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Awesome Screen Grabbing with Jing

Jing is a very simple screenshot and video program, it works for both windows and macs, is super easy to use, and even has a built in annotator. Give it a try, its made by the same people who make snagit.

The free version can do almost all the pro version can, except instant uploads to youtube, and only record videos in flash format.

Try it out today, its free: http://www.jingproject.com/

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The new office 2010 is pretty, functional, and adds their dreaded (or loved) ribbon to the rest of the office suite that 2007 still had menus for. While using outlook, they seemed to have added a whole slew of features that I’m looking into, on the whole, the ribbons in outlook are a whole lot more intuitive then the old menus, perhaps that is because I never really used much. They have added support for “conversations” like Gmail has, and social networking sites too, though at the moment, they are LinkedIn a fairly used site in the college and business users, Just like Facebook when it started. and MySpace, which the only time I hear anybody mentioning they have a MySpace is when they either a musician or comic (which is what the site was originally meant for.) The odd thing is that they still do not have support for Windows Live, Microsoft’s own social networking site, and Facebook, Unequivocally the largest and most used social networking site on the web (currently the second most popular website on the web.) I’m sure they will get around to adding support shortly. The official release of Office 2010 is on May 12th for MSDN subscribers (think fortune 500 companies) with a public release in June.

Remove it Permanently removes any element of a webpage you want. After installing just right click on any element on a page and hit “remove this permanently.” An example: Say you bookmarked your favorite site for seeing the hour by hour weather, all you really care about is the weather, you don’t care about other zip codes, you don’t want to see what’s happening tomorrow. You just want to see the data, and then leave. See below for before and after.

Install “Remove it Permanently” here.

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After:

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Install “Remove it Permanently” here.

The complete Firefox shortcut list

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Learn how to to use Firefox better and faster by learning shortcuts for the things you do every day

Visit: The complete Firefox shortcut list

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Sleeves tells you what to wear depending on how cold it is. A tank top, A tee shirt, a long sleeve shirt, or a long sleeve and a tee shirt. Great for Spring and Fall when one day can be 40 and the next 90.

Cause who really cares what the exact temperature is, we just want to know what to wear.

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Bookmark the URL after typing in your zip code so you don’t have to retype it each time you use the site.

Visit: Sleeves here

Three Shopping Add-ons for Firefox

The Camelizer -  On websites like Amazon.com and Newegg, This addon adds a button the the left side of the screen. When pressed a pop up with a chart of the items price history pops up. Great for finding good deals, or, seeing if today’s “deal of the day” is actually a deal

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Price Trace -  Like the Camelizer, This is a price checking service, there are a few differences though. This installs as a toolbar, a button, or statusbar addon. It can be used to track the current item your looking at on certain sites, or you can search for items from the toolbar and see a comparison. Unlike the Camelizer, when you look for an item it searches more than just the current website, so this can compare between sites.

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Price Blink – This Add-on, when viewing an item on a website will show a tool bar similar to the “Do you want to save your password” bar in firefox. It will tell you if this is the cheapest price, or if you might save a few bucks on a different website.

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Remember the milk is a reminding service that can decode “Bring home the milk at 9 tomorrow” and automatically remind you to do that at 9 tomorrow. If you set it up through twitter all you have to do is txt “D RTM Bring home the milk at 9 tomorrow” and it will add it to your tasks list. With Twitter you can set it also to send you a text X minutes before or at the time you tell it to. Remember the milk tasks can also be downloaded as an iCal. That means that you can have it automatically sync with your favorite calendar program, like Google Calendar, or Outlook.

Stay Tuned for a full guide that will take you all the way from start to finish so that you can send a text message from your cell phone and have an even automatically added to your calendar. All for free. (text charges obviously apply)

Visit: Remember the Milk here.

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This website is really cool if you watch tv. It does one thing very well, shows you when new episodes of tv shows will be on. There is not much to say about it.

Since this website is hosted in the UK, to get the best results you should sign up and change your time zone settings or else shows that are on Friday might seem to be on Saturday.

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Been a “member” for over 2 years, and I have never received any spam or email from this site.

Visit: TV Calendar @ popdesign.co.uk here

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Gyazo is a free and very tiny (install file is less than 1mb) screen grabber. If you ever want to take a picture of a part of your screen, and upload it online, most of the time you have to either use a program like Pickpic, take the screen shot, save it in its image editor, find a website to upload it to, upload it. and copy the link.

With Gyazo, all you have to do is run Gyazo, Drag an area to take a picture of, and it will open up in your browser in seconds already uploaded, and the URL will be copied to your clipboard so you can send it to somebody else. Entire process takes 1 second.

Unfortunately Gyazo does not have a built in hotkey utility, so unless your keyboard has special hotkey buttons (or you use a program like Autohotkey) you have to save a  shortcut to your toolbar to be able to use it in any program.

Try Gayzo now, It only takes a second to download and install.

Vist: Gyazo.com Here

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