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Tired of right-clicking on a file and selecting properties or rename in order to copy the file name to your clipboard? Shell Tools adds a Copy Filename feature to the Windows right-click context menu, plus several other useful utilities.

You can choose which components to install, and once they're installed, you can choose selectively which ones to enable, so there's no need to clutter your context menu any more than you're comfortable with.

Here are a few of the tools included:

• Copy Filename - Does pretty much what you'd expect
• Filenote - Adds notes to a file by creating a text file with the same name
• Show hidden files - Quickly toggles the Windows show hidden files option
• FontLoader - Adds load/unload/install/uninstall options to the context menu for font files
• CopyURL - Copies URL information from favorites/internet shortcuts to the clipboard
• Fresh Icons - Forces Windows to rebuild icons when for shortcuts and files with the wrong shortcut
• Register Server - Adds register/unregister server commands to the context menu for some DLL, OCX, and EXE files

[via Shell Extension City]

TwitterLocal is a great tool for finding other Twitter users and tweets in your area.

You can use TwitterLocal one of two ways: by using the simple web form on their website, or by downloading the Adobe AIR application, which also enables you to send tweets and follow your friend's replies (functionality similar to Twhirl).

The web form is easy enough: enter in your location (using a postal code and/or city and state), choose the radius you want to search (from 1 mile to 50 miles), and hit the Go button. Tweets in the selected area are supplied in both an RSS and XML feed.

All in all, this is a handy tool for finding tweets and Twitterers in your area. Who knows, maybe you'll one day meet a local Twitterer at the grocery store or Jiffy Lube. Though that might be hard, because:

1. People who use Twitter don't often go out into the sunlight. It hurts us.
2. Though billed as a social tool, Twitter is actually for people who fear social interaction. Thus, even if one Twitterer recognized a fellow Twitterer in a store or other public location, they'd probably scurry away before a confrontation could ensue.
3. Our Twitter alter-egos are often so different from our real selves that others would have a hard time recognizing us. We might be Superman in the Twitter universe, but outside we are merely mild-mannered reporters.

The desktop version of TwitterLocal requires Adobe Air.

[via Paisano]

Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition:

• Google Gears gets some updates
• YouTube introduces Living Legends
• Google Analytics adds new graphing options
• Google to lay off ~300 DoubleClick employees and sell Performics Search Marketing

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Yesterday, we posted that Craigslist joined the 20th century with a 1990's-esque blog to let the world in on what's going on within the inner self of Craigslist. Today, Craigslist is already making fantastic progress through time. No, the blog still looks like it belongs in 1996, but it is demanding that the fan operated craigslistblog.org surrender it's domain.

Although Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster hasn't asked Tim White, the fan blogger, to stop blogging - he does claim that the domain name infringes on intellectual property and is confusing to the media and the public. That, and some of the content Tim White was using was exclusive to Craigslist and shouldn't be posted. In an effort to meet halfway, the blog now prominently displays that it is indeed an "unofficial" blog and has removed the content in question, but apparently that is not enough. Probably now that Buckmaster has his own blog he feels the need to defend it with a lawsuit.

If you are interested in what the exact correspondence was, Valleywag has it available for your viewing pleasure. It is however, sad to see a company like Craigslist resort to 21st century intellectual property chest-beating strongarm tactics instead of engaging the blogger in a civilized manner and at least attempting to come to a mutually agreeable resolution before issuing threats. This is neither going to make Craigslist look good nor will it make them any friends.