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Mashes, minifies, and validates your javascript, stylesheet, and dotless files.
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The Page Speed browser extensions, available for Chrome and Firefox, are the fastest way to get accurate performance analysis of your web pages. It is also our prefered environment for introducing new performance best practices. With the Page Speed browser extension, you can analyze the performance of your pages and get specific suggestions on how to optimize them.
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This tutorial explains how to use the Heap Profiler for uncovering memory leaks in your applications.
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Not everyone who is tasked with the job of ensuring that databases are backed up, and easily restorable, consider themselves to be database administrators. If you are one of these 'Accidental DBAs' then Grant Fritchey has some good straightforward advice for you to ensure that things go well when a database has to be restored from backups
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Why don't we emphasize the huge advantages of parameterized queries over ad-hoc queries in SQL Server? There is a severe impact on resources and performance from repeatedly using similar ad-hoc queries, instead of reusing the existing query plans. David Berry shows how you can measure this impact, and springs a surprise or two in the process
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Subqueries and derived tables can add great versatility to SQL statements, cut down complexity, but can occasionally be a curse when their effect on performance is poorly understood. Surely everyone understands the various types of subqueries and how they are used? If you felt a twinge of doubt, here is Rob Sheldon's easy guide to the subject.
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MyGet offers you the possibility to create your own, private, filtered NuGet feed for use in the Visual Studio Package Manager.
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Modern web applications are becoming increasingly complex. To achieve functionality previously only available in desktop applications, they often comprise many frameworks glued together. As a result, memory usage by an application can grow unexpectedly. That’s why it is important to keep memory usage under control from the moment you start building it. In this post, we will cover four tools in Google Chrome that can help you understand how your application makes use of JavaScript memory.
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The summer travel season is upon us and many smartphone owners will be packing their bags and heading for parts unknown. Traveling is becoming more difficult than ever, especially if your friendly TSA is involved through air travel. Just about everyone has a smartphone, and using these simple tips with the camera can help smooth the vacation experience.
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Bulkr is the complete solution to backup, browse & download photos on Flickr.
Author Archives: Gryphin - Page 2
links for 2011-06-09
links for 2011-06-02
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Read It Later, the #1 Paid News app on Android, is now available in a free version. The new free app provides the same core Read It Later experience and is perfect for light use or as an introduction to new users.
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Especially when thoroughly investigating your (new) Android phone, testing a lot of apps, and playing with all those settings – a reliable backup is a must, so in case of trouble you can simply revert. Or think of upgrading to a newer/different ROM: Do you want to afterwards fuzzing around for hours to re-install and re-configure all your applications and settings – if the same result can be achieved by just tapping three times and leaning back?
Most backup applications only cover parts of what's involved: They either backup (and restore) only your applications, or your SMS, or … And last but not least, only a few can even backup your applications settings. Those which can, require root access – and so does Titanium Backup. -
feedly. feed your mind. Tune into your favorite sources and discover new ones…
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Thrutu™ lets you share all kinds of information and media while you’re on a call — at the touch of a button, and without disrupting the conversation.
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Make your phone work for you – Replace your Android lockscreen with LockMenu
Lock Menu is a replacement lock screen for Android that gives you the ability to launch applications and shortcuts directly from your lock screen. Lock Menu gives you individually customizable sliders so you can build a lock screen that fits your needs.
Launch an application, direct text, or direct dial all from your lock screen. No need to unlock your phone and navigate to your Home app, just to launch another application. Lock Menu allows you to access the tasks you perform regularly on the first screen that appears. -
Presenting LeeDrOiD Gingerbread edition for the HTC Desire….
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The Ultimate Root tool to move the application's private data to SD.
In addition to known Froyo 2.2 App2SD features, this tool creates an embedded EXT2 partition to your SD card (no manual formatting/partitioning required) and then it mounts it.
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Advanced App Locker can use various methods of authentication to prevent people from being overly curious about the contents of your phone. The app can allow groups of apps to become usable for a certain period of time before getting locked again.
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This app will allow you to perform all basic operations with files: copy, paste, move, create and rename your files and folders, and more. It includes a server FTP / HTTP, so you can share and manage your files without USB cables and just like with Web Sharing or WIFI File Explorer
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Install Manager allows you to move and remove almost every app on your device.
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Rooting unlocks the most powerful features that are dormant on our Android devices. However, having access to all of these features is not always something convenient to do as under most circumstances we need to set our devices in Recovery mode (not that this is a hard thing to do, but it could be inconvenient if you have your hands tied up on something else). Well, in order to help and give us a one stop shop for most root features, XDA member lukemovement1 provides us with Root Toolbox.
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AndMemory is an android memory optimization software,It can be manually or automatically optimize memory and end the processes,It is the best memory management software for freeing memory,can make your phone run smoothly when you run many apps.
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GEOCACHING is a real-world outdoor treasure hunting game. Players try to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, using GPS-enabled devices and then share their experiences online.
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If you’re using WordPress, odds are you have started exploring the wonders that are WordPress themes. The right WordPress theme can make your blog pop, and while that won’t make or break your blog it might give you the inspiration to continue blogging and making a great site.
Sometimes it’s not easy to find the perfect WordPress theme. There are a lot of WordPress themes out there, but the perfect theme can at times seem like a needle in a haystack. To help you in your searching, we’ve put together the following guide to finding WordPress themes. If we’re missing a solid method, feel free to add your own tips in the comments.
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There are many ways to utilize the seemingly endless resources of Google in WordPress. The following list includes what I consider to be the most important Google tools, some others nearly every web developer uses, and hopefully even some that you don’t know about yet.
links for 2011-04-27
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Here's a tutorial for the new users facing unanswered (at a first glance) questions while browsing through the tremendous amount of information that can be found.
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Android phones can do all sorts of cool stuff, but it's practically inevitable: Some nights, you're left disappointed and wishing your device could last just a little bit longer. (Hey, they say it happens to everyone once in a while. And yes, we're still talking about phones.)
If your Android phone's stamina isn't all that it could be, there's no need to fret: A few simple steps can boost your battery performance and help you get more out of each charge.
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Looking to save battery life on your Android phone? XDA Senior Moderator Chainfire has developed SuperPower. SuperPower is a battery saving utility that allows you to set certain variables so when a certain threshold is reached the app will perform a certain feature.
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Whether you’re resisting the temptation to upgrade to newer, faster hardware, or a year’s worth of use has made your Android phone feel slow and laggy, here are some ways to make your older phone run a bit smoother.
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Cameraphones have come a long way in the past few years, but they don’t always take point-and-shoot quality pictures on the first try. Here’s how to squeeze the best quality photos out of your smartphone’s camera.
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Ok, so you are new on the Android operating system and sure you are dying to get your hands on your device and start tweaking/customizing, but where to start?. XDA Moderator timmymarsh wrote a complete thread containing links to the most important topics around Android Software and Hacking in General. You will find titles well organized by categories such as removing key-guard password policy, how to publish app inventor apps in the market, over-clocking your android msm7k device, how to flash a ROM without an SD Card and how to unroot android devices, amongst many more. The guide includes a big collection of themes, icons, games and apps as well. All you need to get your device the way you like it!
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This is androidpatterns.com, a set of interaction patterns that can help you design Android apps. An interaction pattern is a short hand summary of a design solution that has proven to work more than once. Please be inspired: use them as a guide, not as a law.
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Custom Android app icons for the awesome LauncherPro home screen replacement
links for 2011-04-26
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This is a collection of ideas for apps and websites people are wishing for.
Think of it like a suggestion box for the future of technology.
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Seks is een aangenaam tijdverdrijf, maar wist u dat het – zelfs als u niet aan extreem of kinky doet – ook gevaarlijk kan zijn?
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Guide to find all the golden eggs in Angry Birds.
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't Is haar niet aan te zien (zoals het een echte cougar betaamt viert ze haar verjaardag met botox, champagne en een stuk of wat lekkere buurjongens), maar Barbie wordt dezer dagen 52 jaar. Kunstenares Mariel Clayton heeft echter zo'n hekel aan het stereotype vrouwbeeld dat het peroxideblonde popje uitdraagt dat ze haar fotografeert in poses en situaties die producent Mattel wellicht een beroerte vanjewelste zouden bezorgen: in Claytons allereerste installatie, bijvoorbeeld, ligt Barbie met overgesneden polsen in bad – Ken heeft haar gedumpt voor een andere man. Op de andere foto's op Bad Barbie gaat het van kwaad naar erger en is het al macabere seks, bondage en moord wat de klok slaat.
links for 2011-02-11
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The .NET Framework 4.0 contains a plethora of command line tools ranging from build, deployment, debugging, security to Interop tools, and so on. Here’s a list of important command line tools in the .NET Framework 4.0 which can be run using the Visual Studio Command Prompt. The description of these tools has been taken from the MSDN documentation.
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How does one test the user-interface of a web application? Too often, the answer seems to be 'clumsily, slowly, and not very well'. The technology of automated, repeatable, testing of websites is still developing, but it exists; and Michael Sorens is here to describe an even better approach based on Selenium
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Should every Visual Studio project really be in its own assembly? And what does 'Copy Local=True' really mean? Patrick Smacchia is no stranger to large .NET projects, is well placed to lay a few myths to rest, and gives some advice that promises up to a tenfold increase in speed of compilation.
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In this article, we will see how to log the SQL queries that get generated by Entity Framework. We will also some see profiling tools available.
links for 2011-01-07
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In this blog post, I will cover two interesting tools that, when combined, can bring great value and speed at the beginning of any new software project that has to meet standards that are to be re-used for every project. The tools? Templify and NuGet.
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Every project starts the same way:you create a place to put solution artefacts,on one file system, on one computer.Templify helps you work smart, not hardby reducing repetition.
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NuGet (formerly known as NuPack) is a free, open source developer focused package management system for the .NET platform intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development. NuGet is a member of the ASP.NET Gallery in the Outercurve Foundation
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Microsoft's been filling out the Web Stack with more and more right-sized LEGO pieces lately, and today ScottGu announced the developer preview of NuPack. It's a piece of the stack that's been notably missing for years and after using it for a while now, I'm not sure how I lived without it.
NuPack is a package management system for .NET. The goal of NuPack is to make the process of incorporating third party libraries into your solutions as simple as possible.
links for 2011-01-06
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IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE9 preview, IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
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Learn how Umbraco – the fastest growing open source ASP.NET CMS – can help you build amazing websites, without restricting the way you write your markup, or the way you write Controls. In this session you’ll not only get an overview of what Umbraco has to offer and how to build a complete site in less than an hour, but also learn how to extend it. We’ll look at integrating with Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Azure, and with a little luck, a speaking plastic rabbit too, using nothing but Umbraco, Visual Studio and a few lines of .NET code.
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I hadn’t got around to looking at it before but Neils Hartvig (@umbraco on twitter) gave a great talk about Umbraco Basics at Tech Ed Europe this year and you can watch it here.
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Your favorite site doesn't provide news feeds?
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Drop your bags, fix a drink, and grab the Windows CD—it's time for the holiday ritual of fixing up your relatives' computer. Here are some tips and downloads to keep handy while you're cursing all the auto-starting crapware.
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DirSync Pro (Directory Synchronize Pro) is a small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization. DirSync Pro can be used to synchronize the content of one or many folders recursively.
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HDGraph helps you to free disk space : it finds for you the largest folders on your drive.
It's a free tool allowing to graphically display the hard disk space usage : it shows all the directories and subdirectories of the hard drive on a single graph, allowing to see the largest directories at a glance.
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OverDisk is a disk usage browser. It can be used to quickly find out how a partition's space is distributed among the file system hierarchy.
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Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats where it supports ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags.
It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words in tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more.
Mp3tag supports online database lookups from, e.g., Amazon, discogs, or freedb, allowing you to automatically gather proper tags and cover art for your music library.
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Smells Like Teen Spirit van Nirvana blijft op de eerste plaats, voor het vijfde jaar op rij en voor het negende jaar in totaal. De nummers twee en drie verwisselen van plaats. Metallica was twee jaar lang de dichtste belager van Nirvana, maar die rol wordt nu overgekomen door Stairway to Heaven van Led Zeppelin, dat nog nooit zo hoog stond. A Day in the Life van The Beatles is een opmerklijke hoogste stijger. Meer…
links for 2010-12-30
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De medioren en senioren van vandaag zijn niet meer de bejaarden van dertig jaar geleden, maar dat neemt niet weg dat hun eerste kennismaking met moderne technologie en communicatie niet altijd van een leien dakje gaat. Sms'en, bijvoorbeeld, vergt toch enige precisie én kennis van de korteberichtjesetiquette. Op When Parents Text laten jongelui gênante/grappige/cryptische sms'jes van hun ouders ('Me: i want a tattoo for Christmas / Mom: as long as it says i <3 mom!', 'Mom: Hi. What are you doing? / Me: At the library studying for my organic chem exam. / Mom: Homo. / Me: Excuse me? / Mom: I meant to spell GOOD. sorry.' of 'Mom: @(*.*)@ / Me: ??? / Mom: its a monkey lol') achter.
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During the last few weeks, I've had the chance to go more in depth with jQyery and general site performance. I've found some techniques that makes my site go much faster. I don't know if they're all best practice, but this article is meant to at least give you some good ideas.
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Tonido allows you to access and share ALL of your desktop's files, documents, photos, music and videos from anywhere through a web browser or your smartphone. No Uploading,
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Taking a smartphone out of the box for the first time can elicit a wide spectrum of emotions, starting with unadulterated excitement that can quickly devolve into panic, chaos, and confusion: what do you do now? How do you make it awesome? How do you emanate an air of "cool" on the subway by using apps specifically designed to make you look like a badass? Well, fear not, newly-minted Android smartphone owner: as always, we've got your back. Read on for all the apps, accessories, and tips you should be investigating right this very second.
links for 2010-12-16
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Q² or QuickQuery Editor is an editor that helps prototyping queries on complex schema's by automating the writing of queries. No need to type complex queries with join conditions you need to look up, just double-click the relation to use, the columns to show,…
The features of the editor include:
- Support for Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases
- Automatically discovers columns; double-click to add them in the query
- Automatically discovers table references and proposes them as joins
- Supports inner and outer joins
- Aliassing of tables and/or columns
- Grouping operators and easy grouping correction/removal
- Conditions on columns as well as a custom Where field
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Let us explore few concepts about Delegates, Anonymous methods, Lambdas and Expression Trees. These code examples are pretty simple, you can fire up a C# Console application in Visual Studio and try these examples if you are interested.
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jQuery is an open source project but in the last couple of years Microsoft has really thrown its weight behind supporting this open source library as a supported component on the Microsoft platform. When I say supported I literally mean supported: Microsoft now offers actual tech support for jQuery as part of their Product Support Services (PSS) as jQuery integration has become part of several of the ASP.NET toolkits and ships in several of the default Web project templates in Visual Studio 2010. The ASP.NET MVC 3 framework (still in Beta) also uses jQuery for a variety of client side support features including client side validation and we can look forward toward more integration of client side functionality via jQuery in both MVC and WebForms in the future. In other words jQuery is becoming an optional but included component of the ASP.NET platform.
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A list of some good Coding Standard Documents. They are useful not just from a review perspective – going through these documents can definitely help you and me to iron out few hidden glitches we might have in the programming portion of our brain.
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Microsoft .NET Framework version 4 includes a major revision of the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) with heavy investments in performance. This new revision introduces significant design changes from the previous versions of WF that shipped as part of .NET Framework 3.0 and .NET Framework 3.5. It has been re-architected from the core of the programming model, runtime, and tooling to greatly improve performance and usability. This topic shows the important performance characteristics of these revisions and compares them against those of the previous version.
Individual workflow component performance has increased by orders of magnitude between WF3 and WF4. This leaves the gap between hand-coded Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services and WCF workflow services to be quite small. Workflow latency has been significantly reduced in WF4. Persistence performance has increased by a factor of 2.5 – 3.0. Health monitoring by means of workflow tracking has significantly less overhead.
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Naast sites als Megaupload en Rapidshare om bestanden te delen hebben we gelukkig ook fraaiere sites zoals Wetransfer. Sinds kort is er een nieuwe service actief met een twist, Ge.tt maakt het mogelijk om bestanden al te downloaden of te streamen terwijl je ze nog uploadt.
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Historical Maps
Experience five of the world's most beautiful old maps and discover their secretsDigital Worlds
Find out how we map virtual spaces and understand our world today
links for 2010-10-28
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DataContract versioning requires when some modification has been done to the existing DataContract exposed to the client from the service or vice versa. If either service or client is changing the schema of DataContract exposed then new version of DataContract come into action and both party involved in communication should be able to accommodate the changes done in the DataContract.
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In this article, I am going to show how to enable windows authentication on WCF Data Service.
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Various native .NET framework types include an overloaded version of the ToString method that accepts a format string. This reference sheet provides a list of standard formats and custom format specifiers for numeric types, DateTimes, GUIDs and enums.
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This article is expected to
- Introduce patterns to you in a simple, human readable (?) way
- Train you how to really 'Apply' patterns (you can learn patterns easily, but to apply them to solve a problem, you need real design skills)
- Provide you a fair idea regarding the contexts for applying the following patterns – Builder, Observer, Strategy and Decorator (well, they are few popular design patterns)
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ExtensionMethod.NET is a database of C# 3.0, F# and Visual Basic 2008 extension methods. It contains many user-rated extension methods that will expand your code library immediately.
Extension methods add functionality to existing classes and allow you to expand the .NET framework. This way your favorite functions integrate seamlessly into the framework. For more information about extension methods visit the C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 2008 MSDN Library pages.
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Welcome to our humble abode, we're a new service aiming to bridge the gap between Twitter and Facebook. We're doing this by sending tweets to Facebook and Facebook comments back to Twitter.
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Invited to a party and don’t know what to buy the party animal? We feel you.
Use Wrappp.it to collaborate about gift ideas with friends, family and colleagues. Chip in with others and find the perfect gift.




