Have you ever wondered if your Gmail or Google account ever expires How long do you think Google will keep your account even if you don’t care to log in? Don’t worry! You have a long grace period before Google will deactivate your account.

I checked directly from Google’s Program Policies. According to them, they may delete your account if you don’t sign in for last nine months. Here is what they have to say: [...]

Another Google project is going down after Google Buzz. Today I received a mail from Google about the impending death of Google Wave. By 31st January, 2012 all Google waves will be read-only and the service will be completely shut down on 30th April, 2012. Just like Google Buzz, there is option to keep your waves. You can export your important waves as PDF format. Anyways it is not an issue for me. I don’t like to get too social online and only few social resources that I use like Facebook or Twitter are merely for sending out my blog updates. So I have nothing to export or keep from Google Buzz or Google Wave [...]

Long back I wrote a blog post that you might not get immediate traffic data from Google Analytics as they generally update reports every 24 hours. But around a week ago they announced that they will be serving real time visitors data as it happens on your site. Just now I wanted to take a look in my own Google Analytics account. I switched to new interface but couldn’t find anything as they showed in their screenshot. According to their blog post, I need to be an administrator for the Google Analytics account, otherwise I won’t get the option. But I am the only one accessing my Analytics account and so I am the administrator! I was just thinking what might have gone wrong! Then I found out that it’s yet to be rolled out for all the Google Analytics accounts and they are planning to add it gradually in the coming weeks. I was just in too much of a hurry So if you just can’t wait like me, go to this url and request access to real-time analytics option for your account. Then you might get priority than other publishers as they keep rolling out the feature [...]

In case you have missed this much awaited update from Google, Gmail offline version has been released at the end of last month. But current offline Gmail is only supported in Google Chrome browser and for that you need to go the Google Chrome web store and install this Offline Google Mail app extension. So whenever you don’t have internet connection you can click Gmail Offline Icon on the tab pane and use the interface to access, read and respond to your emails. Gmail Offline will synchronize messages and queue them up to deliver whenever internet connection is available. It can be pretty handy if you are an extensive Gmail user or use Gmail as part of Google Apps for your domain or business. [...]

Perhaps, many of you have read online that Google has just announced that it will shut down Google Labs and rather from now on it will concentrate on new experiments on specific product channels like Gmail Labs or Maps Labs. But one thing might have gone under your radar and if you are a webmaster or a blogger I would like to update you that Google just closed Google Directory. It was introduced way back in 2000 and was second Google service after Google search. Now if you go to the homepage link you will see something like: [...]