Life with Technology

This is the second post from the series that I have started to write about some common and uncommon, fun or useful third-party twitter tools that you might want to use. See the first here.

Ever wondered why most of those you follow on twitter don’t say anything but link to other websites? Be informed that probably those you have been following are actually not human. Are you happy read automatic-tweets from robot tweeters? Is your time worth reading robots? If it’s not, then you may want to start over.

Have you implemented ajax in your comment posting system which enables to post comment without reloading the whole page? I do agree that this is really cool and it makes readers feel a little more convenient to comment. However, there are some disadvantages you probably aren’t aware of.

Ever wondered to find out who was the first to be your follower on twitter? Twitter is an insanely incredibly useful social media that you can use to engage with people and every second of their life. This is a nice example of real-time web of the day. From the world’s richest businessmen to celebrity and general people, addict to twitter are everywhere. And to make twitter even more powerful for the end-users, there are a number of third-party tools that lets you do things with your twitter account that is out-of-the-box.

I’ve decided to start a series post where I will write reviews on various twitter tools from outside the twitter that helps you do more with twitter and that is entertaining, important, and often just fun.

So, my first post of the series reviewing twitter tools is about FirstFollower.

Under certain conditions, WordPress.com (the free hosted blog) now lets its bloggers place adsense in their wordpress.com blogs. Recently, while exploring through the WordPress support page, I’ve found the update which was not announced in public. This is a short post to let my readers know about it.

I don’t mind if you say that you don’t need any external tool for your windows OS computer since pressing “Alt + PrtScr” gets the job done. But in case you say that, I’d politely ask you if you are done after pressing those keys together. I won’t wait for an answer, because I know that it doesn’t end there.

The default screen capturing takes the screenshot only, you need to open photoshop or MS paint to paste it, crop it, and then save it.

To make it easier, there are plenty of tools available out there. Today, I will tell you about an awesome tool that I use these days and wonder why I hadn’t begun using it earlier. And the name of the tool is PrtScr, no different than that you see in your keyboard.

One of the most successful adsense tips that works is put your ad in a place so that visitors can see them, but make it completely same as your other contents on the same page. That means, if you make your adsense unit no different than other contents at your blog, readers are more likely to click on them. This is even recommended by the Google Adsense team. But sometimes you just fail to found out the exact color reading that your theme is using.

Let me show you the easiest way how you can match your adsense unit color with that being used in your theme, or wherever you are about to insert adsense.

You must beware of shortened links, as they maybe harmful for your computer or security. It’s a wise decision to set your Firefox in a mode that lets you see the destination link before you click to visit the site linked as a shortened URL. However, sometimes you just don’t want to restart your Firefox after installing the plugin. For that situation, here’s a great web-based tool that lets you check the destination URL of any shortened URL on the planet.

Stop wondering why I’ve started talking about Valentine’s Day too early. Instead, start posting comments so that you get a chance to win the great prize on the coming Valentine’s Day.

2009 was an important and memorable year in my blogging history, because I started blogging on my own domain and hosting in this year. I started blogging in English in early 2008, but it turned serious in the year 2009.
It is just the rule of nature that after 12 months, a year will be over. [...]

Falling in short of content is one of the main reasons why most bloggers fail to regularly update their blog. Failure of updating blog regularly immediately results lose of readers’ subscription. Here’s 5 easy ways that you should follow in order to keep your blog up and avoid being thrown away by the readers.
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