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How to Use YouTube Offline and YouTube Smart offline

June 19, 2016 by Rakesh Doddera

What is YouTube Offline? How does it work?

If you love watching videos during periods of low or no connectivity, then YouTube’s offline feature is for you. It is also very important to know that all videos are not available for offline viewing.

• YouTube’s offline feature allows Android and iOS users to save YouTube videos to their device for later consumption.
• These videos can be downloaded via mobile data or Wi-Fi network.
• The feature is ad-supported.

How to save and Use YouTube videos for offline viewing?

Step 1: Open YouTube App on your Phone and search for your favorite video.
Step 2: Click on the “Add to offline” icon below the video. You can click the context menu button and select “Add to Offline” option.
Step 3: Once you click on the Add to Offline button, YouTube app will ask you to select the resolution – Low, Medium, HD – of the file. All these resolutions will have different sizes with different quality.

Low quality will take lesser space and downloads quickly on your device, but will have relatively worse quality. Once you select the quality, the video will begin to save on your device.
Note: If the video isn’t available for offline viewing, then it will have a crossed Add to Offline button. You cannot download those video to your device.

How to watch YouTube offline video?

Step 1: Go back to the homepage of YouTube App.
Step 2: Click on the Account tab. (which looks like a human body).
Step 3: Click on Saved videos on this page. It will show you all the videos you have saved for offline viewing.
If you want to delete a video, click on the context menu next to the video, and select Remove from saved videos.

Where do the offline videos on YouTube get saved?

YouTube controls the access to the offline file. But those “offline” videos can only be played using official YouTube App, and can’t be played using any other Media/ Video player application.

The location for those videos on my Phone is as below:
Internal storage/Android/data/com.google.android.youtube/files/Offline/(system generated folder name)/streams
All those downloaded files are saved as .exo files, in an Internal Storage of a device.

How to restore expired YouTube offline videos?

YouTube offline videos can be saved and will be accessible for 48 hours in the offline section on the left-hand sliding menu. When the YouTube offline videos get expired, the file is deleted by YouTube and user has to download it again.

Here are some suggestions from other users who came across the same problem as you face

1. Change the date of your device and disconnect it from Internet. Change date to the one you downloaded.
2. The offline videos are often saved as .exo file format which can only played by YouTube videos. You can try to convert .exo to .mp4
3. Use a YouTube down loader app (Tubemate YouTube downloader) to completely download the videos without 48-hour limit.

What is YouTube Smart Offline? How does it work?

Problem:
As you all know that the carrier’s fees have been higher for many years and even now we are facing that problem of paying more for data charges.

Solution:
Google wants to help only for those who use YouTube for watching their favorite videos. Now, you can download videos to your Android device when the mobile data is cheaper.
Smart offline lets you to download videos to your device only during those cheap hours usually between 12am -6am.

YouTube app will automatically schedule downloads at the appropriate time and have them ready for you to watch when you wake up.

How YouTube Smart Offline Works?

Step 1: Find your favorite video in YouTube that you want to watch offline.
Step 2: Select the “save overnight” option.
Step 3: Your video will be off lined when you sleep and ready when you wake up in the morning.
Step 4: Find those offline videos under “Saved Videos” section in your account.

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The Best Web Tools For Collaboration

December 16, 2015 by Rakesh Doddera

Usually, most of your team mates stay away from you and working as a one strong unit is difficult to handle.

If you are working for an office project, college assignment or for a part of social service initiative, and working as a team doesn’t have to be difficult. With the help of these web tools you can easily collaborate with each others in your team.

In this article, you will find some of the best web tools that can be used easily to collaborate for planning, task management, share design, share documents, communication and managing social media.

1. Planning

Planning is very important and crucial part before working on any projects, in order to avoid future issues that may arise in the project. With the better plan you will have a clear picture of the processes that you need to follow.

Mind42 is a web tool that lets you to create a visual plan for the project. The main benefit of using this mind42 web tool is that you can invite team mates to work on a master plan as a join force.

Registering with Mind42 gives you a white board to which you can include catering, venue, entertainment etc.

You can add notes, images, to dos, links and icons to each point’s of tasks.
It saves multiple revisions, allowing you to refer to earlier versions at any point of time.
Your master plan can be exported to multiple formats including RTF, PNG, JPG and PDF.
You can print it and then start assigning tasks to your team.

For more information you can visit Mind42.com and get a full detailed report on how to use mind42 web tools and its capabilities.

2. Task Management

Once you finished planning your project, you need to manage those tasks. In order to manage and to keep an eye on all your processes, you will need a task management service like Wrike.

A free account with 2GB of online storage.
You can create 5 members team.
Wrike gives you a bird’s eye view of the work in progress.
Wrike allows you to work with unlimited collaborators (clients or freelancers).
You can configure each deliverable to have a start and finish date, complete with supporting file attachments, which can be sourced locally or from Google Drive, Dropbox, Box and Microsoft One Drive.
Each task can be viewed as a list, live stream or an easy to read spreadsheet. All these can be searched using a keyword, status and assignee.

Visit: Wrike.com

3. Share Design

Marqueed is a cloud-based image sharing tool. Designers can easily share a mock-up image with clients along with annotations that explains each design element.Clients, in turn, can reply to those with their feedback.

How to Use Marqueed

Step 1: Create a free account, upload an image.

Step 2: Invite collaborators to view it.

Step 3: Start a discussion.

You could share interior plans of your home with your decorator with notes and pointers in the image to explain the look and feel you desire.While photographers could discuss a snapshot.

Benefits of Marqueed.

A free account gets you 100MB of storage and lets you create two collections of images
You can also think of them as folders,in which each of them can be shared “privately“ with an unlimited number of collaborators.
With a paid account, you can get up to 25GB of space, an unlimited number of albums, and priority support.

When you sign up for Marqueed, you will become a member of a social network, where you can share your creative work of art with the public.

If you follow others, then they can choose to follow your work. And this even allows others to invite you to view their collections, resulting in a neat little community of artists, collaborators, photographers and designers.

http:www.marqueed.com

4. Communication

You can use Skype and Hangouts for video conferencing.But there are some limitations like skype can be used with at most 5 simultaneous users while Hangouts lets you to have discussions with up to 10 people.

So we recommend Voxeet for pure voice calls, which can accommodate up to eight people in a single virtual conference room, is available for almost all devices like Windows PCs, Mac machines, Android and iOS devices.

Voxeet also lets you move a call from one device to another say , PC to smartphone seamlessly with a single click of a button. What’s more, you can schedule a group call through Voxeet and get the service to automatically start the conference by calling all the participants for you.

It uses proprietary technology to capture high-quality audio and allows for clear group conversations. Volume bars alongside speaker avatars on the screen let you know who is talking and you can send instant messages while the audio call is in progress.

http:www.voxeet.com

5. Manage Social Media

5.1 Twitter

I know there are many paid solutions to handle a team in social media account.But when we think about a small team then TweetDeck can help us in managing a team in small size.

TweetDeck is a free service for small teams which lets you to share a twitter account with multiple users by adding team member,where you will play the role of admin who can add/remove members.

How To Use Tweet Deck

Step 1: Visit tweetdeck.twitter.com.

Step 2: Sign in with your Username & Password.

Step 3: Click on the Accounts symbol which is found at the bottom left corner of the side navigation bar.

Step 4: Click on Team@YourID (where YourID is the name of your account)

Step 5: Try adding teammates (they need to be registered with Twitter). Finally , click Authorize.

Team members will receive a notification and have to click Accept to begin tweeting on behalf of the official Twitter ID.

5.2 Facebook

Establishing an effective Facebook Business page
How to Manage a Facebook Page

Step 1: Login to Facebook login and navigate to the page.

Step 2: Click on Settings and then, click on Page Roles (in the left column).

Step 3: Enter the name of the person you want to give permission to manage the page on behalf of the official Facebook Page.

Step4: Click on the Editor drop down list to select a role like admin, editor, moderator, advertiser, or analyst. Click Save and enter the password to confirm the change.

6. Share Documents

If you need to work as a team on text documents, spreadsheets and presentations then you should have login for your Google/Microsoft account which gives you access to a Google Drive/ OneDrive account.

Both services allow many people to edit the same file, allowing for real-time collaboration and there are only few services in the web market that match up to the features of Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive.

Benefits of Google Drive/ OneDrive

You can choose to keep documents (like personal to-do notes) `private’.
You can give `read-only’ access (to project plans and objectives); allow your team to collaborate and edit certain other files (spreadsheets,text docs and presentations).
You can even give `comment only’ access to project stake holders.

Note :Both services give you 15GB of free space.

Source : Times of India

Know Everything About Google Apps for Business

August 31, 2015 by Rakesh Doddera

Many organizations try to buy too many software for various business needs. Like for emails, it will be Outlook, for communication it will be Lync or Slack, for meeting and events Outlook calender, for storage either personal folders or drives (which are later send through mails) – you get the point right. Handling and toggling through these various apps or software can be cumbersome and sometimes we might just lose the track of things like what we saved where or calender not being in-sync with your emails or such tragic mishaps.

The best way to curb this and get everything together is to use an app that will has multiple usage. You know app we are talking about – it’s the Google Apps. Google apps are apt for businesses as everything is under one roof and in-sync with the other. Your e-mail is synced with your calender, chats, drives, docs and everything. So what are these Google apps that you need to have for your organization:

Gmail

The best mail is Gmail. It has 30GB inbox storage (mind we are not counting the send items and all). Users can have multiple addresses, there is no downtime, easily accessible on your phone, ease of use and navigation. So what more do you need?

Hangouts

All your chats and communication can be done here easily and the best part you can also do video/voice calls here. Team meeting with overseas clients or chatting with customers, everything is made easy with hangouts. To add to this, in case someone misses your call or buzz then they get a e-mail notification. Pretty smart, right!

Calender

Smart, quick, sharable, and connected calenders – what more does a team need. You can check a coworker or lead availability, send a real-time notification on desktop as well as mobile and share your monthly schedules with your team. Smoothest work ever.

Google+

The social hub for all the business people. Establish your brand or communicate with your customers & clients or just chill with your team – Google+ will do everything for you. You can upload pictures related to your products or posts questions or ideas or fuse in your Google+ to sort out mails from your circles. Everything is swift and interconnected.

Drive

Store all your business related files, documents, work flows, pictures, research, presentations, and more on Google drive. This is again synced with your mail so easy access is not an issue. Also, sharing files with your colleagues is as easy as sipping water – no messing copy paste or attach files.

Documents & Spreadsheets

Microsoft is like old school now. You can make your own business-related documents and excel sheets on Google docs. It has the same working of a Microsoft docs and excel, in fact you can copy paste all your MS docs and excel on Google docs.

Slides, Sites & Forms

Well, Google gives it all to you. Make creative presentations or make a new website for your team using Google docs. If you want to handout surveys then no need to search for online surveys, Google docs gives you that facility as well now.

Stop pondering over it and get Google apps today. The best way to keep your business/organization connected and synced. An open-platform where anyone can find anything with a single click. Companies with huge logistics like Paytm and Foodpanda uses such coordinated apps to better their services. So you should get one too. Happy Googling folks.

Advanced Guide to Google Search Console

August 16, 2015 by Rakesh Doddera

Google Search Console is a Free software provided by Google which allows you to monitor, optimize and manage your site more effectively by providing you the required information related to your site that you won’t find anywhere.

Get the data, tools and diagnostics needed to create and maintain Google friendly websites and also mobile apps.

These webmaster tools will help you to find out

How Google Bot will view your site.
How your website appears in search results for specific keywords.
How your audience interacts with those search results.

How to Setup Google Search Console

You need to consider Google search console as a primary tool and also setting up a Google Search console is very crucial for monitoring your SEO efforts and maintaining your website performance.

There are mainly two steps involved in order to setup Google search Console

Setup a Google account
Verifying your ownership

1.How to setup or create an account with Google.

You always need a Google account in order to use Google Search Console.

Step 1: Visit http://www.google.com.

Step 2: Click on Sign In.

Step 3: Choose “Create an account”

Step 4: Complete the form.

After signing up into Google account you just need to navigate into webmaster tools page which is located at http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

Enter your website URL or app and Click on Add property.

Note: In order to add another website or app, just click on “Add a property” button and then enter new website URL.

2.How to Verify your Ownership

There are several options to verify that you are the owner of the site.

It mainly involves two methods

Recommended Method
Alternate Method

1.Recommended Method

In this method, you can use your html file to verify your site i.e., HTML File Upload

How to Download and Upload HTML file in order to verify your site.

Step 1: Download the HTML verification file.

Step 2: Upload the same HTML verification file on to your server.

Step 3: Run the uploaded file present in the server.

2.Alternate Method

In this alternate method, there are 4 ways that you can use to verify your site.

HTML Tag
Domain Name Provider
Google analytics
Google Tag Manager

Finally, You need to decide on which is the best and easiest method to verify your site.

Below i will going to explain you on how to use HTML Tag, Domain Name Provider, Google analytics, Google Tag Manager in order to verify your site.

1.HTML Tag

Step 1: Copy the meta html tag which is displayed inside the box.

Step 2: Paste that same meta html tag on to your head section of your homepage.

Step 3: Save your changes.

Step 4: Come back to Search Console and Click on “Verify Button”.

2.Domain Name Provider

Step 1: Sign into your domain name provider.

Step 2: Select the domain name provider from the dropdown list.

Step 3: Follow some further instructions and then click on “Verify Button”.

3.Google Analytics

Step 1: Choose the Google analytics option.

Step 2:Click on “Verify Button”.

It works instantly only when you already have setup Google Analytics for your website and you have “administrator” permission.

4.Google Tag Manager

Step 1: Sign in to your Google tag manager account.

Step 2: Click on the verify Button.

You should have “manage” permissions in order to verify your site.

How to Use Google Search Console

When you open the Google Search Console it will show you the Google search console Dashboard where you can see informations like New and important,Current status(Crawl errors, Search analytics,Sitemaps).

Site Messages

Google will send the alerts to website owners based on the problems associated with the website.

Increase in not found errors

Google will notify us whenever there is an increase in number of web pages not found on your website (404 not found errors).

Stop redirecting Smartphone users to the homepage.

Google is giving more attention towards mobile friendly search results .Google will also check the code or plugins you use that are redirecting internal links to your homepage.

Google bot can’t access your site

Google will check whether your website is live and also alerts you when there are any DNS issues with your hosting service provider.

Malware

If Google detects the presence of hacked code or malware on your website, they will notify you via Google Search Console messages. It’s your duty to fix that malware issues with your website as quickly as possible. In the meanwhile, Google will warn visitors in Google Chrome and Google search that your site has been hacked.

Manual actions

If Google detects the presence of unnatural links to or from your site, thin content, hidden text, keyword stuffing, pure spam, cloaking, sneaky redirects, spammy freehosts and spammy structured markup.

When Google determines that your website has violated webmaster guidelines, you may receive a message in Google Search Console concerning a manual action.

Reconsideration requests

When you submit reconsideration requests to remove manual actions from your website, you will receive Google’s response in your Google Search Console message inbox.Most messages will either include instructions on how to solve the problem or links to pages where you can learn more about the problem.

1.Search Appearance

As the name suggests, the Search Appearance section of search console tells you how your website appears in the search results. You can identify and change how you want your website to look on Google search results. Its appearance is influenced by several factors and can certainly have an influence on the click-through rate.

Structured Data

Structured data helps Google to understand the content of your site by gathering all the Structured Data that was found, which can be used to display rich snippets in search results. The graph shows you the number of Structured Data elements and markup errors. Download the report to fix any problems.

How to fix the Structured Data elements and markup errors

Step 1: Identify pages with errors.

Step 2: Put those errors in the testing tool Structured Data Testing Tool

Step 3: Use the suggestions to solve any issues.

Data Highlighter

Using Data Highlighter, you can improve your websites look in Google search by highlighting certain data to make it stand out towards your audience. If you don’t have access to the backend then you can use Data Highlighter to use Structured Data.

This point-and-click tool is one of the easiest ways to implement Structured Data.

Start with the URL of a typical page on your website,
Select the type of information and start highlighting.
When you highlight an element, use the context menu to select a tag.

If you make an error while editing you have an option to hit the clear tag button. All the highlighted information can be found in the right sidebar.

Information which is hidden on the page can be entered manually. Use the gear icon and select add missing tags.

HTML Improvements

The HTML Improvements page collects all the errors related to titles, Meta descriptions and non- index able content. Search console will tell you what needs to be fixed

The errors might be like

Short meta descriptions
Duplicate meta descriptions
Long meta descriptions
Missing title tags
Duplicate title tags
Short title tags
Long title tags
Non-informative title tags
Non-index able content

Sitelinks

Sitelinks will help users to navigate a website. Most of the time google will show you up with shortcuts to deeper pages which might be relevant to the user.

In order to make google to select right sitelinks by itself, you should optimize the information present on the link to be very informative and useful for the users.

If you think that a sitelink is inappropriate or incorrect, you can demote it. Select a page and enter the URL that should be removed.

2.Search Traffic

In this section, you can get the information related to your website like-

Where your website visitors are actually coming from,
Which domains are linking to your website
What your internal link structure looks like

Search Analytics

Search Analytics proved to be one of the best popular reports in Google Search Console.Search Analytics was formerly known as Search Queries.It shows you insights into the organic traffic from Google.

There are many filters which will help you to understand your website’s performance in Google’s search results.You can see Clicks,Impressions,CTR and Position of your website and can also target these with queries,pages, countries, devices, search type and dates.

Links to your Site

There are many websites out there which are used to analyse link popularity of your website,such as OpenSiteExplorer, ahrefs and MajesticSEO. In order to use these tools, we have to pay some monthly charges to get access to all their features.

Google Search Console is a best and free alternative for these kind of works.Using this Google Search console link-report you can get the report of anchor text ,linking domains and most-linked to pages.

You can easily download the complete table through the more button.

Internal Links

Both external and internal links are very inportant in improving your website page rank .Benefits of internal links are Proper navigation,Providing relevant data to readers and search engine bots,Pass the link juice to other pages and Help decrease the bounce rates.

The internal links report of Search Console will help you to can identify the pages that receive the most internal links.

Manual Actions

As you all know that web is an ever changing system and sometimes the results keep changing from good results to bad results and vice versa.If you think that your site is not performing well enough as it once did in past and if you see that your site isn’t appearing in search results.

At that time, it is better to check the Manual actions Report and take necessary actions.Once you are satisfied with your website which follows all Webmaster Guidelines then you can request for a review of your site directly from the Manual Actions report i.e., Reconsideration request.

Here you’ll find all the information related to any Google penalties which are currently in effect. You will see the message here only when your site got penalized by google otherwise, this section will be blank.

You will be penalized by google for some of the reasons mentioned below.

Thin content with little or no added value.
Unwanted or unnatural links to your site.
You website got Hacked by someone.
Cloaking
Bad tactics of redirects

International Targeting

If you want to reach audience in a specific country who speaks a specific language, then you want to make sure that the search results are relevant to the language and country version of your pages.

There are mainly two general mechanisms:

URL-level targeting
Site-wide targeting

In URL-level targeting, there are three implementation mechanisms

Page-level markup
Sitemaps
HTTP headers

Once you have configured all sites and pages for multi-regional or multi-language you can use these two section for targeting.

The Language section—Google uses hreflang tags to match the user’s language preference to the right variation of your pages.
The Country section—you can use this tool to set a site-wide country target for your entire site.This is available only for generic domain extensions, such as .com, .net and .org.

Mobile Usability
Nowadays, everyone likes to use Smartphone in day to day life .So there is an increase in number of users day by day .Recently google also announced that mobile friendly design will be used as a ranking signal.

If the page is empty without showing an error,then your website is optimized for mobile users.If there are Errors then that are listed along with an overview of all the pages that are affected.

You can also use the Mobile-Friendly Test to check if a page has a mobile-friendly design.

3.Google Index

In order to include your site contents in the google search results,first they need to be included in the Google Index. Ex: Google index is same as index in a library, which shows the information in the list about all the books in the library.

Whenever Google visits your site, if it detects new and updated pages then it will carry that information and updates the Google index.Under this section, you can see how many pages have been added to Google’s index of your site and remove unwanted URLs.

Index Status

The Index Status shows the total number of pages that are indexed.

Content Keywords

This report shows you with the most frequently used keywords of your website.

Blocked Resources

On this page you’ll find all pages that are blocked by robots.txt rules.

Remove URLs

The robots.txt file can be used to prevent pages from being added to Google’s index. Use robots.txt to specify how search engines should crawl your site, or request removal of URLs from Google’s search results.

You can use Remove URLs feature of Search Console to remove single url’s and also to remove entire directories both works the same way.This tool can be used by only site owners and also users with full permissions can request removals.

4.Crawl

Your site needs to be crawled before your pages can be indexed.All the information related to the Crawling process can be found in this section.

Crawl Errors

Crawl errors are very crucial we need to fix those asap.Otherwise Google can’t index your site properly in SERP and regularly we should check these Crawl Errors report.

It displays all the errors Googlebot encounters while crawling your website pages.Response codes (404, 403, etc.) can be subdivided by device; feature phone,mobile or desktop.

Crawl Stats

Googlebot activity in the last 90 days.

This page shows the number of pages that haven been crawled over the last 90 days.

Kilobytes downloaded per day.
Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds).

How to improve performance of your site ?

We need to increase pages crawled per day and also we need to make sure that the time spent downloading decreases.

Fetch as Google

“Fetch as Google” is a diagnostic tool that allows you to simulate how Google renders a certain page.

What’s the difference between “fetch” and “fetch and render”?

A fetch is a simple operation that is used to check the response code.

Whereas in“fetch and render” operation, Google crawls and displays the page as browsers would (including CSS, Javascript,pictures etc.).

This feature will help us to find the differences between browser rendering and the way Google sees a page.

Robots.txt Tester

As name suggest,this tool is used to test new robots.txt markup and check for errors. All types of Google-crawlers (Googlebot, Mobile, Mediapartners News, Images, Video and Adbot) are available.

If in case you don’t have robots.txt,then google will assume that there is no restrictions in your site and crawl all over your site.

Sitemaps

First, Create Sitemap, then upload it to your server and notify Google of the location of this Sitemap via Google Search Console.

How to add Sitemap in Google Search Console ?

Use the button in the top right corner to add or edit a Sitemap .
Enter the URL.
You can see the difference between the number of submitted and indexed pages.

Sitemap errors can also be found on this section.

URL Parameters

Sometimes Google will not be able to understand URL Parameters and may require your help in understanding certain URL Parameters.

Add a parameter and indicate if it changes the page content seen by the user.

For a tracking parameter, you can select No.

For parameters that reorder products, you can select Yes.

Use this tool only when it is necessary.If Googlebot doesn’t have problems with the coverage of your site then you don’t have to configure URL parameters. Incorrectly configuring parameters may also results in pages being dropped from indexing.

Read More about URL Parameters here
How to use URL Parameters in Google Search Console

How to Use Google Now to send your messages via Popular Messaging Apps

July 29, 2015 by Rakesh Doddera

There are many people in the world who doesn’t want to use Short Message Service (SMS) for sending Messages.Now, you can ask google to send messages by voice alone.Google has recently launched an update to Google Now to support third party apps for voice messaging.

In the past, you can only be able to send messages through default messaging app.
But now, Google Now allows users to dictate and send messages using messaging apps, including WhatsApp, Viber, WeChat, Telegram and NextPlus.

How to use Google Now for Voice messaging

Step 1:Say-“OK google ” in order to initiate the google now for voice recognition.

Step 2: Say -“Send a (A) message to (B)”.WHERE A is a name of messaging apps and B is a contact person name.

Step 3: At this time, Google will recognize your device contacts and after which you can dictate your message and allow Google Now to process your message for sending.

Step 4:Confirm with Google now to send message by saying YES.

Examples –

“Ok Google, send a WhatsApp message to Avinash : let’s go for Movie tonight.”
“Ok Google, send a Viber message to Prakash: let’s do dinner tomorrow night.”
“Ok Google, send a Wechat message to Deepak:Hi Good morning.”

Note: Before using this,you need to install latest versions of both google application as well as messaging apps.

If you don’t understand my words then you can see below GIF file from Google that will show you how it actually works.

Courtesy: Ask Google to send your messages via WhatsApp, Viber and more

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Find out the Best Android Phone for you using Google’s which phone web tool

July 22, 2015 by Rakesh Doddera

There are many android phones to choose from. It is one of the toughest job to choose the right one.

Google’s new web tool known as which phone will help you to narrow down the choices based on your smart phone usage.

Answer few questions down the line and google’s new which phone tool will suggest you some best android phones.

Don’t think that all the android smartphones are same .There are some android phones which are good at handling the different tasks.

There are many different type of people around the world and they like different things. Some people love to talk, love to text, game lovers, like to browse internet on the go, likes to express their style, likes to watch videos, and likes to use social media more.

How to select Android phones using Google’s new which phone tool.

When you enter into which phone web tool, Google’s new which phone web tool will ask you some simple questions based on your smartphone usage and then displays you some suggestions that might work for you.

At the start, the google will show you some 12 categories. In that at least you are supposed to select 3 categories.

The categories are listed as shown below:

Listening to music
Being productive
Social Media
Gaming
Watching videos
Being on the go
Staying Fit
Texting &
Talking
Web browsing
Expressing my Style
Instant messages

Once you pick the categories, you’re asked how often you would like to use android smartphones for those task. Along with this you need to answer some more important questions in order to narrow down your selection.

Since this is a US Centric tool, you will be asked to pick a carrier like AT&T, sprint, T-mobile or Verizon. If you want you can skip the steps by simply clicking on “Choose Later” option.

You will get a list of phone that might work for you.

Once the phone appears, Filter the search by Carrier, Price and Launched Date. Later you can save the phone to email or add them to your shopping list.

If you want any suggestion from friends then you can always share it on social media.

This which phone web tool may not give you a perfect selection, but this tool will definitely give you a better idea to choose the best android smart phones.

Google Web Light: Faster Access to mobile pages in Slow connection

July 22, 2015 by Rakesh Doddera

What is Google Web light ?

Google web light has come to android phones to support slow internet connection problems. It generates a new version of websites for users on slow connections. Now, you no need to worry or depend on fastest android web browser to make web pages to load faster.

Google web light enhances the internet speed upto 4 to 5 times faster, data is reduced to 70 to 90% which results in 50% more optimized page views.

How Google web light came to light ?

It is an initiative by Google to improve browsing experience of many users. It is also called as “streamlined lite version of mobile search”.

There are many developing and less developed countries like India and the people living in those countries are still struggling to use 3G internet connection i.e., they are still restricted to a 2G internet connection.

So, in order to help those people Google has an internal project designed and named it as a “Google web light”.

How Google Web Light actually works ?

Whenever user enters a query or keyword to find something on Google search on Android powered Chrome browser. If the browser detects the slow connection Google web light will automatically gets activated and transcode the web page to light version and will help web pages to load faster .

How to view a actual version of web page from lighter version of web page ?

Users can easily opt out or have an option to go from a lighter version of web page to a actual version of web page just by clicking on a link “View original” on top of the web page.

How to request Google not to transcode web pages ?

Even though this is not recommended sometimes we may have to do this. You can set the http header “Cache-Control:no-transform” in your page response to tell Google not to transcode the web page.

How to Test Google Web Light ?

If you want to test Google web light, just you need to go to http://googleweblight.com/?lite_url=yoururl and place your desired url in place of your url.

YouTube Video of Google Web light.

For any issue or feedback, you can mail directly to googleweblight@google.com

How to use Google Drive directly from Microsoft Office

July 22, 2015 by Rakesh Doddera

Google drive allows you to keep all important files in one place, then you can open them with your own choice of devices and apps.

As you all know that how important Microsoft Office is in our day to day life. There are many Microsoft Office users in the world. Keeping that in mind, the Google company has launched an Office plug in that allows you to directly access and edit Google Drive documents from within Microsoft’s productivity suite.

Benefits of Using Google Drive Plugin

If you’re working on a document, spreadsheet or presentation which is saved on your computer, you can also easily save that file to Google Drive, directly from the Office apps.

You can share files with the team members.
Access your files across devices.

Google Drive Plug-in allows Microsoft Office users to open any Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents stored in Drive. Any changes will be automatically synced up to Google’s cloud when you’re done.

How to Use New Google Drive Plugin

Step 1: Download the new plugin from Google here https://tools.google.com/dlpage/driveforoffice

Step 2: Make sure that you are using Internet Explorer 9 or higher.

Step 3: It opens up in separate tab Google Drive, where you have an option of saving files directly to drive by entering a new name for that particular item.