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  • Author: Joe
  • Published: Nov 28th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

ping.fm: Update all your social networks at once

Sites like Twitter have scores of competitors and it is possible that for someone to effectively socially network, they will have to use sites other than their preferred one. It is obviously quite a chore to have to update Twitter, Facebook, Pownce etc separately.
Commenter reactive pointed out ping.fm, a website which in fact I use. [...]

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 18th, 2008
  • Comments: 7

Download Facebook Videos

Facebook users can upload and embed videos on the popular social network. Facebook does not provide ways to download or export the videos and they even state in the Facebook faq that users will not be able to download or export videos.
Some might want to do so on the other hand for various reasons. Facebook [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 17th, 2008
  • Comments: 3

Social Network Status Generator

Have we come this far already? Desperate times require desperate measures it seems. To impress, one has to be witty. This is especially hard on social networks with millions of other users who want to impress as well.
According to the developers of Generatus their product is ideal for the imaginatively challenged. Generatus is a social [...]

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 15th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Windows Live Photo Gallery Facebook Plugin

The Windows Live Photo Gallery Facebook Plugin enables the direct upload of photos from Windows Live Photo Gallery to Facebook. Two applications are needed to make this work. Windows Live Photo Gallery [link] and the Facebook Plugin [link] have to be installed on the computer. There is no need for a Windows Live account [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 29th, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Is It Reasonable To Offer 1 Terabyte of Storage As A File Hoster?

Offering the biggest storage capacities of all the file hosts on the Internet will surely drive some traffic to a file hoster’s website. Oosah did just that with the announcement that they would offer 1 Terabyte – that is 1024 Gigabytes – to everyone signing up for their file hosting service. And while they surely [...]

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Categories: Online Services, The Web

  • Author: joshua
  • Published: Sep 15th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

MySpace Music Venture

Joshua writes about cool interesting stuff over on his own blog Extendably. Feel free to check it out, I’m sure you’ll like it.
 
No matter what your opinion is on MySpace, the announcement of the MySpace Music store and service is big news.
Perhaps the real question should be, “Why so long?” After all MySpace was the [...]

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Categories: Online Services

  • Author: joshua
  • Published: Jul 18th, 2008
  • Comments: 3

Desktop Apps with Bubble

I must admit I had never heard of Bubbles before I tried out the time tracking service SlimTimer.
Bubbles is a Windows only ‘browser’ which lets you create site specific ‘bubbles’ to run in the system tray.
It can actually be very useful for any web service you find yourself constantly using, but as of yet has [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Online Services

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