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SocialVisor: Twitter and Facebook Widget for People Who have a Life

Social Visor is a Twitter and Facebook application/client that allows you to access the said social networking sites right on your computer’s desktop. It acts as a scrolling ticker visor and appears on the top part of your screen.

Here’s a list of features that you can expect to find in SocialVisor:

- Group your friends regardless of whether they are on twitter, facebook or both.

- Find conversations that are happening between your friends on twitter. SocialVisor creates a list of conversations so that you can find and see what your friends are talking about.

- Access your direct messages, mentions, retweets and @ messages and be notified when new messages arrive.

- ‘Star’ tweets or facebook updates to save then for later.

- Forward tweets or facebook updates by email to anyone.

- Reply to tweets

- Comment on facebook updates

- Retweet a tweet

- Like or un-like a facebook update

- Post a link, we shorten links automagically so you needent worry about wasting precious characters.

- Share pictures, we’ll load them to twitpic and share the link to your picture.

- Share links and pictures with your twitter and facebook simultaneously.

- Post tweets & updates to twitter and facebook simtaneously.

- View your friends’ pictures right in SocialVisor.

- Autatically split your tweets if 140 characters just isn’t enough.

- Search twitter to find interesting people and content.

- Follow or un-follow anyone right from SocialVisor.

- View recent tweets for people you follow.

- View recent posts for any of your facebook friends

The application will allow you to use Twitter and Facebook without heading to your browser to check them out. It will reduce the time spent switching from window to window just to continue with your work and update your social account(s). With this tool you can do both without wasting too much time. You can easily read the updates that appear on top of your screen. This is the app to use for power users who doesn’t mind getting updates through a client. Maintain the level of productivity while working or doing something else while social networking.

Tags: application, Desktop App, Facebook, Social Client, Social Networking Client, Social Visor, twitter

Graabr: The Easiest Way to Grab and Share Desktop Screen Shots Online

Graabr is a Windows tool that allows you to easily grab screen shots of any part of your desktop and share them online. The application works on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. It’s free to download and requires no registration to use and view the saved screen shots.

Download and install the Windows application on your Windows machine and immediately start grabbing your screen once Graabr is launched. Click the Grab My Screen button on Graabr and you’ll get to select which part of your screen you want to share. Simply drag the mouse to grab and the application will do the rest for you. Your image will automatically be saved on the Graabr server for you to share. The grabbed image will appear on your browser along with the image URL of your screen shot.

You won’t have to worry about bookmarking your Graabr image. All uploaded screen shots will be saved on the history of the Graabr application. Simply highlight the URL and click the “Go” button to view the previously saved/shared images.

If you are a heavy user of screenshots and a Windows user, this tool is highly recommended. This is also a great tool that anyone, especially bloggers, can use to easily share and upload screen shots.

Tags: application, Download, Graabr, Screen Shots, Windows

GMDesk: Google Apps on your Desktop

Google web apps are great and what makes it even better is it’s free. The only thing is that if you’re using most of them, you need to open different tabs on your browser or clutter you desktop with widgets/gadgets. Google recently release a desktop application which will allow you to access different Google web services in just one desktop application.

GMDesk is an application where you can run Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Picasa, Google Reader and Google Maps on a single desktop application. This is a great way to access your Google applications without opening them on your browser. Just access in the menu which service you want to use and once you are logged in your Google account. You can also use the keyboard shortcuts to easily switch to different services on your GMDesk. It also supports Google Apps access as well.

To install GMDesk, you need to have Adobe Air installed in your computer. If you do not have Adobe Air installed, just head over to their site and click download and if the engine does not detect Adobe Air in your computer, will automatically install it.

Tags: application, desktop, Gmail, GMDesk, google calendar, Google Docs, Google Maps. google, Google Reader, Picasa

Kallout Embeds your Applications with Online Search Tools

Kallout is a Windows based program which integrates itself to other applications so that you can do searches from within those applications. This way you can easily get search results without leaving the application and opening your browser. They are calling this a “Selection-based search” system.

All you need is just to highlight a portion of the context you want to search and mouseover on a tool tip which will appear whenever text is highlighted. Choose a service you want to use and you can easily get the result you want without opening a browser. KallOuts offer fast access to Google Maps, Wikipedia Articles, YouTube Videos, Flickr Photos, Amazon Products, Yahoo News and a lot more web services.

Kallout is a great addition to Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Adobe Adobe Acrobat. You can easily get word meanings from dictionary.com or search Wikipedia for related topics. It also works on Internet Explorer and Firefox which makes it a great search add-on to the browsers if you are not doing heavy searches. It will also minimize tab usage. You don’t have to open another tab or type from your keyboard to search for locations and other stuff related to your keyword. Just highlight a text and click and search results will be available to you in just a few seconds.

Tags: application, kallout, search tool, Windows

Panoramic Desktop from 360Desktop

360Desktop is a Windows application that transforms your desktop into a panoramic workspace. They are calling it Desktop 2.0, a convergence of web and desktop. The application also comes with a widget loader where you can install your favorite widgets by placing in the embed code in the add widget window.

This is a pretty neat application which will help you organize your desktop in an entirely unique way. Just download the rather small application (5.93 MB), install and run. You can select from a variety of panoramic images to display in your 360Desktop. The application is unobtrusive. It will not replace your current wallpaper or desktop setting. You can close it anytime you want if you wish to revert to your normal desktop.

When I tested the application, I noticed that it will not let you to browse the other part of the panoramic image as long as you have a maximized window present in your desktop. It’s like a locking mechanism for the application so that it will not move the desktop around when you are working on something important. Also remember to minimize your windows before closing 360Desktop or you will be left with a cluttered desktop with off centered windows. Aside from that, it’s a cool app to have around in your Windows machine.

You can check out the application in action by watching the video below.

Tags: 360dekstop, application, desktop, panoramic, Windows

Duplicate Images Finder for Windows

Here is a handy Windows utility application that automatically finds duplicate images in your computer. The Duplicate Images Finder is simple and light(208KB) application which uses an algorithm that compares images in your hard drive and sorts out the duplicates. You can use the application to quickly delete one or both of the duplicate images found. A similarity rating is also provided to better compare the images found by the application.

According to the author of the application, it takes the algorithm about one (1) minute to find the first duplicate in a directory of two hundred (200) images and three (3) minutes to get the final result. It is not the fastest result but the application is still in its Alpha stages and has a lot of room for improvement. It’s still better than going through all the images and finding duplicates manually.

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Download or Browse the Source Code.

Tags: application, duplicate images, duplicate images finder, images, Photos, Windows