Twhirl: another twitter tool

I installed twhirl today.. its looking quite impressive... currently i use TwitterFox(firefox extension), which serves most of the purposes but does not have very good search capabilities.




Twhirl, which is based on Adobe Air is pretty good.. will experiment more and update again.

Interestingly it can connect to multiple tols similar to twitter identi.ca, Friendfeed and seesmic.

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Dapper: Bollywood Movie Reviews from Rediff

Add to your site powered by Dapper Click on Title to read Review

I created yet another Dapp and a widget from rediff movie reviews page... Dapper Rocks

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Live Gold Prices: Dapper Widget

Add to your site   powered by Dapper

I created another Dapper Widget to track Gold Prices in India LIVE

Dapper... interesting mashup service

I
don't remember how i landed here, but Dapper.net looks interesting...
watched a video on how it works and believe me its interesting!!

Hoping to experiment with it!! will come back soon with my experiments.

Edit: I was finally able to do some work with dapper.. created a widget from DPChallenge Favorite existing dapper itself..dpchallenge Version 2

I also managed to create a igoogle widget and even post it to google directory..

Interesting things.

One
complaint: The Dapp Factory is taking AGES to analyze the pages i give
myself so could not create "my own" ones from scratch yet... hope to be
soon.

There was a problem with my settings.. for the
Dapper to create a Dapp, you need to turn off the Add Block
extensions!! I did that (thanks to help from Ilan from Dapper) and
created some of my own Dapps, gadgets, RSS feeds and Image Loops...
very exciting. Here are some of my experiments on Dapper.

BTW, i cannot stop from comparing this with Yahoo Pipes... similar in many ways and different in many!!

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ScribeFire 2.3: Power-up your blogging

I have been using ScribeFire for more than 6 months now to post things to my blog.
I am not a person who likes to write a lot and use my blog as a personal reference of good things i like on web and things which may be useful to my friends... so content-drag-drop is just what i need and that's exactly what i get from ScribeFire.

Overall, i just love this firefox extension, and believe me, without this my blog updates would have reduced to 10-15%... its too much of a pain to go to blogger, sign-in, click new post, then create the content :( Also there is no pane-view available to easily reference links / content / images!! just love it.

The latest feature "Live-Preview" is very cool.. I keep changing the color schemes of my blog so its pretty useful to check before i publish!!

One thing i am still to resolve is to setup the image upload settings for blogger, hopefully i will crack it soon :P

Happy Blogging....

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Widgets Lab

I found Widgets Lab to be super cool. Got to know about so many widgets out there to spice-up my blog!! planning us check for the good ones.. you will see some added soon!!

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ECO-SAFE widget: Send/Download PDF for your blog

I found this cool widget on the A VC blog and thought of using myself. Cool Idea. It has good amount of options available for display on the blogs!! Also has some kind of itunes tie-up (which i did not understand much... i should be frank enough!!)

Talks about environment friendly... but forget about it.. If people print blogs, they are not going to suddenly start downloading the pdfs. (they will probably then print the PDFs.. ha ha ha...). Frankly... I don't think its worth printing blogs anyway!!

Said that, the widget looks cool... i am going to have one immediately!!

http://eco-safe.com/eco.php/green/merit_badge

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Tips for New Blogger

I found this Tips for New Bloggers website extremely useful for changing some UI elements on my blog... The back link trick is my favorite.

Here is a quick index of things it has.

Blogger FAQ and Help

Header

• Insert an image to the left of Blog Title and Description [read]
• Add a Horizontal Navigation Bar in Header Image [read]
• Unable to remove Header Image [read]

Blog Posts

• Arrange, customize and shift the Blog Posts and Footer elements [read]
• Insert a picture or image beside the Blog Post Title [read]
• How to have standard or pre-formatted text in Blog Posts [read]
• Add Highlighting to Text and Background Color in Text Box [read]
• Change Blogger Post URL - SEO Tip [read]
• Change the Post a Comment Link [read]
• Add scrollbars to text within Blog Posts [read]

Sidebar

• Add Background color and image to Sidebar Titles [read]
• Have different Background colors for each widget [read]
• Style and Position Sidebar Images [read]

Footer

• How to align Blog Post Footer elements to the left [read]
• Move Comments Label to below Post Title [read]

Links and Labels

• How to add Hover, Mouseover and Rollover effects for links [read]
• Remove automatic number count in Labels widget [read]
• Remove link underlines in Blog Posts and/or sidebar [read]
• Be notified by Blogger when there is a Backlink [read]
• Change and Edit Labels in Multiple Posts [read]

General

• How to change Background Colour of TicTac Template [read]
• How to remove the Pencil or Screwdriver and Wrench icons [read]
• How to add animated graphics in Blogger Post and Sidebar [read]
• Add Text Box or HTML textarea code in Blogs [read]
• Know the limits on our Blogger account [read]
• How to take Screenshots or Screen captures [read]
• How to change and transfer Blog ownership [read]
• Change font size and font styles in template [read]
• How to center align Page Elements [read]
• How to insert a separator line between each comment [read]

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How to handle criticism on your Blogs > Good article by JeetBlog

Found a nice article on JeetBlog on how to handle the criticism on your blog.
Handling Criticism As A Blogger Some of my favorite stuff from that!!

• Be prepared for the unexpected

Be prepare for the worst. It doesn’t mean that you should be
pessimistic, but you should have a frame of mind where you are ready to
face all kinds of feedback.

• Reduce the passion

Now.. thats a bit tough one

” The less passion there is, the better we work. The
calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can
do. When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter
our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work. ”
- Swami Vivekananda

• Believe in yourself

Again quoting Swami Vivekananda- ” Each work has to pass
through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance.
Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
”

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New Blogger Tag Cloud / Label Cloud

Very useful stuff... Must have on a blog... tag list is too old :)

New Blogger Tag Cloud / Label Cloud

Powered by ScribeFire.

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ScribeFire: Best Blogging Tool

ScribeFire 1.4.2

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1730

(previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured blog editor
that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.

You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing,
take notes, and post to your blog.

I found this to be the BEST one. Infact I am posting this blog using scribfire

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Can I get site feeds for specific labels?

I really wanted to know if it was possible, and found it in help center, thought of keeping it in my blog for future reference

Can I get site feeds for specific labels?

Yes, you can! If a blog you read is using labels and also has site feeds enabled, then you can pick and choose which topics you want to subscribe to. The format for label feeds is this:

http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/labelname

Be sure to substitute in the correct blog address for blogname and the label you're interested in for labelname. Also, don't miss the hyphen ("-") in the URL. That's not a typo!

Note that a URL of this form will only work if the blog in question is using this specific label, and has also enabled site feeds. However, no special site feed settings are necessary. As long as the basic site feed for posts is enabled (with either short or full descriptions) then label feeds will also work.

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