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Voice Recognition is magic. You turn on the microphone, say something and watch as your speech is magically transformed into text on the computer screen. Speech Recognition has long been available for English and latin languages but you now use for Hindi, the most popular language in India, as well. To get started, open dictation.io in your web browser. This is an online voice recognition software that works in Google Chrome on the desktop and mobile phone. You say something, the audio is sent to Google Servers for transcription and the words are printed on screen. Go to the language dropdown…
Gmail is very effective at filtering spam emails but spammers seem to have figured out a new way to bypass the spam filters and send emails that land right in the user’s inbox. The emails are sent through Google Forms and because the messages originate from Google’s own email servers, they do not get caught in the spam filters. Here’s how spam emails are sent through Google Forms. A public form is created with Google Forms. The form creator uploads images for the various question fields and also adds links to spam websites in the form. Inside the Form settings,…
You are organizing an online event – maybe a meeting on Zoom or a training session hosted on Google Meet – and you would like the attendees to add the event to their own calendars. Once added to their calendar, the event will act as an automatic reminder and attendees will get a notification when the conference is about to start. There are two way to go about this: You can create a new meeting in your online calendar (Google, Outlook or any other calendar) and add the individual attendees as guests so the event automatically gets added to their…
Gmail Plus Address is a very useful trick to save your mailbox from spam. And if you ever get spammed, you know exactly which website / online service leaked your email address to spammers. Gmail Plus Address So what is a Gmail Plus address? Say you have an email address like billgates@gmail.com. If you append a “plus” sign to your email username, Gmail will ignore anything written between the + and @ sign in the email address and still deliver the message to the same mailbox. So any email address sent to billgates+microsoft@gmail.com or billgates+blog@gmail.com or billgates+website@gmail.com will still reach…
You are working inside a Google Spreadsheet where a formula needs to copied down to the last row of the sheet. You also need the formula to be added automatically when a new row is added to the Google Sheet. There are several ways to solve this problem. Copy Formula Down in Google Sheets The easiest approach to copy down formulas is to use the fill handle in Google Sheets. Write your formula in the first row of your spreadsheet, and then point your mouse to the lower right corner of the formula cell. The pointer changes into a fill…
Websites can determine the visitor’s geographic location using their IP address and serve more relevant content. For example, a weather website may use your IP address to estimate your approximate location and provide weather forecast for your current city automatically. A currency exchange website can determine your default currency based on your country which is detected from your IP address. There are free web IP lookup services, ip2c.org for example, that will reveal the country of your client’s IP address with a simple HTTP request. We internally use that service at Digital Inspiration to determine the payment service provider on…
Google Developer Expert Google awarded us the Developer Expert title recogizing our work in Workspace ProductHunt Golden Kitty Our Gmail tool won the Lifehack of the Year award at ProductHunt Golden Kitty Awards Microsoft MVP Alumni Microsoft awarded us the Most Valuable Professional title for 5 years in a row Google Cloud Champion Google awarded us the Champion Innovator award for technical expertise
An international school is building a Google Form where students can register their details. The form would have a drop-down list of countries, the names of class teachers as a multiple choice question and a checkbox style question where students can pick one or more of their favorite subjects. Adding Bulk Questions in Google Forms It is easy to create such a form inside Google Forms – here’s a sample form – but there are two issues: There’s too much data to enter and type in the form. For instance, the country down-down alone has a list of 250 countries…
Google Developer Expert Google awarded us the Developer Expert title recogizing our work in Workspace ProductHunt Golden Kitty Our Gmail tool won the Lifehack of the Year award at ProductHunt Golden Kitty Awards Microsoft MVP Alumni Microsoft awarded us the Most Valuable Professional title for 5 years in a row Google Cloud Champion Google awarded us the Champion Innovator award for technical expertise
India is currently in the midst of a second wave of the Coronavirus and this one is far more devastating than what we have seen last year. The country is reporting close to 400,000+ new cases every day but the actual count of daily infections could be much higher. The COVID-19 vaccination program in India was earlier available to people above 45 years of age but starting May 1st, anyone above the age of 18 years can get vaccinated. That said, vaccine availability remains an issue countrywide and it is cumbersome to manually check slots every few hours. COVID-19 Vaccines…
When someone visits your website, you can easily retrieve information about the charge level of their mobile or laptop’s battery through the HTML5 Battery API. This is currently supported on Google Chrome, Opera & Firefox on the desktop and Chrome for Android. Companies like Uber look at the battery status of their customer’s mobile phone and may apply a price surge if the battery is low because of the urgency of the customer. The Battery API can be implemented with few lines of JavaScript code and reveals all the required details about the device’s battery charge level. You’ll get to…
A small business maintains their staff roster in a simple Google Sheet – the column A of the sheet contains a list of all employee names and column B contains a list of employees who have been assigned to a project. The immediate task is to identify staff members who are part of the organization but have not been assigned any project yet. In other words, the manager needs to figure out all employee names from column A who are not preset in column B. There are two ways to solve this problem – visually and through formulas. Using Visual…