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How to use a Google Spreadsheet to keep track of prices of products listed on various Amazon shopping websites and get email alerts when the prices go down. The prices of products listed on the Amazon shopping website vary every day and a simple Google Spreadsheet can help you keep monitor and track these price fluctuations via email. Just add the items that you wish to buy from Amazon in a spreadsheet and it will send you an email alert when the product’s price drops on Amazon. You’ll thus never miss the deal again. Get daily price alerts for Amazon products via email ( see sample ) Track Amazon Prices with Google Docs The Amazon price tracker is easy to configure. All you have to do is add the links (URLs) of Amazon product pages inside a Google Spreadsheet. For instance, here’s the product page for iPad and here’s the search page for iPad – you need to put the URL of the product page in the spreadsheet. The price tracker is available in free and premiu...

Which websites and apps have background access to my Google account? What does Google know about me? Where can I see all the ads that I’ve clicked on Google search? What does Google know about the places I’ve visited recently? Where should I go if I have forgotten the administrator password for Google Apps? What are my interests as determined by Google? Where can I get a list of ads that I’ve ever clicked on Google?       Here are some of the most important links that every Google user should know about. They are hidden somewhere deep inside your Google Account dashboard and they may reveal interesting details about you that are otherwise known to Google. Let’s dive in. 1.  Google stores a list of usernames and passwords that you have typed in Google Chrome or Android for logging into various websites. They’ve a website too where you can view all these passwords. https://passwords.google.com 2. ...

 Google Photos offers unlimited storage space for your photos and videos. Here are some tips and essentials things you should consider before making the leap to Google Photos. When Google launched Gmail in 2004, it bundled 40x more free storage space than competing web mail services. It seemed to solve all storage woes and there was not even a “delete” button in Gmail because, with a gigabyte available, why would anyone ever delete their emails. They’ve adopted a similar approach with Google Photos but gone a step further.   Google Photos offers unlimited online storage space for your digital photos and videos. The original images are compressed after uploading but the difference is barely noticeable, at least on the computer screen. I started dumping all my pictures to Google Photos, the day it launched, and couldn’t be happier. The initial purpose was online backup but now Google Photos has become “the” place where I go to explore my photos. The file...

This tutorial describes how you can setup a wireless network and share files / Internet connection with multiiple computers, mobile phones and other wireless devices without a Wi-Fi router. Let’s say you have one internet connection at home that you want to share across all your desktop and laptop computers, your Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones, tablets, video game consoles (like the Xbox), digital photo frames and any other wireless devices that you may have at home. How do you do this? The easiest way to setup a wireless network, as we all know, is with the help of a router – just attach a wireless router to your modem and any Wi-Fi enabled gear, that’s located inside the signal range of your router, will be able to connect to the web using that lone Internet connection. Setup Wireless Network without a Wireless Router Now consider a slightly different scenario – you have all these Wi-Fi enabled devices at home but there’s no router. Well, there’s no reason to bu...

Use Google Contacts as a Unified Address Book Your contacts are often scattered across multiple email accounts and social sites. Learn how you can easily integrate them all into Google Contacts. Your contacts are often scattered across multiple email accounts and social sites. For instance, you may have switched to Gmail but some of your contacts may still be stored in the old address books of Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail. Then there are places like Facebook and LinkedIn that store personal and professional details of your contacts (including profile pictures) but fetching this information into your main address book is often a tricky thing. One Place for all your Contacts If you find it a hassle to maintain multiple address books, a possible solution is that you consolidate them all into a single cloud-based service like Google Contacts . Here are some ideas on how you may go about doing this: Step 1: Bring all address books into Google Contacts Go to Gmail S...

How do you save a screenshot image of your iPhone, iPad or the iPod Touch screen? Unlike your Windows or Mac computer, there are no screen capture apps available for your iOS device and you actually don’t need one because the screen capture functionality in built right into your device. Print Screen for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch To save a screenshot image of your mobile screen, press and hold the Home button that is located at the bottom center of the device (you often use this button to exit the app and return to the home screen). While the home button is down,  press the Sleep (or Wake) button located on the opposite edge of the phone. The screen will flash momentarily,  you’ll also hear a click sound and the content of the current screen will be saved as a new image in your Photo Gallery. "Do remember that the same key combination will reset your iPhone if you press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at ...

OPEN Although there are number of note taking apps available for Android, the official Google Keep app is among the best with a beautiful interface, minimal features and reliability. The app integrates with your Google account and syncs notes across mobile, tablet and desktop computer through a Chrome extension. Using the app you can quickly write text notes, create to-do lists, voice notes and capture photo notes with your camera. Google Keep supports OCR so if you capture a news clipping with the camera, it will automatically search the note for text. The voice notes are automatically transcribed into text using the Android’s built-in dictation (voice to text) feature. A useful home screen widget is also available to perform all the functions without opening the app. The photo note lets you attach multiple images from the camera or the gallery for reference. T...