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StumbleUpon has taken advantage of a popular feature of Firefox 3 browser - the ‘Awesome Bar’ by integrating the StumbleUpon toolbar with Firefox Bookmarks. StumbleUpon Add-On Version 3.23 lets you download all the sites you’ve rated with a thumbs up/’I like it!’ into your bookmarks, giving you as-you-type access to that last cool link you browsed through.
Here’s a step by step method to integrate StumbleUpon ‘Likes’ with Firefox Bookmarks:
- Check if
- In Firefox 3, Click on Tools -> Addons.
- Select ‘StumbleUpon‘ and click on ‘Options‘.
- Click on the Search & Tagging tab, and remember to select/check the Save favorites to a Firefox bookmark folder box. Then start downloading your StumbleUpon Favorites by clicking the ‘Download Favorites’ button.
- Once your StumbleUpon Favorites have been downloaded, you’ll get the following popup saying ‘Download complete‘.
- Access your ‘StumbleUpon Favorites‘ through your ‘Firefox Bookmarks‘ by clicking on Bookmarks -> StumbleUpon.
You can click on the above image for a full sized one.
You can add me on StumbleUpon by clicking here. Happy Stumbling! 
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The Keyhole Markup Language (KML) was developed for Google Earth as a way to overlay user-generated content on maps. A KML file uses XML to record details like the place name and its coordinates on the latitude and longitude. Other data can be included in the file to make the view more specific, such as tilt, heading and altitude. Since its release in 2006, the KML file format has been increasingly adopted by more and more application developers. From its use in Flickr, Microsoft Virtual Earth to GPS applications on the phone, the KML file format has received industry wide acceptance. It is due to this accomplishment that the latest version of this file format has received accreditation from the Open Geospatial Consortium, an international voluntary consensus standards organisation, by making it a open standard for all ‘geobrowsers’ like Google Earth, etc.
You can use KML files to send addresses or show a location to someone. To make one, you need to know the latitude and longitude of the place, and visit the online Google Earth KML Creator. Once made, the files can be viewed on any online mapping service that supports the KML file format. Here is a KML file displayed in Google Maps, showing all the national parks of India. Adding these KML tags to your Flickr albums will allow you and others to find your photos for any search conducted on their location name.
Do you have alternative uses for KML files? Let us know in the comments below!
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Being April Fool’s day, everyone around decided to have some fun, right from a ‘New Airplane’ in Google Docs to ProBlogger launching ‘PayPerTweet’! Check this list out and do add links to your own pranks using the comment box!
1. Virgle - Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.
2. Dajare - Google Japan (google.co.jp), is on an attempt to “organize the world’s laughter.”
3. gDay - Search into the Future with Google gDay. Using technology right out of a fiction movie, Google has made it possible to search the internet as it would be 24 hours into the future.
4. Google Dialect Translation - Google aims at translating regional dialects of Korean to and from Standard Korean.
5. Gmail Custom Time - Dictate when you want Emails to appear in recipients’ mail boxes. You will never find yourself sending a late mail again.
6. Orkut is Now Yogurt
Wanna have some? 
7. Google Calendar is Feeling Lucky - Google added the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button to its calendar feature. When you tried to create a new event, you were given the regular option of entering the correct details and hitting “Create Event,” and also the new option of “I’m Feeling Lucky” which would set you up with an evening date with, among others, Matt Damon, Eric Cartman, Tom Cruise, Jessica Alba, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears, Anna Kournikova, Johnny Depp, George W. Bush, or Lois Griffin.
8. Google Wake Up Kit - Never miss a meeting again. Google helps you to get out of bed even from the deepest of slumbers. You can even sync with your Outlook.
9. New Airplane in Google Docs - A little easter egg was added, where a user can click the file menu and directly under new document is “New Airplane” which immediately opens a copy of a Google branded paper airplane. To reach the file menu, click the new menu, then “Document” then a new window opens.
10. Google Manpower Search - As a part of Google China, this new feature is powered by 25 million volunteers who do the searching around the clock. When the user entered a keyword, volunteers will search any possible answers from a mass of paper documents as well as online resources. The user is expected to get the search result within 32 seconds.
11. Google Books ‘Scratch and Sniff’ - A new section in Google Books allows users to ’scratch and sniff’ certain books. Users are asked to “…please place your nose near the monitor and click ‘Go’” which then ‘loads odours’.
12. Discounted airline fare by Virgin Blue - If you’re willing to stand! Yeah, you read that right, if you are willing to STAND!!
13. Yuvi & Deepika tie the knot - Finally the rumours about the sought after Indian Cricketer and Bollywood actress, come to an end. Or has it?
14. Tech2 Exclusive: India May Ban Facebook, Orkut and Foreign Social Networking Sites - India talks about banning popular Social Networking sites on grounds of Privacy and Security.
15. TechCrunch acquires Tiger Beat, will rename it CrunchKids - “Get ‘em while they’re young”, says TechCrunch’s Arrington
16. ProBlogger launches PayPerTweet - Online Marketing, Brand Building and of course Get Paid for Tweeting. Heard of Cost Per Thousand Tweets?? LOL!
17. No Bullet points on Slideshare - An unprecedented way in making presentations more effective: No bullet points and deceptive chart junk.
18. Google buys Truemors - In an all cash $5 Billion deal, Google takes over Truemors for its superior News gathering capability.
19. Mahalo Daily Steve Jobs Interview
20. Mood Technologies launches the MusicMask - Turn your face into a music instrument and play music by making different facial expressions.
21. WATSearch, The world’s first social search engine raises 3 million in funding - WATSearch empowers you with a tool to search for profiles across various social networking communities like Orkut, Facebook, Hi5, LinkedIn, MySpace.
22. Aviary Dodo, Turn the Clock on Images - What you’ll look like after 25 years. You can turn the clock back or forward in time and this tool generates an images based on the current one.
23. Time TravLR, Launch your website yesterday - Using a combination of Web 3.0 and 50% more AJAX, get websites done even before you know you need them.
24. Betamax to HD-DVD Converter - One Touch Recording / Conversion between the 2 Formats.
25. GoogleTalk goes Green - Google Talk servers will start automatically sending your conversations using IM-speak instead of normal words.
26. IRS Considers Tax Exempt Status for Bloggers - Bloggers need not pay tax for money earned through Blogging, as they provide a valuable public service by sharing information for free. Yaaaaahhhhhhhhhoooooooo!!
27. Flying Penguins - A promotional trail for the BBC iPlayer leads to the discovery of a colony of Flying Penguins.
28. Microsoft, Yahoo agree on buyout price - Microsoft takes over Yahoo’s datacenters, Web properties, and ad platform for $47.2 billion
29. Trust Banners, Guaranteed Brand Loyalty Advertising - Are your customers confused about buying your product? Use Trust Banners to help them to get decided and also stick to your brand.
30. Njection, Real Time Tracking of Police Officers - The information available on the Njection.com will give its visitors a detailed view of where police officers are in their area and how well they are responding to crime in their neighborhood.
31. eHarmony.com founder, finds his new love at Match.com - Dr. Neil Clark Warren, founder of eHarmony.com find a match of 27.3 out of 29 dimensions on Match.com
32. TechCrunch suing Facebook for $25 million - Tech Crunch’s founder Michael Arrington is suing facebook for statutory damages related to his picture being used in ads without explicit permission in Facebook.
33. DailyBlogTips Acquired for $168,000 - Daily Blog Tips founder Scocco sells the Daily network but will continue to work as an editor for the blogs.
34. John Chow Cola - The Official Blogger Drink - Post Ideas “POP” into your head, with special Neuro Enhancers!
35. Hummer giveaway at a Crazy internet Marketing Contest - A Brand New Hummer valued at over $58k has been added to the prize pool for a contest at Winningtheweb.com.
36. Chris Pirillo quits his job over a fight with his wife - LOL!
37. Joel Comm finds way to get rid of Spam completely - His new solution, Instant Whitelist assures 100% Email Deliverability.
38. Blogging Fingers finally crosses 23k RSS Subscribers - From around 1k subscribers to 23k in just 1 day, Blogging Fingers is now competing with John Chow over night!
39. Ades Blog is going fully on RSS - No more Ades Blog, Only Ades RSS. Please subscribe to still receive posts.
40. Google buys Microsoft for $1 Trillion - Hehe!!
Bonus Prank!: Kyle Kendrick gets traded to a team in Japan! - Baseball player Kyle Kendrick getting “Punk’d” by teammate Brett Myers. They tell him he is being traded to a team in Japan! This is a comcast broadcast of the video.
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Google Adsense updated its policy a couple of weeks back and the update to the policy now requires every Adsense publisher to update his/her individual privacy policies.
Jennifer who blogs at Jensense put up a detailed explanation of the changes in the policy and now provides us with a standard template that one can use. Ajay has a slightly more elaborate version and I’ve created the Privacy Policy for Tech Spikes 
based on that.
It has been made compulsory by Google that each and every blog which earns revenue via Google Adsense publish its privacy policy and notify readers each time a change is made. If you are feeling lazy but want to put up a Privacy Policy for your blog, you may choose one of the following three options.
- Use my Privacy Policy as a template and suitably modify it for your blog.
- Use the template made available at Jensense.
- Use the Privacy Policy Plugin.
For those who have a blog but do not use Google Adsense but still want a Privacy Policy, you might want to check out either the Disclosure Policy Generator or DMA’s Privacy Policy Generator.
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Google sometimes locks your GTalk account either by mistake or for whatever reason that they deem fit 
. The same happened to me last night and it took me quite a while to realise that my account was locked. Here is how I unlocked it.
If you see Account locked after trying to log in, follow these steps:
- Using the same computer on which your Google Talk logins are failing, click here.
- Enter your Google Account username and password, and the letters in the distorted picture.
- Once you have successfully logged in, restart Google Talk and try to sign in again.
That’s it. Your GTalk Account is unlocked!
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