Smarter Wikipedia adds a "Related Articles" box to the mass-edited encyclopedia's left-hand menu, helping you quickly dig into and around a topic—or easily start a long spiral of Wiki-traveling.

Assuming you can responsibly break away from the big gray information machine, Smarter Wikipedia is a helpful navigational tool. Beyond the "Related Articles" box, the add-on can search Wikipedia (or Wikipedia's pages via customized Google query) for any term you highlight and right-click on. The add-on is built small and light, too, as its author points out, aiming to put little drag on your open-source browser.

Smarter Wikipedia is a free add-on, works wherever Firefox does

Smarter Wikipedia.

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Puppy Linux- as cute and small as a puppy

This is pretty awsome according to me:-). Have you ever thought of an Operating system which is hardly 85 to 100 MB. Yes it true and it does exist. Its called the puppy Linux. What are it's goals:

• Easily install to USB, Zip or hard drive media.
• Booting from CD (or DVD), the CD drive is then free for other purposes.
• Booting from CD (or DVD), save everything back to the CD.
• Booting from USB Flash drive, minimise writes to extend life indefinitely.
• Extremely friendly for Linux newbies.
• Boot up and run extraordinarily fast.
• Have all the applications needed for daily use.
• Will just work, no hassles.
• Will breathe new life into old PCs
• Load and run totally in RAM for diskless thin stations.

Here's a You tube video of the same. Just see the video for the features:

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Mojave Experiment

This is yet another fascinating site which i discovered as i was browsing.. Wats so fascinating about it is the 3 D video cloud. Wondering wat it is??? Its nothing but a cluster of video in a 3 dimensional view. Well wat are the requirments your browser should have to view the site? Yes since its "Microsoft" you need a silverlight plugin installed in ur browser. Although the the same thing can be achieved in Flash:-).. Don worry just go to the site, if you don have silverlight plugin installed it will guide you to install.

SO WHAT IS MOJAVE EXPERIMENT??
The Mojave Experiment is an advertising campaign by Microsoft for the Windows Vista Operating System. The participants in the experiment were asked about their perceptions of Windows Vista (having never used it) and then were shown a ten minute demo of Microsoft's "next OS", codenamed "Mojave". After the experiment was over, it was revealed that "Mojave" was actually Windows Vista. Before the session, the average rating of Vista was 4.4 out of 10; after the session the average rating for the "Mojave" OS was 8.5 out of 10. The official goal of the Mojave Experiment is to get consumers to "decide for themselves" rather than accept the commonly held negative perceptions of Windows Vista, providing links to product demo videos and other product advertising. Microsoft says that it is slowly adding more video content to the Mojave Experiment website.

Source: Wikipedia

MOJAVE EXPERIMENT

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BeFunky!!

This is just pure fun.. This is a cool web application which turns your photo into an incredible art work.. Lot of options available. No registration required:-) its free try it out. U can see my artwork above:-)

Befunky

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Ask BOSS-Natural Language image search

This one's pretty awsome and you wil definitely aprreciate it. Now the first thing i want you to do is open two two new windows and in one window open "Google image search" and in the other open "Yahoo Image search". Next type the question "Who is batman in the dark knight". The results will be as follows.




Now go "AskBoss"and type the same question and see what results you will get. You will be astonished
Natural language processing is partly used in text search today, but its use in image search is mostly unexplored. But askBOSS which retrieves images to questions posed in natural language. askBoss attempts to enhance image results for queries around factual question answering. It uses Yahoo BOSS(search API's) through BOSS mashup framework and is deployed on Google App Engine.
Here s the result on Ask BOSS:

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Call America for free

I was just browsing as usual. My friend Amogh also turns for browsing. As i was browsing he asked me that whether i had any relatives in the U.S. I said yes and asked him why.. He said that there's a website through which you can any phone in America i.e Landline or Mobile for free for fifteen minutes. So asked him why are they providing for free??. Its because they have ad's posted on their site:-)
So you just need to sign up and basically create a account and you can call any number in the U.S for free. Its really cool ain't it??

Calling America

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Add RSS gadget to your Gmail Inbox

Again back with a cool trick.How to add Feed reader gadget for your gmail inbox. Here are the steps and you will be able to add that gadget.

1) At first, enable "Add any gadget" box under the "labs" section of the "setting " page. Save

2)After saving the preferences you will find the gadgets tab in the setting page. Click on it.

3)You will find "Add a gadget by its URL" .Paste the following URL

4)http://gad.getpla.net/feed/reader.xml.

5)Once you've added the gadget, you can change the default feed by moving your mouse over the left-hand side, clicking the wrench icon, and pasting in the RSS feed URL for your preferred feed. The gadget can only be added once in Gmail, so you are limited to adding a single feed to the left sidebar, but this could prove very useful for quickly accessing important information from your inbox—or even pulling out an ultra important mail feed

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Google labs feature u must enable in gmail

Recently i was just going through the lab features for gmail. I have had a few lab features before. But I feel these two lab features is must enable if you have gmail account.  

Offline Gmail:

So even if you're offline, you can open your web browser, go to gmail.com, and get to your mail just like you're used to.

Once you turn on this feature, Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache of your mail. As long as you're connected to the network, that cache is synchronized with Gmail's servers. When you lose your connection, Gmail automatically switches to offline mode, and uses the data stored on your computer's hard drive instead of the information sent across the network. You can read messages, star and label them, and do all of the things you're used to doing while reading your webmail online. Any messages you send while offline will be placed in your outbox and automatically sent the next time Gmail detects a connection. And if you're on an unreliable or slow connection (like when you're "borrowing" your neighbor's wireless), you can choose to use "flaky connection mode," which is somewhere in between: it uses the local cache as if you were disconnected, but still synchronizes your mail with the server in the background. 

Isn't this really great.It is according to me..

So how to enable:

1.Click settings,then select the labs tab.

2.Then enable the offline gmail feature and save the settings.

3.Now you will find a link on top right side of the gmail window named offline gmail.

4. Click the link and follow the instructions.

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Feed My torrents

Have you just missed the latest tv shows. I happened to find this site while searching for Prison break episode:-).This is actually far better instead of directly searching on the torrents site. You can subscribe through their feeds.It is well organized.Name any TV show you have there.:-) Their RSS Feeds are filtered, and contain no duplicates. You get the correct file, without hassle.

TV-SHOWS

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Save all images in a single page/tab at a single click

Again this is one cool Add on for the firefox. Save Images saves the images from the current tab page, from the cache, to a specified location, with either the images original file name or a file name that you specify. The size, dimensions and types of images saved may be chosen, with options if the file size is unknown or if duplicate files are found. Images may be either saved from the current tab, left or right of the current tab or from all tabs.

Save Images

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Google Earth 5.0

Watch the video and it should answer all your questions:-).. Its google earth's latest version

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KidRex-free web search filtering for kids

You guys must be wondering why i am writing about this search engine for kids:-).. Ok let me tell you I liked this search engine because of its very cute interface:-).. and filters out inapproprate content for kids.

KidRex is  basically a kid friendly front-end for Google searches that uses Google's SafeSearch technology to filter out child-inappropriate content. It's a hassle-free tool for masking the underbelly of the internet from young searchers.

KidRex

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