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Ping Google

October 6, 2006

When it comes to searching content in Blogs, the default search engine many people prefer is Technorati. The Technorati engine is totally dedicated for searching within blogs. Bloggers/Publishers can ping the Technorati service to notify Technorati of new content in your blog. In many of the publishing software including WordPress, this can be be done [...]

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Google Reader – Just got better

September 29, 2006

Google Reader till now was one of the most “unusable” applications from Google’s stable. Google which re-defined usability with applications like GMail did not extend the same usability aspects to Google Reader. Now after hearing to the constant complaints/suggestions from the users, GReader has introduces a total new look and feel, and to be honest [...]

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Running Multiple Instances of Yahoo and Google IM

September 18, 2006

Check this screenshot: This is the memory usage of Yahoo IM when its initially started on my machine ! So with this kind of memory usage, why would anyone want to run multiple instances of Yahoo messenger ? My first E-Mail ID was with Yahoo and was created 8 years back. I recently created a [...]

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Google Yahoo Maps

September 9, 2006

Here is another mashup which puts both Google Maps and Yahoo Maps together. When you scroll a map in one of the maps, the other map is also automatically updated. One thing you immediately notice is that the level of detail in each map is different. In some cases, Google Map seems to have more [...]

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GMail – Unlimited Email Addresses

September 7, 2006

This has to be the coolest feature of GMail. This post at Modern Day Alchemist explains how you can have unlimited GMail Addresses by using a plus-addressing scheme, i.e adding a + after your GMail user name. Though the post covers details on how to use the feature, I will reiterate it again. (I had [...]

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GMail – Confusing ToolBar

September 6, 2006

I log into my GMail account I click on Spam folder. I select all the mails as I am very sure that every mail in this box is spam I “automatically” click on “Not Spam” button on the toolbar !! Thinking I am crazy ! After all, GMail has the best spam filter, why would [...]

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Image Search

September 3, 2006

Tagging is one thing which you will notice immediately in most of the new community based/social networking web 2.0 applications. I first saw this in Flickr and later in many other applications like Technorati , Riya , Del.icio.us etc. Tags are usually chosen informally and personally by the author/creator of the item. Tags are typically [...]

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DivX Stage 6 – I like It

August 24, 2006

DivX has come out with a new online video sharing service called Stage 6. Already the site has pretty impressive collection of videos. About DivX DivX is a video codec created by DivX, Inc. (formerly DivXNetworks, Inc.), which has become popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining [...]

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Tracking Outbound Links

August 23, 2006

I was checking out on a new analytics service called CrazyEgg. The application is supposed to help you get a clear picture of where your visitor are clicking including the Ads. Accordingly the user can change/customize the layout of the site. It does display the clicked links pretty nicely. You can view the results in [...]

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Google Analytics – No Invitation Needed

August 17, 2006

Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google that generates  detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Google recently acquired Urchin Web Tracking system and made it available via Google Analytics. If you have content behind a security firewall or on an intranet or internal network that prevents you from using the Google [...]

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