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If you are a frequent visitor to the darker side of the web I am sure you would have come across various link-protectors like LinkBucks, UserCash, URLCash, Linx.in, Rapidbolt.com and Link-protector.com. These services obfuscate the original download link and instead force you to click through multiple intervening pages (and a barrage of intrusive advertisements). They are pointless and annoying to say the least.

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Opera is packed with dozens of cool little features which even regular users may not be aware of. User Stylesheets (UserCSS) is one such feature. When combined with Site Preferences, it permits styling specific webpages and allows developers to design skins even for websites that may not support them.

Stylish extension allows Firefox users to enjoy the benefits of UserCSS. In fact Stylish took things a step further by addind an easy to use GUI and supporting skinning of various aspects of the browser itself using UserCSS.
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The second beta of Opera v10 is out. Although you can download the build from Opera’s ftp servers the release hasn’t been officially announced. Opera will possibly announce it within new few hours.

Beta 2 should be a future complete version of Opera 10. We will have to wait for the changelog to learn exactly what has changed. However, the most visible change are the modified icons and tab bar colour scheme (which integrates better with the skin). The browser pages (Error Page, About Page, Config Page etc) has also been changed. The new error pages are definitely prettier. Surprisingly Opera Unite has been removed from this build (indicating it is not yet ready for primetime). So, if you are using Operaa Unite stick to the Weekly Builds (Snapshot).
Opera is approaching its final release and the focus will now shift from new features to bug fixes and stability. Expect the final build soon.
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A surprisingly large number of users still use Twitter’s web interface for tweeting. A good majority of them are basic users who possibly don’t need advanced features offered by the desktop clients. However, there are times when even power users are forced to use the web-client. For example, when tweeting from office or cyber cafe. Here are two new web-based alternatives to Twitter.com which were released earlier this week. They offer features comparable to desktop clients right inside your browser.

Seesmic Web

Seesmic is a relatively new twitter client that is already making waves. Seesmic Desktop client is my favourite due to features like Spell Check, Tweet Shrink and full Facebook Integration (TweetDeck has a half-hearted Facebook integration).

Like its desktop counterpart Seesmic Web offers Multi-Column as well as single column interface. The single column interface is aimed at the casual twitter users who may not be comfortable with multi-column interface. At first glance the single column mode looks strikingly similar to Gmail. And this actually works to its benefit. The single column interface appears simplistic, easy to use and familiar as it should. The multi-column interface looks a lot like its desktop counterpart. By default two columns are available – Your Twitter Feed and the Replies Feed. Any Twitter search you perform gets saved to your twitter account history and the results are displayed in a column (in multi-column mode). Another helpful feature is the threaded direct message display. If you use DM a lot, this will certainly help you. Seesmic automatically groups conversations together in Gmail style.
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Modern day games are resource hungry giants which require every ounce of your computer’s resources. However, the fact is that most of the casual gamers have systems which are just not optimised for gaming. Windows itself comes with a bunch of additional services which are not essential for the functioning of the system, but are present to provide additional functionalities. On top of that users have other services such as antivirus software, unnecessary driver agents etc running in the background. These processes use up a fair amount of system memory as well as some computing power.

Game Booster is a freeware from IOBits which attempts to boost your games performance by maximising the amount of system resource available to games. Game Booster allows you to optimise your system for gaming with the click of a button. When you enable gaming mode it disables all unnecessary services and processes and cleans your RAM. It also gives the user the option to close user applications running in the background.
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