Thursday, September 25, 2008

10 Useful Google Bookmarklets

Just drag and drop the link on your bookmarks toolbar. 1. Subscribe to a feed using Google Reader: Subscribe. This is especially useful for browsers like Internet Explorer that don't have a proper way of handling feeds.
2. Translate a web page into English: Translate. This also works for text selections, but you have to choose the destination language. Other translation bookmarklets are available here. 3. Bookmark a page: Bookmark. If you don't want to install Google Toolbar, this a very good way to bookmark the current page at Google Bookmarks. 4. Add an event to Google Calendar: Add event. You can select some text from a web page or enter the description of an event after you click on the bookmarklet. 5. Map this. Select an address from a web page and instantly get the map. 6. Google Cache bookmarklet lets you view the cached version of the current page. This may be useful if a page doesn't load because of a server error. 7. Definitions lets you select a word or an expression from a web page and get the definition from Google. 8. Blog links shows all the blogs that link to the current page. Web links is the same bookmarklet adapted for links from the entire web. 9. Send text by SMS - this only works in the US and you must know the name of the mobile carrier. 10. Highlight the words from your Google query in the search results: Highlight. This extremely cool bookmarklet created by Dominique Hazaƫl-Massieux checks the referral, parse the query from the URL and highlights the words so you can easily find the relevant sections of the web page.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Windows Live Messenger - Use a short video as your Display Picture

The new Windows Live Messenger beta lets you use a short video as your display picture, as well as change your display picture to match the "emoticon" you type. The update would be coming up this week.

Microsoft on Wednesday said it is ready with a new update to its Windows Live suite of applications.

The Wave 3 releases include updated versions of Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger, and Windows Live Writer, as well as a new online movie making tool (as it hinted it might). Windows Live Movie Maker adding the ability to post videos to Microsoft's Soapbox (YouTube-Not so sure about that). Windows Live Writer, however, does allow videos to be posted to YouTube, as well as Soapbox. Source: 1 2
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Google is promoting Chrome in Orkut

Chrome has already captured more than 1% of the browser market, this browser plays a major role in data collection, inspite of the recent controversial privacy policy, it is getting users because of its accelerated optimisation of sites especially with google services. Since Today they are promoting Chrome through Orkut. This is how it looks in Firefox. This is how it looks in Chrome.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

[Update] Orkut Album Comments Counter

This update can be seen when you open any photo album, there is a bubble comment counter for individual windows.
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