Google- The Best Services

Alerts Get email updates on the topics of your choice
Blog Search Find blogs on your favorite topics
Book Search Search the full text of books
Checkout Complete online purchases more quickly and securely
Desktop Search and personalize your computer
Earth Explore the world from your computer
Finance Business info, news, and interactive charts
GOOG-411 Find and connect with businesses from your phone, for free
iGoogle Add news, games and more to the Google homepage
Images Search for images on the web
Maps View maps and directions
News - now with archive search Search thousands of news stories
Notebook Clip and collect information as you surf the web
Patent Search Search the full text of US Patents
Product Search Search for stuff to buy
Scholar Search scholarly papers
Special Searches Search within specific topics
Toolbar Add a search box to your browser
Video Search for videos on Google Video and YouTube
Web Search Search over billions of web pages
Web Search Features Find movies, music, stocks, books, and more
Explore and innovate
Code Download APIs and open source code
Custom SearchNew! Create a customized search experience for your community
Labs Explore Google's technology playground
Communicate, show & share
Blogger Share your life online with a blog -- it's fast, easy, and free
Calendar Organize your schedule and share events with friends
Docs Create and share your projects online and access them from anywhere
Gmail Fast, searchable email with less spam
Groups Create mailing lists and discussion groups
Orkut Meet new people and stay in touch with friends
Picasa Find, edit and share your photos
Reader Get all your blogs and news feeds fast
SketchUp Build 3D models quickly and easily
Talk IM and call your friends through your computer
Translate View web pages in other languages
YouTube Watch, upload and share videos
Go mobile
Maps for mobile View maps and get directions on your phone
Mobile Use Google on your mobile phone
SMS Use text messaging for quick info
Make your computer work better
Pack A free collection of essential software
Web Accelerator Speed up the web

Google Pack - Must Download

Google Pack is:
Software specifically selected by Google
Always free - no trial versions or spyware
Ready to use in just a few clicks

• Google Earth
  Zoom from space to street level — tour the world
  Find maps, driving directions, hotels, restaurants, and more
  
• Norton Security Scan
  Detects and eliminates viruses and internet worms
  Free detection updates and scheduled scanning
  
• Google Desktop
  Find all your email, files, web history, and more
  Get all your personalized info in one place with Sidebar


• Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar
  Browse the web quickly and securely
  Switch between pages quickly with tabbed browsing


• Adobe Reader
  View, print, and search PDF files via a redesigned interface
  Secure your documents and collaborate via online, real-time meetings


• StarOffice (broadband recommended)
  Word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and more
  Includes Java™ Runtime Environment
  
• Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer
  Search from any web page and autofill forms
  Block annoying pop-ups
  
• Spyware Doctor Starter Edition
  Detects and removes spyware, adware, trojans and keyloggers
  Includes Smart Updates and scheduling to protect your PC
  
• Picasa
  Find, edit, and share your photos in seconds
  Easily remove red eye and fix photos
  
• Google Photos Screensaver
  Display photos from your PC and photo sharing sites
  Watch cinematic slideshows
  
• Google Talk
  Connect with your friends via IM or free voice calls
  Send and receive files and voice messages easily and quickly
  
• RealPlayer
  Play popular media formats, organize music and videos
  Transfer music to iPod and other portable media players

Backup your Google mail (Gmail) to Google groups

One of the best features of GMail is its huge storage space. It’s almost near the 3GB mark and it’s still growing, giving us reassurance that Google was sincere when they said, “that you’ll never have to delete another message.”
Most GMail users by now, must have loved and mastered the labels and archive features of this free service from Google. The only e-mail they must have deleted besides those nasty spams are messages that are really not worth storing away in the GMail archives.
On the other hand, the rest of your messages are safely tucked in there, properly labeled and served immediately once you use the powerful search built in to GMail. This is all possible is you can access your GMail account.
Yes, unbelievable as it may sound, Google is not God and so its servers, from time to time, do suffer from internal glitches, bugs, attacks etc. that will render some of its wonderful services unavailable for its many thousands of users. That friends, include GMail.
During these rare occassions the worst thing could happen is that your messages could become lost (though I couldn’t imagine how since its Google who’s behind the service so this scenario is very remote) but hey being prepared for the worst comes from expecting the worst, no matter how confident and trustful you are of Google’s capabilities.
So what’s the solution? Back-up your GMail.
Not by setting up a forwarding feature to another non GMail address because those services could knocked down as well.
Not with any other 3rd-party service and not even in your own hardisk, but with Google Groups.
Yup, this nifty and uber-cool e-group service by Google is all you need to backup your GMail messages.
Here’s how you do it.
1) Create a new Google Group. Name it with something like “yourGMailaddress+archive” or “archivefor+yourGmailaddor” something similar.
2) Give it a description that will give you a hint that this is your backup archive for your Gmail.
3) Set Access level to “Restricted” since this would only be your GMail backup and archive.
4)Skip the “Invite members” step.
5) Go to “Group settings”
6) In the “Advanced” tab, click on the “Use Google Groups to manage remote archive” option. Enter your GMail address instead of a non-Google Grooup mailing list.
7) Click “Save Changes”. Remember to copy-paste the e-mail address in step number # 3. You’ll need it later on when we setup your GMail to forward messages to this Google Group.
Sample e-mail: archiveforyourgmailadd-garchive-41973@googlegroups.com
You’re done with the first part, which is creating a Google Group that will serve as backup and archive for your GMail messages.
Now we continue…
Log on to your GMail account.
9) Go to “Settings.” From here you have two options:
a) Set up your GMail to forward all your incoming messages to your archive Google Group.
a.1) Paste the Google Group archive e-mail we took note of earlier into the forwarding e-mail field.
b) Create a “Filter” to specify which messages to forward to your Google Group archive.
The specific details of this filter is all up to you.
b.1) Paste the Google Group archive e-mail address we took note of earlier into the “Forward it to” field.
Apply an appropriate label if you wish, then click “Create filter”.
You’re done! You just created a Google Group that would back up your GMail messages and setup your GMail account to forward your messages to that Google Group.
In the event you cannot acces your GMail, or you accidentally deleted a message, you can still access the messages sent to you via that backup Google Group and use other means available to respond to those messages.

Change your default search engine..

Search from the Address Bar in Internet Explorer (All Windows)


Save time with this tweak that allows you to specify the search engine to query by typing a request directly into the Internet Explorer address bar.
Once you have defined the search engines you can then search by typing the shortcut name followed by the keywords. For example you could search Google for "regedit"
with the command "google regedit".
Open you registry and find the key below.
For each search engine you wish to add follow these steps:
Create a new sub key and name it after the shortcut you'd like to type in the address bar to access the engine. For example; "google" to access Google or "yahoo" to access Yahoo!
Open the new sub key and set the value of (Default) to equal the search engine query URL, inserting "%s" in place of the keywords. For example:
Google = http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
Yahoo = http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=%s
AltaVista = http://www.altavista.com/q?q=%s
Restart Internet Explorer for the changes to take effect.
Note: This tweak only applies to Internet Explorer 6.0 and above.

changing add the some setting to your system registry.
copy this below line copy the below text and paste into a notepad and save it by
"anyname.reg" just double click on it , it will prompts u to enter the registry ,
just click on yes. It will done


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl]"provider"="gogl"@=
"http://www.google.com/keyword/%s"" "="+""&"="%26""+"="%2B"
"#"="%23""?"="%3F""="="%3D"