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MAKE EVENTS MORE PROMOINENT IN GOOGLE CALENDER

Google Calendar – http://calendar.google.com recently added more colours you can apply to entries to make them stand out. There’s also a handy new option called ‘Event Dimming’ , which reduces the brightness of past and recurring future events “so you can focus on today”. To Activate this, click the ‘Gear Icon’, choose ‘Calendar Settings’ and tick the two ‘Event Dimming’ boxes.

USE NEW KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS IN GOOGLE CALENDAR

Google Calendar has also added some new keyboard shortcuts to improve accessibility. For example press the ‘C’ key to create a new event, ‘/’ to start a new search and ‘+’ to add a new calendar. In ‘Agenda View’, you can use the ‘Up’ and ‘Down’ arrow keys to move between events, and the ‘Left’ and Right’ keys to move between dates.

PREDICT THE FUTURE USING  - YAHOO 4CAST

Yahoo 4cast – http://4cast.yahoo.com invites you to make predictions regarding specific topics and events. For example, you can guess when the iPad 3 will go on sale or estimate Google’s share price on a specific date. It’s just for fun, but accurate predictions earn you points on the leader-board, although the distant closing dates of many challenges mean you might have to wait a while for the results.

ADD PHOTOS TO TWITTER VIA TEXT MESSAGE

Twitter http://twitter.com now lets you directly add photos to your tweets without having to use a service such as TwitPic - http://twitpic.com. Even better, you can post an image directly to the site by attaching the picture to a text message and sending the SMS to 86444. Twitter will reply, asking for your username. Your phone network will need to be Vodafone, O2 or Orange.