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How to add emoticons/smileys in GMail

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Have you ever wished to add emoticons to GMail? If so, here is a Greasemonkey script to add smilies/emoticons.

GMail,…

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Greasemonkey scripts for GMail

Greasemonkey is an extension for Firefox. Some folk say its the most useful of all Firefox extensions. While that is an exaggeration, it is partly true. I consider Greasemonkey as one of the more useful extensions. And it is among my limited collection of extensions on Firefox.

Greasemonkey allows you to write/upload scripts - simple JavaScript files - to change the way that we see websites, add…

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Orkut Blog, a blog by Google for Orkuters

Orkut, a popular social networking site owned by Google, had launched a blog on June 25. The first post was made (obviously) by its founder, Orkut Buyukkokten, its founder. The blog introduces itself as Orkut: News and Notes; Your Official Guide to staying beautiful on Orkut.

The blog has become very popular, attaining close to 4000 RSS subscribers (as of today). However,there is no good inside information or…

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Is Google becoming the next Technorati?

John Chow has been penalised heavily by Google, for link-bombing. He is now far behind the first page for both “John Chow” and “Make Money Online” search terms. There’s also reports that Google will drop his PageRank from the 6 to 4, in the next PR update.

For several months now, John Chow had been aggressively pursuing a linkback campaign, where he would link to any…

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Google acquires Panoramio and FeedBurner : spot a pattern?

Google is at it again. They have acquired Blogger, Blogspot, Picassa, Measuremap, Analytics, YouTube, FeedBurner - the list goes on. Now, Google has acquired Panoramio, a Spanish image-sharing site. The perks seems to be that Panoramio allows users to upload images and locate the shot on Google Earth/Google Maps.

Some guys saw this acquisition coming a long time ago : Google had made Panoramio the default…

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