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I have started a new blog Techkumar.com on DreamHost server, which is Free for two years including domain registration and unlimited web space. So if you like I can add email subscribers to the new site, but feed subscribers should do it on their own.

Comment below this post and i will add your email address on the new blog subscription, or you add your self to the subscription in my new blog. Thanks for all your support.

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Twitter tip: How TwitterFox makes Tweeting an easier task

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There are so many Twitter clients for managing tweets and most of them are coming up with nice features. But do all these clients save time while you are on Twitter? I find more and more blog post links floating across on Twitter stream making me to switch between applications.

If you are using desktop application for managing Twitter you should have felt that switching between browser and application isn't always a good idea. I too felt the same so i thought of using a Twitter client that works within browser.

And the one that I needed is TwitterFox because.

1. It stays right on your browser so you don't have to use ALT+TAB to switch between to see latest tweets.
2. You can copy text and URL of the webpage you are currently working on and tweet it easily.
3. Some times we forget the tweet (if you are switching between other application) we just seen, with TwitterFox there are very little chances of searching for any particular tweet because of its smaller size.
4. A click on the links always opens in new tab. So no need to worry of losing the current web page when you click new tweets.
5. When you are working on two different interfaces on a single application, focus plays an important role, but on Firefox the focus stays with them(ie., browser tab and TwitterFox) all the time, you can scroll webpage and tweets in TwitterFox by just hovering mouse over it and using mouse scroll wheel without having to click for focus on any other.

There are couple of down sides as well it doesn't provide shortening of URLs, shows itself over the webpage, if you close it new tweets are marked as read(this happens even if you switch between Recent, Replies, Messages tabs), cannot be moved or resized, retrieves small number of tweets(in this case i switch back to desktop app TweetDeck if i don't check Twitter for some couple of days).

For URL shortening is.dg Creator add-on suits best as it has an added advantage of coping shortened URL to clipboard so it can be pasted where ever you want and most of all this is done only with a click.

If you are following large number of users, then it becomes difficult for you to use TwitterFox, as it didn't had any option to group users (you mostly liked to follow). But if the number is very less (some 30 to 40) and still you get lot of tweets it becomes difficult to track down all of them so my advice to you is login to Twitter as frequently as possible, so you will always see the latest tweets.

If you are a Firefox user try TwitterFox and let me know your opinion.

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Twitter tip: Make use of @hashwordpress to reach more people

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Recently i stumbled upon a Twitter account which make use of hashtags to track down all tweets on WordPress. The tweets are not made by human, but TwitterFeed.  These tweets are tracked down by some websites based on hashtags and are posted using TwitterFeed periodically.

Creating such an account isn't fail at all, it has got some 170 followers, not bad. To make use of this account and when ever you write message(tweet) on WordPress topics don't forget to add hashtag (#wordpress), it will reach additional 170 people on Twitter who are following hashwordpress.

I don't know how many accounts like hashwordpress are there on Twitter but let me know if you have found any such Twitter account.

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Twitter tip: Get preview of ShortURL metrics in TweetDeck

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Popular Adobe Air application TweetDeck has some nice features in its beta release. One of them is Preview of ShortURLs.

Actual tweet:

Preview of ShortURL with metrics:

This intelligent preview of ShortURL shows the story title, long url, metrics. There are many services on the web to track down metrics of twitter tweets. But I think a normal user doesn't need so much of info about metrics, just for knowing number of clicks, unless you want to do some research or to gather statistics on clicks.

Preview only works on ShortURLs and if you click on actual link it directs you to browser.

How to activate it:

By default, this feature is turned off, to activate it go to Settings and make sure Show preview information for ShortURLs is checked.

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Access and Manage Yahoo Mail inbox using any Touch Tone Phone

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y!Vmail is a hack that allows people to connect to their Yahoo Mail accounts using any touch tone phone(general landline telephone). y!Vmail figures out which emails are important, and reads them first. For details on how it works check the video below.

y!Vmail

by Arnab Nandi, Daniel Peek, and Pradeep Padala

“Not everyone has a computer, but everyone has a phone.”

This hack allows people to access their Yahoo! mail through a 1-800 number, using ANY touch-tone phone.
Press 0 to open, * and # to navigate, 7 to delete. We figure out which emails are important, and read them first. We summarize long emails so that you dont have to listen to all of it. If you want to talk to the person, just press 5 — we’ll connect you.

APIs used: BBAuth, OpenMail, Contacts API, Term Extraction API

This was submitted at Yahoo! Hack U - Yahoo University Hack Day Competition, won second place at UMich Hack U.

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