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Find Your Orkut Friends on Facebook

Have you been on Orkut for a while and have tons of friends there? And now finding Facebook is all the rage? It’s easy to find your Orkut friends in Facebook now! Find Orkut Friends in Facebook Drag this Facebook bookmarklet to your browser bookmarks bar Login to your Orkut account and click the bookmarklet […]

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How to Add Google Maps in a WordPress Site?

How to Add Google Maps in a WordPress Site?

An easy-to-follow 10 steps to adding a pretty Google Maps with its original interactive UI to your WordPress blog.

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How to Block Unwanted Links in Your Google Sitelinks?

How to Block Unwanted Links in Your Google Sitelinks?

Recently, I came across news on how Google is testing out new one-line Google Sitelinks for some sites. Google Sitelinks are The links shown below some sites in our search results, called sitelinks, are meant to help users navigate your site. Our systems analyze the link structure of your site to find shortcuts that will […]

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Control & Access Your Computer Remotely with LogMeIn

Control & Access Your Computer Remotely with LogMeIn

LogMeIn stands out from the rest as it doesn’t need a remote access client to access your computer running LogMeIn software.

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TVersity – Free & Awesome Media Server

TVersity – Free & Awesome Media Server

In fact, Tversity can stream to just about any networked device, even an iPhone! It can transcode any video format to a format palatable by these devices which can be picky about the codes they support.

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Your Quick Guide to the Conficker Worm

Your Quick Guide to the Conficker Worm

If you haven’t heard of the Conficker worm, it is the next big one that’s being talked about after the Sasser worm from a few years back. What is Conficker? Conficker worm has been circulating in the Internet since October/November of 2008. And it has been seeing variants and some as recently as February. The […]

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How to Use 7-zip as a Super Fast File Browser?

How to Use 7-zip as a Super Fast File Browser?

7-zip is an excellent light weight archiving utility that I use everyday. It is even available as a portable app.

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Collect Organize Things & Receipts with MyThings

Collect Organize Things & Receipts with MyThings

MyThings organizes and builds an online repository of your stuff and lets you easily find receipts by retailer and date and get Manuals for your purchases.

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How to Switch to Firefox 3.1 Beta 3?

How to Switch to Firefox 3.1 Beta 3?

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is out for download now! A word of caution: Firefox 3.1 beta 3 is meant for developers and early adopters who like not-so reliable software. If you don’t want to lose productivity with unexpected behavior, browser crashes, broken extensions, this article is not for you. If you are still reading, you […]

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3 Great Ways to Run Gmail From Desktop

3 Great Ways to Run Gmail From Desktop

In this post, we are going to look at 3 different ways of detaching Gmail from your browser and running Gmail as if it were a desktop application.

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Evernote Now Imports Google NoteBook

It’s official. Evernote has come out with an import tool to import your Google Notebook content into Evernote. Google Notebook recently announced that they are stopping development of Google Notebook. I think Evernote is one of the best Google Notebook alternatives out there. How to Export/Import Google Notebook to Evernote? Sign into Google Notebook Click […]

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Import Google Notebook into Zoho

Zoho Notebook offers an excellent alternative to Google Notebook. Even though I have proclaimed Evernote to be the best alternative to Google Notebook, Zoho sure beat Evernote to the race in providing an import tool to get your Google Notebook content across easily. I am sure Evernote will follow suit shortly. But, I was curious […]

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Watching 2009 US Presidential Inauguration Online

Today is an historic day. You may be stuck in a place with no TV or at work. No worries. There are plenty of ways to catch the inauguration ceremony online and here is a quick run through. The Swearing-in Ceremony is at 11:30AM and at 2:30PM the Inaugural Parade will move down Pennsylvania Avenue […]

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Shorten Those Google Search URLs

There is no dearth for shortening services. But, this one is a special one. Gog.is is a Google search query shortening service. It’s kind of hard to explain when you might need this but this could come in handy in a few instances. Like if you are helping a friend over IM and want to […]

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Photography & Drupal Blog Recommendations

Since it’s a Friday, I figured I’d turn the tables around today and ask you for a couple of recommendations. I intend to crowd-source this post and use your wisdom and mine to build this list so it can be a good reference point for anyone looking for such blogs. Photography blog recommendations I just […]

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