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Are you waiting for a Nexus 4? You might wait a great deal longer if you don’t get one immediately after the Play Store restocks in mid-February. Fortunately, we don’t have just one method - this article presents six absolutely rock-solid strategies of becoming one of the first in line when the Nexus 4 arrives.
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Some of you may have forgotten due to all of their recent developments and projects on the side, but Google is still a search engine at its core. With tens of millions of pages indexed, there's no reason why Google shouldn't be your go-to search solution over competitors like Yahoo! and Bing. One thing Google has always really excelled in is integrating features of their properties separate from Search, like Gmail, Plus, Blogger, Google Calendar, into Search.
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On Wednesday Google added a new feature to its Dashboard line-up for Google Account users. The "Me On The Web" feature pulls information from your Google Profile (if you have one set up), and places it in an easy to find place, just below your account settings. The feature attempts to track mentions of your name and email address across the web.
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Shopping online is hardly a new habit for anyone. We have all quickly found how easy and exciting it is to spend money online. But what about saving? Nothing works better than a relevant and timely price tracking email alert. Here are a few tools you can use to create one.
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We all love neat RSS hacks, right? Well, here’s some interesting ways to use Google RSS news feeds. Many of us MakeUseOf readers are keen readers of Google News because it’s an easy way to see news articles from newspapers worldwide, grouped by topic and also grouped with similar headlines. However, not everyone realises that [...]
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I recently wrote about how you can find out when someone searches Google for your name. If you are interested in who is looking for you and your general online reputation, you are probably equally interested in finding out what is being said about you online. People could be spreading information about you or your [...]
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Are you familiar with the word (or is it a modern day fact) ““ information overload? Or perhaps the more street wise phrase ““ swamped with info? A typical net junkie like me has RSS, email newsletters, web search, Twitter and Google Alerts set up to scavenge content from the web. The delete button gets [...]
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