Everybody loves the Internet’s dynamic nature.

It is constantly changing and evolving to meet the needs of its users.

A few of my favorite web applications launched new features this week, or at least they hit my account this week!

Of course, you should check out my posts about the new WordPress version 2.6 - WordPress 2.6 Released a Month Ahead of Schedule and Shareaholic - Shareaholic helps you share your favorite websites, if you haven’t already.

1. The WordPress Themes Repository was relaunched! Yay! I can stop by the site and check out new and updated themes - no more Google searching for themes - find the good ones right on WordPress’ website!
2. Firefox 3.0.1 = Patched Up and Ready for the Masses; which was a great addition to my week, because it fixed some bugs and security holes - but it broke a couple of my extensions. Read Firefox 3.0.1 and Your Add-ons Not Working to find out how you can get your Add-ons back in working condition - it is simple to do, but be careful when modifying extensions!
3. Google Contacts Get More Useful with “suggested” contacts in Gmail, instead of just adding every person you email all willy-nilly!
4. Using Google Documents gets even better with Google Docs Templates! Search by category or by “hottest” and use these templates to your heart’s content!

Have you checked out these new features or updated applications? If so, let us know what you think in the comments - or suggest some other web application or software we should check out!

Shareaholic is a Firefox plugin that gives you the ability to share on social networks, bookmarking sites and via email any websites that you come across and want to share. It supports over 21 different social networking sites, bookmarking services and has neat features that will have you using Shareaholic daily!

As you can see from the screenshot, once you install Shareaholic into your Firefox (Flock and Songbird are also compatible) browser, the plugin will insert the Shareaholic button in your Firefox toolbar, and upon clicking the button, a dropdown menu will appear. If the site has already been saved or Dugg, you will see this information, too! I love checking out how popular a website is, so this is a great addition to the plugin.

Shareaholic is easily customizable, so you can add and remove social networks and bookmarking to your heart’s content.

My only complaint is that the “Email this Page” feature forces you to use Bzzter social networking site to email links to friends and family members, but if you set Gmail as your default email client in Firefox and couple it with the GmailThis! bookmarklet, you’ll be able to send links easily.

Does having a large number of unread messages in your Gmail inbox drive you nuts?

A quick, surefire solution is to mark all items as read; sounds easy, but what about emails in other folders (labels), too?

First, perform a quick search for all unread messages (is:unread); then press “Select: All”.

Now, press “Select all conversations that match this search”.

And finally, press “Mark all as read” in the dropdown menu “More Actions”.

Now, all of your unread items are now marked “read”!