Ever thought you can test your ears using a computer software? Well, today I stumbled across one such freeware that can be used to test your hearing capability. Ear Test is designed to quickly test your ear’s capabilities to hear all frequencies of the audible spectrum, separately for each ear. You can measure with good accuracy up to which frequency you can hear and then compare your result with those of your friends and family.

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Twitter has improved their service a lot by decreasing the number of downtimes it had, but still, it has dowtimes occasionally. And if you are ever stuck with a Twitter downtime, and want to tweet about something badly, all you have to do is wait. But this is where Twitabit comes to rescue! It has been developed for those who can’t wait for Twitter to get back.

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Saree, is a traditional desi attire, usually found in India, Pakistan etc. Satya Paul, has designed a Saree which features a Google logo (atually it’s Ooogle, maybe to prevent any trademark issues with Google) and some search results. God knows, what search term he used for the print (I can only spot the word Art). He adopted this strategy to promote his product because by incorporating a big brand name, he can easily market his product for free.

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There is still an hour left before the Download Day finishes and Firefox 3 has already been downloaded over 7.4 million times (at the time of writing this post)! Today morning, the Internet Explorer team from Microsoft sent a fancy looking cake for the Mozilla Firefox team to Mozilla’s Mountain View headquarters to join the celebration of the Firefox 3 release. Wasn’t that sweet of IE?

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Now you can add tab-switching feature in Firefox 3, which is just like the Window switching (Alt + Tab) feature in most Operating Systems. Ctrl - Tab is an extension which does this job very efficiently and switching tabs in Firefox was never this much fun. This is a visual tab switching addon and can switch tabs just like pressing Alt + Tab in Windows. It shows thumbnails of websites that are opened in your tabs.

The order of visual preview tabs depend on their use in Firefox, and you can switch between tabs by releasing Tab and pressing it again to move to the next preview (Ctrl should be kept pressed). Or if you would like to quickly go through it, keep holding the Tab and Ctrl keys.

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