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Get free suggestion for website domain name

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:02:00 +0000

Registering a domain name for some dictionary word is just impossible, since all of them should have already been registered long back and you might seldom get lucky to book a domain name of your own choice. Some webmasters and domain buffs are always looking for high paying and popular keywords that can be registered as domain name and later sold out for higher price and this is certainly a big market considering huge amount of returns you may earn.
Identifying a good and wannabe popular keyword at right time is most important step in this complete process - so as to be part of first come first serve philosophy. Though sometimes by visiting and following social sites and discussion groups you may get lucky to mine some high worth keywords, but it is certainly not a sure shot method. What one needs to automate this process is a search tool that can suggest you high paying and popular keywords or names that sound just perfect to be a good candidate to reap high returns in future.
Understanding this; let us look at some of the free tools avaiable at large for getting all this done easily and without much effort.

GrabTheName

Google is biggest search engine, enjoying 63 perent of market share, hence it is important to know what people are searching the most and which keywords are becoming popular. GrabTheName is a excellent service for this purpose in a sense that, it extracts hottest keywords from Google search trends every hour and displays it to you. This can be good site to get the upcoming popular keywords and to grab them before others do.

Wordoid

Wordoid is another domain suggestion tool for webmasters to get natural or non-natural words. If you are interested in having a domain name that starts, ends or contains a particular keyword, then you would find Wordoid very helpful. All you have to do is enter the keyword, that you think sould be part of you domain name and leave it upto Wordoid, to get natural sounding and catchy domain name suggestions.

Now even you can be a proud owner of few of those catchy and flashy domain names

FeedUp - Google Alert alternative

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:23:00 +0000

Google Alert is one innovative service where one can receive news, articles and discussions related to ones interest delivered to their email box or to a feed reader, everyday and at regular intervals. But bad part of this great service is, it does not allow you to suggest the source sites to get the information from.
So in case you are interested to receive news from specific sites or blog and that to on specific categories or topics of your interest, than sadly this cannot be achieved through Google Alert. Google Alert is good for receiving a broadcast of news feed but not for specific news alerts. FeedUp is just a answer to this limitation. In this fast paced world, nobody have enough time to read each and every article that is being delivered to the email box, especially if you are interested in reading from some trusted sources only and this is where FeedUp comes for rescue.

Setting up alerts through FeedUp is five step process:

Step 1 - mention your topics of interest and this list could go on and on, until you are exhausted, there is no limitation on this, one may suggest as many topic as he wants
Step 2 - here you either leave up to FeedUp to select the news articles source or specify your own preferred sites to fetch article feeds from, again there is no limitation on this.
Step 3 - provides option to select the subject categories from which you want the articles to be sourced
Step 4 - decides how often you want the articles to be delivered with three variations - slow (3 articles/day), medium (15 articles/day), fast (everything)
Step 5 - decides the source for the news feeds like blogs, news sites, video sites, etc

If you have followed all these steps meticulously let me give you a good news that you have just finished setting up a alert service. Now finally you have to decide where and how you wish to receive the alerts in iGoogle or in My Yahoo page or in email format or as RSS feed.

That is it, you are ready to receive your personalized alerts.
FeedUp is also available through MeeSlice.com.

Convert Youtube video to customized mp3 file

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:49:00 +0000

If you Google for a tool to convert Youtube flv videos to mp3, without a doubt you would find more than 100 tools, but I am quite sure none of it can match the feature rich interface provided Dirpy.

Dirpy is a free online Youtube video to mp3 converter with lot of power packed features.
When you enter a Youtube video link in Dirpy, it processes the flv link and gives you many different options to customize the mp3 file before you can actually start downloading the audio file.

So one can select start and end time from video to convert to mp3 - something like a mp3 cutter or clipper tool or can be used to create ringtones, it also allows to select bit rate of 64 kbps or 68 kbps or 112 kbps or 128 kbps or 256kbps for mp3 file, more you may even set the ID3 tags like title, artist, album, year, comment, etc for the mp3 file before you actually start download.

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How to stop Twitter Spam

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:51:00 +0000

This is my follow up post on Twitter spam, after our intial prediction a few weeks back that the Twitter spam application arena is going to see huge turmoil. So with prediction coming true, today we have as many as three new free tools that promises to fight and block twitter spam.
Let us look at each one of them one by one below and see what they have on offer.

TweetBlocker

TweetBlocker scans through your twitter account and shows you the report for each of your followers. Judging them based on some parameters like age of account, frends-followers ratio, activity percentage, etc., it assigns grades in range A (genuine) to F (identfied spammer) for each of your follower and an option to unfollow or block them.

You may also see the details for each one of your followers to understand on what parameters they were adjudged and grade was assigned.

TwitChuck

TwitChuck provides two different services for achieving spam free Twitter account. First is a free service called FriendChuck, which scans through your Twitter account and compares your friends and followers to there databse of spammy accounts and allows you to block or unfollow the users. Other paid service being offered is called TwitBlock, it takes care of securing your account from spammy users automatically without any of your intervention.

TrueTwit

TrueTwit is to a extent and comparatively some manual process for identifying and eleminating spam. This is how it works; when you register to TrueTwit, all of your new followers will either have to verify a CAPTCHA sent via direct message or have to register with TrueTwit indicating that they are neither script nor robots nor spam bots.

You may alos find following articles interesting:
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Tweetmeme Alternatives
Follow famous cricketers on Twitter

Follow cricketers on Twitter

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:15:00 +0000

We already know and are following celebrities, bloggers, entrepreneurs, athletes on Twitter, but recently we have discovered lesser known category of cricketers for following on Twitter.
Following you will find links of famous ICC cricketers to follow on Twitter.

Ricky Ponting - Captain Australia
follow Ponting

Sachin Tendulkar - Indian player and Former captain
follow Sachin

Mohammed Kaif - Indian player
follow kaif

Kevin Pietersen - England Captain
follow Pietersen

Chris Gayle - West Indies Captain
follow Chris Gayle

Jason Gillespie - Australian bowler
follow Gillespie

Mahendra Singh Dhoni - Indian captain
follow MS Dhoni

Andrew Symonds - Australian player
follow Symonds

Amey P
follow BlogPandit
that is me, though I am not a cricketer, but surely a biggest Cricket fan - a self proclaimed one.

Top 6 Twitter directories for marketing and promotion

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:25:00 +0000

Web directories have often been used by peoples for seeking the material on specific categories. Twitter directories are just variation on this traditional concept of web directories. A Twitter directory holds the database of tweeps or Twitter users indexed in order of location, interests, etc.
Some of them even rank the tweeps based on followers, friends, updates, etc. So a user with high update frequency, large number of followers will certainly find place higher in rank.
So if you are looking for tweeps who share same interest as yours or tweeps that are located nearby you, these sites should be best starting point.
Below we have compiled a list of few such online Twitter directories.

TwitDir

Twitdir allows finding tweeps based on location, description, names, etc.

Twitterholic

Twitterholic ranks and list tweeps based on followers, updates, etc and it also helps you find users based on location

Wefollow

Wefollow is another very popular non-paid Twitter directory listing service. It list tweeps based on categories like tech, blogger, music, socialmedia, etc.

Twindexx

Twindexx offers nonpaid listing service. You may suggest a tweep for listing on twindexx, tweeps with most number on suggestions appear higher in index.

TweetFind

With TweetFind, select your directory submission category and then select from paid or non-paid submission options.

Twitter Directory 2000

Twitter users having more than 2000 followers qualifies for getting listed on Twitterdirectory2000. Offers paid submission. Browse listings based on categories.

Twitter host Bollywood celebrities

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:47:00 +0000

Right, the twitter mania is finally spreading across Indian film industry a.k.a. Bollywood.
Following is the list of famous Bollywood tweeps now available on Twitter for online mircoblog conversation.

Aamir Khan - film actor, director and producer
follow Aamir

Preity Zinta - film actress and Kings XI Punjab Owner
follow Preity

Gul Panag - film actress
follow Gul Panag

Karan Johar - film director, producer, and TV celebrity
follow Karan

Dino Morea - film actor
follow Dino Morea

Priyanka Chopra - film actress and former Miss World
follow Priyanka Chopra

Uday Chopra - film actor and producer
follow Uday Chopra

Sonam Kapoor - film actress
follow Sonam Kapoor - is the cool side of Sonam
follow Sonam Kapoor - is the spicy side of Sonam

Vishal Dadlani - music director
follow Vishal Dadlani

Salman Khan - film actor, producer
follow Salman Khan

Mallika Sherawat - film actress, model
follow Mallika Sherawat

Aishwarya Rai - film actress and former Miss World
follow Aishwarya Rai

Riteish Deshmukh - film actor
follow Riteish Deshmukh

Ranbir kapoor - film actor
follow Ranbir Kapoor

Rajeev Masand - film critic and entertainment reporter for CNN-IBN
follow Rajeev Masand

Shahrukh Khan - film actor, producer, television host, Kolkata Knight Riders owner
follow Shahrukh Khan

Rohan Sippy - film director
follow Rohan Sippy

Ayesha Takia - film actress
follow Ayesha Takia

Rakhi Sawant - an Indian dancer, Hindi film and television actress, item girl, model and television talk show host
follow Rakhi Sawant

Atul Kasbekar - media, film and fashion photographer
follow Atul Kasbekar

Dharmesh Gandhi - director, film Critic with Sunday Mid Day
follow Dharmesh Gandhi

Goldie Behl - film producer, director
follow Goldie Behl

Amey P
follow BlogPandit
that's me, though I am not from Bollywood industry, but yes, I am from Bollywood city, Mumbai.

I am quiet sure, that in coming days we will see more and more celebrities catching in on Twitter fever and will keep you updated.

Tweetmeme Alternatives

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:47:00 +0000

Though I am personally big fan of Tweetmeme, it is still a undenying fact that, living in a technology age it is wise enough to have an edge over technology by not restricting ourselves to specific offering. This is just one of the reason and enough to have following article seeking tweetmeme alternatives. Also recently, I have been experiencing faulty functioning of some of my tweetmeme counters, of which some even do not cross the zero position when already couple of retweets for article being done.

So keeping all this behind, let us look at some of the alternatives available for tweetmeme Twitter counters.

Backtype

Installing a retweet button with backtype is just as simple as it can be. You only have to add following single line of code and button is installed.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://widgets.backtype.com/tweetcount.js"></script>

Further you can also customize the button properties by specifying source (leading text), button background color, border color, text color, size of button, url shortner, etc. Visit Backtype, to get complete list of customizations and install your own retweet button.

Twittley

Twittley offers cool icy blue counter.
It has got very unique selling proposition compared to other Twitter retweet counter sites. When someone clicks on the Twittley button installed on your site the post link is automatically tweeted to all there twitter followers even without opening a new window. So a visitor still stay on same page and retweet is taken care by Twittley in background.
Further based on popularity, your link also gets listed on Twittley popular link pages that can attract more visitors for you.
Get your own Twittley button now for Blogger, Wordpress or other sites.

Multiple Twitter account management online and desktop tools

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:53:00 +0000

We all have multiple twitter accounts; for a personal use for friends connect, other for business purpose - again more than one for different business, etc. So to manage all these accounts through original Twitter interface is all so troublesome, you logout from one and login to other and keep on doing this all the time to update messages and alerts.

Or, other better way is to consider any of following online or desktop tools to manage multiple twitter accounts from single interface with ease.

Splitweet

With Splitweet highly usable interface; you may update one or all of your accounts at a same time, follow tweets to individual accounts, make replies, manage brands, etc.

Twhirl

Twihrl is an desktop tool for multiple account management. It displays new message notifications, has inbuilt url shortner, inbulit image upload to twitpic, etc. And since it is build on Adobe Air platform, Twihrl can be used on Windows and Mac OSX

Tweebster

Tweebster is another multiple account management tool with minimal capabilities, you can only manage and update messages to different accounts with Tweebster.

AandroLib - search, download Android games and apps

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:14:00 +0000

Google's Android is rapidly turning out to be most sought after platform for many upcoming mobile phones. Every large mobile company has or are launching the cell phones on Android platform. So with increasing user base, the demand for apps that work on Android platform is surely going to increase.

Through this article we look at AndroLib, an online free and paid directory for Android applications, games and tools.

AndroLib is online boiling pot for all kind of tools, apps, libraries, games on Android platform. You may search or browse through already abailable twitter, facebook apps, ringtone tools, action, arcade and puzzle, chess games, weather and news tools, feed readers, etc.
AndroLib is one of the huge online library of Android tools. A certain destination for every Android fan to power pack his phone with latest and heaviest apps available.

TwitChuck - Identify and block Twitter spam

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:58:00 +0000

We finally have a tool that makes your Twitter life happier, helps you distinguish between spammers and valid prospects.

TwitChuck is a web app; still in its nascent stage, promises to identify and create database of Twitter spammer.

So, if you sense something fishy and want to know if particular user is a spammer or not. All you have to do is, go to TwitChuck, search for user-id and immediately you would see a snapshot report about there activities. Also a score on scale of 100 (lower score – more spam, higher score – valid user) is assigned, to clearly judge the extent of spamming.

While checking for spam activities, TwitChuck runs some validations in background and then it flags that particular test case as passed or failed, based on which the scoring is done and spammers are identified.
Some of the validations done are:
check for user participation in conversation and community talk
age of Twitter account and online activity rate
friend-follower ratio
message update percentage, etc.
TwitChuck also maintains database of valid tweeps and flags them as "user validated".

FriendChuck is another addon paid service offered by TwitChuck where you log in through your twitter account and FriendChuck will scan through your followers list and mark all the spam users (or bot) for your action. FriendChuck is excellent service to filter and prune your follower list.

You may also find following related articles interesting:
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How to encrypt decrypt message text online

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:15:00 +0000

You want to pass on some private message to your friend and it can't be said on cell phone or any other regular communication media like email, with fear of somebody spying on the communication and losing the message privacy. In such cases, one can use any of following free tools to convert the message to secret code before passing over through an email. So that even if somebody manages to intercept the message it would be illegible for him. Isn't that just perfect.

Well, lets see what are different tools available to achieve this purpose.

crypo.biz

crypo uses very strong Military Grade 1280-bit Encryption Algorithm, all you have to do is visit crypo.biz, enter your message in "message box", enter password between 4 to 12 characters - password provides extra security to encryption and hardening of overall process. Further to decrypt the cipher code i.e. to get original message back; insert same encrypted message again in "message box: and same password in "password field" and hit decrypt, you will be rejoiced to see original plain text message. So it is equally important to note that, when you pass on the encrypted message you also pass on the key or use a key that is agreed upon by both the sending and receiving team.

encodor.com

encodor is very simple application that accepts plain text message up to 400 characters and password key up to 30 characters and converts the plain text message to cipher text.

You may also find following related articles interesting:
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Convert between zip, rar and other archive files

Convert between zip, rar and other archive files

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:50:00 +0000

There can be many occasions when you have rar archive and no Winrar to open it, further you even do not have enough rights to install Winrar on the system or no access to Internet. What to do in such case ? just keep staring at the archive and hope it opens up, popping out everything it holds. Sadly, that's just too high an expectation.
Else we have a very nice solution for you, you may use any of following free online tools to convert archive files to zip or other acceptable formats.

WobZIP.org

WobZip is online archive uncompressor and viewer. All you have to do is upload the file and then you can either download the files in popular .zip format or download individual files within archive.

Media-Convert

Lately, we made a review on media-convert of its capability to convert between different file formats, which also includes converting between different compressed archive files.
To convert the file; upload, select input file format and output file format and fine tune the conversion activity with available options.

You may also find following articles interesting:
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Twenglish: tool to convert tweets to twitter language

Bingoogle - Google and Bing search at same time

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:22:00 +0000

Bing has gained massive popularity since its launch and has already earned second spot behind Google. So far so good, now it's just wait and watch game of how Bing fair to people expectations. But one thing for sure, if Bing has to get strong foothold it has to innovate as grow, like Google is doing over the years.

At this moment, there is no denying fact that Bing has got it all to rub shoulders with Google in coming time. While, if you are die hard Google fan, still wondering and not tried out Bing yet, we have got nice offer for you. Try out following few websites, that pops Google results alongside Bing.

Askboth.com

Askboth shows you Bing results alongside Google in dual column. It also provides facility to search for images from both the search engines.

Specra.com

Specra goes one step ahead and gets Yahoo in the field, so now you can view results from big three at a same time. Specra also allows to assign weightage to particular search engine so as to decide the importance given to search results from particular engine.

Fusionsearch.com

Fusionsearch is again similar to Specra, like it searches Google, Bing and Yahoo at same time, but it also allows image search from these three sites at a time.

So that, now you have more power to rightly adjudge the best, do let me know what do you feel.

You would also find following readings interesting:
Google movies: Find films, showtimes in theaters near you
Google SMS Channels: free feeds, content and group messaging through SMS
Google maps - Your online travelling guide to plan your route

Life time non-expiring GoDaddy coupons

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:51:00 +0000

GoDaddy is one of the leading online domain registrar and web host. Few of the main reasons about its popularity is the low cost .com, .net domain registrations, big discounts on bulk registrations and most important is availability of coupon codes for availing discounts on all types of deals.

Though you can always find seasonal coupons with limited validity all around the web. We have compiled the special ones here, lifetime valid codes. You can enjoy and use following codes all round the year.

promo10 – 10% off your entire order
promo15 - Save 15% on your order of $75 or more
promo20 – 20% off shared hosting (minimum 12 months)
promo530 – Save $5 off any order of $30 or more
promo749 – Save $3 on .com registrations, transfers and renewals
promossl – $12.99 standard SSL certificates (normally $29.95)
ZINE1 - for 10% off
ZINE2 - for $5 off any $30+ purchase
ZINE3 - for $7.49 .com
ZINE25 - for $25 off any purchase of $100 or more

So go on search, shop tld domains and enjoy the discounts.

credits: promo-code.net

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Top flipping sites to buy, sell websites and blogs
Amazon Kindle alternatives

How to add location to Blogger post

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:51:00 +0000

Many bloggers and webmasters find it necessary to show location in blog post, since that is just another way of getting close to your blog visitors and being informal. To achieve this from Blogspot was not easy, you might had to manually make a provision to display location onto the blog post.

But now you can use Blogger inbuilt method to show location. To avail this facility you would need to access your blog dashboard from BloggerInDraft - a official test and experimental platform for Blogger.

When you login, open the post for which you want the location to be displayed in editor pane and see on the lower part of frame, you would see a "add location" link.

Click on this link, a new pop-up window will open, search for your location, when successful you will see map pointed at the location, now Save.

That's it, when you publish the post you will see the location appearing in your blog post., it can be either in post header or footer depending on your blog template.

So that is it, simple and straight forward method to add location to your blogger post.

Top flipping sites to buy, sell websites and blogs

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:03:00 +0000

Web has taken a mammoth shape over the years, with millions of websites already available on all possible conceivable category and niche. Nearly thousands of websites are being created everyday and equal number being sold, that creates this market very hot and attractive. A site with comparative niche, a good pagerank and visitor count in range 3-4K, can easily fetch some where between $5K to 7K. Also the same site with minimal content update and proper SEO/SEM management can turn into gold mine, earning you in multiples as resale value.
But understanding this is just one part of game, equally important is choosing the right platform to unearth quality sites and strike the deal.

That's where this article pitch in, an effort to be a companion assisting you identify the sites that are online website trading mart.

BuySellWebsite.com

BuySellWebsite is another good site, especially if you are interested in good established sites, it has got a separate section for such sites, which helps improved decision making.

SiteFlippa.com

SiteFlippa, a sitepoint venture; is a dedicated platform for its widely renowned marketplace section. Website auctions are allowed only if ownership is verified.

Flippa.com

With over 6 years in business, Flippa is one of widely used flipping website on web. At this moment of writing this post, Flippa has already garnered sales of over $24 million.

WebsiteBroker.com

WebsiteBroker is one of the oldest flipping site in business. It offers website valuation tools, advanced search based on price, category, success and a website watchlist.

Even following are worth noticing:
WebUnload - buy sell domain names for free
WebmastersMarketplace - buy sell websites, blogs and domain names

Also there are some sites which consolidate the discussion of website flipping from forums like digitalpoint, webmasters, etc. These are -
Biz MP
SiteViper

So go on, grab the real estate of Internet.

Rollip - Online polaroid photo and image generator

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:09:00 +0000

Rollip has rolled out this excellent little web app, where you may create Polaroid out of your images and pictures.

The biggest advantage is, it requires no registration, no software installation.
You only have to select from different shape formats in which you want Polaroid to be created, upload your original photo and get the converted Polaroid image ready to download. You also get a polaroid image link to embed, share the picture on facebook, myspace and more.

Now you may use this Polaroid image wherever you want; get it printed and frame the picture, create a thumbnail for your profile image, etc..

Amazon Kindle alternatives

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:05:00 +0000

I don't like the bulky Kindle, its so non-ergonomic, Digital rights management a big no no, I hate Amazon and so does Kindle, etc.. Whatever your reasons are, for not loving Kindle, you would certainly find following alternative eReader gadgets attractive, useful and at par with Kindle. Also it is completely wise to research market before making the buying decision.

Below we introduce you to few such Kindle/DX popular alternatives.

Sony PRS-505

PRS-505 is Sony's digital companion for reading ebooks, which features ultra-portable and complete paper like display.
Features:
175mm x 122mm x 8mm, 9oz
256MB available
Optical Drive capable of reading CD-ROM
USB 1.1 or faster USB Port
Rechargeable Lithium-Ion, Up to 7,500 page turns
Document Support: mp3 and aac, DRM Text (BBeB Book), txt, rtf, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word (Conversion to the Reader)
price: $279 approx

txtr

A true next generation eReader with plethora of capabilities and functions, built in open software architecture,txtr surely going to rule the arena in coming time.
Features:
146mm x 128.2mm x 8mm, 260g
MicroSD memory card slot, 8GB MicroSD card included
internal 3G/GPRS modem
WiFi, USB 2.0
integrated 3D accelerometer for automatic orientation detection
Li-Ion battery, charged via USB
Bluetooth 2.1 for audio, external keyboard and future enhancements
Document Support: PDF, html, Office, ePub and more
Release will take place at Frankfurt Book Fair, October 2009.

iRex iLiad

iLiad is suitable eReader companion, one can make notes, annotate existing documents, add remarks and trasfer everything to PC. Easy on eyes with ultimate reading and learning experience.
Features:
217mm x 155mm x 16mm, 435g
internal 128MB accessible to user, expandable via USB, MMC or CF cards
rechargeable Lithium Ion battery,via Power Adapter, charging time about 3 hours
Built-in stereo speakers with Audio support
Wi-Fi, optional external 10/100MB Ethernet networking
Document support: PDF, html, txt, jpg, bmp, png, PRC (Mobipocket)
Language support: Dutch, English, German, French and Simplified Chinese
Price: 503.36EUR

Cybook

With Intuitive interface, huge content availability (dictionaries and best sellers), outstanding ePaper readability and amazing battery lifetime, Cybook is perfect next generation eReader device.
Features:
118 x 188 x 8.5 mm, 174g
2.5mm stereo earphone connector
Inbuilt 512 MB, 2GB SD card
Rechargeable built-in Li-Polymer battery, 8,000 screen refresh
USB Client (v2.0) - Mini USB B connector
Stereo earphones
Cross platform reader
Document support: PDF, html, txt, jpg, bmp, png, Mobipocket, PDB, mp3, ttf, RSS feeds
Language support: all languages except right-to-left ones
Price: $350 to $450

Also if you still find none of above gadgets fitting your bill or requirements, you can always use your iPhone, iPod touch or PDA to read documents on go. See this article of sofware available for reading popular office documents on iPhone.

Download printed PDF newspaper version of your blog

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:34:00 +0000

Ever wished if you could download your favorite blog or website in professional PDF format for offline reading? Yes this is possible. There are couple of websites that offer such service for free, where you specify the feed link of your blog and create a newspaper version, good for offline reading or reading on fly.

Below we introduce you to few such services, along with there pros and cons.
We tested all the following services on common settings of size A4 and allowing embedded images. Though some of these sites are not plainly for this purpose, we reviewed only newspaper PDF section of these sites.

FiveFilters

Fivefilters PDF newspaper, accepts feed or OPML url of your blog or site and creates a two column newspaper print version of your content.
pros:
customized title to your paper, clear font and spacing layout, properly aligns text and images within two column layout, no registration required, instant download.
cons:
no inbuilt support for managing multiple feeds

Tabbloid

Tabbloid is another revolutionary service that accepts feeds of the sites and delivers to your email box as per your settings.
pros:
schedule pdf email delivery as per your time zone, no registration required, manage multiple feeds
cons:
very small font, text wrap sometimes garble

FeedJournal

FeedJournal is free service to convert online content for offline reading.
Pros:
categorize your feeds, customize layout to suite all different readers like Kindle, Sony reader, iRex, customize newspaper language like Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, etc., default setting to generate PDF for only newer content
cons:
free version shows very cluttered text, text and images were disordered

Feedbooks

Feedbooks offer free ebooks download in Kindle, iLiad, iPhone, PDF friendly format. Also you can create your own PDF newspaper version of blog or website in available formats.
pros:
manage multiple feeds, large clear font.
cons:
no images, no customized column layout.

Top sites for Twitter tshirts and merchandise

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:33:00 +0000

With massive popularity and in-roads by Twitter in the lives of people, this should not come as surprise that, Twitter merchandise is on big demand. Infact, there are some flashy and quality tweets that are worth being put as tshirt message. Now, with Twitter officially jumping into this merchandise business, scene has heated up a bit.

Let us look at some such offerings around the web, that can earn you a tweet tshirt

Twitter Threadless -

Twitter in collaboration with Threadless is offering this user promoted tweet to tshirt service. Where you can submit your favorite tweets, others will vote in and based on popularity your tweet will get printed on tshirts. This is unique business model where all the parties - person who first tweeted, person who submitted on threadless and other who printed, earns the monetary benefit which is in range of $140 to $500. See this detail article by Aditya on Watblog, about how this system works.

Twitshirt -

Twitshirt implements improvised version of threadless model. You sign up with your Twitter account on Twitshirt (which indirectly acknowledge that you have provided Twitshirt rights to print your tweets, hence overriding the Twitter TOC) and tshirt will appear with you tweet on it. You get paid $1 for each of your tshirt sold, which will then be transferred to your paypal account.

Twitoshirt -

Twitoshirt is exactly opposite to crowd sourced model of Threadless. If you can't wait for long and want your tshirt immediately, just take your tweet run over to Twitoshirt, select color, size and get it printed. So you can get one instantly.

So go ahead and get one of your favorite tweet printed. Twitter popularity is indeed spreading wild and at large, leaving no one, hence it should not amaze you to find your local merchandise shop offering on demand Twitter Jerseys for sale.

Twitterfeed not working - Go for Alternatives

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:06:00 +0000

Millions of webmasters and bloggers are using Twitterfeed for updating the post links on Twitter automatically, but lately there have been many complaints flowing across web with Twitterfeed problems and not working to purpose. This might be sometimes because of sudden surge in server load or network issues, but surely it doesn't mean Twitterfeed has lost its original charm, it is still widely used Tweet-feeder.
But yes, it always wise to know and try out the alternatives available and ready the contingency plan.

Lets look at few such free web applications that updates your feed links automatically to Twitter.

Rss2twitter

You may use RSS2twitter, to add edit multiple feed links, at a time send updates to multiple Twitter account, tweet either post title or description or both, tweet more than one update to same post, also filter options to include or exclude content. Also track click through rate and visitor trending through inbuilt analytics.

Proxifeed

Log in using your Twitter account, add a you site RSS feed to Proxifeed and select the update frequency. That is all, now you are ready to update post links automatically on Twitter.

Pingvine

Pingvine is a free service that support both RSS or atom, It takes feed from your blog or website and updates it to Twitter and other supported microblogging sites.

So now you can loose all your worries and be assured that your post links will be updated to twitter either one way or other.

Top 4 Twitter polling applications and poll tools

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:08:00 +0000

Can anybody would have ever imagined, what a 140 character window can achieve. Twitter is not just a update service anymore, there's long list of activities that can be done; and one of it is, seeking important opinions. Many Twitter individuals have always found it useful to solve all there queries and concerns on Twitter, since we all have access to network of intelligent Twitter users who are ready to help and share opinion with each other.

Though earlier we used to put down our questions or polls to our Twitter friends just like that, but now we have specialized services called polling sites to achieve just the purpose.
Let us see few of them below.

PollDaddy

PollDaddy is one of best sites to offer polls, create your poll and is immediately posted on your Twitter account. You also have options to allow multiple selection and to allow friends to specify there own answers.

StrawPoll

With StrawPoll; you frame your poll and see it being posted on your Twitter account.

Twi.tt

Login to Twi.tt using your Twitter id, create a poll with few other fine tuning options and submit to post it on your Twitter account.

TwtPoll

TwtPoll gives you the simple form to create a poll, but you would have to post the poll link on twitter account using retweet link provided there, it's not done automatically.

Also checkout following related posts:
How to share mp3, audio and video clips on Twitter
Tools to search microblogging sites like Twitter, Identica and Jaiku

Download mp3 songs or videos from esnips

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:24:00 +0000

eSnips is one of my favorite website to download mp3 and video songs, it is just an ultimate source to find any and all kind of song. But all songs on eSnips do not have download facility available, so it really becomes very cumbersome sometimes and wanting for such facility.

If even you are faced with same question, about how to download song on eSnips, you may use following ideas.

For Mozilla Firefox users

All you have to do is install this eSnipsDownload firefox add-on from userscript site.

Note - to use this addon you must have already installed Greasemonkey on your Mozilla browser.

For Internet Explorer (IE6, IE7, etc.) users

All you have to do is; find the mp3 or video on eSnips, play it completely and then extract the song or video from temporary cache folder.
The location of temporary folder on Windows system is

C:\Documents and Settings\[USER]\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5

replace [USER] with windows username logged in to the system

Let me know if you find any difficulty implementing this.

Top 4 websites to get free Twitter background themes and designs

noreply@blogger.com (Rule) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:58:00 +0000

Though Twitter provides some default background themes for one to start with on Twitter, but its certainly without any of characteristics you might need for branding or marketing you and your product on Twitter. So its kind of necessary for each one of us to have a unique and special background for Twitter page.

Though if you are still not convinced, see some famous reasons why one should have custom Twitter background
1. When somebody visit your profile on Twitter, what is that one see at first glance; not your tweets, but the background color and design. Remember a good, unique and professional background can help create a positive first impression impact.
2. For Businesses and Individuals, who see Twitter as mode of marketing and advertising; its must for them to have a background that reflects there business operations and status.
3. We already are aware of Twitter's prowess to impress and win customers and with almost everybody using Twitter nowadays, your Twitter account is no less than your official website. So won't you like to give a unique appeal and brand feel to it.
4. Also as Mashable points out; its excellent way to inform about yourself more, like one can jot down personal details, business information, etc on the background. So you can do away with limitation of limited Bio field in Twitter.

Alright, so once we know how it's all advantageous to have custom background, let us quickly look at some websites that enable you to create one

TwitterBackgrounds

TwitterBackgrounds provide you some ready to use twitter backgrounds, or you may even create a one for you by using there "Personalized twitter background" feature.

TwitBacks

Again TwitBacks provides you with huge gallery of free ready made background. You may even create your own custom background where you can have more about you - bio, contact details, your photo or business logo, links to other social site accounts or websites, etc.

MyTweetSpace

MyTweetSpace is another popular website to create free custom background for your Twitter profile.

Twitter-images

Twitter-images boast and provides huge range of ready to use free background themes and flashy images for your twitter profile.

Alright, so now you are ready with your own custom background design, how to install it in your Twitter account ?

Login to your Twitter account, under 'Settings' page, select 'Design' tab and click on change background link at bottom of page.