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Web 2.0

Money related resolutions are very popular in the new year.  Everyone wants to get out of debt, everyone wants to reduce their expenses and everyone loves to create an additional source of income.  In this post, I will show you 2 online tools, that will help you maintain your Money Resolutions this new year.

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You comment on a blog post.  You comment on a website.  Have you ever wondered how to manage all these comments from a Single Dashboard?  BackType provides you a solution.
How it works?
First signup for an account with BackType. Once done, you provide the details to claim comments from across the web.
By claiming – you setup [...]

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Imagine! You are browsing the internet at workplace and suddenly come across an interesting piece of information, that you want to post to Facebook.  Alas, Facebook is blocked in your workplace! So what you do?  Posterous – is for your rescue.
If Posterous sounds extremely new to you – checkout their FAQ here http://posterous.com/faq.  It is [...]

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On 21st of this month, Yahoo! announced the roll out of a new home page through their corporate blog (Yodel Anecdotal).  In the times when social networking means more than just connecting with people, let us briefly look how Yahoo! leverages Web 2.0 and tries to provide some interesting stuff through their new home page.
What’s [...]

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Twitter is slowly but surely becoming a “Google” of ideas.  A wealth of information and ideas get into Twitter everyday and grasping even 1% of those is a gargantuan task. To better optimize your time and get the maximum information out of Twitter – I suggest you the following 2 simple ways:
Use Twittorati

Twittorati is a [...]

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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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Save Browsing Session in Google Chrome

by Ashwin on June 19, 2009

in Web 2.0

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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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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Firefox Prism – I love it so much!!

by Ashwin on May 12, 2009

in Web 2.0

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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Send mails in Indian Languages using "Gmail"

by Ashwin on March 31, 2009

in Web 2.0

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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