Posts Tagged ‘Google’
Tips & Tricks: GoogleLookup in Google spreadsheets
26
Jul
Have you been frustrated trying to find the populations or capitals of a list of countries? Would you like to easily get a list of the birthdays of all of your favorite musicians and actors? The GoogleLookup function in Google spreadsheets does all of the work, and in a matter of seconds you have all of the information you want. Using the information collected from the Web using Google Search, the GoogleLookup function finds the values for straightforward facts about specific things. Read the rest of this entry »
How to manage the feed (over)flow
16
Nov
More and more people switch from the traditional news sources (newspaper/radio/tv) to websites, blogs and tweets. As they usually subscribe to the given feeds of their interest, there is less clutter, advertisement or irrelevant information in the newsflow. But we still get useless information or double entries to the same subject. So how can we handle all those flows efficiently and don’t miss a beat? Here’s my solution: Read the rest of this entry »