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Well I don't mean ditch YouTube, just use another way of viewing what's on YouTube. iDesktop.tv was designed around the idea of providing users an easy way to watch, search, and even save YouTube videos from their browser. iDesktop is like a Picasa for videos online, it even has the zoom slider, one of my favorite Picasa features (you can change the size of the thumbnails by moving the slider).

So you don't want to spend the big bucks to buy a suite like Photoshop to edit pictures, are you're sick of Microsoft Paint and other basic photo editors? What if I told you the next time you edit a picture will be online and for free? Don't believe me? Well run a search on Google for online photo editors and see how many show up.

With this review I plan to point out some of the more popular online photo editors as well as provide a short glimpse of the features offered by my favorite editor. If you have any questions or comments feel free to ask.

Gil's Method Choice - Splashup

Many articles have been written on hacks, tips, etc over the number of ways and things that can be found using Google's search platform. Just today I ran into an excellent post on lifehacker listing the Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks. The user response was immense and also full of tips that were not included in the original article. In an attempt to list most of these 'tips' I've compiled a list of the most obscure ones to use at your leisure.

If you think of some that I've missed on this post please fee free to comment and I'll add it to the list.

Trick #1 - Track your UPS packages without having to log on, etc, just input the tracking number in the search field.

I've always been a fan of Google Maps, and became even more enthusiastic about the product when Google gave developers the ability to create web applications (mashups) that used Google Maps data in conjunction with other data to display anything on a map. It has been a couple of years since this occurred and the plethora of 'mashups' in existence are in excess of the hundreds. So on this page I will attempt to list all of the Google Mashups in existence today so that they reside on one page. I only ask that those of you who feel I have missed some of these mashups, let me know by posting a comment with the title of the mashup, the address, and what it does. Thanks in advance.

I'll update the page as new entries are made.

1. Zillow.com - Find your home's price and compare it to others on the map.

2. Realestate.ae - Real Estate portal for Dubai

Popurio.us is a service that allows users to check the popularity of websites across the plethora of services and rankings available on the net. This is a great tool for webmasters who would like to quickly get a glance of their sites popularity in the web. A couple of popular rankings and bookmark sites are checked when a URL is submitted; Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Compete Rank, Quantacast Rank, Google Backlinks, Yahoo Backlinks, Live Search Backlinks, Technorati Links, del.icio.us Bookmarks, Bloglines subscribers, WHOIS, and DNS Report.

I started my blog/website with Blogger many moons ago. One of my biggest problems with Blogger was the lack of categories among other things. After using it for a while I decided to host my own blog/website using custom CMS software and have been very happy since. 1 year later blogger overhauls their service - still in beta - and I am very impressed.

Today we're launching a new version of Blogger in beta! You've been asking for ways to do more with your blog, and you can with this new release. With the beta you can:

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I was just at Google's homepage when I noticed a link below the search bar. "Explore eco-friendly travel with Google Maps" it caught my attention, so naturally I followed it and found that Google in partnership with Earth Day Network have created a travel destination portal (not to buy tickets or anything, just a reference site with maps) dubbed Summer of Green that links you to environmentally friendly ways of spending your summer vacations. It has a number of tours for the select destinations, as of this writing they are featuring; Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, and San Francisco.

The Google Maps team announced the ability to save Google Maps locations (addresses) to your Google account when you are logged in. View a screenshot here. Read the announcement below.

"One of the most common requests we've received is for the ability to store a list of personal addresses on Google Maps -- and now you can. To get started, click on the "Saved Locations" link in the upper right corner of the site and sign in to your Google Account. If you're already signed in, this link will take you to your saved locations list -- Google Maps will automatically save every location you search for. You can also go to the Saved Locations list to disable auto-saving of locations or to add, modify, or delete previously-saved locations.