Though Firefox 3 introduced greater blending with OS themes, the blending is not upto what it should be. Mozilla Links blog has a nice article on how to blend Firefox in Vista Looks using various add-ons like Glasser to make Toolbar area translucent just like title bar, Compact Menu to convert menu bar into a single button and some user styles to give Bookmarks bar a glossy effect just like standard toolbar in Windows Vista Explorer.

Here’s the comparison of looks before and after applying those tweaks.

Here is a good news for Friendfeed users. Friendfeed now allows you to receive updates via IM.  This feature would surely lead to increase in Friendfeed user base as visiting website to see updates is too much an effort. But since IM clients are open almost whole day, now updates can be easily recieved.

Friendfeed is able to send notifications as IM’s over Google Talk or Jabber.

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Earlier, i have posted about useful windows shortcuts. This time, i have compiled a list of 25 useful Ubuntu shortcuts (not those commonly known Ctrl+C type shortcuts) that make your life easier. These shortcuts will help you do routine tasks more quickly and easily.

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Recently, Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex was released and i must say this version of Ubuntu has improved a lot over earlier versions. If you haven’t tried Ubuntu ever, then this is the time you should give ubuntu a try.

Here goes the shortcuts list.

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Google today silently released updated version of its sleek and fast browser Google Chrome. The beta 2 version which was released 2 months ago got much attention from users. Though a lot of issues were reported regarding its stability and performance, yet it is one of the fastest browsers on the planet. With Google releasing update for Google chrome, it looks like a lot of issues would now be fixed.

This update fixes some stability issues with Flash, Quicktime and Silverlight. It also addresses issues of pop-up spoofing vulnerability.

To Update your exisiting installation,

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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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