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I recently compiled a list of top 10 productivity services from Google which greatly help me  in my work as  a freelance programmer as well as increases my total productivity on the internet. This list is what helps me to do my job on the internet in very limited time interval as well as within the given deadlines which is very important. You can read detailed description about the top 10 Google services here.

The list compiled by me includes several Google services which are as follows:

• Google search
• Gmail
•  Google Calender
• Picasa Web Albums
• Google Reader
• iGoogle
• Google Bookmarks
• Gtalk
• Google Maps
• Google groups.

You can read the detailed description of the top 10 productivity services here. The fact that these services are so good when it comes to getting this done is because of their interoperability as well as the ability to be used using the same Google Account.  Ofcourse, the list could be expanded to include other Google services which are equally important like Orkut but then I decided to limit this to truely productive services and hence orkut was not included. So, maybe an article about orkut sometime later.

As always comments are welcome!!

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Google has long announced its intentions to have an online web storage service probably called as GDrive, AOL already has Xdrive which offers 5GB of free upload space for its users plus a software that can be installed on our computer and can upload and download files seamlessly.  Amazon already has a web service which enables its users to upload files and download files as well as files called as Simple storage elastic. The prices are for per GB of download as well as per GB of storage which is quite cost effective.

Now, since all the Biggies are jumping into the online storage market, so has microsoft with its SkyDrive which is still in its Beta. Skydrive offers 1 GB of free storage space and you can arrange files in the form of folders just like windows as well as you can create and share folders.

So, there is quite a lot of competition for websites like rapidshare which has a lot of market cap currently with TB’s of files being shared on rapidshare. So, dont know what kind of impact does it have on those various image and file sharing sites which are used extensively by people to post adult content.

Thus, there is ample competition in the online storage and backup section and definitely this is the new battle ground for the internet biggies.

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A recent survey conducted by 1and1 website hosting in one of their press releases said that websites were crucial to customers buying and retention decisions. This is quite evident in todays age where in earlier people used to have their telephone numbers on their visiting cards but now they have their website address on their visiting cards even if they dont have their telephone number. That surely shows a change when it comes to marketing!

I have written an article on why and who should have a website? I think this is another reason which maybe I missed in the articles.

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Didnt you ever want to have a easier way to download that favorite youtube video on your hard disk or that favorite  myspace Tv video on your harddisk and you had to use those complicated softwares which were often loaded with spywares and malwares. Well, thanks to get2pc.com we have a simpler alternative.

You can download the videos using get2pc.com. Just copy paste the URL into a textbox provided and you get a download link where in you can download the video. As simple as that, no software to download and hence no spywares and malwares.

The image of this website is as shown.

The service supports a variety of online video sharing services like youtube, Google Video, iFilm, myspace and Dailymotion.

Although this service is very handy the legality of this service is in doubt and I dont think its allowed to provide what this service provides. However, I am no law expert so I cant comment anything about that. But i certainly think that the copyright issues will certainly be more aggravated since more downloading by the users means more re-distribution and sharing.

So, I hope the users use this service sensibly and hence although this is one of those things on the internet which is great to have but should be used sensibly.

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Orkut recently introduced photo albums where in users can organize their photos in albums and describe the albums separately. I think it was about time orkut did that because the simple photos that orkut had all this while was getting a little messier and therefore this is a good thing that they have finally added this feature.

However, one thing that keeps me wondering is that Google has an excellent service for Photo sharing and organization called as Picasa and Picasa web. I think the next step in improving Orkut photos is integration of Picasa into orkut as well as posting of images from the Picasa software directly into an orkut profile. That would be pretty cool.

Hope Orkut and Google incorporate these features in the near future.

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This is the second time that I have a post where in I have to apologize for downtime and it was getting really frustrating for me. Hence, I decided that it was time to call it quits and therefore yesterday night changed my website hosting and for good. Now, its been just one day since I have changed my web site hosting and lets see how this turns out to be.

Lets hope that this website hosting doesnt disappoint me.

Anyways, stay tuned because there will loads of more articles and blog posts coming your way because as you might have guessed it such small incidents like  a website hosting company which runs off with your money is going to dither me from blogging.

So, wish me luck and stay tuned!

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