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Facebook’s URL shortener fb.me has started working again

Many of you must have known of Facebook’s URL shortener http://fb.me launhed in December last year. You could open up a Facebook profile by simply visiting the URL http://fb.me/username. But after a few months the service went ashtray and started showing error pages. But now, Facebook filled the holes and now the Facebook’s URL shortener fb.me is working.

Bing API for developers

Microsoft’s Bing is out for a while now. Many of us have already tested Bing and found it to be much faster and user friendly than Live search. Well developers get ready for the Bing API. Bing has a very good REST API.

Remove unwanted applications from your Facebook profile

From sharing photos and videos to using Facebook applications, Facebook seems to be a lot more entertaining than other social networks. Some applications are totally useless and you feel like ditching them once you use. You can remove Facebook applications that are not of much or any use.

Anti mosquito software for keeping mosquito away

Mosquitoes are common in most parts of the world in the summer season. We despise mosquitoes more than lizards or cockroaches. Use of mosquito repellent insecticides and mosquito nets for keeping mosquitoes away are common practices. But use of insecticides is not a good practice as it may be hazardous to health. What if you could keep yourself away from mosquitoes through your computer? Well you can do it with some handy anti-mosquito software.

Control and execute various tasks on your PC

I assume that your PC remains on most of the time. Sometimes you stick around your PC while sometimes you are out for a lunch or something else. If you want your computer to do things specified by you even when you are away, like shut down the computer, hibernate etc, Marxio Timer will help you. Give it a try.

Facial recognition technology now comes to Facebook

Many of us have started using the facial recognition technology to search people offered by iPhoto or Google Picasa. But how would it be to look for your friends’ photos using the Facial Recognition technology? Sounds cool? Face.com is bringing this technology to facebook via a new application called the Photo Finder. Not only you’ll be able to search your friends’ photos in your network but also look for them in other photos where you’ll get suggestions for tagging them.

Spam messages from Adult webcam site on Twitter

It looks like Twitter or most likely some third party Twitter services hadve been hacked. The message “hey! 23/Female. “Come chat with me on my webcam thingy here www.chatwebcamfree.com” was found in the update stream of many people. The messages seem to be from some adult webcam site. When I searched for the term on Twitter search, I found a number of tweets with the same thing.

Save time in typing with Texter

If you work in an office where you need to type a lot, you might get annoyed sometimes if you need to type the recurring phrases again and again. Or if you are a programmer, you get tired of having to type the basic code snippets that occur most frequently which you think are faster to type rather than look out for them and then copy/paste. So, is there an end to it? Why not? With Texter, you can save your numerous keystrokes replacing abbreviations with the phrases you use most frequently.

Print Blank Sheets of Music for Free

Do you read Musical Notations? If yes then you also need to write some for yourself. BlankSheetMusic lets you create your own music sheets and then print them for free.

Manage your Twitter followers with Tweepler

Do you find problems keeping track of people who follow you on Twitter? Or you are confused about following back people who are following you? A recently launched Twitter application Tweepler helps you decide whether to follow a person or not.