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Using Google to be more productive – Google usage tips – Part 2

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S: (n) Google (a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user’s search)

Verb

S: (v) Google (search the Internet (for information) using the Google search engine) "He googled the woman he had met at the party"; "My children are googling all day" [...]

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Using Google to be more productive – Google Usage Tips and Tricks…

Its obvious that the Internet is a great information tool. The purpose of a Search Engine like Google is to help us to find this information more quickly. Sometimes knowing how to find an answer to something is just as important as actually knowing the answer…
The most simple example is the usage of a [...]

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Add all public holidays to your Outlook Calendar…

I’ve often wondered why this wasn’t done by default – seems easy enough for Microsoft to do. Maybe because the product is sold worldwide – but who knows?
Enabling the option to mark your calendar for public holidays is easy…
> From the Tools menu in Outlook, click Options, then click Calendar Options. [...]

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