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Tricks on Gmail Search You Should At Least Know

It’s frustrating to scroll through hundreds of email trying to search for a specific one in Gmail.

If you have thousand of mail, just typing in the words and search usually can’t help you much but only shorten the list. With a few more search words used, you will be able to find the EXACT email message you’re looking for, without scrolling and read all the unmemorable titles one by one. …»»Continue reading Tricks on Gmail Search You Should At Least Know

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Send Note To (Own) Email Quickly: Note2Email

If you like to login your Gmail and send yourself some notes for reminding or backup purpose, here’s a faster online service that allows your to do the same thing with lesser steps.

What is Note2email

Note2Email

Note2email is an online application that lets you to send quick text notes to any email address. Without logging in email address, users can easily send themselves email notes. The best thing is, no registration is required.

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Check If Your Images Indexed On Google

Google Image Search

We all know we can check if a website is indexed in Google database by keying “site:yourdomain.com” in Google search box.

But do you know that we actually also can check if images of a website are indexed on Google image search?

Just go to Google, select “Image” on top bar, type it “site:yourdomain.com” in search box.

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How to Stream Youtube Videos Faster

SpeedyBit Video Accelerator
If you are a fan of watching online TV or free video clips in Youtube, I guess you must wish to get faster and smoother videos from Youtube. If so, SpeedBit Video Accelerator is able to help you on this issue.

What is SpeedBit Video Accelerator?

SpeedBit Video Accelerator Window

SpeedBit Video Accelerator is another groundbreaking product from the creators of Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) which makes videos from YouTube and over 100 sites stream faster and play smoother by reducing buffering problems and video interruptions or “hiccups”.

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How to Ignore Application Invites from Certain Friends

Facebook
I believe you must have some friends who like to send you a bunch of Facebook application invites as in you will like them too. If you’re feeling annoying with these endless invites, now you can ignore them with a simple click.

Facebook - Ignore Application Invites from Certain Friend

Here is how we do it. When you confirm your passionate friend’s application request(s), click “Ignore All Invites from this Friend” to block his/her request in future. With this move, no more annoyed invites will be reached to you and you can happily continue your Facebooking.

:cool:

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How to Find Your Friends in Flickr

Flickr Website
Do you want to find your friends who are using Flickr too? It’s easy to search for photos in Flickr but it’s kind of tough to find your friends, especially from Flickr’s big users group.

Recently Flickr launched a new service, called “Find Your Friends“. By using an existing address book from Yahoo mail, gmail and hotmail, Flickr is able to search for your friends as long as they’re Flickr users.

Flickr Find Your Friends

Or else, try its search tab to search for people already on Flickr. :idea:

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How to Read Faster in Google Reader

Google Reader
How many feeds you read everyday? I read quite a lot of them by using Google Reader. The number of feeds is increasing every week and I am figuring out a faster way to read in Google Reader.

One of the best way to read faster is to control Google Reader by using keyboard shortcuts. Depend lesser on mouse can fully utilize our left hand and boost up the productivity. :wink:

By entering “Shift” + “?” in Google Reader, a list of keyboard shortcuts will be showing up.
Google Reader Keyboard Shortcuts

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How To Hack Facebook In Few Steps (Video)

Facebook

After the case of Byron Ng - Facebook hacker, hacking Facebook has became a trend to earn personal popularity.

The video below shows how to dupe your friends with “Moods” application with just few steps.

Facebook has a lot of security issues to work out with I think. :wink:

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8 methods to resolve Windows Vista SP1 upgrading problems

Windows Vista SP1

Based on the Release Date of Windows Vista SP1, I believe most of Windows Vista users have upgraded their Window Vista to SP1. However, the upgrading process does not go smoothly for some of Windows Vista users. :???:

In order to settle Windows Vista SP1 upgrading problem, Microsoft released KB948343 support that explains why some of Window Vista users cannot search for SP1 through Automatic Updates and its solutions.

8 Potential Causes:

  1. You are already running Windows Vista SP1.
  2. Windows Vista SP1 has not been released for the language of the language pack that you have installed.
  3. Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool is used to block the delivery of Windows Vista SP1 from Automatic Updates or from Windows Update.
  4. You tried to install Windows Vista SP1, and the installation failed with a known inconsistency in the file or registry structure.
  5. A hardware device driver or device software was problematic when you updated to Windows Vista SP1.
  6. You have installed a prerelease version of Windows Vista SP1, and you must uninstall the prerelease version, or start with a new installation of Windows Vista.
  7. You used the third-party program vLite to configure the system, and you may have removed required system components that have to be available for Windows Vista SP1 to be installed.
  8. You see one or more updates for Windows Vista when you run Windows Update. However, you do not see Windows Vista SP1 listed.

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How to add an animated favicon.ico

To add an animated favicon.ico instead of statics favicon.ico for your blog or website is not that difficult. Here are the steps to create and insert an animated favicon.ico:

  1. Create an animated gif file.
  2. Rename the file extension to .ico.
    favicon.gif -> Rename -> favicon.ico
  3. Upload it to your website. For example: http://www.yoursite.com/images/
  4. Edit your header.php or index.php. Depend on what CMS you’re using. Add the following:
    <link rel=”icon” href=”http://www.yoursite.com/images/favicon.ico” type=”image/favicon-icon” />

Now the animated gif should appear in the address bar of your web browser or bookmark section. So far, only Mozilla Firefox and Opera can display animated icon, and Internet Explorer didn’t support it.

Note: Animated sequences can be very distracting. :idea:

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