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Here are the popular web2.0 releases that will keep you bust till the next time, have fun.

doof

One of the interesting web2.0 service I saw was Doof which provides users a true Web 2.0 Social Gaming Experience. You can play games and connect with other users using this new entrant into the social gaming networking platform.

doof - Addictive gaming, social networking

PhotoShop Express

Don’t want to use heavy desktop photo editing softwares or have not yet read about the handy online photo editing websites we have converted, then you should definitely try out Photoshop Express which is a scaled down version of the popular image editing software Photoshop. With this new web2.0 service you can now edit and store photos online for free.

Adobe PhotoShop Express

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Well its Friday once again time to get your weekly dose of laughter. This time around we bring to you some funny pictures to cheer you up. Keep smiling and have fun over the weekend.

Don’t you dare post my picture on FaceBook

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If you are awaiting the release of Firefox 3 to make your browsing life better then I guess you should wait a little more longer for a browser named Pogo from AT&T. Now if you are asking me why do I need another web browser?

Well when I saw the browser in action I was truly amazed and am eagerly awaiting its arrival for users. You can bet I would be one of the early adopters.

Some of the features than enhance the browser to give you a 3D experience and more are

• PogoDock - A start page built in within the browser that allows you to dock your favorite websites so that you can access them easily whenever you want to.
• Visual Tabbed Browsing
• Organize and tag your favorites into collections
• Keep track of your searches with ease.

Check out the video done by Robert Scoble which analyzes how the Pogo Browse works.

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Microsoft has announced the public beta release of Windows Search 4.0 for both Windows Vista and XP. If you have been using Vista or had in the past you may know that the application search in your start menu is powered by Windows Search. There are a number of improvements in this version over is predecessors which include

• Support for the Encrypting File System (EFS)
• Reduced affect on Microsoft Exchange when you index e-mail in online mode, and there is no local cache (.ost)
• Support for indexing online delegate mailboxes
• Support for client-to-client remote query to shared indexed locations
• Improved indexing performance
• Faster previewer updates for Windows XP
• Per-user Group Policy settings
• Windows software updates for Watson errors

There are also few changes to support group policy objects. Overall the search from the start menu has seen some improvements.

Download Windows Search 4.0

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Quite sometime back we had spoken about how to add your favorite folder to your file open / save dialogs and also followed it up with a trick on how to access multiple favorite folders with a simple click in the file / open save dialogs.

Those tricks are still very much useful but if you intend to save yourself some time and efforts there is a very cool software utility that will allow you to open your favorite folders if you are using file open / save dialogs, browse dialogs or just using Windows explorer to browse folders.

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Google AdSense as always keeps on adding new policies to their already heavy user policies. This time around there are some interesting changes to their policies with regards to ad placements.

The first interesting change is no ad units under section headings that imply ads are not ads. According to the policy such formats may mislead a user that the ads are part of the post. This change affects the hugely popular format used by most blogs wherein the ads are directly placed beneath the title before the content starts. Check out the screenshot below to look at the format of the ads.

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