the quota will decrease by one and for every reply the recipient make, your quota goes up by five. In case that your quota goes below zero,  it will increase to one after 24 hours.

I have just tried it and it really works.

Google fiber, as they call it, is said to begin its service by 2012 as the internet search giant signed a development agreement with the city.

In a previous announcement, Google Inc. announced that they will be rolling out the high speed internet services with a bandwidth of 1Gbps.

I think Google is not trying to be the new king of ISP providers, but if they do, I hope Philippines will be part of their kingdom as the connection in this country is really slow compared to other countries.

The announcement was made Friday night which is a sign of its failure in attempting to create a new trend in the mobile industry sales.

When the so-called super phone was released last January, Google Inc. tried establishing an online store, with it being the only place where people can buy the Nexus One phone but it failed as people still favor the traditional way of buying phone, going to a retailer and have a hands-on experience first before buying.

“As with every innovation, some parts worked better than others,” Andy Rubin, a Google executive overseeing the Nexus One, wrote in a Friday blog post.

Rubin said Google will stop selling the Nexus One in its Web store as soon as it lines up other U.S. retailers to carry the device.

As an seo consultant, one of the main thing I’d like for a browser is a quick tool that will help me with my work. Good thing that there’s the Chrome SEO developed by Sean Bannister. This tool provides easy access to a search engine optimization tool that will help guys like me with competitive analysis, keyword research, backlink checks, pagerank checks and other seo tasks.

• Chrome SEO Extension – feature includes keyword research, highlighting of no follow links, number of pages indexed, amount of backlinks, current traffic and rankings, social bookmark counts, cached versions of the page, domain details, traffic graphs and detection of robots.txt and sitemap.xml

Another part of my work as seo consultant is checking the keyword ranking of my clients’ website against their competitors. The first extension that I have mentioned don’t have this functionality but the SEO SERP extension developed by Omiod does. Using it, you can compare list of websites within a given keyword.

• SEO SERP – you can check positions of website in Google search within the following countries: com, brazil, india, japan, uk, germany, spain, france, italy, netherland, south africa, ireland, russia, china, poland, hungary, el salvador, australia, canada

Another extension I really like is the Explain and Send Screenshots wherein I can take screenshot of any webpage I am viewing and add captions in the same tab without using any photo editing software.

• Explain and Send Screenshots – Take full or partial screenshots of webpages, add arrows, circles, annotations and send it to someone with its built-in gmail, yahoo, hotmail and outlook options.

And who wouldn’t want to turn off the lights when you’re watching a video? Thanks Stefan VD for creating the Turn Off The Lights extension that fades the entire page to dark when watching videos, a cinematic experience indeed.

• Turn Off the Lights – with one click of the lamp button in your browser bar, the page will turn dark and with another click, it goes back to normal.

Isn’t those extensions cool? Download Google Chrome now and add an extension that suits your needs.

With this feature, a youtube user or viewer can request caption withing a single click of a button while video owners can download the automated captions and improve upon them.

Google engineer Mike Cohen said: “I have been working on speech technology for 25 years. There have been steady improvements and this is the culmination of lots of work over years and years.

“We have had to work on a wide variety of problems like accent variation, background noise, the variation in language, in pronunciation.”

This new feature will surely benefit people with hearing problems.

Smart Bro SurfTV is a device that connects to a television set through a quick and easy procedure, to provide Internet access using Smart Bro’s nationwide coverage. You just have to plug it into the RCA port of your color TV set and it will let users experience a ready-to-run Internet to surf, chat, and email at home.

“Over the last few years we have been steadily advancing our Internet for All advocacy and investing our energies to make wireless Internet more affordable and widely available – whether via mobile phone, the PC, or laptop – anytime, anywhere, so that Filipinos may benefit from it. Offering Smart Bro SurfTV is a natural progression of that strategy, this is a service that will put the Internet right in the homes of Filipino families,” said Orlando B. Vea, Chief Wireless Advisor of SMART.

Smart Bro SurfTV costs Php4,500.00 for the entire kit which includes a keyboard, a mouse, a remote control, and a Smart Bro USB stick-type modem with a prepaid SIM, pre-loaded with PhP100 worth of load. Surfing time costs Php10.00 per minute.

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The new feature was launched last Monday allowing results to be sorted by when they were posted online, which puts more emphasis on new content such as news articles, blog postings and Wikipedia updates.

However, updates coming from social network sites like facebook will only be visible if they make their account publicly viewable. The new feature called “Real Time Search” inked partnerships between facebook and myspace to pull in data real time.

Search Engine giant Google partnered with Imeem, Lala.com, myspace-owned Ilike.com, Pandora internet radio and Rhapsody in providing sample song downloads or purchasing them online.

“The search results will allow you to do a whole song play to verify it is the song you are looking for,” rather than just the 30-second stream typical of most major online music providers google vice president of search Marissa Mayer said before a demonstration of the new service known as OneBox.

1. Don’t attempt start your car immediately after being soaked in the flood. Remove the battery and check if it’s still safe to use or bring it back to a battery dealer for proper disposal.
2. Empty the break fluid and radiator. Use a blower to dry them or let it stay for a whole night to dry them up.
3. When your transmission is not sealed, remove the transmission oil and let it dry for a whole night.
4. Remove the spark plug and buy a new one.
5. When the engine is already dry, pour in new motor oil and transmission oil.
6. Place a new batter. It’s not advisable to use the old one unless it’s thoroughly checked by a battery expert.
7. Don’t install any spark plug yet. This is a way to remove any water inside the cylinders. Start the engine.
8. When you are sure that there is no more water in the cylinder, stop the engine then change the air filter.
9. Install a new spark plug.
10. Start the engine again and let it running until you are satisfied that everything is now running smoothly.

The steps above are only applicable to cars soaked in fresh-water flood.

If your car has a computer box, buy a new one. There is no way to fix a computer box but having it makes your engine more safe from damage.

The game is distributed locally by Datablitz for Php2,000.00. The Circus game requires a Nintendo Wiimote and the nunchuck attachment. It can be played by one or two players and they can choose from around 20 different circus themed mini-games.