Beaches present digital camera owners with a number of wonderful opportunities as they are places of natural beauty, color and interesting light. However they also present a variety of challenges including camera damage, privacy issues and making large open spaces interesting.

While it’s not really beach going weather at present here in my part of the world I know that many readers of this site are getting close to Summer and beach photography will be high on the agenda of many (I’m so jealous).

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Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using JavaScript APIs.

To use this extension you have to download the extension available from the website. Google Gears (BETA) is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X(10.2 or higher) and Linix OS.

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gURL is an interactive online community devoted exclusively for the teenage girls. It contains stories, games and interactive content produced with an independent editorial voice. The site discusses various issues that affect the lives of teenage girls aged 13 and above in an unbiased manner.

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Onlywire - Submits to 19 Top Sites with 1 Click.

The Socializer  - Helps to automate Submission to over 50 sites.

Only Submitter - Autofill Firefox plugin that has over 80 Social Bookmarking Sites built in. It is the first and only customizable submitter on the market.

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Interclue is a browser add-on that lets you preview websites without having to visit them. It gives you valuable information about a link before you click on it , as rapidly and unobtrusively as possible. This link preview tool provides information on a link through :-

• Linkclues via a combination of icons that appear next to the link and through the mouse cursor which changes when you hover your mouse cursor over the link.
• Clueviewer :– This is a pop-up window that holds  including a screenshot of the page, a short summary of the page.
• Metaclues:– These are tags for a page.

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Most PC owners are aware that they should keep the glass surfaces of their monitor and scanner clean — but beware, because you can do more harm than good if you don’t know what you’re doing. Here are the guidelines that I recommend you follow when working with monitor and scanner glass:

• Abrasives are taboo! Even some household glass cleaners — which you might think could be trusted — can scratch the glass in your monitor or flatbed scanner when used with a rag or paper towel. With a scanner, small scratches can mean real trouble because a scratch can easily show up in your images at higher resolutions. Therefore, I recommend that you use only a dry, soft photographer’s lens cloth (which won’t scratch) or lens cloths with alcohol that are made specifically for monitors and scanners.

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Newsmap  is a whizbang, Flash-based treemap representation  of the stories flowing through Google News. The Newsmap home page describes it best:

“ Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe “

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Whenever you search for more than one keyword at a time, a search engine has a default strategy for handling and combining those keywords. Can those words appear individually anywhere in a page, or do they have to be right next to each other? Will the engine search for both keywords or for either keyword?

Phrase Searches

Google defaults to searching for occurrences of your specified keywords anywhere in the page, whether side by side or scattered throughout. To return the results of pages containing specifically ordered words, enclose them in quotes, turning your keyword search into a phrase search , to use Google’s terminology.

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