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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The Gmail team is always trying to enhance user experience with its Labs Features. this time they have released a new Labs feature Advanced IMAP Controls that gives you much more control over how your mailbox is accessed via IMAP.

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MS word 2007 is a great tool for editing text documents. Besides this major feature, MS word 2007 has a lot more to offer. This post is about tips and tutorials for using  MS word 2007 more effectively and uncovering those features that some users might be unaware of.

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Here’s a nice Firefox add-on FoxTab that lets you switch tabs quickly and elegantly in a cool visual way. Though suitable for everyone due to its eye-pleasing interface, it is designed for users who love to work with large number of tabs open in Firefox.

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Gmail team today added a new experiment to Gmail Labs called Forgotten Attachment Detector. With this new experiment, Gmail would keep an eye on what you type in e-mail message. And if you mention of attaching file in the e-mail text and forget to attach file and click on Send, it’ll give you an alert giving you another chance to add an attachment before sending e-mail. Since the functioning of this experiment depends on content of e-mail message, it might not work sometimes e.g. if you type in "file attached", it doesn’t work but works for "file is attached".

Google today released Google Desktop 5.8 with improved performance and better management of gadgets.

The major improvements in newer Google Desktop are:

1. Reduced Memory Usage: Google Desktop now consumes lot less memory as it has been optimized for performance similar to Google Chrome.

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Gmail has now become ubiquitous. Every other person out there is using Gmail as his preferred e-mail service. Since there are hundreds of tips and tricks to customize how Gmail works, and most of them are not much useful to everyone.

So, I thought of compiling a list of 10 Gmail tips, tricks and hacks that are incredibly useful to anyone using Gmail.

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FastStone Photo Resizer is a freeware, lightweight and ultra fast image resizing tool for Windows. It is an ideal tool for resizing batch of images quickly. It supports most of the popular image formats like JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP or TIFF.

Also, besides resizing images, it allows to rename batch of image files using various patterns.

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Looks like it’s Google’s day today. Here’s another one from Google’s Basket. The experimental Gmail Labs feature now includes three new experiments  with Gmail labels making you more productive while working with labels.

Here are the three new experiments which you can easily enable from Settings panel in Gmail.

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Though the normal shut down options in Windows are sufficient for most users, but some of us surely encounter such times, when we need to have more control over shutdown like scheduling a shutdown etc.

Smart Shutdown is one such freeware Windows utility that gives you much more control and options for shutting down PC.

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