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What If You Could Store a Complete Document in a URL?

Hashify does not solve a problem, it poses a question: what becomes possible when one is able to store entire documents in URLs?

via Hashify.

Try contemplating this for a few minutes. A whole document. In a URL. Not a link to a document, the actual document. Encoded and stored in a URL. Thousands of characters reduced to a handful in a short URL.

Imagine a blog that is just a store of URLs. A messaging system that trades links instead of text. A commenting API that just delivers URLs.

In education there could be student portfolios that are literally a collection of links. Exam submissions that require only sending the teacher a URL.

The possibilities seem endless and exciting. You can give it a try at http://hashify.me/.

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Lifehacker to the Rescue With Userscript Fixes to Google+ Annoyances

Last week at Google I/O, the company’s social network got a big facelift. In some ways, it looks great, but it also introduced a slew of new problems. Enter userscripts to clean things up.

Most of these extensions will play nice with either Greasemonkey (Firefox) or Tampermonkey (Chrome), however each have their own set of instructions and idiosyncrasies. Be sure to read carefully before installing anything.

via Fix Google+’s Biggest Annoyances with These Userscripts.

Google did a bit of a number the new version of Google+ and the Google Talk/Hangouts integration. This short post from Lifehacker helps ease over some the blemish, but be warned: You’ll need to be comfortable getting under the hood of Chrome to get these working.

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Opera 14 for Android, Built on Chromium 26, Released

Opera 14 for Android is built on top of Chromium 26, with a total overhaul of the UI in native code, making it fit well with the latest Android design guidelines. Go get the build from Google Play or point your browser to m.opera.com, and give it a spin!

via Opera Developer News – Opera 14 for Android is out!.

Great news for folks running older Android devices because Opera 14 supports Android 2.3 and higher. This means an alternative to whatever browse came bundled with your device.

Among other features this release includes support for HTML 5 including <audio> and a new UI.

Certainly worth a look.