Firefox community has developed such a large number of add-ons to achieve almost any functionality one could think of.

Below, we have compiled a list of 21 add ons that are incredibly useful to enhance your productivity, keeping you focused and easing routine tasks of surfing the web.

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Gmail Labs team today released two new Labs features for Gmail that let you add Google Calendar and Google Docs Gadgets to Gmail.

Google Calendar Gadget lets you view the agendas and gives you an alert when you have a meeting. Google Docs gadget lets you see your recently accessed documents and provides a search box to search within your documents stored at Google Docs.

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I just discovered this new feature in Google Reader that might be useful to analyze your reading trends. Google Reader now allows you to analyze reading trends of each individual feed you are subscribed to.

To view trends for a particular feed, open your favorite feed in Google Reader and look out for show details link on right side.

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Here’s a new feature in Gmail you might not have otherwise noticed. Gmail now allows adding emoticons and smileys to your messages. Earlier, Gmail supported smileys only for Gmail chat, but today, Gmail team released this feature for Gmail messages.

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A fresh Windows installation boots up in a breeze but with time, as we go on using the system, installing applications and stuff, the start up time of Windows starts increasing which increases the waiting time before you could actually use the computer after pressing the power button.

Here are 10 ultimate ways to make your Windows system boot faster than ever

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In windows Vista start menu, the Run entry is not readily available. If you are used to start run window from start menu in windows xp, then here’s how to display the Run entry in Vista Start Menu.

1. Right click on Start Button and select Properties.

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Friendfeed now provides updates from your friends in real-time in your Friendfeed home page. Now you could just open your Friendfeed homepage and sit back to see the action as the page automatically adds recent updates  from your friends.

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Opera has inbuilt bittorrent client with which you can download from torrent sites. The bittorrent support is enabled by default in Opera. Though this feature is useful but it can be annoying in case you want to use your favorite torrent client which you have configured depending on your requirements.

Also the torrent client of Opera doesn’t let you control much of its settings as another torrent client would. Here’s how to bypass Opera’s Bittorrent client to use your favorite torrent software:

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No doubt Firefox 3 has been optimized a lot for speed but over time with regular usage, it gets a lot slower as compared to a fresh installation. With time, Firefox also starts taking a lot of time to start which is quite annoying.

Here are three simple tricks to speed up Firefox and have a more satisfying browsing experience with your favorite browser.

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Microsoft announced last night that Windows 7 - the codename used for next release of windows Operating system would be its official name. This is the first time Microsoft will use a codename as official Product name for any Windows Operating System.

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