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5 Useful Pinterest Extensions for Chrome to Extend its Features
Social Media Pinterest is a great tool on its own with wonderful features, but you can extend its features even further with the use of one or more Chrome Extensions. For instance, if you want to save time when viewing images on the homepage, you can add a zoom extension so that you don’t have to click on a pinned image in order to enlarge it. With only 5 extensions, this list is far from “the best” extensions for Pinterest users; however, ...
Continue readingSpool – An Easy Way to Save, Share, and Sync Your Web Content
Reviews, Social Media Spool is an easy and stylish way of saving, reading, sharing, and syncing your favorite Web content such as images, videos, web pages, and articles. It’s a tool much like Read it Later, Instapaper, and Readability with the addition of direct sharing with friends and the ability to save videos (a feature some similar services do not offer). Spool is much like Read it Later and Instapaper because it lets you save items to view later or even ...
Continue readingChat Privately With Bonfire, an IM Tool for Twitter.com
Reviews, Social Media How do you keep up with conversations on Twitter? Since Twitter.com still does not support threaded conversations, it can be a real pain trying to keep up with replies and figuring out what they’re in response to. Personally, I really thought that Twitter would have rectified this situation by now, but sadly they haven’t. Fortunately, until something is done at least we can resort to third party tools, like Bonfire. Bonfire is a ...
Continue readingKeep Up with Google+ Hangouts using Hangout Canopy
Reviews, Social Media Have you had the change to use Google+ Hangouts yet? If not, is it because you can never catch anyone in a hangout? Hangout Canopy solves this problem by keeping you in the loop and letting you know about new public Hangouts around the clock. No longer do you have to wait for an invite or hope to find a cool Hangout going on from someone in your Google+ circles. All you have to do is keep an eye on the Hangout Canopy browser button and it will ...
Continue readingPersonally Deliver Recommended Links to Your Friends with Handpick
Reviews, Social Media Handpick is a simple tool with a huge benefit: it lets you personally handpick links from the Web and deliver them to your friends via a daily digest. If you’re someone who is often sharing links with specific friends individually, you’ll love the convenience of using Handpick. It stops you from bombarding your friends with numerous emails of recommended links service, plus it lets you email all of your friends at once. Let’s ...
Continue readingGimme Bar – A Fun Way to Collect Images, Videos, and Text from any Web Page
Reviews, Social Media Gimme Bar is one of those tools that the more you play with it, the more useful you realize it is. It kind of reminds me of Amplify since it lets you grab parts of any Web page. However, Amplify is more social since it lets you share that content across the Web on numerous social networks. Gimme Bar is more about collecting parts of a Web page to tell a story or for private use, yet it has many useful features that make it very powerful and ...
Continue reading5 Tools to Help You Stay Focused
Productivity Lately I’ve been having a really hard time focusing on just one single little task, let alone several large projects. So I decided to do a search for some tools that might help me stay focused – something I know that will come in handy for anyone, especially bloggers and freelance writers. As bloggers, writers block and other distractions are just a few dilemmas that come with the territory; everyone goes through it at one time or ...
Continue readingQuickly Store Items to View Later with Pistashio
Reviews, Social Media Pistashio calls itself a “social to-do list” because it lets you store items for later, but your items are also public and can be shared on your Twitter and Facebook. If you’re familiar with and/or use the service Springpad, then you’ll understand how Pistashio works. It offers many of the same features except without the notebook aspect of the service; instead you have a stash for your items. All-in-all, Pistashio is ...
Continue readingShare Files and Get 10 GB of Free Storage with Minus
Reviews, Social Media Minus is a very simple and minimalistic online service with a focus on file sharing. A couple months ago, I briefly mentioned Minus in 7 Online Tools for Sharing Files Very Quickly as a tool that lets you quickly share files within 2 clicks. Since then, it appears that Minus has now evolved into a Dropbox-like tool with a desktop app for dragging and dropping files into the service – for storing and sharing. Best of all, when you sign up ...
Continue reading10 Useful Google Chrome Extensions for Managing Your Tabs
Productivity Is having too many tabs open in your browser as big of an issue for you as it is for me? On any given day I can easily accumulate 20+ tabs and the more that are open, the harder they are to read and the harder it is to remember what’s in each tab. Plus, having this many tabs open for a long period can really slow down your browser and hinder your productivity. Personally like to use TooManyTabs (mentioned below) to manage my tabs, but ...
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