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Use Gmail As A Sort Of Twitter Client With Rapportive

12:40PM June 11, 2011 | Melanie Pinola

Firefox/Chrome/Safari/Mailplane: Rapportive, a plugin which we’ve previously mentioned for its Gmail-enhancing powers, has recently added Twitter capabilities. So now you can follow, reply to, and retweet your contacts — all without leaving Gmail. More »


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Banish Charlie Sheen From The Internet With This Plugin

10:20AM March 9, 2011 | Sam Biddle

WINNING! TIGERBLOOD! I BEAT MY WIFE! COCAINE! If you’re getting sick of the Charlie Sheen internet locomotive, this handy Chrome and Firefox plugin – “Tinted Sheen” – will blot out all text and image mentions of the disintegrating has-been. [via BoingBoing]


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Shooting 1000fps Video With A Canon 7D

10:00AM September 15, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13557939&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1","customParams":[] ,"width":570,"height":375,"ratio":0.75,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"vimeo","wrap":true,"agegate":false} );

The Canon 7D can shoot 720p HD video at 60fps, but an After Effects plugin called Twixtor lets you slow that footage down – way down – to 1000fps. Paired with the right (relatively slow-moving) subject matter, it looks phenomenal. More »


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Linux Users Receive Some Love From Google

8:53PM August 20, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

From today, Ubuntu and other Debian flavours of Linux can audio and video chat using Gmail’s webmail, iGoogle and Orkut chat. Download the plugin here: [Google via TechRadar]


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Rapportive Adds Live-Updating Sidebar Profiles To Gmail

10:00AM August 5, 2010 | Adam Frucci

Rapportive is a plugin for Firefox, Safari and Chrome that adds a sidebar to your Gmail messages, inserting data pulled from Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and elsewhere, as well as giving you room to take notes on your contact. More »


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Delete Your Ex From The Internet

1:20AM July 14, 2010 | Adam Frucci

Breaking up is hard to do, especially in the age of the internet. How can you really avoid her when there’s Facebook, Twitter and all the rest of it? With the new Ex-Blocker plugin, that’s how. More »


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Try This Proof Of Concept Flash Plugin For iPad Now

9:17AM May 26, 2010 | Jason Chen

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/cCmM1QOUp4I&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22","customParams":[] ,"width":570,"height":412,"ratio":0.824,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube"} );

This thing is just a proof of concept, but it exists and you can download it to mess around with Flash on your iPad. Problem still exists as to how to graciously handle a mouseover action on a touchscreen. [STevenTroughtonSmith]


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Download The New Firefox Beta That Doesn’t Crash When Videos Do

2:01AM April 10, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Mozilla’s serving up a beta of Firefox Lorentz, a version of the browser that runs Flash, Quicktime and Silverlight videos as a separate processes. If plugin-caused crashes and stuttering YouTubes have you red in the face, Lorentz offers sweet relief. More »


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Boxee Integration App Plays Nice With Windows 7 Media Center

7:07AM February 17, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Windows 7 Media Center and Boxee each has its own strengths, and now the Boxee Integration App gives you access to both with minimal hassle. More »


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Palm Will Support Flash 10 On Pre

6:36AM January 8, 2010 | Jason Chen

Like Android, which is still waiting for Flash 10 to arrive, Palm’s showing off Flash 10 right now. It’s a bit chunky and fuzzy demoed with a Yahoo! movie trailer, but they say the plugin download is coming “soon”.