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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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Want to check whether your name is still available at social networking and Web 2.0 sites? Just visit http://usernamecheck.com/, key in your name and click the ? button.

According to the site, ‘sridhar’ is available at Digg when it’s not. So YMMV.

It’s a good idea to go ahead and register at those sites (that you think might be worth creating an account at) where your desired username is still not taken up.

By the way, does anyone know if TinyURL allows user registrations?

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Firefox 3.0.2 is out and it will probably break few of your favorite add-ons. The easiest way to make those work is to use the MR Tech Toolkit add-on. Visit the link and install MR Tech Toolkit add-on.

To install a new incompatible add-on and make it compatible

1. Click on the xpi file link

   

2. Click on Allow button at the top right
3. In the prompt to remove the extension installation delay, you may want to click Yes.

   

4. Tick “Override ‘maxVersion’ compatibility checking and click ‘Install now’ button.

   

5. Restart Firefox to complete your changes.

To make an existing incompatible add-on compatible

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A new update of Firefox, version 3.0.2 has been released. Before updating it’s a good idea to back up your Firefox using either MozBackup and/or FEBE.

Changelog

Firefox 3.0.2 contains the following updates:

• Fixed several security issues.
• Fixed several stability issues.
• Official releases for Sinhala and Slovene are now available.
• Beta releases for Bengali, Galician, Hindi, Icelandic, Kannada, Marathi, Telegu, and Thai are available for testing.
• Fixed a number of minor issues with the layout of certain web pages.
• Fixed several theme issues that affected right-to-left locales.
• Fixed issue that caused some users with customized toolbars to have their Back and Forward buttons go missing (bug 426026)
• Add new Extended Validation (EV) roots to Firefox 3.0.2.
• On certain IDN sites, the password manager would not fill in username and password details properly.
• Fixed several hangs and crashes that occurred when using screen readers.
• Fixed Mac-specific issues:
  • Keyboard shortcuts would stop working in some cases.
  • Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters can not be entered (using IME) into text fields in Flash objects (bug 357670)
  • Firefox 3.0.1 could not be used when the user profile is stored on an AFP directory (bug 417037)

To update your Firefox, go to Help –> Check for Updates….

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