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Salmon Protocol May Be the Future of the Web

 Salmon Protocol May Be the Future of the Web | 40tech

About a month or so ago, I came across a few articles about Salmon Protocol – an open protocol that allows for communication beyond the confines of social networks; as well as a centralized conversation that brings comments from everywhere home to their source. Imagine, if you will, being able to communicate with people on Facebook from Twitter, or on MySpace from Facebook – and without having to join multiple networks. Wouldn’t that just make life peachy? Or maybe you are a blogger and would like to know about conversations that have sprung up around your post on the various social networks out there. Salmon Protocol plans to take you there – and may well be the future of the web.

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How to Use Your Scanner as a Fax Machine

ringcentral Do you want to be able to send faxes from home, without having to install another phone line, or share your current line?  How would you like to be able to receive faxes anywhere that you have an internet connection?  Or how about sending a fax via email?  That is all possible now, using online fax services.  The online fax service I’ve been using is RingCentral, an internet telephone service that also offers faxing.

Why RingCentral?  After a couple of years of coping with the flakiness of fax over VOIP, I decided I wanted a solution that was more reliable. I also needed a solution that was simple, since I wouldn’t be the only one using it.  RingCentral’s price was right, too, compared to other online fax services.  Read on for my impressions of RingCental, and an explanation of how I I set up RingCentral’s fax service, so that I could easily use my Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 and my computer to send faxes.  If you want to print faxes, you’ll also need a printer. Read more


5 Diverse Options for Your Browser Start Page

desktop firefox addon preview Your browser start page, also known as your Home Page, is a launching pad of sorts.  The first page that you see when you open your web browser, your start page can impact your browsing session in a couple of ways.  First, the type of page you use as your start page can impact the speed with which your browser starts.  Your choice of a start page also affects how quickly you get down to business even after your browser is open, as it can help you access other content faster.  With those two sometimes competing interests in mind, let’s take a look at five types of browser start pages.

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Quix: One Click Access to All of Your Bookmarklets — On Any Browser

Quix | Your Bookmarklets on Steroids Using bookmarklets has become a staple item for me in internet browsing — I use everything from Readability2Evernote, to a multitude of sharing and tracking tools, each with its own nifty difference from the other. My only qualm has been the way they clutter up my toolbar. No longer! I have now installed the bookmarklet to end all bookmarklets. Quix — as they say it "Your bookmarklets on steroids". Quix does everything. It comes with most things you might need already built in and even leaves you the ability to add your own. Want to search IMDB, for example? Click Quix, type IMDB and your search term and hit enter. That easy. I fully expect that one day I will ask it to make me dinner… and it will. At the very least it will point me to a really good recipe with just a couple of keystrokes and then allow me to quickly share it with the world at large.

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Bypass Blocked Media and Browse More Safely with Hotspot Shield

Bypass Blocked Media and Browse More Safely with Hotspot Shield | 40Tech Many people are annoyed by the country-blocking that is imposed by massive multimedia companies regarding their content; especially since the rise of sites like Hulu, Pandora, and Last.FM. The lure of legitimate, free, and easy to access streaming content is a hard one to pass up! If you happen to live outside of the US, however, you tend to discover rather quickly that you’re pretty much out of luck. So what to do? If you ask around, and most people will tell you to try a proxy site, but average proxy sites are generally blocked by services like Hulu, and, if you do get through, are very, -very- slow. However, if watching Hulu is a dream of yours — or you simply want to be a little safer when you browse online, or access Twitter and Facebook from work — the current version of Hotspot Shield (1.37) is your friend.

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