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Fleace: Use Flickr Images To Decorate Your Desktop (1)
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Here at Channel 10, we’re big fans of John’s Background Switcher for rotating our desktop wallpaper. The software is highly customizable and pulls in images from photo-sharing sites like flickr, Phanfare, smugmug, picasa, and Yahoo image search. But for those that are looking for a lighter and simpler solution, there’s now a new app to try: Fleace. Fleace, which stands for Flickr-Enabled Automatic Changer for Everyone (ha!) can’t access photos from anywhere except flickr, but ...Shared by Shey (64)Contribute comment -
Surf The Web From Your PowerPoint | Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10 (3)
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Microsoft evangelism all-in-one (4) permalink
I just saw this PowerPoint addin on MakeUseOf and it make me think about how many different PowerPoint tools I’ve seen lately: the Office Labs pptPlex addin which makes PowerPoints deem-zoomable; the Cooliris plugin which takes your slideshows to 3D; the PowerPoint Remote Gadget that lets you control a slideshow from your phone; Freepath, which lets you mashup your slideshows with other web content; and, of course, Slideshare, the home for sharing PowerPoints with others ...Contribute comment -
TinyURL Accelerator for IE8 Beta 2 (5)
onTim Heuer a program manager for Microsoft Silverlight and published author, has just created a new accelerator (formerly known as an “activity”) for IE8 Beta 2: the TinyURL Accelerator. His accelerator will be especially handy for anyone who makes use of this popular URL-shortening service. In case you’re unfamiliar, TinyURL is a service that takes a long, unwieldy URL and shrinks it down to a more manageable size in the format of http://tinyurl.co.... This service ...Contribute comment
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What’s New in IE8 Beta 2 (3)
onThe IE team recently announced the availability of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, the latest iteration of the upcoming browser which is now available for download from www.microsoft.com.... This new version of IE features several new improvements and changes, but we decided to list our favorites below. Smart Address Bar: Taking a note from Firefox 3’s Awesome Bar, the Smart Address Bar offers suggestions as you type based on website history, favorites, and RSS feed. ...Contribute comment
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Making Engaging Digital Presentations With Freepath (5)
onFreepath 2.0 is a new application that lets you create presentations that are mashups of web content and content from your PC. So, instead of a traditional PowerPoint, for example, your Freepath presentation could combine a PowerPoint file with images, videos, music, PDFs, Word, and Excel documents and play them as a seamless digital presentation. You can integrate web content like YouTube videos, slideshow’s from slide.com, music from Pandora, images from flickr or photobucket, and ...Contribute comment
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Twitter SideShow Gadget Released | Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10 (2)
onSideShow is a technology platform that allows developers to create applications specifically for devices with smaller screens. These apps, called “gadgets,” can run on devices like the displays attached to laptops, front panel computer displays, displays embedded in keyboards, displays on remote controls, digital picture frames, and more. Recently, the team at Ikanos Consulting released a new Twitter gadget for SideShow devices. With this gadget, you can update your status, view your friends’ timelines, and ...Shared by Brandon LeBlanc (5) Wayne Sutton (53)Contribute comment
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How To Use Photosynth In 4 Easy Steps (2)
onSo now that you’ve heard the big news about Photosynth, you’re probably dying to get started with your first synth. Well, get your camera ready, because here’s all you need to know as to how to use this new technology STEP 1: TAKE PICTURES When you’re creating your first synth, remember the rule of “3” – each part of the scene you shoot should appear in at least 3 separate photos from different locations. Try ...Shared by irishandrew (27) Shey (64)Contribute comment
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Mesh Your Bookmarks! (3)
onOne of the most useful things you can do with Live Mesh, beyond just syncing files and folders, is syncing your bookmarks. This is as simple as right-clicking on your Favorites folder and adding it to the Mesh. (Doug has more detailed instructions on this here). When you do this on all your machines, you’ll end up with a merged directory of all your Favorites so you can manage your bookmarks from in one location, ...Contribute comment
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Play The Olympics With Popfly (2)
onThe Popfly team has put together a handful of Olympic-themed games in honor of the Summer Games occurring now in Beijing. There are ten games in all included archery, boxing, diving, gymnastics, long jump, soccer, synchronized swimming, track & field, weightlifting, and even torch lighting! Well, that last one isn’t really a sport, but you get the idea. The games, like most of the gaming content built with Popfly, are for the casual gamer who’s ...Shared by charlie anzman (111) Mike F (459)Contribute comment
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Circle Dock Is No Ordinary App Launcher (2)
onI’m sure you’ve seen docks before – the launch bars that let you start up applications with one click. For Windows users, one of the most popular docks is Rocket Dock (I use this one myself). Another favorite is Object Dock. However, I had never seen anything quite like Circle Dock before. Instead of a simple bar that attaches to a side of your computer screen, Circle Dock will launch (via a hotkey) wherever your ...Shared by Alvin A. (23) Steve (18)Contribute comment
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Get All the Microsoft Blogs at BlogMS (3)
onAt Microsoft, there are a lot of product and support teams blogging – so many, in fact, that it can be hard to keep up with them all. If you tried to subscribe to all the sites on your own, you could be overwhelmed by the sheer number of posts. Well, now there’s a better way to keep up with Microsoft news. A new resource called BlogMS makes it easy for you to follow all ...Contribute comment
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Three Flickr Plugins You’ll Love (4)
onIf you’re a flickr user, there are three plugins that you need to know about: Flickr4Writer, Flickr4Outlook, and Flickr4Word. I had mentioned the Flickr4Writer plugin before when I blogged about some of my favorite plugins for Windows Live Writer - it helps you to insert flickr photos into your blog posts. However, thanks to gHacks, I learned that there are also similar plugins for both Word and Outlook. Like the WLW plugin, they give you ...Contribute comment
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ZYGOtweet (1)
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ZygoTweet is another service that will offer Twitter via SMS in the UK, like tweetSMS plans to do. The service will be charge users 4-5 pence per message.Shared by Buzzworkers (20)Contribute comment -
Diagnose Hard Drive Problems With HDDScan (2)
onHave you been hearing an ominous clicking sound coming from inside your computer? That sound could be one of your hard drives on its way to failure…or something else entirely. If you want to know for sure, a utility called HDDScan can help. This free app will scan your internal or external drives for bad blocks, test write/read/erase capabilities, read and analyze S.M.A.R.T. parameters and run S.M.A.R.T. tests, and even monitor the temperatures of the ...Shared by iammikeb (18) Matt (8)Contribute comment
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DO WANT: Twitter Messenger Bag (2)
onYou Want? Tweet Tees Custom Designed Twitter Apparel* *Advertisement…but we loveShared by Chris (20) Jeremy Allen (39)Contribute comment
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Newspapers That Twitter (6)
onThis site is keeping track of all the newspapers that Twitter. Lots and lots of them do, apparently. Too much info for here, so go check it out: Newspapers That Twitter Also, an entry on the Twitter blog recently pointed out all the New York Times writers using Twitter.Contribute comment
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Newspapers That Twitter (4)
onThis site is keeping track of all the newspapers that Twitter. Lots and lots of them do, apparently. Too much info for here, so go check it out: Newspapers That Twitter Also, an entry on the Twitter blog recently pointed out all the New York Times writers using Twitter.Contribute comment
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Green Twitter List (1)
onOn the site (Anti) Social Development, Kim has been keeping track all the “green” twitterers as well as an OPML file with all their blog feeds. Too much to reproduce here, just go check it out: The Green Twitter ListShared by wizardElite (6)Contribute comment
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Green Twitter List (1)
onOn the site (Anti) Social Development, Kim has been keeping track all the “green” twitterers as well as an OPML file with all their blog feeds. Too much to reproduce here, just go check it out: The Green Twitter ListShared by wizardElite (6)Contribute comment
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Twitly (1)
onTwitly is a service that lets you create groups on Twitter. In order to use it you have to sign up for an account with Twitly and sign into Twitter. You can then create a Twitter group by entering in a name for the group and adding your Twitter friends to it.Shared by Riptide Furse or Krossbow (15)Contribute comment
