This one I discovered recently: If you get an unusable headphones, don't throw it away. You can cut & remove the wire, and use the TRS jack as the FM antenna for your smartphone. All you need is to plug-in this TRS jack into your phone's headphones plug, and open the FM radio app, then start listening through your loudspeaker.
How it works: The headphones wire works as the FM antenna for mobile phones. Usually FM transmission will have a very strong signal, which needs a small piece of wire to receive the signal.
Use your smartphone as a remote for YouTube on your PC or laptopYou can actually control YouTube from any smartphone without installing any apps or linking the two over a network.
- Go to http://www.youtube.com/tv on your PC/Laptop
- Hit the up arrow on your keyboard twice to arrive on the search tab. Hit enter, and you will see a code meant to be entered on your mobile device
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Voila! now you can remote control YouTube. Source: RedditEdit: Uses of YouTube Remote// Ultimately it is not about searching faster but it is about not having to be at your PC/laptop keyboard to search from there. Lets say you are lying down on your couch/bed and watching string of movies/videos, you can use Smartphone to play pause and move to next video.// You can preview a video on your Smartphone before queue it over to the playlist on your monitor.
This works only on Google Chrome.Go to "Project Naptha" and add the extension to your Chrome. Voila! Once installed you can select the text and Copy, Translate and.. wait for it.. Replace the text!1. Copy:
2. Translate (it uses Google Translate for this, fair enough)
3. Replace (Select text->Right click->Translate->Modify Text)
How to undo a mail sent in Gmail ?After following these steps you can easily enable that option.1. Click the gear icon in the top right corner of your Gmail window and select Settings from the dropdown menu.
2. Select Labs from the row of tabs.
3. Scroll all the way to the bottom where you see Undo Send and click Enable.
4. Hit Save Changes at the bottom.5. Now when you send an email, the yellow dialogue that displays "Your message has been sent" will also, for a few seconds (the time is configurable) give you the option to Undo. The email is only actually sent once the Undo option disappears.
6. Just by clicking on that button you can undo your message.
See what Google knows about you or your computer.Go to http://google.com/ads/preferences on your browser and it will open the advertisement profile that Google created for your browser on your computer, which is linked to you if you use that computer and browser.
On the "Google Ads Across the Web" panel, you can see which gender Google guesses you are, which age it thinks you are, which languages it thinks you speak, and more importantly, what you are interested in!So click the "Edit" button near your interest and see what Google knows about your interests :) You'll be surprised at how much more Google knows about you and your interests, and now you know how the ads you see online are chosen to match your interests.Now go to your friends' computers and open that link with them and have fun!
Google offers so much more than just search.
From the silly to the useful, these Google features will make you love Google even more than you probably already did.
- Google Image search "Atari Breakout" and prepare to forget whatever else you were supposed to be doing.
- You can set a timer on Google (and get an alarm to sound when time is up) by Googling any amount of time followed by "timer."
- Google Sky lets you explore the far reaches of the universe using images from NASA satellite, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the Hubble Telescope.
- Google nGrams is a fun tool that lets you search for words in 5.2 million books published between 1500 and 2008 so you can see how much it's been used over time.
- Intimidated by huge numbers? Google will help you figure out how to pronounce that 12-string number if you type "=english" after it.
- Unleash your inner child by checking out Google's Build with Chrome.
- You can add "+anything" when typing your email address and it will still work. This can be good for filtering emails (for example, you could set up a folder for all emails sent to "youremail+datingsite@gmail.com").
- Google recently released a fun new Maps game called SmartyPins that gives you geographic trivia.
- Getting married? Google will help you plan your wedding, announce the news, locate a venue, fill in the plans, make a website, and more.
- There's a "Manual" feature in Google Translate that lets you draw characters or symbols.
- Find a gorgeous font that you can use for free (Google Fonts).
- Get your culture on by using Google Art Project to check out super high-res photos of artwork from the world's greatest museums.
Update:Loved playing "Atari Breakout"? Here's one more..
- Google search "zerg rush" and end up with finger pain!
- Google recreated Pacman and made a doodle for it on Pacman's 30th anniversary. 30th Anniversary of PAC-MAN reminds me of my childhood :D
- Developers at Google are so cool! Check these funny things to know why..
Google search the following one at a time"Do A Barrel Roll""Tilt""Recursion""Define Anagram"
- Open Google Play and click search icon without entering any search terms.
You'll get search results with Unicorns everywhere ^_^
- Search for "Do The Harlem Shake" in Youtube
Typing in “/Pitchforks” in a Google Hangouts dialogue box will launch a stream of angry townspeople racing across the screen with pitchforks. “/ShyDino” will feature a green dinosaur hiding behind a small house in your chat window, while typing “/BikeShed” will also change the background color. And they didn't forget My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic in Google Hangouts, either: Typing in “/Ponies” or “/Ponystream” will make animated ponies dash across your chat window.
In Google Maps, search for “Police Telephone Box.” It will bring you Earl’s Court Station. Go to the location’s streetview and you’ll see the Doctor Who TARDIS on the sidewalk. Click the double-white arrows in front of the police box and you’ll be sent to the inside of the time machine. Once inside, you’ll be able to have a 360-degree view of its interior.
In the late 80s, video game developer Konami utilized a special cheat code that could be used on the company's video games. The “Konami Code” was made popular with Contra for the Nintendo Entertainment System. When players input “up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start” during the game’s title sequence, they could unlock 30 extra lives to get through the game instead of the standard three.
Google has used the Konami Code on a few of its products, including Google Play Games, Google Docs, and Google’s Chromebook Pixel. Swiping the Konami Code in the Google Play Games mobile app will unlock a clever achievement that reads, “All Your Games Belong To Us.” In Google Docs, typing the Konami Code will reverse your entire document, and in Google’s Chromebook Pixel, typing in the code will make the LCD stripe on the outside of the computer blink in a frenzy of various colors.
Google Chrome is also a media player, you can play your movies and music in chrome-browser. (1) Just Drag and drop your media into the chrome-browser and enjoy :
(2) Enjoy your media
ENjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
