Log-in to your Gmail / Google Account and associate a phone number. You’ll then receive an SMS text message whenever someone tries to recover your Google password.

Create a new email address (on say Yahoo! Mail or Gmail itself) and set this as the secondary email address for your existing Gmail and Google Accounts. Check for emails on this new account manually or through a desktop client via POP3 / IMAP but do not enable auto-forward for the new email address as the original purpose will be defeated.

Take a paper and write down the following information about your Google Account. You will need this to verify your identify to Google in case someone else takes over your Google Account and the secondary email address associated with your account.

• The month and year when your created your Gmail / Google Account. You can look at the last page of your Gmail Inbox (or go to Sent Items) to get an approximate idea of the date when you created the account.
• If you created a Gmail account by invitation, write the email address of the person who first sent you that invite for Gmail. Use a search query like “in:all has invited you to open a free Gmail account” to find that invitation email.
• The email addresses of your most frequently emailed contacts (the top 5).
• The names of any custom labels that you may have created in your Gmail account.
• The day/month/year when you started using various other Google services (like AdSense, Orkut, Blogger, etc.) that are associated with the Google account that you are trying to recover. If you’re not certain about some of the dates, provide your closest estimate.

Do a test run. Log-out of all your Gmail / Google Accounts and initiate the password recovery process for each one of them using this form. This will help you make sure that your SMS settings and secondary email addresses are configured correctly.

Once in a while, do refer to that little line in the footer section of your Gmail Inbox that shows the different IP addresses from where your account is being accessed. If you find an unknown IP address, change your Google password immediately.

- Thanks Amit ,very useful. I'm glad that you got your account back.

Last month Google announced the ability to hear translations into English spoken via text-to-speech, no official API for the text-to-speech service. Where this TTS data was coming from? people found that the speech audio is in MP3 format and is queried via a simple HTTP GET (REST) request:

translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=text.

So, replace it with "text" and change the URL to whatever you want it to say and you’ll get back a MP3 file.

Example: http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=hello+world

You have to copy/paste or click it, and then click refresh, because Google is returning a 404 if there is a referring URL in the request.

For now, only available for short translations to English, limited to 100 characters. Maybe we'll see it get official support soon.

via Ajaxian

Today, Google launched real-time search integrated into search results pages. It updates as stuff is happening around the web, live tweets, news articles and blog posts, it works on mobile,too (at least iPhone and Android for now). That’s not all, they’ve inked partnerships with both Facebook and MySpace to pull in data in real-time.

The new features will be rolling out in the next few days and will be available globally in English. You can try them out today by visiting Google Trends and clicking on a "hot topic," which in most cases will bring you to a search results page with the new real-time feature.

Google says the features aren’t available to everyone yet. But, all users can see it now via a "Hot Topics", the most popular 10 keywords are available at Google Trends and they trigger a real-time search OneBox.

Well, it won’t yet show up by default when you search. However, this trick will help you trigger it easily: If you add &esrch=RTSearch to your the URL after you've done a google search, you get the feature.

Example: http://www.google.com/search?q=copenhagen&hl=en&sa=G&esrch=RTSearch&tbo=1&output=search&tbs=rltm:1

Pretty cool, huh?

Google is testing it's new look, but you can't see it directly. Here's a JavaScript tweak that gets anyone into Google's new look test.

Copy the code, paste it into the address bar of your browser when on google.com and hit return, If things work out and reload Google, you should find yourself as new participant of Google's latest and more all-encompassing prototype test. a new look to Google’s Search Options feature with a new logo, buttons, and always-visible left-hand pane in results.

The search options appear in the left-hand column. The former “All results” area that allowed you to switch between different types of searches (images, news, maps and so on) has been replaced with new tabs for these services. How do you like this? go Leave a comment on Blogoscoped.

If all goes well, the cleaner display may be launched across Google after the New Year.

Google has just announced the release of a new, open sourced programming language called Go. Google promote it as: … simple … fast … safe … fun … open source

Go attempts to combine the development speed of working in a dynamic language like Python with the performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++. In our experiments with Go to date, typical builds feel instantaneous; even large binaries compile in just a few seconds. And the compiled code runs close to the speed of C. Go is designed to let you move fast.

We’re hoping Go turns out to be a great language for systems programming with support for multi-processing and a fresh and lightweight take on object-oriented design, with some cool features like true closures and reflection.

Here is an example code:

package mainimport "fmt"func main() {  fmt.Printf("Hello, 世界\n")}

For more details check out Golang.org