It is time for another digest of recent content on 40Tech’s Posterous site, where we post content that is too brief for this site, but too long for Twitter. Since the last digest, our Posterous site has taken a look at the following items:
Set Up Tiny, Permanent Tabs in Firefox – how to set up permanent, reduced-sized tabs of selected sites in Firefox.
If a Browser Is Released in a Forest and Nobody is Around to Hear It . . . – the Opera 10 Release Candidate is out, with the final release just around the corner, but will anybody notice?
Favicon Alerts for Google Voice – a Greasemonkey script to put a count of the number of unlistened Google Voice messages into the favicon of your Google Voice tab in Firefox.
WIndows 7’s "Problem Steps Recorder" – a tool to record and annotate problems you have in Windows 7.
Multiple Gmail Signatures in Firefox Using "Blank Canvas" – a Firefox plugin that allows you to have multiple HTML-compatible Gmail signatures that can be tied to particular sending and receiving addresses.
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RSS Readers are a convenient way to stay on top of many web sites, without having to visit the sites directly. One reader, Google Reader, stands head and shoulders above other readers in terms of popularity. That doesn’t mean Google Reader is easy to understand, though. Many users (including me, until recently) either don’t use or don’t understand three of Google Reader’s features – the ability to "Star," "Share," and "Like" an item. Here we take a look at those three features of Google Reader.
A while back, I was working a job that required much more effort and responsibility than was reflected in my pay grade — familiar story? Well, combined with multiple side-projects, keeping up with my wife, newborn daughter, two dogs and a plethora of other things that required my time and energy, I was drowning. I started researching ways to get things done more efficiently. That’s how I first came across the cultural phenomena (some would just say cult…) that is GTD. A friend of mine who was “in the know” about such things was nice enough to lend me an audio version of a GTD seminar by 
Google Voice, Google’s free service to help you make and receive calls, is currently open only to former GrandCentral subscribers. Soon, though, Google will make Voice more widely available. Between free U.S. calls, call filtering, multiple telephone ringing, and call transcription, Voice offers many enticing features. Google Voice is so different from traditional telephone service, though, that it can be difficult to comprehend exactly how the service works. Today we take a look at the basics of Google Voice.
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