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?.
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.
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.
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 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.
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?
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:
To download the Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 go here.
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.
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.
To graph your tweets, enter your Twitter username into the input bar on the TweetStats homepage and then click the “Graph My Tweets” button.
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%.
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.
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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).
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?
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 :).
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.
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”.
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 :).
Stewie puts Windows 7 through its paces as Brian looks on.
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:
So all Entrecard members and non-members of Entrecard keep on visiting and reading Shirley’s Tech Zone. I love you all :).
Some of the new features that the Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 includes are:
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.
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.
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!”.
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 :).
Halloween Persona via Personas for Firefox
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 :)?
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.
Windows 7 Full Version Price or Cost
Windows 7 Upgrade Version Price or Cost
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
To make your Twitter account private please follow the steps below:
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.
To download Windows Live Photo Gallery go to the official download page of Windows Live Photo Gallery.
The languages included in the language packs are:
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.
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