Archive for the ‘web tools’ tag
Put Your Latest Tweet In Your Google Talk Status Message
If you’re looking for a way to set your twitter updates as your status message on Google Talk, look no further than Twitter2Gtalk. All you need to do is login to your Google account, specify your twitter username and check the ‘Active’ button. Twitter2Gtalk will then push your tweets to your Google Talk status in about 5-20 minutes. Twitter @replies aren’t sent to your Google Talk status, though.
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Add Real Time Search Options to Google Search
Real time search is what everyone wants these days. Google does provide options using which you can restrict search results to web pages published within a specific time frame (like 24 hrs, a week, etc.). All you need to do is go to the advanced search options page to specify the date range. Doing this everytime you do a Google search is pesky and that’s when a Greasemonkey script comes handy.
Find Out The Language Used In a Piece of Text
What Language is This is a neat web based tool that helps you find out what language a piece of text is in. All you need to do is paste a piece of text and click the ‘Go’ button and the tool does the analysis for you, identifying the language used in the text.
How To Clear Clutter From Web Pages?
Very so often, you end up landing on web sites that are cluttered with ads and widgets that take away the attention from real content. The web pages are cluttered and you’ll have a tough time reading the real stuff.
Get Dictionary Meanings on Google Talk quickly
Last week, we wrote about @twitlookup, a Twitter bot that can look up meanings and definitions for you via Twitter. Now, Keith D’Souza has created another bot that works from Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM and Windows Live Messenger and helps you find meanings.
Get Dictionary Meanings on Twitter with @twitlookup
Twitter is increasing being used not just as a social tool to connect with people, but also to improve productivity. Twitter bots are being created everyday to help people do specific tasks on Twitter. @twitlookup is one such bot that that fetches you dictionary meanings, weather updates and IPL schedules.
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Display Twitter Updates In Your Orkut Profile
Twitkut is a cool Orkut app that lets you display your Twitter updates in your Orkut profile. Once you add the app from here, go to the settings page for the app and type in your Twitter username.
BSNL Broadband Usage
If you’re using BSNL Broadband services here in India, you might be wondering how you can check your BSNL Broadband Usage. It’s quite easy, but a lot of people seem to be not knowing where they should go to check their BSNL Broadband Usage. Here are a few methods to monitor your bandwidth usage:
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Free Jinni Invites
Jinni is a new site under private beta where you can watch movies, TV Shows, short films and other online videos based on your mood. Head on to How-To Geek to read a review of the service.
I signed up using their form, and I have around 10 free invites for Jinni to give away. If you need a free invite for Jinni.com, just leave a comment with a working email address so that I can send you the invitation.
Update: Please look for Jinni invites elsewhere. All invites used up.
Three Tools To Track and Defeat Content Theft
As more and more blogs come into existence, an increasing number of scraper sites are created to grab our content with an intention to make some quick money. It is important to deal with online plagiarism by tracking and shutting down such scraper sites immediately so as to prevent them from getting high SERP positions. Here are three tools that might help:
