<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526764358102752292</id><updated>2026-03-03T12:48:32.188+01:00</updated><category term="basic"/><category term="search"/><category term="translate"/><category term="email"/><category term="OCR"/><category term="a google a day"/><category term="calendar"/><category term="chrome"/><category term="define"/><category term="extension"/><category term="google"/><category term="google talk"/><category term="grammar"/><category term="import"/><category term="mp3"/><category term="pdf"/><category term="reminder"/><category term="task based activity"/><category term="text"/><category term="trivia"/><category term="vocab"/><category term="web quest"/><title type='text'>Google4English - Learn English with Google</title><subtitle type='html'>Unofficial blog on how to use Google to teach or learn English.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>13</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526764358102752292.post-7009122459666079180</id><published>2025-07-06T15:28:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2025-07-06T12:28:55.333+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Fw:</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Hi!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This is your last chance to prevent unpleasant consequences and preserve your reputation.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Your operating system has been hacked.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;All your personal data has been copied to my servers.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I have installed a Trojan virus in the operating systems of all the devices you use to access the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This software gives me access to all the controllers on your devices.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks to encryption, no system will detect this virus. Every day its signatures are cleared.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I have already copied all your personal data to my own servers.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I have access to your emails, messengers, social networks, contact list.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;When I was collecting data from your device, I found a lot of interesting information about you.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You really like to watch adult videos and have orgasms while watching them.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I have some videos that were recorded from your screen.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I have edited a video that clearly shows your face and the way you watch porn and masturbate.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Your family and friends will have no problem recognizing you in this video. This video will be able to completely destroy your reputation.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I can send out proof of your illegal activities to all your contacts, make it public to everyone on the internet.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I have a lot of your personal information. It&#39;s your browsing history, your messenger and social media correspondence, your phone calls, your personal photos and videos.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I can put all of your data in the public domain.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m sure that after that the police might be interested in you. And other security agencies in your country.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;All it takes is one click of my mouse to make all the information you have on your device available to the public.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You understand the consequences.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;It will be a real disaster.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Your life would be ruined.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I bet you want to prevent that, don&#39;t you?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;It&#39;s very easy to do.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You need to transfer me 1300 USD (in bitcoin equivalent at the exchange rate at the time of transfer). After that, I will delete all information about you from my servers.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I will not bother you anymore.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;My bitcoin wallet for payment: bc1qwyp265c725njtlrx22uaeqhl6gr42p9xgvangk&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Don&#39;t know what Bitcoin is and how to use it? Use Google.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You have 2&amp;nbsp; days to pay.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;After reading this email, the timer starts automatically.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve already received notification that you opened this email.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;No need to respond to me on this message, this email was created automatically and is untraceable.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;There is no need to try to contact anyone for help. Bitcoin wallet is untraceable, so you will just waste your time.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The police and other security services won&#39;t help you either.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In each of these cases, I will post the entire video without delay.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;All of your data is already copied to a cluster of my servers, so changing your passwords on email or social media won&#39;t help.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I hope you choose the right solution.&lt;/p&gt;    </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/feeds/7009122459666079180/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2025/07/fw.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/7009122459666079180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/7009122459666079180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2025/07/fw.html' title='Fw:'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526764358102752292.post-8824567916260788444</id><published>2025-06-28T13:02:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2025-06-28T06:06:57.373+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Fw:</title><content type='html'>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;meta charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;title&gt;Untitled Document.md&lt;/title&gt;&lt;style&gt;&lt;/style&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body id=&quot;preview&quot;&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;0&quot; data-line-end=&quot;1&quot;&gt;I have bad news for you.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;2&quot; data-line-end=&quot;3&quot;&gt;A couple of months ago I gained access to your devices. After that, I started tracking your activities.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;4&quot; data-line-end=&quot;5&quot;&gt;I installed a Trojan virus in operational systems of all devices that you use to access in Internet.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;6&quot; data-line-end=&quot;7&quot;&gt;This software provides me access to all controllers of your devices.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;8&quot; data-line-end=&quot;9&quot;&gt;I have downloaded your entire information, data, photos and the browsing history onto my servers.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;10&quot; data-line-end=&quot;11&quot;&gt;I have access to all your messengers, social networks, your E-mail, the chat history and the list of contacts.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;12&quot; data-line-end=&quot;13&quot;&gt;My virus constantly updates its signatures and therefore remains invisible for antivirus software.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;14&quot; data-line-end=&quot;15&quot;&gt;While gathering your information I revealed that you are a great fan of adult websites and other funny things.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;16&quot; data-line-end=&quot;17&quot;&gt;You really like visiting porno websites and watching spectacular videos in order to have a plenty of joy.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;18&quot; data-line-end=&quot;19&quot;&gt;Well, I managed to capture some of your dirty scenes and to assemble the videos where you masturbate and achieve orgasm.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;20&quot; data-line-end=&quot;23&quot;&gt;In case of you have any doubts, I can make some mouse clicks and all these videos will be shown to everyone you know.&lt;br&gt;  Besides, I can post all your correspondence, personal photos, and all your secret data on the Internet.&lt;br&gt;  This would ruin your reputation forever.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;24&quot; data-line-end=&quot;25&quot;&gt;I&amp;#8217;m sure that you would like to prevent such move regarding the nature of the video that you prefer(you understand perfectly what I mean), as it would mean a real catastrophe for you.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;26&quot; data-line-end=&quot;27&quot;&gt;Let us settle the issue in the following way- you transfer 1000 USD to me (in the Bitcoin-equivalent by the rate as per the moment of transfer) and I shall eliminate this entire stuff immediately after receipt of money.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;28&quot; data-line-end=&quot;30&quot;&gt;After that we can forget about each other.&lt;br&gt;  I also promise to deactivate and remove all malicious software from your devices.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;31&quot; data-line-end=&quot;33&quot;&gt;I always keep my word.&lt;br&gt;  My Bitcoin wallet for payment: 1FLJFkW28Xk3twsdmBcUV6e8JgLrPSpavg&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;34&quot; data-line-end=&quot;35&quot;&gt;You have 2 days from the moment you opened this email.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;36&quot; data-line-end=&quot;37&quot;&gt;If you won&amp;#8217;t send the money your video and all your data will be published on the Internet for all visitors and your loved ones.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;38&quot; data-line-end=&quot;39&quot;&gt;I shall destroy your reputation forever.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;40&quot; data-line-end=&quot;41&quot;&gt;Don&amp;#8217;t try to find me. Do not try to contact the police and other security services, otherwise your data will be published.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;42&quot; data-line-end=&quot;43&quot;&gt;I know many secrets about you.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;has-line-data&quot; data-line-start=&quot;44&quot; data-line-end=&quot;45&quot;&gt;Consider your reputation!&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/feeds/8824567916260788444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2025/06/fw.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/8824567916260788444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/8824567916260788444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2025/06/fw.html' title='Fw:'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526764358102752292.post-5980498060780946610</id><published>2024-03-20T19:10:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2024-03-21T01:53:06.706+01:00</updated><title type='text'>{Disarmed} Boosting Sales for Your Shopify Store: Strategies and Tips</title><content type='html'>&lt;div data-section-wrapper=&quot;1&quot; id=&quot;icot&quot;&gt;&lt;div data-section=&quot;1&quot; id=&quot;i8ig&quot;&gt;&lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; role=&quot;presentation&quot; id=&quot;i04p&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td id=&quot;i4xd&quot;&gt;&lt;div data-slot-container=&quot;1&quot; class=&quot;mj-column-per-100 outlook-group-fix&quot; id=&quot;i96k&quot;&gt;&lt;table background=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; role=&quot;presentation&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td id=&quot;ipv4j&quot;&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; role=&quot;presentation&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;left&quot; id=&quot;ibwno&quot;&gt;&lt;div data-slot=&quot;text&quot; id=&quot;imhc5&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(13,13,13);font-size:16px;&quot;&gt;Boosting Sales for Your Shopify Store: Strategies and Tips&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-left:0px;&quot;&gt;Dear Shopify Store Owner,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-left:0px;&quot;&gt;I hope this email finds you well. As a fellow entrepreneur in the e-commerce space, I understand the challenges and opportunities that come with running a Shopify store. In today&#39;s competitive landscape, driving sales and maximizing revenue is essential for the growth and success of your business.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-left:0px;&quot;&gt;With that in mind, I wanted to share some effective &lt;a href=&quot;https://feathersinwood.com/r/8230eea5694e5d7638aa7bcc0?ct=YTo1OntzOjY6InNvdXJjZSI7YToyOntpOjA7czo1OiJlbWFpbCI7aToxO2k6MTQ7fXM6NToiZW1haWwiO2k6MTQ7czo0OiJzdGF0IjtzOjIyOiI2NWZiMjY5NzY3ZjVjNjk3NzYxOTk0IjtzOjQ6ImxlYWQiO3M6NToiNTEwNTAiO3M6NzoiY2hhbm5lbCI7YToxOntzOjU6ImVtYWlsIjtpOjE0O319&amp;&quot;&gt;strategies and tips&lt;/a&gt; to help you increase sales for your Shopify store:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-left:0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Optimize Your Website:&lt;/strong&gt; Ensure that your Shopify store is visually appealing, user-friendly, and optimized for both desktop and mobile devices. 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Just put them in to Google! You can fine-tune the results by using the advanced search &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;amp;answer=1095407&quot;&gt;reading level&lt;/a&gt;&quot; filter and by placing words in quotes (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2011/11/18/google-verbatim-for-exact-match-search/&quot;&gt;Google has stopped using the plus sign in searches&lt;/a&gt;, you can still prefix words with the minus sign).&lt;br /&gt;
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This technique is similar to way some people use Google to find recipes by entering a list of ingredients. Google has recently made this simpler offering a special page&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/landing/recipes/&quot;&gt;Google Recipes&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;which makes the process even easier.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/feeds/4834228568635328747/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2011/11/find-texts-for-use-in-class-with-google.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/4834228568635328747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/4834228568635328747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2011/11/find-texts-for-use-in-class-with-google.html' title='Find texts for use in class with Google'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526764358102752292.post-298672500974832396</id><published>2011-05-10T14:02:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-10T14:02:15.615+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="calendar"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="email"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="import"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="reminder"/><title type='text'>Send Yourself an Email in the Future Using Google Calendar</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Have you ever wanted to send yourself an email to be delivered sometime in the future - in a year&#39;s time? Well&amp;nbsp;there are a number of services such as&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://futureme.org/&quot;&gt;FutureMe&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;that allow you to send email messages with a future delivery date. However there&#39;s no guarantee that the email will get delivered, the service itself may even exist when the time comes! The risks are less with a flagship Google service such as Google Calendar. which you can use&amp;nbsp;to email you (or even send a free SMS) a message on a date of your choice. Just write you message in the &quot;description&quot; area of the calendar entry.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;This technique can be used to send yourself or to your students:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;New vocab/phrases/clips/pieces of info each day&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Motivational messages and of course...&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Reminders (e.g. to help stay on track with a study plan)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you have a large number of phrases then put them in a (Google Apps) spreadsheet and import them. I&#39;ll show how to do this in the next post.&lt;br /&gt;
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The only drawback to this method that I know of is that the emails arrive formatted as a reminder. It still makes for a useful technique in my opinion.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.labnol.org/internet/email/send-email-yourself-future-delivery/2006/&quot;&gt;Send Yourself an Email in the Future Using Google Calendar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a &quot;=&quot;&quot; href=&quot;http://knol.google.com/k/sergi-ferret/import-google-spreadsheets-to-google/1p1bikil5pxn4/2#&quot;&gt;Import Google Spreadsheets to Google Calendar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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This could be a useful tool to send or receive homework or task based activities or it could be used for a partial class recording etc. For more ideas see how people are using the audio recording service &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=esl+vocaroo&quot;&gt;vocaroo.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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For more control you could send the voicemail to your own email address and forward it (perhaps using a different &quot;from&quot; address). Gtalk also works with Google Apps.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/talk/&quot;&gt;Gtalk&lt;/a&gt; is only available for Windows at the time of writing. Although most features are now available in Gmail via a web browser the &quot;Send Voicemail&quot; feature isn&#39;t!</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/feeds/8746141165275013607/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2011/04/audio-feedback-via-email-with-google.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/8746141165275013607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/8746141165275013607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2011/04/audio-feedback-via-email-with-google.html' title='Audio Feedback via email with Google'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526764358102752292.post-5384945496696697296</id><published>2011-04-14T17:02:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-15T19:52:44.018+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="a google a day"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="google"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="task based activity"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="trivia"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="web quest"/><title type='text'>Improve searches and English with Google&#39;s daily trivia game</title><content type='html'>Google has a new search page&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://agoogleaday.com/&quot;&gt;agoogleaday.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;where each day a challenge is given at the bottom of the page. If your Google skills are not up to the challenge then clicking &quot;show answer&quot; tells you how you could have used Google to solve the question.&lt;br /&gt;
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This is not only a great task-based activity (or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=webquest+esl&quot;&gt;webquest&lt;/a&gt;) but a good way to teach students how to get the best out of Google and indeed other search engines.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/trivia-game-where-using-google-is.html&quot;&gt;Official Google Blog: A trivia game where using Google is allowed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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For more Google based games try &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-08-13-n15.html&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/feeds/5384945496696697296/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2011/04/googles-trivia-game-helps-learn-to.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/5384945496696697296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/5384945496696697296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2011/04/googles-trivia-game-helps-learn-to.html' title='Improve searches and English with Google&#39;s daily trivia game'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526764358102752292.post-7489867334859901122</id><published>2011-04-07T08:17:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T08:57:34.411+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="OCR"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="pdf"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="translate"/><title type='text'>Translating a PDF documents with Google</title><content type='html'>Surprisingly the &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/viewer?pli=1&quot;&gt;Google Docs Viewer&lt;/a&gt; (the page you see when you click &quot;Quick View&quot; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;q=filetype%3Apdf&quot;&gt;search results&lt;/a&gt; or a PDF attachment in Gmail) does not have translation built-in&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNZWa6xZ54Eqb20cN26pwbz1TEk4DaH44OAjF4Lf0j8m4AXuYD6cRAHf54rgoCh6j-VUc-zvJk_tFMWD_zE8cH-O3Sm5L4JXFG08CjF1n_ZStfoMNjRS9UNjxr4yEfo5fOdKV08JCZzMOZ/s1600/gmail-PDF.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNZWa6xZ54Eqb20cN26pwbz1TEk4DaH44OAjF4Lf0j8m4AXuYD6cRAHf54rgoCh6j-VUc-zvJk_tFMWD_zE8cH-O3Sm5L4JXFG08CjF1n_ZStfoMNjRS9UNjxr4yEfo5fOdKV08JCZzMOZ/s1600/gmail-PDF.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;You can of course copy and paste the text from the Google Docs Viewer into &lt;a href=&quot;http://translate.google.com/&quot;&gt;Google Translate&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;by going to View &amp;gt; Plain HTML and selecting the text to translate. However the best way is&amp;nbsp;pasting the PDF&#39;s URL into Google Translate&#39;s translation area (where you&amp;nbsp;normally&amp;nbsp;type the words to translate).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjd-WZiO0MAB7XUf7G4QtO1ORMJcxwv3oYM9yJXjzR79Me6RfafE3mSQkVKYiN-5NhxcI6tAhNBoT5xFmp-BifY0lciYJ8gb6tgJ8P0orURmMmSwM29RX0YZfAquT3CPC6YVHFGHypOzRL/s1600/google-translate-PDF-by-URL.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;27&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjd-WZiO0MAB7XUf7G4QtO1ORMJcxwv3oYM9yJXjzR79Me6RfafE3mSQkVKYiN-5NhxcI6tAhNBoT5xFmp-BifY0lciYJ8gb6tgJ8P0orURmMmSwM29RX0YZfAquT3CPC6YVHFGHypOzRL/s320/google-translate-PDF-by-URL.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Note: the original PDF must have selectable text i.e. it must not be made-up of image files. If you have a small document of this type (e.g. one produced from a scanner) you could try upload it to Google Docs where you can request that Google tries to &quot;read&quot; it with OCR. See this page for more details of &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=176692&quot;&gt;Google&#39;s OCR scanning limitations&lt;/a&gt;.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/feeds/7489867334859901122/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2011/04/translating-pdf-documents-with-google.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/7489867334859901122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/7489867334859901122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2011/04/translating-pdf-documents-with-google.html' title='Translating a PDF documents with Google'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNZWa6xZ54Eqb20cN26pwbz1TEk4DaH44OAjF4Lf0j8m4AXuYD6cRAHf54rgoCh6j-VUc-zvJk_tFMWD_zE8cH-O3Sm5L4JXFG08CjF1n_ZStfoMNjRS9UNjxr4yEfo5fOdKV08JCZzMOZ/s72-c/gmail-PDF.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526764358102752292.post-5894847847098893792</id><published>2011-03-31T13:13:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-03-31T13:13:31.523+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="chrome"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="extension"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="translate"/><title type='text'>Quick translations in Google Chrome</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Get one click access to &lt;a href=&quot;http://translate.google.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Google Translate&lt;/a&gt; using the free Chrome extension &lt;em&gt;Mini Translate. &lt;/em&gt;Here’s how the author describes the extension:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;Google&#39;s free online language translation service instantly translates text, directly in your popup. Place or copy some text in your pop-up and hit the translate button. Press the swap button to swap the languages.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/_yjTdyj9p_Mc/TZRh2OyIJtI/AAAAAAAAJ9U/JPk0QPkXejY/s1600-h/iecfgms4%5B3%5D.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px&quot; title=&quot;iecfgms4&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;iecfgms4&quot; src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/_yjTdyj9p_Mc/TZRh2n7vQbI/AAAAAAAAJ9Y/Of94nK0vNWY/iecfgms4_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800&quot; width=&quot;222&quot; height=&quot;240&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Get it here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/apcoaebncenbkhggdfcenkhbohpcepih&quot;&gt;https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/apcoaebncenbkhggdfcenkhbohpcepih&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/feeds/5894847847098893792/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2011/03/quick-translations-in-google-chrome.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/5894847847098893792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/5894847847098893792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2011/03/quick-translations-in-google-chrome.html' title='Quick translations in Google Chrome'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_yjTdyj9p_Mc/TZRh2n7vQbI/AAAAAAAAJ9Y/Of94nK0vNWY/s72-c/iecfgms4_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526764358102752292.post-2289804120191775874</id><published>2011-03-29T00:30:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-03-29T10:41:51.352+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="basic"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="search"/><title type='text'>Force google.com to use English</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;If you go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com/&quot;&gt;google.com&lt;/a&gt; and you are not in the USA you will usually be redirected to a localised page e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://google.es/&quot;&gt;google.es&lt;/a&gt; in the local language.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;That&#39;s fine but for English learners its better to search in English via the English interface. Doing this will not only improve the search results (or at least return more in English) but the search suggestions (the text that appears as you type) will appear in English too.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_yjTdyj9p_Mc/TZGbTKRJmUI/AAAAAAAAJ8M/V0uLtIj9z48/s1600-h/goog%5B3%5D.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px&quot; title=&quot;goog&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Using Google auto-suggest feature in English&quot; src=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_yjTdyj9p_Mc/TZGbTj1PaKI/AAAAAAAAJ8Q/ycw6oOY4e3M/goog_thumb.png?imgmax=800&quot; width=&quot;244&quot; height=&quot;159&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Just look for the English link at the bottom of the page or go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com/ncr&quot;&gt;google.com/ncr&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.uk/&quot;&gt;www.google.co.uk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/feeds/2289804120191775874/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2011/03/force-googlecom-to-use-english.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/2289804120191775874'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/2289804120191775874'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2011/03/force-googlecom-to-use-english.html' title='Force google.com to use English'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_yjTdyj9p_Mc/TZGbTj1PaKI/AAAAAAAAJ8Q/ycw6oOY4e3M/s72-c/goog_thumb.png?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526764358102752292.post-6571325050028337224</id><published>2011-03-28T13:29:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-03-29T10:12:49.691+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="basic"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="translate"/><title type='text'>Use Google to quickly translate a word or phrase</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt; &lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0px&quot;&gt;Type &lt;i&gt;translate &lt;/i&gt;in to Google (or Chrome&#39;s address bar) to translate any word or phrase e.g. type&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0px&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0px&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;translate rat in spanish&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0px&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_yjTdyj9p_Mc/TZGUfmPP8OI/AAAAAAAAJ8E/FToGLMHb9GM/s1600-h/image%5B2%5D.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px&quot; title=&quot;image&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;image&quot; src=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_yjTdyj9p_Mc/TZGUgJQJBqI/AAAAAAAAJ8I/qO8EP0Bph8I/image_thumb.png?imgmax=800&quot; width=&quot;229&quot; height=&quot;157&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/feeds/6571325050028337224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2011/03/use-google-to-quickly-translate-word-or.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/6571325050028337224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/6571325050028337224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2011/03/use-google-to-quickly-translate-word-or.html' title='Use Google to quickly translate a word or phrase'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_yjTdyj9p_Mc/TZGUgJQJBqI/AAAAAAAAJ8I/qO8EP0Bph8I/s72-c/image_thumb.png?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526764358102752292.post-5471209883746282644</id><published>2011-03-28T13:25:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-03-28T13:25:56.851+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="basic"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="define"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="search"/><title type='text'>Use Google to define a word or phrase</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Type &lt;i&gt;define&lt;/i&gt; in to Google (or Chrome&#39;s address bar) to look-up the meaning of any word or phrase. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html&quot;&gt;Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/feeds/5471209883746282644/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2011/03/use-google-to-define-word-or-phrase.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/5471209883746282644'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/526764358102752292/posts/default/5471209883746282644'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://google4english.blogspot.com/2011/03/use-google-to-define-word-or-phrase.html' title='Use Google to define a word or phrase'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>