Last week, Google added a new feature in Google Apps that allowed educational institutes and organizations to track how people are interacting with Gmail messages.

Anyone with admin access in Google Apps can see basic visitor stats for Gmail messages...

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Microsoft awards the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) status to select individuals who are seen as active participants in technical communities like blogs, Internet forums, user groups, wikis, conferences, etc.

You neither have to be a geek nor an...

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The "Suggested Users" feature of Twitter has left many souls unhappy and rightly so because the moment your Twitter profile shows up on the suggested list, your follower count can grow almost exponentially thus making you look all the more...

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Kodak Gallery (Ofoto) is an online photo sharing site where anyone can upload pictures for free just like Flickr.

The service is especially popular among Kodak digital camera users since these cameras ship with Kodak Easyshare software that can directly...

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Now you can search Google without the computer or a mobile phone. Just write your search query on this postcard and send it to Google office via Snail Mail.

This is obviously an April Fools joke but a hilarious one. Thanks Matt.

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Twelve Animals is a creative project of Kentaro Nagai that uses the world map to form twelve different animals shapes representing the Japanese zodiac. If you are curious to know how the world map was transformed into animals shapes, check this

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FeedDemon 3, which is available for download here, includes some new features that turn this already-brilliant RSS reader into an almost perfect Twitter client for Windows. Here’s why:

1. Support for Short URLs

If any of the tweets includes a URL...

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Go to LinkedIn or Twitter and you’ll find tons of people who claim themselves to be "social media experts".

These are mostly self taught "gurus" who, with their own experiments, have learned how to harness the full potential...

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This Suggested Users page is probably the most controversial element of Twitter. Think of it as an exclusive club where an entry can help you gain thousands of new followers on Twitter in a single day.

Here’s a graph comparing the follower growth...

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You can now add drawing objects like flowcharts, arrows, callouts, banners and even freehand scribbles to your documents in Google Docs using the new "Insert Drawing" command available from the menu bar.

This new feature in Google Docs is...

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Most wikis maintain revision history for every web page in the system so you can easily visually compare changes between any two versions of the same page side-by-side. For instance, this colored edit log from Wikipedia shows how the page for Bush...

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If you are looking for a desktop based RSS reader that has more features than your current online reader and won’t die even if the "cloud" goes down, FeedDemon is a great choice.

The Best of Both Worlds

The upcoming FeedDemon 3.0 release...

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Science fiction meets reality. Pranav Mistry from the MIT Media Lab has developed a wearable internet-connected computer that can turn virtually any physical surface (like the wall, your hand or even a book in your hand) into a Microsoft Surface like...

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Googlebot, the web spider that crawls web pages for inclusion in Google’s search index, can sometimes run JavaScript code as well in addition to fetching text content from a web page.

Here’s why - my Google Analytics report for Web browsers...

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If you are looking to create high-definition screencast videos for YouTube but don’t have the budget to buy screencasting software, here’s a neat screen recorder for you that is both free and cross-platform.

Screen Toaster, a favorite ...

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RichCopy is a visual file copying utility that helps you copy or move files at a much faster rate. It has existed since the days of Windows 95 but (unless you’re working at Microsoft) you may have never heard of RichCopy before as it was an...

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This tutorial will show you to how record and produce 720p High Definition (HD) screencast videos (Widescreen) for YouTube using Camtasia Studio, the best screencasting tool for Windows that will soon be available on Mac.

HD video mostly refers to web...

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Search Suggestions in Yahoo! Images are just Brilliant

Not sure when this feature was introduced but if you search for images on Yahoo, it also offers some brilliant and useful suggestions related to your query.

For instance, when I searched for images...

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Lifehacker, Gizmodo Blogs Now Available Under Creative Commons

Some good news here.

All content published on popular Gawker blogs like Gizmodo, Lifehacker, etc. is now available under a Attribution Non-Commercial Creative Commons license which means that...

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Now Upload Excel 2007 Files to Google Docs

This may seem like a minor improvement but would certainly help lot of Google Docs users who frequently exchange spreadsheets with people who use Microsoft Office 2007.

If a person on the other side sends you a...

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Tutorial: How to Write an IE8 Web Slice for WordPress Blogs

Web Slices are perhaps one of the coolest features in Windows Internet Explorer 8. Some people might find them similar to the Live Bookmarks feature of Firefox but in reality, IE 8 Web Slices can...

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Turn your RSS Feed into a Web Slice for Internet Explorer 8

My previous tutorial on writing a web slice for IE8 was a bit technical and limited to WordPress sites only.

If you have a blog hosted on another platform (like Blogger, TypePad, etc,) and would...

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Simple RSS Feed Reader on the Firefox Start Page

Let me quickly mention an important point that I missed in my previous review of the about:tab for Firefox 3.1.

If any of your "most frequently visited" website has an RSS feed, Firefox will...

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Find Out How Much Traffic a Website is Getting

Do you want to spy (or ‘research’) on your competitors to know how much traffic their sites are getting?

Now there are a bunch of traffic estimation services (like Alexa, Compete, Quantcast,...

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Why Everyone on Twitter Needs NutShellMail

NutShellMail, in a nutshell, is a free web based service that helps you manage* one or more Twitter accounts via email.

The service will periodically send you an email message (see live example) containing a...

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Send Large Files from Outlook with Acrobat.com - Free with 5GB Storage Space

Email messages can bounce if the file attachment size becomes too large. For instance, if you use Microsoft Outlook at work and send a 20 MB project report to a client who is on...

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Twitter Tip: Add a ‘Tweet This’ Link to your Blog on WordPress or Blogger

Twitter can be a great source of traffic for your blog. To give you an example, my article on bookmarklets was on the delicious popular section for more than a day yet...

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Get Birthday Reminders of Orkut Friends in Google Calendar

If most of your friends and family members have a presence on Orkut, you’ll be happy to know that you can now track their birthdays in Google Calendar.

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Get Google Chrome Like Start Page in Firefox

This screenshot illustrates the default start page of Chrome that is displayed when you open a new tab inside the Google browser. It includes a list of most frequently visited websites as well as a list of...

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How to Check Multiple Email Addresses for New Mail At Once

In the last 15 years, I have had at least four different primary email addresses. My first email account was on MSN Hotmail (now Windows Live Hotmail), then I shifted to Yahoo Mail for some time,...

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Best Money Saving Tips from Google Tip Jar

Google Tip Jar is a new community site with tons of priceless money saving tips to help you save cash on everything from electricity, car fuel, grocery, restaurant (eating out) and more.

Anyone with a Google...

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Reader Reviews In Technorati Blog Directory

Technorati is improving. They have almost stopped indexing spam blogs and their blog directory is still the best option* to discover new blogs as it ranks sites based on the number of distinct blogs that point...

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