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Why not advertise when google chrome browser is so easy to customize

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You get used to extensions and couldn’t  live a day without them. They are your private tools and please you everyday so I have a habbit of visiting chrome Webstore every now and then, and I must just be thankfull for one app or extension. or else  I would ruin what I build up from start till now.

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The latest visit was not the best ’cause now I got 2 or 3 Speedd Dials , and an Antmarks what ever that is, ex.fm made me happy, a notepad even though I use Evernote, . At last a QR extension I have to learn and from my heart it’s too much. Basicly it take time and consentration from what really matters and my To Do List is long gone and I have work till next chrismas. The good thing about it must be when I have candy and icecream a candle lit  as a gesture then I love to spend the whole night in front of my computer because that’s the essens of my life-

I live in a care center, I got COL and get oxygen- My surroundings is old people in wheelchairs. So the internet came as a rescue to me. I have this wordpressblog, Pinterest, Twitter, Admin. for a facebook site. Learning about Reddit and Quora. And my favorite app must be Evernote where everything end up so I can go back and find that link to information I couldn’t live without. I have my music and facebook.

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And how could I forget. I must read the news ofcouse. My feedly and News Factory. Feedreader besides google reader. With some nice words on top of this everyone can see theres too little time to work seriously and get rewardet with job done so I say I must be selective and settle with less.

Hugs and a free internet. And have a nice day

 

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The Art of “To Do”

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Easy copy from Erica V. To read when the time is right

A few of you have mentioned in the comments that staying committed to blogging isn’t the biggest challenge, but that time management is. While family and work will always come first, it’s important to spend time on the activities you like and hobbies you want to nurture. Here’s a few things that have helped me keep on track:

If you have yourself on a blogging schedule, or if you want to get yourself on one,make an appointment with yourself. Add a note to your Google Calendar, iCal, or even on your phone to go off 1 hour, 30 minutes, and 15 minutes before you want to get down to writing. If you think that you’re likely to metaphorically hit the snooze button, consider making an editorial calendar, listing the topics you want to cover and when. This will allow you to plan in advance, rather than sitting down to a blank screen and starting from scratch. I personally keep a sticky note open with post ideas and have been toying with adding “events,” or planned posts, to my calendar. I may not be running a top-notch magazine, but why not learn from the pros?

Don’t bite off more than you can chew. It’s good to create small goals for yourself and gradually increase them. Write 100 words for this blog post, 150 for the next. Spend five minutes typing up an article and gradually build to 30 minutes (or learn to squeeze more into the time you have, a la I’ve got 30 minutes to write this post). If I don’t have a lot of time to write, I check my favorite news sites for interesting articles and use Press This to share the link. This lets me add a few words for my own interpretation, without taking up a ton of time. When you do sit down to write write, do yourself a favor and turn everything off. That means having nothing open but your post page. If you have trouble doing this, try an app like Isolator that allows you to hide everything but the program you’re using.

Ultimately, time management is about making the commitment to blog each time you sit down to write (or you hear your calendar go off). No matter how many steps you take to remind your self, you have to actually do it. Excuses are easy, and many are valid, so it helps to be accountable to someone. And if you can’t beat them, join them — why not make blogging a family activity? Or turn it into agame among friends?

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With the launch of the Google for Nonprofits program, we created a place for organizations to share stories of the powerful work they are doing to change the world. Our Make a Change website collects lots of big and small changes made by people at nonprofits. We are inspired by these organizations and want to continue to share these stories so we invite you to share your organization’s story with us via this webform. Tell us about how Google products have helped you make a change with your organization. We would love to hear more about what you’re doing and we may even feature you on our Make a Change website.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Too many feeds, h e l p….

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How Can I Organize My RSS Feeds So They’re More Manageable?
BY MELANIE PINOLA

How Can I Organize My RSS Feeds So They’re More Manageable?

Dear Lifehacker,
I subscribe to a lot of newsfeeds, which makes me feel like I’m on top of everything on the internet—except now I’m feeling overwhelmed with all the folders and hundreds of feeds and constant flood of posts in my newsreader. I still want access to all the news and information, but what can I do to better organize it so I stay sane?

Thanks,
Buried by RSS

Dear BbR,
You’re definitely not alone in feeling the RSS information overload. As wonderful as it is to be able to tap into all the information in the world, there are only so many hours in the day to spend consuming it all. Not to worry: With a little pruning, filtering and prioritizing, we can turn the deluge of data into a nice, manageable stream of content. Here’s how:

Prune Your RSS Subscriptions

The first thing to do is get rid of the feeds that you really don’t get any use out of: Feeds that are never updated, mostly duplicate content you already get elsewhere, or simply don’t read any more. These subscriptions are just taking up space in your reader and distracting you from the ones you do want to see.

Weed Out Inactive, Obscure, and Overactive Feeds

How Can I Organize My RSS Feeds So They’re More Manageable?If you’re using Google Reader, go to the Trends report under “All Items” and click the “Inactive” tab to find and delete them.

Then click the “Most Obscure” tab, where you may find stray feeds with only a handful of subscribers. Sometimes this might be because you at some point were looking for updates on a very singular search term (for example, I had an Amazon price history feed in there for a TV model I was looking at) or just sites that aren’t that popular. Either way, take a look to clean out the ones you don’t need.

Part of the problem may also be feeds that send an overwhelming number of updates each day. You’ll find those subscriptions on the “Frequently Updated” tab. You don’t have to unsubscribe to those feeds, however, if you’re still interested in them. See below for how to filter those feeds so you just see more relevant posts.

Besides Google Reader, other web-based and desktop news readers offer similar statistics and tools. Our favorite Mac news reader application NetNewsWire and favorite Windows news reader FeedDemon, for example, will both show you the “dinosaurs” that haven’t been updated in a while and let you unsubscribe quickly.

Get Rid of Duplicate Content

Next take a look at your subscriptions for repetitive posts. You might have duplicate content if you follow many similar sites (especially news sites) that cover the same beat. Some sites which aggregate content for a specific topic can also overlap your other subscriptions. Consider keeping only those that are most comprehensive or updated most often.

Also be wary about using Google Alerts in your feeds. I used to have Google Alerts delivered via RSS for general topics like laptops and Android. But then I also had feeds for sites that cover news on those topics too, so I would end up with duplicates, triplicates, and so on of the same articles in my folders. What I learned was to not make Google Alerts for generic terms like those, but rather rely on my feeds, and if I need to find more content on the subject, just do a search on Google News.

Also, unless a site fits into several categories (like Lifehacker), it’s redundant to place it in a bunch of folders. No need to put Gizmodo in both “tech news” and “gadgets”—if you’ll be checking both folders, at least.

Keep Only the Essential Feeds

Finally, think about the categories of feeds that you really want to be watching and reading about. You might have a passing interest in a bunch of topics, but be ruthless in your assessment if you really are getting anything out of each category. As an example, I used to have a folder with feeds about “green living,” a topic I’m interested in but don’t need to read about daily, weekly, or even monthly.

Filter or Fine-Tune Your Feeds for the Posts You Want to Read

Once you’ve got your subscriptions all sorted out, if there are still too many posts to look at in a day, it’s time to filter them so you only see the topics you care about most. For example, you might be interested in new downloads, but not for Apple devices. A filter or subscribing to a site’s special sub-feeds can help you weed out those posts.

Subscribe to topic-specific feeds: Lifehacker, for example, offers several different feeds. You can subscribe to the whole enchilada with the full feed, just the top posts of the day, and even customize the feeds by tag or combination of tags (e.g., “top” “Mac OS X” “downloads”).

Creating your own filters: You have several options to create filters of your own on any site. Here are a few:

  • Take a look at previously mentioned FeedRinse, which filters out posts for your individual subscriptions by keyword, tag, author, and even profanity.
  • Another option, if you’re a Chrome and Google Reader user, is the Google Reader Filter by Feed/Folder userscript. This adds a filtering box above your feeds to weed out words for an individual subscription or an entire folder.
  • Probably the most robust RSS feed hacking tool is much-discussed Yahoo Pipes, which combines many feeds into one sortable, filterable, and translatable feed (see how to use it here).

I’d recommend using FeedRinse if you do your RSS reading on a lot of different devices, the Google Reader Filter by Feed/Folder for quick filtering on-demand, and Yahoo Pipes if you really want to fine-tune your feeds.

Prioritize Your Feeds

Now that you’ve got the most valuable subscriptions showing the most relevant post topics, it’s time to organize them.

There are several strategies you can use. It doesn’t matter which you choose as long as it works for you. So here’s an overview:

How Can I Organize My RSS Feeds So They’re More Manageable?Organize by priority: In a previous Google Reader decluttering article, we suggested a folder structure that ranked groups of feeds by priority: Favorite (to read daily) feeds at the top, then primary sources (go-to sites) and secondary sources (all other news feeds). I’ve adopted a similar strategy, with the feeds I read first thing in the morning at the top, but labeled like this “- Favorites” so that no matter what news reader I’m using, it stays at the top. For tech news, I have “- Tech News: Tier 1″ and “- Tech News: Tier 2″ folders. This just makes the ocean of tech news posts more navigatible. You could do the same for any category you follow heavily.

Organize by time: You might also group feeds by when you should be reading them. You could have daily (and perhaps am and pm subgroups), weekly, and monthly groups that correlate to how you catch up on sites. Or a weekday and weekend/nights grouping.

Organize by topic: Probably the most popular want to organize your feeds is by topic (especially if you have a variety of interests): tech, home, fun, etc. As mentioned above, though, be careful about having too many folders that overlap. Some news readers let you have subfolders, which is handy. This Google Reader: Nested Folders userscript can add the subfolders capability currently lacking in Google Reader.

Of course, you can use a combination of these strategies.

For each subscription, you can prioritize the posts as well. Previously mentioned PostRankis a Safari and Chrome extension that scores posts according to how popular it is. The drop-down filter of good, great, and best posts may help clear the RSS clutter.

More Efficiently Read Your Feeds

Finally, with everything in place, start using your news reader more effectively by learning its keyboard shortcuts and using add-ons if available (see this guide for Google Reader keyboard shortcuts and add-ons).

Remember, too, that RSS is more like a daily newspaper than it is email: Don’t feel like you have to read every single item of every feed you subscribe to. There will always be new news to read.

That said, enjoy your streamlined news reading experience!

Love,
Lifehacker

P.S. Let’s hear your favorite RSS organization tips and strategies in the comments.

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Again and again, google twitter and face

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How Can I Post to Facebook, Twitter, and/or Google+ All at the Same Time?

How Can I Post to Facebook, Twitter, and/or Google+ All at the Same Time?Dear Lifehacker,
I’m getting a bit overwhelmed with all these social networks, and I really don’t feel like posting manually to each one every time. I know there are a lot of apps for updating Facebook, Twitter and Google+ at the same time, but which ones are the best?

Sincerely,
Social Stress

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Dear Stress,

You aren’t kidding. There are a lot of apps out there that sync Facebook with Twitter, or Google+ with Twitter and Facebook, but it seems like we gain one and lose three every couple of weeks. Right now, there are a few services we definitely think are a cut above the rest, though, so here are your options.

Share to Twitter and Facebook

If you’re only a Twitter and Facebook user, you have a few apps to choose from. Obviously, the official Twitter app for Facebook is always a good choice. It stays updated since it’s made by Twitter, but be forewarned it will send every tweet you make to Facebook (excluding replies). That means if you tweet a lot, you could really annoy your Facebook friends.

If you’d rather pick and choose which tweets you send to Facebook, I highly recommend TweetDeck. It’s our favorite Twitter client for Windows, and it’s available on OS X and mobile platforms as well. Even if you’ve tried it in the past, the new, non-AIR version is pretty great, so I recommend giving it another shot. It will let you choose which networks you want to post any given status too—Twitter, Facebook, or both. Alternatively, the Selective Tweets app for Facebookcan get the job done without a separate app. Just append the #fb hashtag to any tweet you want sent to Facebook, and it’ll show up on your Facebook profile as well (without the #fb hashtag). Since this is connected to your Facebook account, it also works for anything you tweet from your phone, which is nice.

The only problem with the above services is that they won’t post links or photos on Facebook as proper Facebook links. That is, they won’t give them a thumbnail or anything—it’ll just show the short link as you’d see it on Twitter. If you really want links and photos to be shared properly, you can use the awesome iftttservice. You can tell it to send any tweet containing a link to Facebook as a proper link, though if you also have it sending regular tweets, it will double up on any link posts, which can be annoying. Ifttt is great for when you only want to share certain kinds of posts—like links or tweets you’ve favorited—to Facebook.

Share to Twitter, Facebook, and Google+

By far the best way to share statuses between networks is the +Rob Mcgee Google+ account. Just connect your Facebook or Twitter accounts to the +Rob McGee bot using these instructions. It’ll only take you a few minutes, and when you’re done, anything you post to Google+ will show up on Twitter and/or Facebook, depending on which accounts you attached to the bot. It will also share links as proper links on Facebook, which is great.

The only downsides to this method are that you have to have a Google+ account and that it doesn’t send photos to Facebook. If you post a photo on Google+ with a comment, it’ll only post that comment as your Facebook status (which sometimes might not make sense). Overall, though, if you have a Google+ account, this is the best method for sending statuses to any network, since it’s easy to do, shares links properly, lets you choose which statuses you send, and (like the others) it works on mobile devices, too.

These aren’t the only services out there, but they are definitely the best we’ve found. You have a lot of browser extensions you could use, too, but none seem to be better than the above services, and they require you to use a certain browser (not to mention they won’t work from your phone). Hopefully this helps you find a service that’s right for you.

Sincerely,
Lifehacker

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Publish your Blog as a Magazine with Google Currents

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Google’s widely anticipated alternative to Flipboard is finally here. It’s called Google Currents and the next screenshot should you give an idea of what Currents is all about.

Google Currents Producer

Google Currents is a Flipboard like app that lets you read blogs, news websites and other online publications in a magazine format on your mobile phone and tablet devices. The app is available for both Android and iOS platforms.

One big advantage with Google Currents is that you can read your subscriptions offline and it will even download the embedded images for offline access.

You can get Google Currents now from the Android Market and the iTunes Store. This is currently available only for US users but there’s at least an easy workaround for iPhone /iPad users.

Publishing to Google Currents

google currents logoAs a web publisher, you can package one or more RSS feeds, image slideshows, tweets, videos, social network updates and any other HTML content into an “edition” and publish it to Google Currents which others can then subscribe to on their tablet or mobile phone.

[*] Digital Inspiration is also available on Google Currents.

There’s no programming required as Google Currents provides an web editor (screenshot) for publishers to create these bundles. You can also pull content from Google Docs and ePUB ebooks into Currents. The default layouts are beautiful but advanced users may apply their own CSS styles to further customize the appearance of their magazine.

Read RSS Feed with Google Currents

Google Currents can also be used as a RSS reader to follow feeds that are not available as standalone editions. Simply subscribe to any RSS feed inside Google Reader and then pull it directly into Google Currents using Add More –> Library –> Google Reader. The plain feed will automatically be served in a magazine layout similar to other editions.

Google Currents vs Flipboard, etc.

There are quite a few reading apps – like Flipboard, Yahoo LiveStand, Pulse, Zite and AOL Editions – that let you publish (and consume) online content in a magazine format. However, Google Currents is probably the only app that will share advertising revenue with publishers which is obviously a big incentive.

 

When Amazon introduced blog publishing for Kindle, there was a concern that people would publish someone else’s RSS feed as their own and monetize it through the Kindle Store. That is however unlikely to happen with Google Currents as it only lets you include content from domains that you have verified through Google Webmaster Tools.

It Could have been me

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Google Currents is hot off the press

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The following launch announcement is cross-posted from the Google Mobile blog, and comes from Google Currents, a new app that makes reading magazine and news articles on mobile devices a clean and elegant experience.

We strive to give you beautiful and simple ways to experience all the content the web has to offer, such as sharing photos on Google+, watching YouTube videos and discovering books, movies and music from Android Market. Today we’re expanding our content offering with the introduction of Google Currents, a new application for Android devices, iPads and iPhones that lets you explore online magazines and other content with the swipe of a finger.


Ready for consumers
We’ve worked with more than 150 publishing partners to offer full-length articles from more than 180 editionsincluding CNET, AllThingsD, Forbes, Saveur, PBS, Huffington Post, Fast Company and more. Content is optimized for smartphones and tablets, allowing you to intuitively navigate between words, pictures and video on large and small screens alike, even if you’re offline.

To get started, simply download the app and choose the publications you want to subscribe to for free. You can also add RSS, video and photo feeds, public Google+ streams and Google Reader subscriptions you’re already following. In addition to consuming your favorite media, you can also use the trending tab to discover related content that matches your tastes.

Ready for publishers
Alongside Google Currents, we’re also launching a self-service platform that gives publishers the flexibility to design, brand and customize their web content. For example, if you’re a small regional news outlet, a non-profit organization without access to a mobile development team, or a national TV network with web content, you can effortlessly create hands-on digital publications for Google Currents.

Great content needs a great audience, which is why Google Currents is integrated with Google+ so users can share articles or videos they’ve enjoyed with their circles. Publishers can also associate their account with Google Analytics in order to increase their awareness of consumers’ content preferences, device use and geographic distribution.

Google Currents is now available for download in Android Market and the Apple App Store for US users. Whether you’re a reader or a publisher, we hope that Google Currents helps you easily experience the best content on the web. Try it here now and stay tuned for more to come.

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Share Your Web Browser With Chrome’s New User Switching

 

Chrome Beta’s new user switching

Google has updated the beta channel of its Chrome web browser with a new syncing tool that makes it easy to move between Chrome installations with all your browsing data intact. 

If you’d like to try the beta channel of Chrome, head over to the beta downloads page.

Chrome has long offered some syncing capabilities, but the new features ensure that all your bookmarks, browsing history and even passwords come with you when you sign in to Chrome on any computer you use. To make the new syncing features work, you’ll need to link Chrome with your Google account. Linking up Chrome with your Google account also means that you’ll be automatically signed in to any Google services you visit.

The new syncing features can be found in the Personal Stuff section of Chrome’s preferences. Just click the button that says “New User.”

The new user profiles also mean that multiple people can easily share a single Chrome installation. Switching between active users works much as it does at the operating-system level. Clicking the New User button will open a new window with an icon in the left-hand corner that lets everyone know whose window it is. Multiple users can even have windows open at the same time. Telling them apart is just a matter of checking the icon for that window.

One thing to keep in mind is that user switching in Chrome is nowhere near as secure as user switching at the OS level. Google Software Engineer Miranda Callahan warns on the Chrome blog:

this feature isn’t intended to secure your data against other people using your computer, since all it takes is a couple of clicks to switch between users. We want to provide this functionality as a quick and simple user interface convenience for people who are already sharing Chrome on the same computer today. To truly protect your data from being seen by others, please use the built-in user accounts in your operating system of choice.

In other words, the new switching features aren’t something you’d want to enable if you’re just letting someone you don’t know well borrow your laptop for a minute. However, so long as you’re sharing Chrome with people you trust, the new user switching features make it easy to share a browser while still keeping your data separate (if not totally private).