Google Alerts

If you are have Google account already, you don’t need to register to this service again, just use your Google account to login.

After login, you can set a phrase to monitor very easy.

1. Just type your phrase to Search phrase box. I want to monitor a phrase “www.otakatik.com”, so I type it on Search terms box.
    
2. Choose your your alert type that you want to monitor. Choose it in Type combo. I suggest, if you’re monitoring from entire of souce, choose Comprehensive type. In Type combo, you will find six type of alert:
   • News, the result is from 10 ten of Google News latest news.
   • Web, the result from top twenty of Google search result.
   • Comprehensive, the result from entire of Google services (News, Google Search, Blog Search, Video and Groups).
   • Video, the result from Google Video.
   • Groups, the result from Google Groups.
3. Then decide the frequency the email will send into your inbox. The options are as-it happens, the email will send every time Google Alerts find your term; once a day, the email will send for once a day; once a week, you’ll get an email that contains your monitored term for once a week. I’ve set it to once a day.
4. In Deliver to combo contains your email (usually, it contains your account email) and feed.
5. The last step is click Create Alert button. If it is created successfully, you’ll get this message.
    
6. And if Google Alerts finds your terms in their database, you’ll get an alert by email.
    

Ok, back to main topic. To configure your Gmail theme is too easy.

1. Click Settings menu, you can find it on top side and then click tab: Themes.
   
2. Change the location to your city where you’re living right now. Because I am living at Yogyakarta city, so I change it to Yogyakarta. You can change it by click Change link.
   
3. And here is the unusual part (at least for me). I was choose the Tree theme. And my inbox is being like this:
   
   and on above side is like this:
   
4. And when my city got rain and I was open my Gmail, surprisingly my theme was being like this:
   
   and on below side:
   

See, my “Tree” themes always change to my current city weather. I think that’s a creative idea to a email service theme. What is your favorite Gmail theme?

Update:
When the sky is cover by cloud, I got my theme was change be like this:

If you’re googling and want to find all related thing with word Car, that’s a simple job. Because Google has a great tool for you.

OK, follow these steps:

1. Type character ~ in front of you word that want you look, for example: type ~macintosh to find all related with macintosh word.

2. And all word that related to Macintosh will show for you….

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To find it by Google, just follow these steps:

1. Open Google.com first.

2. Write define:your_word in search box. For example, if you want to find definitions from rush, type define:rush and then press Enter key. Some times, in result page, Google gives you some reference library.

3. Then, see the results.

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