Once you have Terminal for Google installed, just click the extension’s icon to display the list of Google services. This plugin supports almost all services including favorites like Gmail and Google Reader. It also includes notification indicators to relevant icons like the number of unread messages in your Gmail account, or the number of unread articles in your Google Reader.

Terminal For Google lets you disable icons of services that you are not using for a cleaner layout. This extension is a great launcher for  Chrome users who rely heavily on Google and its services.

Features:

• Install shortcuts of Google services to your Chrome browser.
• Enable or disable Google services’ icons in the plugins.
• Displays notifications relevant to the service.
• Quick access to Google’s URL shortener.

Check out Terminal For Google @ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/denbapicipbiplggmfebiogiphopgjca

This is the beauty of InSync, an app that lets you sync your Google documents across all your devices. Insync’s desktop client lets you add documents to a shared folder within your documents folder, and have them load to your Google Docs account.

You can also share your files to your coworkers much like Dropbox, which then allows them to edit those shared files via GDocs. Users can also set up file permissions, nested sharing, and individual file sharing. Unlike Dropbox, your Google storage becomes your online file manager for InSync, where you can also add multiple Google accounts.

InSync is a useful tool for anyone who needs the usefulness of Dropbox with the extra convenience of Google Docs.

Features:

• Desktop client that syncs file to Google Docs.
• Lets you edit files from Google Docs.
• Allow multiple Google accounts.
• Individual file sharing available.
• Uses Google’s Storage Service.
• Facebook Feed For Files Coming Soon.

Check out Insync @ https://www.insynchq.com

Google Politics & Elections is a simple to use web app that provides you with the 2012 US election stats. You are provided with a map that you can zoom into to view its respective voting stats. Color codes provide a quick way to see who has the majority in a particular area. Apart from the region-view you can get news on various candidates and political issues relevant to the 2012 elections. A “Trends Dashboard” lets you view candidate information such as their YouTube videos and search traffic.

Features:

•  A user-friendly web service.
• Does not require any registration.
• Provides information on 2012 US elections.
• Provides stats, video links, news results, etc.

Check out Google Politics & Elections @ http://google.com/elections/ed/us/results (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

To make your own environment scrapbook, hover your mouse over the different questions that have already been placed in the scrapbook and drag the best answer into the middle circle. Once you select the answer, you will see that the most searched result for that specific answer will be displayed. It will also display any related videos uploaded on YouTube about that specific topic.

Once you have completed all the boxes, you can personalize the scrapbook with your first name and share it with your friends and family over the Internet using a private URL.

Features

• Check top trending environmental searches.
• Share environmental knowledge with people – things that people are not aware of.
• Great for eco-friendly people.
• Free scrapbook and great search results.

Check out Google Green Scrapbook @ http://www.google.com/green/scrapbook/2011/index.html

GAget is a free to use desktop application for Mac computers. After set up the app runs smoothly on your desktop and provides you with your site’s Google Analytics stats. In case you have multiple sites you can run multiple instances of the application on your desktop.

Features:

• A user-friendly desktop application.
• Compatible with Mac computers.
• Brings Google Analytics data to your desktop.
• Lets you run multiple instances of the applications.

Check out GAget @ http://www.zoltanhosszu.com/gaget (By Umar from AllthatIsApple)

Google Currents also offers publishers around the world to create Google Currents channels of their sites so that readers can subscribe to them in their respective Google Currents app. The apps are currently available only for US consumers though there are ways to bypass that restriction.

Features

• Visually appealing way to browse web content.
• App for Android and iOS devices.

Check out Google Currents @ www.google.com/producer/currents (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

The tool has been developed by Amit Agarwal of the Digital Inspiration blog, and the online service arose out of a need to find a way to see social reach as well Google search rank of content on one single page. The interface is clean and you can get started instantly by typing a query.

Features

• See the social stats of content along with visibility in Google.
• Shows tweets, Facebook likes and Google +1s.

Check out Google With Social Stats @ ctrlq.org/google (via Digital Inspiration By Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)

Google+ is now catering to politicians too. The network has a webpage up that highlights the features available for politcians. The most basic feature of course is sharing updates by your status message and your constituents showing their support by +1-ing your post. Status messages can also be used to gather opinions (see image above), making them act as online polls.

The feature of sorting people into circles on Google+ lets you tailor messages for specific groups, without filling up the feed of your other contacts. The virtual meeting option lets you conduct a high-quality video chat that supports up to 10 users. And then of course there is the option to upload pictures of political events to keep your constituents updated.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service and social network.
• Helps politicians reach out to the general public.
• Lets you share updates with people.
• Lets you conduct group video chat.
• Lets you share pictures with others.
• Similar tools: PolitickerUSA, NewsCaplet, Ruck.us and Broadcastr.

Check out “Google+ for Politics” @ www.google.com/+/learnmore/politics/index.html (by MOin from Thumb Press)

For example, when you click on the Src-Img bookmarklet in your browser, it searches that particular image on Google Image search and gives you not only a list of all other websites/blogs using that image, but also all other available sizes of that image. The tool is super simple to use and all you have to do is drag the bookmarklet link to your browser to set it up.

When you click on the bookmarklet while viewing a webpage with multiple images, the tool asks you to specify the image you want to look up.

Features:

• Displays other sources using the same image.
• Displays all other sizes of image being used.
• No installation or registration required.

Get Src-Im from http://jarred.github.com/src-img

You can also dive into the research library and browse topics specifically by industry, platform, target audience or marketing objective. Most of the topics and information available on the website are technology or internet related. You can also take a peek at some quick facts and stats from variety of industries and platforms, and use a variety of search insight and bench-marking tools provided by Google to better understand your topic.

Features:

• Get consumer trends and marketing insight powered by Google.
• Search for a topic or browse by industry, platform type or target audience.
• Use planning tools and statistics to strengthen your knowledge.
• No registration required.

Visit Think With Google @ http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com