He also avoids Web-based tools, because "when you open up a browser window, there are 35 tabs there staring at you with stuff you need to get done, fighting for your attention, " he says.

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PowerPoint slide show presentation, which was open in an auxiliary browser window on each viewer's computer.

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Now when people using Rockmelt and click to chat with someone on the Facebook site, the chat window will open in the Rockmelt browser, not in the Facebook site.

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In the past, you had to give it an email address, wait for the email, open it, hit the link in the body, and bring up a browser window with the boarding pass and 2D barcode.

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Technological changes such as the rise of collaboration tools make it easier to multi-task: you can have a chat window, a word-processing document, a Web browser, and other applications all open at the same time on your computer, and switch easily between them.

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