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FriendFeed Gets Redesigned

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Firendfeed FriendFeed today released a beta version of its newly designed interface to all users. The new interface is available at http://beta.friendfeed.com and will soon be available on main site.

Below are some of the new features that are added to redesigned FriendFeed.

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Google Suggest to be available by default in Google Search

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Google-Suggest Google Suggest - a search feature that provides real time query suggestions as you type into a search box will now be available by default on Google.com Homepages. Earlier, the Google Suggest Feature was there in Google labs and was used by a  Google Search in Firefox, Firefox Addon Customize Google to add Suggestions feature to normal Google Search in Firefox.

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Twitter gets ready to combat Spammers

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Twitter Remember those crazy followers on Twitter that follow thousands of Twitter users and then use it to send spam to you. But now, the micro blogging platform Twitter will become more secure and spam free as Twitter has planned to take actions on Spammers and take additional measures to combat spam.

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Best Firefox Add-ons Announced By Mozilla

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Extend-firefox Mozilla today announced winners of its Extend Firefox 3 contest after reviewing over 100 extensions.

One of the grand prize winner of Best New Extensions is Pencil by Dương Thành An, which adds GUI prototyping and diagramming to Firefox using the Firefox’s SVG support for rendering and scripting.

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Spam Trends for Q2 2008

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Secure Computing, a company providing enterprise security solutions has published a report on Internet threats for the second quarter of 2008. According to the report, USA tops the list of spam sending countries accounting for 16.5% of the spam while Russia is second on list with around 8% contribution.

These top 10 countries account for 55% of global spam. Besides US and Russia, India, Korea, Argentina, Germany were also on the top spam sender’s list.

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10 Essential Portable Applications for your USB Drive

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Portable Applications are the softwares that can be run directly from a portable device without requiring installation. These are quite useful if you travel a lot and need your softwares with you all the time. You can keep portable versions of your favorite softwares all the time with you on a USB drive and they can be run from any computer with a USB port.

Moreover, the greatest benefit of using portable applications is that none of the settings, history, data is kept on the host computer as everything is stored on the portable device.

We have compiled a list of 10 essential portable applications for your USB drive that will work on any Windows system.

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Buzz Up Great content on Yahoo Buzz

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

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Yahoo Buzz, the Digg like social content rating website from Yahoo is now open to all. Earlier, this service was available to only selected 400 publishers. Now anyone can submit a story on Yahoo Buzz and if it gets featured on front page of Yahoo Buzz, it could drive enormous amount of Traffic to the publisher just like Digg.

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5 Awesome Tweaks to Power Up Google Talk

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Google-TalkGoogle Talk is  one such IM client that has a minimalist interface which focuses on the basic function of IM i.e. chatting. As compared to other IM clients like Yahoo Messenger, its interface is quite simple.

But here are 5 tweaks that’ll let you get maximum out of your Google Talk client and achieve some of the functions, you might not have thought it could perform.

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India Celebrates 62nd Independence Day

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

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Today is 15th August and India is celebrating its 62nd Independence Day. Every year on August 15, we remember the significance of Independence and the struggle done to achieve the Independence.

We at Technotraits.com wish our Indian Readers a very Happy Independence Day.

You might also like to get involved in celebrations by downloading Independence day wallpapers.

27 Applications You Never Thought of Starting From Run Dialog

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Windows-run-dialog Besides Keyboard Shortcuts, using Run dialog box(windows+R) in windows to start applications/windows utilities is another great way to increase productivity by saving time. You might be familiar with commands like regedit, gpedit.msc, explorer but here we list down 27 applications you might not have thought could be started from Run Dialog box.

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