The interface is made very simple making it easy to sent out your updates. Your friends updates are refreshed automatically in TrayTweet.

Features of TrayTweet;

• Update your status / tweet
• View your timeline
• View your friends’ timelines
• View the public timeline
• View your direct messages
• View your replies
• Send direct messages
• Send replies
• Follow / break friendships
• All timelines are automatically refreshed
• Minimizes to the system tray for quick and easy access!

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Most of the controls and features are fast. You can invite your friends from other social networks or directly email the invite. The website uses Windows Live Hotmail account, so you don’t have to create a new account.

There is a feature called Scribble Pad which is very similar to Scrap book feature in Orkut (Orkut is very popular social network in India). You can scribble your friends and each scribble can be up to 150 characters in length.

Another good feature is the integration of Windows Live Messenger with the Windows Live Planet service. You can see online friends on the bottom left hand corner of the window and also you can chat with them.

Try out Windows Live Planet and you can see the difference.

The WordPress has some great customization options and allows you to open have an option to customize posts to Twitter or Facebook when a new blog post is added. Once installed and activated, you need to configure the settings of the plugin.

You have the option to either customize the Twitter posts or use the default settings for Twitter and Facebook. If you have opted for the first option in the settings “Display option to customize posts to Twitter or Facebook when I add a new blog”, then a new options box is available in Add/Edit post page.

Another great feature of this plugin is that you can host short URLs from your own domain (for example http://yourdomain.com/ABCD). Details on how to use your domain for short URLs are available here.

Features of this Plugin;

• Easily post to Twitter and Facebook when you publish your blog directly in WordPress
• Customize your post or one click post with your blog title
• Host short URLs on your own domain
• Search engine friendly short URLs (301 redirect)
• Drive more traffic with the self-hosted StumbleUpon toolbar

You can sign up for an account at Su.pr using invite code: “suprbeta”. Your API key and account name can be found at Settings. You will need the API key for the plugin to work.

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You can set this up in Hotmail in three simple steps:

1. Open your Hotmail account and in the left hand sidebar, you can see an option “Add an e-mail account”

2. Next step is to enter the email details (user name and password). There is also advanced set up for POP3 settings.

3. Once you have entered the settings and login credentials, you can also set preferences for mails coming from this ID. You can move this to new folder and also assign flags.

This is a good move by Hotmail team and now you can start reading all your emails from POP3 enabled accounts in Hotmail.

Firefox 3.5 also sports a new logo which has more 3-D look than the previous one.

What’s new in Firefox 3.5 (video)?

New Firefox 3.5 also has support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.

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Once installed, you need to login with your Gmail account and use either POP3 or IMAP. Once you have configured your account, you can share files by adding the folders and users with whom you want to share files. You can do this by selecting Share under the tools menu.

In the share settings, add the Gmail account with whom you want to share files and also the folder in your PC which needs to be shared.

Once you have configured, the person who wants to download the files from your PC, needs to install this application and need to enter the your email address and select Go, all the files in the shared folder are displayed and you can select the files and right click to download them. Please note the files are only displayed, if your email address is listed in the PC where you want to download.

You can also use command line parameters to download the files using email. To get shared files from Computer 2 it is not necessary to install g2Peer on Computer 1. Just use commands like ?_list or ?_download sent from your Gmail account to Computer.2 Gmail address. Computer.2 should have g2Peer installed and your Computer 1 Gmail address listed in Share Folders list. Detailed information on how to use g2Peer is available here.

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Integrated Gmail is a very useful add-on if you are using Gmail and Google reader, it brings the feature of even full screen reading of Google Reader inside Gmail without any interference from the inbox and also not having to open a new window.

New Features Added are;

• Favicons in Titles
• Unread Counts in Titles
• Support for Splitting Multiple Inboxes
• Collapsible Header and Sidebars for Gmail and Google Calendar
• Drag and Drop Central Elements and Sidebars
• Hotkeys to Show/Hide Sidebars and Expand/Collapse Central Elements
• Hit ` to enter Macro Mode for 1 sec then press 1-9 or an Arrow Key
• Import and Export of User Settings
• Auto-Theme Detection
• Auto-Resizing of Custom and Gadget Elements
• Finer Control for Header Removal of Google Sites
• https Controls for Supported Google Sites

You can add in Google Notebook, Site, Picasa, Google Maps, Google groups, Google News, custom elements and also gadgets.

Integrated Gmail is a very useful add-on for Gmail users or rather Google services users.

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Portable PDF Merge Tool is  the portable version of  PDF Merge Tool developed to be able to run from a USB flash drive or any other portable device. You don’t need to install the utility to merge PDFs. The merged results are very good and the formatting is not lost.

PDF Merge Tool is a simple, fast and easy tool for merging PDF files. It runs on the .NET framework v2 and uses the PDFSharp library.

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This Windows Mobile alpha release continues to focus on stability, performance, and integration with the Windows Mobile OS. This version also includes numerous fixes and and the new shiney theme.

The initial focus of Fennec development was on building a new user experience that reflects Firefox’s design principles, adding touch screen support and other interactions appropriate for mobile phones and other handheld devices, while preserving leading features like the Smart URL Bar and support for add-ons. The beta version for Nokia tablets have lots of bug fixes and improvements.

If you do not have any of these phones, you can still try out Fennec using the desktop versions available for Windows, Mac and Linux. We hope to do a review of Fennec running on Windows Mobile, so check out our Mobile Blog soon.

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Nokia Tablet | Windows Mobile | Windows (Desktop) | Mac | Linux

Enter the URL of the video into the program and press add, and the file will be downloaded into the selected folder. You can save the downloaded video into various formats: .avi, .mpeg, .flv, .wmv which makes it much more easier to use.

Features of Metacafe Video Downloader;

• Easy to use
• Get the size, length of a file before downloading it
• Clean, simple interface
• Download several files at the same time
• Save Metacafe video as an .avi, .mpeg, .wmv, .flv file

Metacafe Video Downloader is a small, fast, useful, practical and powerful application which will work will all versions of Windows.

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