Why crop screenshots, when you can directly embed tweets into your webpage?

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Jasbir

The micro blogging service Twitter has rolled out a new tool that will let users to embed tweets into their blogs or websites. Black Bird Pie , is a tool provided by twitter that asks the users, the link of a tweet and and upon hitting the ”Bake It” button you will be provided with a full fledge ready to embed tweet and the code you need to fit it in your webpage.

Why would you prefer Embedding Tweets than actually taking a screenshot and posting? First of all, the biggest advantage is that whenever you embed a tweet, the tool recognizes your webpage styling like font family and tags from CSS and appy the same formatting on the tweets. Next all, It also copies over whatever background a person uses on Twitter. So in that regard, it is just like taking a screen grab. Well, its simply just like pasting a crop-shot of the actual page with all working links, images, etc!

Here is a screenshot of the tool :

Search thousands of royalty free images with one click!

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Srivathsan

Certain search engines are specialised in video or music search, some are good with information text. If you need to search images, we usually go for google image search or flickr or some image search engines. Have you ever thought of searching on eight major search engines at one go ? Yes, you can do with Cyclops.

Tired of searching stock photos on websites ? Desperately searching for the perfect image ? Here comes the beautiful baby Cyclops. Cyclops is a Monster search engine for royalty stock images. It brings the results of the most popular stock sites to one location. Search once. See it all.

Just like an ordinary search engine, you have to enter the keyword for finding the stock photos and it gives search results from websites such as Flickr, Shutterstock, BigStockPhoto, Fotolia, stock.xchng, Cutcaster, Photos.com, stockvault.

Cyclops – Homepage

Cyclops is worth a try if you are searching for fresh royalty stock photos.

Try out yourself and leave your comments =)

Convert Sketch to Real Photographs easily using PhotoSketch

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Monik

Drawing is really very easy. But do you think it is possible for us to draw just exactly like reality? Well, the is made possible by PhotoSketch.

What this does is that, when you draw something, and give the object a name, it automatically starts searching for the image and after finding the matches with the object name and the Diagram, it then starts putting together the various images to find which one makes, the perfect picture. Too Complex? Check out the Video to understand it.

It’s very amazing to see that such technologies are now slowly entering the market. This will make the task of making pictures by cropping, etc easy. Just Draw, Name and Get it. Photosketch has got some filtering scheme which excludes all the un-needed images making it easier to get Targeted and Quality Images.

Also, the final result is of High Image Quality and they are working on it as they study the users.

Convert Your twitter Account into an online store!

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Monik

Everyone loves money, Right? So many people are trying to target Twitter to make some Good cash. Although i think it’s not fair, twitter is made for connecting people but people are making money by using it.

One such thing is Tweebay. It is a online service which allows twitter users to buy or sell their items free of cost. Your ad can be a bidding one or even a simple one. Its something new, you can try it to sell your watch (because i have tried to but i did not get customers because i don’t have many followers). You need to follow them on twitter and then they will Dm you and you will have to verify your account. Then you can post info within 230 characters about your Product with a image and then all your followers will get notified.

I think so people are misucing twitter, Aren’t they guys?

Generate printable seals online for free

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Monik

Generating seals was never so easy until this site came up. A website called Official Seal generator generates cool seals for you to print or download it on your computer. It’s quite cool.

You can add text , different symbols, use different shapes and the best part is that you can even order it for printing directly. Just select the type of Paper you want and then enter.

Check out the symbol i made using it.

Actually i wanted to upload a image but that feature is not available. But Don’t worry.
We’ll work without it.

Print ruled, graph, music and other paper sheets online

Posted on December 14, 2008 by Monik

How many of us want to create a project but we want ruled paper, with image already on to it or a graph paper or any other type of paper which we could print using the computer?

Printable Paper allows users to download and print ready made print- ready templates.

They include

The Idea of using it is that when you don’t have such paper available you can use these to save yourself.

Monitor tweets containg keywords with a smart looking widget

Posted on December 14, 2008 by Monik

I know it is not possible for us to check the twitter search again and again for one keyword. So know what? Let’s Use a widget which monitors the keyword with a cool look and is also quite interesting if you want to know who is tweeting about the keyword you want.

monitter is a nice looking widget which will allow

webmasters to embed it onto their webpage and then monitor a specific keyword or allow users to enter the keywords in the search box.

Some of the help tips i found out there -

twitter failwhale
Finds text containing twitter AND failwhale.

“i want an iphone”
Finds text that contains the exact phrase “i want an iphone”.

twitter OR pownce
Find tweets containing EITHER twitter OR pownce.

django -reinhardt
Returns tweets containing django but NOT reinhardt.

#python
Find tweets with the hashtag python.

@soyrex
Find tweets referencing the user soyrex (me)

iphone filter:links
Find tweets about iphone that contain links

Convert files, images, audio, video and other stuff to other formats online!

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Monik

I know how tough it is to see that you have a project which you created on your computer but when you go to the place where you have to give you presentation you can’t give it because the computer in your workplace does not support it! Now what to do? Convert It online!

YouConvertIt , is an amazing tool which allows you to convert your images, documents , audio , videos and other stuff. Currently it supports about 100+ file types.

Supported Types -

Document – DOC, CSV, HTML, PDF, TXT, XLS, PPT, ODT, EPDF etc.

Audio – ACC, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA, etc.

Image – BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, MNG, etc.

Video – 3GP, AVI, FLV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, SWF, etc.

Archive – ZIP, RAR, ACE, etc.

Thanks kidtechguru.

Backup Your Mobile Contacts and other information online and get some more features

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Monik

Everyone has some good amount of information, contacts and other important things on their mobile phones but what if they loose it? I know it’s a tough situation.

ZYB , a web tool made for people like these , you can backup all your contacts and other information and keep it safely on their servers. It has got some very good features too.

You don’t need to change any contact details if your friends have changed it as ZYB will do it for you. You can Even Upload all the contacts from your Gmail, Yahoo , Hotmail and other accounts to it so you don’t need a day typing all the contact info.

It has got cool features like you can get the current geographic location of your friends and it’s timezone. You can even comment on your friends profile and on their photos.

Send Group SMS text messages. You can change your status and send group updates. You can also see your friends on a Map and You can even share calenders and photos with friends!
Now what’s remaining? Social Networks? Don’t Worry , thats also included. You can check out all their updates from facebook, twitter and others easily on your mobile phone using this service and as the service is online you can access it using your computer too!

Submit your video to multiple websites and also track and get complete analysis

Posted on November 10, 2008 by Monik

I know the easiest way to get some good exposure is by making videos and by uploading to all videos services like youtube , metacafe and others. But in todays world who has the time to do it?

TubeMogul is a free service which allows users to upload Videos to multiple websites like Youtube, Aol Video, Yahoo and others.

You also get to use some good services like tracking these videos and then you get complete analysis of how long your video was watched , where and how many visits. Quite a useful tool for marketers.

The premium versions give you access to many other features which a heavy uploader may want to have.

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