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Sobees: When Social Media Comes To Your Desktop

What if you didn’t need to open 10 different tabs in Firefox just to stay on top of your social network updates? What if you could customize what information you want to see and have it appear directly on your desktop?  Well, Sobees aggregates Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, Digg, Flickr and YouTube and brings them directly to your desktop.

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Google Gadgets for Linux: Eye-Candy or Useful?

Released in June,  Google Gadgets for Linux provides about the same functionality of Vista sidebar or Mac OS X dashboard. While other solutions like ‘gdesklets’ are pretty popular within the linux crowd, Google’s’ platform provides compatibility with both gadgets written for the Windows version and the huge repository of web-centered gadgets (Universal Gadgets on iGoogle). Let’s take it for a spin and see if it’s worth installing.

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