The installation and usage are fairly simple, it adds a new menu item in “Send” menu if office applications. To send a document go to send and select yousendit, it will launch Express, enter your account details of YouSendIt. After signing in you can enter an optional message. A progress bar will display the progress of the upload. The upload uses resume functionality, so if you have large file to send it will be done without any problem. You can set file expiration controls and add additional files to the upload batch.

You can download the plugin from here, you need a YouSendIt account for using the plugin. It works Windows XP (SP2) or Windows Vista with Office 2003 or Office 2007.

[Via Webware]

Send Files from Microsot Office via YouSendIt | Technology Bites

Current popular Glue pages of Barack Obama pulls content from Wikipedia, Memeorandum news, Youtube videos, news, images from all over the web. These Glue pages provide a quick info on various topics or keywords.

Yahoo Glue Launches in US | Technology Bites

They are not enabled for me but Gmail blog has images of the themes, some of these themes are really good. Go to settings in Gmail and look for a themes tab to enjoy these new themes.

Update: I got new themes tab in Gmail, see some of the theme screenshots below.

Gmail Themes | Technology Bites

2nd Annual Open Web Awards nominations are closed and the voting for the first round is open now.

From Mashable: During the nominations round, we received over 43,000 verified nominations. We narrowed down this huge pool to the 10 most-nominated sites and services in each category (where 10th place was a draw, we allowed more than 10 nominees in that category).”

The first round of voting is now open and runs until November 30th, vote for your favorite companies or site. There are 26 categories in the list and you can vote for one company in each category. You can vote right here using the below embedded widget. If you want you can embed the widget on your blog or site.

Vote for Mashable’s 2nd Annual Open Web Awards | Technology Bites

WebNotes works as a browser add-on or a simple bookmarklet. Using the webnotes is easy, install the toolbar or bookmarklet and when you want to annotate or add notes to a web page select the tools like sticky note ot Highlighter from the toolbar and start annotating. The highlighted text and the notes automatically synced to your webnotes account. The notes can be categorized using Folders, tags would have been a better choice instead of folders for organizing annotations.

You can also access all your folders and associated notes from Firefox sidebar using Organizer button on the toolbar. The added annotations can be easily searched using the search function both in browser sidebar or from webnotes account. The added annotations can be shared with others either by email or via URL. But others can’t edit these pages without registering to the service, a good option will be allowing others to edit these annotations via a simple password protection or something similar.

WebNotes is currently in beta and they have provided me 25 invites to share with our readers. Leave a comment if you want to get invited to the service, make sure you leave valid email address while commenting.

WebNotes: Annotate the web with post-it notes and highlights (Invites) | Technology Bites

You can see the list of all the available streams on the left side of tha app, click any stream to start the video. For streams like Chris Pirillo there is an option to chat via IRC Channel, the chat function opens up as a flash window and works perfectly.

The list of web shows it provides is not exhaustive yet, well over 100 shows are included. If your favorite stream is missing you can request for the addition at the developers site.

StreamDesk requires .Net Framework 3.5 and Flash Player 10 in IE for Windows and works on XP, Server 2003, Vista, Serve 2008. Mac OSX 10.5x or newer is supported with Flash Player 10 in Safari.
[Via Webware]

Watch web shows on the desktop with StreamDesk | Technology Bites

After opening the new calendar you can switch calculator modes using the “Mode” menu. If you go to “Options” menu you will see Date Calculation, Templates, Unit Conversion links. Clicking on templates will open an inline window where you can calculate Gas Mileage, Lease Estimation, Mortgage Estimation and Wage Estimation.

Unit conversion option allows to convert common unit types like volume, energy, mass etc from one unit value to another. This unit converter is useful for students to quickly convert units from one to other.

Download the Zip file from here. Extract the zip file and open the calc.exe file to use it right away. If you want to replace your existing calculator with this windows 7 calculator then first backup this file C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe and replace it with the file from the archive. Then backup this file C:Windows\System32\en-US\calc.exe.mui and replace it with the one in the archive.

Source Daily Gyan, Via Lifehacker

Get Windows 7 Calculator for Windows Vista | Technology Bites

It can launch the hidden windows applications, launch any program with in a single click, search files, monitor running system processes and more. Overall it has some 250 functions. The program has menus to launch specific set of programs like control panel applets, network utilities, programs adn etc.

It is a tiny program, and can be minimzed to systray when not active. Compatible with Windows XP.

Download XPSysPad
Note: I don’t have XP system right now, so i haven’t tested this before posting.

XPSysPad: Windows XP Launcher and Monitoring Utility | Technology Bites

“produced by the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) and based on its Rome Reborn model, contains over 6,700 3D buildings and 250 Google Earth placemarks that allow Google Earth users to explore and learn about this fascinating period of history.”

Google says this is the first time they have incorporated an ancient city in Google Earth, hopefully we will get more of these kind of cool projects which allows us to see the ancient cities in 3D.

This layer was pushed initially by Google but looks like they have pulled it back, origiral Google blog post updated with a quote

Update @ 12:15 PM: Rome wasn’t built in a day! The Ancient Rome 3D layer will be available soon. We’re sorry for the delay, and we’ll post here when it’s live.

I can see the Ancient Rome 3D layer in my Google Earth but when i click it is showing the present Rome. See my Rome photo set at Flickr

Visit Ancient Rome in 3D with Google Earth | Technology Bites

All you have to do is subscribe to the feed in another language and then go to feed settings and click “Translate to my language”. It will automatically translates the feed and any new items until you stop it.

There are some third party services like Mloovi for this but they don’t provide full feed or images in the feeds.

Translate your Google Reader subscriptions | Technology Bites