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Duplicate contacts in email is a big problem always and I have been facing this in Gmail for a long time and I wanted Google to address this issue one or the other day. The day has come and Google has give options to users to select all the contact details for the contact person to merge. This merging becomes very important after Google introducing Google Sync a tool for iPhone, BlackBerry or for any Windows Mobile devices which syncs your Google Contacts and Calendar to it. So it is better to keep your contacts without duplicates in your Gmail or your Google contacts in your iPhones or any other smart phone before using Google Sync.

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Sometimes revealing your personal or official email id in a public forum may put you in trouble with emails keep flooding for a long time e.g. posting a job opening on Twitter. Also sometimes people don’t want to reveal their corporate email ids or personal ones due to various reasons. whspr can help you in that case which helps you to receive a message by email without giving out your email address and just by sharing an URL instead. This helps people to reach you discreetly giving your email id a great level of privacy with ease.

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Google has been busy for the past one month or so busy introducing new products, making new decisions and announcements. Google today officially announced a new product called Google PowerMeter, now in prototype which helps users to track electricity consumption at their homes or at any place they own. This helps people to know how energy has been utilized and what can be done to be more efficient. A study shows easy access to energy information at ones home  in real time results in savings between 5-15% on monthly electricity bills.

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Google Search launched in 1997 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin is the most widely used and reliable search engine one can find in the Internet. Google Search is the most preferred search engine ahead of all others just because it is simple, fast, reliable and user-friendly. Google takes lot of steps and efforts like such as interviews, field studies and live experiments to give the users and customers a better product with maximum benefits. Eye-tracking studies is one such effort from Google to design a subtle user interface in scanning the search results which gives users relevant and helpful information without getting in the way of their primary task: finding relevant information.

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Often it is difficult to find the location of our friends and family members and what they are doing at the moment. We might have seen people worrying about their children, spouse, parents etc as there are no easy to ways to do that. Google Latitude a new feature for Google Maps on your mobile device helps one to find the approximate location of your friends and loved ones who have decided to share their location with you. With Google Latitude one can locate your friends’ locations in a map and share yours with them with ease and can also keep in touch with them directly through Google Talk or Gmail.

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