Gmail labs has just added a new feature in Gmail, which will allow you to create a new document and save it in Google doc format by just a simple click. After you enable this feature, you will get an option ‘Create a document’ while browsing your emails.

To enable this feature, login to your Gmail account and then navigate to Gmail Labs tab under Settings. Select "Enable" next to "Create a Document" option and click on save changes. From now on you will see ‘Create a Document’ option next to each email message in your Gmail inbox for quick and easy conversion to document format.

In case you do not want to convert any email to document format and want to work on fresh document then press the G key followed by W key on the keyboard. This will open blank docs window, provided keyboard shortcuts is enabled in General tab under Settings.

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Getting bored with the plain and simple background of your Flickr’s photostream? Here’s a great way to view your wonderful photos in a cool and different interface. Picsviewr is a Web app that provides a wide variety of slideshows in both flash and HTML so that you can view your Flickr photos with more flexibility.

Picsviewr currently provides 7 different templates which includes Tiltviewer, Polaroid gallery, Photos stack, Wall, Mini wall, dfGallery, Slide film Gallery, Flashapi, Grey gallery and Black gallery.

As you enter your Flickr’s username (in your Flickr’s dashboard, click on photostream and copy and paste the URL into the text field provided), Picsviewr lets you choose whether you’d want medium or high quality for your photos. Select one of your preferred design and click “Demo”. Using the drop-down menu in the photo viewer, you can select which photos you’d like to view by choosing the tags.

If you love what you see, you can bookmark it and view the page anytime you want.

I like the Tiltviewer template very much. Do let me know which you like the most.

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It might be a surprise for many people but Microsoft has increased the storage space for their free online storage service, SkyDrive from 5GB to 25GB, making it one among the largest free online storage providers. The look and feel of the SkyDrive has been changed and now it has been opened up for 6 more regions and 13 more languages.

Below are the few things, you will find in new SkyDrive:

• Free storage space increased to 25GB
• Now entire folders can be downloaded as ZIP file(s).
• Photos can be viewed in beautiful slide show.
• Files can be shared with users who don’t have Windows Live ID, just by using their email addresses.

But on the downside, the Windows Live Photo Gallery is still not linked to SkyDrive so you have to upload your photos one by one, which may take weeks.

One more downside is the individual file size restriction, which is 50MB. So incase you are thinking about uploading a file which is more than 50MB, then you have to split the file and then upload.

Hope, Microsoft looks into the following issues and resolves it in the next update!!.

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In the last few years, we saw many mobile phones allowing us to access Internet but it seems we have to wait one more decade for mobile phones to become the primary means of connecting to Internet world wide.

According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project's "Future of the Internet III study," nearly 600 Internet experts said the combination of portability and relative affordability will turn the cell phone into the leading Internet gateway by 2020.

Some of the views shared by the experts during interview were

• Some 77% said the mobile computing device (the smartphone) with more significant computing power will be 2020's primary global Internet-connection platform.
• Nearly four out of five respondents (78%) said the original Internet architecture will not be completely replaced by a next-generation 'net by 2020.
• By 2020 it will not be so easy to distinguish between a mobile phone and a laptop.

Based upon the report, Pew suggests mobile technology may offer a better alternative for providing Internet access than computers through projects such as One Laptop per Child Initiative.

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MyWebDesktop is an online tool which enables you to access, collaborate and communicate with your colleagues between desktops by sharing files, bookmarks, notes and communicate with each other using a message board or via instant messaging.

To start collaborating with your workmates on projects, you will have to connect with his or her desktop.

Key features includes private space for files, bookmarks and notes, tagging for easy searching, notebook application allowing collaborative writing and many more.

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Want to annoy your friends by typing your text upside down so that they have a difficult time finding out what you're typing unless they turn the whole computer upside down? Well, I'm stumbled across a site called FlipTitle which lets you do so.

Using a program that converts text to unicode characters and symbols that look inverted, FlipTitle generates flipped text by inputing some words and symbols in the textfield.

This tool is useful as it adds some security if you use flipped text in your passwords. However, some services or platforms can't read upside-down text.

Besides that, you can use it as IM names, putting it in social networking profiles, encrpyt your download links to prevent leechers and to annoy your friends.

FlipTitle only supports English letters, most puntuation marks such as question mark, comma, brackets, exclamation mark, etc. Some general typography isn't allowed like $, &, etc. Numbers aren't supported.

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Whenever you post tweets on some micro-blogging platform(like Twitter), sometimes you add a short URL as a link to an article in your blog. The most popular URL shortener out there is TinyUrl but many people turn away from TinyUrl because they don't provide analytics which may be valuable to bloggers.

BudUrl does provides tracking features but only limits up to 250 short URLs for a free account.

Cligs is another URL shortener which not only lets you create short URLs but also provides analytics to track the number of hits, referral statistics and recent mention of the clig itself on Twitter.

The most interesting feature is that this powerful and useful tool allows you to create and track unlimited number of cligs pointing to the same URL at no cost.

The downside of Cligs is that it doesn't allows you to create custom cligs unlike TinyUrl. Cligs requires registration to track the short URLs.

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