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3outube Downloads YouTube Files With A Single URL Change
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | You’ve found a great set of bloopers and want to download them for future screenings. If you change the “Y” in the youtube.com address to “3,” 3outube provides links for downloading that video in MP4 or FLV formats. More »
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Use Goo.gl URL Shortener Without Google Toolbar
3:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you like the idea of a URL shortener powered by Google but you’re not really sold on the idea of having to install the Google toolbar to get access to it, the Goo.gl Bookmarklet takes care of that problem. More »
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Get Free Access To Pay-Walled Content With A Simple Google Hack
5:40AM Adam Pash | Ever stumble onto a pay wall at the likes of the Wall Street Journal but aren’t ready to subscribe just to read one article? Tech blog Digital Inspiration highlights a classic Google hack for breaking through the pay wall for free. More »
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Verify Redirect Keeps You From Getting Rickrolled — Or Worse
10:00AM Lisa Hoover | Firefox only: You never know what you’ll stumble on by clicking innocent-looking links served up by URL shorteners. If you’re unlucky, you’ll get Rickrolled —at worst — well, let’s not go there. Verify Redirect let’s you look at URLs before you leap. More »
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Make Your Own URL Shortening Service
7:00AM Kevin Purdy | URL shortening services are ubiquitous on Twitter and other cramped online spaces. They won’t all last, as tr.im has demonstrated, and their shutdowns could annihilate your linking history. If you own a domain, though, you can host your own service. More »
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Search Google Images By Colour
7:00AM Adam Pash | Weblog Google Operating System points out a new search option in Google Image Search that filters images by colour. Colour search isn’t available as an operator yet, but a simple URL hack will do the trick. To start searching Google by image colour, all you have to do is append &imgcolor=colorname to the URL of a Google Image Search—where colorname is replaced by one of a number of colours of your choice. So, for example, your search URLs might look like this: More »
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12:30PM Angus Kidman | Google Operating System offer up a useful script for automating the process of saving Google Documents sent to you by others into your own account – useful if you’ve been sent a document for viewing but don’t have editing rights. The script relies on a simple URL hack which replaces the normal ‘view’ function with a document copy action, so if you don’t want to mess with Greasemonkey, you could perform the same task with a little typing.
Copy Google Documents to Your Account [Google Operating System]
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How To Save Google Documents Into Your Own Account
12:30PM Angus Kidman | Google Operating System offer up a useful script for automating the process of saving Google Documents sent to you by others into your own account – useful if you’ve been sent a document for viewing but don’t have editing rights. The script relies on a simple URL hack which replaces the normal ‘view’ function with a document copy action, so if you don’t want to mess with Greasemonkey, you could perform the same task with a little typing.
Copy Google Documents to Your Account [Google Operating System]
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ShareTabs Opens Multiple Links In Tabs
4:00AM Adam Pash | Web site ShareTabs is sort of like TinyURL when you want to share several links, allowing you to send one link that will open a number of links in separate tabs with one click. Here’s an example: If I wanted to share all of the non-Lifehacker US Gawker Media sites with someone, I could simply send the following ShareTabs link: http://www.sharetabs.com/?gawker When you follow that link, you’ll see the page below. The thumbnails display each site, and clicking a thumbnail will open that site in one of the faux tabs you see at the top of the screenshot (they may look like Firefox tabs, but they’re actually just a graphical element inside the ShareTabs site). You can either navigate the sites by clicking around the faux tabs, or you can click the Open all links link at the top of the page to actually open each link in a separate tab. If you’re looking to share a lot of links without taking a lot of space to do it, ShareTabs is a great tool. ShareTabs More »
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How To Access Your Gmail Account When It’s Down
2:00AM Adam Pash | Weblog Google Operating System rounds up eight different Gmail modes worth a shot next time you have trouble accessing Gmail. That includes everything from Safe mode—which runs Gmail without any Labs features—to Basic or iPhone mode. More »
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