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How To: Automatically Forward Emails to Multiple Recipients in Gmail
08 Jun 2009 by Evan Wondrasek / 38 Comments
I recently found the need to have one of Techerator’s email accounts automatically forward emails to multiple recipients for notifications. Gmail has built-in email forwarding (to a single email address), but there is a very simple trick to forward to multiple addresses. In Gmail, click the ‘Create a filter’ link at the top, near the search box. You can now create a filter to...
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How To: Set Gmail as the Default Email Handler in Firefox
08 Jun 2009 by Evan Wondrasek / 1 Comment
If you’re an avid Gmail user, you may wish to set it as the default email handler in Firefox. By setting it as the default, Firefox will automatically open the Gmail composition window when you click any mailto: links or click the Send Link button in the right-click menu. Procedure In Firefox, click Tools –> Options. Click the Applications tab and type mailto in the search box. O...
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Google Labs Announces Google Squared
03 Jun 2009 by Dustin Patterson
Released today from the Google Labs is a new product that may help change the way that you search. Google Squared is a Google Labs feature that combines search results into a table, allowing for data to be organized so that it is quickly viewable to the reader. Clicking on a section of the Square will bring you more information with related sources. Google Squared If the topic you searched doe...
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Adobe and NVIDIA Collaborating on GPU Acceleration for Flash
03 Jun 2009 by Dustin Patterson
Adobe and NVIDIA announced today that GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) acceleration will be included in future releases of the Adobe Flash Player. Both Adobe and NVIDIA are part of the Open Screen Project, a collaborative project intended to bring rich internet applications to the desktop by taking advantage of the full capabilities of Adobe Flash. The number of devices to be support is large an...
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How To: Create, Edit, and Share Documents Online with Google Docs
03 Jun 2009 by Evan Wondrasek
I feel like the guy who showed up late to a really good party. Google Docs has been around for quite awhile now, but it wasn’t until last week that I actually tried it for the first time and I can’t believe I had been missing out on this fantastic service. Google Docs is a web-based office suite that contains applications for word processing, spreadsheets, form creation, and presenta...
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Files Over Miles: Browser to Browser File Sharing
29 May 2009 by Dustin Patterson
A newly launched service allows you to send files (large files included) directly from your web browser to another web browser. Files Over Miles is a service that is built upon the P2P file transfer capabilities that are included in Version 10 of Adobe Flash Player. With this P2P capability, the need for an intermediate server is eliminated, transferring the file directly from one web browser ...
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How To: Filter the Noise From Your Facebook News Feed
09 May 2009 by Evan Wondrasek / 16 Comments
Update: We’ve published a new edition of this article for the updated version of Facebook. Check that out instead. Facebook has made some interface changes lately which have caused some frustration with its core users. Most recently, they’ve removed the ability to exclusively view status updates on the Friends tab, which leaves you with only the “full firehose” of the h...
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Stream Your Music Library With Vibe Streamer
05 May 2009 by Dustin Patterson / 1 Comment
Vibe Streamer is a free program that allows you to stream your music library to any device with a Flash enabled web browser. Vibe Streamer also offers a set of security settings, user controls, and customization features. Download and Install Vibe Streamer is very lightweight. The system requirements for Vibe Streamer 2.06 are detailed below: 200 Mhz CPU 16 MB RAM Windows NT/2K/XP/2K3 Linux ...
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Firefox Desktop Turns Your Browser Into an Operating System (sort of)
05 May 2009 by Evan Wondrasek / 8 Comments
Firefox only: With the advent of cloud computing and sites such as Gmail, Google Docs, and even the online version of Photoshop, it is clear that desktop computing as we know it is beginning to shift towards an internet environment. Browsers are quickly becoming the focal point of all our daily computing tasks, which easily explains the recent popularity of netbooks and mini computers. Desktop...
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Facebook Releases Desktop Application, Aptly Named Facebook Desktop
03 May 2009 by Evan Wondrasek
Facebook – the world’s fastest growing social network – wants to keep you connected to your social network without the web browser. Using their newly released Facebook Desktop application, you can connect with friends, view your stream, and publish information right from your desktop computer. To install Facebook Desktop, you first need to install the free Adobe AIR platform. ...
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