Quick Launch your Windows App with Launchy
Launchy is an open source Windows utility designed to help you launch your application quickly. Basically, just forget there is something called a Start Menu in Windows!
With a keystroke combination Launch appears and with the same combination it disappears.
Launchy indexes programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!
It is a very convenient application to use; and something you can get used to quickly.
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TwitterFox: A Firefox extension for Twitter
TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ tweets on Twitter.
This extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar that notifies you when your friends update their tweets. Also it has a small text input field to update your tweets.
If you like to be notified immediately of any updates on Twitter, this is a very nice to use extension.
As and when it retrieves updates you will see a small popup on the statusbar providing you with the updates.
You can also reply to/add Tweets from within TwitterFox.
This is personally my favourite Twitter extension and I use it fairly extensively to follow all my friends Tweets.
Which Twitter client do you use?
Twuffer: Scheduling your tweets!
Twuffer allows you to compose a list of future Twitter tweets, and schedule their release.
Twitter application names keep getting more and more interesting. Twitter has introduced so much new jargon, I think someone can publish a Twitter Dictionary. Twuffer is another one you can add to that list!
Here is what the Twuffer website claims you can do with it:
- tweet hourly/daily/monthly announcements
- appointment/milestone reminders
- run a time-based scavenger hunt
- notify subscribers about upcoming podcast or video episodes
- appear to never sleep
Happy Twuffing! 
Is your username available on social networks?
Do you like to use the same username on social networks? Is your username available on those networks?
UserName Check is a website that does exactly what it sounds like. You enter a username and it will check its availability on over 75+ websites!
Download your favourite YouTube Videos
On many occasions you might have found the need to download your favourite YouTube videos to your computer. YouTube does not provide any options to download videos. Nonetheless, this does not mean that its not possible to do so.
CatchYouTube.com is an easy-to-use website that allows you to download YouTube videos.
Just enter the URL of your YouTube video, and select the file format in which you want to save this video as.
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Google Flu Trends
Google has come up with an interesting application on top of Google Trends, called Google Flu Trends. It is an application specifically for USA and looks at estimating flu activity based on certain search terms.
The graphs on the website which compares data produced by Google Flu Trends vis-a-vis actual flu activity data published by Center for Disease Control (CDC) is remarkable similar. Google claims that they can predict flu activity up to 2 weeks before CDC can!
This is an interesting application developed out of just search terms that we all use. What next Google?
Real Time Rapidshare Crawler
CrawlRapidShare is a RapidShare real time crawler. Search results do take a while before they appear since this search engine crawls rapidshare in “real time” to give you fresh results. Not just that, for each link returned it does some basic validity checks as well. This can help you save time in avoiding spam links.
For those not aware of what Rapidshare is, here is an excerpt from its Wikipedia page:
Rapidshare is one of the world’s largest file-hosting sites with millions of files stored on its servers. According to Alexa, Rapidshare.com is currently the 12th most visited website.
Firefox 3.0.4 released
Mozilla released Firefox 3.0.4 today. This version incorporates several bug fixes.
You can visit the What’s New page to get a complete list of fixes done in this release.
Gmail introduces voice and video chat
Gmail has introduced support for voice and video chat. Gmail Video chat will now take on Skype head on.
A video from the Gmail team on YouTube:
Go-OO: An alternative to an alternative!
We all came to know OpenOffice as a great alternative to Microsoft Office. An alternative that not only matched it feature to feature reasonably well but was completely free.
There is an alternative to this alternative! Go-OO is a fork from OpenOffice that strives to reduce the bulkiness of OpenOffice. It has a UI that is much easier to use and is less cluttered. It can handle DOCX, XLSX and PPTX formats (from the Office 2007 family).
Some additional/improved features over OpenOffice includes support for WordPerfect graphics, EMF rendering, besides better support for VBA, Mono and the Chinese language.
If you are looking for a light weight office suite, Go-OO would be a better choice than OpenOffice. Be prepared to uninstall OpenOffice before you can install Go-OO.
Go-OO is available for Windows and Linux.
