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Most Popular Free Windows Downloads of 2008

Most Popular Free Windows Downloads of 2008

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10 Features That Will Make Twitter Better Twitter‘s popularity has skyrocketed in the recent months. Usage statistics states that most people who use Twitter interact with the application via the web rather than a third-party client such as TweetDeck or twitterfeed. Twitter’s web interface is simple and intuitive but lacks a few features that can make it much better. 1. Figure 1 shows tabs that you can use to quickly see tweets in a particular group. Twitter’s increasing popularity has gotten many people on board and using the web application. The ability to create groups (or categories) of Twitter users that you follow can reduce the noise in your Twitter feed and can help you immediately see updates from particular groups of users. For example, having a group for "co-workers" or "local tweeters" can help you quickly see what your co-workers are saying or find up-to-the-minute information on local events such as traffic accidents. 2. Figure 2 shows an auto complete dialog box appears when you type the @ symbol. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

"2009: Products I Can’t Live Without" par Michael Arri At the beginning of each year I traditionally publish a list of my favorite startups and products. This is the fourth year I’ve done this – previous lists: 2006, 2007, 2008. You guys get to pick the winners of the Crunchies – this list is all mine. This is a list of the products I tend to use daily. Some are for work (WordPress, Delicious, Zoho, etc.), some are for fun (MySpace Music, Hulu, etc), and some are useful for both (Digg, Skype, YouTube, etc.). The list changes a bit from year to year, and is also getting longer (see chart). I’ve added nine new products, including one gadget (which I’ve left off in the past): Animoto, Friendfeed, Hulu, iPhone 3G, MySpace Music, Pandora (which was on in previous years) Docstoc/Scribd and Yammer. I’ve removed six products from last year’s list: Amazon Music, Amie Street, Firefox, Flickr, Netvibes, Technorati. I still use the products I’ve removed, just not as much as in previous years. 800-Free-411 Animoto Digg Facebook Friendfeed Gmail Google Reader

21 Sites To Find Out What’s Hot Online | MakeUseOf.com Is it important for you to stay informed of daily news? Do you try to always be up-to-date with what people are talking about throughout the world? If “yes” is the answer to both of the questions, then today’s post on what’s hot online and how to spot internet hot trends is right for you! Use meme trackers to spot daily hot trends: Google Blogsearch that was turned into a meme tracker only a few months ago tracks memes throughout all topics and naturally has the biggest index to check.Megite separates memes into categories (technology, entertainment, business, science, etc) and often publishes completely irrelevant memes in each. Use blog search engines to spot daily hot trends: Technorati Popular gives the list of top searches and top blogs (that have become hot in the past 48 hours).BlogPulse key phrases allows for a “trend this” option that graphically represents the hot trend history. Use search engines to spot daily hot trends: Yahoo Buzz. Use Twitter tools to spot daily hot trends:

JOSM JOSM is the "Java OpenStreetMap Editor", a desktop application originally developed by Immanuel Scholz and currently maintained by Dirk Stöcker. Its homepage is located at josm.openstreetmap.de. Although it has a relatively steep learning curve, JOSM is used by experienced editors thanks to its plugins and stability. Install You can download JOSM from the JOSM homepage either by browsing there or by clicking the following... java web-start link to launch JOSM from here, recommended version, all platforms and automatic update josm-tested.jar is a stable version of JOSM josm-latest.jar is the latest development version josm-setup.exe Installer for Windows For more details see JOSM/Installation. Usage JOSM screenshot, editing in Cleveland, Ohio, USA There are other editors for OpenStreetMap data, like iD or Potlatch 2.

Quick Online Tips 99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications - Smashing Magazine 99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications Advertisement If you haven’t heard of Twitter1 by now, you must be living under a rock! It is everywhere, and everyone is using it. To say that the rise of Twitter has been explosive would be an understatement. As a result of this growth, the number of Twitter apps and tools available has become extensive. Below, we present 99 Essential Twitter Tools and Applications, split into the following categories: Tools and Productivity Apps, Statistics and Analytics, Find New Twitter Friends Apps, Search Twitter Apps, Web-Based Mobile Apps, WordPress Twitter Plug-Ins, Adobe Air Twitter Apps and Firefox Twitter Extensions. You may want to take a look at the following related posts: Tools and Productivity Apps Twittercal6 Twittercal is a service that connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar and lets you add events easily, directly from your Twitter account. Twitpay7 TwitPay is a simple way to send payments via Twitter. Mr. Search Twitter Apps

The Best Links 2008 de Kottke This is the fifth annual selection of my favorite things I've linked to on kottke.org. This year's list includes games, photography, top-notch journalism, time-related material, architecture, design, and even politics, about 100 links in all. The format of the list is a bit different this year. Passage is a game that takes 5-minutes to play which possesses a poignancy that you wouldn't expect from such a simple game. Beautiful slow-motion skateboarding with explosions. An extensive history of visual communication, from cave paintings on up to the present-day computer. The NY Times published a stacked graph of movie box office receipts from 1986 to Feb 2008. Sites/blogs of the year: The growing cache of vintage photos from museums and other public institutions on The Commons project on Flickr barely edges out excellently edited superb photography of The Big Picture for the site of the year. On the final episode of St. Matthew Dent's awesome designs for the new UK coinage. R.I.P.

Baby Name Map - Popular baby names from around the world Editing Several editors can be used to edit features in the OpenStreetMap database. Before you can edit any data you will need to create an OSM account. Beginners Guide The Beginners' guide will show you how to add data to OpenStreetMap. Top three editors iD is the easy to use editor found per default on the "Edit" button of the OpenStreetMap homepage, and is ideal for quick editing contributions. Potlatch 2 is the precursor to iD, still used by quite a few people, and still available under the 'edit' button drop-down ("▼"). JOSM is a standalone Java desktop application which allows fluid zooming, panning, and editing of a locally stored dataset, before uploading changes in a batch. For a more detailed comparison of the major editors see the page Comparison of editors. Choice of editors This table is generated automatically by a bot. See also External Links

Some Of The Best iPhone Apps Of 2008 This guest post was written by Bryan Barletta, lead reviewer at AppVee, a site that offers iPhone app reviews and news. Barletta has picked out some of the App Store’s best applications, and we’ve embedded video reviews for some of them (click the corresponding review link to view a video if it isn’t already embedded). Also be sure to check out our picks of the hottest iPhone apps from back in July when the App Store first launched. The iPhone and iPod Touch have taken the world by storm. In just a little over six months time we’ve witnessed the doors of the iTunes App Store opening to the 10,000 app marker being crossed. In between that time we’ve see the $999 I’m Rich make several people poor, fart joke apps earning over $25K in one day, and Apple still looking the other way when users mention copy and paste. Top 10 Apps Tweetie An easy to use and full featured Twitter app that is speedy. Pandora Browse through the music genome and find new artists that fit your taste. Top 10 Games Dr.

Leonardo Da Vinci: Bag Designer Forget Coach and Gucci, a 15th-century bag designed by Da Vinci conveyed stunning, unique fashion. Scholars have reconstructed fragmented drawings of a unique bag designed by Leonardo da Vinci in 1497. The bag has been brought to life by the renowned Florentine fashion house Gherardini. Functional and beautiful, the bag reflects Leonardo Da Vinci's original and counter-cultural ideas of fashion. Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) was an artist, inventor, scientist, architect, engineer, writer and even a musician. After several months of meticulous research, scholars have reconstructed some fragmented drawings of a unique bag designed by the Renaissance genius around 1497. The sketch was first published in 1978 by Carlo Pedretti, a leading Da Vinci scholar, who identified it among the Atlantic Code's tens of thousands of drawings. PHOTOS: The Face of Da Vinci: An Enduring Mystery "Leonardo designed several fashion accessories, but this bag is pretty unique. Not to mention shoes.

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