Links for December 9, 2007
Posted by Jacque on December 9th, 2007
Traveljournals.net: stories from your friends on the road
This free travel journal site is similar to OffExploring that I mentioned previously and also posted a review by a user.
Here, too, you can explore places, view pictures (apparently not videos), read stories, search for a traveler. I tried the picture search for a specific country and city, and when I tried the “next” option I ended up in different countries instead of it taking me to the next picture for the place I was searching. I tried it three times with the same results. There’s a lot of advertising on the site but I guess that is inevitable with a free service.
10 tips for navigating more efficiently in Firefox
If you use Firefox all day you may have mastered a few of the navigational tools it offers, but there are a lot of them under the hood, says Web Worker Daily.
These tips help you use your mouse and keyboard to navigate for faster browsing. A number of of the tips will work in other browsers as well. Many of these tell you how to make the scroll wheel on your mouse really work for you, or alternatively, if you don’t have one, what key combinations will speed your work.
Google Talk - get more
Google Talk brings you instant messaging, Gmail notifications, voice calling from PC to PC, and file transfers (though the last three are not available in Gmail chat or the Gtalk gadget).
Web Worker Daily also notes that recently they’ve added group chat and AIM integration too, since it is based on a set of open instant messaging protocols supported by a variety of services and clients.
The tips are organized from the most basic to the more advanced to help you get the most from Google Talk.