Sometimes your favorite social tool twitter just gets too much heavy with so many followers. You too become seriously busy when you’ve got a lot of people to followers. Sadly, most of the time you don’t find any interesting tweet to read and reply to. Ever wondered why? This is just because most of your followers are probably not human being. Those characters not more than 140 letters were actually written by an automatic bot. You aren’t a bot, so you will not find any interest on it.

You maybe are thinking how you are following bots. Any of the following may have caused you following a lot of bots:

• Auto-Follow: Your profile, by a third-party tool, is set to automatically follow those who follow you. Bots find out your profile address or twitter username crawling through blogs and websites. Once they find it, they readily start following you causing you follow them back, because the developers know that most people use auto-follow tool these days. From my experience, it is not recommended.
• Mass Follow: Maybe you manually follow all of those who follow you. This isn’t recommended as well. Before you start following someone, you should go check out their earlier tweets to draw an image of the nature of that tweeter. By then, you will figure out if it’s a bot or not.

It’s very natural that you will lose your interest on twitter after you come to know that the majority of who you follow are not human beings. But there’s a tool to help you in that moment. The tool comes to help you start over. Because sometimes you just need to start over.

Unfollow All is a free tool that will take its time to unfollow everyone you follow. All you need to do is to head over to UnfollowAll.com, think again about your decision, provide your username and password of twitter, and click the unfollow all button.

The tool will then start unfollowing everyone you follow. It may take a little bit long to affect the unfollow process in your timeline. Please be patient.

Before you do so, please make sure to be informed that the action can’t be undone and it will unfollow all, not only bots.

You, My Friends, What’s up on Mind?

Do you think you’re one of those who are constantly listening to bots? If yes, have you decided to unfollow everyone that you follow? Share with me and other readers on this blog.

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One thing I find interesting is AJAX. Ajax makes everything faster, simpler, and undoubtedly gorgeous. However, it has some disadvantages too. Some people use Ajax comment submission (or whatever it is called) in their comment system. This means when a commentator presses the “Submit Comment” button, the comment will be posted without reloading the whole page. This obviously makes your readers feel a little more comfortable. But how much it is worth?

A reader posts a comment when he thinks that he has something to say. And when his cursor approaches to the Submit button, he isn’t afraid of the reloading of the whole page. So, it is not a mandatory option that your blog should have. From that I can imagine that you add that option as an additional feature for your blog.

But have you ever guessed that this is reducing your total pageview? If you have adsense or other cost-per-impression based advertisements enabled, you are losing revenue just because of thoughtless implementation of ajax comment submission system.

Let’s draw the disadvantages of ajax comment posting/submission system I’ve found so far.

• As Ajax disables reloading the entire page after a comment is posted, you are losing 1 page view each time a comment is posted.
• Sometimes comments are not published as readers leave or close the page thinking that the comment has been submitted. I experienced this several times. Sometimes internet connection makes trouble. At that time, when I clicked the submit button on an ajax enabled blog, it showed me that the comment was being posted. It usually takes a few seconds to be posted. So, after a few seconds, I closed the tab containing that page as I thought the comment was posted. By that time, I didn’t know that my connection is experiencing troubles.

I have tried to put up the main things of my post. If you’re still unsure, I advice, read the above bullet points three more time. Put much attention onto the first one — loss of pageviews. You will surely realize why I say that ajax commenting system has disadvantages.

Note: One thing may come up to your mind that my blog has an AJAX-enabled comment system. In fact, I can’t do anything about it as long as I’m using third-party comment system. Some people use extra plugin just to make their comment ajax-enabled. I was talking about them. It’s not worth adding a plugin for ajax as it reduces the pageview of your blog. However, if you’re using IntenseDebate, Disqus or any other third-party comment system, then your case is different.

What’s your point?

Now, share with us if you have any experience with AJAX comment posting system on your or others’ blog. Do you agree that it reduces your pageview so you should avoid using it?

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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.

First Follower

How many followers do you have? A hundred? A thousand? A couple of thousands? If the number of how many followers you have is pleasing, you might someday wonder who the first to follow you was. There is a traditional way for checking that. You can go to your inbox and find out the first Email notification you received from twitter when someone had begun following you.

But for most people, you won’t find it. Because either we disable email notification, or delete notifications after they are received. I go with the second way. My gmail has got several labels, one of which is for twitter notifications. As soon as I receive a notification, I read that and push it to archive. After a certain period of time, I go delete all of those notification messages from my inbox. And I think this is what most people do.

If you are among those ‘most people’, this way won’t help you find out your first follower. That’s when you need something to help you find out your first follower, maybe a tool.

FirstFollower

Head to FirstFollower and enter your twitter username. You will immediately find out who was the first to add you to his/her streamline. I don’t think this tool has some other uses. But if you’re too curious to know about it, you would like to have a look at this twitter tool built on a freshly different concept.

Share Your Thoughts

While I don’t have any idea if this tool can help you in any other way, I’m keen to know if something has come up to your mind about it. What’s your thought? Help us read that by showing off your mind in the comment area below.

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WordPress.com is the best free blogging platform the earth has ever seen. Anyone wanting to blog can start blogging in less than a minute. It takes hassles off, makes blogging faster, easier, and unworried. Yes, you don’t have to worry about the data of your blog. WordPress.com has a strong backup of your data in more than one datacenter making sure that if one falls into the sea, others remain stable.

You are allowed to buy a few upgrades, but you aren’t allowed to run your own ads on the WordPress.com network. If you’re willing to pay a high amount, then you can. But for personal bloggers, no one will buy WordPress.com hosting. Self-hosted takes less money.

For years, wordpress.com authority has been saying that it is thinking about enabling end-bloggers to put their adsense ads so that they can earn a few money from their blogs. At last, wordpress.com has come up with a beta testing feature that calls ‘certain bloggers’ to put up their adsense ads.

The feature has been named “Ad Control”, under which a blog having over 50,000 pageviews per month can put their adsense unit under the condition of sharing the revenue with wordpress.com. To put simply, the total amount of revenue will split 50/50, which means half goes to the blogger and other half to wordpress.com.

The conditions are simple,

1. Your blog has to get over 50 thousands pageviews per month. It will make you eligible to apply.
3. If your application is accepted, you will serve adsense ads to your wordpress.com blog. Half of the total amount you earn from that wordpress.com blog will go to wordpress.com and the other half will remain at your account.

If you meet those conditions, you can apply for Ad Control feature on your blog. Simply email to ad-control@wordpress.com.

I suppose that many bloggers don’t have a wordpress.com account which receives 50k pageviews per month. This is because premium bloggers don’t start at wordpress.com. But those bloggers who already have this amount of page impressions per month did not start blogging with a view of making money online. But today, wordpress.com gives them a chance.

What about you, reader? Do you own such a busy blog in wordpress.com? Or you are going to create one right now with a target of getting over 50 thousands pageviews each day?

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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.

Tool Details

PrtScr is a freeware that you can use on your windows computer. You can use it to capture any part of your screen and readily save them anywhere you want. You can launch it using hotkeys like the default PrtScr key, or Ctrl + PrtScr key or any key you choose. Settings available when you capture a screen or right click on the PrtScr icon at your systray.

Once activated for a shot, your screen will be light blue and you will see your cursor still right where it was when you pressed the hotkey to capture the screen. Now, you can crop any part of your screen.

To crop at a random size, simply use your mouse’s left button. Or to highlight anything with a bold red line, use the right one.

On the other hand, if you need to take a rectangular sized screenshot, press and hold the control key and use your left button to crop screen or right button to highlight.

Once the shot is taken, the preview of the screenshot will be floating at the upper right of the screen until you save it somewhere.

Saving a screenshot of desktop. It is my desktop!

To save it on Desktop, simply click “To Desktop” button from the option menu or drag the preview to desktop. Also, when a screenshot is taken, the picture (not the file) is immediately copied to your clipboard so that you can paste it anywhere you need.

I recommend you using this great little tool to make screen capturing easier and simpler. To download this on your computer, please follow this link.

Have Your Say

I know that there are other tools for professionals to take screenshots but I find this one useful for most users around. Download it and use it by yourself. Once you’ve used it, please share what you think about it. Do you think that this tool is good enough for everyone? Or you have any other recommendation for us?

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Colors have limits!

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.

First, you need to be using Firefox as your browser, because I’m about to tell you about a Firefox plugin that lets you find out the color code of any color visible in the page. The little plugin will tell you the exact color code which later you can use as the color of any part for your adsense unit.

Installation

To install colorzilla in your Firefox browser, click here and click the “Add to Firefox” button. The browser will then start downloading and installing the plugin. You need to wait a moment until the installation completes and the add-on box pops up with a notification. Now, you need to restart your Firefox to activate ColorZilla. You can restart immediately or anytime later at your convenience. Whenever the brower is restarted, the plugin will begin to work.

Find Color Reading

To simply find out the color reading or color code of any pixel of the page opened, click on the ColorZilla’s eyedropper icon at the lower left of your browser (very left of your status bar).

Once clicked, your cursor will be activated as colorpicker and will change its face. Now, move anywhere on your page and click on your desired area to get color reading of. By default, you will be seeing a preview of the color at the colorzilla icon and color reading at the statusbar as you move your cursor. Once you click somewhere, it will remember it and then you will get additional options to copy color code or make any change in settings, such as copying color code with or without # at the beginning.

See the following images.

Match with Adsense

Now, you can simply find out the color code of any area of your blog or website. For example, find out the linked text color and get the reading using colorzilla. Then simply go to adsense and put color of Adsense ads’ title text exactly what color code your theme is using for linked texts.

In the same way, you can also find out the background color of your blog and use it as adsense background color to match them both perfectly.

Need Help Inserting Adsense?

If you’re a novice user or don’t want to get puzzled with codes for inserting adsense in your post, I recommend using All in one Adsense and YPN plugin for adsense that makes inserting adsense ads in wordpress posts a childplay. Click here to read out a review about it and give it a try. I’m sure it’s worth using on your blog for simplifying the process.

However, if you want to try out yourself without help of any plugin, here’s how you can do so.

If you want to put adsense as a widget in the sidebar, then you can do it by yourself. Just copy the javascript code generated by Google Adsense, place a text widget on the expected position, paste the code and save. That’s all.

Still in need of Help?

I will be happy to help you in any way I can. Just shoot your question, comment, or problem in the comment box and I will dive into researching for a solution for you.

Also, share your experience with color choice of adsense unit in your blog or website. Don’t you think the plugin ColorZilla is extremely useful especially for Adsense?

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The trend, URL Shortening, was founded by Tinyurl.com at first and spread widely by twitter. Because you’re limited by how many characters you can use in your conversation, you need everything short but right. That’s why URL Shortening is important and popular at the same time.

Tinyurl.com has an option to preview the shortened link before you visit the site. If you include a word, preview, before the domain tinyurl.com, you will see where the link goes. But what about other shorteners?

Well, you can easily check the link before you have a go to any shortened URL by this firefox plugin. But sometimes you just don’t want to restart your firefox and want a quicker way to do this.

Here comes what exactly you need.

Sucuri has got a nice little web-based tool to let you see the destination of a shortened URL. Not only that, the tool will also check the destination URL in two different ways to find out if it’s safe for you to have a go to the site.

It's advised to check the destination of a shortened link before you decide to have a visit.

Conclusion

I strongly recommend checking out the real URL behind a shortened one before you click on the link, even if one of your friends tweeted this. Twitter is often harmful for these kinds of shortened URLs that may cause damage to your PC or leave spyware program to your computer. As a result, checking the real URL is important for safe surfing. Also, for the sake of your computer’s safety, you need to make sure that the website you are about to visit is declared safe. Use the tool to know if it is.

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What is the Contest?

The contest is simple. I’ve already started counting the comments of each individual commentator. The contest has already been started; this is just a short post to let my readers know that it’s officially announced. Throughout the period, all you need is post valuable and informative comments with your opinion. You don’t need to do anything else to join the contest. Anyone posting comment on this blog will be counted as an active contestant.

Details

The contest started on January 1st, 2010, and will end on February 14th, 2010. During this time, all comments will be counted depending on the Email address associated with the comments. There is a live widget at the sidebar of this blog to show off you who is currently at the top. The widget updates itself as soon as comments are posted. However, some restrictions have been put on commenting since the contest began.

Rules

• Be real; forget that you’re commenting for winning a contest. If you post a comment writing most common words such as “Very Nice”, “Helpful”, etc, I am likely to delete that. I don’t like to delete comments, but for the sake of live update of the TCC (Top Commentator Contest) at the sidebar, I need to be a little bit strict about common comments.
• Spam-like behaviors will cause you being banned from the contest. If banned, you can still post comments but won’t be counted as a contestant.
• Use a specific Email address to post all your comments. Using different email addresses will lessen the chance for you to win the contest.
• Too many comments are not encouraged. However, if on an active discussion among more than two people, there will be no harm.
• IP addresses are saved; if you try to fraud, your IP will be banned.

The Prize

First thing last! I know you people are trying to figure out what is the prize for the winner of this contest. Well, although I have been talking about giving away Link Love to the winner, in fact the prize is better than a link only. The prize is:

A 125×125 pixels sidebar banner on this blog for two continual months at no cost; which is worth $30!

I’m sure that now everyone is interested in joining the conversation in this blog and making it livelier. Enjoy, people! I wish you guys all the best.

Necessary Notes

The winner will be contacted personally for an 125×125 pixels ad linking to his/her blog or website that is suitable for audience of all ages. Sites containing nudity, adultery, aggressive content, content not for a global audience, etc are not eligible to be advertised (in any way, direct or as a prize) on this blog. After two months, the ad will be removed from the sidebar. However, if the winner wants, he can continue advertising on this blog abiding by the rules and paying the standard advertisement rates described at this page.

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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. We have been watching so since we were born. So, there is no way we can prevent the past from being past. All we can do are analyzing what we’ve done in the past and planning for a better future.

Same to your blogging career.

Maybe the January 1st isn’t your blogging anniversary; still you’re entering into a new year with your blog and you must be planning for something new and better than before. Here are some tips that are right now in my mind that I’m planning to do by myself in the year 2010. You can follow these tips to take your blog to the next level in 2010.

• Unless you’ve got thousands of posts in 2009, you may want to explore each of your post and see how readers reacted with them. You may find a way to improve the way you write or the style you use to format your post body.
• Consider if you need to change your blog’s layout. I don’t recommend changing blog’s look too often, as it may be irritating to some readers. But I do recommend you to change layout or theme in case you think that the change will make it better.
• See the post publishing rate of your blog and compare it with how many active readers or subscribers you have. If you have a pleasing amount of readers, you should consider writing more often. However, if you think that your writings become worse if you try to write too often, then just leave it. To publish posts more often, you can’t sacrifice your quality of writing.
• Try to remember how many ways you’ve used in 2009 to gain visitors to your blog. Most bloggers will find that they left comments, guest posted, exchanged links, etc. Sit with a pen and paper and note down what ways you’ve used to drive traffic to your blog. If you find out that there’s something you didn’t do, you may consider trying that new way of bringing visitors on your blog in the New Year.
• Find more relevant blogs to interact with in 2010. Remember, the more blog-relations you have, the better for your business.

Business? Yes, you read it right. After reading all these, you may be wondering why you should do all these stuff for your blog. Let me remind that as long as you are planning to make some money from your blog, you’re running a business and you are an entrepreneur. So, treat your blog like a small business and try to grow it larger. Hard work and patience will one day for sure bring success to your way.

Wish you all a successful blogging year in 2010!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Need idea for your next post? It's not that hard to keep your blog up as long as the niche chosen is of your interest.

Look For Updates

Depending on your niche, you should always look for updates on similar websites or blogs around. For example, if you cover latest iPhone technology news on your blog, you must keep an eye of what’s happening on the iPhone world. Don’t miss out the newspaper, news websites, news blogs and relevant blogs (neighbor blogs around).

Explore Your Archive

Take your time and go through your previous archive. Believe me, it will make you come up with some brand new ideas. For example, if you had written a post about how to install XP without any professional’s help, after exploring your archive, you might be interested to write another post about how to install Mac OS X.

Read Older Comments

Comments are a great way to help you come up with a brand new idea. If your blog is old enough, and has a decent amount of content, you may have already forgot what comments you’ve received in your blog. Reading older comments on older posts will help you generate new ideas for the next post of your blog.

Ask Yourself, Ask Google

At this point, you need to be a nobody. Well, I mean, you need to forget that you’re the writer of the blog. You have to change your perspective and think like a reader.Try to find out if you have any question or problem about the topic your blog covers. If you take longer time than usual, you will definitely find out something that you too need to know about. None is all-knowing; that’s how I guarantee it.

Once you’ve got your question, simply shoot it on Google (or any other search engine you prefer). Find the answers, and try to solve your problem following the solutions you find on Google, or probably on Yahoo Answers. If it works, you may be interested to write a complete article on what was your problem and how you managed yourself to solve out the situation.

Go Off-topic

Off-topic is a great topic to write about! In my opinion, blogs on each and every niche should have some posts off-topic. This helps you keep your blog up, as well as represent you to your audience as a person so that they may find you more interesting and may want to interact with you, which is obviously good for a blogger-reader relationship.

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