Founded by Courtland Allen and Niccolo Pantucci, Taskforce is an Gmail application which convert e-mails into tasks and create reminders for them. TaskForce is a little window that lives in your Gmail, splitting your messages into types: information, action, and broadcast. It lets you add tasks directly from its interface or through email, at the top of each message there will be two buttons; “Convert to a New Task” or “Add to an Existing Task”. You can share tasks with others, even if they don't use TaskForce. You and others can comment on tasks, prioritize, and attach files and it
Read MorePowerinbox a Boston, MA-based open app platform for email, is a startup whose idea is to innovate on top of email by augmenting the messages sent to you by various services, essentially turning your emails into apps. Powerinbox, the new email platform that lets you run apps for Facebook, Twitter, and Groupon inside your inbox has today added support for Google+. (Despite not having access to an official Google+ API, the company was able to analyze the Google+ protocol by tracking the requests between the official Google+ client and server. Powerinbox then created its own internal API and built its
Read MoreFacebook has introduced a “Like” extension for the Chrome browser. Though there are other third-party Chrome extension, but this one is official, showing you how many others have clicked Like on the page you’re viewing. You do not need to be logged in to Facebook to install this plugin, but to like, share or recommend a page you will need to log in to a current Facebook account, or create a new one. While the plugin is installed, it will display the total number of likes for the page you are viewing. To provide a personalized experience, Facebook will see
Read MoreWith this version, Swype has introduced several new gestures for quickly doing some of the most common tasks involving text. You've always been able to use some basic, core Swype gestures, like punctuation words, and jumping quickly to the editing layer. Now swype has added 2 new categories of gestures with this version: Editing gestures and application gestures. Quick Editing - Access cut, copy, paste, and select-all functions in a flash! #1 Cut - Swype from the Swype key to the X key #2 Copy - Swype from the Swype key to the C key #3 Paste - Swype from the Swype key to
Read MoreWondered you could manage your bookmarks independent of any browser, rather than associated with specific browsers, and that you could organize these within a browser independent folder structure. HTMtied is a portable application which converts any URL from the clipboard to an HTML file which acts as the URL’s shortcut. It is quite similar to bookmarking any website, however, in this case they are saved as a shortcut on required local location instead of browser’s bookmarks archive. It instantly converts any Internet address (link, URL) to a very small HTML file that when opened in any browser, it will automatically
Read MoreMicrosoft has released a hotfix for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 designed to boost performance and speed of USB storage devices such as Flash drives and USB hard disks. The hotfix KB2581464 introduces a new feature in the aforementioned operating systems that enables you to increase the maximum transfer size of USB storage devices from 64 kilobytes (KB) to 2 megabytes (MB). According to Microsoft, this can improve performance for some USB storage devices. The update will not be served through Windows automatic update service, and is only available for download from Microsoft Support website. To apply this hotfix, you must
Read MorePut down the heavy city guidebook and your mediocre map, PocketGuide (free, iOS, Android, Symbian) a new travel application from GPS City Guide, Hungary-based start-up, covers all this and even has voice instructions. The app runs on GPS positioning and will tell you interesting stories and relevant information as you travel throughout a city- just like a personal tour guide. And best of all, once the app is downloaded, you don’t need a WiFi internet connection to use it. PocketGuide also enables users to make stunning 3D travel videos – merging Google Earth map, personal photos, videos and the user’s
Read MoreWhen you come across a single web site you want to send to a friend, that's easy to do. If you have a bunch of sites open and you want to share them all, things get a little more complex. Tabulate expedites the process of sending many URLs by taking all the open tabs in a given window and providing you with a single short URL that links to them all. You can then send that short URL to someone, who will be presented with all your links. It's a one-click solution to what would normally take a little time
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