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June 23, 2009
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NutshellMail – Your social networking companion

If you are an active social networker (a.k.a. Twitter/Facebook/MySpace user), then NutshellMail is something to know about.
NutshellMail is a tool, where you can configure and view updates from your social networking accounts – Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn – all in a single dashboard.  You can also add multiple email accounts and view mails sent to [...]

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June 19, 2009
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Save Browsing Session in Google Chrome

I have frowned sometimes as why Google Chrome doesn’t give me options to save my browsing session.  After digging around for a while, I figured out a not-so-direct way to restore all tabs that were open.

Open the Options window
Choose the Basics option
Under On Startup: – choose Restore the pages that were last opened

The downside with [...]

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June 13, 2009
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Fastest way to open your favorite Sites from Firefox [FF Add-on of the week]

You have so many of your favorite sites bookmarked in Firefox. Alright! But this efficient add-on helps you navigate to these favorites using few shortcut keys.
SiteLauncher Add-on
Using some predefined or custom-defined hotkeys, SiteLauncher brings you all the favorite sites that can be chosen for launch.

You can install the add-on from here – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10127
A small preview
SiteLauncher [...]

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May 12, 2009
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Firefox Prism – I love it so much!!

I heard about Prism sometime back, but did not manage to try it until I read this post from Digital Inspiration.
Prism helps you create desktop shortcuts for your favorite websites, so that you can access them much like the regular desktop applications (Gears, eh!).  I love it primarily for a single reason – the minimalist [...]

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March 31, 2009
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Send mails in Indian Languages using "Gmail"

Gmail enables a new feature, that allows you to send mails in Indian languages.  Currently 5 Indian languages – Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam – are supported.  I am sure more languages are on the anvil.

No special fonts or keyboard mappings are required, as whatever you type in English is converted into the appropriate [...]

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March 7, 2009
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Utilizing the Power of “Retweet”

 
 
 
 
 
Going through a post in Mashable, I noticed this cute little Twitter gadget that shows the number of times the item has been “tweeted”.
But another cool part is that – it offers you to “Retweet” it right away by giving a link just below the count.  If you are not a Twitter geek and [...]

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February 20, 2009
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Get your Blog Comments to Facebook via Comments Box [Blogging]

If you haven’t setup the Facebook Connect for your blog, here is one good reason to do so.  
Facebook has launched the social widget for Facebook Connect, the Comments Box. Using this, you Blog’s Facebook readers can comment on posts or other content, and these comments can be published in Facebook as a Feed.

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February 14, 2009
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Google Software Construction Toolkit for your Cross-Platform build needs [Programming]

Google has released the Google Software Construction Toolkit for building applications across platforms.  Using this toolkit, you can use a single “makefile” shared between all platforms – Windows, Mac and Unix.
This toolkit is written in Python and uses the Open Source SCons build tool.  The toolkit is Open Source and can be used easily for [...]

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February 14, 2009
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Fast Forward – Its kinda StumbleUpon with the flavor of Amazon [Firefox add-ons]

Fast Forward is a Firefox add-on that provides recommendations on the similar web pages that are most visited by readers, who visited the current web page you are in.
As they claim on their add-on page:
It’s like Amazon recommendations for webpages. “People who viewed this page also viewed this next…”
At all times, the Fast Forward button [...]

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