Google Mail (or Gmail) is really useful. It’s free. It’s powerful. It’s heavy (with features of course). It’s free from banner ads and ads within signature. I’m sharing top 10 Gmail features, tips & tricks which will enhance your Google Mail experience.

Gmail Features, Tips & Tricks You Probably Don’t Know

1. Your single Gmail account = Unlimited E-mail IDs

Let’s say my registered Gmail ID is maheshone@gmail.com.

Since Gmail doesn’t recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they’ll all go to your inbox, and only yours. In short:

maheshone@gmail.com = m.a.h.e.s.h.o.n.e@gmai.com

maheshone@gmail.com = mahesh.one@gmail.com

maheshone@gmail.com = m.aheshone@gmai..com

As you can see all the above addresses belong to the same person. You can see this if you try to sign in with your username, but adding or removing a dot from it. You’ll still go to your account.

That’s not all.

maheshone@gmail.com = maheshone@googlemail.com

maheshone@gmail.com = mahesh.one@googlemail.com

Since googlemail.com is Google’s email domain for users in the United Kingdom and Germany, so if you register your username @gmail.com, it becomes unavailable in @googlemail.com as well.

Gmail Plus Addressing

Append a plus ("+") sign and any combination of words or numbers after your email address. For example, I can use the ID maheshone+twitter@gmail.com to Sign Up for Twitter and use maheshone+facebook@gmail.com to Sign Up for Facebook. So now you virtually have unlimited email IDs.

2. Catch the spammers using the “Plus Addressing”

Now, I can find out who is spamming me. You can really find out who is spamming you. Next time when you join a newsletter use youremail+newlettername@gmail.com. So that in case you’re receiving lot of spam to that ID you can create a filter to auto delete those mails.

3. Sign Out Remotely

With Gmail you can now track your recent sessions and can also sign out remotely. Click on the “Details” link present at the bottom right corner of your Gmail inbox.

4. Embed images instead of attaching them

Enable “Inserting images“ lab feature and it allows you to insert images directly into a message body. Now you can upload an image from your PC or insert images by URLs by clicking on the “Insert Image” icon located right next to emotion icon in the “Compose Mail” page. Even if you have not enabled this lab feature you can still copy paste images directly to your Gmail body.

5. Undo Send

Enable “Undo Send” lab and it gives you up to 30 seconds to undo the sent mail.

6. Grant access to your account

You can delegate access to your Gmail to another Google account holder. This person will be able to sign in to your account to read, delete and send mail on your behalf. They will not be able to change your account settings or your password.

7. Sender Time Zone

Enable “Sender Time Zone” lab and you’ll see green phone icons next to people who are probably awake and readily reachable (if it’s between 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM in the sender’s local time zone) and red ones next to those who could be sleeping or out of the office.

8. Message Sneak Peek

Enable “Message Sneak Peek” lab and it allows you to preview messages to get a glimpse on what they contain and maybe take immediate action without actually opening them. After you turn it on, right-clicking on a line in your inbox and it shows a preview pane with the message in it.

9. Mark as Read Button

Tired of spending all that effort to click on the “More” actions menu every time you want to mark message(s) as read without reading them? Enable “Mark as Read Button” labs feature and that is just a button click away!

10. Canned Responses

If you’re lazy just like me then “Canned Responses” is just for you and me. E-mail for the truly lazy. Now save and then send your common messages using a button next to the compose form. Or else automate those process by utilizing Gmail filters.

Is your Gmail account compromised?

I’ve already discussed about how to secure your Gmail account from hacking. But it’s all about keeping your account safe by using a strong password, enabling two step verification and other method(s). But what if your Gmail account is hacked (or compromised)? The hacked would have already changed the password, security question & answer, mobile number associated with the account. So you can’t recover your Gmail using those primary account recovery methods.

But wait! Google allows you to recover your Google account using Knowledge Test process. All you need to do is answer few questions as thoroughly and accurately as possible; the strength of your answers will determine if they can return your account.

Your detailed answers will help them ensure that you’re the actual account holder and only you get access to your account.

What to do when your Gmail account is hacked?

Step 1: Go to Google Mail and click on “Can’t access your account?” link.

Step 2: Enter your Google Mail or Gmail ID.

Step 3: Complete the Captcha form.

Step 4: Click on “Verify your identity” link since the “Get a password reset link at my recovery email” and “Get a verification code on my phone” won’t work as hackers have already changed that.

Step 5: Verify your identity by answering multiple questions about your account.

Protect your Gmail account.

You can secure your Gmail account from hacking by following the article  How To Secure Your Gmail Account From Hacking and then note down the following information somewhere (preferably in your personal diary) so that in case your Gmail account is hacked you can still recover your account using the following information.

1. Account Creation Date

To get your account creation date, go to “All Mail”, click on "Oldest" on the upper right, and get the date of the welcome mail from Google. If its deleted choose the date of the last mail in your “All Mail” to get an approximate date.

2. Verification Code (if you have it)

3. Email addresses of up to five frequently emailed contacts

To get the email address of your frequently emailed contacts go to “Contacts” and click “Most Contacted” choose five of your contacts from them.

4. Names of up to four labels

Did you receive an invitation to create your account? If so select “Yes” and enter the details if you can otherwise leave it blank.

That’s it! You’re done. Google will review your application and will contact you.

99 Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs

Are you an Entrepreneur? If so I’ve mined the internet for famous quotes on Entrepreneurship to inspire and motivate you. I’m sharing 99 of them which I liked the most. Please feel free to leave your valuable comments below and let me know what do you feel about the same!

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect. – Adam Osborne

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. – John C. Maxwell

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. - E. Joseph Cossman

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein

You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new. – Steve Jobs

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. – Fortune Cookie

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. – Peter F. Drucker

If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. – Brian Tracy

The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job. – Michael Gerber

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. – Donald Trump

Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. – Thomas J. Watson

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. – Silvio Berlusconi

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. – W. Clement Stone

Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Bennet

Failure is not about insecurity. It’s about lack of execution. – Jeffrey Gitomer

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. – Henry Ford

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. -  Napoleon Hill

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. – W. Clement Stone

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. – Jim Rohn

Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein

The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. – Robert Collier

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. – Bo Bennett

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. – Natalie Clifford Barney

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. – Henry Ford

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. – Zig Ziglar

Every choice you make has an end result. – Zig Ziglar

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. – Mark Twain

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking, What’s in it for me? – Brian Tracy

A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. – Peter Drucker

Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it. – Napoleon Hill

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. – Jim Rohn

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. – Dale Carnegie

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. – Napoleon Hill

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. – Napoleon Hill

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. – Confucius

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andre Gide

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. - Jim Rohn

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got! – Alan Scott

Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare. – Anon

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin

If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. – Zig Ziglar

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. – Jim Rohn

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life.. it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. – Walt Disney

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. – W. Clement Stone

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. – Napoleon Hill

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. – Jim Rohn

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. – Jeff Bezos

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. – Tim Blixseth

I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got. - Alan Bond

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you. – Mark Cuban

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. – Thomas Carlyle

You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it. – John Lennon

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. – Jim Rohn

If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. – W. Clement Stone

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success – Henry Ford

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have – Zig Ziglar

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin R. Davis

Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. – General George Patton

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers. – Bo Bennett

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. – David Ogilvy

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. – Cicero

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. – Napoleon Hill

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty

I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. – Jack Welch

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. – Les Brown

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. – Jack Welch

If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete. – Jack Welch

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. – James Cash Penney

Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves. – Zig Ziglar

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. – James Cash Penney

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn

Warren Buffett Quotes On Investing

I was searching the entire web for some famous quotes said by the legendary investor Warren Buffett. I don’t know how many I’ve read. But I would like to share with you 79 of them which I find interesting and which do makes sense. If you are an investor then it’s a must read! And feel free to comment below if I’d missed something! Happy Investing!

‘Never invest in a business you cannot understand.’

‘Always invest for the long term.’

‘Buy a business, don’t rent stocks.’

‘Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.’

‘I really like my life. I’ve arranged my life so that I can do what I want.’

‘We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.’

‘If you don’t feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don’t own it for 10 minutes.’

‘I am a better investor because I am a businessman and a better businessman because I am an investor.’

‘Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.’

‘The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.’

‘Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy, interest rates, or elections.’

‘I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for ten years.’

‘I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.’

‘For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn’t work is when you start doing things that you don’t understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it’s going up.’

‘We don’t get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we will wait, we’ll wait indefinitely.’

‘As Buffet said in the speech, "He’s not looking at quarterly earnings projections, he’s not looking at next year’s earnings, he’s not thinking about what day of the week it is, he doesn’t care what investment research from any place says, he’s not interested in price momentum, volume or anything. He’s simply asking: What is the business worth?’

‘Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.’

‘Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can’t buy what is popular and do well.’

‘When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: ‘we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.’

‘When a management team with a reputation for brilliance joins a business with poor fundamental economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.’

‘Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise.  Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.’

‘Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing.’

‘Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.’

‘You’re neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You’re right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right – that’s the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don’t have to worry about anybody else.’

‘It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.’

‘The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.’

‘Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.’

‘I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.’

‘Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.’

‘Our favorite holding period is forever.’

‘Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.’

‘Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.’

‘Unless you can watch your stock holding decline by 50% without becoming panic-stricken, you should not be in the stock market.’

‘The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.’

‘Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.’

‘Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.’

‘It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.’

‘An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.’

‘Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.’

‘In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.’

‘If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.’

‘Cash never makes us happy, but it’s better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire’s pocket than resting comfortably in someone else’s.’

‘A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.’

‘I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the answer to that. "I’m paying $32 billion today for the Coca Cola Company because." If you can’t answer that question, you shouldn’t buy it. If you can answer that question, and you do it a few times, you’ll make a lot of money.’

‘The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.’

‘You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.’

‘It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.’

‘You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.’

‘Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.’

‘An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.’

‘Do a lot of reading’ (On how to determine the value of a business)

‘The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.’

‘Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.’

‘The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.’

‘You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.’

‘Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.’

‘I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.’

‘We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.’

‘I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.’

‘Turnarounds seldom turn.’

‘If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.’

‘I don’t measure my life by the money I’ve made. Other people might, but certainly don’t.’

‘Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you’re still around to play the next day.’

‘You shouldn’t own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.’

‘With few exceptions when a manager with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for poor economics, it is the reputation of the business which remains intact.’

‘The business schools reward complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.’

‘It’s not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.’

‘A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.’

‘You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.’

‘We like to buy businesses, but we don’t like to sell them.’

‘Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can’t change how many people love you or how healthy you are.’

‘It’s us fun being a gorse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.’

‘Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.’

‘With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.’

‘Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don’t do equations with Greek letters in them.’

‘In a commodity business, it’s very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.’

‘A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.’

‘Valuing a business is part art and part science.’

‘Chains of habits are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.’

1. Choose A Strong & Unique Password

Use a strong password for your Gmail account that you do not use on any other site.

2. Enable Two Step Verification

Two step verification adds an extra layer of security to your Google Account by requiring you to have access to your phone – as well as your username and password – when you sign in. This means that if someone steals or guesses your password, the potential hijacker still can’t sign in to your account because they don’t have your phone.

3. Secure Your Computer

Check for viruses and malware.

Make sure your operating system is up to date.

Make sure to perform regular software updates.

Make sure your browser is up to date.

Check your browser for plug-ins, extensions, and third-party programs/tools that require access to your Google Account credentials.

4. Check Your Gmail Settings

Use a secure connection to sign in by selecting ‘Always use HTTPS.’ option in your Gmail settings.

Click the Details link next to the ‘Last Account Activity’ entry at the bottom of your account to see the time, date, IP address and the associated location of recent access to your account

Check if your Gmail messages are being forwarded without your permission.

Source(s): Google Blog, Gmail Help, Sophos

Like To Talk?

1. Blog for Ad Revenue – Start a blog on a topic you love, build up a reader base and make money from ads on your site.

2. Be a Forum Moderator – Keep out the spam and build a community and you can earn a little cash on the side moderating forums.

3. Write Articles for Websites – Content is King on websites. Keeping sites updated with fresh, high quality content is a chore for website owners and often outsourced. If you’re a good writer with experience in an area you can make a living off of it.

4. Be a Guest Author – Some higher quality sites will pay between $50 – $400 for a solid article on a topic their readers are interested in. The results are never assured with this method, but many freelance writers, working at home on refurbished computers, are pulling in significant income this way.

5. Get Paid to Post in Forums – No one wants to post in an empty forum, so webmaster will hire forum posters to help kick start their forum and make it look active. Get paid between $0.10 – $0.25 per post to help get a forum started.

6. Start a Podcast – Basically the same as with a blog, but with audio or video. Talk about what you want and make money from the ads.

7. Get Paid for Forums You Already Talk On – Many forums offer a revenue share program where you can run your own ads on threads you create. This is something Destroy Debt offers. Take advantage of it.
8. Translate Documents - Automated translation is no substitute for humans. If you speak a second language, translate documents and get paid.

9. Be a Life coach or Counselor - Many people would rather talk to a counselor through the safety of the Internet. Offer your advice at an hourly rate.

Are You A Gamer?

10. Farm Gold – Regardless of which online game you like to play there’s always people selling in game money for real money. It may be against the terms of the game but it isn’t illegal. Just make sure you’re making more than your subscription fee.

11. Participate in Gaming Tournaments – If you’re good enough consider entering gaming tournaments. Several of them give away serious cash and prizes.

12. Buy In-Game Real Estate – This was popularized by Second Life. Buy and develop land in the game and it can fetch you cash in the real world. You could become a millionaire like Ansche Chung.

13. Open an In-Game Store – Another one from Second-Life. Many people have made big bucks selling tshirts, pets, and just about anything else you can imagine in the game.

14. Be a Tester – A paid game testing job is hard to come by, since so many people will do it for free, but they do exist.

Would You Like To Be A Middle Man?

15. Put a US Face on an Overseas Business – People outsource overseas because it’s much cheaper. However due to communication problems and some bad experience people are also weary of it. Find some workers overseas you can trust who have a particular talent, and open a US store front offering that service. Charge the premium rates for a US company and "oversee" the overseas work.

16. Organize Forum Posters – When starting a forum many webmasters will hire posters to get it started. Paying 50 people $5 each is a pain and you never know the kind of work you’ll get. Put together a team and provide a one stop shop for webmasters.

17. Offer Client Referral Exchanges – Programmers often will get more projects at one time than they can handle and have to refer them off. Pay these programmers 10% to refer clients to you, and charge other developers 20% to send referrals to them. Pocket the difference. The same is true with other professions.

18. Be a Link Broker – Many people want to buy quality links for their websites while others want to sell them. Be the middleman to make these connections and make a profit on the price difference.

19. Sell Websites and Domains for Others – Some people have quality websites or domains but either don’t know how or don’t have the time to go about selling them. Provide this service and charge a 10% fee.

20. Refer Others to Jobs – Many firms will pay referral bonuses of $500-$1,000+ for referring the right candidate for a job. Develop relationships with recruiters and scour job boards for candidates that fit. Make the connection and pocket the cash.

Can You Program?

21. Write Software for Resale – I’ve personally bought tools on a number of occasions I knew I could write myself just because they were cheap enough to justify buying them instead of spending the time to write it.

22. Write a Web Component – I’m sure you’ve bought fancy drop down menus, charting, comboboxes, etc before. If not with your own money than for a project at work. Write a component like this and sell it.

23. Develop Websites for Others – This is kind of a no-brainer. Do some side work, you can probably charge 2-3x per hour what you get paid for your day job. Sites like Rent A Coder and Elance can put you in contact with buyers.

24. Automate Manual Jobs and Charge per Job – I’ve seen several people asking for forms to be populated from Google Maps or Yahoo Answers data. Write a quick app to do this, but charge per entry the same as if you were manually doing it.

25. Extend Existing Software – Create a plugin, build a storefront package on top of Amazon Web Services, make a bulletin board system more SEO friendly, or whatever you dream up. By extending the functionality of existing software, you can quickly build a user base.

26. Start Your Own Search Engine – Not from scratch, Google provides a great API for you to build your own custom search engine. Build one around a certain topic, provide a better design or give out random prizes. When people search from your site and click on the ads, you get credit.

27. Build Canned Websites for Resell – Create a website for a particular industry once, give it a descent admin and then resell copies of it over and over. Just swap out the logo, a few images and you’re good to go. This works especially well for affiliate marketing websites.

Ever Heard Of eBay?

28. Sell Your Junk on Ebay – The packaging and mailing is a pain, but it sure beats having a garage sale.

29. Buy Other Peoples Junk and Sell it on Ebay – Go to garage sales and resell for higher, or buy bulk discontinued items and sell them off individually.

30. Sell Other Peoples Junk on Ebay for Them – There’s a store on virtually every corner that does this now. Why not you?

31. Create a Virtual Store on Ebay with Drop Shipping – Create a wide storefront with tons of products. The beauty is, by working with a private label drop shipping company you don’t have to actually have these products. Just order one when you make a sale and they’ll ship it out for you, with your name on it. You don’t have to deal with the packaging either!

Don’t Mind Working In The Real World?

32. Take Stock Photos – Take clever photographs and sell them for stock photos on other websites. Sites like iStockPhoto.com allow you to sell the same photo to hundreds of websites.

33. Make Stuff to Sell Online – If you can quilt, sew, work with wood or are descent at any other task, you can make it and sell it online.

34. Enter Data for Google Maps – Google is currently paying people to take photos of businesses and enter basic data such as hours of operation. Go to the local business complex next to the grocery store and you can knock out 50 of these in a few hours.

Got Some Money To Invest?

35. Flip Websites or Domains – There are countless websites and domains for sell every day at places like DigitalPoint, SitePoint and DnForum. Find the bargains and turn them around for a quick profit.

36. Buy Profitable Websites and Keep Them – The standard going price for a small profitable website is 10-12 months earnings. Buy some gems, hang onto them past 10-12 months and reap the benefits.

37. Learn the Art of PPC Arbitrage – Put up a simple website that has ads, affiliate programs or some other source of revenue. If you can find the right terms and buy traffic to the site cheap enough, it’s possible to make a profit on the difference on what you buy the traffic for and what you sell it for.

38. Become a Day Trader – Better know what you’re doing on this one because it’s just as easy to loose money with it as make it. But it can be quite profitable if you know what you’re doing.

39. Convert E-Currency – There are several forum posts everyday for people who want to convert some EGold money into PayPal money, etc. Offer this service and charge a 5%-10% fee for it.

40. Buy a Fancy Machine – Buy a high tech printer, engraver or automated sewing machine and charge people for the items you can produce with it.

Good With Photoshop?

41. Design Logos – Every good business needs a good logo. You may be just the person to provide it.

42. Design Websites – Why stop with the logo, entire websites need to be designed. I am horrible at design so hired Evermark to design this site. Other webmasters are hiring too.

43. Design Ads – Webmasters still need design work after the site is created. Create banners and other professional ads for websites.

44. Draw Cartoons – You may have noticed our section of debt cartoons. I can tell you I didn’t draw them, it was Dan from GibbleGuts.com. Start your own cartoon business.

45. Design T-Shirts – Come up with a nice image or some interesting text and sites like CafePress will help you slap it on a t-shirt and sell it.

46. Design a Seal – Here’s a little secret, most of those "authority seals" you see really don’t mean anything. They just look like they give a site credibility, so webmasters are willing to buy them because they improve the conversion rate. Create your own, make up some guidelines and charge $300 for websites to use it.

47. Create Digital Scrap Booking Templates – People love to scrapbook and some prefer to do it on the computer. Create templates for every occasion that allow your customers to just slide in their own photos.

48. Make Clipart and Icons – People still need these. Another option is comment graphics for sites like MySpace. Build packages of these, give a few away for free and sell the rest.

49. Create MySpace Backgrounds - Don’t stop at the comment tags. MySpace is a gold mine for selling simple customizations if you’re good at it. Create some nice backgrounds and cash in.

50. Make Photoshop Brushes and Filters – If you’re a true wiz at Photoshop, extend its functionality and you can make a fortune.

Have An Artistic Touch?

51. Edit Photos for Others – You can restore old photos, or give existing ones an artistic touch, nice frame, etc. My brother offers this service for kid’s sports pictures at Zongker Team Pics.

52. Create Video Montages – Have people email you a stack of photos and put together a nice DVD to music for weddings, anniversaries, reunions, funerals, e.t.c.

53. Create Photo Mosaics – You know those nifty pictures that are made up from 500 smaller pictures. Have customers send you the digital images they want to use and you can create these automatically with software like Andrea Mosaic.

Got Talent?

54. Record Songs and Sell Online – That is if you don’t suck. With online downloads, record labels are becoming a thing of the past. If you got the goods, sell it online at places like Arkade.

55. Sell Artwork Online – If you can paint, draw, sketch, make caricatures, e.t.c. try selling them online. You may be surprised how many people are willing to buy it.

56. Compose Midi’s – Create either your own original creation or your interpretation of more popular songs and sell them as midi’s or ring tones.

57. Make Videos – Sites like Revver and Break will share ad revenue or even pay you for your videos. Make something clever and upload it.

58. Contribute to a Collection – Whether it’s a recipe, short story, poem or whatever. You may not be able to sell it alone, but could get royalties from contributing it to a collection.

Have More Time Than Talent?

59. Submit to Social Bookmarking Sites – Just look at the Digital Point Forums and you’ll see tons of people paying for someone to Digg or Stumble their site. You’ll be considered the scum of the earth by the users of these sites, but will have a few extra bucks in your pocket.

60. Get Paid to Surf – You won’t make much, you’ll be giving up your privacy and possibly be installing malware, but this list wouldn’t be complete without the obligatory get paid to surf reference.

61. Take Surveys – A few sites will pay you to complete surveys. Not always in cash, but sometimes you can get free samples or points to buy products with.

62. Get Free Samples – You probably won’t find free cash, but hey stock up on all the free samples, mouse pads and other junk you can find! There are tons of freebie sites who’ve done the hard work of finding these freebies for you.

63. Enter Contests – If you’ve got some time to kill, enter a few contests. You may not win the beach house, but I’ve personally won free pizza’s, cell phone accessories and flowers from some local online contests.

64. Data Entry – Here’s ole faithful. People often need data moved from one type of document to another, or written/verbal notes dictated. It’s work pretty much anyone can do.

65. Become a Virtual Assistant – Occasionally people want research done on anything from finding a certain car but don’t have time to do it themselves. Provide this research service for them and charge by the hour. It’s a real industry with it’s own organization.

66. Get Paid to Search – With sites like Winzy you can win prizes for searching.

Do You Know HTML?

67. Make Blog/Forum Templates – Pick a popular blog or forum software, design some nice templates for it and sell them.

68. Create MySpace Layouts – This is essentially the same task as the blog templates, but an entirely different market. You may even be able to reuse the same template for both purposes.

69. Start an Online Store – Order products wholesale, or drop shipped and create your own storefront.

70. Start an Affiliate Website – Don’t want to deal with the headaches of selling your own products? Refer visitors to someone else’s products and earn a commission.

71. Open a Virtual Storefront – Building your own affiliate site is still too much work for you? Then don’t, open a virtual storefront hosted by someone else, using sites like Art.com and CardCommission.com.

72. Offer Paid Reviews From Your Website – Other website owners will pay you to review their website on your site or blog. Make from $10-$50 each or more by offering these reviews.

73. Start a Directory – Build up a quality listing of sites on a given topic and get other sites to link to this resource. Then start selling premium listings in this directory.

Are You Tech Savvy?

74. Resell Web Hosting – You can find several sites offering reseller hosting packages at WebHostingTalk. You just rent the server space, split it up and resell it. Occasional support is required.

75. Host Game or Chat Servers – Set up a Linux box in a datacenter and you can run voice chat and game servers off of it that are available 24×7. People will pay to use them.

76. Host Forums – There’s software like SebFlipper that will allow you to host hundreds of separate forums from a single web server. Charge your members to host a forum with you, or offer it for free and run ads on all the pages.

77. Install Applications for Others – People are constantly getting hung up and asking for help with installs on websites. Install software for them and charge a fee for it.

78. Answer Tech Questions – Sites like ExpertBee provide a place for people to ask questions and specify a price they will pay for the answer.

79. Start an Uptime Monitoring Service – There’s software packages out there that will check a website for uptime, send alerts and provide reports. Buy one of these packages and resell the hosted service.

80. Offer Hosted Email – Setting up an email server, blocking spam and making sure it’s locked to relaying is a pain for most webmasters. Provide an easy way for them to outsource the whole service to you.

81. Provide Application Testing – Manually test websites on different OS and browser combinations and provide a report of your findings.

82. Provide Load Testing – Put a heavy traffic load against websites an provide a report of how it responded.

83. Offer an Offsite Backup Service – Rent a server and massive amounts of storage space from a datacenter and provide remote storage space via FTP or other method for a monthly fee per gigabyte of storage.

84. Start a Domain Registrar – Sites like TuCows will let you create your own private label domain registrar where you’ll benefit from not only the initial sale, but from renewals.

85. Sell SSL Certificates – Another service offered by TuCows and others is the ability to resell SSL certificates.

Have A Knack For SEO?

86. Be a Link Builder – Someone who can find good quality links for a website is worth their weight in gold. Become a link builder and charge per link or by the hour.

87. Submit to Directories – Filling out the forms to submit to directories is a pain but important for webmasters. Most will gladly pay to have someone else do it for them.

88. Be a Consultant – Review websites and recommend changes to help improve search engine rankings. Slap it together in a professional looking report and you can charge several hundred to a few thousand dollars per website.

Know Something About Something?

89. Become an About.com Guide – About.com will pay you a very nice percentage of ad revenue from the section you’re a guide of.

90. Write eBooks – These are hard to sell but if you really have the info others want you can make it work.

91. Teach an Online Course – Many colleges are looking for part time teachers for both their online and in-classroom courses.

92. Sell Instructional Videos – It’s got to be something people want, but if you’re truly an expert on a topic, others will pay to learn what you know.

93. Start a Subscription Website – Provide new scrapbooking techniques, recipes or any other advice on a regular basis and charge for a membership.

Are You Opinionated?

94. Review Software – Developers are looking for honest feedback on their work and are willing to pay for it. Use a site like SoftwareJudge to get paid for providing this feedback.

Don’t Have A Conscience?

95. MySpace Blast People – Create an account, recruit all the friends you can and then send them bulletins with advertisements. You’ll loose a lot of ‘friends’ but you will make some money at it.

96. Do Homework for Others – It’s completely wrong of course, but you can get paid to do it.

Don’t Mind Annoying Your Friends?

97. Sell Products Via Email – Gone are the days of Avon, Tupperware and Arbonne parties. Just email your friends and family the the current specials and have them email back the orders.

98. Send Out Cards – Another great program for marketing to your friend and family is SendOutCards. They send out physical Christmas, birthday and other cards on your behalf and pay for referrals.

99. Refer Them to Surveys – Not only can you fill out surveys yourself, now there’s a second tier where you can refer friends to take surveys and earn money and gifts for doing so.

Don’t Want To Actually Work?

100. Sell Unused CPU Cycles – Why do work yourself when your computer will do it for you? Sites like CPU Share let you sell your extra computer cycles. Just make sure you’re making enough to cover the cost of electricity.

Want More Traditional Work?

101. Telecommute – Hit up your favorite online job board for jobs marked as telecommute. Most you can do entirely online from your home.

So how many Google products, services or tools do you use? I’ve checked Alexa Traffic Ranking for Google.com and found that the top 3 Google Products remain Google Search Engine, Google Mail (Gmail), and Google Image Search or else 90% of Googlers uses Google only as a search engine and as a free email service provider. If you are not tech savvy then chances are that you are unaware about most of the following Google products, services, and tools.

Here is a list all the Google products, services and tools which are interesting. If you haven’t tried any of them then I really suggest you to check it out and see if it can make your life easier, better and more productive. To see a snapshot of what all Google products are you using then go to Google My Account which lists the top Google products and services which you have signed up for.

List Of Google Products, Services, Tools

Google Search & it’s features - Google search is the most popular search engine on the Web.

Android – Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system , middleware and key applications.

Blogger - A free blog publishing tool for easily sharing your thoughts with the world.

FeedBurner – Allows bloggers and podcasters to manage their RSS feeds.

Google Ad Planner – A free media planning tool that can help you identify websites your audience is likely to visit so you can make better-informed advertising decisions.

Google AdSense – Place contextual Google ads on your site – and earn money.

Google AdWords - Advertise online and pay only when people click on your ad.

Google Affiliate Network (DoubleClick) - Full-service online marketing company specializing in pay-for-performance media.

Google Alerts - Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.

Google Analytics (Urchin) - Google Analytics makes it easy to improve your results online.

Google Apps - Software-as-a-service for business email, information sharing and security.

Google Base - Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content.

Google Blog Search - Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs.

Google Body – Google Body is a detailed 3D model of the human body.

Google Bookmarks - Google Bookmarks is an online service that lets you save your favorite sites and attach labels and comments.

Google Book Search – Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide.

Google Browser Size – Simple visual tool to show what percentage of web users can see different areas of a website without needing to scroll.

Google Buzz – Start conversations about the things you find interesting. Share updates, photos , videos and more with your friends.

Google Calendar - Keep track of all your life’s important events – birthdays, reunions, little league games, doctor’s appointments – all in one place.

Google Checkout - Buy from stores across the web and track all your orders and shipping in one place.

Google Chrome - A browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

Google Chromium – The Chromium projects include Chromium and Chromium OS, the open-source projects behind the Google Chrome browser and Google Chrome OS, respectively.

Google Code - Code is for external developers interested in Google related development.

Google Contacts – Similar to an online address book, the Contact Manager gives you easy access to the people you want to reach.

Google Custom Search Engine & Google Subscribed Links – With Google Custom Search Engine and Subscribed Links, you can create a search engine tailored to your needs and lets you create custom search results that users can add to their Google search pages.

Google Dashboard – Google Dashboard offers a simple view into the data associated with your Google Account.

Google Desktop - Search your computer as easily as you search the web with Google.

Google Dictionary - Free online dictionary.

Google Directory - The web organized by topic into categories.

Google Documents – Free web-based word processor and spreadsheet, which allow you share and collaborate online.

Google Earth & Google Mars - Offers maps and satellite images for complex or pinpointed regional searches.

Google Fast Flip - Read news fast.

Google Finance - Offers a broad range of information about stocks, mutual funds, and companies.

Google Fusion Tables – Share and discuss your data online.

Google Friend Connect – Instantly awakens and strengthens the community that visits your site by enriching it with social features.

Google Gears - A Firefox and Internet Explorer extension that allows to navigate on compatible websites offline and synchronize when going back online.

Google Grants – In-kind advertising for non-profit organizations.

Google Groups - Where groups of people have discussions about common interests.

Google Health - Puts you in charge of your health information.

Google Image Search & Similar Images - The most comprehensive image search on the web. Google Search Images allows you to search for images using pictures rather than words.

Google In Quotes – Allows you to find quotes from stories linked to from Google News.

Google Knol - Knol makes it free and easy to create, collaborate on, and publish credible web content.

Google Latitude - See where your friends are on a map.

Google Local Business Center - If you are a business owner Claim your business listing today and let customers find you online!

Google Mail (Gmail) - Gmail is a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that email can be more intuitive, efficient, and useful.

Google Maps & Google Map Maker - Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions. With Map Maker you can edit the map in more than a hundred countries and watch your edits go into Google Maps.

Google Mars – Provides a visible imagery view, like Google Moon, as well as infrared imagery and shaded relief (elevation) of the planet Mars.

Google Mobile - Upgrade your phone with free Google products.

Google Moderator - A tool that allows distributed communities to submit and vote on questions for talks, presentations and events.

Google Moon – See the Moon in 3D.

Google Music – Upload your personal music collection and access it instantly on the web or any compatible device without the hassle of wires or syncing.

Google News, News Archive Search & Google News Timeline - Aggregated headlines and a search engine of many of the world’s news sources. News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. News Timeline is a web application that organizes information chronologically.

Google Notebook (SearchWiki) - With Google Notebook, you can browse, clip, and organize information from across the web in a single online location that’s accessible from any computer.

Google Offers – Get amazing deals at the best places to eat, shop, and play.

Google Pack – Google Pack is a collection of software tools offered by Google to download in a single archive.

Google Page Speed – Page Speed Online analyzes the content of a web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster.

Google Patents - Search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you.

Google Plus – Google+ aims to make sharing on the web more like sharing in real life.

Google Postini – Google email security and archiving services, powered by Postini, make your existing email system more secure and compliant.

Google PowerMeter – Save Energy. Save Money. Make a Difference.

Google Product Search (Froogle) - Presents photographs of products and links to the stores that sell them online.

Google Profiles – Decide what the world sees when it searches for you. Display the information you care about and make it easy for visitors to get to know you.

Google Reader - Web based feed reader to keep up with blogs and news.

Google Related – Google Related is a Chrome Extension that shows you useful, interesting content while you browse the web.

Google Scholar - Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

Google Scribe – Google Scribe helps you write better documents.

Google Script Converter – Convert text or a webpage.

Google Sets - Automatically create sets of items from a few examples.

Google Sites - Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share web pages.

Google SketchUp - Create, modify and share 3D models.

Google Sky - Google Sky includes a number of different ways to explore the universe.

Google Squared – Takes a category and creates a starter ‘square‘ of information, automatically fetching and organizing facts from across the web.

Google Street View – Explore the world at street level.

Google Store – Official Google Accessories, Apparel Items, Software, Office Equipment.

Google Subscribed Links – Subscribed Links let you create custom search results that users can add to their Google search pages.

Google Suggest - As you type your search, Google offers keyword suggestions in real time.

Google Takeout – Google Takeout allows you to download a copy of your data stored within Google products.

Google Talk - Chat with family and friends over the Internet for free.

Google Tasks – Keep track of what you need to do. Your task list stays up to date no matter how you access it. It’s a simple list that’s with you everywhere you go.

Google Toolbar - Internet Explorer and Firefox Toolbar with Google search.

Google Transit – Plan a trip using public transportation.

Google Transliteration – Google Transliteration allows you to type phonetically using Roman characters.

Google Translate – Free online language translation service instantly translates text and web pages.

Google Trends & Google Insights for Search - Compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Use Google Insights for Search and see for yourself what the world is searching for.

Google URL Shortener – Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is used by Google products to create short URLs that can be easily shared, tweeted, or emailed to friends.

Google Ventures – Venture Capital – by Google.

Google Video - Search and watch millions of videos indexed from all over the web.

Google Voice – Google Voice gives you one number for all your phones, voicemail as easy as email, free US long distance, low rates on international calls, and more.

Google Wave – Google Wave is a new online communication and collaboration tool.

Google Web Accelerator - Google Web Accelerator works with your browser to help web pages show up in a snap.

Google Web Elements – Google Web Elements allow you to easily add your favorite Google products to your website.

Google Web History - Your web history is stored on Google servers, which means that you can view and manage it from any computer.

Google Webmaster Tools - Provides you with detailed reports about your pages’ visibility on Google.

Google Website Optimizer – Website Optimizer, Google’s free website testing and optimization tool, allows you to increase the value of your existing websites and traffic without spending a cent.

Google WiFi – Google WiFi is a free wireless Internet service that Google is offering to the city of Mountain View.

iGoogle - Your personalized Google home page.

Jaiku - Create your own microblog and connect with your friends.

Orkut - Social networking site designed to make your social life more active and stimulating.

Picasa - Helps you organize, edit, and share your photos.

reCAPTCHA – A captcha system that uses successful decodings to helps digitise books for online use.

Textcube - Korean blogging platform.

YouTube - Share your videos with friends, family, and the world.

Please let me know if you know any other interesting service from Google so that I can give a try. So, how many Google Products and Services are you using?

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Gmail Labs is a testing ground for experimental features that aren’t quite ready for primetime. They may change,break or disappear at any time. If (when) a Labs feature breaks, and you’re having trouble loading your inbox, there’s an escape hatch. Use http://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=0.

Custom Date Formats

Adds options to the general settings page allowing the date and time format to be changed independent of language. For example, you can use a 24-hour clock (14:57) or show dates with the day first (31/12/07).

Inserting Images

Allows you to insert images into a message body. You can upload and insert image files in your computer, or insert images by URLs. This lab will not work if you have offline enabled.

Mark As Read Button

Tired of spending all that effort to click on the more actions menu every time you want to mark messages as read without reading them? Now just enable this lab and that is just a button click away!

Pictures In Chat

See your friends’ profile pictures when you chat with them.

Quote Selected Text

Quote the text you have selected when you reply to a message. (Now works with the mouse, too!)

Send & Archive

Adds a button to the compose form that lets you send a reply message and archive the email conversation in a single action.

Sender Time Zone

Should I reply to this mail or just call the guy? Ooops… it’s 1 am. Sorry, I didn’t mean to disturb…

Signature Tweaks

Places your signature before the quoted text in a reply, and removes the "–" line that appears before signatures.

Superstars

Adds additional star icons. After enabling this feature:
(1) Go to the "General" Settings page to choose which superstars you wish to use.
(2) Use either the keyboard shortcut (‘s’) or click to rotate through your selected superstars.
(3) Use the search operator "has:" to find all messages with your superstar (e.g. "has:red-bang", "has:blue-star"). Learn the name of a superstar by hovering over its image in the "General" Settings page.

Undo Send

Oops, hit "Send" too soon? Stop messages from being sent for a few seconds after hitting the send button.

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