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Still using WordPress’s or Blogspot’s in-built editor for blogging? You might want to use a dedicated blog editor for the job and as of today, nothing beats Windows Live Writer. Windows Live Writer is a must-have free software if you are into blogging. Its What You See Is What You Get editor is pretty powerful and produces good HTML code unlike Microsoft Word.

Listed below are top 10 reasons why you would want to use Windows Live Writer:

1. No need to save the images first and then insert into the post you are composing. Have a screenshot or image in the clipboard? Just paste it in.
2. Image resizing. Can your blog hold only images up to 500px wide? No problem. For an image that’s wider than what can be fit in the content area of your blog, simply specify the width, 500px for example and the height will automatically be proportionally set. The thumbnail will automatically be linked to the full sized image (the link can of course be removed easily from ‘Link to’ dropdown).
   
3. Ability to specify whether the images should automatically be uploaded to your blog or to any FTP server. Hence there’s no need to upload your images separately to sites like Imageshack. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Split view (seeing two browser tabs side-by-side at the same time) is in-built into some browsers like Opera and Maxthon.

ChromePlugins.org has released a bookmarklet which will bring the dual split view to Google Chrome.

this will enable you to create 2 side by side “panels” in Chrome in the same tab so you can browse two sites at once side by side.

To get the split view:

1. Visit http://www.chromeplugins.org/plugins/google-chrome-dual-view/ and add the bookmarklet to your browser bookmarks.
2. Click on the bookmarklet
   
3. The existing tab location will be filled by default. You can change it to the URL of the page to appear in the left side and press OK.
   
4. Then enter the URL of the page to appear in the right tab. You have the option to prevent this page from creating additional dialogs.
   

That’s it. Your existing tabs will remain intact and within a single tab, you can see both the sites like this:

Google launched a new service titled Google Moderator which seems to be aimed to compete the super popular Yahoo! Answers

Collect questions in one place
Everyone has a chance to propose a question to the group.

Vote for the questions you care about
The blue featured question gives everyone’s submission the chance to be voted on.

Use at any event or gathering
Google Moderator works in any group setting, from lectures to town hall meetings.

To get started, log in to the service and set your signature (nickname and location)

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Gbridge is a free software that lets you sync folders, share files, chat and VNC securely and easily. It extends Google’s gtalk service to a VPN (Virtual Private Network) that connects your computers and your close friends’ computers directly and securely. Gbridge has many unique features.

What can you do with GBridge?

1. File sharing – Securely share files among your own computers, so you can remotely access your files. Securely share files to your designated friend, so the selected friend can instantly view the auto-generated photo thumbnails and slideshows remotely.
2. File syncing – Transfer big files and sync folders from/to anywhere. Note that this is not truly bi-directional. For more info, visit this forum topic.
3. Backup – Setup an auto-recurring local or remote backup of your important directory
4. Screen sharing – Access your computer desktop remotely or share your desktop with your friend from anywhere, even behind NAT. Note that GBridge doesn’t work when you are using a VPN connection.

URL: http://www.gbridge.com/

Reader Level: Basic

One of the easiest ways of rounding corners of an image is to use the online image editing service called Picnik.

1. a) If you want to round the corners of an image on a web page, you should get the Picnik add-on for Firefox from here. Once you have the extension installed, you can simply right click on the image and select ‘Edit Image in Picnik…’ option from the context menu. That will automatically open Picnik website in a new tab with your image ready to be edited.
   b) If you would like to apply rounded corners to an existing image on your computer, visit http://www.picnik.com/ and click ‘Get from Computer’. Browse to and bring your image into Picnik.

   

2. Now go to ‘Create’ tab, click on ‘Frames’ and select ‘Rounded Edges’

   

3. You can see that the edges of your image immediately get rounded with a default corner radius of 27 (changeable). Also you can set the background color to be the same as the color of webpage on which you intend to place the image.

   

4. Go to ‘Save & Share’ tab and save the image to your computer or have it directly sent to image hosting sites like Flickr and Picasa.

If you would like to use Photoshop, here’s a video I prepared in the past:

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