Love downloading free iPhone apps? Here’s a way to get notified either by email or sms when a paid app is available for free.

I absolutely love downloading free iPhone apps (who doesn’t). But it’s hard to keep tab of which app goes free and when. By using Google and Feed My Inbox, you can get SMS or email alerts when an app is available for free.

Google SMS: This service has currently been made available only for Indian mobile subscribers and is still a Labs feature. So we might not really know whether this will be around few months from now. Until then, Indian users can subscribe to this SMS channel. Around 3-4 SMS are sent each day, depending upon the number of apps that become free and also the number of SMS you’ve limited Google sending you.

Feed My Inbox: This is actually an RSS-to-Email service that sends you any feed as an email. You can use this feed created by our friends at KRAPPS (based on App Shopper).

Good ol’ RSS: If you don’t want to mess up your inbox and want to know when an app goes free the good old RSS way, use this link.

Quick Links:
Google SMS Channel
RSS Feed (for both RSS readers and Email subscribers)

Google has finally launched a mobile-friendly version of Google Product Search. The new feature is currently available only to iPhone and Android users in the United States and United Kingdom.

A search for a product gives a ‘Shopping Results’ link within the search results page. Clicking on it will take you to the Product Search page that is specially formatted. Take a look.

Here’s a comparison of how the results look in Opera Mini and the iPhone/iPod Touch. Not that good on Opera Mini now, is it?

If you ever wanted to view the contents of a compressed file before downloading it, there’s now a simple way to do it.

This may come in handy if you suspect the file of not having what it claims (a bogus, or suspicious file). Using Google, we can now view the compressed file without installing any additional plugins or software.

Simply add the following before the URL to view the content.

http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=

In this example, we’ve used Google Transcoder to view the contents of a theme file.

The URL should look like this:

http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woothemes.com%2Ffree-downloads%2Fsnapshot.zip

A quick way to view the contents may be to bookmark the following link in the Bookmarks Toolbar, under a convenient name such as “View ZIP”. Give the address (URL) of the bookmark as:

javascript:location.href='http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u='+document.location.href;

Open the download link in a new tab. Cancel the download. Click the bookmark to view the contents. You can then download it by clicking on the ‘View in HTML’ link at the bottom of the page.

Google Reader – the web-based feed aggregator that’s the Harmless Geek’s favourite way to catch up with feeds. Aravind, Sathya, and myself are all avid Google Reader users. It’s the first site we visit in the day, besides Gmail.

Google Reader is also a fun way of sharing articles with people not on your contact list, like on Friendfeed. It’s a nice way to start up a conversation. But one problem is that you cannot share pages from websites that you do not subscribe to. That’s where Harmless Geek comes in. =)

Save the following link, by right-clicking and saving it as a bookmark, preferably in your Bookmarks Toolbar. You can also drag it to the Bookmarks Toolbar.

Note in GReader

If that did not work, create a new bookmark and copy-paste the following code as the address.

javascript:var%20b=document.body;var%20GR________bookmarklet_domain='https://www.google.com';if(b&&!document.xmlVersion){void(z=document.createElement('script'));void(z.src='https://www.google.com/reader/ui/link-bookmarklet.js');void(b.appendChild(z));}else{}

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