Wednesday, 30 September 2009

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15 Top Twitter iPhone Applications ( App)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:45 AM PDT

Twitter has quickly become one of the most addictive social networks on the Web. People spend hours a day on Twitter and share their stories and knowledge with others. But you don't have to be behind a computer to tweet like a pro when you have an iPhone. Thankfully, there are many Twitter iPhone apps to choose from, so you are never short on options.

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Here is a list of top iPhone Twitter applications currently available on iTunes:

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1. Ziibii: Ziibii is a great little app for folks who want to connect to Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube all from one place. And it's free too!

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2. Twittelator Pro: Twittelator one of the best Twitter apps for the iPhone. It's very convenient and comes with a lot of themes.

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3. Tweetie: Tweetie is another great iPhone client for Twitter. It's very convenient too.

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4. Twinkle: a decent iPhone Twitter client that allows you to get in touch with your followers easily.

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5. Whrrl 2.0: Whrrl is another cool social networking application that allows you to stay in touch with your friends on Facebook and Twitter.

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6. Loopt: Loopt needs no introduction. And Loopt for iPhone allows you to update your Facebook and Twitter accounts easily.

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7. Twitterrific Premium: Twitterrific is still one of the top Twitter clients for the iPhone. It may have slipped a bit but it's still up there with the big boys.

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8. Twitterfon: Twitterfon is a lightweight Twitter application for iPhone. It's easy to use and convenient.

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9. Fring: Fring is a cool little social networking app that allows you to manage your MSN, Yahoo, and Twitter accounts.

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10. Summizer – Twitter Search Trend: a cool little Twitter app that allows you to track trends on Twitter.

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11. Twittms: Twittms is a great way to send direct messages on Twitter. It's simple to use too!

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12. SimplyTweet: SimplyTweet is another Twitter application for the iPhone and iPod touch.

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13. LaTwit: LaTwit is a sophisticated Twitter app that allows you to do all kinds of things on your phone.

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14. TwitterTrak: TwitterTrak is another simple Twitter iPhone client. It's very easy to use.

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15. TwitterVision: TwitterVision is a cool Twitter application for iPhone that allows you to see where in the world people are tweeting from. Very fun to use.

Honorable mention: Twitkitteh: Twitter for Cats

There you have it. There are just so many Twitter clients available for your iPhone or iPod Touch. Just don't spend too much time choosing among them at the expense of your Twitter account.

5 Cool Websites to Play Chess Online !

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 01:31 AM PDT

Chess is one of ancient game that is played since ages by intellectuals and common people alike. Playing chess requires skills and acquit concentration. It also helps in improving once strategies and decision making power. Chess is played between two players so if you do not have an opponent to play with you can always find one on Internet. Internet is one large community with millions of users online at any time. There are some dedicated sites for playing chess online where you can find players to play with. If there are no players then you can always play the game against computer.

Here are 5 cool sites where you can play chess with people around the world or with some of the smartest computers. Challenge opponents, know new tricks, and get tips, play chess tournaments and more on these sites for free.

Chess Here

Chess Here is one of the coolest sites to play chess online. There are hundreds of users online from all over the world in this site. You need to register with the site to play chess, it complete in few seconds and it is completely free. After you have registered you can play real time chess or correspondence chess which gives a way new experience of playing chess. In real time chess you can play chess quickly with real people. Whereas correspondence chess is slow version which does not have time limit so it may take hours or days to finish a game.

You can interact with other players while you play on this site, take advises and suggest moves to others. For free membership you can play up to 5 games per day if you wish to play more then you can upgrade your account according to your choice.

Gameknot

Gameknot is one another special place to play chess online. You can create an account for free to access limited features or have a premium membership to have premium access. You can challenge real people from around the world or play with computer. In the monthly tournaments you can compete with many people to improve your chess skills. You can have teams and clubs in Gameknot this gives you an opportunity to make friends and also interact with them online.

Chess Hounds

Chess Hounds is a completely free online chess community where you can join and play for free. All that you have to do is register with the site and start playing chess with real people from all over the world. If there are now people available then you can always compete with computer to improve your skills. In this site you can also watch live game of others and export games as PNG format.

Yahoo Games

Yahoo offers various services for free and Yahoo games are one of those free service. In Yahoo games you can find chess section where hundreds of users from all around the world play chess with one another online. Best thing is you can play chess even from Yahoo messenger while chatting with your friends. You can invite your friends to play chess instantly or play with a new player to make friends. As it is completely free and you can play has many games as you would like to play.

Chess.com

Chess.com is completely dedicated for chess so you can sign in for free. There will be hundreds of players from various countries playing chess in this site. You can play online and live chess with real people from various countries. When you click on play live chess you can see invitations from number of people online. Accept invitation to play with that player it will be so real and interesting, with chat, play one to one.

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Top 15 Most useful Google Chrome Plugins and Addons

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 11:08 PM PDT

As we know Google Chrome is becoming Popular day by day, Here I am presenting 10 Most useful Google chrome Plugins & Addons to make your chrome more reliable.

1.) Google Chrome Backup
This plugin helps to Create Profile, Add Existing, Delete Profile, Backup, Restore, Create Shortcut, Show Details .

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2.) Portable Chrome
Small version of Google chrome for your thumb drive. Just unzip the download to your thumb drive and run ChromeLoader.exe. All your Chrome settings and profile information now save to your thumb drive.

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3.) XChrome – A Google Chrome Theme Manager
XChrome is a theme manager for Googles Chrome browser, it allows users to install a skin in seconds without having to move default.dll around and it allows you to view the author and various other details before installing.

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4.) Chrome Pass
ChromePass is a small password recovery tool that allows you to view the user names and passwords stored by Google Chrome Web browser. For each password entry, the following information is displayed: Origin URL, Action URL, User Name Field, Password Field, User Name, Password, and Created Time.

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5.) Google Chrome Channel Chooser
Google Chrome publishes new releases to the Dev channel frequently. The Dev channel gives the community access to upcoming features, features in development, and the latest bug fixes. We can use feedback from Dev channel users to improve and iterate on feature ideas, and make sure that the latest features work properly before we release them to a wider audience.

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6.) Google Chrome Dual View Plugin
This plugin splits the viewing pane into two halves and lets you browse two sites simultaneously.

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7.) AdSweep (AdBlock)
AdSweep is a small addon that aims to hide advertising from the web pages you visit. In technical terms, AdSweep is a user javascript that defines CSS rules based on the web site you are visiting to hide elements of the page that show advertisements.

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8.) Google Page Rank / Alexa Rank Checker
This plugin allows Google Chrome user to check the PageRank of the page you are browsing. It's a bookmarklet(a bookmark containing JavaScript) in practice, you can also use it in FireFox, Safari or Inetnet Explorer.

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9.) Googlepedia Extension For Chrome
Once the plugin is installed, it shows you a relevant Wikipedia article along with your google search results and clicking on the links in the article triggers new google searches.

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10.) Customize Your New Tab Page
Users don't have much power over what is shown in the new tab page. Custom New Tab is a Chrome extension fully compatible with Chrome 2.0.180.0 that allows you to change how it looks.

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11.) Mcafee Site Advisor Bookmarklet
When you are surfing on a site and want to know what Mcafee Siteadvisor has to say about the site you are surfing, just click on that bookmarklet once, and a new tab will open which will give you all the details and ratings of that site.

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12.) Create Chrome Themes with Chromium Theme Creator
With this tool, to build the themes\default.dll file is far from a click.

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13.) AdBlock for Google Chrome
Its not an addons or Plugins, it is just a tutorial from which you can block ads on any sites.

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14.) Greasemetal – Greasemonkey for Chrome
Greasemetal is a userscript runtime for Google Chrome. The runtime hosts userscripts (tiny javascript files that modify the webpages being displayed) to be executed on Google Chrome, similar to what Greasemonkey does for Mozilla Firefox, or Greasekit does for Safari.

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15.) Google Chrome Theme Starter Kit
Google Chrome Theme Starter Kit contains 276 images from original 'default.dll' (which is a image library for default Chrome theme).

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That's All for now. If you do have more Addons & plugins then Reply below, we will add your plugin manually.

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Top 9 Twitter Clients for Ubuntu Linux

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 08:26 AM PDT

Believe it or not but the first thing I did after installing Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron on my laptop was finding a compatible Twitter client for Linux that works on Ubuntu. I could have used Twitter IM to post updates through Pidgin or Google Chat but that kills the fun of it.

I rushed to the Synaptic Package Manager hoping to find a Twitter client app right away but very unfortunately none were listed there. Then I did a little research and found some good Twitter clients for Linux that work on Ubuntu.

1. Twitux (download)

Twitux is a Twitter client for the Gnome desktop. The program features include view public, friends and mine timeline, send message, automatic login, add friend and system tray icon.

2. gTwitter (download)

gTwitter a simple GTK+ based application for Linux, designed to interact with Twitter web service. Its written using Mono/C# and some of GNOME dependant libraries. GUI is inspired by Mac client Twitterrific.

3. Spaz (download)

Spaz is a Twitter client for users who value free, open-source software, attractive design, and customizability. It is built entirely in XHTML and Javascript and can be styled using a custom CSS styling file. It is built on the Adobe AIR framework so to install it all you need to have is Adobe AIR on Ubuntu (See the end of the post for this tutorial)

4. Twhirl (download)

Twhirl is a desktop twitter client, based on the Adobe AIR platform. It is one of my favorite Twitter clients as it really very easy to use. Scroll down to see how to get this app working using Adobe AIR on Ubuntu.

5. TwitterFox (download)

TwitterFox is a Firefox Extension that displays updates from your friends and lets you update your status. This extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar that notifies you when your friends update their tweets. Also it has a small text input field to update your tweets. As Ubuntu already comes preinstalled with Firefox so installing this Twitter app is as easy as a pie.

6. Twitter Deskbar (download)

Twitter Deskbar is a Twitter app that integrates with the Gnome Deskbar and lets you post status updates right from your desktop. The installation requires you to have Deskbar widget for Gnome. For detailed instructions please use the download link provided.

7. Twitter Terminal

This is basically a hack for posting to Twitter using the Linux Terminal. You will need cURL ( a client for getting files from servers) to post to Twitter through the Terminal which can be installed using the following command:
sudo apt-get install curl

With cURL installed, you can post to Twitter from the terminal window by using the following syntax:
curl -u yourusername:yourpassword -d status="Your Message Here" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

You will receive a response containing the XML coding for your post which acts as a confirmation that your post was submitted.

8. Alert Thingy (download)

Alert Thingy is basically an Adobe AIR app for FriendFeed but also works for Twitter as well. You can get status updates from your friends and can also post live status updates yourself.

9. Mitter ( Download)

Among mitter features are :

  • clean interface: simple and easy to use
  • supports docking on systray
  • nicely integrated with GNOME desktop
  • has console client

Bonus for Ubuntu users : mitter is also available from GetDeb.net one-click-install portal

All of these apps work brilliantly on Ubuntu so you are good to go with any one of these.

Are You A Member of the Problogger Community Forum? - DailyBlogTips

Are You A Member of the Problogger Community Forum? - DailyBlogTips


Are You A Member of the Problogger Community Forum?

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:31 AM PDT

I was browsing through my RSS feed this morning when a post from BloggingTips caught my attention. It was titled: Problogger Community Launched.

I knew that Darren was working on a private community to be hosted on the Problogger.com domain, and it looks like the doors just opened today.

I went to sign-up straight away, as I am sure it will be an awesome place for bloggers to get together and network. The current cost is $1.95 monthly, which is symbolic price. It basically keeps the trolls out, ensuring the quality of the discussions.

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The place is already very active. When I logged in there were 21 members online, despite being very early in the U.S..

Anyway check it out and consider becoming a member. Given the value that the forum will have for its members, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Darren raising the price to $19 monthly or more in some months, and if you get in now you lock your price at $1.95.


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Sometimes It Is Better NOT To Be Competitive

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 08:48 PM PDT

This is a guest post by Ganesh K.. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.

Blogging in itself is a wide wide Universe. There are galaxies of blogs out there. Small, bright, well known, yet to be found, big, really BIG blogs and so on.

When thinking of starting a blog, we foresee a lot of competition because of that myriad of blogs.

Take any obscure niche targeting a very narrow audience, and you are sure to find umpteen blogs already catering the exact ground breaking service you thought was THE brilliant idea.

So, what is the take? Better… not to blog? Or be a philanthropist without any serious aspirations?

You could do that, but that is not what I thought would inspire you. So, here is an approach to be a great blogger without fuss, without pain (Don't read “without work” though…).

THERE IS NO COMPETITION OUT THERE… YOU ARE THE MONOPOLY – is the mindset every blogger needs to have to enjoy blogging, which in turn makes his/her blog the best.

There are many benefits in having this attitude while blogging and here are the few benefits:

1. No Fear

You know what fear is capable of. Fear of not being successful, fear of losing the reader base, and fear of making your readers unhappy… drives any blogger crazy. You forget to enjoy blogging.

Then blogging becomes an ordeal with constant paranoia of missing your reader base. When you don't enjoy something, the quality of your work goes down. It is as simple as that.

2. No Pretending

Also, you should never fear to be honest. You need not to pretend. You could say whatever you feel like to your readers, because at the end, your blog is, what you ARE, and not what you are SUPPOSED to be.

You wouldn't be forced to act as the market conventionally does. You would take your own call. You would say what you really feel like saying.

3. No Numbers

Numbers drive us (at least me) crazy.

Total number of unique visitors, number of clicks, CPM, number of Feed Subscribers, number of direct visits… throw all these numbers in the dustbin.

I know, they help you to know where you really are, but to say the truth, they don't matter until you want to review your blog. Reviewing your blog every day is not that intelligent. You could do it once in a few months or so.

When you think there is no competition out there, you won't bother about these numbers. I doubt Google, if run by a single person, would be monitoring the number of searches every day.

Think as if your blog was Google and forget about the numbers.

And to state a truth, which you might already know, there is no competition as such. Many blogs could be in the blogosphere together. So, no worries. Create a blog in your own style and run it in your own rules and enjoy blogging.

Share your thoughts on having this mindset when blogging. What is your take? Drop your thoughts and experiences.

Ganesh is the author of iPENthisBLOG, where he shares blogging and productivity tips. He also carries out designing projects. Subscribe to iPENthisBLOG and to know what he is presently chirping about, follow him @ksganesh


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Possible Bug on WP Super Cache

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 10:32 AM PDT

Last week a reader (thanks Vlatko) emailed me letting me know that I had two URL structures working on the blog. They were:

dailyblogtips.com/

and

dailyblogtips.com/index.php

The same problem was happening on all posts and pages. For example, a post could be accessed via:

dailyblogtips.com/post-title/

as well as:

dailyblogtips.com/post-title/index.php

This is not a good thing for SEO, because Google might get confused when deciding which is the canonical version. In fact when I went to run the diagnosis tool on Google Webmaster Central I found a bunch of duplicate title tags being reported (caused by the second URL version).

Some time later Vlatko emailed me again saying that he had found the problem: the WP Super Cache plugin. WordPress is supposed to handle the canonical URL issue automatically, but somehow once I activated the WP Super Cache plugin the index.php redirect stopped working. Vatko was having the same problem on his blog, so it might be a bug on WP Super Cache itself.

I also believe that not everyone will be affected by it. It probably has something to do with your server settings.

Either way, if you are currently using WP Super Cache I recommend that you test to see if the index.php redirect is working. Make sure to log out first, and then try to access yourblog.com/index.php. If you are not redirected to the homepage you are having the same problem.

I will email the author of the plugin about it, and if you have any insights please share them with a comment.


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