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TripIt API released – First Open Travel Itinerary [Programming API]

Travel itinerary and trip planning service, TripIt announced the availability of their API (Application Programming Interface) on 26 January 2009.  This opens up opportunities for software developers to create travel applications using TripIt API. 
TripIt is an open platform that supports bookings from over 300 travel sites and also works with partners like Microsoft and Sabre.   [...]

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Things to know once you have the Twitter Account [Twitter]

You have created a Twitter account and started following a few.  So now what?  In this post, I will share with you a few tips on getting started with Twitter, so that can you can make full use of this powerful tool.
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a micro-blogging tool.  It is unlike a instant messenger, where [...]

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Windows 7 Beta download closing shortly [Beta Software]

It is official now! Windows 7 Beta download will be closing shortly in 3 phases.
January 27th – Users will get a warning that Windows 7 Beta download will start closing down shortly. Those who have not initiated the download and need Windows 7 Beta, must start on this date
February 10th – New downloads [...]

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Write Pretty Code snippets in your Blog with SyntaxHighlighter WP plugin [Blogging Tips]

Do you regularly write blog posts in Wordpress, that contains huge number of code snippets? If yes, read on and I will show you how to make them pretty and usable with the SyntaxHighlighter plugin.
Step 1 : Download the SyntaxHighlighter WP Plugin
SyntaxHighlighter is an open-source syntax highlighter written using JavaScript. You can view the [...]

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IBM and Sun into the Restructuring Act [Layoff News]

Software Services giant IBM is rumored to have silently laid off about 2,800 of its employees in North America.  Most of these employees appear to belong to IBM’s software, sales and distribution departments.  IBM might layoff more employees at their facilities in Poughkeepsie and East Fishkill, N.Y., and Burlington, Vt., this week.  You can read the [...]

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Write a Knol and feature at Dummies.com

Are you good at writing crisp, concise how-to content? Then you may now have a chance for your writing to feature at Dummies.com

Knol is Google’s tool for sharing knowledge content online. Dummies.com is known for its interesting and simple how-to content. Now both Knol and Dummies.com have teamed up, so that your [...]

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View Youtube and Google videos in Gmail Chat

Next time someone sends you a Youtube or Google video link on the Gmail Chat, you don’t really have to open it in a New tab or a window.
Now you can just click on the Youtube or Google Video link from your chat window and it plays for you right there.
This is how the preview [...]

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How to create a Web Questionnaire Form in 5 minutes?

Have you ever tried to create a Web Questionnaire Form?  If yes, then you know the pain in creating, maintaining, sharing and gathering the results.  But Google Docs makes life easier through its Forms.  In this post, you can find out how to use Forms and create a Questionnaire is 5 minutes!
Create a Web Questionnaire [...]

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How to get a Daily Summary of your Overactive RSS feed?

An Overactive RSS feed (What is RSS?) like that of TechCrunch, delivers about 10 items everyday.  Consider 20 such RSS subscriptions and your RSS Reader can be cluttered in no time.  I am going to show you, how to get a Daily Summary of all posts from a RSS subscription.
Feedstomper is a utility developed by [...]

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