Iff you need emoticon based on your real facial expression, you can try Twikao. It is an app that creates the fancy smilies for you based on facial recognition. Twikao is a combination of the words “tweet” and “kao,” which means “face” in Japanese.

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To get started, You can simply take a photograph of yourself with your phone’s camera and the app creates an emoticon based on the expression you are making in the picture. You can then tweet just the emoticon and a short message, or you can choose to attach the original photo as well.

 The app is surprisingly accurate, mimicking the user’s expressions very closely. Below, a woman demonstrates just some of the thousands of expressions possible with Twikao. The free app is available now in the iTunes store.

Download Instant Smiley App from  iTunes store

A new study from published by internet marketing software company WordStream, offers a unique perspective into the matter by comparing the Facebook’s advertising vs. the Google Display Network.

WordStream compared Facebook and Google Display Network in these five advertising categories:

• Advertising Reach: Both companies have astounding reach. The GDN has more expansive reach (it has the ability to reach more unique people across the world), but Facebook has more pageviews (fewer people spend more time on Facebook, meaning it can hit the same people on the head more times with ads).
• Advertiser Adoption/ Growth Rates: Facebook’s advertising growth has been strong – but it hasn’t kept pace with growth in its user base.
• Ad Performance: Facebook ads have very low click-through rates (CTR) – at less than 0.05%, just half the industry average for banner ads. Why? It may be Facebook’s relatively slim offerings in terms of ad formats and targeting options, which are the key for driving ad relevancy and CTR. Google has industry-standard analytics tools, whereas Facebook is very thin in terms of reporting. Another possible explanation is intent – people may be less responsive to banner ads within a social network than when using other types of websites.
• Ad Targeting Options: Facebook doesn’t offer mobile advertising (a huge hole, especially with mobile use growing so fast), retargeting (or remarketing), advertising on partner sites, or keyword-based contextual targeting options for display ads. Google offers all of these.
• Ad Formats: Facebook has just two options: the standard Facebook ad (text plus an image) and a relatively new, sponsored stories. This is paltry compared to Google’s display network ad format options: text ads, image ads, flash-based image ads, in-video ads, as well as ads for mobile web and mobile games.

From an advertiser’s perspective, Facebook currently falls short in all five areas when compared to the Google Display Network.

The system consists of a ‘makey makey’ board, set of alligator clips, and USB cable; and it functions with any computer program or webpage that would normally be controlled by keyboard strokes or the mouse. The unit can also be used as a simple arduino board for developers.

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To get started, connect one end of a wire to the circuit board using crocodile clips and the other end to any electrically conductive object such as bananas, pencil graphite, paint, silverware and cats.

Touching the object simulates a key press which is fed to the computer via the USB port. For sensing closed switches on the input pins, high resistance switching is used so you can close a switch even through highly resistive materials like your skin, leaves, and play-doh. Since no additional software is required MaKey MaKey works with all programs and webpages that accepts keyboard and mouse input.

Pac Man with a pencil drawn controller

If you want this, you can pledge $35 on Kickstarter and get the kit delivered to you anywhere in the US. International destination costs an additional $10. The kit includes the MaKey MaKey, Alligator Clips, and USB Cable.

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Here are a few guidelines that will come in handy when writing content for an online audience.

1. Have a clear goal

Before you start writing, you need to have a clear goal of what you want to achieve through your site. Do you want to share the latest industry news? Or do you want your site to focus on offering product reviews? You could also decide to build a site focused which simply offers tips related to your industry. Your goal will determine what content is required.

2. Write for scanners

Before purchasing a book, most people first go to the back cover to read the synopsis, author’s biography or testimonials. In the same way, when someone picks up a newspaper or magazine, they are likely to browse through the headlines first. The same principle is applicable to online content.

Therefore, make sure you provide clear entry points in your content such as headings, subheadings, captions or bulleted lists. Remember to keep your paragraphs as short and as comprehensive as possible.

Keep in mind that some people might never switch from scanning to reading. Therefore, make sure that your points of entry contain as much information as possible.

3. Customize your content

Your content should offer visual clues about intent and organization. Make sure the headlines are bigger than the subheadings. When writing a headline for a list of pros and cons, you could color ‘cons’ red and ‘pros’ green.

If you are writing about a sport like golf, use images of golf balls instead of dots in a bullet list. Or if you are writing about music, you could swap the dots for small musical notes. This will make your site appear more relevant and attractive.

4. Think like a journalist

In journalism, information is usually presented in form of an inverted pyramid, moving from the vital to the trivial from the bottom up. Your content should answer the 5 Ws; what, why, when, where and with whom. Share with your readers only what they need to know at the moment. Save the additional details and background information for later.

5. Use humor sparingly

If you are a fan of alliteration and punning, you need to be careful how you use your humor. Usually, simple and clear headlines rank well in search engines and attract readers easily. Headlines which involve some wordplay are not likely to rank well. It would therefore be advisable to spare your wit until your site becomes an authority in your niche.

6. Link as much as possible

When giving an example or presenting an argument, rather than restating something that is already published online, you could simply insert a link which will direct readers to the source.

 About Author: Charles Mburugu has a passion for sharing information about web-based technologies and making money online. He blogs at TechBlogKe.com, where he also offers a freelance writing course for aspiring web entrepreneurs.

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The direction of travel is controlled by the arrow keys and the speed of travel by the mouse wheel. You can pan the view or rotate around an object using the mouse. To search an object, press F3 and type the location, or press F2 to bring up the solar system browse.

Once you’ve chosen your destination, hit G to arrive at the celestial body. These actions are also available from a menu which is hidden by default and can be invoked by pressing the ESC key

For each selected object, the program displays detailed information like the class of planet/star, mass, size, diameter, apparent magnitude, orbit, tilt etc.

Watch the following videos.

Features of SpaceEngine:

• All types of celestial objects are represented: planets, moons, asteroids, stars, star clusters, nebulae and galaxies.
• The observer is free to move around the universe. Transition between any celestial body and any scale occurs continuously.
• The observer can move around in space using the WASD keys, like in First Person Shooters. Movement with inertia is made possible in Spacecraft mode or Aircraft mode.
• “Select and fly” autopilot: just click on any object with the mouse and hit the ‘G’ key to automatically go directly to the object.
• Search for celestial objects by name. View planetary system maps. Save locations and an autopilot’s journal.
• The orbital motion of planets and stars is calculated in real time, with the ability to accelerate, decelerate, or reverse the flow of time.
• The orbital paths of celestial objects can be shown, along with their labels and grids.
• Automatic binding of the observer to the moving object and automatic selection of optimum flight speed.
• Known celestial objects are represented using data from the catalogs: galaxies (NGC/IC), stars (HIPPARCOS), star clusters, nebulae, planets (our Solar system data and known extrasolar planets).
• Uncharted regions of space feature procedurally generated objects: stars, star clusters, nebulae and planetary systems.
• 3D landscapes of planets and stars: for many solar system bodies actual data from space probes is used.
• For uncharted exo-planets the surface is generated procedurally.
• Volumetric 3D sprite models of galaxies and nebulae including light-absorbing dust clouds, optimized render to a skybox and impostors.
• Lighting effects: lens flares, solar eclipses, shadows of planetary rings. Celestial objects cast light and shadow on to each other.
• The exact model of the Earth’s atmosphere (code by Eric Bruneton), adapted for the other planets.
• Ability to import users addons: models, catalogs, and textures.

Download SpaceEngine

SpaceEngine is a hefty download at 400MB, and the large size is due to the large number of high-definition texture maps of earth and other planets of the solar system.

While it may seem premature, having a good idea of what your site will be like can save you headaches in the future. You need to be sure that the web host you choose will be able to handle everything you have planned for your site, from bandwidth to email policy.

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Jetpack WordPress plugin is the best way to incorporate all these amazing features in your WordPress blog.

JetPack WordPress Plugin

Jetpack is a collection of very powerful and useful features.

• Subscriptions – it enables your site visitors to subscribe to your posts and comments and get updates via e-mail.
• WordPress.com stats –  Jet pack includes the latest version of this plug-in, and all future versions of the stats plug-in will now only be available through the Jet Pack. Of course now the data provided by the plug-in is much more detailed than before.
• Spelling and grammar – helps to improve your writing by contextual spell checking, advanced style checking and intelligent grammar checking of your articles. It is powered by After the Deadline open source technology.
• Social sharing – powered by ShareDaddy, this plug-in provides an array of custom social sharing buttons which are then placed beneath your articles and improve the social engagement of your visitors.
• VaultPress – this is a useful WordPress backup plug-in which we have been using for several years and is a useful tool in case your WordPress database crashes or you need to restore your site.
• Contact form – is a useful plug-in to insert a contact form on any page or post you like, and is a good replacement for any contact form WordPress plug-in you might be using.
• Gravatar Hovercards – if you support Gravatar profiles in your comments, then this plug-in will show pop-up business cards of these users from their gravatar profiles.
• WP.me short links – creates a short link for all your pages and posts which can be easily shared on social media sites like Twitter.
• Short code embeds – allows you to use short codes to embed videos from YouTube, Vimeo, slide share etc.
• Beautiful math – allows you to use specialised markup language to post complex maths equations.
• Sidebar widgets – some new widgets appear in your WordPress blog which allow you to add images, Twitter updates and RSS feed links in your sidebar.
• Enhanced distribution- allows better sharing of your post articles and comments in real-time by distributing them quickly to search engines. A good pinging tool.

After installation, by default all features will be activated but if you don’t not need all these features then click on “Learn more” button, to make the “Deactivate” button appear! You can then choose which features need to be active. That’s all folks.

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Aside from downloadable and installable malware protection, these five companies will also augment Facebook’s URL blacklist system to prevent malicious URLs from being shared on the network. This means that whenever you click a link on Facebook, not only will be it checked against Facebook’s blacklist, but also the blacklists provided by Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos, and Symantec.

The free downloads and six-month licenses available via the Antivirus Marketplace are:

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Other than Microsoft Security Essentials, which is entirely free, each download is accompanied by six months of free updates, but users are limited to just one free antivirus application per Facebook account.

Of course, if you have more than a couple of members in your household and all share the same PC you can each snag a 6-month license and stay protected for several years. It’s even likely that Facebook will sign-up even more antivirus companies into its marketplace.

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