Google Chrome
Google Chrome is an interesting browser that I have been learnt in training session. It is very helpful and useful for my projects. It helps me to save my time while I am searching. From that time I am using Google Chrome instead of the Internet Explorer because it is the easiest and fastest way to enter and searching the links through creating application. The Chrome Web Store is the most interesting thing in Google Chrome. I can add many different and recent popular applications to Chrome Home Page such as Business tools, office applications, games, lifestyle applications, Educational applications, News and Weather applications.
Blogs
Blogs is an amazing tool that I have been learnt from the training session. It is enabling me to share my experience and receiving the comments from my friends and family. I can add and view my post as daily. Also, I like to use and update the blog because I can upload the Photos and video easily. Moreover, it helps me to increase my creativity through using different tools and improving my skills in writing by creative my page blog. Creating a blog is an excellent opportunity for a person who has establishing business. It helps to earn income and inform consumers of the recently launched products and services through promoting them by a low cost marketing device. Also, blogs keeps you ahead of your competition through informing consumers of the way you work, how you are different from others and how your services are way above from competitors. And blogs help to manage and build online reputation.
Google Sites
Google sites enable me to make information accessible in the site, up to date access. I can insert file attachments; add information from other Google applications such as Google Docs and Google Calendar. Also, I may upload YouTube video, Picasa photos, presentations and photo slide shows. Moreover, I can publish sites to the world. I have to create Google site in this semester. It is very easy to use through creating a new page and accesses my Google tools in each page. It is as easy as editing a document and choose customization options. It get started with templates through offering a list of page types like web page, announcement, file cabinet and dashboard to help me to get started with my Google Sites pages. It is very an amazing tool!!!
Twitter
When the trainer presented us about the twitter, I was interesting to have an account in twitter to learn more about it. As a daily I like to read the breaking news, post my tweets and see others’ tweets. Twitter is very useful communications tool and there are many good features like to write and share my information as Tweets. These Tweets are available to anyone interested in reading them. I like the “Browse Interests” tab to discover new accounts to follow and it help me to find my friends. Also, I can find people on Twitter whose Twitter names contain my search term under the “People” tab. In addition, as a business I can start to advertise my product on Twitter and it will help me a lot to keep in touch with people.
Google searching
When I have been learnt the Google searching in the session, actually it was really helpful tool for my projects. It helps me to find exactly what I am looking for example if I want to search about specific book I can find through following some steps. Also, it helps me to search a topic specifically in different file type such as PDF, Ms Excel and Ms Word.
Google Searching is very easy to use in simple way and saving my time. It is enable me to know about the daily life essentials like the weather and times in different countries. Moreover, it may help me to know the timing of the sunrise and sunset in different cities and countries. It has many another features such as I can use the calculator and unit Conversion through converting many different units of measurement of height and weight.
The most interesting thing about the Google searching is providing me a lot about traveling to search about the flight schedules and search the flight status for arriving and departing. In addition, the Google searching provides the currency converter if I need to convert my money for traveling. That are really amazing features about Google searching I did not it before.
Google Earth
Google earth one of the important tools that have many different features in one program. It is very fast and highly dynamic navigation. It is enable me to show the location of different countries in detail for example we can zoom and see the sea, cities, streets, mountains, hotels, restaurants, parks and schools. In addition, we can find that the building and cities as 3D models to show us a highly realistic view of a city and in specific details in the map. Actually, Google Earth helps me a lot in the project tasks while doing a video playback of driving directions from area to another area to makes easier to find the place. Google earth helps me a lot in providing me the necessary information when I have plan to travel other countries, it is enable me to provide me the information about the weather, hotels location, culture, characteristics, transportation and the places of interest.
Gmail, voice & video chat
Before downloading any Google tools I have to create an account in Gmail to be able using other Google tools. When I have been created an account I found out that it has interesting features and I prefer it more than Hotmail. From that time I always use my Gmail account because it is enable me to organize my mails through Gmail Filters in a variety of ways through making your email inbox easier to sort through. Also, I can expand Gmail Chat to SMS and you take your conversations with me. Moreover, I can access my email from other online accounts through importing email and contacts from a variety of popular email programs by following Google’s comprehensive step by step guide. In addition, the Gmail Security Checklist helps to follow all of the security guidelines on this list to help avoid unwanted access to my account. Actually, Gmail’s Security Checklist contains 18 items in five categories such as your computer, Your Browser, Your Google Accounts, Your Gmail Settings and Final Reminders. This is makes to ensure that my account is always secure.
To use Gmail voice and video I have to login in my Gmail account. It can use for free and help me to stay connected with my friends and family anywhere around the world through text chatting, Gmail Voice and video calling with added video capability.
Google Docs
Google Docs is very useful tool I am using this tool in my Management Project. Google Docs including documents list, documents and spreadsheets. It enables me to create and share the document with others of group member. My group members can read and edit or add comment to the project. Then, I am receiving emails from my member group to correct the report. I can change the font, size, color and other formatting options. Also, I may add page numbers on the document and print it. Moreover, I can insert the photos, copy and paste a chart from spreadsheet into a document or drawing. It is a safe place to store my documents and it save automatically so I can open and find my documents any time and in anywhere from other laptops.
Google Calendar
Google Calendar is very easy to keep our life’s essential events all in one area. It makes our life more organized and professional. I can manage my appointments and share my schedule in calendar with co-workers, family and friends when I know when everyone is free or busy. In addition, I am enabling to create invitations for special events through sending invitations to other people and I can notify them through email. Moreover, I can access my Google Calendar in my phone while I am away from my desk so I carry it anywhere with me. Also, I enable to customize reminders to help me stay on schedule, and I may select to be inform through receiving an email or get a text message and it will sent immediate to my phone. The most interesting thing about Google Calendar that I can access my calendar whenever and however I want through syncing events with Microsoft Outlook or any other Apple Devices.
Google Finance
Google Finance shows me an easy way to search for stocks, mutual funds, public and private companies. It helps me to find and manage my financial information online easily. Google Finance provides me a very fast, easy and powerful way to create, maintain and track my personal portfolio of stocks and mutual funds.
Google News
Google News allows me to set up sections on topics of my interest through selecting personalize Google News. This tool helps me to save my time while searching with selecting the sources and specific categories to find latest update news. Google News allows me to share my online news with my friends.
Google Picasa and Picasa Web Album
Google Picasa and Picasa Web Album is a free software that owned by Google. This tool considers being one of the photo management programs which helps the users to find, edit, print and share all the photos on their computers. It is very useful photo program nowadays and I am using Picasa to add value, glow and different effects to our memorable images in addition it helps to gather all photos in one image also I can do a lot in Google Picasa for example, I can send photo by email without open my email; also I can add my photos to my blog. Moreover, I can import pictures from different devices. Creating Movie Maker is another interesting thing in Google Picasa for any project or to display historical backgrounds of business organization and development, also we can use for teaching purposes. Also, there is an important feature for the businesses that we can make a poster for the project to advertise product.
Facebook
Facebook is an interesting tool that enables me to find my friends and communicate with them easily. I have an account in Facebook and I post my Photos and shares with my family and friends through private or public messages and a chat feature. But after the training session I gained more information about using features of Facebook. I can create my profile, album pictures and join interest groups. In addition, I can post my videos and links in my account. It is useful tool and nice to learn it. Moreover, some organizations use a Facebook account for advertising purposes.
Google Reader RSS Feeds
Google Reader enables me to share and organize my articles with other web users or through creating a basic webpage that includes all shared items from a user’s account. With Google Reader I can subscribe to feeds by using either Google Reader’s search function, or through entering URL of the RSS or Atom feed. Then, the feeds show on the left of the screen. Moreover, I can order the list of feeds through date or relevance. Also, it can be organized with labels. Thus, I am able to create “Starred items” for easy to access.
Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking helps me to manage and organize my resources online. It enables me to save links to a page and find it in this tool. It helps me to store, remember and share my online websites with my friends. Also, I can share it either publicly or privately. Social bookmarking is a great way to manage websites through using tags and categories to keep all categories, headlines and descriptions related to the website link. It is very useful tool for my project research. I am using Delicious as social bookmarking web service. I like this amazing tool because it enables me to save and access my bookmarks from any computers and any place.
