Monday, February 13, 2012

5 Cool Google Services You May Not Know


Google has made the life everyone on the Internet more easily. When talking about this multi billion dollar company, most people are already familiar with its products and inventions such as Google Search Engine, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Reader, Picasa, or Google Calendar, each of these products play a big role in our daily lives.

Google allows us to discover new things, send email, set up our stuff, share photos, and more. It only includes mainstream Google product. Google is always experimenting and trying new things. If I ask you to name each and every one of Google's products, you may not be familiar with the lesser-known products. This article will tell you about 5 major Google services that are not very well known.

1.      Google Notebook
How do you make a note of things while you are browsing the site on the Internet? Google Notebook is the answer! Google Notebook is a powerful and helpful alternative that lets you store your notes online. This will help while you work on any project or when you're collecting information. The best part about Google Notebook is that you can access it anywhere you want, as long as the computer has an active internet connection. This free online application is available as an extension for browsers Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. 

2.      Google SketchUp
Google SketchUp is a free application designed to make 3D sketches.
Unlike other conventional 3D CAD program, SketchUp is very pleasant to work with with a user friendly graphical interface. You can even search for designs created by other users in the Google SketchUp, so you can get inspiration for your own design.

3.      Google PageCreator
Google Page Creator is a web-based application that can be used to create websites and web pages. Page you create will be hosted by Google itself.
Google Page Creator gives you 100MB of free storage space and a variety of templates to choose from. This allows you to handle all HTML elements and JavaScript without much knowledge of them. It also offers three unique for each user subdomain, such as http://username.googlepages.com.

4.      Google Base
Google Base allows anyone who has a Google account to post anything (text or graphics) as long as the post still complies with Google Policy and Regulations.
The contents that can be posted can be text format, ad, lecture notes or even recipes. Whatever type of content, Google Base makes the content searchable on Google. You are even allowed to add your own words that will help people to find your content.

5.      Google Movies
Google Movies lets you find movies that are currently playing near your house. It is basically a search engine that allows you to find a movie playing in theaters near you.
Now, you do not need to browse the newspaper to find what films/movies are currently screened

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