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3 Critical Twitter Tools for Your Social Media Strategy

3 Critical Twitter Tools for Your Social Media Strategy

Unless you live under some kind of rock, you have at least heard of twitter. The real problem is that those who have heard of and try to use twitter don’t always know how to properly integrate it into their social media strategy. Here are some of the most critical twitter tools and explain how each fits into your overall social media strategy.

Instagram Filters as Photoshop actions

Instagram is getting largely popular among iPhone users as a Photo sharing application. Instgram offers lots of photo filters that give a stunning effect to your pictures. Have you ever wondered if you could add Instagram like photo filters to your photos using Photoshop? Well, Daniel Box has created Photoshop actions similar to Instagram filters that you can apply to any photo instantly.

Google’s Feedback for sending Feedbacks for Google products

Google is on the endeavor to make improvements to their products all the time. For this, they have added a Feedback button to most of their products whose latest versions have just been introduced. Have you tried out the Feedback button in Google plus or the Cosmic Panda in Youtube? You’ll be amazed after looking at it.

Destroy text or ads on a page with these bookmarklets

Destroy text or ads on a page with these bookmarklets

Sometimes we come across some cool bookmarklets that are meant just for fun. Here are some bookmarklets that will destroy the text on any webpage in cool ways. You can also use these bookmarklets to destroy annoying ads on a site.

Youtube’s Cosmic Panda Interface

Youtube has come up with a new experimental redesign that is code named Cosmic Panda. This interface is a whole lot different from the current interface. It looks sleek, clutter free and cleaner. The new Cosmic Panda interface Is elegant and pleasing to the eye.

SiteTrail, The Ultimate Website Analysis Tool

Have you ever wanted to know how much traffic your favorite website was getting? Or how many RSS subscribers a site had? SiteTrail is a website analysis tool that provides you with data consisting of over 100 different metrics for any given website. All you need to do is simply enter the domain name of the website you want to analyze into a text box and viola!

How to secure your computer with a USB stick used as a security

How to secure your computer with a USB stick used as a security

The use of security tokens is a common feature for individuals and organizations wishing to secure sensitive data; and who may feel that the use of software-based authentication such as password and PIN are not sufficient. Security tokens are hardware-based authentication devices that are meant to complement the software-based security in authenticating user identities, mostly on private networks. USB sticks are a good example of devices that can be used as hardware tokens.

Recovering a Dead Hard Drive with a USB

It’s important to regularly invest time and attention in backing up any essential data stored on your computer. Because all hard drives end up failing at one point or another, creating a backup of your information as often as possible is crucial.

Report Fake likes on Facebook to ESET

Report Fake likes on Facebook to ESET

Facebook thus has lots of pages and applications containing malwares. There are some malwares that create likes on your behalf for pages without your knowing. If you happen to see such pages and videos, you can report them to ESET.

Top travel apps for your phone

Top travel apps for your phone

There is a plethora of excellent travel apps for mobile phones today. Blackberry offers HRS Hotelport and Kayak. Android offers TripIt, Skype, FlightView. IPhone offers Travel #s and Help Call. Essentially, each phone provides great applications that will enhance your travel experience.

Remove extra whitespace in Gmail’s Dense Preview theme

Remove extra whitespace in Gmail’s Dense Preview theme

If you have already activated the Preview or Dense Preview versions in Gmail, you must have noticed that there are some extra whitespaces as compared to the earlier themes. Well, many of you may like it but having extra whitespaces along the top and side may not appeal some of you. If you want to have a more compact look with lesser whitespace for Gmail’s Dense Preview theme, you can have it using Stylish or Greasemonkey.

Blog SEO: 6 Tips for Getting Noticed by the Search Engines

Blog SEO: 6 Tips for Getting Noticed by the Search Engines

Blogs live or die based on traffic. If no one visits your blog, you will quickly get discouraged and you will not reap the rewards you sought. Search engine optimization (SEO) can turn that around by attracting searchers who find your blog at the top of the search engine results page. These tips will help you optimize your blog for the search engines.

Google Authorship and its ties with Google+

Google Authorship and its ties with Google+

Google recently announced Google Authorship, Google’s initiative towards identifying the original author of an article. For identifying the author of an article, Google will be seeing a connection between the article page, the author profile page and the author’s Google Profile. The content page can be any article on a website and the author page is a webpage within the same domain that contains information on the author of an article.

Get a vanity URL for Google+ profile

Google+ profiles as of now have a very long and difficult to remember URLs. Google has plans for launching vanity URLs very soon but many of you may not be very patient about that. If you want to have a vanity URL for your Google+ profile for now, you can get one from Gplus.to.

How to backup your emails to Evernote

Evernote makes note taking a breeze. You can also send notes to evernote using email by sending an email to a private account given provided by Evernote. You can use this handy feature to backup all your emails to Evernote. Here is how you do it.

Microsoft wins the best Cloud Service Award

Microsoft wins the best Cloud Service Award

With largely developing cloud computing technology, cloud services are also strengthening everyday. Microsoft has been awarded with the best cloud service award. The best cloud service awards were presented at the 3rd Annual cloud computing World Forum on 21st June 2011. The ceremony was held in Olympia London.