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I’m a big fan of StumbleUpon (my profile) and their toolbar doesn’t work with my favourite browser, Safari. StumbleUpon toolbar was the only thing I missed which was irked me when I switched to Safari.

Recently I came to know about Stumbi, the StumbleUpon ‘toolbar’ for Safari. Don’t except pretty icons. After installation, it adds to your Menu bar.

The Good:
We can give thumbs up, etc. with keyboard shortcut which I find efficient than the traditional way of enjoying StumbleUpon. Good as it’s lighter than the StumbleUpon Toolbar. (Safari starts in less than a second and Firefox takes 5 seconds.)

The Bad:
Issues are the lack of various small ‘features’ in the toolbar and the absence of the standard window that comes when you give thumbs up/down for the first time. The developer has promised more features (and a toolbar) in the next updates.

It just works regardless of the features which you might never use.

Note that you need to donate $2 before you can download it.

Stumbi

All is not well in the land of daydreams.

Some ship’s anchor damaged the undersea cable, off Egypt and Internet services are affected. [More on that: Undersea cable breakdown hits Internet-based services]

The proceedings are not good if you have queued HD stuffs on a 256 kbps connection.

The CMD of BSNL, Shri A.K. Sinha agreed to do an interview for The Newspaper Blog readers. Here is the excerpt…

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Playing Video files is an issue for most of the newbies because of missing Codecs.

If you know the know-how of the things, playing multimedia is a child’s play.

Playing Multimedia Video files is a easy task in Mac OS X. I’m going to explain with help of icons only. Click on them to visit their respective Homepage.

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I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with BSNL Dataone (my ISP).

Right from the day I started using Dataone, I was irritated and frustrated with the two issues listed below.

You’ll be amazed to hear the issues I had and you wouldn’t have heard of it before.

Now that I’m a Mac user, let’s see if BSNL annoys OS X Tiger as it did Windows XP.

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Madhur recently asked me to show ‘What’s on me Desktop‘.

I thought it would to a great idea to show my readers about my Desktop. Here’s the screenshot (click to enlarge):

Details

I like to have a clean and uncluttered desktop. I’ve My Computer & Recycle Bin icon, Shortcut to my work related folder and a folder called Tempo. Tempo has all the temporary things that I might download, torrent files and other miscellaneous junk - this keeps the desktop clear. The other details:

Wallpaper: Some hot Chick (dying to see the face!). Get it: Hot Stuff
Visual Style (The different “theme” & look) : Klarheit. More on Visual Styles and how to use them, check 10 Beautiful Visual Styles for Windows XP

How’s it?

It would be cool if you also can share your desktop image here/in your blog so that everyone can see what’s cooking on your desktop. Looking forward to see your entries.

Imagine how it would be if your favourite sites without ads, had the colour styles you love, had features you enjoy and browsers pimped out…

A neat Firefox add-ons by the name of Stylish and Greasemonkey would be God send for the juntas who love to get the most of their browsing experience.

Browsing the web without Firefox (with Stylish + Greasemonkey) is like driving a speedway on a bicycle.

Stylish and Greasemonkey does CSS & JavaScript changes respectively to the website to change the way the web site looks, remove ads, add more features, fix ugly sites or just have fun.

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Today while reading Doggdot.us, I stumbled across this site Animoto which helps us create professional videos.

Take a look at what I created:

My Days in Dubai - Ashwin’s Arabian Adventures

We need to upload some photos, music and they make a cool looking 30 second animated slideshow within 2-3 minutes for free (unlimited costs $30 a year). You can cut out some photos, change the music or remix the video (change the video you just created) as well. No two video is the same.

Try out Animoto and let us know what you think. Showcase your video if you’ve created one.

Also how’s the video that I posted here?