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InstantWatcher.com is an easy-to-use Web site that allows you to easily search through the thousands of titles available on Netflix Watch Instantly.
You don’t have to sign up for anything to begin searching by genre, people, new releases and more….
InstantWatcher even allows you to add titles to your Netflix queue right from the site.
As someone who loves Netflix but is often frustrated by the difficult search process, InstantWatcher.com is a welcome addition to my bookmarks folder. As they say, “time is money” – and InstantWatcher saves me time.

To see InstantWatcher in action, watch the screencast below (best viewed in HD in full screen):

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Readability is a bookmarklet that allows you to quickly remove distracting ads from a Website.  Just choose the text and margin size you prefer and drag the bookmarklet up to your bookmarks toolbar.  Whenever you’re on a site that is cluttered with too many distractions, click on the Readability bookmarklet and you’ll be presented with an ad-free environment to read your article.

Before:

SFWeekly article before the Readability Bookmarklet is enabled

…and after:

SFWeekly article after enabling Readability bookmarklet

To see Readability in action, watch the screencast below (best viewed in HD in full screen):

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Fences is a free software by Stardock that helps you quickly group your desktop icons onto different blocks (or Fences) on your desktop.  You can choose to create Fences from scratch and add all of your icons manually or you can have Fences do all of the work and organize them for you.

Besides just helping you organize your mess of icons, Fences also gives you an option to auto-hide all of your icons by double clicking anywhere on your desktop.  You can bring them back by clicking again.  You can choose to have certain icons or entire fences remain open on your desktop when you auto-hide.  You can re-size and move the Fences anywhere on your desktop and easily drag icons from one Fence to another.  

I usually keep icons hidden on my desktop because the clutter makes me feel unorganized and I never really know where to begin if I were to clean it up.  Fences cleaned my mess up for me – and for that I’m very thankful .

To see Fences in action, watch the screencast below (best viewed in HD in full screen):

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PowerTwitter is a Firefox Add-on that provides you with some much needed features within your Twitter account.  It allows you to search Twitter right from your homepage, view media in-line, and expands links within Tweets so you know what you’re clicking on. I’ve been using PowerTwitter for a few months now (previously reviewed here), and so far I’ve been relatively happy with the feature list.  Last night I noticed that there was an updated version that had been released and after I installed it, I realized that even more features had been added.  Unfortunately, what I didn’t find was any sort of help or detailed list from PowerTwitter explaining just what I was looking at.  They do have a Get Satisfaction page where users can post questions and report any problems they might be having, but there is no real documentation of how to effectively use PowerTwitter.

Some of the notable new features are:

• Saved recent searches
• Post photos right from your Twitter account
• One-click ReTweet
• Shrink URLs quickly from your account
• PowerTwitter settings so you can choose what features of PowerTwitter you want to use

To see the updated PowerTwitter in action, watch the screencast below (best viewed in HD in full-screen):

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