WebWait lets benchmark your website or test the speed of your web connection with the website timer which is the amount of time it takes to load the page completely in the browser.The tools timing is more accurate when compared to other tools because WebWait pulls down the entire web site into your browser, so it takes into account Ajax/Javascript processing and image loading which other tools ignore.

Test your blogs wait time and benchmark it @ WebWait

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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone revealed the company’s plans to revamp the Twitter homepage to include saved searches and filtering at the Aloha Summit.

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

Here’s a snap of how it may look like

Source : SocialMedian

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Flash is more eye catchy, and users are starting to prefer a flash based presentation as well at times.iSpring is free tool to convert .ppt (Power Point Presentation)s Files into flash which is based on a professional FlashSpring conversion engine which provides high quality PowerPoint to web friendly Flash movies.The tool also optimizes the size of the flash presentation using ‘Smart Compression’.

iSpring creates high quality Flash movies with vector representation of standard PowerPoint objects and keeps most of advanced PowerPoint features intact.

Features :

• Supports Microsoft PowerPoint 2000/XP/2003/2007
• Hyperlinks and action buttons
• Animations and hyperlinks on Slide Masters
• 180+ PowerPoint animation effects
• All PowerPoint slide transitions
• Embedded music and audio narrations
• Synchronization of animations and sounds
• Embedded video clips and Flash movies
• Flash based Player
• Smart Compression for smaller file size and high quality.

MS Office Power point Add-In : We can convert .ppt files directly from the PowerPoint Application through the standard toolbar.

We can also convert the .ppt using iSpring Free Publish Wizard and save your presentation to a local folder.

Download iSping |  Homepage

Minimise Me from msn lets you create your own emoticons to use in your messenger, you can choose to create a new character or select one from the Celebrity Gallery.The celebrity gallery has 15 ready to use emoticons, which can as well be edited to your choice, create a completely new one out of your imagination.

You can use the emoticon you create as your character in the Messenger or as an emoticon in the messages.

After you finish you can download an executable that automatically that installs the icons for msn and avatars in Windows Live Messenger.

You can also use the icons in your Windows Live Space,and in other Social Networking sites.

Create your emoticons @ Minimise Me

If you are feeds regularly, and also use a screensaver on your system, you might want to consider an screensaver from this list, which is a collection of screensavers which retrieve RSS feeds and display them as your Screensavers.

Twingly screensaver : If you are a busy RSS reader, Twingly screensaver is visualizes the global blog activity in real time.You get a 24/7 stream of all blog activity, straight to your screensaver.

HomePage : Twingly ||  Download ||  Direct Download Link

RSSSavr : Currently in closed beta, rsssaver is a free screensaver which will preview RSS feeds from the net and visualize them during your computer’s “inactive” time as a screensaver and works in Windows XP.

Features :

Google Chrome is using a client_id variable in the file Local State which can be found in the user data folder of the chrome installation which is unique for every Chrome user, and which can be used to create exact user profiles of a user’s actions while using Google Chrome.

Here’s how you can remove the client id from Chrome

Method 1 : Using Google Chrome Anonymizer

Run the anonymizer, it scans the “Local State” file inside the Chrome directory and removes all information regarding the Client ID and afterwards automatically starts Chrome.This tool can run from anywhere.This means that no client id is transferred to Google when using Google Chrome,but remember to start chrome using this tool everytime.

Download Anonymizer.

Method 2 : Manually edit the Local State

The Local State file can be found in Documents and Settings\Profle Name\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\

open the file and look for the key “client_id” and remove the key.

[This has to manually done because once you close the chrome browser a new client_id is generated if entries have been deleted earlier.]

As mentioned by a commentor on GHacks, you can also try to change the file attributes to ‘ Read-Only’ to prevent the client_id to be regenerated.

Do this to make the file read only

1. Start Chrome using Anonymizer and head to Documents and Settings\Profle Name\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\
   Right Click on Local State, Select Properties and check ‘Read only’ under Attributes.
2. Close Chrome and then again the folder
   ie., Documents and Settings\Profle Name\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\
   an new file “Local State.tmp” is created edit the file as mentioned in Method 2 above and change the attributes to “Read Only” as mentioned above.

NOTE : For the Local State file to be visible change the folder options in Windows to show Hidden Files And Folders.

– Via GHacks