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Google Reader Goes Social with Comments

Google Reader Goes Social with Comments

Now, you can leave a comment in your friend’s shared item by clicking on the ‘Add a Comment’ button. And a little speech bubble appears on the friend’s shared item indicating that there is a comment on the post.

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3 Great Ways to Run Gmail From Desktop

3 Great Ways to Run Gmail From Desktop

In this post, we are going to look at 3 different ways of detaching Gmail from your browser and running Gmail as if it were a desktop application.

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Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 09-03-03

Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 09-03-03

It looks like Firefox 3.1 is going to be delayed in it’s release until the second quarter of this year. We still have some exciting new Firefox extensions to look at this week. VideoSurf Videos at a Glance: As the name implies, this extension is a great one to have for those who watch a […]

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Queued – Netflix Queue in your Desktop

Queued – Netflix Queue in your Desktop

Queued brings your Netflix queue to your desktop allowing you to quicky, view and modify your queue. It also lets you search for movies and add it your queue.

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Bespin – An Extensible Web Code Editor

Bespin – An Extensible Web Code Editor

Bespin is an web-based code editor which is open and extensible. This is created with the aim of increasing developer productivity, better user experiences and promote the use of open standards.

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Zumo Drive – Online File Sync With a Twist

Zumo Drive differs here by moving the data to the cloud – a server in the Internet. Now, you can see this data across all your computeres/devices just like it is on your local drive.

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Troubleshoot RSS Issues with Feedburner Status Blog

Most of us who use Feedburner to publish our feeds have been seeing issues for the past week to 10 days. The feed count here dropped from over 900+ to around 600. And I didn’t even write something to piss you of. It was same story around the blog world and Twitter was buzzing with […]

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CoolFlick Brings Your Flickr Pics to Life

Cooliris is my favorite way to browse through Flickr Pics. Cooliris is a Firefox add-on that enables us to visualize pictures in a wall. You can scroll through the wall seamlessly and zoom into the ones you like. It’s hard to explain but kind of like Apple’s CoverFlow. You can flick with your mouse to […]

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Evernote Now Imports Google NoteBook

It’s official. Evernote has come out with an import tool to import your Google Notebook content into Evernote. Google Notebook recently announced that they are stopping development of Google Notebook. I think Evernote is one of the best Google Notebook alternatives out there. How to Export/Import Google Notebook to Evernote? Sign into Google Notebook Click […]

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Import Google Notebook into Zoho

Zoho Notebook offers an excellent alternative to Google Notebook. Even though I have proclaimed Evernote to be the best alternative to Google Notebook, Zoho sure beat Evernote to the race in providing an import tool to get your Google Notebook content across easily. I am sure Evernote will follow suit shortly. But, I was curious […]

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Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 09-01-19

I am ready to shrug off this cold spell engulfing the Midwest this past week. But, I have some sizzling new Firefox extensions installed in my browser and can’t wait to share them with you. Here we go, Fireclip: Fireclip is a cool tool to clip out portions of webpages and reload them later and […]

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Google Notebook RIP – Best Alternative is Evernote

Google Notebook RIP – Best Alternative is Evernote

I think the best Google Notebook alternative out there is Evernote. I even called it Google Notebook done better, way better back in April 2008

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Snowl – Messaging in Firefox from Mozilla Labs

It’s no secret that I am a fan of Mozilla Labs projects besides being a huge fan of Firefox. We have seen some successful and exciting projects from Mozilla Labs like Mozilla Prism – the technology that lets you run web applications like desktop applications away from your browser, Mozilla Geode – that can bring […]

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Shorten Those Google Search URLs

There is no dearth for shortening services. But, this one is a special one. Gog.is is a Google search query shortening service. It’s kind of hard to explain when you might need this but this could come in handy in a few instances. Like if you are helping a friend over IM and want to […]

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Site Launcher – Launchy for Firefox

I am going off the beaten path here today. Instead of listing my Firefox Extension picks this week, I am going to highlight one particular extension. Like the Gmail HTML Signature extension I featured earlier, this Firefox extension deserves special attention. Site Launcher is an experimental add-on that is going to change the way you […]

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