Kashmiri Chai – Gulabi Chai

Occasion: Any		Total servings: 8-10
Cuisine: Pakistani		Calories: 35 k/cal
Effort: Average		Pre-Prep time:
Best for: All		Preperation time: 1 hour
How to serve: Hot

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recipe by Kishwar.

Kashmiri Chai is prepared by green tea with a required quantity of milk. Kashmiri tea is a favorite tea in Pakistan. It looks more delicious when serves with crushed Almonds and Pistachio.

6 tsp. green tea leaves
15-20 seeds of green cardamom plus 1-2 tsp. ground cardamom
1-2 tsp. bicarbonate of soda
1-2 ltr. full cream milk e)Fresh cream ( malai)
6 tsp. ground pistachio/almonds
6 cups water
Salt to taste

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Pour water in a heavy based large pan. Add tea leaves,salt, seeds of greencardamom and bicarbonate of soda.
Bring to boil reduce heat and simmer briskly for 4-5 minutes or until it reduces to 13 its quantity.
While it is still boiling pour in it about 2-3 cups of cold water or enough water to make four cups in all.
Bring to boil and simmer for 4-5 minutes.
Remove from heat, strain and keep aside.
Boil the milk with ground cardamom over low heat.
Pour prepared tea water (Qahwa) in the milk.
Bring to boil, add salt and simmer for 3-5 minutes over low heat.
Remove from heat and pour into 6 cups.
Pour 1 tablespoon of cream or malai.
Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of pistachio/almonds over it.

Pakistani Zoha Abdullah Malik Topped In Biology O Level All Over The World

Islamabad: Pakistani Student Zoha Abdullah Malik from Beacon House School System Islamabad Topped in O Level examination in Biology all over the World.

PML-F chief Pir Pagara passes away

Spiritual Leader of Hur Community and Chief of Pakistan Muslim League (Functional) Pir Mardan Shah-II, more commonly known as Pir Pagara, breathed his last at the age of 83 here on Tuesday, Geo News reported.

Pir Pagara was flown to London’s Wellington Hospital in an air-ambulance after suffering from an infection following his surgery in Karachi a few days ago, where he, reportedly, had shown some signs of improvement before his death.

Doctors at Wellington Hospital said the cause of death was cardiac arrest.

His funeral prayer will be offered here in London on Wednesday.

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight would fly his dead body back home on the same day.

President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani have telephoned Pir Pagaro’s sons in London and registered their condolences.

Chief Minister Sindh, Syed Qaim Ali Shah has announced three-day mourning in Sindh.

Governor Sindh, Dr Isharat-ul-Ibad has also condoled with his heirs.

Pir Pagara spent a major part of his life being actively engaged in Pakistan’s politics.

He was born in Pir Jo Goth on November 22, 1928. He had his primary education at his birth-town. While his his father was under arrest, Khalifas at Dargah Sharif looked after his education.

In 1946 he was kept under house arrest along with his younger brother and family members in Karachi. He stayed for three years in Aligrah from 1943 to 1946. In 1946 he was shifted to Liverpool, England, where he was admitted in Majiour Davis Private School but was kept school-bound.

In 1949 Prime Minister Liaqut Ali Khan met him in England and assured him of restoration of his Status. On 4th February 1952 his status as Pir Pagara was officially restored with Dasterbandi.

Immediately after restoration of Gadi he had many challenges to face. Most important challenge was to restore the image of Hur Jamat. British during those last 30 years had tarnished the image of Jamat and projected the Jamat as terrorist. It was a big task to clarify the position of the Jamat and reorganize it, which he did with all his might.

Pir Sahib was very fond of hunting and horseracing. He owned many race-winning horses of rare pedigree. The credit of Karachi racecourse club’s restoration also goes to only Pir Sahib. Forecasting was also one of his hobbies. His political forecasts often came true. On top of all these, he was a first class cricketer as well.

During the colonial rule, his forebear Pir Syed Sibghtullah Shah Shaheed started armed struggle against the British in the form of Hur movement. The rulers were so scared of the movement that they assassinated Sibghtullah Shah Shaheed to control the movement. Thus Sibghtullah Shah Shaheed gave his life independence.

Pir Sahib also felt it was his duty to safeguard & maintain the sovereignty, integrity and independence of the homeland. In 1965, when India attacked Pakistan, Pir Sahib asked his followers to serve the country. About 20,000 volunteers came out and fought very bravely and captured many posts of India.

Similarly in 1971 by order of Pir sahib his followers volunteered and fought very bravely.

As far as his political party is concerned, in fifties, after the defeat of Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah at the hands of Field Marshall Ayub Khan in presidential run, Mohtarma declared the Muslim League as Functional and made Pir Pagaro the head of this faction of Pakistan Muslim League, which he led with grace till his death.

Memogate Scandal: How BlackBerry Set Works

WOODBRIDGE, VA: As the memogate commission issued notices to various parties in the memogate investigation in Islamabad on Monday it will not be the testimony of ex-ambassador Husain Haqqani or the contents of the affidavit of former US national security adviser Gen James Jones or even the in-person testimony of American businessman Mansoor Ijaz that would matter.

It will be the forensic analysis of telephone records, e-mail exchanges and BlackBerry chats
that allegedly took place between Ijaz and Haqqani from May 9 to May 11. Phone records will be the easiest to ascertain and provide direct evidence and confirmation. But for most Pakistanis, the internal workings of a BlackBerry device are not that well understood. The forensic testing of Ijaz’s devices, which apparently still hold the original exchanges with Haqqani, and the ability to retrieve such data independently from Research In Motion Limited (RIM), the maker of BlackBerry devices, will be the key determining factor in whether memogate is consigned to the dustbin of history or is the hammer that nails the coffin shut of those who stand accused of committing such heinous crimes against the state.

Every BlackBerry device has a unique identifier called a PIN CODE. This PIN is an eight-digit alphanumeric which registers a particular handset for use on the RIM servers so that any user can reach any other user of BB services for minimal monthly cost.

Messages sent by BB Messenger are encrypted and cannot be seen by others in real time. Every BlackBerry device has a PIN, exactly like a fingerprint identifying the DNA of that particular handset. BBs are the device of choice among the professional class because a BlackBerry handset can exchange not only secure, encrypted chats between its users, but can also receive and send e-mails, SMS, MMS in addition to being utilized as a normal telephone.

BBs have the added feature of a PIN message that shows up in bright red font on a BB screen, that is only seen between two users chatting with each other (like a highly encrypted e-mail message from one mailbox to another). PIN messages appeared in the list of exchanges between Ijaz and Haqqani, according to Ijaz’s SC statement.

In the memogate case, some complex issues arise if there was an intent on the part of one or the other, or even both, protagonists (Ijaz and Haqqani) to delete, erase or modify the data in their handsets. Let’s start with what we know.

Ijaz has made publicly available 31 screen shots of his BB handset as part of his witness statement to the SC. If those screen shots reflect real data, then his handset holds sufficient evidence to be forensically examined and demonstrate that those conversations he claims took place between him and Haqqani were in fact real. Why so? Because Ijaz’s PIN is verifiable as belonging to him, and the incoming messages would have to have been received by the sender’s PIN, which is also recorded in Ijaz’s handset.

The harder part will be to ascertain whether the PIN associated with incoming BB messages sent to Ijaz’s device belonged to a handset used by Haqqani. The PIN is unique to the handset. The SIM card (and therefore the phone number that belongs to that particular SIM card) is not.

A SIM card for a telephone number belonging to Haqqani could theoretically be installed in a different handset than the one he was sending his BB chats from. Once used for the purpose intended, he could discard that BB handset, never to be seen again, and only RIM could confirm using Ijaz’s handset whether the chats did take place or not.

If, on the other hand, Haqqani used one of his two normal phone numbers to send BB chats to Ijaz (one issued for official use as ambassador – a 202 number, and one privately kept by Haqqani – a 617 number from his old days in Boston University’s employ that he used for non-government work), then RIM would have evidence of which SIM card, and therefore telephone number, was used to transmit the BB chats by that specific PIN code.

Commission investigators will have a tough time getting to the bottom of what phones Haqqani did or did not actually use.

He will have to be asked to produce the two handsets that had the PIN numbers disclosed by Ijaz as belonging to Haqqani on the days in May and in October/November when they allegedly exchanged large numbers of chat messages.

If he refuses, or cannot because the devices have been disposed of, the only other certain way to ascertain whether Haqqani sent the messages would be an unlikely confession or a Commission subpoena of data from RIM. This is being apparently done by the Commission. It may be hard to get but possible.

One other possibility exists. RIM could be subpoenaed to hand over all messages associated with the PIN codes allegedly used by Haqqani. Those messages would then identify PIN codes other than Ijaz’s, which would then confirm that Haqqani was in fact the sender because his chat list of contacts would be unique to him, and the PIN codes of others with whom he communicated could not be set aside so easily.

If history is any guide, the Commission will have its work cut out to demand anything from BB maker RIM. In August 2011, as youthful rioters were blackening the streets of Britain in a dramatic popular uprising, BBs were the communication tool of choice. As police work started and arrests were made, RIM pre-empted a move by Metropolitan Police authorities to get ahead of an onslaught of subpoenas by tweeting at the time: “We feel for those impacted by the riots in London. We have engaged with the authorities to assist in any way we can.”

With RIM’s cooperation, police would have been able to read and record in real time encrypted BBM messages between riot conspirators, pinpointing individuals and building evidence against them for use in court. Unlike the use of publicly available communication tools such as Facebook and Twitter during the “Arab Spring” uprisings, BB’s prominence as a person-to-person technology whose encrypted messages cannot be monitored in real time posed a great barrier to the police trying to stop Britain’s riots.

While privacy advocates may have come down on RIM for invasion of privacy with its offer to assist British police, the larger problem was, and for the memogate commission’s forensic investigators is, posed by Britain’s Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. Its stringent provisions for protecting user rights would make it nearly impossible without long court battles to obtain RIM data even on national security grounds.

One way to resolve the legality issue and avoid subpoenas, etc would be for the commission to ask Ijaz, who has publicly committed his unfettered support to the investigation, to authorize RIM to release his records so that one side of this two-party equation is known with absolute certainty.

If the RIM-provided evidence shows that the telephone numbers (i.e., SIM card data) which conveyed BB chats received on his device belonged to Haqqani, the case is solved and the results are known with 100 pc accuracy regardless of whether Haqqani makes a single device or PIN or anything available to the Commission.

The Commission’s investigators will then have to make sure the SIM card data for BB chats verified by access to Ijaz’s handset is the same as it was then, that Haqqani did not somehow report his phones as lost or stolen only to bring his telephone numbers up on different SIM cards.

As a desperate act of last resort, is it possible that BB chat exchanges could be created, existing ones distorted or modified, or even permanently deleted from RIM servers?

Experts interviewed for this article said all were possible, but highly unlikely given the stakes of being discovered as evidence tampering.

Modification software on a device or computer holding backup records is easily detected and determined as to load time and keystrokes. Permanent deletion or any other manipulation of records on RIM’s servers would imply very high level complicity at a government and legal/judiciary level.

And if found out, would paralyse not just Pakistan, but also perhaps the US and UK governments as well.

RIM’s encrypted communications have ruffled feathers, particularly in repressive governments interested in stopping unwanted political speech. Several countries in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, threatened to ban BlackBerry services altogether if RIM didn’t give them access to BB chat exchanges, ostensibly for “counter-terrorism purposes”.
RIM reportedly agreed to provide access after a drawn out battle – time that the Pakistan Memogate Commission simply does not have.

via, thenews

Pakistan Launched Its First Search Engine “Raftaar”

Karachi: Pakistan’s first local search Engine “Raftaar Pakistan” has been launched in the country with the aim to facilitate internet users to explore filtered and Pakistan-based content rapidly.

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has designed this online search engine (www.pakistan.pk/search) that will entertain a particular search string by fetching the relevant information from websites registered under .pk ccTLD.

Raftaar Pakistan is expected to catch the attraction of broadband internet service providers in order to encourage and promote local search facility.

PTA would welcome to work with Broadband services providers to host Raftaar. Besides, PTA launched various application services on its online national rabta portal (www.pakistan.pk). The primary focus behind the launch is to assist local Internet users in retrieving various information specific to Internet resource information and content of the country.

National Whois application will help the user to access ownership and management information of an IP address of Pakistan. The Whois service is linked up with APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Center) database.

ICT rabta pages service will assist a user to retrieve contact and general information about ICT industry of the country whereas educational portal service will help the students and general community to access information regarding public & private educational institutes, scholarships and skill development programs available in the country.

Link: Raftaar Search

NADRA to launch voter verification SMS facility

Voters can confirm registration by sending CNIC number to a specific code through text message.

National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has decided to introduce a new SMS service which will allow voters to verify their vote registration and particulars in the voters lists, said Deputy Chairman Nadra Tariq Malik in a press release released Wednesday.

A press release from Deputy Chairman Nadra Tariq Malik says that the service will be launched after the publication of preliminary/unconfirmed electoral rolls (PER) for public display. Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is considering more than 50,000 display centers countrywide where PER will be displayed.

To avail the service, the potential voter will send his CNIC number to a certain code provided after which he will receive a message in Urdu which will confirm his registration, the location (electoral area) where the voter is registered and his serial number in electoral rolls.

Nadra and ECP signed agreements with three telecom companies on Wednesday to forge a partnership for the launch of this service, while Nadra has also developed an SMS service application.

While lauding the service and Nadra role’s, Secretary ECP Ishtiaq Ahmad Khan said that it is a milestone to facilitate the voters and it will be “a great convenience to the citizens to be able to check their vote status through e-governance using state-of-the-art technologies for the first time in the world.”

He appreciated the cooperation offered by the Ufone, Warid and Telenor in this effort leading towards free and fair elections in the country.

Source 

The Top Eight Job Search Engines

If you are in search of a job on web then you should check these eight best jobs search which provides you the best opportunity to work according to your skills.

USA.gov

When you enter in USA.com you feel like a big way heading for you to USA. Go to its home page click on Jobs and Education section and then on Government jobs. You will find many job sections that will help you how to work.

Monster.com

Monster.com is providing me a good deal and I have been working on it from several years. You can find your work by your location, keywords. Monster has many sections of jobs like networking boards, searching, and online posting.

CareerBuilder.com

CareerBuilder offers you the skill to find a job, post a resume, create job alerts, get job advice and job resources, look up job fairs, and much more on the web. This is a truly immense job search engine that offers a lot of good resources to the job searcher; I especially understand the list of job search communities.

Dice.com

Dice.com provides you only technology jobs. It provides you a space for finding the main position for which you are looking.

Indeed.com

Indeed.com is also a very firm search engine. It has a vast networking job area. You can post your resume here and easily will get a job of your profession. I have found that ‘indeed’ gives you more jobs than any other site.

Craigslist.com

There are all sorts of attractive jobs available on Craigslist. Just find your towns look under Jobs, and then look under your job category. Non-profit, systems, government, writing, etc. jobs are all represented here. One Craigslist caveat: because this is a free marketplace, some of the jobs posted at Craigslist are not legal (the vast majorities are, however). Use vigilance and common sense when replying to job listings on Craigslist.

LinkedIn.com

LinkedIn.com combines the better of two worlds: the ability to rub the Internet for jobs with its job search engine, and the opportunity to work with like-minded friends and individuals to expand your job search. LinkedIn’s job postings are of the highest quality, and if you are connected to someone who already knows about that particular job, than it will be vey easy for you to work on it.

SimplyHired.com

It is the best job engine because of its Simply Fired contest. It provides you an exclusive experience by your interest. It also gives you to do the job of your own choice and each section has a detailed profile.

Reformed PBS set up

The government on Friday established an autonomous Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) by restructuring the entire national statistics system of the country.

The bureau has been set up after the merger of existing three data collecting agencies: Federal Bureau of Statistics; Population Census Organization; Agriculture Census Organization.

The affairs of the PBS would be supervised by a 10-member governing council, to be headed by the finance minister or the advisor to the prime minister on finance. The members would be appointed for a three-year term.

Finance Minister Dr Hafeez Shaikh, who briefed the media about the establishment of the PBS, announced a 10-member council.

Mr Shaikh appointed Mohsin Hassan Khan, a former IMF employee and Dr Shamshad Akhtar former governor of State Bank as council members.

Most council members hail from Punjab while Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have not been given representation.

Commenting on the composition of the council, the minister said that all members of the council have been appointed on merit.

However, provinces would be given representation in the National Users Council and Provincial Users Councils.

The users council would have an advisory role and would guide the statistical authority to fill in the gaps, if any, in the compilation of statistics.

The current body has more than 3,000 employees across the country. The employees would be given an option to join the PBS on contract or retain their government service, a senior official of the Bureau of Statistics said.

No existing employee of the Statistics Division would be laid off, Federal Secretary Asif Bajwa claimed.

He, however, did not elaborate how two tiers of employment — government and contract — would be retained.

The Finance Minister said that the PBS would be headed by a chief statistician who would be appointed from outside.

“We will soon advertise the post,” the minister said.

“How would PBS be autonomous if it depends on the government for funding?” he was asked. He claimed that it would be an autonomous body, and there would be no government intervention at any stage.

Secretary, Statistics Division, Asif Bajwa, said that salaries of those who would be hired from the private sector and the other expenses of the governing council would be met through selling of statistics to other organisations and the private sector.

“We will generate money by conducting studies,” he said.

The National Assembly passed the General Statistics (Reorganization) Act, 2011 on May 2 and by Senate on May 10 to make it a law.

The purpose of the Act is to produce reliable, authentic, timely and transparent data compatible with the needs of the economy and socio-economic development requirements of the nation.

Mubarak Zeb Khan 

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100+ Google Tricks

It’s Google’s world, we’re just teaching in it. Now, we can use it a little more easily. With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for all teachers, so why not take advantage of the wide world that Google has to offer?

 From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time.

 Search Tricks

These search tricks can save you time when researching online for your next project or just to find out what time it is across the world, so start using these right away.

Convert units. Whether you want to convert currency, American and metric units, or any other unit, try typing in the known unit and the unknown unit to find your answer (like “how many teaspoons in a tablespoon” or “10 US dollars in Euros”).

Do a timeline search. Use “view:timeline” followed by whatever you are researching to get a timeline for that topic.

Get around blocked sites. If you are having problems getting around a blocked site, just type “cache:website address” with website address being the address of the blocked site to use Google’s cached copy to get where you are going.

Use a tilde. Using a tilde (~) with a search term will bring you results with related search terms

Use the image search. Type in your search word, then select Images to use the image search when trying to put a picture to your term.

Get a definition. If you want a definition without having to track down an online (or a physical) dictionary, just type “definition:word” to find the definition of the word in your results (i.e.: “definition: serendipity” will track down the definition of the word “serendipity”).

Search within a specific website. If you know you want to look up Babe Ruth in Wikipedia, type in “site:wikipedia.org Babe Ruth” to go directly to the Wikipedia page about Babe Ruth. It works for any site, not just Wikipedia.

Search within a specific kind of site. If you know you only want results from an educational site, try “site:edu” or for a government site, try “site:gov” and your search term to get results only from sites with those web addresses.

Search for a specific file type. If you know you want a PDF (or maybe an MP3), just type in “filetype:pdf” and your search term to find results that are only in that file type.

Calculate with Google. Type in any normal mathematical expressions to get the answer immediately. For example, “2*4″ will get you the answer “8.”

Time. Enter “what time is it” and any location to find out the local time.

Find a term in a URL. This handy trick is especially useful when searching blogs, where dates are frequently used in the URL. If you want to know about a topic for that year only and not any other year, type “inurl:2009″ and your keyword to find results with your keyword in URLs with 2009 in them.

Use Show Options to refine your search. Click “Show Options” on your search result page to have access to tools that will help you filter and refine your results.

Search for a face. If you are looking for a person and not just their name, type “&imgtype=face” after the search results to narrow your results to those with images of faces.

Google Specifically for Education

From Google Scholar that returns only results from scholarly literature to learning more about computer science, these Google items will help you at school.

Google Scholar. Use this specialized Google search to get results from scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, and academic publishers.

Use Google Earth’s Sky feature. Take a look at the night sky straight from your computer when you use this feature.

Open your browser with iGoogle. Set up an iGoogle page and make it your homepage to have ready access to news stories, your Google calendar, blogs you follow in Google Reader, and much more.

Stay current with Google News. Like an electronic clearinghouse for news, Google News brings headlines from news sources around the world to help you stay current without much effort.

Create a Google Custom Search Engine. On your own or in collaboration with other students, put together an awesome project like one of the examples provided that can be used by many.

Collect research notes with Google Notebook. Use this simple note-taking tool to collect your research for a paper or project.

Make a study group with Google Groups. Google Groups allows you to communicate and collaborate in groups, so take this option to set up a study group that doesn’t have to meet face-to-face.

Google Code University. Visit this Google site to have access to Creative Commons-licensed content to help you learn more about computer science.

Study the oceans with Google Earth 5. Google Earth 5 provides information on the ocean floor and surface with data from marine experts, including shipwrecks in 3D.

Learn what experts have to say. Explore Knol to find out what experts have to say on a wide range of topics. If you are an expert, write your own Knol, too.

Google Docs

Google Docs is a great replacement for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, so learn how to use this product even more efficiently.

Use premade templates. Use these 50 pre-made templates to track spending, keep up with your health, and much more.

Collaborate on group projects. Google Docs allows for real-time collaboration, so make easy work for everyone next time you have a group project due.

Use keyboard shortcuts. Use this handy list of keyboard shortcuts to save lots of time while using Google Docs.

Create online surveys for research projects. Quickly and easily create online surveys for any research project that requires feedback from others. The answers are saved to your Google Docs account.

Add video to your presentation. Learn how to seamlessly add video to your Google Docs page to really give your presentation or project a boost.

Use the school year calendar template. Have an easy to use school year calendar through Google Docs by following these instructions.

Create graphs from spreadsheets. Once you have populated a spreadsheet with data, you can easily create a graph. Google Docs allows for pie, bar, line, and scatter graphs.

Create a new document with shortcuts. Learn two ways to open a new Google Docs page with these tricks.

Right click to use save-as. Use the right click save-as option to save a Google Docs document on your computer.

Send invitations. School shouldn’t be all about work. Find out how to send party invitations using Google Docs.

Gmail

The super-popular Gmail is full of fun and fast ways to make your life and communications easier.

Use the Tasks as a to-do list. Use the Tasks available in Gmail as a way to stay on top of assignments, exams, and project due dates.

Use the Archive feature. One of the great features of Gmail is that it allows you to archive emails to get them out of your inbox, then you can use the search feature to find them if you need them again.

Highlight mail with labels. Use labels to mark your messages. You can find them easily while in your inbox and do a search for all the messages with that label after you archive them.

Never forget to attach a file. By signing up for the Labs, you can select to have the Forgotten Attachment Detector. This feature notices if you have typed something about an attachment in the body, but are sending without actually attaching anything–a great tool to save time and embarrassment.

Use keyboard shortcuts. Go to Settings and enable keyboard shortcuts so you can perform common tasks at the touch of just one or two keys.

Add multiple attachments. Use the Control (or Cmd on Macs) and Shift keys to select more than one file to attach to your email at one time.

Use the https option. Google recommends using this option if you use your Gmail in public places like a dorm or coffee shop to add an extra bit of protection to your Internet activities.

Incorporate Google Calendar and Docs on your Gmail page. Have access to recent documents used in Google Docs and get an agenda of upcoming activities you have on Google Calendar with small boxes added to your Gmail page. Go to Labs to select this option.

Add a “Waiting for Response” label. If you have emails in your inbox that you are holding until someone gets back to you, creating this label keeps you from forgetting to follow up on it later.

Use Canned Responses. If you find yourself writing the same type of email over and over, use the Canned Responses feature in the Labs to create a template that you you can use without having to type out the entire email every time.

Consolidate email accounts. If you have a Gmail account, an account through school, and any other account you are juggling separately, combine them all into Gmail to cut down on time spent checking all those accounts.

Use AIM in Gmail. If you use AIM to IM friends or partners on projects, add it to the chat feature already in Gmail to have access to both.

Google Calendar

Save yourself some time by keeping track of appointments, assignments, and more with Google Calendar.

Sync up with others using iCal or Sunbird. Google lets you sync your calendar with others using Apple iCal or Mozilla Sunbird.

Customize reminders. Set reminders in your Google Calendar so that you never forget an appointment again. Choose from email, pop-up, or SMS reminders and even set when the reminder comes.

Learn some basic keyboard shortcuts. Change from daily to weekly to monthly view, compose a new event, and more with these simple shortcuts.

Use Quick Add. Click on Quick Add and type the day and time and what you are doing to have the calendar create the event with the correct time and date.

Use multiple calendars. Create separate calendars for school work, personal information, important due dates, and more to stay ultra-organized.

Get a text message with your daily agenda. Keep up with all that you need to do for the day without ever having to log on to your Google Calendar.

Set weekly repeats for any day. The drop-down menu only offers M/W/F or T/Th options for repeating events. Go to “Every Week” and customize which days you want the event to repeat.

Get upcoming events while away from the computer. Check out #8 in this list to learn how to access your upcoming events via your phone.

Add events from Gmail. If you receive an email with event time and date information, you can easily add this event to your calendar by clicking “Add to calendar.”

Invite others. If you have events on your calendar that you want to invite others to join, just add their email address under Add Guests within the event.

Google Mobile

Whether riding the bus or walking to class, use Google Mobile to stay productive while away from your computer.

Sync your calendar. Never be far from your Google Calendar when you sync it to your phone.

Check your email. Keep your email right at your fingertips with Gmail for mobile.

Access your blog subscriptions. Keep up with your blogs and news feeds that you subscribe to through Reader right on your phone.

Use Google Voice to consolidate phone numbers. If you have a phone in your dorm or apartment, a cell phone, and any other phone numbers, consolidate them into one number with Google Voice.

Easily find friends. Find out where your friends are and even get a map with directions for how to get there with Google Latitudes.

Find out information easily while on the go. Whether you are looking for a great place to eat dinner, wondering what the weather is like, or want to know what the Spanish word for “bathroom” is, just text your information to Google (466453–spells Google on your phone) to get the answer texted back right away.

Access iGoogle. Get your iGoogle page formatted just for the smaller screen size of your phone.

Read your Google Docs. Have access to all your Google Docs items right on your phone.

Keep a to-do list on your phone. Use Google Tasks for mobile so you can access your to-do list any time–and check off what you’ve finished, too.

Never get lost again. Google Maps is an interactive program for most smart phones that offers tons of features so you will never have to be lost again.

Do a quick search anywhere. Find information with a Google search from your phone to impress your professors and your friends.

Access Google Books. Android and iPhone users can access Google Books on their phones.

Post to your blog. Use your mobile to post to your Blogger blog.

Google Chrome Tips and Extensions

If you are using the Google Chrome browser, then you will love these time-saving tips and extensions.

Use a “Pin Tab”. If you have multiple tabs open, use a “Pin Tab” to make the tabs the size of the little icon on the left side.

Don’t overlook Paste and Search and Paste and Go. These two features are available when you right-click to add a word or URL to Chrome and will save you an extra step.

Reopen a closed tab. Oops! If you didn’t mean to close that tab, just press Ctrl+Shift+T to reopen it.

Use the Chrome shortcuts. Open a new tab, see your history, maximize your window, and much more with these shortcuts.

Take advantage of the address bar. With Google Chrome, you can use the address bar to perform a Google search, quickly access pages you’ve already visited, and get recommendations for places to go.

Go incognito. If you don’t want to leave traces of where you were browsing, use incognito mode instead of having to go back and delete your history and cookies.

Use the bookmarks manager. Stay organized, rearrange bookmarks, search for bookmarks, add folders, and much more with the bookmark manager.

ChromePass. This tool will give you a list of all the password information stored in Google Chrome.

Save as PDF. Save any page as a PDF with this bookmarklet.

ChromeMailer. If you’ve lost valuable time when having to manually enter email information from a website because Google Chrome doesn’t support the mailto: function, then you will love this extension.

Google Chrome Backup. Back up your personal data, bookmarks, and more with this simple tool.

Google Books

Learn how Google Books can save you time and trips to the library with these tricks.

Search full text. Google Books offers full text for over 10,000 books, so look here the next time you are researching something at the last minute.

Use “About this book”. At the top left of the page of a book, clicking this link will give you helpful information such as the table of contents, related books, and a map of places mentioned in the book.

Create a personalized library. Click on “Add to my shared library” to start your own personalized library where you can label books to keep them organized for each class or project.

Find books in your college library. Each book in Google Books has a link to find the book in a library. It can tell you exactly where to look at your own school.

Use the Advanced Book Search. If you can’t find the book you are looking for, try the advanced search, which provides you with many more detailed options.

Access text books. Many text books are available on Google Books, so see if you can save a trip to the bookstore next semester.

Search for magazine content. Select Magazines in the Advanced Book Search to locate information from magazines.

Read the blog. Google Books is constantly evolving, so stay on top of all the latest news with the Inside Google Books blog.

Find books to supplement your assigned texts. Search by subject to see what books you may be able to read to get the extra leg up in your classes.

Handy Google Services and Apps

These other Google products will help you save time by offering you everything from alerts to online collaboration to help working with data sets.

Google Alerts. Sign up to get email notifications any time a topic you designate shows up in Google search results. This is a great way to stay current with a project or news story.

Google Desktop. Keep a clock, weather, news stories, Google search box, and more all within easy reach when you use Google Desktop.

Google SketchUp. If you need to draw 3D figures for class, use Google SketchUp to do so easily and free of charge.

Google Talk. This versatile app is more than just for IMs. You can switch to voice, do a video chat, and send texts, too.

Google Images. Google has an incredible image search feature that will provide you with tons of high-quality images you can use in presentations.

Google Translate. Don’t spend time looking up stuff in books, use Google Translate to get foreign words translated right away.

Google Wave. This brand new Google product shows great promise for anyone collaborating, but especially for those in school. Communicate, create documents, and more–all in real-time.

Google Finance. Business students can keep track of markets, news, portfolios, and more in one place.

Google Toolbar. Have easy access to Gmail, Google search, bookmarks, and more with this toolbar available for Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Picasa. Manage your photos and even incorporate them into your blogs and emails with Google’s streamlines photo manager.

Google Squared. Find facts and organize them with this search feature from Google Labs.

Google Fusion Tables. If you are working with data sets, then you will love this program that will allow you to upload data, create visual representations, and take part in discussions about the data.

Blogger. Create a blog as a part of a project or just to stay in touch with friends and family in an easy way.

How do you use Google in the classroom? Share in the comments section!

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