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Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 $49.99 After Rebate

Amazon has the Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 at an incredible price – $49.99 after rebate. This excellent webcam usually sells for $69.99 but you can get a $20 mail-in-rebate and get this webcam at $49.99. Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 is a stylish webcam with the following key features Carl Zeiss kens system with ultra-smooth Autofocus […]

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Magic Wand Unifies Apple Wireless Keyboard and Magic Trackpad

If you are a Mac user with the Apple wireless keyboard and the magic trackpad, you are in for a treat with this Mac accessory. If you use these two awesome accessories with your Mac setup, you are probably annoyed sometimes with the trackpad and keyboard going haywire on your desk. We have to make […]

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Best Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3 Mega Zoom Camera Deal

Best Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3 Mega Zoom Camera Deal

Are you doing your last minute Christmas shopping? Read on and see how you can get a free 2-day shipping for this amazing Superzoom camera. I am a big Canon fan and own a Canon Rebel T1i and a Canon Powershot SX10 IS. I have written several posts on camera deals here. Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3 […]

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Tip: Send Google Maps Directions to Your Devices

I use Google Maps a lot on both the web as well as on my iPhone. However, I just came across an option in there to send your directions to different devices. For eg. you are looking up an address on the web in Google Maps and getting ready to leave. I’d normally email it […]

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Proud of your Blog? Show off your Rankings

Proud of your Blog? Show off your Rankings

Blogging is all numbers. Number of visitors. Number of pageviews. Number of subscribers. Number of comments. Number of posts per week. Google Page Rank number. Alexa Ranking number. Compete number. Technorati Authority number. Number of pages in Google’s Supplemental index. Every blogger is at some point guilty of obsessing with these numbers. If you are […]

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Read books on your phone – Wattpad.com

Read books on your phone – Wattpad.com

I play games on my phone when I am bored or if I am travelling or if I am killing time between aisles while my wife is shopping! But, the little keys in the little keypad aren’t kind to my digits. I can feel its impact on my poor fingers for hours later and most […]

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Watermark Your Images Online – PicMarkr

Do you have pictures you publish online that you want to protect from someone else using it? There are plenty of software options for watermarking images. But, what if you want to occasionally watermark an image or you are at someone else’s computer without the right the software? PicMarkr offers a free online solution for […]

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Firefox 3: User Interface Enhancements

Firefox 3: User Interface Enhancements

Alex Faaborg at Mozilla Labs has posted about the new user interface features in development for Firefox 3. The article  discusses the below features with screenshot mockups but since you are here to read about it, here is my take on it. Here is a quick look at features to be watched: Places: Bookmarking, tagging […]

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Top Firefox Extensions

Top Firefox Extensions

As we all know. looking for the best Firefox extensions in Official Firefox Add-ons is like searching for  the proverbial needle in a haystack. I am a Firefox extensions addict and I try a lot of extensions every week. You can see my periodic new extensions in the Firefox Extension Picks series that I feature […]

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Forget Curating Your Own Google Reader

Google Reader is probably my second most visited site in a day after Gmail. As much as RSS readers have and RSS feeds have gained popularity, a vast majority of people don’t want to take the pains of setting up their Google Reader account with the sites they want to follow. Google Reader has released […]

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Gmail Free Calls in US Extended Through 2011

Google introduced free voice calling within US & Canada in Gmail back in August. With this feature, we could just call any phone number from within Gmail from the chat menu. Google has extended this free phone calls from Gmail program through all of 2011. Check out gmail.com/call for more information on this. { via […]

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Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 2007-12-20

Christmas is almost here and I am sure a lot of us are getting read for the holidays! Here is another batch of Firefox Extensions that I came across in the last couple of weeks. Remember the Milk – The biggest one for me is the Remember the Milk‘s extension making use of the recently released […]

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Keyboard Shortcuts Fiesta

I like to find out how I can be more productive with all the tools I have at my disposal. One of the key things that help me with my productivity and me from getting Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is Keyboard Shortcuts. I use keyboard shortcuts for my Windows Desktop, Firefox, GMail, GreatNews, GReader, Remember the […]

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Newsgator makes FeedDemon and NetNewsWire Free

Newsgator is the company behind the popular RSS feed readers FeedDemon for Windows & NetNewsWire for Mac. With freeware being so popular these days, Newsgator was successful in selling paid versions of FeedDemon and NetNewsWire so far. Now, they have announced these 2 excellent feed readers FREE for all to download and use. In fact, […]

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Add reCAPTCHA Protection To Your Websites

Add reCAPTCHA Protection To Your Websites

Google recently acquired reCAPTCHA which had an unique approach to fighting spam. Captcha is that squiggly words/numbers that some sites ask you to enter to confirm you are indeed a human and not some bot trying to spam a website comment system or registration system. reCAPTCHA was a free captcha service that had a dual […]

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