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Starting yesterday if you logged into a Gmail account you would find a new feature in your Gchat box: the ability to place or receive calls. This is an expansion of the Google Voice service, the phone service of Google which previously was confined to just phones. Now if you are in a area of poor phone reception or if you’re travelling internationally and don’t want to incur expensive roaming charges you can simply use your computer to place or receive calls.

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Though the Temptations famously sang “keep on walkin’, don’t look back” we here at the Linked IT blog thought it would be useful to new and old readers to blow the dust off the old archives and give you some of our most useful postings from the past.

• Give New Life to an Old Computer- This posting shows you a great way to rejuvenate any old computers you have lying around. It gives users a step-by-step tutorial on what Linux Mint can do and also how to install it. Very useful stuff. (Also check out Part 2 of the posting)
• 10 of the Top Open Source Alternatives- This posting gives you descriptions of 10 great open source (i.e. free) and also links on where to download them from
• Photoshop Tutorial for Beginners: Neon Glow- This posting gives you a tutorial on how to create the stunning Neon Glow effect in Photoshop.
• Stone Portrait Tutorial- This posting shows users how to give their photos the dramatic and breathtaking stone portrait effect.

Need a quick and easy way to tell if a website is bad news for you to visit?  With a quick installation, WOT (Web of Trust) provides security and peace of mind while browsing the Internet. This link gives you a step by step tutorial on how to install and configure WOT in Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome.

According to sources, Google is creating a Chrome OS tablet and it will be built by HTC. They will be launching it in conjunction with Verizon on the busiest shopping day of the year, November 26th. Google’s Chrome OS tablet will probably be heavily subsidized, and probably will be substantially cheaper than the iPad — if not totally free — with a Verizon data contract.

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Delta Air Lines has launched The Delta Ticket Window, a Facebook application that lets members find, book and share flights via the “Book a Trip” tab on the airline’s Facebook Page. The company believes it can capitalize on a captive audience given that Facebook is the most trafficked website on its inflight Wi-Fi service.

This development leads one to wonder how many other businesses will try to streamline their online purchasing through Facebook given that it is one of the most popular sites on the internet.

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Mozilla’s second beta for Firefox 4 debuted on Tuesday last week with a couple new changes. The most frequently mentioned new feature is Tabs on top (or Tab Candy) similar to Google Chrome. Another new feature is App Tabs which gives users the ability to create lopped-off little tabs that help you keep frequently used pages up, grouped, and available.

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