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Google fisuggest is just my term for the new feature Google Finance has not an official one.

Google Finance has now a suggestive feature for your Finance based searches, so like Google suggest for searches you also have Google Finance suggest you financial term searches.

When you start typing a few words in Google Finance search box, it generates a drop-down of companies whose name or stock symbol matches the search keywords. Clicking on the names or symbols will lead you to the actual results for those stock options.

Check out the new aha, old Google suggest at Google Finance.

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Update: Check the  official google firefox extension groups for updates on the bug i raised. I will post the full fix here once i get a official response from Google.  

Earlier in the day I had written about the new extension Goolge released has for Firefox. Well either all beta launches done by sites think we are fools or that we are likely candidates for getting fooled.

I started this slam bang of new services with betafy which did not deliver what it promised , here is the latest one, Google browser sync, the first google beta to let me down, below are the two screenshots i got all day from this service.

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Browsing on the Google website for firefox tools, I saw this interesting extension for firefox which was released yesterday by Google.

Google Browser Sync is a firefox extension that will synchronize your firefox bookmarks, history, persistent cookies and save passwords accross the computers you use, it will allow you to open tabs and windows accross different machines and browser sessions.

This is particulalry useful if you use more than one computers, though you can put it to good use even when you use only a single computer or laptop. Also for those who use multiple computers at work and home this is definitely a boon as manual syncronization is just too painful.

This extension will only work with Firefox 1.5 and later.

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Windows Vista beta 2 will be avialable for downloads shortly, Official Microsoft preview .

Keep checking back for final download release link and review here.

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Here are some more firefox tweaks you can use for better accessibility.

Have you ever seen this alert in firefox while browsing.

This is a alert you get when you try to use sites that auto updates itself, aka web2.0 based sites.

Here is how you can get rid of this alert.

Firefox has a url with which you can access and change the setting of Firefox, its kind of a long list and has lots and lots of configurations, which you can change easily but sticking to the image above, here is how you get rid of it.

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Google already had aquired Writely earlier the online word processing service, now they have come up with another one service Google Spreadsheet in Google labs which can be used to process spreadsheets online.

This is potentially the Microsofy Office suite killer, with Microsoft launching their Office 2007 beta for public testing, Google has come up with another one which unlike Microsoft's product is spelt as FREE.

What you can do with Google Spreadsheets?

Well you can do all the things which you can do in a spreadsheet program, including number formatting, sorting by colums, and adding forumlas.

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I am pretty fussy about backing my data, after i suffered one of my worst hard drive crashes few months ago. Backup to me is not synonymous to working, as each day i make changes to files, create new software's and lots of other things which I would hate to lose again.

I have used various ways to backup data, including emailing files to myself, burning the files on a CD, making multiple copies on network computers etc. Doing each of these things is a bit time consuming and bit buggy.

But till date, the best of all methods I use for backups which I religiously use now, is backing my files to Gmail using a simple extension to Windows explorer called Gmail Drive Shell extension.

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