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Do you feel bored of Gmail (Google Mail) design? Let’s try this!

Look cool? Look better?

How about this one?

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Google Inc. showed off its nearly completed mobile Relevant Products/Services software system to about 3,000 computer programmers Wednesday, hoping to cultivate more services and advertising for people on the go.

Although brief, the demonstration at the Internet search leader’s annual developer conference in San Francisco represented the most extensive public look so far at “Android” — an open-source platform being designed for “smart” phones and other mobile devices that surf the Web. Android was first announced nearly seven months ago.

The new Google-powered mobile phone will be able to unlock the handset by drawing a secret shape on the screen.

The new ’signature unlocking’ tool was among the features revealed during a sneak preview in California yesterday.

Other highlights include a built-in compass that will allow people to orientate maps as they use their phone to scout out a restaurant or venue, and a customizable homepage that lets people bookmark their favourite web pages.

The device - which is unlocked by drawing a shape only the owner knows on a nine-square grid - will also include a magnifying tool, to make zooming in on web content easier on a small screen, and a mobile version of the game Pac Man.
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Now you can use Google Sites without having a domain and it’s open for everyone.

Google Sites gives you a basic template to create a Website that can be edited by the public or a smaller group of people. The same elements like Photos, widgets, videos, and other can be added easily.

The sites are available at: http://sites.google.com/site/YOURSITENAME and there doesn’t seem to be a limit for the number of sites you can create. You can create as many web pages as you like, but each site has a storage quota of only 100 MB. By default, each site is public, but you can make it private in the settings or when you create it.

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Do you want to know where your website ranks in the search results? Try Firefox Rank Checker extension. The free Firefox extension allows you to easily check your website rankings in Google (US and international), Yahoo, and Microsoft Live search. free Firefox

Download & Installation Instructions:

• You have to be using Firefox to get this to work. If you have not yet used Firefox go download Firefox, and then come back to this page using Firefox as your web browser.
• Click Here to install the Firefox Rank Checker extension.
• If the Software Installation window is visible click Install Now.
• If not, then:
  • See if there is a yellow bar near the top of your browser.
  • Click the Edit Options button on the yellow bar.
  • Click Allow. Then click OK.
  • Click Here
  • Click the Install Now button.
• As a final step, restart Firefox.

Click on the words Rank Checker in the bottom of your Firefox browser to activate the tool. Enter a URL and keyword combination and click the start button to check it’s rankings.

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