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Here i'm going to introduce 2 free twitter tools which will help you maintain a good follower ration and tips on how to get more followers First of all let me tell what a good follower ratio is, and why it is so important an ideal or good follower ratio is between 1.0 and 1.25, which will help you gain more followers . so when you are following 100 people and you are being followed by 125 you're ratio is 1.25 which is ideal and if you follow 1000 and you're being followed by only 100 its 0.1 its bad. because in the eyes of others it means that you're randomly following others just to make a lot of followers and the followers you have are spammers who also is trying to make a lot of followers .! the two tools which are going to maintain a good friends to follower ratio are Manage Filter and fllwrs So the first tool Mange filter  Mange filter is a tool which allows you to find who Doesn't following you back Inactive ones Talkative once Quite once One with...

Previously I had shared the 6 sexy chrome extension for Google plus power users and here comes the 7th, the smart one. SGplus The best part is that this extension is that it is available for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Safari. SGplus allows you to Share and tweet from the Google+ Stream making it easy to control your social networks feeds, another great feature is that it shows your twitter and facebook feeds in the Google plus stream, so with this extension installed you no longer need to open multiple tabs and check each of them one by one. It also has a Gmail  notifier, once activated a new icon appears in the Google plus tool bar which on clicks show the mails. visit here to install SGplus to activate the facebook and twitter share features click on the SGplus icon and authorize app to access login details. And to share things click on the stream and put tick marks on the facebook and twitter icon. Do share your reviews of this...

Spreading articles via social networks is not so easy as it sounds, when you are busy writing new articles or trying to spend some time with your friends. Social networks like Facebook , Twitter , Google+ , etc are great source to gain lots of traffic to your blog / website. here is a quick and easy steps to gain lot of views via stumbleupon . okay lets get back to the point. How to update your Facebook page using blog RSS feed To do this we are going to use an app called RSS Graffiti to access it go to http://apps.facebook.com/rssgraffiti/ .once you are in this application there will be an option to Authorize RSS Graffiti. Once you authorize the app you'll see your fan pages listed on the left hand side of the panel, select the fan page wihich you want to automatically update with your blog RSS feed. From there you can add RSS Graffiti to that fan page and after adding it to your page it will ask permission to write on your page wall and when the permission is...

Facebook unleashed 3 cool features that allows you to easily find new Games and play with your friends, this is a great step against the New gaming features rolled out by Google+ . the first one is the addition of the "New game ticker" , which allows you to see a seperat stream of your friends gaming activities, their scores and achievements. you can also control who sees your activities with each individual apps, by going to privacy settings. The next feature interests me more that is they have introduced a "Bigger screen for games" , making it more interesting to play with. And the third feature comes in handy if you use a lot of apps and games. It is " Bookmakr your favorite"  option with which you can keep the best ones at the top of your bookmarks on your homepage. it really is good to see these new features added by facebook . wonder what comes next..  =)

Google+ to make it more fun and playful to use have added new games in it like the once in Facebook. Well its not available for all right now, but soon it will be available for all =). With these new addition of Google+ you'll be able to play with your friends in your circle and share updates about game for those who are interested to hear about it. ie you wont be bugged by game updates like in Facebook . When these feature is available for you, you'll get to notice a new game button on the top near to the circle button clicking the game button enables you to see the latest games updates from your circle, you can browse the invites you got, and checkout the games played by your friends recently. Here is a list of some of the Games available in Google plus Google is taking good steps to make Google+ fully functional before its wide release and with the addition of Game feature there is a greater chance that Google+ will soon replace Facebook in the up co...

Facebook is the best place to hangout with friends even if Google plus have a hangout option in it , if you are not in Google plus you can get an invitation to Google plus from here  . The looks of chat box has changed since Facebook enabled the Video calling option  and it no longer shows friends by list making it difficult to go invisible with single click. So to go offline to a specific group of people you have to create a group with them in it ( you can do it from here ). once you have created the group say invisible click on the chat box then the flower like icon (small gear icon) located at the bottom of the chat box, then there will be an option to Limit Availability.. Once you click the Limit Availability option a pop-up window comes out with a list of Groups you have created. Put a check mark on the Groups from which you want to stay invisible and click Okay note that there is another option on the top saying " Make me u...

As we all know Google plus and Facebook are now standing in front of the rest of the social networks  , Twitter has rolled out two new features to make it more engaging than before, with these new features you can see if someone favourites or retweets one of your tweets, you can also learn which tweets are more interesting and inspiring to the people you follow. The first one helps you see what's going on Twitter in relation to you. To access this feature allows you have to do is to open the new @username tab thus replacing the mention tab, and you'll be able to see which of your Tweets are Favorites, the latest retweets ( of your tweets), Tweets directed to you, and your new Followers . The other one is the Activity tab who's porpose is similar to that of Facebook notification and Google pus notification  . It shows the latest source of discovery by highlighting the latest Favourites, Retweets, and Follows from the people we fo...

Out of words Getting out of words? never again..! thats right now you don't need to stare at the blinking cursor or Google for the next word to express yourself, because Blogger in Draft have announced the availability of text suggestion and autocomplete feature of Google Scribe Google scribe helps you to write more effectively by suggesting common words and phrases as you type. It supports Arabic,  Dutch, English, French ,German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. The language is automatically detected using the text in the post. Enable this feature   To enable this option all you have to do is click the pencil icon in the toolbar on the top of the post editor, When the Google Scribe is turned on the text suggestions will be shown in gray and you can use those words by hitting spacebar or any other punctuation marks. And if you like to get more than one word su...

If you haven't yet added the following +1 button to you're blog yet checkout the Floating Share buttons  , the plus one button helps you to increase the Click through ratio of search results. Okay lets get back to the point , by default there wont be a +1's tab in you're Google plus profile so you're friends wont be able to see what you have +1'd , its like you've liked some thing in Facebook and friends doesn't get to see it aweful right ? How to fix it what you have to do is go to you're Google plus profile and click on the Edit profile button After that click on +1's tab then put check mark on the Show this tab on your profile and click save then finish editing Now there your friends will be able to see what you have plus one'd in by clicking this tab, and if you haven't added me to your circle yet click here to add me  and do plus one this post :)

The people widget located at the top right of youre message allows you to see contextual information about the people you are interacting with in Gmail You can communicate with individual contacts easily through the people widget , or just use it to find basic information. Simply click on the contact’s name on the right side. From there, you’ll see: Information about your contact, which may include information such as their email address or occupation. This information comes from your account’s Contact Manager. Recent buzzes your contact has posted that are visible to you Recent email your contact sent you Google Calendar events if your contact’s Calendar is shared with you Google documents shared with both you and the contact You’ll also be able to easily email, chat, or call your contacts using the call phones in Gmail feature, or edit contact details and settings.  If you have several contacts on an email thread, you can look up individual contact inform...

Now we don't need to rely on third party apps such as TwitPic or any other to share pictures in Twitter  . Yes thats right Twitter has now enabled the Photo sharing feature which makes sharing photos to your tweeps easy How to share photos When you click inside the Tweet box on your homepage or on the New Tweet button , you will see two small icons in the lower left hand corner, one for adding your location (a compass), and one for uploading an image (a camera). we can upload any image that is 3MB or smaller

Today Facebook has launched a new Messenger which helps to simplify how messages work, and gives you a faster way to message youre friends and small groups  messenger is a separate app so using single and click you can send receive new messages. And these messages are delivered as notifications and texts so you're friends are more likely to get it right away. Facebook Messenger How to get Messenger Messenger will be available for iphone and  android starting today here is the link [ Download Messenger ] i strongly believe that this will soon replace the default text message service , what do you think about it ?

1 Plus one any thing This extension adds the ability to +1 most of the pages on the web,This extension is perfect for Google+ since it lets you share any page with your friends without waiting for the webmaster of the page to add the +1 button! Note that this wont work on private pages, when you visit a private page and try to +1 it the extension will show a red "!" exclamatory icon instead   [ Install it ] 2 Surplus Surplus shows notification even if you are not in Google plus or other Google services , and on click it shows the notification in a pop up which is similar to the Google plus notification , you can post or respond within the pop up, other than that it shows Desktop notifications , have notification sound even you can switch between multiple accounts [ Install it ] 3 +Comment toggle +Comment Toggle hides any comments to posts within your Stream and makes them available if and when you actua...

That's wright Facebook has launched new Facebook for every phone app , which offers a very fast access to Facebook This app allows you to upload photos , find friends using you'r phone contact list, checkout news feeds manage apps, view photos etc this app is optimized for less consumption than other java apps available. The best part is that it comes with 90days free data trial , ie you don't have to pay for visiting Facebook via this app , this is limited to few data carriers Get it now To download this app all you have to do is visit http://d.facebook.com/install using you'r mobile device

Previously i wrote about how to Get the new blogger interface which have a much better and refreshing interface than the one before, so few of the options have been shifted to other places New Blogger Interface Edit Template < HTML > In the dashboard page you can see you'r primary blogs and at the left under the new blog you can see Other blogs option once you select the blog who's template HTML is to be edited click on the Template tab once you click that tab you'll see a live preview of you'r blog and an option to customize it , and below are some blogger templates Edit Template Go further down and there will be an option to Edit Template along with Backup / Restore template and Revert to classic template options Note that the Expand to Widget template option which was located at the top right of the HTML editor is now located at the top left of the html editor

Last time i've wrote about Removing the link of whos amung us widget and this time i'm going to show you how to hide it form others who's amung us if you haven't already installed it in you'r blog/website go to whos.amung.us [ go ] now to the Showcase , you can see the option at the top-right corner once you have reached there click on the original (or any other since its going to be visible) now copy the code go to www.blogger.com [ go ] then navigate to Design after that click on add widget and add a new html widget and paste widget code along with the code given below < Code > < style > #who-invi { ;filter:alpha (opacity=00); opacity:0.0; } < /style > < div id="who-invi" > < script > var _wau = _wau || []; _wau.push(["tab", " TraCkinGKey ", "ruy", "left-middle"]); (function() { var s=document.createElement("script"); s.async=true; s.src=...

For a live example check out the floating share button on the left which becomes opaque on mouse over now lets start the coddings How to First of all go to blogger [ go ] then go to design click add widget or edit widget (which you want to be translucent) add the code given below at the top < style > #opacity { filter:alpha(opacity= 20 ); opacity: 0.2 ; } /style > < div class="opacity" onmouseover="this.style.opacity=1;this.filters.alpha.opacity=100" onmouseout="this.style.opacity= 0.2 ;this.filters.alpha.opacity= 20 " > then add /div > at the bottom now you can change the opacity by changing the value 20 & 0.2 in a way that if you change 20 to 30 you should change 0.2 to 0.3 then you can save the widget to see the effects Note that if you set the value 20 to 100 & 0.2 to 1 the widget will be opaque and if its set to 00 and 0.0 it will be completely transparent

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USB flash drives have made the process of data transfer  much easier than ever before, its easy to carry around data were ever you go with this small devise , one of the major problems of these flash drive are the PC getting infected by viruses Condom USB So here comes the hero named Condom USB which is a little extra peripheral which can be plunged into any USBs, which detects the viruses with the help of the built-in software and shuts off the USB access . And once it figure out the problem and remove all the nasty viruses it will allow the USB access to you're computer rescuing it from getting infected so what do you think about this hero ? doesn't the antivirus installed in you're PC does the work of this device Device is designed by Ko Yang

StumbleUpon is a system which help you find new and interesting contents based on you're interest. The more you use it more the system learns about you and shows you the best results . so each time you stumble you get to read/find more and more interesting contents [ go ] to www.StumbleUpon.com StumbleUpon The best part is that each time you submit an article to StumbleUupon it automatically sends some traffic to you're blog so more content you have more you can submit which in turns gives you more traffic Once you have submitted a link you cannot submit it again  , But with a minor tweak you can submit it again that means you'll get more traffic what you have to do is copy the link and add ?something at the end of it for example say http://tricksoverdrive.blogspot.com?something  and submit it again to StumbleUpon you can submit it again and again by changing something to something else ;) Do share you're experien...