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OutTwit conveniently lets you post & read tweets from Outlook, without having to open another desktop application or a browser window.

OutTwit’s latest version (0.5.2.34) comes with an extremely handy Preview feature that lets you read and post tweets from the Outlook toolbar itself.
Twittering had never been so easier!

Screenshot

Preview supports the following actions:

• Mouse over – displays the entire tweet.
• Click – opens the tweet in its own window.
• Shift+Click – if the tweet has a URL in it, open the link in a browser.
• Ctrl+Click – compose a direct (d) reply to the sender.
• Ctrl+Shift+Click – compose an @reply to the sender.

More details here

Microsoft Outlook, Productivity Addins, Tech, TechHit, Utilities, Windows GTD, Outlook, OutTwit, TechHit, Twitter

If you are a windows user & have been trying to sync the calendar on your iPhone with your Google Calendar, try these steps:

• Download Google Calendar Sync, offered by Google. It allows you to sync events between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar. You’ll be able to determine the direction of information flow, as well as the sync frequency.
• Sync your iPhone calendar events with your Outlook calendar.

That’s it!

Google Calendar Sync offers three types of Sync Options between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar.

• 2-way sync:
  All events in your primary Google Calendar and your default Microsoft Outlook calendar are synced together.
• 1-way: Google Calendar to Microsoft Outlook calendar
• 1-way: Microsoft Outlook calendar to Google Calendar

Limitations
Google Calendar Sync will only sync events from your primary Google Calendar and your default Microsoft Outlook calendar at this time.

Other solutions

OggSync
OggSync is feature rich, for more advanced Google Cal users.
It supports Multiple Google Calendars and Multiple Outlook Calendars
Import Google Colors, Google Calendars mapped to Outlook Categories etc

However, OggSync is not free. I have not tried it yet (38MB installer? Huh!)

Microsoft Outlook, Productivity Addins, Tech Google Calendar, Import, Outlook

Tata & Nen are conducting India’s first ever People’s choice awards for startups.
Check out the current top rankings here

Quite a few interesting ideas out there, but surprisingly there aren’t that many innovative concepts in the “IT/ Internet/ Software” industry!

Tech Startups

A very detailed review of the first Android Handset with nice screenshots.

Engadget’s take:
The G1 isn’t going to blow anyone’s mind right out of the gate. Looking only at the hardware, there’s nothing here that’s particularly impressive, yet nothing that’s particularly bad (though the GPS needs some work).

The story here is Android and what it promises… though doesn’t necessarily deliver on at first. Like any paradigm shift, it’s going to take time. There is tremendous potential for this OS on mobile devices — it truly realizes the open ideals laid out by Google when they announced this project. The only problem seems to be the stuff they either left on the back burner, cutting room floor, or hoped would come from that exciting, untapped world of open source developers. While there’s plenty to praise in this phone, there’s a lot more that’s missing — and some of those missing elements are what we consider to be core components of a device in the G1’s class.

Tech Android, G1, gphone

DownloadSquad’s take on Flock2.
Flock 2 is here, continues to underwhelm – Download Squad

It isn’t too bad. I have discontinued using Flock a few days after its initial release, it was memory hungry. Flock2 seems to do a better job, and i like some of the new social features, media streams, webmail checker etc.
Omnibar would be a good addition.
Overall.. Thumbsup!

Tech Flock, MiniReview, Tech

KallOut Wins BOSS Mashable Challenge, Socialmention Wins Runner Up.

More here: http://mashable.com/2008/10/14/boss-mashable-challenge-winners/

KallOut is the first application to bring “selection-based search” to any web page, email, presentation, document, spreadsheet or PDF. Unlike other search methods that are trapped inside the browser, KallOut serves up content from the most popular sites on the web inside floating information palettes (which we call KallOuts). Using only your mouse, you can now avoid the disruption of launching a browser and let KallOut bring you the best the web has to offer.

Socialmention allows you to track conversations about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the Web’s social media landscape.

KallOut is impressive. SocialMention’s Blog search is great.. while Microblogs search lags.

Microsoft Outlook, Productivity Addins, Tech Addin, Outlook, Productivity

Turn on your speakers, launch Terminal and type:

Yes, your Mac speaks. If you’ve got a text file you want your Mac to read to you, try:

Much more here Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Things You Forgot Your Mac Can Do

Tech Lifehacker, Mac

Lingtastic’s Publicity campaign.
Pretty humorous video.

Tech, Videos Humor, Videos

Complete List of Twitter Commands – As of March 14, 2008

Off
Turn off all messages to you. Sending it twice will even silence direct messages.

On
Will turn the messages on again.

On username
turns on notifications for a specific person

Off username
turns off notifications for a specific person

Follow username
this command allows you to start receiving notifications for a specific person

Leave username
this command allows you to stop receiving notifications for a specific person

@username + message
Send Reply to a specific user. If the user doesn’t follow you, replies end up in Replies tab.

d username + message
Sends a person a direct message. These messages do not appear in public timeline.

Whois username
retrieves the profile information for any public user on Twitter.

Get username
retrieves the latest Twitter update posted by the person.

Nudge username
reminds a friend to update

Fav username
marks a person’s last twitter as a favorite

Stats
this command returns your number of followers, how many people you’re following, and which words you’re tracking.

Invite
will send an SMS invite to a friend’s mobile phone.
Example: Invite 415 555 1212

track word
starts tracking a word

untrack word:
stops tracking a word

untrack all
stops tracking all words

track off
stops tracking all words

track
returns a list of words you’re tracking

Tech Twitter