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Integrate Your LinkedIn Professional Network with Microsoft Outlook

Yogesh Gautam — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:22:00 +0000

If you are Microsoft Outlook user, it is good news for you. Now you can integrate your LinkedIn Professional Network right within your Microsoft Outlook Inbox. LinkedIn and Microsoft have launched the beta version of this feature recently.

Integrate LinkedIn Account with Microsoft Outlook

To start leveraging your professional network within Microsoft Outlook you need to download the latest version of the Outlook Social Connector from here. This download requires Outlook 2003, 2007 or 2010 to work. After installing the Outlook Social Connector, download the LinkedIn Outlook Connector and install it. Then restart the Microsoft Outlook and follow the instructions to connect your LinkedIn account to Outlook.

When it install completely, you will see a LinkedIn folder appear in your Outlook. This folder aggregates information from your LinkedIn account and your Outlook contacts. You can see these contacts in business card format. It includes the contact’s Title, Photo and e-mail address.

Integrate LinkedIn Account with Outlook

Access and Track Your Connection in Your Inbox

This feature allows you to see the latest LinkedIn activities and profile photo from any connections that send you an e-mail. You can tract the activities of your LinkedIn connections.

Send E-mails to you Connection from Outlook

It allows you to send e-mails to your LinkedIn connection directly from Outlook. Just type the name of your LinkedIn connections in Outlook’s “To:” box, Outlook will fill the e-mail id automatically.

Build your LinkedIn Professional Network

You can send an invitation to connect from any Outlook e-mail, just click on the green “Add” icon next to any email sender to invite to join your network.

Google Wave – Real Time Communication Tool, Get an Invitation.

Yogesh Gautam — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:40:00 +0000

I got a Google Wave invitation few days back, just trying to working on this real time communication tool. Google Wave is online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. It allow people to discuss and work together using and sharing text, photos, videos, maps and many more. It is designed to merge Instant Messaging, E-mail, Wikis and social networking.

Google Wave

It is available free but an invitation required for use it. I have 10 Google Wave Invitations; but I will give it only for needy people, if anyone wants an invitation just Retweet this post and write a comment, why you need google Wave accounts?

Use Instant Messenger as a Google, Yahoo, Bing and Twitter Search Engine

Yogesh Gautam — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:21:00 +0000

Millions of Internet users perform lots of searches on the web using different Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc daily. Google is top search engine and most of the time we use Google. But it is not enough sometimes. So we try other search engines like Yahoo or Bing. It takes time to opening a new tab and loading sites. But now you can access multiple Search Engines right from your IM without having to go to the sites. It is possible by help of “sbot”.

Sbot support multiple Search Engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing) and Twitter search right now. To using Sbot you need to add Sbot as your friend on Gtalk, Yahoo Messenger or Live Messenger and start searching.

GTalk – sbot@bot.im
Yahoo Messenger – searchbot@ymail.com
MSN Messenger – searchbot@live.com

As you add Sbot to your IM buddy list, you can start conversing with it. You can start searching by sending message to Sbot in the following format.

To perform Google search send – g search keyword
To perform Yahoo search send – y search keyword
To perform Bing search send – b search keyword
To perform Twitter search send – t search keyword

You can send “help” to bot for usage instructions. If you are working and need to read your reply on twitter you does not need to open Twitter you can check your replies by just sending message “t @YogeshGautam“.

Note: It will display first 4 results for Google because of the API limitations.

Opera 10 Turbo – Fast Browsing on Slow Internet Connections

Yogesh Gautam — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:43:00 +0000

Turbo Compression Technology, sleek design, Innovative visual tabs, built in e-mail client, Inline spell checker and easy-to-personalize these are the features which makes the Opera 10 a World class Web Browser. Recently Opera launched a new version Opera 10 with Turbo. Opera 10 already downloaded 10 million times during the first week of release with record download rates.

Opera Turbo

Opera Turbo uses a new compression technology that increase the browsing speed over limited bandwidth connections. If you are browsing at that place where Internet speed is slow or using at a crowded Wi-Fi area or browsing through mobile phone while commuting, Opera Turbo can improve the browsing speed.

Built-in e-mail client

Opera 10 allow you to access all of your e-mail even when you are not connected to the Internet. Your all e-mails are stored right on your hard disk so you can read and send your e-mails any time and as connect to Internet Opera Mail synchronizes with your web e-mail service, keeping you organized and productive. You can add more than one e-mail accounts and all the features of Opera Mail work with all your different e-mail accounts.

Sleek Design and Visual Tabs

Opera 10 introduce a new resizable tab bar. Now you can see the thumbnails of your all open webpages. Designer Jon Hicks has created a whole new beautiful look with great features.

Spell Checker

Now you can write freely in your Blog, Web Mail, Twitter or Facebook wall. Opera 10 underlines any misspelled word. Opera 10 using the popular Hunspell dictionary format.

So, try Opera 10 for a new web browsing experience. For more information and downloading Opera 10 visit http://www.opera.com/browser

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StumbleUpon Launched URL Shortening Service Supr

Yogesh Gautam — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:54:00 +0000

StumbleUpon’s URL shortening service Su.pr is now available for everyone on the net. Supr is a URL shortner service which is provided by StumbleUpon. There are dozens of other URL shorter services on internet that convert a long URL into a very short URL like Bit.ly, ow.ly and TinyURL because short URL is easy to share on Twitter, Facebook, email and other services.

If you want to use Supr you need a StumbleUpon’s user id. It allows you to login in Supr by SU id. You can add your twitter and Facebook id in setting option of Supr if you want to post updates or share a link directly from Supr.

Advantages of Supr

It shortens any URL in few characters.
You can post updates and share any page on Facebook and Twitter directly from Supr.
It gives you facility to thumbing up and reviewing on StumbleUpon itself.
Su.pr offers real time analytics that provides you the separates report of clicks from stumbles, displays accounts who thumbed up on StumbleUpon and retweets at twitter.
You can Schedule your updates.
Supr suggest the best posting time to maximize traffic.
You can get short URLs on your own domain like http://yourdomain.com/abcd.
You can use WordPress Plugin to easily post link to Twitter and Facebook It allows bloggers to create search engine friendly URL with 301 redirects.

For More information Visit Su.pr