10 Clever Uses For Google Search You May Not Have Known About

 Searching on Google is not just about putting in the right keywords, and you definitely don’t need to understand what Hummingbird is all about. Google’s search application is a powerful tool that can do a lot of things. Moreover, you don’t need to be a geek or a computer genius to use these features. They are often as simple as copying and pasting something onto the search bar. Here are 10 tricks that are super easy, but you may have missed them.

1. Search on specific websites: Did you know you could do this? You can use Google Search to search through specific websites. So, for example, if you don’t like the search tool on our website, you can just open Google and type site:efytimes.com followed by whatever you want to search for. Google will search our website for you.

2. Reverse Image Search: You all know that you can search Google using Images, no not the Image search, you can actually insert an image on the Google Search bar. What many miss is the amount of information that you can find using this. Instead of checking the Google image results, check the normal search results that come. You can find the source of a picture through this. It can also be used for finding things like recipes of certain preparations etc.

3. Autocomplete wildcards: Autocomplete is a very handy feature on Google Search, but there’s more to it than meets the eye. Like other advanced search engines, you can put blank in the middle of your search terms, which signifies ‘anything’. Google will show wildcard suggestions for the term that can be put there. So, if you’re searching for ‘how to learn English’, you can remove the word ‘learn’ from the string and Google will give you suggestions about what all can be put there.

4. Search for free downloads: Remember these search tools: inurl, intitle and filetype. If you need to search for a free Android APK, then search using inurl:htm/inurl:html intitle:"index of" apk. This will show you the indexes of all stored apk files. 

5. Find alternatives for websites, products etc.: We’ve all searched on Google for comparisons between various websites ad products. But what do you do when you don’t know who the competitor is? It’s simple, if you want to search for a competitor to the iPhone 5S, just write ‘iPhone 5S vs’, and Google will show you suggestions for popularly searched competitors.

6. Google cache: The cached link to different websites on Google is highly useful. It can be used to access a website when it is down or getting around a SOPA blackout. But, you don’t always have to click on the cached link, you can simply write cache: along with the URL for the site and you will have what you need.

7. Google proxy: You can use Google search to bypass security features, paywalls and downloading files by funnelling through websites using Google Translate or Mobilizer. Just like the cached option, you can also access this directly, as long as you have the URL available.

All you have to do is add the URL to the end of the Google URL. For example, http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&u=http://example.com/.

8. Google Images to look for people: When a person’s name is the same as that of an object, it often returns conflicting results. To get around this, you can just add the&imgtype=facethe to the end of the search URL. The search will be redone and only those with faces will be returned.

9. Time-based search results: Google Search already provides a filter for getting time-based results, but if you want to be more specific, there is a way to do that too. All you have to do is add &tbs=qdr: to the end of your URL. You have to specify the time too. Here, h5 signifies five hours, while n5 signifies five minutes. For five seconds, write s5. So, if you want to search in the last ten minutes, you will write add&tbs=qdr:n10 to the URL.

10. Advanced operators: The AND or OR operators can be used on Google to search for multiple terms. But you already know that. What you may not know is that you can use the AROUND operator too. This operator provides results that are about halfway to or from the search term(s). So, you can write AROUND(2) for using two search terms, which ensures that the two words that are used are close to each other. The number in the parentheses can differ.

Did You Know?

1. Your shoes are the first thing people subconsciously notice about
you. Wear nice shoes.

2. If you sit for more than 11 hours a day, there's a 50% chance you'll die within the next 3 years

3. There are at least 6 people in the world who look exactly like you. There's a 9% chance that you'll meet one of them in your lifetime.

4. Sleeping without a pillow reduces back pain and keeps your spine stronger.

5. A person’s height is determined by their father, and their weight is determined by their mother.

6. If a part of your body "falls asleep", you can almost always "wake it up" by shaking your head.

7. There are three things the human brain cannot resist noticing - Food, attractive people and danger

8. Right-handed people tend to chew food on their right side

9. Putting dry tea bags in gym bags or smelly shoes will absorb the
unpleasant odour.

10. According to Albert Einstein, if honey bees were to disappear from earth, humans would be dead within 4 years.

11. There are so many kind of apples, that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.

12. You can survive without eating for weeks, but you will only live 11 days without sleeping.

13. People who laugh a lot are healthier than those who don’t.

14. Laziness and inactivity kills just as many people as smoking.

15. A human brain has a capacity to store 5 times as much information as Wikipedia.

16. Our brain uses same amount power as 10-watt light bulb!!

17. Our body gives enough heat in 30 mins to boil 1.5 litres of water!!

18. The Ovum egg is the largest cell and the sperm is the smallest cell !!

19. Stomach acid (conc. HCl) is strong enough to dissolve razor
blades!!

20. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. & while you walk, SMILE. It is the ultimate antidepressant.

21. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.

22. When you wake up in the morning, Pray to ask God's guidance
for your purpose, today.

23. Eat more foods that grow on trees
and plants and eat less food that is
manufactured in plants.

24. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, broccoli, and almonds.

25. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

26. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.

27. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.

28. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

29. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Forgive them for
everything !

30. Don't take yourself so seriously.
No one else does.

31. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

32. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.

33. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

34. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

35. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: 'In five years, will this matter?'

36. Help the needy,Be generous ! Be a 'Giver' not a 'Taker'

37. What other people think of you is none of your business.

38. Time heals everything.

39. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

40. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will.
Stay in touch.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. Each night before you go to bed, Pray to God and Be thankful for what you'll accomplish, today !

43. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.

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Lizzie too, like all teenagers, was shattered at first. "I cried my eyes out of course, and I was ready to kind of fight back, and something kind of clicked in my head and I thought 'I'm just going to leave it alone'," Lizzie says. She asked herself: "Am I going to let the people who called me a monster define me? No. I'm going to let my goals and my success and my accomplishments be the things that define me."
Today, Lizzie has authored two books (the third is in the making) and has become a motivational speaker. Agreed, her journey so far has been unimaginably difficult, but she hasn't let the troubles ever define who she is. For Lizzie, the glass has always been half full. "I can't see out of one eye, but I can see out of the other. I might get sick a lot, but I have really nice hair," she says. 
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9 Technologies That Matter In 2014

The future may be unwritten, but it's not entirely unknown. We look at nine areas of innovation and upcoming products to watch in 2014.

Predictions about what will come seldom prove accurate. That's why prognosticators pick trends, rather than specific events. Witness Gartner's recent top 10 strategic technology trends for 2014. It correctly identifies areas of active innovation, such as 3D printing, the extension of the Internet to everyday objects, and smart machines. But it fails to provide enough guidance to pick specific winners from an investment standpoint.

Even when market seers stick with broad strokes, they often get it wrong. For years, people have fretted about peak oil -- the notion that global oil production will hit a peak and then diminish. In theory, it makes sense. Oil supply is limited, and the amount we extract every year cannot continue growing forever. But peak oil doomsayers got the timing wrong. It was supposed to happen in the 1990s, and then in the following decade. But it didn't, thanks to fracking and other technological advances in oil extraction. And when it comes to predicting the future, timing is everything.

Predictions work better when there's less guesswork involved. The science fiction writer William Gibson once observed, "The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed." Sometimes we can see into the future because it's already visible somewhere in the present.

Here are a few technologies and products that we know are coming. What remains to be seen is whether and how they will change things.

Google Glass
Google Glass should be available to consumers in 2014. Whether anyone will buy it remains open to debate. But before you dismiss Glass with some remark about "Glassholes," consider Google+ and Google Chromebooks. Both were derided as jokes when they debuted. Google+ was seen as a pale imitation of Facebook, and Chromebooks were dismissed for being unable to run Microsoft Office and for their modest computational prowess.

Today, Google+ commands some respect, in part because Google forced it on everyone. Chromebooks are actually selling and can work with Office documents through the company's Quickoffice integration, not to mention Google Apps. Google may be ruthless about killing its products, but it's also willing to sustain strategically valuable ones.

Google Glass is just that: It matters to Google because mobile computing is the future. We know that because mobile computing, wearable or otherwise, keeps expanding in the present. We have computers and sensors that communicate with them in a growing number of everyday accessories, appliances, structures, and vehicles. We will have computers in glasses, too. But we don't yet know what applications will prove useful for each form factor or who will use the applications.

In the case of Glass, Google's cautious rollout has started to suggest how computerized eyewear might matter. The recently introduced Glass app Word Lens translates printed words using the Glass camera in real-time.

Think about the utility of being able to read foreign languages through your glasses instantaneously. If Google made a version of Glass that did that and offered it for a few hundred dollars, it would be a massive hit among travelers.

Wireless charging
Wires are keeping the mobile revolution tied to the ground. No one really wants them, but they haven't proven easy to eliminate. The technology industry has made some progress in that direction through wireless technology. Wireless data protocols like AirPlay and Bluetooth have reached a point where physical cables are no longer necessary for good audio, not to mention streaming video.

Power cords, however, are still widely used. Apple has danced around the issue for a while by combining multiple cables into a single one on its monitors and making power cords easier to remove through its MagSafe technology. But Microsoft and Nokia have forged ahead and cut the power cord, repeating a feat Palm accomplished in 2009. The Lumia Windows Phone 820 and 920, introduced in 2012, made wireless charging widely available. The technology has since proliferated in the form of Qi wireless chargers, which support a growing number of mobile devices. Expect Apple to have an answer for this sooner or later.

The next year should bring improved wireless charging time from Sony and a more effective charging system from Samsung and the New Zealand startup PowerbyProxi. Eventually, this technology will spread to other devices. Mobee already offers an inductive charger for Apple's Magic Mouse. Developments in 2014 will hasten the cutting of cords. In a few years, power cords will look antiquated, at least for mobile devices.

Curved smartphones
Samsung has already released a curved smartphone, the Galaxy Round, and LG has just done the same with its G Flex. Bloomberg has reported that Apple is working on phones with curved displays, for possible release in the third quarter of 2014.

Expect more curved phones, but don't ask why, because there isn't really a good answer. In its assessment of the Galaxy Round, Engadget said the device is comfortable to hold and feels comfortable in a pant pocket. A minor advantage, perhaps, though hand fit can be addressed by avoiding large-screen phones, and pants are not the only place to carry phones. Screen curvature really isn't a big deal unless you're lining up several phones to build a tiny aqueduct or using one as a gutter to roll Raisinets into your mouth.

As a trend, curved phones matter mainly because they represent an effort to think outside the box, which is to say the rectangular form factor. Curved phones are a sign of what's to come: phones in wristbands, phones that fold, and so on. They'll get better.

Apple iWatch
It's more or less a given that Apple plans to introduce a computerized watch in 2014. It could be called iWatch, given the company's penchant for products prefaced with the letter "i". Presumably, it will do what other smartwatches do. Perhaps it will be better received. Recent smartwatches from Samsung and Sony have underwhelmed. The devices have been dismissed for costing too much and for lacking in battery life, processing power, and apps.

Apple's challenge is to avoid creating a device made redundant by smartphones. Smartwatches need to have a unique reason for being -- a killer app or indispensable function. They need to be more than a sidecar for the smartphone user who has everything. If Apple priced its iWatch for $99 and offered basic location tracking and communication capabilities without an expensive mobile carrier contract, it would sell millions to parents who want to keep in touch with their kids.

However, chances are Apple will aim for a higher price point, making it simply a wearable reminder that you have a lot of unread email.

Chrome OS tablet
Google should ship a Chrome OS tablet at some point in 2014. Given how well Chromebooks have been doing in schools and the fact that schools are also buying tablets, a Chrome tablet seems inevitable, particularly since Google offers a potential tablet design on its website, and company officials have publicly discussed the possibility. Google already has touch technology working on its Chromebook Pixel.

The next step is getting rid of the keyboard. And that's easier than ever, thanks to the recent improvements in the Chrome OS virtual keyboard. What will it be called? Chromescreen or Chrometab, perhaps?

Project Ara
Project Ara is an effort by Motorola Mobility and the Phonebloks community to create a series of smartphone modules that can be snapped together to perform specific, customizable functions. Motorola just announced apartnership with 3D Systems to manufacture Project Ara components using 3D printing technology.

This custom assembly line isn't likely to be ready next year, but Project Ara devices could be made available to early adopters next year.

Gesture control
Between Microsoft Kinect and the integration of the Leap Motion Controller into HP's 17-inch Envy laptop, it's clear that the mouse and keyboard are not the only ways to interact with computers anymore. In 2014, we'll see this trend accelerate. More hardware will track gestures, and developers will begin to deliver compelling games that rely on gesture input.

Intel is helping PC and peripheral makers integrate its motion sensing technology into hardware products with its Perceptual Computing SDK. The first products to take advantage of this technology include Creative's Senz3D and Interactive Gesture Camera. Expect more hand waving in 2014.

Mind-machine interfaces
Touch input magnified the mobile revolution by making interaction easier while on the move. Gesture control and voice control are redefining the scope of device interaction by expanding input methods beyond our hands. Brain control may be the ultimate way to interact with machines, and the technology is moving beyond experimental settings.

The Emotiv EPOC is a $299 headset designed to let users control software and hardware using their brains. NeuroSky makes the $130 MindWave Mobile headset, which is bundled with games you can control using your mind.

Personal medical monitoring
When people talk about the Internet of Things, they're talking about sensors. The most interesting network-connected sensors are medical, because they hint at the possibility of mitigating ridiculously high charges for medical services at hospitals and because they may be able to improve people's lives. Serious medicine isn't likely to ever be predominantly self-service, but you can expect a growing number of medical diagnostic tests to be made available through consumer-oriented devices.

For example, the Scanadu Scout, slated for release in 2014, is a monitor about the size of an Oreo designed to report your temperature, respiratory rate, oximetry, ECG, systolic blood pressure, and diastolic blood pressure to your smartphone.

The future is already here. It's just not yet connected to your smartphone.

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Improve battery life of Laptops and Smartphones

Improve Battery life:
Most of you might have felt this problem. There’s lots of articles about how to conserve your laptop or smart phones battery power, but not much about how to take care of your batteries. Most laptop batteries these days are lithium-ion batteries. lithium-ion batteries do not have a charge memory,which means that you do not have to completely discharge them before recharging.So inorder to get better performance ,fully discharging and charging the battery is completely useless. Many of the people leave their laptop plugged in during their use, like a desktop replacement.Will this cause degradation in battery life? Having your laptop plugged in with a fully charged battery in it is not harmful, because as soon as the charge level reaches 100% , the charging of the battery stops and the power will be bypassed directly to the to the power supply system of the laptop.How ever there is a severe disadvantage for this.Heating of the battery ! Heating has a major negative effect on the battery life.When you use your laptop top plugged in, the battery will be subjected to heavy heating and will spoil the battery. Some tips for getting better battery life Avoid charging your laptop while using it. Remove the battery while you are working on AC current. Allow partial discharge (20 to 30 %)of the battery and avoid frequent full discharges .After 30 or 40 charges,allow the batteries to almost completely discharge (upto 10%). Avoid putting your laptop on thermally insulating materials. Ensure proper ventilation while working on the laptop.You can use cool pads which will reduce the heating effect. Avoid complete discharging.Never allow your battery to go below 5 % of charge Use software’s like battery care which allows you to have the control over the discharge cycles number, and when this reaches 30 (or other configured value), it notifies you that it’s time to perform a full discharge in order to keep the battery gauge calibrated.