How the New Changes to Gmail Affect Business Users

If you use Google's Gmail as your business's email provider, you might have noticed something new today. Google has unveiled a new look and feel for Gmail that it says makes the service more "clean, simple and intuitive."

Here's a rundown of what to expect from Gmail's new features and how business users can benefit from them:

• Streamlined conversations. This will most likely be the first change you'll notice. Google has redesigned the email "conversation" view in an effort to make reading through email threads easier. Conversations now contain profile pictures for your contacts which, Google says, should make it easier for users to keep track of who said what. This can be useful for business users who often have numerous colleagues or clients communicating on the same email conversation.

• Expanded search. If you click the dropdown in the search box, you'll see an advanced search panel that allows you to search your emails by sender, recipient, for subject lines and keywords. This can help save time when searching for specific emails.

• Updated navigation. Users can now expand the chatting and label areas. This can be especially helpful for business owners who use Gchat to communicate with employees in satellite offices or use a significant number of labels to help organize their emails.

• New display features. One new feature automatically adapts the window pane to display content in full no matter the size of the window on your computer screen. This can be helpful for busy entrepreneurs who have a million windows open at one time. Another feature allows users to adjust "display density," meaning you can control the spacing between emails on your screen. This will be beneficial for users who often check business email on mobile devices, which of course have smaller screens.

When you sign into Gmail, you should notice a link in the bottom-right corner of the screen that says "Switch to the new look." Once you click on that you will be prompted to either switch to the new design or continue using the old version. No matter what you choose now, Google says it will automatically switch all users to the new design "soon."

source:http://www.entrepreneur.com

How to use Google for Hacking???

Google serves almost 80 percent of all search queries on the Internet, proving itself as the most popular search engine. However Google makes it possible to reach not only the publicly available information resources, but also gives access to some of the most confidential information that should never have been revealed. In this post I will show how to use Google for exploiting security vulnerabilities within websites. The following are some of the hacks that can be accomplished using Google.

 

1. Hacking Security Cameras

 

There exists many security cameras used for monitoring places like parking lots, college campus, road traffic etc. which can be hacked using Google so that you can view the images captured by those cameras in real time. All you have to do is use the following search query in Google. Type in Google search box exactly as follows and hit enter

inurl:”viewerframe?mode=motion”

Click on any of the search results (Top 5 recommended) and you will gain access to the live camera which has full controls. You will see something as follows

As you can see in the above screenshot, you now have access to the Live cameras which work in real-time. You can also move the cameras in all the four directions, perform actions such as zoom in and zoom out. This camera has really a less refresh rate. But there are other search queries through which you can gain access to other cameras which have faster refresh rates. So to access them just use the following search query.

intitle:”Live View / – AXIS”

Click on any of the search results to access a different set of live cameras. Thus you have hacked Security Cameras using Google.

 

2. Hacking Personal and Confidential Documents

 

Using Google it is possible to gain access to an email repository containing CV of hundreds of people which were created when applying for their jobs. The documents containing their Address, Phone, DOB, Education, Work experience etc. can be found just in seconds.

intitle:”curriculum vitae” “phone * * *” “address *” “e-mail”

You can gain access to a list of .xls (excel documents) which contain contact details including email addresses of large group of people. To do so type the following search query and hit enter.

filetype:xls inurl:”email.xls”

Also it’s possible to gain access to documents potentially containing information on bank accounts, financial summaries and credit card numbers using the following search query

intitle:index.of finances.xls

 

3. Hacking Google to gain access to Free Stuffs

 

Ever wondered how to hack Google for free music or ebooks. Well here is a way to do that. To download free music just enter the following query on google search box and hit enter.

“?intitle:index.of?mp3 eminem“

Now you’ll gain access to the whole index of eminem album where in you can download the songs of your choice. Instead of eminem you can subtitute the name of your favorite album. To search for the ebooks all you have to do is replace “eminem” with your favorite book name. Also replace “mp3″ with “pdf” or “zip” or “rar”.

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Google to let users see the 'Why?' behind Gmail, search ads...

IDG News Service - Help is on the way for anyone who has ever been puzzled by Google's choice of ads in their Gmail messages and their search results pages.

Google will display a link labeled "Why these ads" in Gmail and search pages that will explain the reasons they were chosen for display.

Some of the elements that may come into play are the user's language, geographic location and recent search queries, Google said on Tuesday in a blog post.

Google will also make it possible for people who are signed into their Google Account to block ads from specific marketers and turn off ad personalization altogether, the company said.

The new tools and functionality will debut at different points in Google search and Gmail over the coming weeks, according to Google.

"We're always working to deliver the perfect ad, and we know that it's important to have a choice about the kinds of ads that are shown to you. If you don't wish to see personalized ads, the choice is yours," wrote Susan Wojcicki, Google's senior vice president of advertising.

Google already provides similar tools and functionality for ads that appear on YouTube and on external websites that carry Google ads via the company's AdSense ad distribution program.

The issue of targeting ads to people based on their online activities is a sensitive one that has drawn attention from privacy watchdogs and the government.

Among the concerns is that people often get tracked and profiled in stealthy ways that they aren't aware of and that they have little or no control over.

This commonly happens through the silent insertion of cookies as people visit websites. These cookies often collect browsing history information so that ads can be personalized.

Legislators and regulators in the U.S. and abroad are taking a hard look at this issue and pondering the establishment of rules. Online ad providers generally argue that government intervention isn't necessary because the industry can monitor its own practices and agree on guidelines.

Tuesday's announcement by Google is aimed at giving people more information about ad targeting and more control over it.