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Sorin Adam Matei

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Tag: Google Chrome

The best “Autoselect all Facebook friends” tool / extension / code snippet you will ever need to send bulk invitations to your friends

For many moons Facebook has been denying its digital sharecroppers to access all at once the capital that they have brought to the site: their friend list. If you want to send an invitation about a page or event to your entire…

How to export Google “My Maps” (aka “My Places”) markers as a KML or KMZ file

NOTE: Soon, my places will be replaced by a new map making tool, which can be previewed here https://mapsengine.google.com/map/ A few weeks after the rebranding of Google Maps as My Places, the interface lacked an explicit tool for exporting individual maps as…

ReadWriteWeb Google ChromeOS review: it’s disposable

Worst gripe? It feels and works like it was made on the cheap. Engineers, navel gazing, fell in love with their own cloud-based dream, leaving the users behind. In a word, released too soon. Personally, I think the idea is great and…