Here are 3 apps which help you in sharing things easily by making them short and tiny.
I’m sure almost all of you reading this know about TinyUrl. It’s a url shortening service and it shot into fame recently when it became an extremely useful way to share links in Twitter. There’s also a nice bookmarklet which you can add to your browser toolbar and it lets you shorten the urls in 2 clicks.
A while back I wrote a post which showed how you can sync Firefox across different computers with Mozilla Weave . Today the Google Operating System blog reported that this tool has been updated to the version 0.2 and now has some new features.
Mozilla Weave is a browser sync tool which lets you sync firefox on multiple computers by storing your browser preferences at a centralized location online. According to the release notes, here are the main features of the new version :-
Since I’ve started using Firefox 3, I’ve seen an error message in Gmail which I never encountered before. The error message usually appears when I sign in to Gmail and the problem occurs randomly.
I’ve tried disabling the Gmail Labs feature and also using a fresh Firefox profile. However it hasn’t helped and the error message appears at least once in a day and then when later in the day I sign in again, it’s taken care of automatically. Here’s the error message :-
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As I write this, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has just delivered an emotional farewell speech to his employees for the last time in his full-time role. You can listen to an excerpt of the speech at Todd’s audio blog.
Although Google reigns over bloggers’ hearts, geeks go crazy when they hear Steve Jobs speak, diggers just can’t wait to bury a Microsoft story and tech enthusiasts don’t seem to stop when it comes to whining over vista, the truth is that the revolution started with Windows and it’s not Linux or a Mac but Windows which has reached millions of people around the world and touched the masses ( whether in pirated form or anything else ).
And the credit goes to the innovative mindset and some exceptional marketing and management skills of Bill Gates. If not for him, computers would have been still obscure and technology wouldn’t have been as easy as it seems today.
Mikogo is a nice free screen sharing and remote access software which lets you share desktop with upto 10 participants simultaneously and also allows you to switch controls and remotely work on each other’s computers. It also comes as a Skype add-on and hence you can use it easily with Skype.
If you are using Firefox 3 and have upgraded to the latest version of stumbleupon toolbar then it has a cool feature which you may not have discovered yet. Now stumbleupon stores your favorite stumbles and also your various stumble tags in your Firefox 3 Bookmarks.
You’ll find your favorites and tags in the ” Recently Bookmarked ” and ” Recent Tags ” section, when you click on Bookmarks in your Firefox.
iSpring allows you to convert your PowerPoint presentations into flash movies in one click after you upload your presentations online. It also comes with a free and pro version of software which has more features.
The free version of this software is 6.4 Mb in size and has some handy features. It lets you convert your PowerPoint presentations completely into a flash movie which is web-friendly and can be used online.
