Shirley's Tech Zone Has Now Moved To Shirley's Zone Dot Com

Hello everyone, this is Shirley. I'm writing this post to inform you all guys about my move to Shirley's Zone, which is now my new and current blog. That's where I'm blogging now.

I didn't announce this early enough because I had a lot of things to do with Shirley's Zone since I started it in December 2009 and I'm now a bit free to announce it to you guys so sorry for being late about it :).

At Shirley's Zone I share blogging tips, entrepreneurial tips, personal development tips, resources for bloggers, twitter web services, and wordpress plugins.

So I'm there now and I want you guys to join me there. I appreciate you all being with me here all this while and I know that you will join me there too.

Thanks and see you there :),

Shirley.

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.

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?.

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.

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.

Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 Is Now Officially Available For Download

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:

• (New in this update) A change to how third-party software integrates with Firefox to increase stability.
• (New in this update) The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.
• 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 3 go here.

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

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.

How To Change Your Twitter Profile Picture

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.

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.

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.

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?