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Well I managed to get an invite to the new http://plus.google.com yesterday and so far I’m really enjoying it.  If you don’t know what it is, click on the link I just linked to and check it out.  It’s Google’s latest attempt at social networking.  And to be honest, I think this one might actually be successful. What I really like about it is the Circles.  Circles allows you to group people in certain categories.  Then when you want to post something to Google+, you can select which of your Circles sees what you posted.  Instead of everyone you are friends with seeing it.  It’s a very nice feature. (more…)
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Enable Google Toolbar in Firefox 5 If you’ve installed Firefox 5 and noticed that Google Toolbar wasn’t updated to support the new Firefox release, there’s a simple way to enable the extension: install the Add-on Compatibility Reporter. “After installing the Add-on Compatibility Reporter, your incompatible extensions will become enabled for you to test whether they still work with the version of Firefox or Thunderbird that you’re using.” This should only be a temporary solution until Google Toolbar and other extensions update their compatibility list. Google Toolbar 7 works well in Firefox 5, especially considering that the new Firefox version didn’t make too many important extension-related changes. Firefox’s faster release cycle, inspired by Google Chrome, has an important downside: extension developers need to update their extensions more frequently and update the list of Firefox versions that are supported. Mozilla alleviated this problem by automatically marking almost 4,000 extensions as compatible
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