Make Google Even Smarter With Google Subscribed Links
Just noticed this feature today in my Google Preferences page (I don’t visit this page regularly so I can’t tell how new this feature is).
This feature allows you to subscribe to different kinds of sources to lookup your query in, in addition to the “regular” search.
You can enable it in your Google Preferences. And you can manage your subscription in the Subscribed Links page.
Embed A Document Using Google Docs
You can embed a document viewer for any PDF or PPT using Google Docs.
You will get something similar to this:
The code I used for the above is:
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Or in general:
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Where DOCUMENT_URL_HERE should be replaced by the document’s URL 
via Google Operating System.
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Google Reader Useful “Send To” Services
Recently, Google have added a “send to” feature to Google Reader, which allows one to share an item in social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc…).
The greatest thing in this feature is, that Google allows you to add custom sites to the “Send To” destinations. A few nice sites are listed below:
1. Download item as PDF (via)
Name: Save as PDF
URL: http://savepageaspdf.pdfonline.com/pdfonline/pdfonline.asp?cURL=${url}
Icon URL: http://www.adobe.com/lib/com.adobe/template/icon/pdf.gif
Create Cool Charts With Google Charts API
I recently discovered this great service by Google, which allows you to create many types of charts using a very easy API call.
This service is great for displaying dynamic data since the API call can be used as the image source, which means that using PHP/Javascript or any other dynamic language for forming the API call, will “link” your chart with the dynamic data you want to display
Here are a few calls along with the results:
Google’s Tip Jar
A (new?) service by google, which is a part of Google Moderator, is the “Tip Jar”.
“Tip Jar” is a collection of tips, submitted by the users, and categorized into different categories: Home, Work, Tech, Finance etc…
Users can submit new tips, and vote for tips submitted by others. The tips are displayed according to their popularity (which might be bad for new tips, since it will be harder to discover them).
Anyway, it looks like a nice service by Google, and another step towards making information available for everybody (who can afford a PC and internet connection).
Check it here.
About Me
My name is Amir Watad. I have a BSc. in biomedical engineering from The Biomedical Engineering school , Technion , Israel, and a BSc. in electrical engineering from The Electrical Engineering school , Technion , Israel.
I'm a Verification Engineer in Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
I love Linux, the Command Line and the OpenSource Community.
I used to write Poems (Arabic) when I was able to find time for this.
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