Add Ping to Address Bar in Firefox and Opera
Found this useful tip on how to add a ping shortcut to your Firefox address bar over at Lifehacker.
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Read The Words Text to Speech Online Service
Read The Words is a text to speech service that is offering quite an impressive amount of options for a web application.
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Faceted Browsing for Thunderbird
Faceted Browsing can be very helpful if you do not precisely know what you are looking for.
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Hulu now publically available kind of
Hulu has left private beta and is now publically available to US-consumers which is definitely a good thing.
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Speed Test: Firefox 3 vs. IE 8 vs Opera 9.5
I have not done any tests lately that would reveal the speed of each of the new upcoming browsers.
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Beware of G-Archiver
What would you do if you had purchased a software that would archive your Gmail mails and found out that this software send your username and password to the Gm
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Random date and time value generator
There are tons of applications and other instances where you need to either test using dates, or you actually need random dates.
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Usenet Search Engine: Best NZB Sites
This article is going to list some of the best Usenet search engines that are freely available.
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Best Torrent Search Engines
Torrent websites are much like Linux distributions, there are so many out there that it is easy to lose the track.
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IndyWiki a desktop Wikipedia tool
Way back in February I found a cool tool to browse Wikipedia from the desktop called IndyWiki, so let's get our hats and whips ready and a take a look at the [&
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Create Booklets
Booklet Creator is a free online script that turns pdf documents into small books by changing the order of the pages.
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Live Air Traffic Map: How to Watch Real-Time Flights Worldwide
A friend of mine asked me recently if I knew that it was possible to view real-time air traffic in Google Earth.
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Fake Gift Boxes
I'm pretty astonished that I never heard about fake gift boxes before, at least not ones that you could purchase in stores.
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Flock - A Firefox beater?
I wrote a really long review on my blog recently on Flock, the community browser and thought I'd share some of my findings with you guys.
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Track your digged posts from your desktop
I just read about one of the best Digg tools ever on Make Use Of, immediately downloaded it and I love it already.
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Flickr Wallpaper Search
Flickr hosts an unbelievable amount of images of all sizes on their website.
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Face in a Hole
It seems to be the tip day of the week because this is actually the third tip I received by email today.
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Aviary Invites
Max was nice enough to send me an invite for the online application service Aviary, or more precisely the main website and the image editor application which ar
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Convert 2D Images into 3D Images
Make 3D is a wonderful piece of code from the University of Stanford that transforms a normal 2D image into a 3D image.
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Find answers using your pictures
I just stumbled on to a very cool idea, a sort of picture research online community.
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Reduce Spam by using alternative Google Mail Address?
I read about this tip yesterday at Digital Inspiration and when I woke up today I saw that Lifehacker wrote about it as well.
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Record and Share your browser history with Hooeey
Duryodhan was so nice to send me a link to Hooeey, a website offering a button and toolbar for Firefox that record your browsing history.
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When Bans go wrong. Pakistan vs. Youtube
Once again the leaders of a country decided to ban a website because of (pick one: religious beliefs, political beliefs, constitution, local laws, medieval mind
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Q10: free portable dark-room editor
If you are a fan of dark-room type apps and editors which provide much more comfort in comparison with the regular ones in terms of eye strain as well as more i
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Finding out if someone clicked on a link
I'm not a huge fan of all those tracking scripts and applications that have popped up lately.
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Windows Live SkyDrive leaves Beta
Windows Live SkyDrive, the online storage service of Microsoft, has left beta status today and is now available for users in 38 countries including the United S
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Social Wallpapering
Wallpapers.
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Create RSS Feed Newspapers
Computers are really nice for information gathering but nothing beats reading a book or newspaper on a Sunday morning with a cup of coffee at a breakfast table.
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Newspond is like an automated Digg 2.0
Newspond is a web news aggregator that scans the Internet for news and publishes them automatically on their website.
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Bundle Links with Linkbunch
What do you do if you want to send a friend ten links ? Paste all the ten links in an email or Instant Messenger and let him sort through the mess ? Or use a se
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Stop Piracy by Kicking P2P Users off the Internet
The glorious idea to kick file sharers off the Internet, effectively banning them from accessing the Internet, seems to be in consideration in Australia in an e
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Yahoo bans The Pirate Bay
If you perform a search for the major torrent website The Pirate Bay you expect it to be the number one search result for its main keyword due to its popularity.
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Web CEO Free
Search Engine Optimization is important, probably the most important aspect to make your blog grow beyond it's initial reach.
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Group Mails in Thunderbird chronologically
Mails are sorted chronologically in Thunderbird by default but they are not grouped.
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How Webmasters use social sites to create a keyword monopoly
The regular user thinks that if he searches for a keyword in Google he will receive a listing of ten different websites that are the best matches for the keywor
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Manage your Delicious Bookmarks locally
Delicious is a nice website to discover new interesting websites.
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Browser Security Test
Is my browser secure ? That's a question that I hear and read day in day out from users throughout the country.
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A selection of colorful wallpapers
I discovered a wonderful selection of wallpapers on Del.
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Online Book Demonstration
What exactly would come to your mind if I would speak about e-books ? Would you think about pdf documents and other text documents ? Most likely yes because e-b
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Use Stumbleupon without the toolbar
I don't like to install a lot of toolbars in Firefox (or Opera) because they tend to decrease the screen size that is available for the website.
