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1. HOW DO I TURN OFF CAPS LOCK? (Screenshot)
2. The Tom From MySpace finally Gives Facebook A Shot (Screenshot)
3. A House Of Ultimate Technology Products (Pic)
4. Google Wave Explained Using Pulp Fiction Scene (Video)
5. Meet The Guys Behind Google Street View (Video)
6. If Politicians Were HTTP Status Codes (Pic)

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(1) The Inflation Calculator – Nowadays, the dollar don’t have the same buying power as it did, say in 60’s, when a new home would cost you around $30,000. And the reason is – inflation. To find out how the value of the US dollar changed over time, check out this Inflation Calculator. Read more: The Inflation Calculator – See Value Of US Dollar Over Time

(2) LiftMagic – This fun online tool can take your photo, do some magic with it, and then show how you would look like after a massive plastic surgery face lift. While the result are questionable, it’s still an interesting app for those contemplating about plastic surgery on their face. Read more: LiftMagic – See How You Would Look Like After Cosmetic Surgery

(3) Brainshark – Cool web tool for enchaining your presentations online. It lets you upload PowerPoint presentations, videos, image slideshows or documents and effectively increase their interactivity by adding voice narrations. Read more: Brainshark – Add Voice to Powerpoint & Word Docs

(4) TimeMe – Free web-based timer and stopwatch for your web browser. It can be used to time meetings, class tests or any other events. Due to its huge display it can be easily used in conference rooms with many people or classrooms with students. Read more: TimeMe – Large Display Stopwatch Online

(5) DirProtect – If you are worried with snoopers viewing your web files, then you should definitely use DirProtect. As the name implies, this dead-simple tool protects your web directories by generating .htaccess and .htpassword files. Read more: DirProtect – Online .htaccess and .htpassword Generator

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(1) The App Garden – Newly created section on Flickr which basically is a repository of Flickr apps. It lists all sorts of handy tools for Flickr i.e. stats counters, download/upload tools, slideshow generators, mobile browsers and so on. You can search for apps, browse by tags, and discover new tools. Read more: The App Garden – Great Flickr Tools Collection

(2) NewOCR – Web based tool that can recognize text from images or scanned documents and convert into editable text. The application is completely free, and the process of getting text from images is very easy. Read more: NewOCR – Recognizes Text From Images

(3) Voicethread – Powerful tool for creating multimedia slideshows and lectures. It combines different media to create effective teaching materials and projects, stored online and easily shared and commented on by others. Read more: Voicethread – Create Powerful Multimedia Slideshows

(4) Usabilla – Usability testing website that offers an easy way to quickly collect visual feedback on a webpage, mockup, sketch or an image. It has a nice interface with clear instructions on how to get the user feedback. Read more: Usabilla – Website Usability Testing Tool

(5) ForwardOn – Web service that provides an alternative way to share your favorite emails with others. Instead of forwarding them to your friends individually ForwardOn lets you send them to share@forwardon.com and convert email to html entities by publishing it on your personal www.forwardon.com<> page for your friends and family to see. Read more: ForwardOn – Convert Favorite Emails To HTML Pages

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(1) CompareMyDocs – New web application that allows users to compare and merge text documents online. You can upload different versions of the same text document and see what has been changed. It automatically color codes changes it finds between the different revisions of a document and provides user with an easy way to approve, reject, or set aside a change. Read more: CompareMyDocs – Compare And Merge Documents Online

(2) X3Studios – Website that lets you quickly and easily generate artsy wallpapers, save them onto your computer and share with others online. You can also check out public library of wallpapers created by others. Read more: X3Studios: Create Cool Artsy Wallpapers

(3) Lists Widget – Official Lists Widget from Twitter that lets anyone to display tweets for any public Twitter list on their blog, social networking profile etc. It can be customized in appearance and easily embedded on any website, blog or personal web page. Read more: Lists Widget – Get A Widget For Twitter List

(4) CoTweet – Suite of tools within one app which helps small businesses to manage their Twitter communication easily and effectively. The main feature is letting various people use the same Twitter account. Hence corporate Twitter accounts can be managed easily. You could add up to six different Twitter accounts to the tool and invite people to tweet on your behalf. Read more: CoTweet – Twitter Management Tools For Business

(5) GazoPa – Unique similar image search tool that gives a variety of options when it comes to finding images based on similarity. You can upload an image, just draw a rough sketch, supply an image URL or conduct a similar image search using keywords. You could filter search results by color, layout, size, shape and on the basis of its age on the web. Read more: GazoPa – Search Images By Similarity

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1. Cute Little Girl (Video)
2. Spammer Challenge: Break This CAPTCHA (Pic)
3. Best Typo Ever (Screenshot)
4. Here Is Why Parents Shouldn’t Be On Facebook. (Screenshot)
5. Dilbert Puts Twitter to Good Use (Pic)
6. Interesting Facts About Cell Phones (Video)

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1. Women Rule All Social Networks Except One (Pic)
2. In The Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Kindle (Pic)
3. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Gmail Inbox (Screenshot)
4. Remove Your Site From Google or I’ll Sue (Screenshot)
5. 100 Greatest YouTube Hits In 4 Minutes (Video)
6. Computer Science Lecture Rap (Video)

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(1) CleanScores – If you are planning to dine at a local restaurant, but worried that it might not be safe in terms of hygiene and sanitation, CleanScores can help you find it out. It rates restaurants based on the scores given by local health inspectors. The site currently has data for over 200,000 restaurants across US. Read more: CleanScores – Avoid Dirty Restaurants In Your Area

(2) NiceSharing – This application lets you combine two separate web pages and then share them as a single URL. It also provides options which allow to customize the way webpages are presented (columns, rows, or hidden). Read more: NiceSharing – Combine Websites & Share As Single URL

(3) QuickDiff – Simple but useful tool which lets you quickly compare two paragraphs of text or code and see where are the differences. While this tool is built primarily for developers so that they could easily compare lines of code, it can be used by just about anyone looking to find changes in text. Read more: QuickDiff – Compare Text & Code Online

(4) TwitterGram – Online service that can automatically post your Flickr images as Tweets on your Twitter profile. The application has a number of customization options which let you set your own preferences. For example, if you only want a few of the photos you upload to be sent to Twitter, you can create a special tag for these photos. Read more: TwitterGram – Automatically Post Flickr Photos to Twitter

(5) Rapidshare.net – Rapidshare.com is a popular file hosting service, which lets anyone upload files and share them online, by posting their download links. However, if the download link expires you end up with a broken link. Rapidshare.net provides a solution to this problem. Next time when you upload files to Rapidshare simply change the extension of your Rapidshare links from .com to .net. When a user clicks the Rapidshare.net link, they are redirected to the official Rapidshare download page. If the link is dead, the user is offered alternative download links to similar files. Read more: Rapidshare.net – Search Engine for Rapidshare Files

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1. What If You Were Restricted To 140 Characters In Real Life? (Video)
2. Fascinating Facts About Technology & Internet (Video)
3. iPhone 3G / 3GS Recession Case (Pic)
4. If You Printed The Internet … (Pic)
5. 10 Things You Should Not Do At The Internet Cafe (Video)
6. Here’s My Password, Gmail Team! (Pic)

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Check out the top picks from MakeUseOf Geeky Fun during the last week.

1. A Message to Annoying Neighbor via Network Connections (Pic)
2. Here is Why You Have to Check Your Taskbar Before Taking Screenshots (Pic)
3. The ‘Never Obsolete” PC (Pic)
4. PNG vs. JPEG (Pic)
5. How Mom Uses Facebook & Twitter to Stalk Her Son (Video)
6. Digital Storage vs. Physical Storage (Pic)

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1. Linux Baby Rocker (Video)
2. The Fune: New Smart Phone From Microsoft (Video)
3. Printer Choreography (Video)
4. If Twitter Was 100 People… (Pic)
5. Amazon “Relaxation Capsule” Review (Screenshot)
6. Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy (Video)

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1. Twitter Pigeon: Offline Twitter Client (Pic)
2. Online Security Tip: Lie Flat In A Ditch (Screenshot)
3. 1 Person Liked This Item: The Failure of “Like It” Button (Screenshot)
4. Craigslist Fail: “Not Sure What These Are” (Pic)
5. Hard Drive Weight Increasing ? (Screenshot)
6. Look Who Has Sent You a Facebook Friend Request (Pic)

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(1) Click2Try – Web service which allows you to test open source software in the browser itself so that you don’t go through the hassle of downloading and installing the software. There are various software under different categories like business, education, linux etc which you can test. Read more: Click2try: Test Open Source Apps In Your Brower

(2) PickMusic – This site offers a cool collection of music videos on the web. It claims to host more than 1 million music videos which can be easily searched using the artist or the song name. Read more: PickMusic: Watch Uncut Music Videos & Create Playlists

(3) ShareFlow – Web-based dashboard that allows a group of people easily communicate and collaborate on different projects without all the mess caused by group emailing. Instead of sending messages back and forth among a group of people, you join a relevant conversation thread (”flow”) and start adding your comments to the stream. Read more: ShareFlow: Online Group Messaging and Collaboration

(4) Vizzl – Search engine which helps you visually search and browse Amazon, Ebay and Youtube. The visual interface is very intuitive and easy to use. There are 4 different view options like compact view, tiny view, extended view and list view. Read more: Vizzl: YouTube, Ebay & Amazon Visual Search Tool

(5) 99Stats – Free online web statistics tracker that lets you analyze the traffic of your website or a blog. It lets you monitor your daily traffic, view its geographical distribution (continent, country, city) and visitors’ info including their browser, OS and screen resolution. See referring URLs and search keywords used by visitors to find you online. Read more: 99Stats: Free Online Web Statistics Tracker

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1. Kevin Spacey Explain Twitter To David Letterman (Video)
2. Damnit Google Stop Reading My Emails (pic)
3. Microsoft Office 2010: The Movie (Video)
4. The Twitter Bird in REAL life (Pic)
5. World Of World Of Warcraft (Video)
6. Firefox Add-ons in Real Life (Pic)

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(1) ArrivedOK – Instantly send arrival notifications to friends and family when your flight arrives to the destination. It’s a useful tool for those who expect someone to pick them up or just want to notify friends on reaching safely. Read more: ArrivedOK – Sends Flight Arrival Notifications to Your Friends.

(2) PDFtoExcelOnline – Convert PDF to Excel online. The basic idea is that you can upload your PDF containing tables and worksheets, and receive back an XLS file containing just the tabular content, which can then be repurposed in Excel, OpenOffice, Google Docs… etc. Read more: PDFtoExcelOnline – Convert PDF To Excel Online.

(3) Tagito – Sell things like documents, mp3’s, photos, programs… etc on your website. It provides you with a simple paste in widget where you can list the items you want to sell, add descriptions and then easily display them on your web pages. Read more: Tagito – Sell Documents and Digital Content Online.

(4) Workouts – Find workout routines, you can select a muscle group and get a number of related workout links pulled from Del.icio.us. Read more: Workouts – Check Workout Routines For Selected Muscle Groups.

(5) Yahoo! Media Player – An embeddable mp3 player that can be used to play audio links on your website or personal profile web page. Once you have added it to your site it automatically finds all audio links and turns them into a playlist. Read more: Yahoo! Media Player – Embedable MP3 Player.

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Watch out for the next batch of new manuals in May. If there are any subjects you would like to see turned into a downloadable PDF manual, put your ideas in the comments below or send Simon an email at simon@makeuseof.com .

And now here’s a roundup of the stories our writers have done over the past month.   I think you’ll agree it has been a very productive month!

Simon – Wombat Labs

Two Cool Apps To Work With Open Windows on Your Desktop
Quinn – Multiplayer Tetris Game On Your Mac
Ultrastar Deluxe – Play Free Singstar Delight On Your PC
GunBound – Multiplayer Worms-like Shooting Game
OneSwarm Makes P2P File Sharing Private And Personal
Battlefield Heroes Beta – Free Cartoon Shooter Game
Blurst – Several Games For The Unity WebPlayer
An Idiot’s Guide To Photoshop [Free PDF]
BumpTop, An Intuitive Interactive 3D Desktop
Edit Your Images In A New & Better Way With Seam Carving
Mightier – Innovative Puzzle Platformer Fun
Top 5 Smallest Java Games To Try
S4 League – A Tense Online Sci-Fi Shooter

Karl – Ask The Admin

See What Is Using Your Hard Drive’s Space (Windows)
Are You a Reckless Web User? Secure Your Browser With AVG Linkscanner
Fling Ftp: Automate your Backup with free FTP client (Windows)
The Must-see “New Tab King” Addon for Firefox (Windows)
Ever Wanted To Measure Your Bandwidth Usage? (Windows)
Check If Your ISP Throttling Your BitTorrent Downloads
Close N’ Forget Covers Your Firefox Browsing Tracks
Use SkipScreen To Bypass Rapidshare Advertising Waiting Screens
Optimize Your Web Connection With TCP Optimizer (Windows)
Make Webpages Easier On The Eyes With Readable
Use BackupURL To Save & Share A Website As You See It
Noggin + Babysmash = One Happy Baby! (Windows)

Ryan – BetterContent

Check All Emails & Get Email Alerts with POP Peeper (Windows)
Top Educational Websites For Children That Are Fun
How to Bypass Firewalls & Get into Blocked Websites in School or at Work with FreeProxy (Windows)
Change Bad Habits With Joes Goals
Lose Weight For Free With The Daily Plate
Rock On With Free Mixxx Music Mixing Software
Hallucinogenic Desktop Themes & Screensavers
Best Websites for Teens to Earn Money Online
How To Set Up Remote Computer Access With Your Mobile Phone

Jeffry – Super Subconscious

How To Add New Shortcuts to Mac OS X with Spark
Max – The Multitalented Audio File Converter for Mac
How To Master The Power of Mac Shortcut Keys
Slimming Down and Power Up Your Mac’s Service Menu
Batch Rename Your Files Easily – Mac Style (Mac Only)
Simple Ways To Organize Your Files In Mac
Maintain Your Mac With This All in One Utility Tool (Mac Only)
Expand Mac’s Dictionary App by Adding Additional Languages
Get Rid of Your Overloaded Anxiety With Anxiety – Mac Only

Damien – Make Tech Easier

6 Useful Desktop Time Tracking Software
GKrellM – System Monitor Tool with Tons of Great Plugins
Identify The Name of That Song with Tunatic
Easily Create & Manage a Podcast Blog with Podcast Generator
5 Excellent ToDo List Apps For Linux That You Might Not Have Heard Of
Tonido: Cloudless Computing On Your Desktop
5 Free Financial Software Alternatives To Quicken
8 Power Docks For Your Linux Machine

David – The 2.0 Life

See What Are Top Listened Songs Online with We Are Hunted
5 Great Multi-Source News Websites
6 Reasons Why Firefox Dude May Want to Switch to Chrome
Learn To Code At Any Level With Google Code University
Build The Perfect Music Playlist With MixtapeMe
3 Gadgets To Help You Get Social In Gmail
4 Ways To Find New Twitter Friends
Create Simple & Useful Screencasts With ScreenCastle

Saikat – The Things I Do

How To Move My Documents Folder To A Different Drive
Instant Messenger Hacks: 10 Security Tips to Protect Yourself
How To Make Microsoft Office 2007 Look Like Office 2003
3 Easy Ways To Send a Complete Web Page via Email
How To Password Protect Any Windows Program
How To Troubleshoot Your Windows With The MSconfig Utility
3 Ways To Remove Unwanted Email Formatting & Clean Your Text (Windows)
Share & Centralize Your Health Information With Google Health

Tina

5 Unique Websites with Very Useful Tag Clouds
Get A Glimpse Into Your Future With Those 4 Fun Websites
6 Reasons Why Plurk Beats Twitter
5 Easy Websites to Share Files Online Without Signing Up
3 Recipe Sites For The Post Fast Food Era
Collect & Share Your Music In The TunesBag
Stay Up To Date With Science News With These Sites
Share Your Trips With EveryTrai

Guy – Extreme IT

Plan Walking Routes with Gmaps Pedometer
5 English Foreign Newspapers That You Should Read
How To Convert Any Windows Program to Run on a U3 Drive
Free Network Monitoring Software With Spiceworks
How To Make Your Own Workout Music With The Right Beats
How To Use SpeedFan to Remotely Monitor Computer Health
Join a Cult Online: How I Joined, Started & Finally Recovered
Kids Can Learn Programming From Scratch

Varun – Tech Crazy

Use Smart Installer Pack to Install All Needed Software at Once
How To Use RSS Feeds To Download Torrents Automatically
10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About
Get Better Monitor Lighting That Feels Good To Your Eyes
Access Files, Folders, Emails & Twitter – All From A Menu
How To Analyse & Reduce Your Computer’s Power Consumption [Linux]
Linux System Administration Made Easy with Webmin

Stefan – The Tux Geek

10 Tips to Extend Your iPod’s Battery Life
How To Scan and Fax Documents Online for Free
How To Connect To Your Online Bank Account Safely
Opera 10 Beta ‘Turbo’ – Does It Still Have What It Takes?
FreeOTFE Encrypts Files On Hard Drives, CD and USB Sticks

Joel – Grind Smart

Freebies: 15 Free iPhone Icon Sets
Quick Zip File Compressor & Extractor (Free WinZip Alternative)
Optimize Your Windows PC for Better Gaming!
Blog Exclusively From Your Desktop (Windows)
Schedule & Manage Preset Tasks On Your PC (Windows Only)

Tim – Twenty Ounce

Restrict Windows and Web Access for Kids with KidsMenu
Run Programs Automatically Using Windows Task Scheduler
How To Disable Internet Explorer
7 Sites To Get Free Music (Legally!)
Get Quick Access To Your Google Calendar With GMinder

Jim – Different Perspective

Picasa 101 – Saving, Exporting & Uploading To Picasa Web Albums
[Google Picasa 101] – Master The Special Effects In Picasa
[Google Picasa 101] – How To Edit Your Photos
[Google Picasa 101] – View, Folders, Toolbars
[Google Picasa 101] – Getting Started

Mahendra Palsule

Top 5 Free Resume Hosting Websites
5 Dead-Easy Ways to Create Your Own Panoramic Photos
ow To Convert Audio Cassettes & LPs to MP3 in 5 Easy Steps

Sara – Grandroids

Try Fun Science Experiments At Home With These 6 Websites
Unique & Easy Last Minute Easter Goodies
Easy Digital Scrapbooking With Scrapblog

T.J – The Windows Fix

Divide Your PC Monitor Into Multiple Screens With WinSplit Revolution
View A Multi-Page Article On One Single Page With PageZipper

Gary Reichel

5 Websites Filled With Bravery & Greatness
How To Opt-Out From Unwanted Advertisers Online & Offline

Charnita – Social Web Tools

7 Great Plugins For Windows Live Writer 2009
8 Sites For Beating The Job Hunting Blues

Mark O’Neill

How To Find Unprotected Website Directories & Get “Interesting” Files

Jackson

Attain DivShare Nirvana With Daphnism [Mac Only]

Ann – AnnSmarty

3 Ways to See Most Favorited Google Search Result

Daniel – Scriptastique

4 Methods To Handle Passwords Safely Over The Net

James – Associated Content

Play Brain Building Games To Make the Internet Smarter

Grant – GrantBlog

Manage Your Various Online Identities With Chi.mp

Israel

5 Easy-to-use Freeware Video Converters

Maria

Top 4 Online Translation Services

Wez Pyke

The Top 5 iPhone Applications For Killing Time

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(1) Clipart ETC – Free clip art resource that provides you with clip art collections for use in school projects and other places. It offers more than 44,000 clip art images to choose from. Each clip art comes with a choice of image size and has complete source information for proper citations in school projects. Read more: ClipartETC: Free Clip Art Resource

(2) FairShare – Web service that lets you scan 35 billion blog and web pages against your published online content and view how it used. Read more: FairShare: Find Out Who Is Stealing Your Content

(3) FlashCardFlash – Flashcard search engine that lets users simultaneously search 6 best flashcard websites. Read more: FlashCardFlash: Search 6 Best Flashcard Websites At Once

(4) Foodzie – It is an online gourmet food market that connects food lovers with local food producers and growers. It makes it easy for small specialty food vendors to list and sell their products directly to consumers through the site. Read more: Foodzie: Online Gourmet Food Market for Specialty Foods

(5) KickLight – New Youtube tool that lets you add text, graphics and links to YouTube video without obscuring it any way. The application inserts a space just below a video and then lets you fill this space with your content. Read more: KickLight: Add Text, Pics & Links To YouTube Video Without Obscuring It

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(1) Crush3r – This service allows you to create engaging web invitations. It lets you add information regarding the event and then design invitations the way you want by adding things like images, songs, customized text, videos from YouTube or photo stream from Flickr. Read more: Crush3r: Create Engaging Web Invitations For Your Events

(2) EveryBlock – Local news aggregator for finding out what’s happening in your block, neighborhood or city.  EveryBlock dips into city’s public records and lets you visualize info such as crime records, received business licenses and building permits, restaurant inspections, real estate listings from Craiglist and more.  Read more: Everyblock: Local News Aggregator

(3) FontBurner – Website enhancement service that allows you to add over 1000 originall fonts to your website, and easily display them to your visitors despite the limitations in number of fonts installed on their computers. Read more: FontBurner: Add Fonts To Your Website

(4) TheHydeTube – Online resource which provides original short films collection created by aspiring animators and graphic artists. You can search and browse them by categories, vote and share by forwarding a link. Read more: TheHydeTube: Original Short Films Collection

(5) Write Like an Egyptian – Web tool that lets you write your name using ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Just type your name into provided field and press “inscribe”. Read more: Write Like An Egyptian

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iRateMyDay

Fun website which can help you find out how happy you are. You can measure overall happiness by quickly rating your days for a certain period of time. The rating system is fairly simple, just select most suitable mood face for the day (from Great to Worst) and add an optional comment. Do it for a month, and you’ll know how many days of the month you felt great, terrible, indifferent and so on. Do it for a year or half and you’ll pretty much know whether you’re a happy person or not, and why is it so.

Emotionr

Emotionr is a slightly more social alternative to iRateMyDay. Not only does it let you track and share your emotional experiences with others, but also browse through mood photos uploaded by other community members, check out happiest countries, share your daily mood score on your blog, and even get a world mood score for the day.

FlickaDay

Flickaday offers something rather different, the basic idea behind it is to let users take a snap photo of themselves on a daily basis, compliment it with an optional comment and share it with others. To enable sharing FlickaDay provides a handy widget which can be used to show off these daily mood photos on you blog or web profile (i.e. Myspace). By default widget shows only the most recent photo but users can also check out all of your daily pics in calendar-like manner or play the whole set combined into Flick (movie animation) accompanied with a background song of your choice.

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Basic Mind-Mapping Tools

(1) ImaginationCubed – awesome looking, simple to use, live brainstorming tool. Invite your partner and share single dashboard to create mind maps. Draw, add objects, type, etc.

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Features: Demo

• live collaboration
• send maps by email
• replay your steps
• save/print maps
• background grid on/off

(2) Bubbl.us – lets you quickly create custom bubble mind maps and share them with colleagues for further refining.

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Features: Demo

• create/save/print/share/collaborate on maps
• embed maps elsewhere (blog, web profile, etc.)
• export maps as XML, HTML, or as image (JPEG, PNG)
• interactive Drag’n Drop interface
• keyboard shortcuts, mousewheel zoom

(3) Mind42 – cool mind mapping tool for creating highly customizable organization charts. Each chart node can be colored, converted to an image, supplemented with a custom icon, link, attachment and more.

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Features: Demo

• sharie and collaborate on notes
• embed maps elsewhere
• print maps
• integrated live chat (Google Talk)
• keyboard shortcuts
• Drag’n and drop interface
• export maps (as Freemind, Mindmanager and RTF)

More Powerful Mind-Mapping

(4) Mindmeister – slightly more flexible alternative to the above mentioned mind42: more styling/formatting options, more diverse collection of embeddable icons, provides handy sidebar next to the mapping dashboard, and more.

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Features:

• free account is limited to 6 mind maps
• share and collaborate on mind maps
• print maps
• integrated Skype conference call
• embed maps into your blog or website
• drag’n drop interface
• keyboard shortcuts
• import maps (from FreeMind and Mindjet’s MindManager) / export to an RTF or a GIF image

(5) Mindomo – feature-rich mind mapping tool. Probably the most comprehensive one, check out screenshot and demo below.

Features: Demo

• free account is limited to 7 private and an unlimited number of public maps
• share and collaborate on maps
• keyboard shortcuts
• drag’n drop interface
• import MindManager and FreeMind type maps / export to maps to TXT, MMAP, RTF, PDF, JPG, GIF and PNG formats
• print maps

(6) Gliffy – extremely powerful techy-oriented diagram creation and collaboration tool, create anything from basic flow-chart diagrams to well-documented troubleshooting guides.

Features: Demos Video / Trial

• free account is limited allows you to 3 private and unlimited number of public diagrams
• share and collaborate on mind maps
• embed maps elsewhere (blog, wiki, etc.)
• export mind maps as SVG (Microsoft Visio, Adobe Illustrator, and Macromedia FreeHand)
• interactive drag’n drop interface
• print maps
• map edits history (instantly revert map to earlier version)
• keyboard shortcuts

[UPDATE] Awesome related links contributed by Vic

• Bubble-Mind
• Kayuda (concept mapping more than mindmapping)
• Mapul
• Comapping (kinda rigid, forces left-to-right mapping)
• Webofweb (prob. the oldest still surviving – mayomi came first but has sunk from sight)
• Glinky

And in the area of more general diagramming tools, there’s

• FlowChart
• CumulateLabs (Cumulate Draw)

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Good news, the amount of freely available, user-contributed HowTo’s out there is staggering. There is something for everyone: ranging from fun stuff i.e. how to make invisible book shelf, imitate gunshot wounds and even open up a Coke machine to more practical stuff i.e. how to negotiate a raise or tie a Tie. All categorized, commented and rated by users like you and me. Below you’ll find all ‘HowTo’ services we could find, as always all free, well-categorized and hopefully objectively ranked. Plus a bonus ‘HowTo’ search engine at the end. Enjoy!

*** HOWTO GUIDES ***

eHow (over 35.000 HowTo artciles)

WikiHow (over 20.000 articles)

Instructables (approx. 4.500 articles)

HowToDoThings (??? 2500 HowTo artciles)

Koonji (??? HowTo artciles )

*** VIDEO HOWTO GUIDES ***

VideoJug (approx. 2.500 video HowTo’s). Lets you downloaded videos directly to your iPod. More iPod Tools

ExpertVillage (approx. 28.000 videos, and growing by 4000 every month)

SuTree (approx. 5.500 videos)

Sclipo (approx. 1000 videos)

TrickLife (approx. 600 videos)

5min (approx. 500 videos)

ViewDo (approx. 350 videos)

HelpfulVideo (approx. 150 videos). Note: some videos require payment

YouTube (category ‘Howto & DIY’)

Metacafe (category ‘Video tips and Guides’)

*** TOPIC SPECIFIC ***

NewBaby [Parenting / Newborn / Breastfeeding / .... and everything related to babies]

TeacherTube [guides for education courses for Math, Literature and etc.]

Helpero [Computers / Networking / Mobile / Games / Internet]

Work [everything related to Entrepreneurs and Small-Business owners]

ShowMeDo [Computing / Internet / Python / java /Linux/ Ruby /Blender / Graphics / Screencasting]

Video-Tabs [Guitar] – over 200 video HowTo’s

*** BONUS ***

Google Coop – ‘HowTo & DIY’ Search: Here is something worth a bookmark, to make things easier I created all-in-one ‘HowTo and DIY (Do It Yourself)’ search engine, using Google Co-op. This custom Google-powered search engine will search on all of the above mentioned ‘HowTo’ sites, simultaneously. Works great,… TESTed.

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FIREFOX (Addons and Greasemonkey Scripts)

(1) Better GCal – extremely handy extension that integrates bunch of must-have features into your Google Calendar. These are: (1) ‘To-Do’ box, (2) current time, (3) option to quickly hide Header/Sidebar menus, and (4) auto-connect via ’secure connection’ (see screenshot below nr.2)

(2) Extra Tabs (Greasemonkey) – replaces ’standard’ date range tabs with any number of customized tabs. Leaving it on default setting keeps existing tabs untouched and adds “Next 3 Days”, “Next 2 Weeks”, and “Next 3 Weeks” view tabs. (see screenshot below)

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(3) Google Calendar Integration (Greasemonkey) – integrates Google Calendar agenda into Gmail. See demo [More Gmail Tools]

(4) Forecast (Greasemonkey) – adds a small, draggable and expandable ‘Forecast’ box to your browser that shows next seven events from your Google calendar. (To get it running, you’ll need to provide it with your calendar’s XML feed, which can be accessed via ‘Settings->Calendars->select desired calendar->Private Address: XML’)

(5) GCalQuickTab – switch between Gmail and Google Calendar using keyboard shortcuts: ‘g’ for Gmail and ‘i’ for Calendar.

(6) Some more…

• Notifier – notifies you of upcoming events for ‘today’ and ‘tomorrow’. [Screenshots]
• Colorize Sat/Sun (Greasemonkey/Opera) – colorizes ‘Saturday’ and ‘Sunday’ columns [Screenshots]
• Quick Add – add events to your calendar without going to Google Calendar page. (only Firefox: 1.5.0.*)
• Facebook to GCal (Greasemonkey) – add Facebook events to your Google Calendar.
• Quick Import (Greasemonkey) – provides quick access to otherwise deeply buried import to ICS/iCal page.
• Compact Header (Greasemonkey/Opera) – compacts GCal’s header by removing unnecessary stuff. [Screenshots]
• Optimized (Greasemonkey/Opera) – removes logo, makes font-sizes smaller and adjusts paddings and margins.

GOOGLE CALENDAR HowTo’s

• How To subscribe to a Google Calendar using iCal
• How To sync Google Calendar with Treo using Mac
• How To sync Thunderbird With Google Calendar
• How To add Google calendars to Google Maps
• How To integrate Google Calendar to your website using AJAX
• How To sync Google Calendar with Outlook
• How To set Google Calendar as your Desktop’s wallpaper
• How To do Enterprise Monitoring With Google Calendar
• How To ‘Get Things Done’ with Google Calendar
• Google Calendar SMS Tricks

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There are many cool things you can do with them, i.e. (1) quickly add sticky-like memos to your bookmarks, (2) bookmark long articles with relevant text being highlighted, (3) store, organize and tag annotated pages online and most importantly (4) share your annotations with friends or project/assignment group members.

(1) Diigo

Features: (Demo)

• Add notes and in-page highlights
• Store, Tag (categorize) and Share webpages (via email, RSS, blog, group, etc.) along with your notes and highlights
• Create groups (i.e. private group for team members)
• Subscribe to specific webpages’ notes (i.e. to all notes tagged as ‘funny’)
• Right-click menu option to search for highlighted terms (on websites, on major search-engines, social bookmarking systems, blogs, etc.)
• Supported browsers: IE, Firefox and Flock
• Suitable for collaboration

(2) Stickis

Features: (Demo)

• Add notes
• Save, Share and Tag (categorize) your notes
• View, save and comment on webpage’s notes by other users from any webpage
• Subscribe to notes by others (by tag, by webpage, by user)
• Create groups
• Supported browsers: IE and Firefox
• suitable for collaboration

(3) SharedCopy

Features: (Demo)

• Add notes, in-page highlights, draw lines, circles and squares
• Store annotated webpages and Share them with others via URL
• Follow-up on changes made to specific pages via RSS
• Integration with Twitter and BaseCamp
• Supported browsers: All
• suitable for collaboration

(4) Fleck

Features: (Demo)

• Add notes
• Publish annotated pages on your blog
• Share annotated webages with friends (via URL)
• notes can be edited and saved by anyone knowing it’s location
• Supported browsers: IE, Firefox + Bookmarklets

(5) MyStickies

Features:

• Add notes
• Store, Tag and Search annotations
• Supported browsers: Firefox

(6) JKN

Features: (Demo)

• Add notes to one or multiple pages
• Add numbered points between words
• Comment on and print annotated webpages
• Share annotated webpages via URL, email or blog
• Supported browsers: IE and Firefox

(7) TrailFire

Features: (Demo)

• Add notes (aka trail marks) and save annotated webpages
• Categorize annotated webpages (assign them to Trails)
• Invite others to view and collaborate (wiki-style) on your trails
• Subscribe to desired Trails
• Supported browsers: IE and Firefox

(8) DrawHere

Features:

• Add notes, highlights and drawings
• Save, Tag and Search your annotations
• Share annotated webpages (via email or embed in your blog)
• Supported browsers: All

(9) ShiftSpace

Features: (Demo)

• Add notes, highlights, add/change images and text
• Save and Share annotated/edited pages via RSS
• Supported browsers: Firefox (requires Greasemonkey)

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(1) BillMonk

Features: Demo

• convenient for tracking expenses between friends, roommates, college students, etc.
• track, manage, split and settle bills (via Obopay) online
• get reminders (via email or SMS)
• use tags to categorize your expenses
• integrated system to keep track of stuff you lent and borrow i.e, books and DVDs

(2) BillQ

Features:

• add, track and manage bills.
• set ‘to pay’ reminders and deadlines
• create groups and assign bills to them
• Addons: Mac OS X Dashboard widget

(3)Billster

Features: Demo

• track personal and shared expenses
• save reoccurring expenses (i.e., direct debits or standing orders)
• get reminders (via email, SMS, RSS)
• RSS feeds (for upcoming bils, reminders, etc.)
• use tags to categorize your expenses
• create expense graphs and charts
• get overview reports

(4) BudgetOnWeb

Features: Demo

• manage your budget, schedules and contracts in a Excel-like interface
• integrates project management with contacts management and financial tools.
• track and share budgets
• collaborate on budgets with others

(5) BudgetTracker

Features: Demo

• add, track and manage budget, bills and transactions
• setup ‘due’ reminders
• get reminders (via email, SMS or RSS)
• access your account via mobile
• track upcoming bills via RSS

(6) BuxFer

Features: Demo

• manage expenses and group finances in a GMail-like interface
• keep track of spendings and people owing you money
• get reminders (via email or SMS)
• import your credit card statements (.csv,.qfx,.ofx)
• use tags to categorize your expenses
• add bills via SMS
• create expense graphs and charts
• overview reports

(7) ClearCheckBook

Features: Demo

• track and manage transactions
• get reminders (via email or SMS)
• access you account via mobile
• update your account via SMS or AIM/ICQ
• export account data to Excel, import bank records
• Addons: Mac OS X Dashboard widget, Google gadget

(8) ExpenseView

Features: Demo

• track expenses, budgets and income
• create different expense categories i.e., groceries, utilities, phone, etc.
• create expense graphs and charts
• OCX import capabilities
• add transactions via mobile

(9) iOweYou

Features: Demo

• convenient for use in a shared student house
• add and track shared bills
• monitor updates via RSS feed
• instant overview reports
• free for groups of up to five people.

(10) JustBudget

Features:

• manage your budget and spending habits
• add, track, categorize and manage bills
• create expense graphs and charts
• instant overview reports

(11) MoneyTrackin

Features: Demo

• simple and powerful online budget management tool
• track multiple projects
• tag, share and collaborate on projects
• get transaction reminders (email)
• integrated calculator and currency converter
• create expense graphs, charts and Excel/PDF reports
• access you account from you mobile
• Addons: Firefox extension, Netvibes module

(12) MySpendingPlan

Features: Demo

• simple and easy-to use tool to track and manage your budget
• get reminders via email
• create expense graphs and charts

(13) Plan2Spend

Features: Demo

• organize your bills and payments
• track daily expenses
• quick summary and detailed budget reports
• get money management tips from the Plan2Spend community

(14) SpendingProfile

Features: Demo

• track and manage your budget and expenses
• import your bank account transactions
• create expense graphs and charts

(15) Wesabe

Features: Demo

• track and manage transactions
• use tags to categorize your expenses
• get budgeting tips from other users

Some Desktop Software for Budget/Expense Tracking

• PearBudget (can be used by almost any spreadsheet program i.e., Excel, Word, OpenOffice, etc.)
• Buddi (Mac, Windows, Linux)
• JGnash (Mac, Windows, Linux)

Technorati Tags: budget, expense, tracking, tools

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+++ PART 1: Web-Based VIDEO EDITING TOOLS +++

(1) JumpCut
Supported Video Formats: .mpg, .mpeg, .mp4, .avi, .mov, .wmv, .flv, .rm and 3GP

Max File Size: 100 mb

Features: upload videos from hard drive and mobile, title videos, add images and sound effects, add music to the background, cut videos, add transition effects, embed videos elsewhere (Myspace profile, blog, etc), on-site video sharing, add different special effects

(2) EyeSpot
Supported Formats: .avi, .mpeg, .mov, divx, .wmv and .mp3

Max File Size: 100 mb

Features: upload videos from hard drive and mobile, title videos, add images and sound effects, cut videos, add music to the background, add transition effects, embed videos elsewhere, on-site video sharing, download edited videos to your desktop, add custom video special effects

(3) PhotoBucket
Supported Formats: .avi, .mov, .dv, .mpg, .mp4, .wmv and .asf

Max File Size: 10 minutes

Features: upload videos from hard drive, title videos, add images, add music to the background, cut videos, embed videos elsewhere, on-site video sharing, transitions effects

(4) Motionbox
Supported Formats: .avi, .mov, .dv, .mpg, .mp4, .wmv, .asf and .qt

Max File Size: 100 mb

Features: upload videos from hard drive, title videos, add transition effects, cut videos, embed videos elsewhere, on-site video sharing

(5) Cuts
Supported Formats: .flv

Max File Size: N/A

Features: upload videos from URL, title videos, video special effects, add sound effects, cut videos, embed videos elsewhere, on-site video sharing

(6) SanrioTown
Supported Formats: .avi, .mpg, .mpeg, .mov, .wmv and .flv

Max File Size: 20 mb of video per slide (up to 99 slides)

Features: upload videos from hard drive, title videos, add images, and music to the background (mp3 only), cut videos, custom video special effects, embed videos elsewhere, on-site video sharing

(7) OneTrueMedia
Supported Formats: .mpg, .mpeg, .mp4, .mov, .avi and.wmv

Max File Size: N/A

Features: upload videos from hard drive, title videos, add images, add background music, cut videos, embed videos elsewhere, on-site video sharing, transition effects

(8) MuveeMix
Supported Formats: .mpg, .mpeg, .avi and .wmv

Max File Size: 100 mb

Features: upload videos from hard drive, add images, add background music, apply custom video styles (urban, 70s, etc.), cut videos, embed videos elsewhere, on-site video sharing (Note: free account is limited to 10 videos, with an option to add background music and choose among 5 types of video styles).

(9) iBloks
Supported Formats: .mpg, .mp4, .avi, .wmv, .mov, .m4v, and .flv

Max File Size: N/A

Features: upload videos from hard drive, add images, add background music, embed videos elsewhere, cut videos, on-site video sharing, choose among interactive video templates (i.e. 3D cube) and place your videos around them

+++ PART2: Basic VIDEO ENHANCING +++ (simpler editing tools)

(1) Gotuit – SceneMaker – slice videos and keep scenes you like (upload videos from URL)

(2) Viddler – tag specific moments on your video (upload video/s from your hard drive [.mov, .avi, .wmv, .mpeg])

(3) Bubbleply – add text bubbles (upload videos from URL)

(4) OverStream – lets you add subtitles (upload videos from URL)

(5) Click.tv – lets you add chapter-like notes to any desired point in your video (upload videos from URL)

(6) Mojiti – select desired objects (text, shapes, images, freehand drawings, Flash art…), and specify where and when in your video you would like them to appear.

(7) Graffiti – lets you add bunch of basic graphic animations, i.e. approved/disapproved stamps, breaking glass, animated clouds, etc. (upload videos from URL)

(8) Veotag – allows you to bookmark selected moments, and title and display them in a menu-like manner on the side of your video. This enables your viewers to quickly jump to specific events on your video without taking it back or forward. (upload videos from you hard drive [.mov .avi .wmv .mpg, flv, and .mp4])

(9) Mixercast – mix your photos videos and music (upload videos from URL or hard drive)

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(1) SKYPE EXTRAS (Windows, Skype 3.0 or higher)

SAM – Answering Machine – cool voice answering machine for your Skype client. Takes voice message, records conversations, includes inbuilt lie-detector and lets you setup video greetings . [requirements: Win. Media Player]

Media Controller – nice extra that lets you auto-pause/stop/decrease volume of your media player (Winamp, WMP, iTunes) at the time of an incoming call. It’ll change the state back to normal as soon as the call ends. (Note: little heavy on memory usage)

TalkAndWrite – collaborate with your contacts on any document (doc, rtf, pdf, xls, ppt, png, webpage, etc.) side by side. Demo

uSeeToo – lets you share images, maps, play multi-player games and collaborate with your contacts.

KishKish Lie Detector – fun, real-time lie detector that monitors stress level of the person you talk with.

Tumara VC for Skype – search your Skype contacts using voice commands.

Fadeout Fun – free Skype soundeffects, i.e. phone rings, toilet flushes, etc. [Works on any platform]

Last.fm – integrates customized (based on your favorite artists), ad-free radio to your Skype client. Automatically fades out on incoming calls. [requirements: Flash 7 or higher]

(2) DESKTOP WIDGETS (both for Mac and Windows users)

Yahoo Widgets (?): SkypeContacts [Win] / Skyper TM4 [Win , Mac] – displays your Skype contacts and lets you contact them by using provided action buttons.

Google Gadgets (?): Skype Plugin [Google Desktop 4 or above] – displays your skype credit and contacts.

Mac Dashboard: Skype Widget [Mac OS X 10.4 or later] – dashboard widget that lets you make calls, look up country codes and check calling rates.

(3) ADDONS (For Browsers, Email Clients and Microsoft Office)

SkypeWebToolbar [Firefox / IE] – recognizes phone numbers and Skype names on webpages, and lets you initiate a Skype call with a single click.

SkypeEmailToolbar [Outlook, Oulook Exp. 6, Thunderbird(win)] – access Skype contacts from your email client, call Skype names and phone numbers listed in the emails, view status of your contacts, add a Skype Button to your email signature and more.

SkypeOfficeToolbar [Win] – lets you send the file you are currently working on via Skype. Also recognizes phone numbers within your documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) and lets you call or SMS them.

Skype Sidebar [Firefox (1.5 – 2.0b1), Win] – handy addon that lets you call, add, find, check status, chat, voice mail and send files to your contacts right from your browser.

Callto: Linkify [Greasemonkey(?) script] – turns text phone numbers in webpages into ‘Skype Dial’ hyperlinks. When clicked it’ll initiate a Skype call to that number.

CustomizeSkypeAccount [Greasemonkey script] – integrates extra info to your ‘Skype Call list’ on your account page (skype.com), i.e total cost per month, total call time per month, etc.

(4) COOL TIPS

How To make a portable Skype phone from an old cordless phone.

Skype hack enables higher resolution video calls. For PC For Mac.

Router secrets that improve the quality of Skype phone calls. ‘HowTo’ video

Adding a ‘Skype Me’ button to your email as a signature

How To get Skype to work from your USB Drive. (aka portable(?) Skype)

(5) MORE STUFF

Anothr – simple and extremely easy to setup service that lets you use your Skype client as a notification tool for getting updates on your favorite blogs and feeds

SMS to Skype – allows GSM mobile phone users to send instant messages to any Skype user. (Note: Regular SMS rates apply)

JiWire Hotspot – helps you locate wireless hotspots anywhere in the world

Plusfax – fax paper documents from your fax Machine directly to any Skype user

KanTalk – free foreign language practice community for Skype users

SkypeMobile – install skype on your mobile for cheaper calling rates

Skype for Mac 2.6 (Beta) – newly released Skype version for Mac users with bunch of cool features, i.e. chat type indicator (i.e John is typing), call transfer (transfer your active call to anyone on your contact list) [requirements: Mac OS X v10.3.9 Panther or later]

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1. Draw a Pig – tells a whole lot about yourself based on your drawing of a pig. May sound ridiculous but seems to work extremely well. Currently counts over 1.3 mil drawn pigs, with several hundreds of pigs being added hourly. Check out some of the recently added pigs

2. LikeBetter – here you’ll be shown 2 pictures, select the one you like more and keep doing so until a small brain in the middle turns red. Once it does press on it to find out what it discovered about you.

3. Which Superhero Are you? – 40+ question personality test that lets you find out what superhero resembles you most, i.e Are you a more of a Hulk or a Wonder Woman type.

4. What Does Your Browser Reveal About You ? – entertaining writeup, assessing your personality based on the browser type and it’s version.

ex: Opera – “You really don’t care for they Firefox hype. What you want is the best browser there is – and for you that’s Opera. You actually used to pay them when the browser was ad supported. If a Firefox fanboi starts talking smack about your browser you quickly shoot him down by proposing the ACID2 test….”

5. Which File Extension Are You? – quick test to find out which file extension matches you most. Are you more like .html, .exe, .doc, etc. ?

6. Imagini VisialDNA – they’ll give you a concept along with a bunch of pictures and ask you to select the best association. Concepts include ‘your ideal holiday’, ‘favorite landscape’, ‘your type bedroom’, ‘your idea of love’ and so on.

7. Drinks Show your Personality! – “…Seven New York City bartenders were asked if they could nail a woman’s personality based on what she drinks. Though interviewed separately, they concurred on almost all counts.”

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We got it all covered: web-based ones (to access from work or school), desktop downloadables and for mobile devices.

Online Instant Messengers

Meebo (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, GoogleTalk, ICQ, Jabber) – Lets you access multiple IM accounts simultaneously. Registration isn’t required, however if you sign-up (free) you will be able to:

• sign into all of your IM screen names using a single meebo login
• save your preferences (i.e. sounds and appearances)
• save your conversations in meebo chat logs

KoolIM (AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber) – Quite similar to Meebo. You can login to several IM accounts at once either by entering login details for each of them, or use a single Koolim ID (sign-up required).

eBuddy (MSN, Yahoo, AIM) – Unlike the above two, with eBuddy you can to login to only one IM application at a time.

ILoveIM (MSN, Google Talk, AOL, Yahoo) – Same thing here, only one IM application at a time.

Multi Protocol Instant Messengers for Desktops

Trillian [Windows] – AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo and IRC

Miranda IM [Windows] – AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, IAX, Netsend, Tlen ….

Gaim [Linux, BSD, Mac, Windows] – AIM, ICQ , MSN, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise, Lotus Sametime, Zephyr

Adium [Mac] – AIM, ICQ , MSN, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Novell GroupWise, Lotus, Bonjour, QQ, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk

Kopete [Linux] – AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, Gadu-Gadu and Novell GroupWise

Qnext [Windows, Mac, Linux] – ICQ, MSN, Yahoo and AIM

Instan-t Express [Windows] – MSN, AOL, ICQ, and Yahoo

Multi Protocol Instant Messaging Cleints for Mobile Phones

JimmyIM – Brings MSN Messenger, GoogleTalk / Jabber, Yahoo and ICQ to your mobile phone.

Yiego – Chat with your contacts on GoogleTalk, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ and Jabber.

Fring – Chat and Talk with Skype, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, ICQ, and Twitter contacts from your mobile for FREE.

eBuddy (MSN, Yahoo, AIM) – accessible online.

Mabber (AIM, ICQ, MSN,Yahoo!,Jabber) – requires download

Eqo (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Jabber, Google Talk, Skype) – requires download

Nimbuzz (MSN, Life Messenger, Google Talk) – requires download

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+++ General BUZZ Pages +++

Popurls – brings you the latest buzz from most of the popular user-submitted news sites (i.e. Digg, Reddit, clipmarks, del.icio.us, fark …) and media sites (i.e. Flickr, Youtube, Odeo…)

Extras: (1) change background color, (2)switch window/list views, (3) switch to buzzmania(3x more news), (4) switch to big text, (5) turn on/off story previews, (6) turn on/off video and audio feeds, (7) launch links in a new window, (8) custom feed arrangement, (9) add links to your scrapbook.

OriginalSignal (OS) – very different from Popurls but no-less cool. Unlike Popurls, OS is very well classified and provides custom Buzz page(aka signal) for each category and subcategory. There is something for everyone here: Web (Web 2.0, Digg, Buzz, 15blogs, Search), Technology(Tech, Apple, Gadgets), World(Main news headlines, Politics, Sports, Science), Business(Finance, Marketing, Jobs) and Entertainment(Movies, Games).

Extras: (1) change the fontsize, (2) view more headlines, (3) access OS from mobile, (4) widgets for each signal, (5) share signal with others, (6) RSS-feed for any signal, (7) change arrangement, (8) most popular headlines for this signal in the last 24 hours

DailyRotation – focuses on tech and Gadget news. Lists 100+ popular resources, covering all areas of tech web(gadgets, web2.0, software reviews, SEO, programming…etc). Simply check resources you like and it’ll put them on a homepage. Extras: (1) highly customizable interface, (2) add your own feeds

More General BUZZ pages:

• ViralBabble | TheWebList – popurl clones
• AZ.to – similar to OriginalSignal but not as cool and has fewer categories(blogs, sports, jobs, technology, videos, hotdeals, web2.0, torrents, gadgets)
• Web 2.0 Workgroup – focuses on leading Web 2.0 blogs including Techcrunch, ReadWriteWeb, SoluionWatch and eHub. Even though there is no easy-to-navigate panel, web20workgroup provides an OPML file which you can use to subscribe to all of these blogs simultaneously
• MajorNetworkNews | InformedNews – latest headlines from top traditional news networks i.e. Google, Yahoo, Reuters, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, USA Today, New York Times, WSJ etc. on one page. Both sites let you browse news by source or category (World, U.S., Business, Technology, Politics, Entertainment, Health, Travel, Sports…).

+++ BUZZING VIDEOS +++

PureVideo – daily ‘Top 10′ videos from several popular video sharing networks. Browse videos by category: music, sports, comedy, viral videos, entertainment, research and news.

Extras: offers customizable video startpage that lets you choose among 200+ categorized video feeds. More on Purevideo here

ViralVideos – daily top 5 videos from Youtube, Metacafe, Break.com and Myspace.

Extras: (1) option to view most popular videos for today, this week, month and ‘All time’, (2) embedded video player with full screen mode

Vdiddy – daily top 12 videos from AOL Video, Break.com, DailyMotion, GoogleVideo, Groupper, Metacafe, Myspace, Yahoo Video and Youtube

Extras: (1) forward videos by email, (2) embedded player(no full screen mode)

+++ OTHER (Topic Specific BUZZ) +++

Gaming: Gameboar(general) | WiiNintendo(wii review sites, Youtube videos, news, game trailers)

Bargain Deals: DealCrew – fresh coupons, deals and bargain headlines from the top shopping sites on the web (Amazon, Art.com, Dell, wine.com, flowers.com, palm.com and many more)

Mac fans: MacScour – news, software updates, reviews and tips from popular sources

Photography: Mashfot – recent popular photos from Flickr and 23, and related links from Digg, del.icio.us, Simpy and etc.

Entertainment: Slists – daily dosage of popular videos(16 popular video sites), movie trailers(clevver, ifilm, msn, yahoo), game trailers, photos(artlimited, flickr, NASA,smugsmug), caricatures and music

For Netvibes Users: Netvibes Tabs – more then 3500 user-created tabs that can be instantly integrated to your netvibes account(ex; Cool Games)

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FIREFOX EXTENSIONS

Gspace – multi-platform firefox addon that turns your gmail account into powerful online storage tool

Gmail Search Extension – search your gmail account directly from the firefox search bar

GcalQuickTab – toggle between gmail and google calendar with keyboard shortcuts

GTDInbox – turns your account into flexible and feature-loaded ToDo-management service (GTD = Getting Things Done)

GMail Manager – manage multiple GMail accounts right from your browser

DragDropUpload – this handy extension lets you quickly attach one or more files to your emails by dragging them over the “Attach a file” link

[update] CustomizeGoogle – removes ads, switches you from http to https, hides the spam counter, quick contacts box, invite box and forces fixed font

[update] Better Gmail – integrates bunch of cool features, i.e. attachment icons, attachment Reminder, mail preview, filter assistant, label colors, macros, and saved searches

[update] GmailSkinz – powerful firefox addon with lots of cool features: (Note: some users reported having problems with this addon)

• change the colour of your inbox(from green to dark green),
• view weather, google calendar and news headlines along side your emails,
• integrate any Google IG module to sidebar menu(Awesome),
• insert images from your Picasa web album in to emails,
• insert smileys,
• change the attachment paperclip to an icon indicating the type of attachment,
• make the navigation (Inbox, Starred, Sent Mail, etc) horizontal,
• hide various page elements (invite panel, page footer and your email address from the top right of inbox).
• complete integration with Gmail: addon settings can be changed directly from the Gmail settings page.

Google Toolbar with Gmail search – Official Google toolbar featuring one-click Gmail search

E-Mail Notifier Toolbar | Gmail Notifier – as titles say ‘…notifier‘

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GREASEMONKEY SCRIPTS (What is Greaseamonkey?)

Gmail Super Clean – clean and distraction-free gmail. Looks great, check it out here

Gmail Spam-count Hide – hides spam count link

GMail Attachment Icons – adds attachment icons to emails, letting you see what kind of attachment an email has (HTML,JPG, PDF….) [update: 'Attachment icons' isn't a standard greasemonkey script, it's an addon for a similar Firefox extension known as Stylish. However, installing it on greasemonkey should be fine as well]

Google Reader Integration – integrates Google Reader into Gmail. Highly Recommended (demo)

GmailTo – forces all ‘mailto’ links to open in GMail

Saved Searches – lets you create ’saved searches’(aka smart folders) and display them in the separate box in the navigation menu. Clicking on a search executes the saved query. Demo

Conversation Preview – handy addon that lets you quickly preview message contents right from the main inbox window. See demo below

Google Calendar Integration – integrates Google Calendar agenda into Gmail. Demo

Label Colors – lets you color menu labels to make them stand out better. Demo

Gmail Macros – adds extra keyboard shortcuts to Gmail (i.e. “t” for move to trash, “r” for mark as read, “p” for mark as read and add to archive…etc). Read more

[update] SSLGoogle – force google mail, docs and cal pages and their intra-links to a secure connection(HTTPS)

[update] Gmail Encrypt – encrypts outgoing emails

[update] Gmail Date Search – adds a Search by Date button to Gmail’s search form

[update] Gmail Signature Float – moves your mail signature to the top of the message rather than the bottom

Following image displays all above mentioned scripts in action(click to enlarge and open it in a new windows)

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Desktop APPS and Web TOOLS:

GmailDrive (Windows) – adds a new virtual drive(’Gmail Drive’) to ‘My Computer‘ folder and uses gmail as its storage medium. Drag’n drop files Gmail Drive and it will store them on your gmail account as if on additional hard drive. More on GmailDrive

[update] gDisk (Mac) – similar to above mentioned GmailDrive but for Mac users

Gmail ToDo – handy desktop application that stores entered todo’s in a todo label on gmail

Desktop Notifiers: GMail Notifier(official release from Google), GTray (Win XP), GCount (Mac), Gmail+Growl 2.0 (GmailNotifier addon that lets you further customize ‘new mail’ alerts)

GMail for Mobile – access gmail from your mobile

GmailFS – mountable Linux filesystem which uses Gmail as its storage medium

Google Talk – Google’s IM service which is fully integrable with GMail

You’ve Got Gmail – Gmail plugin for Trillian IM client

Update: more notifiers: KCheckGmail(Linux), Notifier2(Win)
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TIPS and HACKS

Unbl0ck – use this tool to access gmail from places where it’s blocked (work, school…)

Gmail icon generator – creates an image of your email address to minimize spam exposure

Gmail To Thunderbird – how to access your Gmail using Mozilla Thunderbird

Shortcut List – handy, printable list of keyboard shortcuts for the Gmail

Hotmail Contacts Import – explains how to import contacts from Hotmail to Gmail

Gmail trick that explains how to find that ’someone’ who gives away your email address to spammers

Attach any file type – bunch of tricks showing you how to attach and send blocked file types, i.e. ‘*.exe’

JimsTips – huge collection of basic gmail tips

[update] What to do if your Gmail is nearly full? See here.

[update] Secret keyboard shortcut for deleting messages. Check it out here

[update] How to – import your archived emails into Gmail

[update] How to – Backup Gmail your Gmail using Google Groups

[update] How to – Re download gmail messages into outlook

[update] How to – Work with Gmail Attachments (includes cool tips, Greasemonkey scripts and Firefox addons)

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