Are you like me using the free VLC player only to play .avi and other video files? If so, check out this lifehacker’s article on how to use VLC to:
Organizing a birthday party or get-together? Anyvite offers a web form where you can enter your event details and fill in your friends’/family members’ e-mail addresses.
After the preview button is clicked, you can see how the invitation appears to your friends and send it.
Registering in the site enables you to upload your profile photo, add your phone numbers, IM accounts and set notifications of invitation acceptance updates, comments, reminders. Also a RSS Feed and Google Calendar import option are available to track all your events.
privnote is a simple web service where you can type some text and have a URL generated for it where it can be read. You can then send this link to anyone via IM or e-mail address.
Before sending the note, you can also tick a check box to be notified when the recipient reads it.
Locationbar² is a handy add-on for Firefox that does two things:
Say you have two blogs and you want to display the headlines of posts from your first blog in the second. There are widgets available for this purpose. But if you want more control on the formatting and style of the displayed feed including its headline, date, the length of characters of the feed item, Feed2JS is the right tool for you.
Start by entering the URL of the RSS feed, set the number of items to be displayed, whether or not HTML should be allowed, and whether or not posting date should be displayed etc.
Note: The value you enter in Show/Hide item descriptions? How much? box will only work if HTML in item display is disabled.
As an example, with the settings as in the screenshot (click to enlarge) below,
this is the screenshot of the output:
