http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code

A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The "QR" is derived from "Quick Response", as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes are common in Japan, where they are currently the most popular type of two dimensional codes.

With QR Codes the hardlink between the offline, physcial world and online, virtual world is established, so emily chang about mobile tagging...

for reading QR codes on the iPhone, you can use NeoReader

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Labels: flickr, fun, image_processing, iphone, mobile, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified...
now we can use many web services to get the exactly coordinates and information about our location.

link: MyGeoPosition
Tiny Geo Coder

related: GeoURL.org
GeoTags.com

Labels: fun, maps, mashup, search, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

Ammyy Admin is a very slick application. Both the host and remote user download the same file - a tiny (128kb), portable executable. Launch it, and Ammyy displays one tab for the client and a second for the host (operator). Just like TeamViewer, your host connects to an echo server and receives an ID. Enter it into your client id window and click connect. Like TeamViewer, all communications are fully encrypted.

http://www.ammyy.com

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Labels: collaboration, networking, software, utilities

Ulteo takes an interesting approach to online desktop and office suites. Unlike other online desktops that offer some storage space and a few simple, browser based apps, Ulteo offers access to a virtual Linux-based operating system complete with a desktop and full Linux apps like OpenOffice. In other words, you get a lot more features from Ulteo than you do from Google Docs, Zoho Office, or EyeOS.

features that are included:
Firefox with Flash & Java, full OpenOffice.org office, KPdf to deal with your PDF documents, Kopete: the multi-Instant Messaging software that supports MSN and other protocols, Skype, Thunderbird + Enigmail (so you can encrypt your emails!), Gimp and Digikam to manage your pictures, Inkscape and Scribus to create great graphics and newspapers

http://www.ulteo.com/home/en/onlinedesktop

related links
Gallery of 10 most used web operating Systems
Desktop On Demand - free online desktop service

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Labels: browser, collaboration, networking, openoffice, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

FilePandaOne-Click Hosting. uploading - link distributing - finished. Once again an alternative to other file sharing services.

url http://filepanda.com

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Labels: fun, sharing, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

According to Orlis and Genbeta Post....Gmail users can add favorite gadgets to their webmail...


1. Check your Gmail settings and select your Google Mail display language 'English (US)' for getting all labs feature from gmail.
2. Then go to 'Settings' again and click on the button 'Labs'.
3. Enable the feature: 'Add any gadget by URL' (bottom of the feature list)
4. Go to iGoogle directory and select your preferred iGoogle gadget.
5. If you have found your lovely gadget, then click on the title of the gadget to get the button 'Share this gadget'!
6. Here you receive an URL, which points to the gadget xml file.
7. After you enabled the feature 'Add any gadget by URL' , go again to your Gmail Settings and you will find a new button next to 'Labs' called 'Gadgets'.
8. There you can insert the clipped url from your iGoogle App.



installation steps are better illustrated at How to Add Gadgets to your Gmail Account or here en espanol :)

have fun.

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Labels: gadgets, google, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

Liferay is an open source portal framework, offering integrated Web publishing and content management, an enterprise service bus and service-oriented architecture, and compatibility with all major IT infrastructures.

Technologies Used: JBoss, Tomcat, Java J2EE/JEE, ICEfaces...

sourceforge download
Liferay

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Qtpfsgui is an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.

Qtpfsgui
download

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Labels: fun, image_processing, opensource, photo, software, utilities

Microsoft's Photosynth software is designed to craft a browsable 3D model by stitching together and analyzing multiple photographs....

Photosynth installs two programs on your computer: a Web browser plug-in for viewing synths, and an application (called "Photosynth") for creating them....

Photosynth was born of a collaboration between Microsoft and the University of Washington...

http://labs.live.com/
http://livelabs.com/blog/

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Friendfeed implemented the new feature tonight. Users can choose to view most of their FriendFeed pages in real time, including topical based pages.

Robert Scoble says: "This is wild. It’s like the web has been turned into a chat room", and I agree.

Push technology, or server push, describes a style of Internet-based communication where the request for a given transaction originates with the publisher or central server....

blog.friendfeed.com

many other services are using long polling, eg. blip.fm, plurk.com, ping.fm, soup.io, facebook.com, etc...

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Labels: collaboration, communication, friendfeed, html, mashup, microblogging, networking, sharing, social_software, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

Cisco announced on Thursday Network Magic 5.0, a suite of network management software. This is is the first product released by Cisco since its acquisition of Pure Networks earlier this year. [via webware]

- Monitor computer and online activity
- Centralized network management interface
- Control Internet access
- ...

Network Magic comes in two commercial versions.
After 7 days, if you don't choose to purchase Network Magic Pro or Essentials, you can still continue to use Network Magic Free Version.

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Labels: communication, networking, security, software, utilities

Nushio is a job search aggregator powered by the most powerful job search engines on the web: Indeed, Jobster, CareerJet& Juju

try it out: http://nushio.com/

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Labels: collaboration, networking, search, utilities

Individurls makes it super simple to create your own custom Popurls or Alltop style news aggregation page. The feature set is pretty straightforward. You can add new sites to your page, re-order them and delete them. It has a bookmarklet to make it easy to add a site to your page, and it looks and works great on the iPhone.... it was created by Daelan Wood with lots of help from SimplePie, a very fast and easy-to-use class, written in PHP, that puts the ‘simple’ back into ‘really simple syndication’.

http://individurls.com
http://individurls.tumblr.com/

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Labels: communication, gadgets, html, iphone, mashup, mobile, sharing, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

Noteflight makes it easy to create and share written music online. It is a powerful full-featured Flex-based application to edit, display and play back music notation using variety of instruments, in a standard web browser [blog.go2web20.net]

http://www.noteflight.com/

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Labels: audio, collaboration, fun, social_software, utilities, web_2.0

The WebKit Web Inspector has been redesigned and improved

...after nine months since last Web Inspector update and it has a lot of cool things to talk about. If you diligently use the Web Inspector in nightly builds, you might have seen some of these improvements... [webkit.org]

http://webkit.org

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Labels: development, html, javascript, opensource, software, utilities

Slife is at the moment a free mac osx time management and application tracker app. a windows client will be available soon, according to ryan [cybernet] and slife blog post [Slife Windows v2.0 Complete]

Have you ever wondered where your time goes? Now you can find out. Slife is a free application that automatically keeps track of where you spend your time in your computer. It observes how and when you use thousands of applications, including...

http://www.slifelabs.com/

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Labels: collaboration, software, twitter, utilities, web_2.0

The Foresight Linux Project has published a linux distribution specifically made for children. the gnome desktop has changed in that way that applications for children now are more intuitive to find.....

some features are
- tuxpaint, an award winning drawing program for children ages 3-12.
- tux typing, and educational typing tutor for children.
- gcompris, an educational software suit that includes many different activities for children ages 2 to 10.
- tux, of math command, an education arcade game starring tux based on the class game "missile command".

http://www.foresightlinux.org/kids.html
http://www.foresightlinux.org

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VirtualBox 2.0, listed in Top 11 Fun Downloads May 2008, runs on Mac, Linux, and Windows machines and lets you run guest operating systems inside your computer's native environment.

For example, if you're a Linux user but you occasionally want to run a Windows application that doesn't perform well under WINE, you can load up VirtualBox and run Windows... [via downloadsquad]

Download VirtualBox

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Labels: development, microsoft, opensource, software, sun, utilities

We started our journey with a desktop screen sharing software to help and get help on one's computer. It became immensely popular because it was:

- free and
- worked and
- was grandma-friendly

Crossloop is a consumer Internet company that empowers everyone to help someone anywhere in the world with its free and easy-to-use software application for desktop sharing. CrossLoop connects computer users with trusted, qualified service providers and friends who can provide the support they need quickly and conveniently.

perhaps i can help you :) http://www.crossloop.com/webmove

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