When I am asked to write articles for blogs, I write it straight on my mail account with Google. More often than not, there is a minimum word count that I have to follow, and what I used to do is that I copy and paste my finished articles to an online word counter like LetterCount.com. But being the lazy ass that I am, I find it tedious to copy the entirety of the article, open a new tab and click on my bookmarked word counter site, paste what I copied, and click on submit to see the results. I looked for a Google Labs feature that would give me such functionality, so I need not open a new tab for that purpose. There wasn’t one in the list of available Labs features, so I had to Google a bit. I found one finally (a Google gadget by Wisgary Torres), and I’m going to teach you today how to make it appear on the left side of your inbox.
- First, log-in to your Gmail account and navigate to Labs.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page and enable “Add any gadget by URL” by Dan P and Dong C. Hit Save Changes.
- Click Settings (on the upper right corner of your Gmail) and you will now see a new Gadgets tab. Click on Gadgets.
- Copy and paste the following URL on the box provided:
http://wordcountgadget.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/wordcountg.xml - Hit the Add button and you’re done!
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astig talaga ang gmail ah, meron na rin silang word counter. ako ang gamit kong word counter is yung galing kay pehpot, siguro sa susunod magagamit ko yan. :angel:
napakadami n nilang ALAM…SILA NA! LOl
paano yan marce i open my gmail account and there’s no icon for “LABS”
If you can’t see the LABS icon marce, click on Settings and you’ll find the LABS tab inside
you do your writing pala marce sa google account mo, ako dritso naman sa draft tapos doon ako sa wordcountool.com..tedious nga…
hihihi ako nga sa microsoft word eh lol hahhahaa
i want to have that in my inbox but the probs is wala akong makitang icon nga ng “LABS: :question2:
go ka muna sa SETTINGS marce gene. you’ll find the LABS options there if di mo makita ung parang green bottle sign.
ayun nga. haha! naunahan na pala ako ni kikamz magexplain
hahaahah. bilis ni kamz eh
interesting to ha.. i can type away and know how many words na ang nasa post ko. no need to copy and paste! wheee!!!
I often do that copy and paste
ay tlga.. exciting. i shld try this one hehehe
i just set-up my word counter as you instructed marce kaye. ang galing nga, meron na ako word counter on my google account! whee!! no need to open other word counter sites. one stop na lahat. hihi!
wow you are fast learner, I am slow
thanks for this very easy tutorial marce. ang galing mo talaga magturo! cguro teacher ka in ur previous life? :nod:
I think K make ebook in future
hmm.. hindi siguro. haha! pero i’m glad my tutorial helped you! :hug:
hahaahha. past life? try mo dun sa email na nisend ko.. meron dun kng anu ka nung past life heheeh. ako nga sipon nung past life ko eh lol bwhahahha
ako katol. pakshet. haha! mahilig daw kasi ako humitit non. bwahaha!
sis it look easy but I need time to digest and do it
I dont have gmail only hotmail, rocketmail and ymail
di ko pa yan nasubukan.. mahanap nga.. ehehe
ay ayaw ng gmail,… nag hahang.. kainis talaga pag mahina ang connection
oo badtrip tlga pag mahina IC heheeh
try ko dito sa opis.. waaaaaaaaah di ko makeri.. mmya sa bahay will do it na pramis eheheh
aww… thats nice wish I can gmail account.
my heart random gmail I forgot the email address
oh.. so nice see your blog is accessible at middle night
‘OR’sum tks – just gets better & better
i wonder if this still works using the new platform of gmail. I will check it later. another helpful post.
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