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		<title>CyberSearch 2.0: Bing Support, Search Details, and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ve been working on a new version of CyberSearch for a little while now, and I&#8217;ve been trying to come up with ways to add all of the most requested features. It wasn&#8217;t until about August 2009 that I started to get inspired to work on the extension again, which is when we all of [...]]]></description>
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<p>I&#8217;ve been working on a new version of <a href="http://cybernetnews.com/cybersearch/">CyberSearch</a> for a little while now, and I&#8217;ve been trying to come up with ways to add all of the most requested features. It wasn&#8217;t until about August 2009 that I started to get inspired to work on the extension again, which is when we all of a sudden saw a huge surge in downloads that has remained constant ever since. In the last 3 months we went from getting about 300 downloads a day and 10,000 active users to an astounding 3,000-7,000 downloads a day and almost 90,000 active users. I believe the rapid increase has been coming from the fact that we&#8217;re now a Mozilla &#8220;recommended&#8221; add-on, and as some users have pointed out to me our add-on sometimes shows up in the add-on management window within Firefox. So a big thanks to Mozilla for giving me the motivation to push out a new version, because without them the <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/statistics/addon/7931">CyberSearch growth graph</a> probably wouldn&#8217;t look like this:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cybersearch-growth.png" width="608" height="204" alt="cybersearch growth.png" /></p>
<p>CyberSearch 2.0 is almost a complete rewrite of the previous version, and I did that for performance concerns. Since I wanted to add more features I knew I had to squeeze every last ounce of juice out before I could move on, otherwise I could have ended up with something sluggish enough that people wouldn&#8217;t even want to use it. To put it in perspective&#8230; CyberSearch 2.0 actually does about half the number of computations that CyberSearch 1.0 did for each search that is performed.</p>
<p>As far as new features go we&#8217;ve got quite a few! The first thing is Bing support. You can now create keywords that use either Bing or Google, which is pretty cool if you think about it. That means you can make one keyword that searches Bing, and another that searches Google. If you don&#8217;t like the results that one search engine shows just try using the other&#8230; and all you have to do is change the keyword. The real reason I wanted to add Bing support, however, is because they have some API functionality that Google doesn&#8217;t offer. Thanks to Bing you can actually create keywords that will do conversions/calculations using their Instant Answer technology, or lookup the spelling of a word. You can do this all from the comfort of your address bar.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cybersearch_gloc_fastfood.png" width="636" height="486" alt="cybersearch_gloc_fastfood.png" /></p>
<p>Next up: search descriptions. This is undoubtedly the most requested feature. You wanted some way to view the descriptions of all the search results just as if you were at the search engine page. I struggled with this for awhile because I didn&#8217;t want to try and cram the descriptions into the Address Bar menu which is already cramped, and could require a lot of scrolling to see all the results. That&#8217;s when I came up with the idea to use the area behind the menu for this! That way I have a large amount of space to work with, and am able to display way more details than I originally anticipated. For example, if you&#8217;re using a keyword with the Google Local service just press the arrows on your keyboard to highlight one of the results. You should see the background behind the menu dim down, and location details will appear&#8230; including a thumbnail of a map for where that place is located (as seen in the screenshot above)! All of the different types of searches provide you with customized details (video searches show the duration, book searches provide the ISBN number, blog searches show the publication date, etc&#8230;), and screenshots of them all can be found on the <a href="http://cybernetnews.com/cybersearch/">CyberSearch homepage</a>.</p>
<p>Those are the two main highlights of the extension, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that&#8217;s all that changed. You&#8217;ll also find little things throughout CyberSearch 2.0 that should make your life a little easier. Things like a &#8220;snapback&#8221; button in the address for pulling up the last search phrase you used, or the ability to import/export your configuration and keywords so that setting up multiple machines with CyberSearch is a breeze! These were all your ideas, and hopefully they are exactly what you wanted.</p>
<p>When I describe my extension to people they often ask if it&#8217;s similar to Google Chrome&#8217;s &#8220;omnibar,&#8221; which is the name for their browser&#8217;s address bar. It eliminates the need for a search box just like CyberSearch does, but it isn&#8217;t nearly as powerful. Just watch this 3-minute video I put together and tell me if Chrome can do this:</p>
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<p>The next thing I want to try and work on is localization so that CyberSearch supports other languages/countries, but it will probably be a little while before I can get to adding any big features like this again. If you find any bugs please report them so that I can try to get them fixed right away. Thanks again for all of your support and feedback!</p>
<p><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/cybersearch/">CyberSearch Homepage</a></p>
<p><strong>Copyright &copy; 2009 <a href="http://cybernetnews.com">CyberNet</a> | <a href="http://forum.cybernetnews.com">CyberNet Forum</a> | <a href="http://learnfirefox.cybernetnews.com">Learn Firefox</a><br /><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/cybersearch-2-0-bing-support-search-details-and-more/">CyberSearch 2.0: Bing Support, Search Details, and More</a></strong></p><p><strong>Related Posts:</strong><ul><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/bing-image-search/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Microsoft Does Image Search Right with Bing">Microsoft Does Image Search Right with Bing</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/cybersearch-passes-50000-downloads/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: CyberSearch Passes 50,000 Downloads">CyberSearch Passes 50,000 Downloads</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/safaris-inquisitor-comes-to-firefox/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Safari&#8217;s Inquisitor Comes to Firefox">Safari&#8217;s Inquisitor Comes to Firefox</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/cybersearch-102-pull-up-google-results-page-faster/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: CyberSearch 1.0.2: Pull Up Google Results Page Faster">CyberSearch 1.0.2: Pull Up Google Results Page Faster</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/cybersearch-2-0-2-released/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: CyberSearch 2.0.2 Released">CyberSearch 2.0.2 Released</a></ul></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>How to Stop Google, Yahoo &amp; Bing from Tracking Your Clicks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pieter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2008, Google said there&#8217;s no such thing as complete privacy. You&#8217;re being tracked all over the web by their AdSense ads, by sites that use Google Analytics and &#8211; probably the most important &#8211; their search engine. But Google Search isn&#8217;t the only search engine that tracks your behavior. Concerned about your privacy? In [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"><p><!--align="right"-->In 2008, Google <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10003036-93.html" target="_blank">said</a> there&#8217;s no such thing as complete privacy. You&#8217;re being tracked all over the web by their AdSense ads, by sites that use Google Analytics and &#8211; probably the most important &#8211; their search engine. But Google Search isn&#8217;t the only search engine that tracks your behavior. Concerned about your privacy? In this article, we&#8217;ll show you how you can get rid of click tracking in search engines.</p>
<h3>The secret redirect</h3>
<p><b>Google</b></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/google-tracking-2.png" width="611" height="417" alt="google tracking-2.png" style="border:1px #cccccc solid" /></p>
<p>Whenever you click a link in Google Search, your click is redirected through a secret URL. If the site you&#8217;re going to is <i>http://www.cybernetnews.com/</i>, Google will do a secret redirect through a URL that looks similar to <i>http://www.google.com/url?url=<b>http://www.cybernetnews.com/</b></i>. In some cases, you can reveal the secret redirect by right-clicking on a linked search result. If that doesn&#8217;t work, your last resort is an <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/14252" target="_blank">HTTP sniffer</a>.</p>
<p>There are several Firefox add-ons that claim to get rid of Google Search&#8217;s click tracking. <a href="http://www.customizegoogle.com/" target="_blank">CustomizeGoogle</a> is one of them. Among other tweaks, it promises to remove click tracking and disable Google Analytics cookies. If you just want the anti-tracking feature without the bells and whistles, there&#8217;s a Greasemonkey script you can download called <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/47300" target="_blank">Google Tracking B-Gone</a>. To use Greasemonkey scripts, you need to install the <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748" target="_blank">Greasemonkey</a> add-on for Firefox. Also, if you use an international version of Google such as google.co.uk, you have to change the script&#8217;s URL range from <i>http://*.google.com/*</i> to <i>http://*.google.*/*</i> to ensure that the script is allowed to operate on your local Google site.</p>
<p><b>Yahoo</b></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/yahoo-tracking-1.png" width="650" height="456" alt="yahoo tracking-1.png" style="border:1px #cccccc solid" /></p>
<p>Unlike Google&#8217;s redirect, the one Yahoo uses is always easy to find. Right-click on a link and look at your status bar to reveal an intimidating garglemesh of strange characters originating from <i>rds.yahoo.com</i>. You can get rid of that by installing <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25692" target="_blank">this</a> Greasemonkey script. However, my HTTP sniffer revealed that Yahoo does some additional click tracking from a URL that starts with <i>http://search.yahoo.com/ra/click?</i>. To disable this, add <i>http://search.yahoo.com/ra/click?*</i> as a filter to <a href="http://adblockplus.org/" target="_blank">Adblock Plus</a>.</p>
<p><b>Bing</b></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/bing-tracking.png" width="562" height="417" alt="bing tracking.png" style="border:1px #cccccc solid" /></p>
<p>Bing seems to have a very subtle click tracking mechanism. The only fishy thing Bing does is call some URL&#8217;s that start with <i>http://www.bing.com/fd/ls/</i> whenever you click a search result. Again, Adblock Plus can help you deal with this if you add <i>http://www.bing.com/fd/ls/*</i> to its filter list. Turning off JavaScript on bing.com seems to help too.</p>
<h3>Shutting off the HTTP referrer</h3>
<p>Although the tips listed above can help you stop search engines from tracking your clicks, it does not keep websites from gathering information about your web search. This is done through the HTTP referrer. Any page on the web can retrieve information on how you stumbled upon it, i.e. which URL referred to their web page.</p>
<p>The referrer is also known to be used by site owners to retrieve information about the search engine you used and what your search query was. On rare occasions, some sites alter themselves if you found them through web search. For example, I&#8217;ve seen sites display &#8220;Welcome, Googler!&#8221;-esque messages and even sites that highlight your Google search terms on the page you landed on. Although this rather creepy practice is not widespread, it just shows how much a site really knows about you.</p>
<p>Fortunately, you can disable the sending of the HTTP referrer to the websites you visit. While it is <a href="http://cafe.elharo.com/privacy/privacy-tip-3-block-referer-headers-in-firefox/" target="_blank">possible</a> to disable the HTTP referrer entirely in Firefox&#8217;s about:config, this can break certain functionality on some sites. There&#8217;s a Firefox add-on called <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/953" target="_blank">RefControl</a> that does away with this issue by allowing you to add exceptions for sites that need the referrer.</p>
<h3>Other browsers</h3>
<p>It is possible to use the Google Tracking B-Gone and Yahoo Click-Tracking Disabler scripts in other browsers. So if you&#8217;re really serious about extending your tinfoil hat protection to other browsers, you can check out these resources:</p>
<ul>
<li>Internet Explorer: <a href="http://www.gm4ie.com/" target="_blank">Greasemonkey for IE</a></li>
<li>Opera: <a href="http://my.opera.com/Contrid/blog/2007/02/11/how-to-greasemonkey-in-opera" target="_blank">How To: Greasemonkey in Opera</a></li>
<li>Safari: <a href="http://8-p.info/greasekit/" target="_blank">GreaseKit</a></li>
<li>Chrome: <a href="http://www.mychromeaddons.com/chrome-addon-greasemetal-greasemonkey-for-chrome/" target="_blank">Greasemetal</a></li>
</ul>
<p>To disable the HTTP referrer, follow these instructions:</p>
<ul>
<li>IE/Opera: <a href="http://www.hiderefer.com/hide_referrer.html" target="_blank">How do I Disable Sending Referrers?</a></li>
<li>Safari: <a href="http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7574040" target="_blank">Is there a way to disable header referrals in Safari?</a></li>
<li>Chrome: currently really difficult</li>
</ul>
<p>Since I&#8217;ve only tested this with Firefox, I cannot guarantee that the content from these resources is accurate.</p>
<p><strong>Copyright &copy; 2009 <a href="http://cybernetnews.com">CyberNet</a> | <a href="http://forum.cybernetnews.com">CyberNet Forum</a> | <a href="http://learnfirefox.cybernetnews.com">Learn Firefox</a><br /><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/how-to-stop-google-yahoo-bing-from-tracking-your-clicks/">How to Stop Google, Yahoo &amp; Bing from Tracking Your Clicks</a></strong></p><p><strong>Related Posts:</strong><ul><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/bing-image-search/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Microsoft Does Image Search Right with Bing">Microsoft Does Image Search Right with Bing</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/yahoo-bribes-users-to-set-them-as-your-homepage/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Yahoo Bribes Users To Set Them As Your Homepage">Yahoo Bribes Users To Set Them As Your Homepage</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/yahoo-acquires-mybloglog-along-with-their-statistics-program-too/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Yahoo! Acquires MyBlogLog (along with their statistics program too!)">Yahoo! Acquires MyBlogLog (along with their statistics program too!)</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/google-earth-being-made-for-linux/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Google Earth Being Made For Linux">Google Earth Being Made For Linux</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/yahoo-offers-instant-search-search-results-as-you-type/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Yahoo Offers Instant Search &#8212; Search Results As You Type">Yahoo Offers Instant Search &#8212; Search Results As You Type</a></ul></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>WrapUp: SearchTabs Enhances Your Google Results, Find Source Images for Desktop Wallpapers, and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about. Don&#8217;t forget to send in your own tips, or just leave a comment on this page if you think you&#8217;ve got something we [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"><p><!--align="right"-->Welcome to the <a href="http://cybernetnews.com/category/wrapup/">WrapUp</a> by <a href="http://cybernetnews.com">CyberNet</a>. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about. Don&#8217;t forget to <a href="http://cybernetnews.com/have-a-tip-send-it-to-us/">send in your own tips</a>, or just leave a comment on this page if you think you&#8217;ve got something we should include.</p>
<h3>&#8211;News&#8211;</h3>
<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/google-shared-docs.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="google shared docs.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/shared-folders-and-multiple-file-upload.html" target="_blank">Shared Folders Now on Google Docs</a></strong><br />
Google has added a feature to Google Docs that I&#8217;m sure collaborators will love. They now let you share an entire folder of documents with a group of people instead of having to specify permissions on a per-document basis. That means you can have a folder of docs for co-workers, another for family members, and so on. This just got a lot more useful for me!</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/office-2010.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="office 2010.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/10/09/goodbye-ms-works-hello-ad-supported-office-2010-starter/" target="_blank">Microsoft Ditches Works for Office 2010 Starter</a></strong><br />
Microsoft has decided to give the axe to MS Works, and replace it with Office 2010 Starter edition. This will included stripped-down ad-filled versions of both Word and Excel that will ship on many new PC&#8217;s&#8230; instead of the current 60-day trial solution that is getting included. I&#8217;m a bit torn as to whether this will be good or bad. In some ways I&#8217;m happy I won&#8217;t have to hear people say &#8220;why can&#8217;t I edit my documents in Office anymore?&#8221; I&#8217;m a bit concerned, however, as to what the quality of ads will be like, and what information Microsoft will be able to collect from users as a result of that.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/verizon.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="verizon.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://gizmodo.com/5375244/verizon-promises-android-phones-with-google-voice-support" target="_blank">Verizon Promises Android Phones with Google Voice Support</a></strong><br />
Verizon and Google made a joint announcement that they will be working together to serve up some Android-powered phones this year. They also said that they will be including support for Google Voice, which was obviously a jab at Apple/AT&amp;T considering the lack of support for the service from those two companies. This should definitely shine some more light on the Android platform, which will hopefully give Google the push they need to continually innovate in the mobile area.</p>
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<h3>&#8211;News in Brief&#8211;</h3>
<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/walmart-phone-plan.jpg" width="100" height="71" alt="walmart phone plan.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://gizmodo.com/5381437/walmart-offering-45-unlimited-cellphone-plan-nationwide" target="_blank">Walmart Offering $45 Unlimited Nationwide Cellphone Plan</a></strong><br />
The retail giant Walmart will begin offering a no-contract cellphone plan in the coming days that includes unlimited minutes, data, and messaging for a mere $45 per month.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/gmail-mean-1.jpg" width="100" height="61" alt="gmail mean-1.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-in-labs-got-wrong-bob.html" target="_blank">Gmail Labs Introduces &#8220;Got the Wrong Bob?&#8221;</a><br /></b> Google can analyze the recipients that you have selected in an email composition, and see if you&#8217;ve likely chosen the correct people based on past email habits.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/youtube-details.jpg" width="100" height="66" alt="youtube details.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/10/youtube-shows-video-info.html" target="_blank">YouTube Shows Video Info</a></strong><br />
By right-clicking on a YouTube video you can now get information like bitrate, frame rate, and other details.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/teen-entrepreneur.jpg" width="100" height="80" alt="teen entrepreneur.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/10/ten-teen-entrepreneurs-to-watch/" target="_blank">Ten Teen Entrepreneurs to Watch</a></strong><br />
TechCrunch outlines 10 teens that you should keep an eye out for&#8230; because you&#8217;ll probably hear about them again in the future.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/google-sites.jpg" width="100" height="80" alt="google sites.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/10/central-place-for-all-your-google-files.html" target="_blank">Google Sites Gets More Features</a></strong><br />
When using Google Sites you can add things like documents, spreadsheets, calendars, and more.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/schmidt.jpg" width="100" height="78" alt="schmidt.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://gizmodo.com/5376550/well-this-explains-so-much-about-google" target="_blank">Google&#8217;s (Lack of) Acquisition Process</a><br /></b> Google&#8217;s CEO Eric Schmidt admits that Larry and Sergey buy companies on a whim.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/quickview.jpg" width="100" height="70" alt="quickview.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/quickly-view-formatted-pdfs-in-your.html" target="_blank">Quickly View Formatted PDF&#8217;s in your Google Search Results</a></strong><br />
Google now includes a &#8220;Quick View&#8221; option next to PDF search results to make reading PDF&#8217;s less painful.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/skipscreen.jpg" width="100" height="75" alt="skipscreen.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/10/07/mediafire-pees-on-skipscreens-boots-seeks-to-ban-firefox-add-o/" target="_blank">MediaFire Pushes for a Firefox Extension to be Banned</a></strong><br />
MediaFire is urging Mozilla to remove a Firefox extension that is against their terms of service.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/meebo.jpg" width="100" height="72" alt="meebo.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/06/meebos-reach-spikes-to-over-90-million-users-with-community-im-growth/" target="_blank">Meebo Hits 90 Million Users</a></strong><br />
Congrats to Meebo for inching even closer to the huge 100 million user milestone!</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/pirate-bay-bunker.jpg" width="100" height="77" alt="pirate bay bunker.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-relocates-to-a-nuclear-bunker-091006/" target="_blank">Pirate Bay Relocates to Nuclear Bunker</a></strong><br />
The Pirate Bay is protecting themselves from physical attacks by relocating to a nuclear warfare bunker.</p>
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<h3>&#8211;Tips, Tutorials, and Reviews&#8211;</h3>
<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/searchtabs.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="searchtabs.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:3px; border:1px #b3b3b3 solid;" /></span><a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/10/14/searchtabs-uses-xmarks-bookmark-data-for-better-google-results/" target="_blank">SearchTabs Enhances Your Google Results</a></strong><br />
The SearchTabs Firefox extension is pretty cool because it leverages the data from Xmarks, which includes over one billion user bookmarks. SearchTabs looks at this data and displays stats next to the results letting you know how each one ranks in particular categories. This can definitely be helpful when trying to determine how reputable something is that you&#8217;re reading.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/disk2vhd.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="disk2vhd.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/create-a-virtual-machine-image-of-your-existing-hard-drive-windows/" target="_blank">Create a Virtual Machine Image From Your Hard Drive</a></strong><br />
Interestingly enough the Microsoft-owned Sysinternals company has created a free application that lets you turn the OS on your hard drive into a virtual machine image. The image that is generated can then be used in one of numerous virtual machine applications, or when you&#8217;re in Windows 7/Vista you can actually mount and browse the contents of the image without actually needing to fire it up.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/photojoy.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="photojoy.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://www.freewaregenius.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/photojoy-collage2.jpg" target="_blank">Create Dynamic Desktop Wallpapers</a></strong><br />
PhotoJoy is a free Windows app that lets you create dynamic wallpapers and screensavers from the photos you have stored on your computer. If you&#8217;re looking for a way to spice up your desktop this is an awesome way to do it. And, if you&#8217;re anything like me, you have plenty of photos on your computer for it to work with.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/tineye.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="tineye.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5374019/use-tineye-to-find-source-images-for-desktop-wallpaper" target="_blank">Find Source Images for Desktop Wallpapers</a></strong><br />
I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s happened to you before where you&#8217;ve seen an image or screenshot of an image that you really want to use as your wallpaper, but you&#8217;re not sure where the original high-res version can be found. That&#8217;s where TinEye comes in. Just upload the image, and it will try to locate some higher quality versions of the same photo that will hopefully be good enough to grace your desktop.</p>
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<h3>&#8211;Tips in Brief&#8211;</h3>
<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/firefox-37-thumbnails.jpg" width="100" height="71" alt="firefox 37 thumbnails.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-7-adds-per-tab-thumbnails-like-ie8-on-windows-7/" target="_blank">Firefox 3.7 Starts Prepping for Windows 7</a></strong><br />
Firefox 3.7 is including Windows 7-specific features like jumplists and per-tab Taskbar thumbnails&#8230; it&#8217;s just disappointing that this final release won&#8217;t be available until next year.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/doubletwist.jpg" width="100" height="77" alt="doubletwist.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5380478/is-doubletwist-a-real-itunes-alternative" target="_blank">DoubleTwist: Another Media Player</a></strong><br />
This is a decent media player that supports a wide range of devices, including Android-powered gadgets.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/wheresmycellphone.jpg" width="100" height="76" alt="wheresmycellphone.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5371980/wheres-my-cell-phone-gives-your-wayward-phone-a-ring" target="_blank">Where&#8217;s My Cell Phone Service Calls Your Phone</a></strong><br />
That&#8217;s right&#8230; you won&#8217;t have to ask one of your friends to call your phone the next time you can&#8217;t find it. Although that does require you to have it off of silent, and you have to be in the general vicinity if you want to hear it.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/google-homepage.jpg" width="100" height="73" alt="google homepage.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-10-08-n33.html" target="_blank">Join the Minimalist Google Homepage Prototype</a></strong><br />
Google is testing a truly minimalist homepage with not much more than a search box and a few buttons. Just run a quick script and you&#8217;ll be able to join in the fun.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/color-code-outlook.jpg" width="100" height="75" alt="color code outlook.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/4693/color-code-outlook-for-easier-management/" target="_blank">Color Code Outlook for Easier Management</a></strong><br />
Make some of your emails stand out from the others by color coding them as they fly in.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/default-browser.jpg" width="100" height="75" alt="default browser.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://www.freewaregenius.com/2009/10/06/how-to-change-your-default-system-browser-on-windows-xp-to-portable-firefox-or-any-other-portable-browser/" target="_blank">Make a Portable Browser Your Default</a></strong><br />
If you prefer to use a browser that is self-contained (a.k.a. portable) on your machine this is what you need to do to make it the default one.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/windows-mobile-65.jpg" width="100" height="69" alt="windows mobile 65.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://gizmodo.com/5374876/windows-mobile-65-review-theres-no-excuse-for-this" target="_blank">Windows Mobile 6.5 Review</a></strong><br />
Who would have thought&#8230; the reviews for Windows Mobile 6.5 aren&#8217;t looking too good. Gizmodo even goes as far as to say that the changes are barely noticeable.</p>
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<p class="newsitem"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/tuberadio.jpg" width="100" height="76" alt="tuberadio.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;" /></span><a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/4804/create-music-video-playlists-with-tuberadio.fm/" target="_blank">Create Music Video Playlists with TubeRadio.fm</a></strong><br />
This website, which will remind you a lot of iTunes, lets you queue up a bunch of music videos that you want to watch.</p>
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<h3>&#8211;Downloads&#8211;</h3>
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<li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/">Adobe Reader 9.2</a> <small>[<a href="http://www.filehippo.com/download_adobe_reader/6371/" target="_blank">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/mac.png" alt="Mac" title="Mac" /></li>
<li><a href="http://www.aim.com/">AIM 7.0.13.4</a> <small>[<a href="http://www.filehippo.com/download_aim/6331/" target="_blank">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /></li>
<li><a href="http://www.burnaware.com/burnaware_free.html">BurnAware Free 2.4.1</a> <small>[<a href="http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/BurnAware-Free/1212419334/2">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /></li>
<li><a href="http://www.digsby.com/">Digsby Build 70</a> <small>[<a href="http://www.burnaware.com/burnaware_free.html">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /></li>
<li><a href="http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/">FileZilla 3.2.8.1</a> <small>[<a href="http://www.filehippo.com/download_filezilla/6352/" target="_blank">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/mac.png" alt="Mac" title="Mac" /> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/linux.png" alt="Linux" title="Linux" /></li>
<li><a href="http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php">Foxit Reader 3.1.2.1013</a> <small>[<a href="http://www.filehippo.com/download_foxit/6369/" target="_blank">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/chrome">Google Chrome 4.0.221.6</a> <sup><font color="#FF0000"><strong>Beta</strong></font></sup> <small>[<a href="http://www.filehippo.com/download_google_chrome/6336/" target="_blank">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /></li>
<li><a href="http://desktop.google.com/">Google Desktop 5.9.909.8267</a> <small>[<a href="http://www.filehippo.com/download_google_desktop/6354/" target="_blank">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mediamonkey.com/">MediaMonkey 3.1.2.1272</a> <sup><font color="#FF0000"><strong>Beta</strong></font></sup> <small>[<a href="http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/MediaMonkey/1004522272/1">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /></li>
<li><a href="http://www.miranda-im.org/">Miranda IM 0.9.0</a> <sup><font color="#FF0000"><strong>Alpha 3</strong></font></sup> <small>[<a href="http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Miranda-IM/957048618/1">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /></li>
<li><a href="http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/">Notepad++ 5.5.1</a> <small>[<a href="http://www.filehippo.com/download_notepad/6340/" target="_blank">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /></li>
<li><a href="http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html">Notepad 2 4.0.2.3</a> <small>[<a href="http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Notepad2/1090194340/1">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /></li>
<li><a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera 10.10.1833</a> <sup><font color="#FF0000"><strong>Beta 1</strong></font></sup> <small>[<a href="http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Opera-for-Windows/945720329/1">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/mac.png" alt="Mac" title="Mac" /> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/linux.png" alt="Linux" title="Linux" /></li>
<li><a href="http://www.getpaint.net/">Paint.NET 3.5</a> <sup><font color="#FF0000"><strong>Beta 3</strong></font></sup> <small>[<a href="http://www.filehippo.com/download_paint.net/6362/" target="_blank">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /></li>
<li><a href="http://www.primopdf.com/">PrimoPDF 5.0.0.19</a> <small>[<a href="http://www.filehippo.com/download_primopdf/6339/" target="_blank">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey">SeaMonkey 2.0</a> <sup><font color="#FF0000"><strong>RC1</strong></font></sup> <small>[<a href="http://www.filehippo.com/download_seamonkey/6350/" target="_blank">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/mac.png" alt="Mac" title="Mac" /> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/linux.png" alt="Linux" title="Linux" /></li>
<li><a href="http://www.skype.com/getconnected/">Skype 4.1.0.179</a> <small>[<a href="http://www.filehippo.com/download_skype/6359/" target="_blank">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /></li>
<li><a href="http://www.xdlab.ru/en/">TagScanner 5.1.553</a> <small>[<a href="http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/TagScanner/981935153/1">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /></li>
<li><a href="http://www.utorrent.com/">uTorrent 2.0.0.16850</a> <sup><font color="#FF0000"><strong>Beta</strong></font></sup> <small>[<a href="http://www.filehippo.com/download_utorrent/6361/" target="_blank">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /></li>
<li><a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/">VirtualBox 3.0.8.53138</a> <small>[<a href="http://www.filehippo.com/download_virtualbox/6332/" target="_blank">Mirror</a>]</small> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/windows.png" alt="Windows" title="Windows" /> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/mac.png" alt="Mac" title="Mac" /> <img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/linux.png" alt="Linux" title="Linux" /></li>
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		<title>Integrated Gmail Transforms Your Inbox into a Website Hub</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the longest time I&#8217;ve been wanting Google to bring all of their services together into some sort of unified interface. A place where I could read my email, manage my calendar, catch up on news in my RSS feeds, search for a place on a map, and so on. Just one central page that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"><p><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/integrated-gmail.png" width="397" height="412" alt="integrated gmail.png" style="float:right;" />For the longest time I&#8217;ve been wanting Google to bring all of their services together into some sort of unified interface. A place where I could read my email, manage my calendar, catch up on news in my RSS feeds, search for a place on a map, and so on. Just one central page that does it all so that I only need one tab open to have access to all that information.</p>
<p>Even though Google hasn&#8217;t brought everything together themselves it&#8217;s still possible to do on your own, but only if you&#8217;re a Firefox user. Thanks to an extension called <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9457">Integrated Gmail</a> you can bring all of your Google services plus any third-party sites right into your Inbox. As seen in the screenshot to the right I&#8217;ve got everything I want fast access to in a series of expandable boxes. I can pick and choose the order that I want them in, add whatever sites I want (such as Pandora for streaming music), and I can also add Google gadgets.</p>
<p>There are a few nice interface designs that demonstrated to me the detail the designer put into this. For one the Gmail and Google Reader icons both show the unread counts on them so that even if they aren&#8217;t expanded you&#8217;ll still know when you have new items.</p>
<p>You might be thinking to yourself that having the unread count on the Gmail icon doesn&#8217;t really matter because you can always see it in the sidebar. Well, that&#8217;s where the other nice touch comes in. In the bottom-left corner of the screen you&#8217;ll see the green arrow that can be used to collapse the sidebar. This is awesome for anyone working on a small netbook screen so that you can maximize your precious viewing area. The cherry on top is that you can also collapse the header thereby maximizing your vertical space as well. It&#8217;s a minimalist&#8217;s dream.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to see something like this come out of Gmail Labs, but I&#8217;m doubtful anything they&#8217;d release would match some of the features this has. They surely wouldn&#8217;t let you add third-party sites, because that could mean you&#8217;d add another email service like Yahoo! Mail to your Gmail Inbox. At any rate this Firefox extension will serve me well until Google figures out some sort of plan.</p>
<p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9457">Integrated Gmail Homepage</a> (Firefox only; freeware)</p>
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		<title>Gmail Labs: Almost a Year Later and 50+ Available</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Friday Gmail Labs will be celebrating its one year anniversary. That&#8217;s right&#8230; those &#8220;extras&#8221; that you&#8217;ve been enjoying in Gmail all started one year ago when they pulled the curtain off of 13 features that testers could enable in their Gmail accounts. At the time none of the ones available were anything to die [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"><p><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/gmail-labs.png" width="300" height="273" alt="gmail labs.png" style="float:right; margin-bottom:5px; margin-left:5px;" />This Friday Gmail Labs will be celebrating its one year anniversary. That&#8217;s right&#8230; those &#8220;extras&#8221; that you&#8217;ve been enjoying in Gmail all started one year ago when they <a href="http://cybernetnews.com/new-experimental-features-with-gmail-labs/">pulled the curtain off of 13 features</a> that testers could enable in their Gmail accounts. At the time none of the ones available were anything to die for, but as time has progressed the things they&#8217;ve added have really changed the way I use Gmail. In fact one year ago I was using a desktop mail client, and as more Labs features were released it slowly converted me over to using the web-based mail client.</p>
<p>I counted up the number of Gmail Labs features available, and if my math skills are anything to go by it looks like there are 51 at the moment. That&#8217;s almost an average of one per week if you spread that number out over the course of a year. Of the 51 available I have 26 of them enabled.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping a close eye on the new Gmail Labs features that Google has been releasing, and if I think they&#8217;ll be helpful to me I&#8217;ll go ahead and enable them. What&#8217;s impressive is that even though I have over half of them enabled I don&#8217;t see it affect the performance of the site.</p>
<p>I was going to list out all of the ones that I use, but after some careful thought I figured it would be better to only share my favorites:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Inbox Preview</strong> &#8211; Show a simple, static preview of the inbox while loading.</li>
<li><strong>Multiple Inboxes</strong> &#8211; Add extra lists of emails in your inbox to see even more important email at once. The new lists of threads can be labels, your starred messages, drafts or any search you want.</li>
<li><strong>Undo Send</strong> &#8211; Thankfully I haven&#8217;t had to use this yet, but I know the day will come! With it you can stop messages from being sent for a few seconds after hitting the send button.</li>
<li><strong>Tasks</strong> &#8211; Lets me manage my to-do list from my Inbox.</li>
<li><strong>Send and Archive</strong> &#8211; Adds a button to the compose form that lets you send a reply message and archive the email conversation in a single action.</li>
<li><strong>Title Tweaks</strong> &#8211; Changes the order of the elements in the browser&#8217;s title bar&#8230; makes it easier to see how many new emails there are.</li>
</ul>
<p>Those are the six Labs features that have really changed the way I use Gmail&#8230; particularly the Multiple Inboxes one. I love being able to see certain emails that I&#8217;ve tagged or starred right there in my Inbox. It gives me even less of a reason to leave an email sitting there not filed.</p>
<p>So here&#8217;s a big thanks to Google and even more specifically the Gmail team! Now they just need to come up with a more user-friendly way to manage which Gmail Labs features are enabled/disabled. Because now that there are over 50 items it can be rather tedious to scroll through the list to find one in particular.</p>
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		<title>Keyboardr: Real-time Google &amp; Wikipedia Search Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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Every now and again I use StumbleUpon to see what kind of unique sites I can find, and last week I found a rather nifty one called Keyboardr. It&#8217;s a search engine that distinguishes itself by not actually having (or needing) a search button. Results are show to you in real-time as you type.
Off to [...]]]></description>
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<p>Every now and again I use StumbleUpon to see what kind of unique sites I can find, and last week I found a rather nifty one called <a href="http://keyboardr.com/">Keyboardr</a>. It&#8217;s a search engine that distinguishes itself by not actually having (or needing) a search button. Results are show to you in real-time as you type.</p>
<p>Off to the side of the page you&#8217;ll also see the top result from Wikipedia, some videos from Youtube, Google Image results, and even Google Blog results. The whole interface is designed to to be navigated using only the keyboard, so you shouldn&#8217;t even have to put your hand on the mouse.</p>
<p>The downside? Only eight search results from Google are displayed. You can always click the &#8220;All Results&#8221; link to be taken directly to Google to view more matches, but since this is using the same API as our <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7931">CyberSearch</a> extension I know it&#8217;s possible for the developer to program this to retrieve multiple pages of results. In fact they should just make it so that as you scroll down the page it keeps fetching more results. That would make it perfect, and especially handy as a homepage that the browser displays each time you create a new tab.</p>
<p><em>Tip: Pressing the ESC key will clear out the results shown on the page, and it will focus/clear the search box.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://keyboardr.com/">Keyboardr Homepage</a></p>
<p><strong>Copyright &copy; 2009 <a href="http://cybernetnews.com">CyberNet</a> | <a href="http://forum.cybernetnews.com">CyberNet Forum</a> | <a href="http://learnfirefox.cybernetnews.com">Learn Firefox</a><br /><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/realtime-google-results/">Keyboardr: Real-time Google &amp; Wikipedia Search Results</a></strong></p><p><strong>Related Posts:</strong><ul><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/google-testing-another-search-results-page/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Google Testing Another Search Results Page">Google Testing Another Search Results Page</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/netvibes-startpages-get-google-search/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Netvibes Startpages Get Google Search">Netvibes Startpages Get Google Search</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/google-adds-world-cup-scores-to-search-results/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Google Adds World Cup Scores To Search Results">Google Adds World Cup Scores To Search Results</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/cuil-launches-but-doesnt-impress-with-results/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Cuil Launches, But Doesn&#8217;t Impress With Results">Cuil Launches, But Doesn&#8217;t Impress With Results</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/download-google-image-results-in-bulk/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Download Google Image Results In Bulk">Download Google Image Results In Bulk</a></ul></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Google Preferred Sites Search Feature</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is experimenting with yet another new search feature called Google Preferred Sites. If you&#8217;re one of the lucky few to have this option show up in your search preferences you can start taking advantage of this feature right now, but most of you will probably have to wait for Google to roll it out.
How [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"><p><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/google-preferred-sites.jpg" width="218" height="107" alt="google preferred sites.jpg" style="float:right; margin-bottom:5px; margin-left:5px;" />Google is experimenting with yet another new search feature called <a href="http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=118281">Google Preferred Sites</a>. If you&#8217;re one of the lucky few to have this option show up in your <a href="http://www.google.com/preferences">search preferences</a> you can start taking advantage of this feature right now, but most of you will probably have to wait for Google to roll it out.</p>
<p>How it works is when you&#8217;re logged in with your Google account you can specify your favorite domains, which will then take precedence when performing searches on Google. It&#8217;s basically a way for you to have the sites you trust the most towards the top of your search results.</p>
<p>I actually can&#8217;t wait to get this feature. It says that the service will also be able to recommend links to be added by scanning through your Google Search History (if enabled). The only thing it sounds like it&#8217;s missing is the ability to block domains all together. Their <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-search-your-own.html">SearchWiki</a> will let you block specific results, but not entire domains.</p>
<p>What do you think? Is this something that you&#8217;d actually find useful?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=118281">Google Preferred Sites Help Page</a> [via <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/01/google-preferred-sites.html">GoogleOS</a>]</p>
<p><strong>Copyright &copy; 2009 <a href="http://cybernetnews.com">CyberNet</a> | <a href="http://forum.cybernetnews.com">CyberNet Forum</a> | <a href="http://learnfirefox.cybernetnews.com">Learn Firefox</a><br /><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/google-preferred-sites/">Google Preferred Sites Search Feature</a></strong></p><p><strong>Related Posts:</strong><ul><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/google-finally-reaches-number-2-according-to-alexa/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Google Finally Reaches Number 2 According To Alexa">Google Finally Reaches Number 2 According To Alexa</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/dell-ultrasharp-2405fpw-24-lcd-monitor-for-710/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24&#8243; LCD Monitor For $710">Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24&#8243; LCD Monitor For $710</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/wikipedia-now-has-a-list-of-googles-sites-and-services/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Wikipedia Now Has A List Of Google&#8217;s Sites And Services">Wikipedia Now Has A List Of Google&#8217;s Sites And Services</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/get-to-know-google-with-the-google-cheat-sheets/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Get To Know Google With The Google Cheat Sheets">Get To Know Google With The Google Cheat Sheets</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/how-to-join-yahoo-mail-beta-by-tricking-yahoo/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: How To Join Yahoo Mail Beta By Tricking Yahoo">How To Join Yahoo Mail Beta By Tricking Yahoo</a></ul></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Google Discontinues Services: Notebook, Video, Jaiku, and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google announced today that they will be stopping development on several different services. Among those being given the ax are Google Notebook, Google Video, Google Catalog Search, Dodgeball, Jaiku, and Google Mashup Editor.
I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m really surprised with most of those because you never hear too much about them. What makes me happy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"><p><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/farewell-google.jpg" width="200" height="152" alt="farewell google.jpg" style="float:right; margin-bottom:5px; margin-left:5px;" />Google announced today that they will be stopping development on several different services. Among those being given the ax are <a href="http://www.google.com/notebook">Google Notebook</a>, <a href="http://video.google.com/">Google Video</a>, <a href="http://catalogs.google.com/">Google Catalog Search</a>, <a href="http://www.dodgeball.com/">Dodgeball</a>, <a href="http://jaiku.com/">Jaiku</a>, and <a href="http://editor.googlemashups.com/">Google Mashup Editor</a>.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m really surprised with most of those because you never hear too much about them. What makes me happy is that Google isn&#8217;t completely throwing in the towel on the services. For example, Google Video won&#8217;t accept any new submissions, but videos already posted will remain online. And the Jaiku is being ported over to the Google App Engine where it will then become an open source project.</p>
<p>The one service I was a bit surprised to see on the list is Google Notebook. Luckily Google is planning to leave this untouched, but as <a href="http://googlenotebookblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/stopping-development-on-google-notebook.html">their blog describes</a> there will no longer be any development work done:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Starting next week, we plan to stop active development on Google Notebook. This means we&#8217;ll no longer be adding features or offer Notebook for new users. But don&#8217;t fret, we&#8217;ll continue to maintain service for those of you who&#8217;ve already signed up. As part of this plan, however, we will no longer support the Notebook Extension, but as always users who have already signed up will continue to have access to their data via the web interface at http://www.google.com/notebook.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I really love Google Notebook, and it&#8217;s too bad they won&#8217;t be taking it any further. My wish was that it would someday become an integrated part of Gmail, but that never happened. With the addition of Gmail Labs I still have hope that someday Gmail will get a feature that would prevent having to send those pesky &#8220;note to self&#8221; emails.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time to bid farewell to these Google services. Some of them have served us well, and some will live on in our hearts. We&#8217;ll be telling stories of Jaiku and Dodgeball to our great grandchildren as we reminisce of the times we walked to school/work uphill both ways in hurricane-like weather. Those were the days, weren&#8217;t they?</p>
<p>[via <a href="http://searchengineland.com/google-ends-google-video-uploads-shutters-notebook-catalog-search-dodgeball-jaiku-16166">Search Engine Land</a>]</p>
<p><strong>Copyright &copy; 2009 <a href="http://cybernetnews.com">CyberNet</a> | <a href="http://forum.cybernetnews.com">CyberNet Forum</a> | <a href="http://learnfirefox.cybernetnews.com">Learn Firefox</a><br /><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/google-discontinues-services-notebook-video-jaiku/">Google Discontinues Services: Notebook, Video, Jaiku, and More</a></strong></p><p><strong>Related Posts:</strong><ul><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/google-ready-to-take-on-twitter/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Google Ready to Take on Twitter">Google Ready to Take on Twitter</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/new-google-notebook-tagging/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: New Google Notebook Tagging">New Google Notebook Tagging</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/is-google-working-on-new-notebook-features/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Is Google Working On New Notebook Features?">Is Google Working On New Notebook Features?</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/google-notebook-is-live/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Google Notebook Is LIVE">Google Notebook Is LIVE</a><a href="http://cybernetnews.com/google-notebook-gets-a-module-and-advanced-sharing-options/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Google Notebook Gets A Module And Advanced Sharing Options">Google Notebook Gets A Module And Advanced Sharing Options</a></ul></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>When People Get Their Tech Facts Mixed Up&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several days ago, Ryan and I were at a mall and we happened to overhear a conversation that went something like this:
Girl 1: &#8220;Hey, have you seen the new gPhone? It&#8217;s Apple&#8217;s new iPhone!&#8221;
Girl 2: &#8220;Cool!&#8221;
How the conversation finished, we&#8217;re not sure because we continued to walk by. We looked at each other and kinda [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"><p><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/facts.png" width="251" height="365" alt="facts.png" style="float:right; margin-left:5px;" />Several days ago, Ryan and I were at a mall and we happened to overhear a conversation that went something like this:</p>
<p><strong>Girl 1:</strong> &#8220;Hey, have you seen the new gPhone? It&#8217;s Apple&#8217;s new iPhone!&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Girl 2:</strong> &#8220;Cool!&#8221;</p>
<p>How the conversation finished, we&#8217;re not sure because we continued to walk by. We looked at each other and kinda laughed at the thought that someone believed that the gPhone was an iPhone.</p>
<p>So often I hear people say off-the-wall things like that, or they get their tech facts all goofed up. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve found yourself in situations like that as well. If you&#8217;re like me, part of you wants to stop and correct the people so that they don&#8217;t continue to make fools out of themselves. There&#8217;s always another part of me though, that says to keep moving and mind my own business, which is what I usually do unless I&#8217;m directly involved in the conversation.</p>
<p>Another example was a conversation at work that went something like this:</p>
<p><strong>Co-worker 1:</strong> &#8220;Vista is actually pretty nice, now that I am getting used to it.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Co-worker 2</strong>: &#8220;It is, I&#8217;m just having a hard time getting used to not having menus.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Co-worker 1:</strong> &#8220;Menus?&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Co-worker 2:</strong> &#8220;You know, they got rid of the menus in Word!&#8221;</p>
<p>It took a second for me to realize that Co-worker 2 thought that Office 2007 was called Vista.</p>
<p>Offhand I am having a hard time thinking of other examples, but there are many! Have you ever been part of a conversation that left you trying to explain the facts to people who thought they knew what they were talking about? Or maybe you&#8217;ve had experiences like we did at the mall where you overhear someone saying something that you just knew was not right?</p>
<p>When people get their tech facts mixed up it&#8217;s usually a reminder that I spend too much time following technology related news, but I wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way!</p>
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		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always thought that Gmail has one of the best interfaces out there in terms of web-based email clients, but not everyone may feel the same way. In true Google fashion they are starting to roll out a feature where users can choose from 30 awesome looking themes that will give your Inbox a fresh [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"><p>I&#8217;ve always thought that Gmail has one of the best interfaces out there in terms of web-based email clients, but not everyone may feel the same way. In true Google fashion they are starting to roll out a feature where users can choose from 30 awesome looking themes that will give your Inbox a fresh new feel.</p>
<p>This new feature isn&#8217;t going to be part of Gmail Labs either. Once the themes have been rolled out to your account you should notice a new Themes tab in the settings. Alternatively <a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#settings/themes">this link</a> will take you directly to the theme settings provided that it has been activated for your account.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a quick look at a variety of the themes available (notice the ASCII theme in the bottom-left corner):</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/gmail-themes.jpg" width="540" height="840" alt="gmail themes.jpg" /></p>
<p>Bravo Google! You&#8217;ve really out done yourself this time. Now there&#8217;s just one thing that would really put this over the top, and that would be if they create some sort of system so that designers can create and upload their own themes. I&#8217;m not going to complain though because the set of themes they currently have available is pretty amazing.</p>
<p><em>P.S. I have one account that has this feature already, and another that doesn&#8217;t. So be patient why this gets rolled out to everyone.</em></p>
<p>Read more about the new themes over at the <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/spice-up-your-inbox-with-colors-and.html">Gmail Blog</a></p>
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