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Google Wave Notifier for Windows

Jitto — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:14:39 +0000

Google Wave Notifier

Google wave, an innovative product from Google, have started it’s journey a few months back. Google aim to redefine the way people use internet. So it will definitely take more time to get a wide acceptance. But still many people uses it in their daily life.

Google Wave Notifier is a new desktop widget which alerts when ever you receive a new Wave. Its and open source program currently available for windows alone. You can get the updates from the system tray.

After logging on, the Google Wave Notifier will automatically inform you of new Waves or replies to existing Waves. When a new Wave appears, a popup will be displayed and the system tray icon will get an overlay icon to indicate you have an unread Wave.

New Waves

Download Google Wave Notifier from HERE

Requirement : Windows 2000 and above.

Home page : http://wave-notify.sourceforge.net/index.php

Simple twitter client for Ubuntu : Pino-twitter

Jitto — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:43:25 +0000

Pino-twitter

Twitter is getting increased popularity among social media sites. Many people use some sort of desktop client for accessing theirs updates from twitter instead of going directly to twitter.com. We discussed about a social networking addon for Firefox Yoono. But if you are not using Firefox or need only a simple client for twitter, Here is the way to go Pino-twitter.

Pino-twitter is a simple and fast twitter client for Ubuntu. Moreover, its written in Vala language. Programs written in Vala is compiles to native binary code. Hence you get increases speed and less memory usage.

Pino-twitter is still in development stage.

Pino in action

Ubuntu users can use ppa for installing pino.

Add this lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/troorl/pino/ubuntu karmic main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/troorl/pino/ubuntu karmic main

And import the public key:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys ECF4C854

You can also directly download .deb files for Pino from HERE

Yoono – Easy social networking with Firefox

Jitto — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:32:56 +0000

The importance of web browser among all other installed applications is increases day by day. And of course Firefox keeps a fair amount of browser market share. There is a Firefox addon which enable you to stay connected with all your social networking sites hence connected with all your friends when ever you open your browser. You can connect to Facebook, MySpace, Imeem, Twitter, Flickr, Friendfeed, Linkedin, MSN, AIM, GTalk and Yahoo Chat all at one place – Yoono.

Yoono in action

Being a Firefox addon, it is platform independent and works with Windows, Ubuntu and Mac OSX.

There is a desktop version for Yoono. But its only available for Windows and Mac OSX. It is useful for those who are not using Firefox frequently.

Features:

* Connect to all your social networks and never miss another status update from friends or family. You’re connected wherever you are on the web.

* Update your status across all your social networks at the same time.

* All your IM services right in your browser sidebar to easily chat while your surf the web – no more logging on to multiple services.

* Easily share links, images, and video from the page you are viewing with all your social networks at the same time.

* Share in your IM conversations by dragging and dropping links, images and video from the page you are viewing

* It’s a single, dead simple way to share anything from anywhere you are on the web.

* Discover recommended websites, videos, images, products and more – all related to the site you are viewing – in the Discovery widget.

* Highlight words in the web page yourself to discover related Google search results, Wikipedia entries, videos, and more.

* Yoono also highlights keywords in the web page you’re viewing for quick access to Discoveries

Mozilla addons page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1833

Home page: http://www.yoono.com/

Version : 6.2.1

Works with : Firefox: 2.0 – 3.6.*

HitWicket – The most popular cricket addon for Firefox

Jitto — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:41:45 +0000

HitWicket

HitWicket has launched its first version on February of 2009. From very beginning of its journey, HitWicket hold the position of Cricket related addon which has the highest download rate in Mozilla. Now it is becoming the most downloaded cricket addon in Mozilla.
HitWicket is a small piece of software which enable Firefox users to view live international cricket scores at the bottom of their browser. HitWicket is capable of listing max of 4 live matches.
HitWicket fetch data from CMDN.com which is a new player in cricket websites. And HitWicket is the only addon that uses CMDN.com.
Apart from live scores, HitWicket also provide lose of wicket alerts which is very useful for people engaged in other works. They are alerted when important events happens in their favorite cricket match.
One other unique feature which is not usually shipped with plugins is its theming support. User can select the color scheme of widget window which is best suit to their operating system theme. Also HitWicket has got the most beautiful user interface among the cricket related addon in Mozilla.
Its purely a cross platform product. So one can use it in Windows, Ubuntu and Mac environment.

Features

Shows real time live cricket scores and alerts in Firefox browser.
Customizable refresh intervals from 20 sec to 2 min.
Customizable user interface theme.
Synchronized with CMDN.com to get the live cricket scores
Fall of wicket alerts.

Latest release

HitWicket 0.5

Works with

Firefox: 2.0 – 3.5.*

OS / Platform

Ubuntu, Windows and Mac

HitWicket in Mozilla

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10830

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