May 29, 2010

My bookmarks today - Saturday, May 29, 2010



Stories I shared on Google Reader today...


Road Painting Fail
from: FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Funny Pictures and Funny Videos of Owned, Pwned and Fail Moments
10:21:50 PM



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May 28, 2010

My bookmarks today - Friday, May 28, 2010



Stories I shared on Google Reader today...


Google buys a VoIP company, might build a Skype competitor
from: Download Squad
8:58:38 PM

Updated Dropbox can now sync the folders you want it to!
from: Download Squad
8:21:01 PM

બોર્ડના ટોપટેનમાં મોટાભાગના ...
from: Gujarat Samachar
8:20:41 PM

Happy 1st birthday, Google Wave!
from: The Official Google Blog
10:12:55 AM

When the iPad Meets Velcro: Video
from: GigaOM
10:10:32 AM

WordPress &8250; Blog & WordPress 3.0 Release Candidate - StumbleUpon
from: www.stumbleupon.com
Some things to know:

Custom menus are finished! Yay!
Multi-site is all set.
The look of the WordPress admin has been lightened up a little bit, so you can focus more on your content.
There are a ton of changes, so plugin authors, please test your plugins now, so that if there is a compatibility issue, we can figure it out before the final release.
Plugin and theme users are also encouraged to test things out. If you find problems, let your plugin/theme authors know so they can figure out the cause.
9:51:43 AM



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May 27, 2010

My bookmarks today - Thursday, May 27, 2010



Stories I shared on Google Reader today...


મુંબઈમાં ૯૦ માળના સુપર લકઝરી આવાસ ...
from: Gujarat Samachar
9:40:59 PM

અમદાવાદના પાંચ ટોપર્સ કહે છે ઃ ...
from: Gujarat Samachar
9:37:59 PM

રાજ્યસભામાં ઉમેદવારોની પસંદગી ઃ ...
from: Gujarat Samachar
વૈશ્વિક સ્તરે મેનેજમેન્ટ કન્સલ્ટન્ટ તરીકે કાર્યરત કંપની ઝિનોવના સર્વેક્ષણમાં જાણવા મળે છે કે માઇક્રોસોફ્ટ દ્વારા શરૃ કરાયેલી ક્લાઉડ સર્વિસ સ્ટ્રેટેજીને કારણે ભારતમાં ૨૦૧૫ સુધીમાં આશરે ૩ લાખ નોકરીઓ ઉભી થશે. માઇક્રોસોફ્ટના સીઇઓ સ્ટીવ બાલ્મરે કહ્યું હતું કે દુનિયાભરની કંપનીઓ ક્લાઉડ કમ્પ્યુટિંગની સેવાઓ માટે ભારત ભણી મીંટ માંડશે.
9:22:56 PM

THe Astoria Team Is hiring !!!
from: With Great Power comes Great Response.write('Ability')
9:22:14 PM

The pain coming back. . Will need another tablet. . Gym over. .
from: bigb.bigadda.com
9:20:19 PM

Windows Server 2008 R2: Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster == Cool!
from: Virtual PC Guy's WebLog
9:13:47 PM

Parsing and Reading Large Excel Files with the Open XML SDK
from: Brian Jones & Zeyad Rajabi: Office Solutions
4:19:45 PM

Top 1000 sites - DoubleClick Ad Planner
from: www.google.com
4:13:38 PM

Top 1000 sites - DoubleClick Ad Planner
from: www.google.com
4:13:38 PM



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May 25, 2010

My bookmarks today - Tuesday, May 25, 2010



Stories I shared on Google Reader today...


Announcing Hilo
from: Visual C++ Team Blog
5:54:41 PM

Robbie Bach leaves as Microsoft reorgs games and phone business
from: The Seattle Times: Microsoft Pri0
5:40:05 PM

J Allard's goodbye note: 'No chairs were thrown' | ZDNet
from: www.zdnet.com
Interesting!
5:38:01 PM

10 Coolest Bathroom Accessories
from: Oddee - Full
2:53:24 PM

15 Awesome Sandwich Artworks
from: Oddee - Full
2:51:33 PM

Microsoft Exchange 2010 Voicemail Preview well positioned with competitors
from: speech @ microsoft
2:48:02 PM

The mysterious Local Disk Q in Windows 7
from: dotnetscraps.com
1:36:55 PM

Hands-on: Skype video conferencing | The Download Blog - Download.com
from: download.cnet.com
1:08:57 PM

Check out AutoCollage
from: Windows Live Photo & Video Blog
11:50:49 AM

uTorrent Falcon lets you remote control your torrent downloads from anywhere
from: Download Squad
I have been using this from some time and its a great functionality.
11:48:59 AM

Tabjacking: a new and ingenious phishing attack
from: Download Squad
11:20:21 AM



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May 24, 2010

My bookmarks today - Monday, May 24, 2010



Stories I shared on Google Reader today...


Stardock Fences
from: ASP.NET Weblogs
10:54:57 PM

Adobe Reader for Android
from: Google Operating System
10:52:27 PM

A Google Icon Game for Pac-Man's Birthday
from: Google Blogoscoped
4:51:26 PM

Gmail's Spam Filter No Longer Effective?
from: Google Operating System
4:51:07 PM

Spring Cleaning: Comments, offline, and older browser support
from: Official Google Reader Blog
4:47:25 PM



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May 18, 2010

My bookmarks today - Tuesday, May 18, 2010



Stories I shared on Google Reader today...


Duplicate Image Finder - Find duplicate photos, find duplicate images, find duplicate pictures - Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder
from: www.mindgems.com
10:55:25 PM

Silverlight 4 Tools for VS 2010 and WCF RIA Services Released
from: ASP.NET Weblogs
10:04:19 PM

Microsoft Files Patent Infringement Action Against Salesforce.com: Statement from Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of Intellectual Property and Licensing
from: www.microsoft.com
10:02:58 PM

New Interface for Google Calendar
from: Google Operating System
9:57:22 PM

Another 10 Wacky Festivals from around the World
from: Oddee - Full
9:48:35 PM

Google to buy VoIP, videoconferencing company | Deep Tech - CNET News
from: news.cnet.com
It was before almost 4-5 years, I worked with people from GIPS while developing a product on Windows CE using their CODEC. They are masters..
9:46:19 PM

Dear Hotmail: I won't take you seriously until you cut this crap out
from: Download Squad
Me, personally, I am so addicted to GMail, even if they remove the text ads i cant move to hotmail..
9:33:02 PM

Mozy online backup gets faster and goes local | Deep Tech - CNET News
from: news.cnet.com
9:12:34 PM

Re-inventing Windows Live Hotmail – the next generation of personal email
from: The Windows Blog
Sabeer Bhatia will be happy!
9:10:41 PM

Excel Team Favorite Keyboard Shortcuts – Part 1 of 3
from: Microsoft Excel 2010
This is awesome!
9:09:56 PM

KiTTY is Win32-native PuTTY
from: Download Squad
9:08:50 PM

લગ્નનો મીંઢોળ હાથેથી છુટ્યો નહોતો ત્યાં વરરાજાને કાળનું તેડુ આવતાં અરેરાટી
from: www.gujaratsamachar.com
9:06:22 PM

Why Facebook and Zynga Declared a 5-Year Truce
from: GigaOM
8:48:09 PM

Hot or Not: New Hotmail Is No Knockout
from: GigaOM
8:21:06 PM

Google Chrome Version 6 in the Works
from: mashable.com
Looks like Google will release Chrome 9.0 before Microsoft does IE9 :)
12:30:36 PM



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May 17, 2010

My bookmarks today - Monday, May 17, 2010



Stories I shared on Google Reader today...


Microsoft pays $200M to VirnetX to settle patent case
from: The Seattle Times: Microsoft Pri0
7:31:41 PM

Welcome to Gyazo | Seriously Instant Screen-Grabbing
from: gyazo.com
Yet another utility to take screenshots.. My favorite is JetScreenshot
7:30:24 PM

Seagate to Release 3TB Hard Drive
from: Maximum PC all RSS Feed
7:28:21 PM

Trial Extender lets you use Microsoft Office 2010 free for six months
from: Download Squad
Use MS Office 2010 for free for another 6 months.. Use it for free till you get addicted to it enough that you cant resist to buy it! :)
7:26:44 PM

Trillian for Mac: New clean and tidy minimal view and better tabs! (1.0 Build 106)
from: Cerulean Studios' Blog
7:25:14 PM

SkyDrive simple viewer quickly shows your SkyDrive WebDAV paths
from: Download Squad
7:24:58 PM

કર્ણાવતી ક્લબના છેલ્લાં ૧૭ વર્ષના હિસાબોની માગણી
from: www.gujaratsamachar.com
1.30 crore to TGB every year for maintenance..
7:20:03 PM

Muslims are doing far better in Modi’s Gujarat, Advani blogs how
from: DeshGujarat.Com
7:11:57 PM

MobileMe Mail Beta Walkthrough
from: GigaOM
6:57:34 PM

YouTube Tops 2B Views a Day, 5 Years After Launch
from: GigaOM
6:56:14 PM



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Stories I shared on Google Reader today...


Microsoft pays $200M to VirnetX to settle patent case
from: The Seattle Times: Microsoft Pri0
7:31:41 PM

Welcome to Gyazo | Seriously Instant Screen-Grabbing
from: gyazo.com
Yet another utility to take screenshots.. My favorite is JetScreenshot
7:30:24 PM

Seagate to Release 3TB Hard Drive
from: Maximum PC all RSS Feed
7:28:21 PM

Trial Extender lets you use Microsoft Office 2010 free for six months
from: Download Squad
Use MS Office 2010 for free for another 6 months.. Use it for free till you get addicted to it enough that you cant resist to buy it! :)
7:26:44 PM

Trillian for Mac: New clean and tidy minimal view and better tabs! (1.0 Build 106)
from: Cerulean Studios' Blog
7:25:14 PM

SkyDrive simple viewer quickly shows your SkyDrive WebDAV paths
from: Download Squad
7:24:58 PM

કર્ણાવતી ક્લબના છેલ્લાં ૧૭ વર્ષના હિસાબોની માગણી
from: www.gujaratsamachar.com
1.30 crore to TGB every year for maintenance..
7:20:03 PM

Muslims are doing far better in Modi’s Gujarat, Advani blogs how
from: DeshGujarat.Com
7:11:57 PM

MobileMe Mail Beta Walkthrough
from: GigaOM
6:57:34 PM

YouTube Tops 2B Views a Day, 5 Years After Launch
from: GigaOM
6:56:14 PM



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May 12, 2010

My bookmarks today - Wednesday, May 12, 2010



Stories I shared on Google Reader today...


Insert Images into a Gmail Messages Using Drag and Drop
from: Google Operating System
10:10:19 PM

Firefox 4 Vision: fast, powerful, and empowering
from: The Mozilla Blog
9:05:24 PM

Pinning Projects and Solutions with Visual Studio 2010
from: ScottGu's Blog
8:57:04 PM

What Silicon Valley could learn from these 14 Israeli companies
from: Scobleizer — Scobleizer
8:56:42 PM

Blue Rhino SkeeterVac Mosquito Exterminator - 1 Acre Part SV3100 buy it at TotalVac.com
from: www.totalvac.com
4:05:34 PM

Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Vail Report: SharePoint 2010
from: www.winsupersite.com
Nice reviews starts pouring!
12:56:58 PM

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Upgrade here
from: googleenterprise.blogspot.com
Google, no matter what you do, its not going to work. Believe me.
10:39:50 AM



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May 7, 2010

My bookmarks today - Friday, May 07, 2010

Pages I found interesting today while surfing the web...


DropboxAddons/DropboxFolderSync
Nice one!
8:03:06 PM
Discuss
"Dropbox Folder Sync" Lets You Sync Any Folder With Dropbox
7:58:32 PM
Discuss
વૃધ્ધાશ્રમના વડીલોએ અમદાવાદનાં વિવિધ સ્થળોની મુલાકાત લીધી
5:06:35 PM
Discuss
Skype Monthly Plans
Call to India 3.39$ for 120 minutes every month.
4:38:38 PM
Discuss
WeTransfer makes file transfers not just painless... but kind of enjoyable
2:08:48 PM
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Comment via email and view entire photo albums in Google Buzz
This is nice!
10:53:29 AM
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About Twitter Limits (Update, API, DM, and Following)
Current Twitter LimitsThe current technical limits for accounts are:Direct Messages: 250 per day.API Requests: 150 per hour.Updates: 1,000 per day. The daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals. Retweets are counted as updates.Changes to Account Settings: 4 per hour.Following (daily): Please note that this is a technical account limit only, and there are additional rules prohibiting aggressive following behavior. You can find detailed page describing following limits and prohibited behavior on the Follow Limits and Best Practices Page. The technical follow limit is 1,000 per day.Following (account-based): Once an account is following 2,000 other users, additional follow attempts are limited by account-specific ratios. The Follow Limits and Best Practices Page has more information.
12:08:34 AM
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Stories I shared on Google Reader today...


Error'd: Make Sure That You
from: The Daily WTF
8:21:33 PM

Netflix Moves Into the Cloud With Amazon Web Services
from: GigaOM
4:28:57 PM



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May 6, 2010

My bookmarks today - Thursday, May 06, 2010

Pages I found interesting today while surfing the web...


Take Picnik for a picnic with Mozilla's Jetpack
7:32:29 PM
Discuss
GMail - 60.7 GB of emails
GMail is my primary mail, holds my digital life! :)
5:06:02 PM
Discuss
Cost of living: Compare prices in two cities
Nice tool!
4:17:53 PM
Discuss
Google's Goggles gets instant text translation
3:59:45 PM
Discuss
More Google applications coming for Google Apps customers
"Blogger, share project images with Picasa Web Albums, track industry news in Google Reader, advertise online with AdWords and much more, all without switching back and forth between multiple accounts"
11:59:15 AM
Discuss
અમદાવાદમાં ૪૩ ડિગ્રી ગરમી તાપમાન ઘટવાની આગાહી
"અમદાવાદ ૪૩.૦ઇડર ૪૨.૬ગાંધીનગર ૪૨.૫ભાવનગર ૪૧.૮ડીસા ૪૧.૪રાજકોટ ૪૧.૩વડોદરા ૪૦.૬"
10:29:39 AM
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Stories I shared on Google Reader today...


What Happens When You Deactivate Your Facebook Account
from: ReadWriteWeb
4:31:24 PM

Digg lays off 10 percent of staff
from: Webware.com
3:59:10 PM

Trillian for BlackBerry Beta: The ultimate chat client meets the ultimate keyboard phone!
from: Cerulean Studios' Blog
3:48:33 PM

IE9 developer preview downloaded more than 1 million times
from: Download Squad
10:36:34 AM

Mugging Fail
from: FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments
10:27:16 AM



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May 5, 2010

My bookmarks today - Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Pages I found interesting today while surfing the web...


Studio Styles - Visual Studio color schemes
10:03:43 PM
Discuss
Microsoft builds Mobile Communicator for Nokia smartphones
"two companies released their first product from the strategic alliance, a mobile app called Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia.The free software integrates Nokia's E series smartphone with Microsoft Communication Server software. Communications Server is Microsoft's unified messaging software that allows people to use PCs for video conferencing, phone calls and instant messaging. With the new service, someone using a Nokia smartphone can see from the contact list on the phone whether the other person is busy, in a meeting or free to talk."
2:11:03 PM
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Google spent over $250 million on startups in Q1
"Google revealed the total amount spent in the first quarter as $268 million in its quarterly filing with the SEC Wednesday."
2:00:19 PM
Discuss
Eloquent JavaScript -- interactive tutorial
Awesome!
1:48:33 PM
Discuss
H-P Hires Microsoft Veteran to Head Software
Veghte left Microsoft for HP.
1:47:29 PM
Discuss
5 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Google App
11:50:38 AM
Discuss
Check out the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview Number 2!
11:48:38 AM
Discuss
Google Rolls Out New Search Interface to All Users
11:39:47 AM
Discuss
Google tweaks logo
11:17:50 AM
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Stories I shared on Google Reader today...


The street art in Brazil is continuing to amuse people
from: This Blog Rules | Why go elsewhere?
10:00:47 PM

Pencil vs. Camera
from: 2dayBlog - Technology Journal, New Gadget everyday!
9:59:13 PM

Sony to announce Android based TV - State of the Android nation
from: Hello Android
9:59:02 PM

Simulated swimming pool with room inside
from: MAKE Magazine
9:57:34 PM

Video: Facebook Security Hole Lets You View Your Friends’ Live Chats
from: TechCrunch
Who tested this feature? He should be underground now that such a blunder was committed.
9:25:43 PM

Customer service survey puts AT&T at bottom of carrier heap
from: Ars Technica
5:26:05 PM

HP Names Microsoft's Bill Veghte as Software Chief
from: BusinessWeek.com -- Technology
2:02:13 PM

Hands On: Seagate's New Hard Drive Wears Its Controller on the Outside
from: Maximum PC all RSS Feed
1:43:07 PM

Google's New Interface: Colorful and More Powerful
from: Google Operating System
Who cares!
12:29:31 PM

Facebook takes chat feature offline to plug gaping privacy hole -- ready to delete your account yet?
from: Download Squad
12:22:00 PM

World's First Remote Heart Operation a Success
from: Maximum PC all RSS Feed
11:46:15 AM

LK Advani’s blog post on Swarnim Gujarat and Mahatma Mandir
from: DeshGujarat.Com
11:45:17 AM

Skype Launches Even Cheaper Voice Call Subscriptions
from: GigaOM
Unfortunately India is not in the list.
11:42:59 AM



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Testing Virtual Keyboard Element from Google.

May 4, 2010

My bookmarks today - Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Pages I found interesting today while surfing the web...


10 Things to Try in Google Chrome 5 Beta
6:18:24 PM
Discuss
Trackon: Tracking the trackers.
Open Trackers that one can use to transfer big files over P2P clients (like utorrent)
6:17:38 PM
Discuss
Shrinkr
Shrink your URL, nice tiny app made in ASP.NET
5:28:20 PM
Discuss
Microsoft’s FUSE Labs announces Spindex
Spindex enables you to search your personal social networks for updates on a topic. I just started playing with it about an hour ago and first thing to note – it’s fast. Second, it’s built on Azure.
4:59:16 PM
Discuss
ManyCam
Nice utility..
4:57:01 PM
Discuss
See What Facebook Shares about you!
Nice small Utility
3:38:54 PM
Discuss
streamline and track the emails you send to promote your business
3:34:08 PM
Discuss
Windows Phone 7 based on a hybrid Windows CE 6 / Compact 7 kernel?
3:20:28 PM
Discuss
Picaboo - Photo Books
Awesome tool!
1:52:21 PM
Discuss
With my childhood buddy Atul Ranade on Twitpic
1:42:02 PM
Discuss
Clicker Live Shows You What’s Playing On The Web Right Now
12:51:54 PM
Discuss
Cheap Summer Travel : Bing Travel
12:46:25 PM
Discuss
Windows Azure CloudPoll for Facebook Now Available
12:45:12 PM
Discuss
Luxand Blink lets you log in to Windows using your face
"Luxand Blink is a free application that lets you log in to your Windows Vista/7 PC using your face instead of a password"
12:44:17 PM
Discuss
AddThis Toolbox Gets the Facebook "Like" Button
AddThis is now used on 1.2 million websites. It’s a familiar catch-all sharing button that lets blog and website publishers implement sharing across a huge and ever-expanding network of social platforms and web services
12:37:02 PM
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Adobe Might Be Behind Apple Antitrust Rumblings
"Bloomberg says that the possible antitrust inquiry Apple's facing in fact stems from a complaint by Adobe, who was most publicly cockblocked by Apple's new iPhone app development rules banning cross-compilers"
12:34:53 PM
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Apple could realize $1 Billion of iPad revenue in its 1st quarter
"Apple has already realized $650 million in revenue and, if they do indeed hit the 2 million milestone in time, the iPad could bring in $1 billion in revenue in its first quarter of availability"
12:34:03 PM
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Microsoft .NET Libraries Not Acting "Open Source"
""Three years ago, with much fanfare, Microsoft announced it would make some of the .Net libraries' open source' using their Microsoft Reference License. Since then Microsoft has reneged on its promise. The reference code site is dead, the blog hasn't been updated in a year and a half, and no one from Microsoft responds to questions on the forum.""
12:30:46 PM
Discuss
Zettabyte = really big number - 1 Million Petabytes
zettabyte, or a million petabytes (we skipped the exabyte, or 1000 petabytes)humanity’s total digital output is expected to pass 1.2 zettabytes this year, or 1,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.the digital universe will be around 35 zettabytes by 2020, or more than 44 times what it is now.
12:28:57 PM
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Free Bing app streams thousands of top-100 tunes
The app streams the top 100 songs of every year from 1947 to 2009. That's 62 years, for a grand total of 6,200 songs
12:15:41 PM
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HOW TO: Embed a Tweet on a webpage
12:13:18 PM
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Google Invests in App that Predicts the Future
Google Ventures has just invested an undisclosed amount in Recorded Future, a company that is working to accurately predict the future.Look at the video on this page!
12:02:54 PM
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tweethook. twitter data. pushed to you.
12:02:14 PM
Discuss
Feedling!
Feedling is a Windows-based RSS reader that sits handily on your desktop. It's a .NET 3.5 WPF app that's been tested on XP, Vista and 7 (both x86 and x64), and should work on 2000 as well. - Open Source Project
11:55:51 AM
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Include a PDF viewer in Windows to reduce exploits? Nice idea, but it won't work
"Microsoft and Adobe have a decent working relationship. However, who's to say that if Redmond decided to add PDF capabilities to XPS Viewer that Adobe (or Sumatra, or Foxit) wouldn't cry foul to the powers that be?"
11:54:26 AM
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Stories I shared on Google Reader today...


iPhone OS 4 beta 3 brings iPod widgets to the dock
from: Engadget
6:20:16 PM

Rec.fm lets people help charities by recommending products
from: Download Squad
3:00:11 PM

Sysomos Audience: Measuring Social Media ROI Beyond Traditional Web Analytics
from: ReadWriteWeb
12:52:46 PM

Unlocked Windows Phone 7 image shows Office, progress
from: Ars Technica
12:35:39 PM

Google Mail Rebranded as Gmail in the UK
from: Google Operating System
12:32:58 PM

iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3 is ready for your scrutiny (update: it's back!)
from: Engadget
12:29:52 PM

9 More Simple Google Search Tricks
from: GigaOM
12:06:48 PM

MeetFX.com - A Network For Forex Traders
from: Killer Startups
12:01:26 PM

Fiddme.com - Sharing What You Eat & Drink Online
from: Killer Startups
11:54:37 AM

How to force your web browser to start in private browsing mode
from: Download Squad
11:46:22 AM

Enable Remote Desktop connections, concurrent logins on Windows 7 Home Premium
from: Download Squad
11:46:11 AM



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