After getting a new look approximately a month ago, Google is further improving our user experience by rolling out a feature that allow us to select a custom background image for the homepage. Think Bing, but with you having control which image is being shown. Photos can be selected from your computer, your own Picasa [...]

Google Maps is no doubt one of the most used tool to find almost just any location or place on planet Earth. There is one problem though. You can only enjoy such convenience if you are connected to the internet. There is an option to print on Google Maps, but the limited map size and [...]

Gmail Sneak Peak is a newcomer to Gmail Labs. When it is enabled, you can view any mail’s content in your inbox by right-clicking, without actually opening the mail itself. A window overlay sort of a thing will appear, and an excerpt of your mail content will be displayed, like this: The window is not [...]

(Gmail+Firefox/Chrome) Do you receive emails from strangers very often? If yes, it would probably be a lovely to have this Firefox add-on/Chrome extension installed— Rapportive. This is what Rapportive do — kick out the sidebar advertisement from Gmail and replace it with information about the sender of the email you are reading. Here’s what it [...]

Released by MailChimp, Analytics360° is a WordPress plugin that will fetch your website statistics from Google Analytics and MailChimp campaign statistics (if you have one) right to your WordPress dashboard. While the plugin is released by MailChimp with the intention to bring its customer’s email campaign statistics and Google Analytics together into WordPress, it is [...]

My Gmail Notifier Firefox add-on had stop working for several months already, and apparently the Offline Gmail feature from Gmail Labs is the culprit. Updating to the latest version of Gmail Notifier (0.6.3.11 at the time of writing) didn’t help at all, but fortunately this can be fixed by simply installing this: hosted2.xpi It works [...]