There are two dictionaries on my system that contain almost identical words & spelling corrections but are stored in different locations and maintained separately.

Words like “PowerPoint”, “Gmail″, “AdSense″, “YouTube″, etc. exist in both dictionaries but one is created through Firefox while Windows Live Writer is responsible for the second one.

That means lot of duplicate effort because if you add the word “Facebook″ to Firefox dictionary, it would still be marked as incorrect inside Windows Live Writer.

There's no easy way to sync dictionaries but as they are plain text files, you can manually transfer words corrected in Firefox to Windows Live Writer dictionary or vice versa.

The dictionary specific files are persdict.dat (Firefox) and userdic.tlx (Windows Live Writer). Their location is:

Location of Windows Live Writer Dictionary:

Windows Vista - %AppData%Windows Live WriterDictionariesuserdic.tlx
Windows XP - C:documents and settings<username>Application DataWindows Live WriterDictionariesuserdic.tlx

Location of Firefox Dictionary:

For Windows Vista - %AppData%MozillaFirefoxProfilesxxx.default
For Windows XP - C:documents and settings&ltusername&gtApplication DataMozillaFirefoxProfilesxxx.default

Firefox stores all corrections and new words in a separate line in the order in which they were inserted. Windows Live Writer adds a tab followed by the symbol “i” after every word and arranges them in alphabetical order.

Just keep the above point in mind and start editing. For instance, you may copy all text from Firefox dictionary and paste it inside userdic.txt of Live Writer. Then add a tab + “i” after every word and you won't see a red dotted line beneath them in WLW.

If there are too many entries in your Firefox file, open that inside Excel and use the CONCATENATE function to make them Live Writer compatible.

Virtual desktops are one of those things that have been around for ages, and they have been an integral part of the Linux operating system for a long time. It wasn't until Apple released Mac OS X Leopard last year that a virtual desktop system, which Apple calls Spaces, shipped with an operating system other than a Linux distribution.

Just because Windows doesn't include a virtual desktop manager doesn't mean that you can't get them. In fact there are several third-party applications that will get the job done, and most of them are free. There's one free program for Windows called 360Desktop that puts a new spin on virtual desktops.

What it essentially does is extend your desktop so that it is ultra-wide, and it will feel like you have three or four different monitors attached to each other. You can pan across your desktop moving icons and windows around as you so wish. In the end you'll have a 360 degree desktop that can wrap around from one end to another:

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Here are some of the things that I like about the program:

• The navigation window shown in the upper-right corner of the screenshot makes it easy to move around the desktop. Normally the desktop preview portion is minimized so that it doesn't get in your way while you're working, but it can be activated by clicking the red 360Desktop icon on the scrollbar.
• It shows little program icons on the desktop preview indicating where you're running applications are located.
• Clicking an application on the Taskbar will take you to where it's located on the 360Desktop.

With all of that being said there are still some things that need to be worked on. For example, there are only a handful of panoramic backgrounds currently available, but it will support custom photos soon. 360Desktop is still in the early stages, and I suspect that it will get better over time.

My question to you is whether a program like this is something you'd prefer to use over a real virtual desktop application. Do you like having your virtual desktops separated into different blocks, or is it nicer when it's one seamless desktop like 360Desktop offers?

Say you come across an interesting photograph or screenshot image on Wikipedia that you would like to save in your Flickr account. How would you do this ?

Shiyan has developed a simple Flickr Uploadr for Firefox that lets you send web pictures directly to your Flickr account without you having to download that image to the hard-drive.

Image attribution can be a issue here but it's also useful if you like to backup photos from places like Picasa, PhotoBucket, Facebook, etc to Flickr.

The add-in is Firefox only but there's something similar for desktop in the form of Flickr Uploadr (video version here).

This will adds a “Send to Flickr” command to the contextual menu and lets you upload desktop pictures to the web with a simple right click.

Related: Send Pictures to Flickr from Windows Live Photo Gallery

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