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Geode: Location aware Firefox 2008-10-07 23:48:01 Geode is an experimental Firefox
add-on that brings geolocation capabilities to Firefox. Geode provides a rudimentary implementation of geolocation for the current version of Firefox uses a single hard-coded location provider to enable Wifi-based positioning conforming to the W3C Geolocation specification so that developers can begin experimenting with enabling location-aware experiences today.
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Google SMS Channel 2008-10-07 12:22:03 Google recently launched a service whereby you can provide subscription to your blog via SMS
.
As strange as it sounds, this is quite a unique way of alerting your readers about updates on your blog. The service is completely free for both the publisher as well as the readers.
You do need to verify your mobile number [...] Read more:Channel
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Gmail Goggles is fun! 2008-10-07 06:11:02 Google has over the years launched several tools that have become a part of our daily lives. Gmail
is particular is one such application that I use daily.
Gmail Labs keeps coming out with interesting applications to try. One such one is called Mail Goggles
. As per the website:
Google strives to make the world’s information useful. [...]
OpenOffice 3.0 close to release 2008-10-07 05:56:57 OpenOffice has released RC4 for its 3.0 version. OpenOffice 3.0 introduces a host of new features:
Start Center when you launch OpenOffice
Better Mac OS X support
Microsoft Office 2007 Import Filters
Improved Spreadsheet: Solver, and Charting
Improved collaboration between applications
I’ve been using OpenOffice 2.x on my Home PC for a long time and have been eagerly waiting for this [...] Read more:OpenOffice
Synchronize your Firefox bookmarks 2008-10-07 05:36:43 Do you use more than one computer and wished there was a way to share your Firefox
bookmarks across the systems that you use?
There is a simple and easy solution to solving this problem of yours. Install the Foxmarks Bookmarks Synchronizer. This is a free Firefox add-on that uploads your bookmarks to your private account [...]
Symbolic Links in Windows 2008-10-07 04:25:40 All those who have worked on *nix systems, are familiar with the concept of symbolic links created with the “ln” command. It makes it so much easier to manage directories and files with such symbolic links.
Surprisingly, many people believe that this is not possible to replicate on Windows
.
If you are using Windows 2000 or higher [...]
CCleaner: System Optimizer & Cleaner 2008-10-30 02:43:20 CCleaner is a freeware Windows system optimization and cleanup tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It contains a fully featured registry cleaner as well.
Such tools need to be run every now and then to ensure that your Windows setup runs [...] Read more:Optimizer
, System
Automatic WordPress Database Backups 2008-10-29 12:40:50 We all know the importance of taking regular backups. This is one feature that is not integrated into the WordPress blogging platform. There are plugins available that fill this gap though.
You can use plugins like WP-DB-Backup that can email the database backups over to an email address of your choice. Alternatively, you can have it [...] Read more:Backups
, Database
The secret behind the Google Chrome Logo 2008-10-29 11:45:00 [via onecomics]
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Add funky characters to your Tweets 2008-10-29 03:44:21 Do you want to spice up your Twitter conversations with some funky characters, and don’t know how others do it? Read on to learn one technique…
Twitter accepts UTF-8 characters as input text. What this basically means is that you have more than just the regular English language available to you. You can tweet in just [...]
LinkedIn launches Applications Platform 2008-10-28 23:02:44 LinkedIn made a major announcement by way of its launch of the ApplicationsPlatform
. From their blog:
I’m writing today to announce the launch of LinkedIn’s applications platform that will enable over 30 million professionals on LinkedIn to communicate, collaborate, and share information even better than before.
They have gone live with 9 applications currently which includes [...] Read more:LinkedIn
Dark Themes for Firefox 2008-10-28 05:10:50 Mozillalinks has a published a set of dark themes for Firefox
. If you like such themes head over and get them right away!
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Microsoft launches Windows Azure 2008-10-28 00:16:04 On Monday, Microsoft
announced Windows
Azure, a new cloud services operating system that runs over the Internet from inside Microsoft’s own data centers. [via cnet]
Windows Azure serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage [...]
Rails Rumble 2008: What does 48hrs get you? 2008-10-27 00:48:31 Rails Rumble 2008 got together some extremely talented developers and web designers, and gave them 48 hours to build something great. Some of the applications developed are really cool.
The 48hr window to develop the applications are done. But Voting is still open. If you haven’t voted it, go ahead and vote for your favourite application. [...]
Gmail introduces support for smileys 2008-10-26 22:00:30 Better late than never! Gmail
finally introduced support for smileys on 23rd October.
Well…there isn’t much more to say about this. Head over to your Gmail account and use those smileys!
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TwitterFox: A Firefox extension for Twitter 2008-11-17 13:00:32 TwitterFox is a Firefox
extension that notifies you of your friends’ tweets on Twitter.
This extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar that notifies you when your friends update their tweets. Also it has a small text input field to update your tweets.
If you like to be notified immediately of any updates on Twitter, [...] Read more:Firefox extension
, Twitter
Twuffer: Scheduling your tweets! 2008-11-16 13:00:42 Twuffer allows you to compose a list of future Twitter tweets, and schedule their release.
Twitter application names keep getting more and more interesting. Twitter has introduced so much new jargon, I think someone can publish a Twitter Dictionary. Twuffer is another one you can add to that list!
Here is what the Twuffer website claims you [...]
Is your username available on social networks? 2008-11-15 01:00:21 Do you like to use the same username on social networks
? Is your username available
on those networks?
UserName Check is a website that does exactly what it sounds like. You enter a username and it will check its availability on over 75+ websites!
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Download your favourite YouTube Videos 2008-11-14 01:00:14 On many occasions you might have found the need to download your favourite YouTube
videos to your computer. YouTube does not provide any options to download videos. Nonetheless, this does not mean that its not possible to do so.
CatchYouTube.com is an easy-to-use website that allows you to download YouTube videos.
Just enter the URL of your [...] Read more:Download
Google Flu Trends 2008-11-13 19:39:28 Google has come up with an interesting application on top of Google Trends
, called Google Flu Trends. It is an application specifically for USA and looks at estimating flu activity based on certain search terms.
The graphs on the website which compares data produced by Google Flu Trends vis-a-vis actual flu activity data published by Center [...] Read more:Google
Firefox 3.0.4 released 2008-11-13 00:47:50 Mozilla released Firefox
3.0.4 today. This version incorporates several bug fixes.
You can visit the What’s New page to get a complete list of fixes done in this release.
Download Firefox.
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Gmail introduces voice and video chat 2008-11-12 23:43:56 Gmail has introduced support for voice and video
chat. Gmail Video chat will now take on Skype head on.
A video from the Gmail team on YouTube:
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Go-OO: An alternative to an alternative! 2008-11-12 01:00:41 We all came to know OpenOffice as a great alternative to Microsoft Office. An alternative that not only matched it feature to feature reasonably well but was completely free.
There is an alternative to this alternative! Go-OO is a fork from OpenOffice that strives to reduce the bulkiness of OpenOffice. It has a UI that is [...]
An Open Instant Messaging Platform called Jabber 2008-11-11 01:00:08 Jabber is an open instant messaging technology that is used by several free IM services. There are several free clients available on this platform and several servers as well, if you intend to run one in your own organization.
Jabber was acquired by Cisco in September 2008.
XMPP
Jabber created the popular Extensible Messaging
and Presence Protocol (XMPP) [...] Read more:Jabber
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Chrome now the default browser in Google Pack 2008-12-13 13:23:15 Google Pack has officially transitioned to using Google Chrome
as the default browser
. Firefox is currently still offered in the pack, but is not the default browser available for installation.
As per the Google blog post:
Google’s official alternative to Internet Explorer is now Chrome.
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Avatar generation using PhotoFunia 2008-12-12 12:05:41 A few months ago there was a lot of craze about FaceYourManga for the creation of online avatars. Twitter was swamped with manga-mania for a few weeks.
I guess the next wave will come from another tool called PhotoFunia.
PhotoFunia requires you to upload your image and then employs face detection technology to paste your face into [...] Read more:Avatar
Google Chrome out of Beta 2008-12-12 05:55:29 Google Chrome
is now officially dropping the BETA tag; something unusual for a Google product to do within 100 days of its launch!
Google claims that there are over 10 million active users of Chrome. The new version is supposed to be quite stable and the performance figures rank it right at the top compared to [...] Read more:Google
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