Sharing the Addiction

Roundup of some interesting things

1. Search ’shortcuts’
If you are using Firefox, you can set up a search shortcut for sites that you visit often that have a search window. Go to the site, right click on the search window and choose ‘Add a Keyword for this Search’. Once you have assigned a keyword, you can type it into the address box of the browser and then type your search terms afterwards. For instance, I have assigned a shortcut to my search box on my website. I now don’t have to visit the site, I just type me (my search keyword) and then my search terms such as fractions into the address window and I get the search results when I push enter.

2. Webslides
As the video below shows, this service lets you select a group of webpages to turn into a slideshow giving people a chance to look at each page. You have to email them to get an invite to test this and I am still waiting for one but I think it looks pretty interesting.

3. l8r
This service allows you to set a date into the future for an email to be delivered (up to five years). Wouldn’t this be an interesting writing exercise for kids. Write a letter to yourself five years into the future! I found out about this service on this Mashable blog post about 75 different email services available.

4. Fuser
While I couldn’t get this working properly for me, I have still put it here because I think the idea behind it is great. It takes all of your email accounts and Facebook, and brings all of that mail into one place. I have emailed them telling them the problems I have having so watch this space (while I was writing this blog entry, I got an email from their customer service - lightning fast reply! It may be to do with some settings I changed in Firefox so you should check this out)

I’m also revisiting the online office applications that I am already signed up to such as Zoho and ThinkFree as well as trying out new ones like Contact Office and will let you know in my next post what I think of them.

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