Twitterbar is a Firefox extension which allows you to post to twitter from Firefox Browser’s address bar. It enables you to post to twitter very easily. Though it doesn’t have the functionality to get tweets and display it is a great toolfor posting twitter updates.

Posting to Twitter

You can type your 140 character message in the address bar and then you can either type ‘–post’ or click on the twitter icon to post it to twitter. If you wish to tweet the URL of the page you are viewing then you can just click on the twitter icon and it gets posted along with a small message which you can edit in the settings of the add-on.

Real Time Search

This add-on comes with the ability to search in real time. You just type in your query and type ‘–search’ and you get OneRiot’s real time search results in your browser.

You can download the Twitterbar add-on for Firefox. You can visit the Official Homepage of Twitterbar if you have any doubts or queries.

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Let me explain you with an example… If I owe you (assume you are my friend) $20, you can ask me to pay for your lunch tomorrow. This flow is founded on trust, and is not a legally binding guarantee. I pay today and record it in billmonk. You pay tomorrow and record that amount in billmonk. And once in a while, we can settle the difference with each other.

Money usually stresses friendships. “Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend.” BillMonk is here to defuse the financial tension between friends by providing us with a tool which manages money in a way that is easy and fair. If you need to track the money that you have borrowed from someone or the money which you owe to someone else, use Bill Monk and make it easier.

For more details about the site and the services they offer, you can check out their blog.

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The service seems to combine Gmail and Google Docs into an interesting free-form workspace that could be used to write documents collaboratively, plan events, play games or discuss a recent news.

“In Google Wave a wave can be created and people are added to it. Everyone on the wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content — it allows for both collaboration and communication. You can also use “playback” option to rewind the wave to see how it had evolved.”

First generation email/IM integration lets a person see when someone was online, and opt to instant message someone rather than send them an email. Wave simply erases this distinction.

If both people are online at the same time, a wave acts just like an instant message – just that a person can see each character as it is typed. The creators of Wave feel that a lot of time in IM is spent waiting for the other person to press ‘Done’. (However, it is also possible for you to set Wave to hold your messages till you are done typing.)

Google’s focus is on reducing the latency of online actions thereby bringing the online experience closer and closer to our real world face-to-face communicationWhen a person is talking with someone, he may know what the other person is trying to say even before they finish their sentence. He can respond, or even finish their sentence for them. This is the case with Wave.

The real-time connectedness of Wave is truly impressive. You can drop a few photos on to a wave and the thumbnails appear on the receiver’s computer even before the photos are completely uploaded.

So this indeed would help us a lot in improving the quality of our online interactions. If you are interested you can have a look at some screenshots of the service and you can also get a bit of info about the API that could be used to extend the service and the Wave protocol that allows anyone to run a “wave” server. Google promises that Google Wave will be available later this year.

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First, it was MSN Search from the Microsoft stable. The company wasn’t much serious about search until Google proved its business model. Then Microsoft tried hard to regain superiority by launching LIVE, a search engine much similar.

The search engine offers some unique features, such as the ability to view additional search results on the same web page (instead of needing to click through to subsequent search result pages) and the ability to dynamically adjust the amount of information displayed for each search-result (i.e. just the title, a short summary, or a longer summary). It also allows the user to save searches and see them updated automatically on Live.com.

In early 2009, Microsoft started internal testing of a new search engine, called Bing, which has replaced Live Search on June 3rd, 2009. As an effort to create a new identity for Microsoft’s search services, Live Search is officially replaced by Bing and will go fully live by June 3, 2009.

Notable improvements in general searches include the addition of related searches (called “Explorer pane” on the left side of search results) based on semantic technology from PowerSet, a search company Microsoft purchased in 2008, search suggestions as you type, and the ability to keep track of your search history.

Lets see how successful this new engine from Microsoft is going to be.

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The taskbar has seen the biggest visual changes, where the Quick Launch toolbar has been replaced with pinning applications to the taskbar. Buttons for pinned applications are integrated with the task buttons. when a user drags a window to the edge of the screen, it will snap in place on that half of the screen. This allows users to snap documents or files on either side of the screen to compare them. There is also a feature that when a user pulls a window to the top of the screen, it automatically maximizes. When a user moves windows that are maximized, the system restores them automatically. This functionality is also accomplished with keyboard shortcuts. Holding down the Windows key and pressing the up arrow maximizes; pressing down the down arrow minimizes; pressing the left or right arrows snap the windows to the sides of the screen.

Windows 7 will be available in six different editions, but only Home Premium and Professional will be widely available at retail.

According to Microsoft, the features for all editions of Windows 7 will be stored on the machine, regardless of what edition is in use. Users who wish to upgrade to an edition of Windows 7 with more features can then use Windows Anytime Upgrade to purchase the upgrade, and unlock the features of those editions. Microsoft has not yet announced pricing information or volume licensing details for Windows 7.

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