If there are multiple Google AdSense ad units on a web page, it is generally assumed that the top ad unit (the one which appears first in the HTML source code) will serve the highest paying CPC ads. Well, that may be true most of the times but not...

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Got a BlackBerry? Here’s a round-up of some free BlackBerry apps that will turn your mobile phone into a proper eBook reader - not like Kindle or Sony Reader but close. Later, we looks at workarounds to help you catch up with business documents,...

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This is the Acer Aspire Z5600 PC - an HP TouchSmart like all-in-one entertainment PC with a 24" touch-screen display, built-in TV tuner card, Blu-ray recorder, a 2 TB hard drive and the hardware is neatly placed on the rear of the LCD display.

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FeedDemon has finally added synchronization support for Google Reader. That means you can now read feeds on the desktop with FeedDemon but can continue using Google Reader as your online feed reader.

To enable Google Reader sync in your copy of...

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If you are curious to know what brand of mobile phones are popular among your site visitors, check out PercentMobile - it’s something like Google Analytics but for mobile devices.

With Percent Mobile, you get to know the exact cell phone models...

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Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2007 significantly improves the performance of Microsoft Outlook and also adds support for OpenDocument format in Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007.

With SP2 installed, your Microsoft Office 2007 programs can read &...

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Screencast-o-Matic, the first web based screencasting app, has added some new features and revamped the screen recording interface to catch up with nearest rival - ScreenToaster.

You can now record full HD quality screencasts videos (1280×720) in...

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If you are planning to buy a new iPod, iPhone, iMac or any other hardware from Apple, your first thought is often something like this:

Should I buy an iPod now or wait for some more time as rumors strongly suggest that Apple may be planning to release...

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The mystery behind the "Pink" Microsoft project is somewhat solved.

WSJ.com says that Microsoft is working on a new touch-screen mobile phone to compete with the iPhone and the internal name of this project is "Pink".

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Facebook has more than 200 million members worldwide who spend around 3.5 billion minutes on the site each day. Visitors to YouTube watch around 5.8 billion video clips each month and more than 50% of the YouTube audience is based outside the United...

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URL shortening services like TinyURL, bit.ly, etc. provide small aliases for long web addresses thus making it easier for you to share complex links through email, IM, Twitter, etc.

The only problem with URL shortening services is that most of them...

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Since its launch in 2001, the global army of passionate and dedicated Wikipedians have created close to 3 million articles on the English version of Wikipedia encyclopedia alone. Britannica Encyclopedia has about about half a million topics only though...

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Few years ago, CamStudio and Wink were the only tools for Windows that could record a movie of your onscreen activity for free. Then came Jing from TechSmith followed by a wave of web based screencasting applications that allowed users to create...

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Amazon S3 is an inexpensive cloud storage service that you may use for online backup as well as for hosting static resources of your website like web images, Flash video, audio files, etc.

Amazon built the service primarily for web developers and that...

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As expected, Digg has finally dropped the controversial Diggbar for all users who aren’t logged into their Digg accounts.

And all Digg short URLs (e.g. digg.com/d1mRDP) now do a 301 permanent redirect (instead of rel=canonical) thus passing on all...

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I don’t understand why but Microsoft Outlook doesn’t provide an easy mechanism for users to download images that may be embedded inside an email message. You can right-click an inline image in Outlook and copy it to the clipboard but...

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The traffic chart from Hitwise shows the daily market share of visits to the Twitter website from January to April.

On April 17, the day when Oprah Winfrey joined Twitter by sending a tweet from her Friday TV show, share of US based visits to the...

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Google today introduced a new timeline based blog reader that could be a perfect fit for people who follow a very limited number of blogs. And it’s great for researching blogs as well.

Go to newstimeline.google.com, select "Blogs" from...

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Accelerators are a new feature in Internet Explorer 8 that help you do routine tasks like searching, email, blogging, etc. right from the contextual menu of your IE 8 browser.

For instance, you can select an address on a web page, right click and preview...

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Amit Varma, who authors the hugely popular India Uncut blog, has been named by BusinessWeek magazine as one of the most powerful people in India for 2009.

Blogger Amit Varma brings a particular libertarian point of view to his columns and blog items,...

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If you have a contact in another country who frequently uses non-English words in her emails or if you are subscribed to an newsletter that’s written in some foreign language, here’s how you can quickly translate email messages into your...

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Starting next month, all existing websites hosted on Google Pages will be imported into Google Sites automatically and the Page Creator service will shut down in June 2009.

Google won’t move any of files from Pages into Google Sites (since the...

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This Time-Lapse video of Digg will help you visualize how stories move up or go down with time on the Digg front page.

For this movie, I initially captured some 8+ hours of continuous activity on the Digg front page and later squeezed it into a 80...

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Jaya Prabahar from TCS asks: "How can I easily migrate my web pages, images and other files from Google Page Creator to Google Sites?"

Google Pages was an awesome web hosting service where you could create a good looking website from scratch in...

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You can now find detailed driving directions for India roads through the Google Maps website.

The more-handy print version of Google Maps splits the whole route into smaller blocks that are zoomed-in for easy viewing and you can further customize the map...

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A word of caution for people who have their email accounts on Gmail and are planning to use a vanity URL for their Google Profile.

Vanity URLs are available across all Google Accounts but you can pick a custom username for your Google Profile (like

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Good news folks. If you are not logged into your Digg account, you’ll never ever see the controversial Diggbar on web pages again even if you visit these pages via a Digg short URL.

The strong, and often negative, feedback from bloggers, SEOs and...

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Are you are power Firefox user and simultaneously work with a few dozen tabs? Or are you using Firefox on a small screen laptop ("netbook") and need some extra viewing space for web pages?

Then watch this 1 minute long screencast video to...

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For people in Bangalore, Gurgaon (Noida, New Delhi), Mumbai, Pune, Siliguri, Chennai, and Hyderabad.

The official release of Windows 7 is expected to happen later this year but Microsoft is working hard to get as many people as possible to try the beta...

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Michael Stelzner interviewed some 900+ Internet marketers to determine how they are using social media to promote their businesses, what social media tools are more popular among marketers, how much time are they spending on social media sites and so on....

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Here’s a new Orkut App that will help you update your current location on Google Latitude through the Orkut website itself. Earlier, you had to either use a mobile phone or iGoogle for broadcasting your geographic location in Latitude.

The app also...

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Online video broadcasting services like Ustream.tv, Mogulus, Justin.tv or Qik.com have made it possible for anyone to stream live video over the internet for free. Just connect your web cam (or DV camera) to the computer or switch on the video camera of...

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You may read the full article later but first, head over to this page and claim a vanity URL for your Google Profile before someone else snatches your favorite user name. This is available to all Google Accounts that don’t use a Gmail address.

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You can now take notes in Evernote directly from Twitter. Here’s how you set up the link.

First follow @myen on Twitter and this bot will send you a link in a direct message. Click that link to associate your Evernote account with your Twitter...

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Short URL services like tinyurl.com shrink web addresses for easy sharing while long URL services like hugeurl.com take the extreme route and stretch addresses such that they become almost impossible to share.

longr.us fits somewhere in between and...

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Google Latitude is a free application that brings location tracking to your mobile phone even without GPS. That means if you are travelling with a mobile phone that has Google Latitude installed, your family members and friends can track your exact...

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This problem could be related to the Twitter worm that surfaced over the last weekend but Twitter has deleted all tweets from my account that were written during the last three days.

** Deleted Tweets can be recovered

Though the messages have been...

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