Massively extend your knowledge-gathering power with Curiyo (Browser Extension)

So I'm reading a super-interesting article on Mega's plan for email privacy (well, interesting to me, anyway), and I start running into tech terms the make me scratch my head. What the heck is WebRTC? What's Perfect Forward Secrecy? No clue. In the old days I'd have to open a new browser tab and do a search for those geeky terms. No more!

With the Curiyo browser add-on I can simply click on the term (if it has a subtle dotted line under it, meaning that Curiyo found it an interesting term I might want to know more about), or long-click on any word in the text (if Curiyo either found the term uninteresting or thought I ought to know what it meant already, since I have a college degree for crying out loud).

Developer Description: "Curiyo saves you time and instantly brings relevant info to you without leaving the page!"

Features:

Long-click: This feature allows you to decide which topic you’d like to know more about, by just long-clicking the term for a full second.

Topic Detection: Curiyo automatically identifies interesting topics on the page you’re reading and subtly underlines them.

Relevant content: Curiyo gives you dynamic content from top publishers on the web.

Smart word detection: Curiyo is easy to use! If for instance you want to click on Lana Del Rey, there’s no need to select the whole name (all three parts of it), just long-click anywhere in the word.

Check out the screenshot to see an actual, real-life example of Curiyo in action!

Get it for Chrome or Firefox by clicking below!

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Developer Quote: "Fruumo gives you a powerful "New Tab Page" which has Facebook notifications, RSS Reader , Local Weather, Time and tons more!"

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Pipe (Internet) - Share files up to 1 Gb with Facebook Friends!

Many of us know the agony of needing to share a large file with our friends and being crushed to realize that it's just too damn big to share without putting it on a flash drive and driving over. Driving! The horror!

I'm here to bring your faith in technology back to life with this awesome Facebook app that lets you share files up to 1 Gb large with your Facebook friends. Check it out!

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Below you can see the web app on a PC browser, with Global, Regional and Local maps, next hour, next 24 and next week; highs and lows, etc. Looks good, right?

Then you can see how it looks on an iPhone. Sweet.

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HTML Mail (Internet Tools)

Developer Quote: "Compose rich-text HTML mails (with inline images and tables) and send them to anyone with a click. Your messages will look the same across all email clients."

Plain text emails have their place, I'll admit, but there are times when they just won't do. Can we all agree on this? Good. So, when you want to jazz up (what a dated expression!) your emails, check out this web tool. It's got a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor so you can avoid the coding, but you can also easily switch to HTML view to fiddle with the coding yourself. A very useful tool. Check it out!

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First, it makes the task as simple as possible. All you have to do is select the applications you want from the main web page, then click on the Get Installer button at the bottom. Once the installer is downloaded, you run it and it installs or updates your selected applications. What's more, you can run that same installer again and again and it will update those apps to their latest versions.

Second, it's secure. Many of these free applications try to persuade you to allow them to change your search engine, your browsers home page, or just add applications you don't want. Ninite bypasses all of these and simply installs or updates the programs you choose.

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Here's where you can go to detect the malware and fix your machine if necessary...

http://www.dcwg.org/


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As you roam to a fro on the web, how do you organize what you find? There are various means of doing this but this one seems like it wins the prize for ease and flexibility. From the developers:

"Pinterest is a virtual pinboard. Pinterest allows you to organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. You can browse pinboards created by other people to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests.

People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and share their favorite recipes."

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Don't know about you but it seems to me that Twitter has been overrun with Internet marketing crap, to the point where it's difficult to find your way through it all. The new layout and features may just solve this. (At the time of this writing, not everyone has access to the new web app, but it will come.) Check it out...



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Does that photo of you need a little something to make it all that it can be? Use this online tool to make those subtle changes that make all the difference! Just look at what it did for me!

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Firefox is bringing back sharing with this add-on. Still in alpha, though it seems to work fine.

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It's that time of year again! Everyone in the Panhandle and the Southeastern U.S. will be interested in tracking hurricanes, so it's time for me to remind you that the prettiest storm tracker on the Internet is Stormpulse. Check it out!

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shortText - Post short notes to unique URLs

Let's say you want to post directions to a party, or a recipe for your grandma's pork shavings, or your beliefs on the advantages of foil head coverings, but you don't want to go through the hassle of starting a blog or web site. Here's your answer...

Use shortText to post a rich-text message, including pictures and video, to the Web with its own unique URL. Let your 3 friends know the address and they, or you, can access your message as easy as pie. The message will survive as long as people access it at least once every three months.

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I always chuckle a bit to myself when someone says, "I'm very busy." Really? When you consider that our lives are fleeting and our time precious, everyone needs to use that precious commodity carefully and thoughtfully.

This online tool has some aspects that make it worthy of note to the end of helping us use what time we have to the fullest...

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Developer says:

Have you ever faced the situation of agreeing on decisions and task assigments in a meeting and it takes days before the minutes are written and sent to everyone—if they ever are?

Ever got a quick customer call, whose outcome should be traced and shared?

minutes.io just does that. In an elegant and simple manner. You can use it in your browser, but you don’t need to be connected to the Internet. You don’t need to sign up. And it’s free!



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