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The Read it Later Firefox Extension allows you to quickly save web pages or links to read later without having to add them to your regular bookmarks.  After you install it and add a couple of buttons to your bookmarks toolbar, all you need to do is right mouse click and choose “read this page/link later” any time you find something you want to read but can’t do so at that exact moment.  It’s all stored in your “reading list” and will be marked as read and discarded after you’ve read it.  If you don’t want to discard the item, you can easily add it to your bookmarks, submit it to Digg, add it to del.icio.us, or pretty much any bookmarking site you can think of.   Everything you need is in the two Read it Later buttons.  Here’s my screencast tour of the Read it Later Firefox Extension:

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I don’t know what they’re feeding the Google Maps team, but I wish they’d send some of it my way. There are some new features that have been released over the past couple of weeks, and I thought I’d show them to you just in case you’ve missed them. First off, Hybrid view is out and Terrain view is in. You can still view the “Hybrid view” but it’s not called that anymore. It’s actually just the default view when you click on Satellite. Second, you can edit default marker locations on Google Maps now. Those markers never seemed to be dead on when it came to marking a location, so this could prove to be very useful. The last feature, and the newest, is collaboration in My Maps. Now you can create a map and allow friends to edit and add things to it. This is great for people planning a vacation or mapping out hiking or biking trails. Like I said, I don’t know what those guys at Google are on but the way they push out new features I think they may be eating the same magic gumdrops as the guys at Zoho. Here’s my screencast tour of Google Maps updates:

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