Google Search Tips and Tricks

Google search tips and tricks.When we say about Internet the first name come to our mind is the name Google. Last year there were trillions of searches are made by peoples around the world. There are some ways for making your Google searches more fun and effective. Here are some tips for your Google search.

define:

         By using this you can easily find the definition of a word.

word * word

            For finding the combination of words.

                                                                   With *

Without *

Site:

            If you want to search only within a site.

File type:

            Easily get the results of the file types we wants like PDF,PPT,DOC etc.

Add Plus Sign

         Shows result of exact word you search. I.e. no plurals are in search results. For example if we search for feeling it shows result only the word related to feeling instead of word feelings.

intitle

         Shows only pages that have the title you search.

“Set of words”

       To find the words in exact order you search.

 Movies

       You can find the movies that run in theatres nearby you entering the city's name or zip code.

 Set a timer

       Yes you can set a timer in Google. If you want to take break while browsing, you can set timer in Google and when the time runs out Google will beep.

Flip Google

        Flip or spin the Google page by searching “do a barrel roll".

Tilt Google

       Tilt the Google page by searching tilt or askew.

Zerg Rush

         Search for zerg rush and shows page that are eaten by O’s

Sort the results by Author

         You can search only for the popular books by an author or search for songs only by an artist.

 Two type of results

         Simultaneously get two results by making a single search.

Search with *

      If you forget a song and knows only some part of it, search with the asterisks *, the Google will complete the search by adding missing words to it.

 “-“

       By adding hyphen to the search you can exclude a word from search or its more useful when you want to search a word with several meanings.

With Hyphen

Without Hyphen

allinurl

         Find all the pages that contain your searched url.

Ip address

         Search for ip address,shows your public IP address.

VS

          By adding vs to the search you get the compared results in a table format.

cache:

        To get the cached copy of a website those are online or not. For example type "cache: site name" without quotes on the browser url field or search bar of browser.

See all Google Doodles

      Without entering any search and hit I am feeling lucky, you can see all the doodles that created by Google for special days.

related:

        Shows only result that related to your search.

                                                         More you know pls share via comments.  

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How to Speed up your Android Phone

You can increase the speed of your android phone without rooting. *Rooting is not the last word for speed up your smartphones. Before going for that give a chance to your phone to improve its performance. For that you have to make some tweaking to them.

Lagging, slow performance etc... are common friends to low-end phones having low space or memory. But sometimes they also make friendship with high-end phones and you are not like these friends to make a visit to your mobile while you playing games, chatting, playing videos etc... Also you can keep them away by giving some advice to your smartphone. Here are some tips to get rid of from his friends.

*Root: Rooting your smartphone is not recommended and doing so is risky too. It will void the warranty of your mobile and also there are chances for bricking.

Before Buying Smartphones

If you have heard of above friends before buying a phone and you are not like their friendship then go for a high-end mobile. If concerning about your budget then you can buy phones coming with a minimum of 1GB RAM, 1 GHz processor or some decent internal memory. Already mobile phones are available at these specifications in low prices. Because these friends are not so much like to make friendship with smartphones having high memory and space.

Above discussed are some points to keep in mind if you are not willing to see these friends after buying a smartphone. Apart from all the above steps you take they will definitely make a visit to your smartphone. You can keep them away by some simple techniques and repeat these tricks if they came back.

Memory Management

Through memory management you can increase the speed of your smartphone to a greater extends. More free memory will deliver more performance. So, let's a look at how you can use the available memory to make your phone runs faster.

Disable Apps

Disabling pre-installed apps (apps that already installed and come with your phone) will helpful to free more space in RAM. Because some of these apps are staying in your RAM in which carves its space. Disabling them will give more memory and there preoccupied space can use for other apps to run faster.

For that go to Settings → Application Manager → All apps → Select the apps that you wanted to Disable.

You can disable pre-installed like Chat on, some clock widgets, pre-installed live wallpapers etc... if you are no longer going to use them. But make sure that the disabling apps are not the system apps. If you have any doubts in doing so then you can depend other third-party apps to do it. Clean Master will be a better option for disabling them and they will list the apps that you have to disable without affecting the system functions.

Stop Background Apps

Stopping the unwanted apps that runs in background will help to improve your mobile speed. There are many apps running in background for the smooth functioning of your phone like monitoring the network change, locking of your device etc... This privilege may misuse by other apps and they run in background will give headache to the RAM and results in lagging of your mobile. So, make them force stop will give extral space for your RAM to works with your phone to run faster.

For that go to Settings → Application Manager → Under Running select the apps that you don't want to run in background.

                       Here also you can use Clean master or Greenify to stop apps from running in background.

Check Task Manger

Some apps will not close if you properly closed it. For example apps like android built-in browser, Google Chrome, We chat etc... may run in background if you had already get exit.  Not only the apps but some connectivity service like wifi share (if you already stop it but cached process of it will remain in RAM) will run in background after the use. All of these apps using memory for their running, in turns slow your phone.

So, make sure that they are not running in background after using these apps by using task manager or go through the settings that already discussed above.

Space Management

If you have low space then try to leave some space free will stops your from phone from lagging. Utilize the available space by taking some proper techniques to speed up your mobile to run faster and smooth.

Don't over populate

Increasing the population rate in your smartphone will definitely reduce your device performance. So, don't try to install so many apps and uninstall them if are you not using it for a long period. Some apps are useful when the time of installation or over a period or over a week. After that you forget them to uninstall and they may squeeze your phone's memory and hike your mobile's speed.

Here also you can use Clean master like apps that would categorized the apps according to the frequency of use and you can directly uninstall from it there.

Internal Memory

Low internal memory (Built-in memory) will be a common problem for low-end phones and a reason for lagging of your mobile. Generally smartphones are coming with a specific built-in memory size (varies with phones). A part of this memory allocated used for OS installation in your phone and rest of the space for copying your files and installing apps. Here comes the next problem that mobiles like Samsung Galaxy S2 only allow to install apps to their allocated 1GB space in its internal memory even if 14GB (out of 16GB rest of the 2GB is for OS installation) is available.

If this allocated 1GB is full then you can't install more apps (You may notified this problem when you can't install apps if there is enough space in your mobile) and your mobile become slow. So, such circumstances go for an external SD card to move your files to it.

You can find the "Move to SD Card" option by go to Settings → Application Manager → Under Downloaded apps select the app that you wanted to move.

This will give a free space of the moved app in internal memory and you can continue installation of other apps. But low-end phones may not get benefits from this. As this will be a temporary relief to them. So, make sure not to dump so many apps in your phone's internal memory. This option may not available in some smartphones or supported only in some OS.

Also, Clean Master like apps have option for this and they will pop out at the time of installation, asking you to "Move to SD Card". But smartphones like Galaxy S3 has no limitation for installing apps to their internal memory

Cache Cleaning

The advantages and disadvantages of cache discussed earlier. So, here I am skipping it. Okay then come to the point, cleaning of cache will prevent your mobile from lagging due to low space. Because cache was create every time you using an app for faster loading and occupying your smartphone space. So, it’s a companion of your smartphone. It’s difficult to search cache for individual app and clear it. Cache cleaning app will do it for you with one click.

Something You can do Further

Apart from the Memory and Space Management there is some extra tips you can follow to speed up your android phone.

Disable Power Saving Mode

I too agree with you, enabling the power saving mode will help to hold lots of your phone's battery charge. But enabling this will also limits the performance of your CPU. This is one of the reasons for your mobile become slow. Otherwise you can use the power saving mode by deselect the "CPU Power Saving" option in it if your mobile going slow.

For that go to Settings → Select Power Saving Mode → Deselect the CPU Power Saving.

You can also do it directly by long pressing the power saving mode from the notification area of your smartphone.

Update Software

Updating your mobile firmware or installing apps will help you to increase the speed of your smartphone. Sometimes it may be adversely affects on upgrading firmware. Because the OS that already comes with the mobile are more compatible with your hardware or battery life. If you upgrading may results in battery draining or some glitches while using your mobile. So, go for upgrading if you are font slow performance of your mobile.

For that Go to Settings →About Device  → Software Update

In case of the installed apps after the every updates the developer of the app will try to drop the bugs in it that causes battery draining or mobile slow.

Lagging while playing Games

This may happens when the system memory used by other apps in background while you are playing games. Also if the power saving mode enabled or the internal memory was full you may find difficulties in playing.

So, before going to playing games in your mobile force stop the unwanted apps running in the background, deselect the CPU Power Saving Mode in it and clears your phone's memory with the task manager. After made all these steps you can play games faster than the earlier attempt.

Clear your Home Screen

Don't place so many widget's or apps shortcuts on your phone desktop. Doing so will have impact on your mobile speed. Try to keep mostly used apps shortcuts or widgets on the main screen.

Phone Not Responding

If there was no response while you open an app, playing games or other reasons then long press the "home button" or "power button" or "power key + volume up key" (holding it sometime may restart if your phone) to bring back your mobile and these shortcuts are for Samsung phones, it may works on other android phones too. If these tricks are not working then go for the last step remove the battery and restart your phone. Also remember that removing battery while your phone is in use is not recommended and it’s advised to do if all the above steps failed.

Over Heating

Over Heating of your CPU or processor may not suddenly increase your device temperature. But continues the usage while heated may reduce your device performance. So, keep it cool for sometimes to get rid of the problems that may arise from overheating of your device.  

Above discussed are some tips for speed up your android Smartphone. If you would like to add some other tips to the discussion. Pls feel free to mention it as comments.

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How to Save Mobile Data in Android phone

You can save mobile data of android phone by taking simple tweaking and settings. Without Internet there is no existence of smartphones. By the entry of smartphones the data traffic driven rates increase highly. May be you never dreamed of that GBs of data can eat by a phone itself. But after the entry of smartphones especially the android phones this part has become no relevance. I am sure that for a smartphone junkie 1GB is not enough to stay with his smartphone over more than 10 days. If not pardon me....

When you are running in low data pack or use main balance to browse internet then you don't like your smartphone to eat lot of your mobile data. This is not the only thing also if you are in a day or week validity data pack you doesn’t like to drain out your mobile data balance fastly. As the smartphones are ready to attacks your data pack. So, you have to teach them some manners that how they can deal with your mobile data if they are greedy. Here, I am going to tell how you can train them. Let’s go......and I'm trying to tell you in little fantasy.....

Before Entering to the Internet World with him

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Before entering with him (smartphone) to the internet world give some proper instruction and teach him to not make any quarrels with your data pack. Just try, he will definitely obey you.

Make sure that he has no appetite

As he (smartphone) go through the Internet world he will eat a lot of food (*cache) when he visited a house (site) with you. So, it's your duty that they take enough food (don't clear the cache). Benefits is that when he re visit the same house (same site) with you and he is not willing to eat more food (cache) again. It helps you to faster browsing and low mobile data usage.

Also If he become so fatty (low space and slower performance) trained him with an instructor (apps like Clean master-cache cleaning app) to reduce his fat (clear cache) and make him faster.

*Cache: It's small data that creates in your mobile every time you browse Internet or using an app. This helps to browse page faster and load the apps very easily.  When you re-open it.. But it is not good for low-end phones because lots of cache will slow down your phone and carves your mobile space.

Advantages of cache Browsing

Cache browsing has a lot of pros in which you have to use less mobile data, faster browsing, offline reading of some apps (Facebook, Google Maps etc...) without clearing cache.

Facebook

By using its official app it also creates a lot of cache in which later to deliver you a better user experience and to increase the loading speed of the app. Another thing is that you can go through the app in offline mode unless you don't clear the cache to the end where it's loaded before when you are stay in app.

While Browsing

It’s give hassle free browsing while you are in any browser. For example browsers like Google Chrome are difficult for a 2G user to use Gmail. But if you keep the cache of the early visit to Gmail account in chrome it will helpful to load your account very faster even in normal 2G speed.

Offline Map

Another benefit is that you can use cache of the maps to retrieve the data in offline. But remember that this feature is useful only if you have a history of a place you searched. Because while travelling it's difficult to access internet to search with the app. So, with cache you can overcome that. Google Maps also provide offline data mode.

For saving a map in offline mode search for a place you wanted to save in offline. After completing the search, from the bottom of the screen shows the searched place name tap it then a pop up option appears to save it in offline. Map showing only on the screen will save. Also you can zoom out or zoom in the map before saving. To know its limitation click here.

Don't let him to take decisions

Don't let him (smartphones) to make his decisions. As this make your money (data pack) in trouble. So, you definitely have a control over his decisions taking before entering to the internet world. If you not controls him, he buys all the latest things (automatically updates your installed apps) to his family (installed apps) with your money (data pack), without your knowledge.

Did you allow them to do that by wasting your money (data pack) to buy items (updates) that are not useful to him and you. No, I'm not going to allow that. So, if you..... Then teach him to buy things (updates) at the right time (manual updates by you). Not only he but also you have to spend your money (Data pack) wisely. Here we go...

Thinks you should teach him not do himself

Here is something you should teach them before going to browsing

Disable automatic updates of your installed apps

Turn-off Auto updates of the installed apps before you get connected to the internet. For that go to the play store select Settings → Auto update Apps → Do not Auto updates.

Generally updating installed apps are good that this will eliminates the bugs in it but if you are latching on a mobile data it’s safe to disable the automatic updates of them.

Restrict the data usage in the background

There are many process that runs in background in which drives more mobile data while you get connected to the internet. So restrict it by go to Settings → Connections→ Data Usage → Tap menu button → Restrict Background. (Samsung Galaxy S3 4.3). Once it is selected then the background data access only when a WiFi is available.

In general go to Settings → Wireless &Networks → Data Usage → Tap menu button → Restrict Background. Also you can restrict individual app background process by selecting the app itself.

Disable Unwanted apps that runs in background

Also disabling the unwanted apps running in background before browsing will reduce the data consumption.

                     

For that Go to Settings → Application Manager → Under Running select the apps that you don't want run in background except the system apps. Also you can use auto force stop the apps that runs in background with the help of third party apps like Greenify

Greenify

Use this app to hibernate unwanted apps that run in background. Greenify just force stop the apps and you can use it again by re open it. This helps to browse faster and make your phone speedy.

How to hibernate

• Open Greenify, from the home click the + from top right corner. 
• Shows the app runs in background. 
• Select the apps that you want to hibernate by tapping it. 
• After selecting apps clickto hibernate. 
• Done...All the apps got hibernate.

Some of the apps may not hibernate or you have to manually force stops them. It’s not safe to hibernating security apps and other android system apps. Once you hibernate the apps then you don't need to select them again to hibernate. All you wanted to do is just select this iconfrom the app home to hibernate.  

Also the app supports auto hibernation in which the app itself automatically force stop all the apps that you selected to hibernate. You can activate this option under the Experiment features → Automated Hibernation (this feature only available from android OS 4.1+) and no root needed.

Note: Hibernating Facebook, whatsapp and other will stop them to run in background. Also you don't get notified the new updates from this app until you open it again.

Turn-off auto synchronization

Apps like Facebook, Gmail, whatsapp etc runs in background to sync with their servers to bring latest updates, notifications, attachments to you. If you no longer wanted, automatic synchronization in background then better to disable it.

Go to Settings → Wireless &Networks → Data Usage → Tap menu button → Untick Auto Synchronization

Facebook

Every time you get connected to the internet Facebook connects with its server to bring notification, updates etc...from your friends to you. There is an auto refreshing function in which brings the real time news feed from your friends.  Also Stop the Auto play function in which automatically plays the video in Facebook app and the frequency or Auto refresh rate to high.

For that Open Facebook → Tap menu button →Set refresh interval to high

Gmail

If you are no longer going to need auto synchronization or automatically receiving the latest email then disabling it will reduce the data usage. Also disable the automatic download attachments or select it to download only through wifi.

Go to Settings → Connections → Data Usage → Tap menu button → uncheck Auto- synchronization (Samsung Galaxy S3). Also you can set this through the Gmail app.

Whatsap

Most popular widely use instant messaging app over 600 million users globally. Most of the newbie’s in whatsapp will forget to turn off the Auto Media Download option in it. If you forget to turn off this option, it will carve a lion share of your mobile data and space by the media files that sends by your friends.

For that Go to whatsapp → Tap Menu button → chat settings → Media Auto Download → when using Mobile data → uncheck all.

If you have low space then you should also turned off media over wifi download. For that follow the above steps to Media Auto Download → when connected to Wi-Fi → Uncheck all.

Wifi Hotspot!...

You can turn your mobile as a wifi source to other devices by using your mobile data. So, keep in mind before making your mobile phone as wifi hotspot to others as it delivers more data if the above optimization was done by others to which you make your phone as wifi hotspot.

While Using Wifi Hotspot

If you notify that some apps updating in background while you using your friend's or others phone as wifi hotspot. Then immediately force stops them before making so much destruction to your friend’s mobile data. Some app shows their updating in notification area. You can stop them by long press to the notification until app info pop out. By tapping the app info will help to stop them.

Security Suits

Disable the automatic updates of your antivirus app otherwise it will search and download the latest security updates to your mobile. If you run in low data balance or browse through your mobile balance and automatic updates is on this will drain out your mobile data. Also security updates are very much importance to your mobile. So, update it’s manually when you have enough mobile data.

Installing apps

Also first installation step of an app have some connections with your data usage. Because some apps ask you to join their user improvement community or tell that the app will send some anonymous data’s while using them. They use this data’s for improve their apps features and user interface.

You can opt out from this option at the time of installation of app or if you forget to do so then go to settings in app from there you can untick this option. Otherwise it will send data in background that drain out mobile data.

           

These are the things that you have to teach him (smartphone) before going out with him. Once you taught them they will not forget it until you tell him to do so......

How much he Spend?...

You can know how much money (data pack) he spend with and without your knowledge (Automatic updates). There are some ways to know that how much he spend for buying each items (apps). *Also you can appoint a person (Third party apps like Onovo Count) to watch him.

*Reason: Smartphones with android OS 4.0+ has built-in option to check data usage of your smartphone. But predecessor OS has no option for data monitoring therefore you have to install some third-party free apps like Onovo Count to monitor your data usage and you can try them if you are in Android OS 4.0+.

Onovo Count

It’s an app to track your mobile data usage of your smartphone. It can caught all the data activities that driven by the installed apps and your android system. Also the app sends some anonymous data to their servers to improve the features and user interface to make the app bugs free. You can also opt out form this option under the app settings and no need to create a profile (you can skip this step) in the installation process to use this app. Here are some of the features.

• Option for setting the plan data type (prepaid, unlimited etc)
• You can add plan details like validity of the data pack, Allowed data pack etc…. 
• Give the statics of the usage for a month, week, day, time…
• Set data limit and usage warning, Data usage by individual apps.

                                

If you have already activated the data pack before the installation of onovo then you have to enter how much data you consumed and the app track the rest of data usage based on your data pack

To know how much he spend for a month

You can know how much money that he spend for a whole month to buy new items (updates) through different sources (wifi, wifi hotspot) for its family (installed apps)

For that Go to Settings → Wireless & Networks → Data Usage. From their you get whole deals (total data usage) for that month. Also you can warn him if he tries to spend money beyond the limit (you can set limit for data usage).

How much he spends for each family members (Installed apps)

For that Go to Settings → Wireless & Networks → Data Usage → Tap individual app, shows the data consumption of that app for a month or a day or week or over time duration.

These are the things that you have to teach him and keep in your mind while you go out with him for browsing the internet.

After you entering to the internet world with him

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Also you can teach him some good him lessons, proper ways to spend your money (data pack) effectively out there. So, it's your responsibility to give proper directions to him for saving money and making friends (browsers) out there. Below are some tips for you to train him (smartphone).

Spend your money and data pack wisely

You can spend your money (data pack) efficiently without losing so much of it. Here are some tips for that

Low data or mobile balance

If you want to browse at low mobile balance or data without losing much of them then follow below steps.

Use opera to browse

It's a user-friendly browser. Opera can save a lot of bucks even if you are browsing through your mobile balance.  Because opera compressed images and 90% of data they handled before it delivers to you. I recommended opera for 2G users for a faster browsing experience. You can easily load a heavy websites with lot of images and contents with opera.

Use Google Chrome

Google Chrome now offers a data compression or a bandwidth management technique for giving you a better and faster browsing experience. For this, chrome has a dedicated server to compress the data in which fastly loads the web page that you access through it. But you have to select it manually before browsing and also you can opt out at any time.

For that Open Google Chrome → Tap Menu Button → Settings → Bandwidth Management → Reduce Data Usage → Turn It On

Make some arrangements in your browser

By making some arrangements in your browsers you can save lot of your mobile data.

Browse in mobile mode

Try to view websites in mobile view than loading them in desktop mode. It will save a lot of data for you. By doing this you can load or view a heavy websites with lot of images and contents at its basic view. This will helpful to save your mobile data and faster browsing experience.

Browse only in text mode

This feature is offering by most of the browsers like Opera, UC browser etc... From the name explains it. By turn on this mode you will see only text in the respective site that you browsing, even if lot of images there. Because images will eats lion share of your mobile data. But for a better reading experience we have images with them. So, go for only this if you have low data balance.

Set image quality low

Also another option is to reduce the image quality of the viewing images before browsing from Low, Medium to high. This is in turn helps to cut data consumption rate.

While using speedy internet

Lots of changes or developments to the communication field throughout the years. Mobile users use 2G/3G/4G for browsing internet to get information. As Speed of the net increases then the data transfer rate is also faster than you think. So, use 2G to browse at low balance. But you can for 3G/4G if you have a lot of data or want to download large files from internet.

While you are in a special data pack

Recently the operators are offering some special data packs for using Facebook, Whatsapp etc... While activating these types of data packs are only useful for phones like Nokia Xperia Music.... as there is no background in these phones.  Also if you often using these apps it good to latching this plan. But you definitely have a minimum of 30mb extra normal data pack in hand before using this data pack.

Because as I said earlier smartphone has so many apps running in background while you get connected to the internet. Like updating of playstore, Samsung App etc... The data used to update these are not accounted in whatsapp use only pack.

How to use Facebook in low data balance?

The safest way to use Facebook or other social account without losing much data in low balance is to browse through browsers like Opera will help to save lot of data than using their official app. Also Facebook offer you to browse their site in its basic view.

           

So, get ready to go out with him and enjoy a hassle free browsing without losing so much of your money and mobile data. Also correct me if I made any mistakes. Did you like to add some extra tips?... Pls feel free to express it as comments.

         

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