How to Add a Google Custom Search Box to your Blog

Filed under: Technology, Tutorials by: brennan

In this post you will learn how to create, customize, and implement a custom Google search box in your WordPress sidebar.

Building your own custom Google search box allows you to harness the power of Google’s search technology and apply it to your own blog. You’ll notice my custom search box positioned there at the top right of my site. Go ahead and give it a whirl to see how it works. You’ll notice that the results returned by Google are specific to only my domain and formatted to match the colors of my theme. The layout and coloring can be adjusted to match your blog, as you’ll see in the step-by-step guide below.

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Picasa Photo Management Tutorial

Filed under: Tutorials by: brennan

Are you looking for an easy way to organize, edit, and email your digital photographs? Google offers a free program called Picasa that can do just that for you.

Picture organization can be confusing, especially if you have multiple programs on your computer all managing your photos in different ways. Picasa can ease your picture management woes.

I recommend using Picasa to my friends and customers for the following reasons:

  • Slick and fast interface
  • Ease of use
  • Easy to edit, email, and upload photos to the web

This article will show you how to download, install, and use the basic features of Picasa 3.

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Explore the World with Google Earth

Filed under: Technology, Tutorials by: brennan

Would you like to fly through downtown New York or explore the Grand Canyon? Do you want to see pictures and videos of your next vacation destination? Well, you can do that and more with the latest version of Google Earth.

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