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How YOU Can Make the Web More Structured
via ReadWriteWeb by Alex Iskold on January 30, 2008
We have written a lot here about the the vision of building a structured layer ontop of the current web. Annotating billions of HTML documents in a bottom-up way or building top-down tools that can automagicallyinterpret the existing information are the two approaches that we discussed. Together these approaches would result in a globaldatabase which will make the web even more connected.The...
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Five Email Addresses that Convert Documents [Conversion]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on February 06, 2008
The Digital Inspiration blog offers up five email addresses that offer free file conversion for Word docs, PDFs, and even MP3s with no fuss, no muss—just attach a file, send it, and wait for the reply with the converted file attached. For mobile device users who can't read or open certain formats or desktop users who need a little audio formatting without downloading software. The full list...
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How it Works
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on February 17, 2008
Shared by: TOMHTML, Justin Yost, Fernio, Linda, Nick, Dan Russell, Asankhaya, odwl, arty, Mark Whiting, WindPower, Yerameyahu, Ihar Mahaniok, Chandoo,
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Top 10 Smart and Lazy Ways to Save Your Workday [Lifehacker Top 10]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on February 19, 2008
If you leave the office most nights feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and behind on everything you've got to get done at work—even though you just spent 10 hours there—you're letting your workday get away from you. It's too easy to let the hours you spend at the office get stolen by meetings, email, interruptions, and impromptu co-worker chats that leave you saddled with busywork...
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Fav.or.it: RSS Reader with Integrated Commenting Launches Public Beta
via Mashable! by Adam Ostrow on February 26, 2008
Fav.or.it, a new RSS reader with integrated commenting and community features, has launched its public beta. One of the more notable features of Fav.or.it is the ability for users to make comments on blog posts from within the reader, which will also appear on the actual blog they came from. What this means is that if you’re reading Mashable in Fav.or.it and want to leave a comment, you can...
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Five Extensions You Won't Need with Firefox 3 [Firefox 3]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 19, 2008
Now that Mozilla's locked down Firefox 3's feature set, it's clear the new browser iteration will render some extensions obsolete. Firefox 3 will include functionality out-of-the-box that you could only get with add-ons before. Let's take a look at five extensions you might not need when you switch to Firefox 3. NoSquint: Never have to enlarge the text on that web page with the...
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Recover Lost Passwords with Free Tools [Passwords]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on June 01, 2008
ACCESS DENIED. Those two bone-chilling words are the last thing you want to see when you're trying to log into a system or open a file, but they're not necessarily a dead end. Several free tools can help you find lost passwords you can't remember or that your computer has saved but obscured. Let's take a look at a few free remedies for lost password panic when you're trying to...
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Twittershare Brings File Sharing to Twitter
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on February 11, 2008
I love Twitter but even when it's not down it's got its limitations. Enter the API and a world of developers eager to engage with the active community of Twitter users. Twittershare is the newest truly useful development on top of Twitter; it lets you easily share files of up to 10mb in size. Mac users can upload and post with a desktop widget, everyone can use the web interface and a...
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Ultimate Game
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on March 06, 2008
Shared by: Justin Yost, Nick, Fernando, Steve Bosman, Mike Mahaffie, Joshua, badpazzword, Rizzn, gyakusetsu, WindPower, Alex, Andrew Taylor, Jesse Davidson,
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Simpler Gmail Queries
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on March 06, 2008
There's an easy way to use logical disjunction in a Gmail query. Instead of typing OR after each term, you can just use curly brackets and separate the terms with spaces. Here's the official way:dan OR "brian clouse" OR tejaand here's a simpler way to write the same query:{dan "brian clouse" teja}Note that you need to use quotes for multiple words and you can combine the expression...
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