Friday, November 27, 2009

What The Trend?: Find Out Why Terms Are Trending On Twitter

What The Trend? is a Twitter web application that helps you find out what terms are trending on Twitter and why. It does this by explaining why each term is trending on Twitter and these explanations are edited by you.

What the Trend

You can edit the explanations without having to sign in to What The Trend?, but if you want to be given credit for your explanation you will have to sign in to What The Trend? with your Twitter account. You can also register a trend at What The Trend?.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Listorious: Discover The Best Twitter Lists

The Twitter lists feature was added by Twitter some few weeks ago and an important start-up has been made out of the addition of the Twitter lists feature to Twitter. This start-up is called Listorious.

Listorious is a free web service that makes finding the Best Twitter lists of Twitter users on any given topic easy, and it also makes it easy for list creator to publicize their lists by means of a directory.

Listorious

At the time of this writing, Listorious has some awesome Twitter lists like “Mashable”, “Charities that Twitter”,  “Top 50 Funny”, “Funny People” and a whole lot more of other awesome Twitter lists in their Twitter lists directory.

You can also add your Twitter list to Listorious but to be able to do that you will have to login in to Listorious using your Twitter account.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 Is Now Officially Available For Download

firefox logo-only Mozilla has released the third revision of Firefox 3.6 Beta yesterday, Tuesday, November 17th, 2009, after releasing the Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 and the Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 some days and weeks  ago respectively.

The Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 contains 80 fixes from the previous revision of the Firefox 3.6 Beta.

Like the other revisions of the Firefox 3.6 Beta, the Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

 

The features available in the Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 includes:

 

To download the Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 go here.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Twitter Maintenance Will Be Going On Between 11pm Pacific Time And 1am Pacific Time

twitter_logo Twitter has announced that they will be upgrading their network equipment today between 11pm Pacific Time and 1am Pacific Time and so as a result of this the Twitter site may be unavailable for short periods at the time of the maintenance.

Monday, November 16, 2009

How To Change Your Twitter Profile Picture

twitter_logo If you want to change the picture of your Twitter profile, follow the steps below:

 

Step 1: When signed in to your Twitter account, click the “Settings” link at the top right corner of your Twitter profile. When you click the “Settings” link you’ll be taken to the “Account” tab of the Settings page.

Step 2: When taken to the “Account” tab of the Settings page, click on the “Picture” tab.

Step 3: In the “Picture” tab, click the “Browse” button, and then choose the picture you want from the dialog box that will open containing files and folders saved on your computer.

Step 4: After you have chosen the picture you want, click the “Save” button to upload and save your new Twitter profile picture.

 

Please note: At the time of this writing, the maximum size of a picture allowed by Twitter is 700k and picture formats accepted by Twitter are JPG, PNG, and GIF.

 

So this is how to change your Twitter profile picture.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Twitter Grader: Get Your Twitter Ranking

Twitter Grader is a free Twitter tool that allows you the check your Twitter profile’s power, that is how your Twitter profile ranks. It checks the power of your Twitter profile (rank) by looking at a variety of factors including the number of followers, power of those followers, the level to which you are engaging the community, that is the Twitter community.

Twitter Grader

To check your Twitter ranking with Twitter Grader, type your Twitter username into the input bar on the Twitter Grader homepage and click the “Grade” button. After you have done this, you will be sent to a new page showing you your Twitter profile’s ranking, your number of followers and followings, your number of tweets, your account summary, a tag cloud for your Twitter profile, and tips and suggestions for your Twitter profile if there are any areas of concern with your Twitter account.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Poll: How Do You Send Or Receive Emails?

I send and receive emails through an email client, Windows Live Mail, to be precise. So how do you send or receive emails? Please answer this question by voting in the poll below. Thanks.

 

How Do You Send Or Receive Emails?

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 Is Now Officially Available For Download

firefox logo-only On Tuesday, November 10th, 2009, Mozilla officially released the revision 2 of the Firefox 3.6 Beta, Firefox 3.6 Beta 2, for download by the public. The first version of the beta of the Firefox 3.6, the Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, was just released on October 31st, 2009, so the release of the Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 has been really soon after it. The Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 comes with 190 fixes from the Firefox 3.6 Beta 1.

The Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 is available for Windows, Macintosh (Mac), and Linux.

 

The features available in the Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 include:

  • (New in this update) A mechanism to prevent incompatible software from crashing Firefox.
  • Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
  • Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
  • Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
  • Support for the WOFF font format.
  • Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
  • Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.

 

To download the Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 go here.

What Is A Hash Tag?

twitter_logo A hash tag is a word on Twitter which is prefixed by the hash or pound symbol (#). Hash tags are for putting tweets into categories. For example if you tweet and you want your tweet to be categorized and grouped together with other tweets that are talking about cats, then you either add the cats hash tag #cats to the end of your tweet or you make the word cat in your tweet a hash tag, for example, I adopted two #cats from the shelter today.

So hash tags enable Twitter users to be able to track tweets which are talking about what they are talking about. Also, hash tags are clickable links. When you click on a hash tag you will be sent to page where you will see all tweets that include that particular hash tag that you clicked on.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

TweetStats: Graph Your Twitter Stats

TweetStats is a Twitter web service which graphs your Twitter stats. TweetStats graphs your tweets per hour, tweets per timeline, tweets per month, and reply statistics.

TweetStats

 

To graph your tweets, enter your Twitter username into the input bar on the TweetStats homepage and then click the “Graph My Tweets” button.

 

 

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Windows 7 Sales Have Exceeded Windows Vista Sales By 234%

Windows 7 Picture 6 The new Windows operating system, Windows 7, which was just released about two weeks and some days ago has made some tremendous sales in it’s first few days of sales compared to that of it’s predecessor, Windows Vista.  According to the NPD group’s weekly tracking service, the first few days of Windows 7 unit sales have exceeded that of it’s predecessor, Windows Vista’s first few days of unit sales by a huge 234% in the US.

 

Wow, for me I think Windows 7 has done a great job in the market and I can see that with this new windows operating system, Microsoft will have a success and it has already started with the first few days of Windows 7 unit sales exceeding the first few days of Windows Vista unit sales by 234%.

 

Via Windows 7 Team Blog

 

 

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Twitbacks: Free Twitter Backgrounds

Branding yourself sends a message about what you are about and what you stand for to people, and branding yourself on Twitter is no different because branding yourself on Twitter sends a message about what you are about and what you stand for to people who will have access to you on Twitter. So to send a message to people on Twitter about what you are about and what you stand for you have to brand yourself and you can brand yourself on Twitter through many ways but one great and common way is to get a Twitter background which can help you in branding yourself. The default Twitter backgrounds that are on Twitter are not good for branding so you have to get one from outside Twitter. So where on the outside do you get a Twitter background? You get it from Twitbacks.

 

Twitbacks is a web service which creates great Twitter backgrounds and gives them out for free to the public. Twitbacks has a lot of Twitter backgrounds for you to get for free and if you don’t like the Twitter backgrounds that they have created, they give you the option of creating your own Twitter background for free. To be able to get a Twitter background from Twitbacks you must register an account with them.

After you have chosen or created your Twitter background, they give you the option of automatically uploading the Twitter background to your Twitter account for you or you downloading the Twitter background onto your computer and uploading it onto your Twitter account yourself.

Light Burst Blue Sidebar

Light Burst Blue Sidebar

 

With Twitter backgrounds from Twitbacks you can add the links to your social networks profiles, and you can also add a photo, logo, biography (bio) of yourself, and even your phone number and email address.

Twitbacks also help promote your Twitter profile for you but with that one you don’t get it for free, you will have to pay some cash.

 

To see a twitter background from Twitbacks in full working mode, you can go to my personal Twitter account @shirleyszone, as at the time of this writing I’m using a twitter background from Twitbacks, and you can also go to the Twitter profile of Twitbacks @twitbacks because they are using one of their own Twitter backgrounds (obviously).

 

 

Friday, November 6, 2009

Funny Tech Picture: A House Of Ultimate Technology Products

A House Of Ultimate Technology Products

Picture via Incredimazing.

 

 

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Poll: What Email Service Do You Use?

I use three email services, that is Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, and Google Mail (Gmail), meaning I have an email account with each of these three services.

So what email service do you use? Please share your answer with us by voting in the poll below. Thanks :).

 

What Email Service Do You Use?

 

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Twitter Lists, What Are They?

twitter_logoOn October 30th, 2009, which was some few days ago, Twitter made a new feature available to all Twitter users. This new feature is called Twitter lists.

So what are Twitter lists?

Twitter lists are a way of grouping Twitter users you are interested in and this can include Twitter users you are following and those you are not following, for example friends, family members, classmates, etc. The Twitter list of the people you are interested in will showcase the latest tweets of those people. Any Twitter user can follow a Twitter list and when the person does it doesn’t mean he or she is individually following all the Twitter users on that particular Twitter list but he or she is rather following the Twitter list as a whole meaning he or she is following the Twitter list only and not any Twitter user in that list.

An example of a Twitter list is the Twitter team list which was created by Twitter themselves. Also a Twitter list can be public or private.

A public Twitter list is a list which can be seen by anyone. When I say anyone I mean anyone on the internet who goes to the page of the Twitter list will be able to see it.

A private Twitter list is a list which can only be seen by the creator of that particular Twitter list. Not even those listed in that particular Twitter list can see the list, it’s only the creator. So it’s a secret list.

So far at the time of this writing my personal Twitter account @shirleyszone and Shirley’s Tech Zone’s Twitter account @ShirleysTechZ have both been added to three Twitter lists each by other Twitter users. I haven’t created a list in @shirleyszone or @ShirleysTechZ yet. I think I will be doing that soon.

 

So have you created any Twitter lists? Or have you been added to any Twitter lists? Please share it with us in the comments field. Thanks :).

 

 

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

FriendOrFollow: Find Who Is Not Following You Back And Who You Are Not Following Back

Sometimes on Twitter people unfollow you and you don’t know about it and sometimes people follow you back but you miss following them back probably because you follow people back manually and you don’t use a mass follow back Twitter service or application. So how then do you know these people who are not following you back and these people you are not following them back? Well, this is where FriendOrFollow comes in.

 

FriendOrFollow is a Twitter web service which lets you find out who you are following but is not following you back and who is following you but you are not following back.

FriendOrFollow

To get to know who you are following but is not following you back and/or who is following you but you are not following back with FriendOrFollow, on the FriendOrFollow homepage enter your Twitter username into the input bar which says “your twitter username” and then click “Submit”.

When you do this you will be taken to a tab page where you are shown who you are following but is not following you back. This tab page is named “following”.

FriendOrFollow Tabs

To know who is following you but you are not following back click on the tab which says “fans”, and to know all those you are following that are following you back click “friends”.

 

FriendOrFollow is a tool I use almost everyday to check those who I’m following but are not following me back and those who are following me but I’m not following them back. I must say that FriendOrFollow is very helpful to me and I think that it would be very helpful to you too if you try it out. It’s a very good tool.

 

Have you used FriendOrFollow before? If so what do you think about it? If you haven’t used FriendOrFollow before, is there any other tool that you use to check those who you are following but are not following you back and those who are following you but you are not following them back? Please share it with us in the comments field. Thanks :).

 

 

Monday, November 2, 2009

Windows 7 Is Put Through Its Paces By Stewie of Family Guy

Stewie puts Windows 7 through its paces as Brian looks on.

 

 

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Top Entrecard Droppers Of October, 2009 For Shirley’s Tech Zone

Entrecard is a social advertising network for bloggers where members drop on the Entrecard widgets of other members for Entrecard (EC) credits when they visit the blogs of these members and members also are able to buy advertising space on a fellow member’s widget with Entrecard (EC) credits. The Entrecard widget of a member is placed on the member’s blog.

 

I’m an Entrecard member and as a result have an Entrecard widget on placed on my blog so that Entrecard members who visit my blog can drop on my widget and notify me that they visited my blog and also earn Entrecard (EC) credits for dropping on my widget. Other Entrecard members too can buy advertising space on my Entrecard widget with Entrecard (EC) credits.

 

So as a reward for all the members of Entrecard who have visited my blog and dropped on my Entrecard widget, I’m going to list the top 10 droppers here. Thank you to every member of Entrecard who has visited my blog and who also reads my blog frequently. I also thank all visitors and readers of my blog who are not members of Entrecard for visiting and reading my blog. I really appreciate all your visits to my blog and readings of my blog :).

 

The Top 10 Droppers Are:

  1. Momspective
  2. Computer Help and Advice
  3. Momspective Reviews
  4. Tech Plazaa
  5. HARD Lifestyle Blog
  6. Mike’s Blog Marketing Tips
  7. The Divine Miss Mommy
  8. IndoContest
  9. Wii Mommies
  10. Yellow Bearded Freak

 

So all Entrecard members and non-members of Entrecard keep on visiting and reading Shirley’s Tech Zone. I love you all :).

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Is Now Officially Available For Download

firefox logo-only Mozilla yesterday officially released Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 for download by the public. The Firefox 3.6 Beta is available Windows, Macintosh (Mac), and Linux. This beta version of the next version of Firefox is built on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine and it contains many improvements for web developers, add-on developers, and users.

 

Some of the new features that the Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 includes are:

  • Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
  • Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
  • Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
  • Support for the WOFF font format.
  • Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
  • Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.

 

The Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 builds for Windows, Macintosh (Mac), and Linux can be downloaded in 53 different languages.

 

If you want to download the Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 or learn more about it go here.

 

 

Friday, October 30, 2009

TweetWorth: How Much Is Your Twitter Account Worth?

TweetWorth is a Twitter web service which lets you know how much your Twitter account is worth. It gives you the worth of your Twitter account in the US currency, the dollar ($). It provides the worth of your twitter account by basing on the number of followers, tweets, popularity, and other things that your Twitter account has.

TweetWorth 2

To check for the worth of your Twitter account when you get to the TweetWorth homepage, just type your Twitter username into the input bar found on the TweetWorth homepage and then click “Get My Value!”.

TweetWorth Bar

After clicking “Get My Value!”, you will be taken to a new page where your Twitter account’s worth will be displayed along with your Twitter profile information.

 

So if you want to know the worth or value of your Twitter account, TweetWorth is the way to go.

Have you used TweetWorth before? If yes, what was your Twitter account’s worth or value? It’s not compulsory to share your Twitter account’s worth or value with us. Also, do have anything to say about TweetWorth? Please feel free to share it with us :).

 

 

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Go Halloween On Your Firefox Browser With Halloween Personas

firefox logo-only Halloween is in the air and Mozilla doesn’t want you to be left out of the Halloween celebration and so as a result has added a set of over 40 Halloween Personas to their Personas gallery for you to go Halloween all out with your Firefox browser. By the way, if you don’t know what Personas are, Personas are lightweight skins for customizing and adding style to your Firefox browser.

Halloween

Halloween Persona via Personas for Firefox

 

Spooky Halloween Tree

Spooky Halloween Tree Persona via Personas for Firefox

So why not go Halloween with your Firefox browser with a Halloween Persona :)?

For your Halloween Personas go here and get them for free.

 

Are you using Personas on your Firefox browser? If so what Persona? and finally are you going to dress your Firefox browser this Halloween :)?

 

 

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Funny Tech Picture: The Real Reasons People Use IE6

The Real Reasons People Use IE6

Picture via Incredimazing.

 

 

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Windows 7 Cost Or Price

Windows 7 Picture 6The cost or price of Windows 7 isn’t fixed. It actually depends on where you are buying from, the version of Windows 7, and the type of Windows 7. Now let me explain why the price or cost of Windows 7 depends on these factors further to you below.

Where you are buying from: It depends on where you are buying from because not all stores be it online or offline will offer the same prices for Windows 7 and so the price will differ from place to place and the location of where you are buying from will thus affect the pricing of your Windows 7 copy.

 

The Edition of Windows 7: The edition of Windows 7 that you are buying also affects the pricing of the copy of Windows 7 that you will be buying because the price of every different edition of Windows 7 will definitely differ from one another but the difference won’t be all that big and they will all be in the same price range.

 

The Version of Windows 7: The version of Windows 7 that you are buying also affects the pricing of the copy of Windows 7 that you will buy or be buying. But first of all when I say the version of Windows 7 what do I mean? When I say the version of Windows 7 I mean whether you are buying an upgrade version of Windows 7 or full version of Windows 7. So the version of Windows 7 that you are buying be it an upgrade version or a full version will also affect the pricing of the copy of Windows 7 that you will buy or be buying because an upgrade version of Windows 7 will have a different price and a full version of Windows 7 will also have a different price.

 

So when you ask the price of the Windows 7 one can’t give you one fixed price as the price of Windows 7 because it mostly depends on these factors that I have talked about above.

 

But I will list below the price of Windows 7 in the US as announced by Microsoft on the Windows 7 Team blog.

Price of Windows 7 In The US As Announced By Microsoft

Windows 7 Full Version Price or Cost

  • Windows 7 Home Premium (Full): $199.99
  • Windows 7 Professional (Full): $299.99
  • Windows 7 Ultimate (Full): $319.99

Windows 7 Upgrade Version Price or Cost

  • Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade): $119.99
  • Windows 7 Professional (Upgrade): $199.99
  • Windows 7 Ultimate (Upgrade): $219.99

 

 

Monday, October 26, 2009

Interesting Tech Picture: If Websites Were People

If Websites Were PeopleI find this picture very interesting because I like how the human characters are matched with these big websites on the web. For me I think the human characters are perfectly matched to their respective websites especially the human character which is matched with Facebook.

What do you think about this picture? Do you think these websites really match the human characters as they have been portrayed? Which website and its human character matched each other well most? Please share your thoughts with us by commenting below. Thanks :).

 

Picture via Incredimazing.

 

 

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Poll: Will You Get A Copy Of Windows 7?

Windows 7 Picture 6 Windows 7 was officially launched and released to the public three days ago and the excitement about it from the public has so far been high. So I was wondering people are going to get a copy of Windows 7, or if some are going to stick to their Windows Vistas and their Windows XPs, or perhaps some who downloaded the Windows 7 RC are going to stick their Windows 7 RC till it expires next year in 2010, and as a result of this I have decided to conduct a poll and see if the majority of people are going to get Windows 7, stick with their Windows Vistas or Windows XPs, stick with their Windows 7 RCs till their expirations or whatever that they are going to do about the getting of a copy of Windows 7.

 

So will you get a copy of Windows 7? Please share your answer with us by voting below. Thanks :).

 

Will You Get A Copy Of Windows 7?

 

 

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Windows 7 Has Been Officially Released Today

Windows 7 Picture 6 Uh……wasn’t it just yesterday that the Windows 7 Beta was released to the public? Oh, it’s been months now? Wow, I can’t believe it’s been months now since the Windows 7 Beta was released to the public and now today is the day that the full version of Windows 7 has been officially launched and released.


It’s an awesome and exciting feeling for me and I know that it is for many others too because it’s been kind of a long and exciting wait and I just can’t imagine and believe how far we’ve come in the Windows 7 development and release journey and now we are finally at the end of this journey. A journey which included not knowing when Windows 7 was going to be released and expecting the release date’s official announcement from Microsoft, knowing the official release date of Windows 7 but can’t wait for that day to come, and making friends who had the same interest of Windows 7 as you do both online and offline. I think it’s been an exciting, fun-filled, awesome, benefiting, and experienced filled journey.


But if this journey has ended, the excitement and adventure is not yet over because another new journey is beginning today. And what’s this new journey that I’m saying is beginning today? It’s the journey of discovering what Windows 7 entails or includes, trying and getting to know new features in Windows 7, not knowing how to do some things on Windows 7 and finding them out later yourself true trial and error or finding them out by searching on the web or asking people. So for me it’s going to be a whole new exciting journey :).


Are you excited about the official release of Windows 7? What do you think about Windows 7? Please share it with us.



Tuesday, September 8, 2009

A Monthly Recap Feature Will Now Be Included In Shirley’s Tech Zone

I have decided to add a monthly recap feature to this blog (Shirley’s Tech Zone).

By the way, what do I mean by a monthly recap? By a monthly recap, I mean after a month goes to an end I will summarize and list all the posts and articles that were published here that particular month.

Why did I decide to include a monthly recap feature in Shirley’s Tech Zone? I decided to include a monthly recap feature into Shirley’s Tech Zone because I have realized that not all the readers of Shirley’s Tech Zone are able to come to Shirley’s Tech Zone and read every post or article that is published, so some of the readers might have missed a post or article or two and I don’t want any of my readers (which includes you :) ) to miss any of my posts or articles because I know you value my posts and articles and you wouldn’t want to miss any, so that is why I decided to include the monthly recap feature in Shirley’s Tech Zone.

But RSS is there to send your posts updates to your readers, so they won’t miss any of your posts or articles or you can even use a newsletter for this, why not use one of these instead of the monthly recap feature? Well good question. RSS (most often translated as “Really Simple Syndication” but sometimes translated as “Rich Site Summary”) sure is there to send my blog posts and articles updates to my readers, so they won’t miss any of my posts or articles but not everyone subscribes to RSS or likes to receive updates via RSS so I have to create another way for my readers who don’t like or use RSS to get all my posts and articles and not miss any of them. Now talking about RSS if you like RSS or use RSS to subscribe to the updates of the blogs and websites that you like, then you can subscribe to Shirley’s Tech Zone feed updates and receive my new posts and articles anytime they are published. Also regarding the use of a newsletter, Shirley’s Tech Zone has a weekly newsletter which was launched a week or so ago, even though the weekly newsletter includes a week wrap up or recap of Shirley’s Tech Zone posts and articles just like the situation with the RSS, not everybody likes to receive newsletters or many newsletters in their email inbox so the monthly recap feature will serve as another way for those who don’t like to receive newsletters or many newsletters in their email inbox to not miss any of the posts and articles that are published on Shirley’s Tech Zone. Talking about newsletters, if you like to receive newsletters in your email inbox then join Shirley’s Tech Zone mailing list and receive Shirley’s Tech Zone Weekly Newsletter in your email inbox every week. You can find the mailing list form on the right sidebar of this blog.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Get Loads and Loads of Free Twitter Logos from TwitterLogos.com

Twitter You might be a website owner, blog owner, webmaster, or a manager of a blog and you might be wanting a twitter logo, button, or icon for your website or blog for your users or readers to know that you are on twitter and they can follow you there or should follow you there but you just can’t find a place where you can get tonnes of free twitter logos, buttons, or icons to choose from and make your choice or you have found several twitter logos, buttons, or icons online, some which are free and others which are not but they just don’t have the beauty and touch that you want for your website. Well, relax now and be happy because I have found a great resource online which has a huge collection of free twitter logos, buttons, icons and more.

This great resource I found online is a website called Twitterlogos.com. Twitterlogos.com contains a huge collection of free Twitter logos, Twitter buttons, Twitter icons and more. The Twitter logos, buttons, icons and more are not created by Twitterlogos.com but they are rather submitted by designers. Some of the designers also provide custom designs of the Twitter logos, buttons, and icons so if you want a custom Twitter logo, button, or icon created for you you will need to contact the designers directly and not Twitterlogos because Twitterlogos are not the creators of any of the Twitter logos, buttons, and icons on the Twitterlogos.com website.

So if you want to get a Twitter logo, button, or icon for your website or blog, go to the Twitterlogos.com website and search for the Twitter logo, button, or icon of your choice.

Please note: To get or search for a Twitter logo, button, or icon from Twitterlogos.com does not require any registration or signing up on the side of Twitterlogos.com and also Twitterlogos.com is not affiliated with Twitter.



Keep Up-To-Date With Shirley’s Tech Zone Every Week

I added a mailing list to the blog yesterday and this mailing list is supposed to send out a newsletter on a weekly basis to anyone who will subscribe to it. This newsletter can be viewed in HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) version or the text version, so it gives its subscribers a choice to choose whichever of the two mentioned versions they want to view the newsletter in. The name of the newsletter is Shirley’s Tech Zone newsletter.

The newsletter will consist of a weekly wrap up of Shirley’s Tech Zone blog posts, tech news, tech how-tos or tutorials, reviews of great and exciting websites, and press releases from Shirley’s Tech Zone about Shirley’s Tech Zone (if there are any current ones at the time the weekly newsletter is sent out).

So sign up for Shirley’s Tech Zone Newsletter by subscribing to the mailing list joining form on the right sidebar of this blog and receive a whole week’s wrap up of Shirley’s Tech Zone blog posts, tech news and how-tos or tutorials, reviews of great and exciting websites and web services, and press releases from Shirley’s Tech Zone about Shirley’s Tech Zone.

 

 

Monday, August 31, 2009

How to Make your Twitter Account Private

Twitter While most people on Twitter want their Twitter accounts to be discovered by the whole world and have many followers, there are some who would prefer a quiet place in the world of twitter and have their Twitter account in the private mode so that they would approve those who they want to share their private Twitter account with. So if you are one of those who would love to have their Twitter accounts private and hidden from the world but don’t know how to make their Twitter accounts private, then you have come to the right place. I will teach you how to make your Twitter account private below. So don’t go anywhere :) .

 

To make your Twitter account private please follow the steps below:

  1. Sign in to your Twitter account.
  2. When signed in to your Twitter account, on the top right corner of your Twitter account you will see some links. Click the link named Settings and you will be taken to the settings page of your Twitter account.
  3. On the settings page of your Twitter account, you will see some tabs named Account, Password, and so on to mention a few. When you are taken to your Twitter account settings page as stated in step 2, you will be automatically taken to the Account tab in the settings page of your Twitter account because it has been set by default by Twitter that you are taken to the Account tab whenever you open your Twitter account’s settings page.
  4. Okay so in your Account tab, you will see a form which you already filled during your Twitter sign up process, at the bottom of the form you will see a check box which has an inscription beside it and the inscription says Protect my tweets. Check this check box. When you check this check box Twitter will only let people you approve follow your tweets and you will not be on the public timeline (the public timeline is where twitter shows all the latest tweets being tweeted by all twitter users).
  5. After checking the check box, click the Save button below the check box.
  6. After clicking the Save button your settings will be saved and your Twitter account will be made private and it will be hidden from the world.

Please note: After saving your settings and letting Twitter protect your tweets, tweets you posted previously before changing your Twitter account settings may still be publicly visible in some places.

 

So this is how to make your Twitter account private and hidden from the whole world. Oh, also if you want to follow me on twitter you can follow me at @shirleyszone.

 

 

Friday, August 28, 2009

Get 120 Days of Free Windows 7 Usage Instead of 30

Windows 7 Picture 6 When you get a copy of Windows 7 Microsoft allows you to try it for free for only 30 days, and that might not be enough for some people or let me just say most people. So how do you go about getting more than 30 days of free trial of Windows 7 when you get a copy? Well, fortunately there is a solution and the solution is from of Woody Leonhard of Windows Secrets. Woody has devised a way or should I say a solution for you to be able to use your copy of Windows 7 for a free trial of 120 whopping days instead of 30 and he talks about it here in his Use any version of Windows 7 free for 120 days article. In this same article, he also talks about how to install Windows 7 Ultimate now and pay less later and converting Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 7 Pro (Professional) or Windows 7 Home Premium, so this article by Woody is a very great resource for all those who are using Windows 7, all those who will be using Windows 7, and all those who are learning about Windows 7 and are interested in Windows 7.

 

 

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

No Photo Editing Software or Program was Pre-installed in Windows 7

Windows 7 Picture 6 This time, the Microsoft Corporation did not pre-install a photo editing software or program in their next version of the Windows operating system, Windows 7. So if you get a copy of Windows 7 when it is released on October 22nd, 2009, you will have to get a photo editing software or program yourself and the photo editing software or program you should get is the Windows Live Photo Gallery. The Windows Live Photo Gallery is part of the free Windows Live programs so it is free to download. The Windows Live Photo Gallery is officially compatible with Windows 7 so you will not have any compatibility issues to worry about.

To download Windows Live Photo Gallery go to the official download page of Windows Live Photo Gallery.

 

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Windows 7 Language Packs Are Now Available

Windows 7 Picture 6 Language packs are now available to Microsoft’s enterprise customers running Windows 7 Enterprise RTM (Release to Manufacturing) and the Windows 7 Ultimate RTM (Release to Manufacturing) versions only. These language packs became available in the morning of today, August 25th, 2009.

The languages included in the language packs are:

  • Arabic
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Bulgarian
  • Chinese – Simplified
  • Chinese – Traditional – Hong Kong
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Lithuanian
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian Latin
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian

Please note that Traditional Chinese-Taiwan will later be released for these language packs.

Also those running the Windows 7 Release Candidate are not eligible for these language packs.





Monday, August 24, 2009

No Video Creating/Editing Software or Program is Pre-installed in Windows 7

Windows 7 Picture 6 When Windows 7, the next version of the Windows operating system is released on October 22nd, 2009, it will be without a pre-installed video creating/editing software or program because this time the Microsoft Corporation did not pre-install a video creating/editing software or program as they usually did with their previous versions of the Windows operating system. So this time if you get yourself a copy of the next version of the Windows operating system, Windows 7, you will have to get a video creating/editing software or program yourself and the video creating/editing software or program you should get is the Windows Live Movie Maker. The Windows Live Movie Maker is part of the free Windows Live programs so it is free to download and it is officially compatible with Windows 7.

To download Windows Live Movie Maker go to the official Windows Live Movie Maker download page.

 

Saturday, August 22, 2009

There is No Email Program in Windows 7

Windows 7 Picture 6 The Microsoft Corporation did not pre-install an email program or client in the next version of the Windows Operating system which is going to be released soon on October 22nd, 2009, Windows 7. So there isn’t going to be any email program or client in Windows 7 when you get a copy at the time of release. So if you want to send and receive emails through an email program or client in Windows 7 then you would have to download an email program or client from the internet and the email program or client that you would download from the internet must be compatible with Windows 7. So because Microsoft did not add a pre-installed email program or client to Windows 7, you will have to download Windows Live Mail which is officially compatible with Windows 7.

To download Windows Live Mail go to the official download page of Windows Live Mail.

 

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Update: The Faulty Template Has Been Replaced Now

Hi everyone, as I said I have changed the faulty template and replaced it with a working one now, so you can now also use the comment feature of my blog again.

Thanks for your patience. I really appreciate it.

Sorry for the Inconvenience

Hi everyone, I'm sorry about how the template of my blog looks now and I apologise for that. I'm actually replacing the template now and also sorry for not being able to comment on my blog because the comment feature in this same template is not working. I'm sorry. Everything will be fixed soon and everything will be back to normal.

Thanks. I really appreciate it.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Get All Your Windows 7 Questions and Problems Answered and Solved at Windows 7 QnA

Windows 7 Picture 6 Even though the Windows 7 operating system has not been released yet, the Windows 7 Beta, and the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) were released to the public by the Microsoft Corporation, and many people downloaded them and installed them on their PCs (Personal Computers) and you might be one of those who downloaded and installed either the Windows 7 Beta or the Windows 7 Release Candidate or both on your PC. But in this world of ours, nothing comes without questions or problems. Whiles using either of the Windows 7 Beta or the Windows 7 Release Candidate or both on your PC, you might encounter some problems and even if you don’t, you might have questions about the Windows 7 Beta, the Windows 7 Release Candidate, the Windows 7 RTM (Release to Manufacturing), or even the not yet released Windows 7 operating system. So how do you solve these problems you might encounter or how do you find the answers to the questions you have? Simple, you go to Windows 7 QnA. I know you might be asking what Windows 7 QnA is.

Windows 7 QnA is a question and answer website and a general knowledge base for the Windows 7 operating system. I’m part of the Administration Team at Windows 7 QnA as a Support for the Windows 7 QnA website and we the Administration Team and website members at Windows 7 QnA make it a point to help anyone who comes to Windows 7 QnA solve or answer their problems or questions they have about Windows 7.

So if you have any questions about or in relation to Windows 7 or you have encountered any problem in your use of any of the pre-released versions of the Windows 7 operating system, just come to Windows 7 QnA and any member of the Windows 7 QnA Administration Team or any of the website members will help you find an answer or solution to your question or problem.

Please note that Windows 7 QnA is an independent website and is in no way affiliated with the Microsoft Corporation.