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Over 71 Gmail Tips & Tricks To Make You A “Gmail Ninja”

@maheshoneFebruary 18, 2015By

Gmail is perhaps the web's favorite email service with over 500 million users. And I started using Gmail ever since they launched the service, back in 2004 and became very much obsessed with it. So today, I'm sharing over 71 Gmail tips and tricks (including some less known features, secrets, and settings) to enhance your Google Mail experience. I'm sure it might take a while for you to read through and get to the end. But once you do, there will be no looking back. You will change the way you used Gmail. All for the better. Guaranteed!

Gmail Tips & Tricks --- Click To Scroll

When Gmail was launched the key features that distinguished it from its rivals were --- Search (with an advanced function), 1 GB Free Storage (it was huge at that time because Hotmail was offering only 2 MB and Yahoo 4 MB), Conversation View, Labels, Archive feature, Auto-refresh, Auto-address Completion, Powerful Mail & Spam Filters, and a great user interface (thanks to AJAX) with no banner ads.

WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org: The Ultimate Comparison With Pros & Cons

@maheshoneFebruary 9, 2015By

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WordPress is web's favorite blogging platform. It’s a software that lets you create, manage and publish your content seamlessly. That's why over 20% of web or almost 50% of all blogs are powered by WordPress. So, What exactly is WordPress?

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

WordPress was started as a blogging system, but it has evolved a lot to become a full content management system (CMS). It's limited only by your imagination (and tech chops) as there are thousands of themes, plugins, and widgets available to transform your WordPress site into almost anything that you can imagine.

Don't Miss: The 101 Best WordPress Plugins — For Anything & Everything

Blogger vs. WordPress: The Ultimate Comparison With Pros & Cons

@maheshoneFebruary 9, 2015By

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Blogger.com (or simply Blogger) and WordPress are the two most popular blogging platforms on the web. Of course, there are tons of other free blogging platforms like Tumblr, LiveJournal, Medium, Blog.com, etc. but I'm going to focus only on Blogger and WordPress. Blogger.com is also known as BlogSpot as all the Blogger.com blogs are hosted as a subdomain of blogspot.com. For example, http://googlesystem.blogspot.com (it's an unofficial blog about Google). The best thing about Blogger is that it's absolutely free and is owned by Google. WordPress is the most loved Content Management System (CMS). In fact, 20% of the web or 48% of all CMS sites are powered by WordPress. It's a software that lets you create, manage and publish your content seamlessly. WordPress has two flavors, namely: WordPress.com (the free hosted version --- like example.wordpress.com) and WordPress.org (self-hosted version --- like my blog).

Read: Over 51 Blogging Platforms To Showcase Your Awesomeness

Over 51 Evernote Tips & Tricks To Make You An “Evernote Ninja”

@maheshoneDecember 11, 2014By

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Evernote is one of the most popular productivity app today and it's getting more popular than ever. We can use Evernote the way we want and that's why they don't tell us how to use it.

“We don’t tell our users how to organize their notes in Evernote as everyone works differently: some prefer to throw everything into one notebook while others love to create lots of notebooks for various projects and work/life interests.”

It’s a must-have tool for bloggers, or entrepreneurs, or professionals, or home-makers, or almost anyone who spends a lot of time online. The best thing? It’s free and you can use it in a way that you’ve never imagined. Evernote is available on almost all platforms --- Windows (Desktop & Touch), Windows Phone, Mac OS X, iOS (iPhone, iPad, & iPod touch), Android, BlackBerry, and WebOS. Note: After I published 30 Evernote Tips earlier this year, Evernote has added several new features to it. However, I never got a chance to update that blog post. There, I had used Evernote for Windows to explain different features, tips, and tricks. Though the user interface of Evernote for Mac is totally different from its Windows version, the core features and functionality remains the same on all platforms. I have used Evernote for Mac for this blog post, but it's good for both Mac OS X and Windows users. In fact, I have used some excerpts from the Windows version as this article is an adaptive work.

Read: Why Evernote Is My (And Probably Your) Perfect Blogging Companion

Over 40 Image Sources & Tools For Free Stock Photos, Images & Cliparts

@maheshoneDecember 1, 2014By

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Image Credit: Free Digital Photos

Like every other blogger, I have been using Google Images for Clip art, Images, and Photos for my blog even though I didn’t want to. But recently I created a Lifestyle blog for a friend and advised her to use Flickr for images.

I was totally impressed by her image searching capability and decided to use Flickr for my blog as well. Again, the blogpost by Roni Loren titled “Blogger Beware: You CAN Get Sued For Using Photos You Don't Own on Your Blog” was a total eye-opener.

I read that article a couple of days back and got to action. Why? Because Roni said that we can get sued for using those clip-arts, stock images, and photos which we get from Google Images. I have often, like most of you, royally ignored the warning message from Google which says “Images may be subject to copyright.” while previewing images.

So where can you get images from now? Use images with a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons Attribution License indicates that you're free to share, remix and make commercial use of the work as long as you give an attribution.

Over 25 Google Chrome New Tab Extensions You Probably Don’t Know

@maheshoneDecember 1, 2014By

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I wanted to update my Speed Dial 2 review by listing more New Tab extensions at the end. But then I realized that there are ton of extensions that deserve a mention so I decided to feature the ones that I liked the most here. This article is for those who dislike the default Chrome New Tab page and is looking for a replacement.

I’ve categorized the extensions as Feature Rich and Simple/Empty New Tab extensions. You can try the feature rich extensions if you want a start page that’s customized to tailor your needs. And you can go for Simple extensions if you want to disable the default start page.

Over 101 Content Marketing Tools (Free & Premium) You’ll Ever Need

@maheshoneNovember 3, 2014By

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If you're a blogger or an Internet marketer, you would probably know that there are hundreds of thousands of marketing tools online that makes Internet Marketing much easier. A good percentage of the content that resides in my Evernote are actually "tools" -- for almost anything.

Read: Why Evernote Is My (And Probably Your) Perfect Blogging Companion

And that's how I recently came up with a list of 101 Productivity Tools and 101 Social Media Tools (with over 30 Image Tools). Today I'm going to focus on Content Marketing -- just content marketing -- and want to feature some of the best content marketing tools to streamline your marketing efforts.

Over 71 Gmail Tips & Tricks To Make You A “Gmail Ninja”

Gmail Tips & Tricks --- Click To Scroll

WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org: The Ultimate Comparison With Pros & Cons

Blogger vs. WordPress: The Ultimate Comparison With Pros & Cons

Over 51 Evernote Tips & Tricks To Make You An “Evernote Ninja”

Over 40 Image Sources & Tools For Free Stock Photos, Images & Cliparts

Over 25 Google Chrome New Tab Extensions You Probably Don’t Know

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