Create Your Flash Website For Free

Hey, check out my new flash web design here. Is it not wonderful?

Wix is a web application that enables anyone to create flash websites in 2 minutes on the least. You can do it for free. With its faster and easy to edit features, you an make your desired high quality flash websites, Myspace layouts, headers, widgets, flyers and eCards in a flash! Just drag and drop!

If you are an artist or photographer, promoting your self is even better with its high quality editable flash web designs or you may start from scratch or better yet, find a pro to do your website for you, just connect with Wix designers.

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See a sample flash website I made below or visit here.

HelloTxt: Simultaneous Status Updating

Hellotxt is a social network application that enables users to update status on Twitter, FaceBook, FriendFeed, Plurk, Friendster and other services simultaneously. This is a good service if you are using several social networks or services.  Video and Photo uploading right through your status is possible. You may also use your website, email or mobile phone through Hellotxt. A registration is necessary and eureka, it works great with Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and IE.

Google Voice: Voice Transcription

Now Google is just as amazing as they have always been. Google Voice is now capable of Voice Transcription. However, Google Voice is available for GrandCentral users only. See  demo video below.

GrandCentral, a phone management service that first launched in 2006 and was acquired by Google for $50+ million in 2007, hasn’t been in the news much lately. Other than a few good natured jabs at their marketing gimmicks and coverage of outages, that is. Get ready for that to change as the service prepares for a public launch under a new product name: Google Voice. (Read Original Post)

The new application improves the way you use your phone. You can get transcripts of your voicemail (see the video below) and archive and search all of the SMS text messages you send and receive. You can also use the service to make low-priced international calls and easily access Goog-411 directory assistance. (Read Original Post)

Other Features

Google number - One number for all your calls and SMS

• Call screening - Announce and screen callers


• Listen in - Listen before taking a call


• Block calls - Keep unwanted callers at bay


• SMS - Send, receive, and store SMS


• Place calls - Call US numbers for free


• Taking calls - Answer on any of your phones


• Phone routing - Phones ring based on who calls


• Forwarding phones - Add phones and decide which ring

Google voicemail - Voicemail as easy as email, with transcripts

• Voicemail transcripts - Read what your voicemail says


• Listen to voicemail - Check online or from your phone


• Notifications - Receive voicemails via email or SMS


• Personalize greeting - Vary greetings by caller


• Share voicemail - Forward or download voicemails

Twitterless Twitter Tweep Tracker

Twitterless is a tracking system that lets you view your following and follower history. It requires your Twitter username and your password.

Features include:

Drag To Add Or Dismiss Twitter Followers In No Time

Tweet Sum is a  Twitter follower management similar to Twitter Karma, that enables you to unfollow tweeps you do not want to follow, and follow tweeps you want to follow. However, Tweet Sum is more fashionable and easier to use . As you can see, you may easily follow tweeps by dragging them to either the Followed Category (tweeps you are following) and Meh Category (tweeps you don't want to follow). Its easy to log in, just use your Twitter username and the password.

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Whack Tweeps Who Don’t Reciprocate

The Reason Your Church Must Twitter

Yesterday I blogged about Twitter Wit, which is book compilation of the wittiest wits in Twitter, edited by a freelance author from San Francisco. Read Entry Here.

And now, I have discovered yet another Twitter e-book entitled The Reason Your Church Must Twitter, which was released in January 2009, authored by church technology evangelist Anthony Coppedge.

If you’re a pastor, student minister, or involved with some type of ministry, your first reaction to such a resource title is probably something along the lines of “Awesome, I need to read this”.  Others who don’t follow the “faith” probably see such a book as one more tool to promote evangelism through a social network.  I understand both possible reactions, but what’s unique about this book is though it was written “for” churches, it’s not your typical “church” resource.  This book would easily serve as a  tool for any individual or business who would like to know more about Twitter and learn how to get started.

I honestly haven't read the e-book but let me quote  from previous review. Read More.

Leadership is important to Anthony.  I don’t know that personally, but it’s clear within the book how much he values good and effective leadership, as well as the role of the church pastor.  The book devotes an entire chapter to pastors and leaders and explains how effective Twitter could make them with not only their congregation, but with their staff and volunteers.

Articulate Your Tweets At 190 mph

Vlingo, is an iPhone and BlackBerry smartphones application that enables you to speak out your tweets instead of tabbing them on your phone.

Vlingo is a voice-powered user interface that unlocks access to mobile phone wireless data services. Vlingo for iPhone™ and Vlingo for BlackBerry smartphones allows users to speak into their device and have many popular applications carry out their respective functions. This includes dialing your phone, sending an email or SMS, creating and saving a memo or task, opening a web browser and performing a web search, composing a social-networking status message and more.

Vlingo translates your voiced tweets into words, then it lets you view your record, and post your updates either on Facebook or Twitter.

vlingo for iPhone

Vlingo for iPhone is a free application that allows you to search the web, use Google Maps, update your FaceBook and Twitter accounts, and dial phone numbers, all by speaking into the device.

vlingo for BlackBerry

Vlingo is a free application for BlackBerry smartphones that lets you search the web, compose an email or SMS, make a call, send a note to yourself, create a task or memo and more, all by using your voice. No tapping, no thumbs, just good old speaking. Results are returned almost instantaneously.

I've Got New Email!

Tired of shallow Twitter emails saying "BlahBlah is now following you on Twitter."? If so, Twitmailer is the answer to the problem. Twitmailer is a Twitter email notification that has a  "Follow Back" option within the email message. It dispays the follower's profile picture, recent tweets and website right from the email.

Twimailer is a middle man that intercepts the emails you receive from twitter and spruces it up before sending it to you!

The traditional email from twitter would only tell you whether you follow the person or not. But twimailer has a host of features. You can immediately follow back the people who have become your fans. You get to see the number of followers and friends your new follower has as well as their complete bio. Updates from the follower are also displayed.

For twimailer to be able to send you mail, you need to first enter the email that you have specified for your twitter account. After verification, twimailer would send you a new email that you need to set as your email id at twitter.

Take a look at this:

See?  It makes life easier.

Whack Tweeple Who Don't Reciprocate

Unfollowing tweeps not following you is really wicked and a rude thing to do, but if you are looking for a client that has its features then Twiiter Karma is just the right Twitter app for you.

Twiiter Karma is a Flash application that fetches your friends and followers from Twitter when you click the “Whack!” button, then displays them for you, letting you quickly paginate through them. By default, the list contains all your friends and followers and is sorted by last update, showing those who most recently updated first. You can sort the list alphabetically either ascending or descending by Twitter ID. You can filter the list in several ways: only friends or only followers, all friends or all followers, and mutual friends.

See the buttons?

Like I said, reciprocating is a virtue. :)

Analyze Your Tweets With Twitual And Friend Or Follow

Twitual is a Twitter app that helps you analyze tweeps who follow you,  tweeps followed by you, tweeps who are both friends and followers of you, tweeps who follow, but you don't follow back, and tweeps who you follow, but who don't follow back. Just enter your Twitter username (password not required), and let Twitual analyze.

Here is my analysis: @jeelchristine

However, there's a downside to this since Twitual does not let you unfollow Twitter users who doesn't follow your tweets but Twitter Karma does.

Friend Or Follow is similar to Twitual that it lets you view who are your followers in Fans category, tweeps who you are not following you back in Following category and, tweeps who are following you back in Friends category. And you can see all these tweeps' profile pictures. It does not require a password for your username. Just like Twitual,  Friend Or Follow does not let you unfollow tweeps who are not following you or follow those who you are not following but are following you.

And here is my result for Friends, or tweeps who I am following back.

Analyze Your Tweets With Twitter Effect

Twitter Effect is a Twitter tool that lets you analyze which tweets made you gain followers and which tweets made you lose followers.  Just visit Twitter Effect website and log in your Twitter username (password is not required). Through  your last 200 updates, you can get information of your follower count changes.

Twitter is a great way to keep in contact, distribute news and generally tell people what you are up to. The success of Twitter users is generally measured in the amount of people that follow your updates.

You get information on your Twitter profile as to how many people follow you and you get notified when someone follows you. However, there is no notification when someone stops following you and you generally don’t have any insight into when people follow or leave you.

This is where the TweetEffect comes in - simply enter your twitter name and we analyze your 200 latest updates and flag those up that made people follow or leave you.

Here is mine:

In my last 200 updates, I had no changes in my follower numbers. I've got loyal followers. That's great news!

Can't Exceed 140 Characters For Your Tweets?

Can't exceed 140 characters for your Twitter updates? when sometimes there's more to say than 140 characters.

Problem solved!

Twerbose lets you post, comment tweets with longer characters, and insert images and videos in your tweets, now that is really cool.

XLTweet comes from the creator of TwitWall, also extends your twitter character capability to beyond 140 characters. XLTweet will tweet the first 120 characterss, create a bit.ly short url similar to Twitter's tiny url, then save the rest on your own XLTweet page. Also, XLTweet automatically adds your XLTweet generated tweets to your favorites just in case you forgot XLTweet link.

BiggerTwitter is an addon rather a Twitter clone that lets you post massive tweets and is posted directly to your Twitter profile.

TwitLonger is created by a freelance developer Stuart Gibson. TwitLonger longers your tweets beyond 140. TwitLonger automatically tweets your updates to your Twitter profile. However, there is a google adsense at the bottom of the tweets generated by TwitLonger.

Though these Twitter extensions deviates to the idea of micro-blogging, they are still great extensions for twittering beyond 140 characters, especially when sharing links that do not fit the limited number of characters.

Problem Solved!

Turning Twitter Into A Feed (Tweet) Reader

If Google Reader is capable of marking Read and Unread to your subscribed feeds, a new Twitter client called TwitteReader is also capable of marking Read and Unread to your friend's Twitter updates. You may also star items that are added to your favorite tweets.

TwitteReader is simple unlike Google Reader, which has advanced features such a sidebar containing your favorite blogsites, and on the main window are the entries from these websites. Google Reader is capable of item sharing such as this one (my  shared items). However, TwitteReader also  has great features, like:

1. Offline marking and unmarking read messages


2. Page system


3. Shortcut keys r-refresh, k-up and j-down


4. No signup required


5. Update Twitter (send messages) and reply to users


6. Delete updates


7. Favorite and unfavorite messages


8. Message parser


9. Messages auto-reload each 5 minutes

Take a look at my TwitteReader:

Addons include:

1. marking system was remade. It is now based on offline marking (and unmarking) and on refresh or on leave of the "read" page, it will store the marks online. Much faster user interface and only one AJAX communication with the server


2. when users delete messages, the system now detects them and delete their record on the database as well


3. page system added. Each page has its own unread counter


4. code reviewed and commented. Stable beta version 0.23 zipped and shared


5. 'r' key, shortcut for refresh button added


6. signup isn't required anymore. Twitter users login with their username and password and start reading right away


7. update Twitter over TwitteReader is now available. Just like in Twitter, you have your 140 characters to write and the update button


8. unique link to message added to the options bar


9. favorite status icon added. Soon editable


10. reply icon added. Soon available


11. number of characters left reset after submited update


12. reply feature working


13. @username links bug fixed


14. create/remove favorite now available


15. works on smaller screens now. Key interface was getting scroller to jump around


16. remember username featu re added. Also, if you have save passwords on your browser, when username is inserted, it can fill in your password automatically and if there is a username a nd password it auto-logins


17. delete (own) messages now available


18. message parser updated. Well parsed urls and @username links


19. after some feedback I've set mysql_real_escape_string() to all comunication variables


20. install instructions for self hosting released


21. shortcuts now working on IE (7 at least)


22. shortcuts (keys) interface interaction optimized. Some bugs fixed

To sum it all up, TwitteReader is an extension to Twitter. Read More.

Facebook Is Updating To A Platform Similar To Twitter's

Twitter as we all know has become a fast growing micro-blogging social network that even Facebook is making their own platform similar to Twitter's after a failed bid.

Twitter Inc. is at a critical juncture now that the popular Facebook Inc. has redesigned its services to, well, be a lot more like Twitter, according to analysts.

Facebook announced late yesterday that its public profiles have been updated to allow users to share their information with an unlimited number of friends. The updates, according to Facebook, can "be brief messages" similar to Tweets or longer ones that include photos and videos. The new Facebook setup will also enable businesses, organizations or even celebrities to blast out information to customers, members or fans. Read More

But I don't really find the reason why Facebook has to compete with Twitter because both are different and are similar in ways. Well, its not a question of competition, its to attract users and make online social networking better. Both are status updaters, wherein members get to update their status as often as they can. Members may also use Twitter application in order for them to update their Twitter status just within his or her Facebook Box. See how my Twitter app looks like in my Facebook Box

And this is how the new Facebook Homepage looks like.

See original view here.

Updates will be able to be filtered by groups, specific friends, family, or by applications. A new publishing box for sharing updates will incorporate the ability to add not just status notes, but also links, photos, and videos. A new widget will highlight items from friends and other connections members interact with the most. Read More.

Generally, I have nothing against Facebook designing a new homepage, however I enjoy Facebook because of its originality in fetaures and this new Twitter-like homapage project omits this value of originality. Regardless of my biases, this new homepage will allow users to filter their feeds, and thus making life easier for that matter! A thumbs up for Facebook.

My Facebook Friends Are Addicted With Pet Society

Pet Society is a game application  in Facebook, powered and created by Playfish Social Games. Pet Society lets you create online interactive pets, capable of connecting and interacting with other pets of your Facebook friends who are using the application. With its styling features, you may customize your pets through provided body color, face, hair, and head styles you can choose from.

Among other features include:

Pets must earn money in order to purchase items for their home, including living room items, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom items, and outfit items. These items are bought from different shops elsewhere in the neighborhood.

Pet Society is known for its Paw Points, which represent the level to which your pet has advanced into.  By the time your pet reaches higher paw point levels like levels 35 to 47, the built of your pet's house also changes, so does the number of rooms inside the house.

These cuddly little pets are not only great virtual companions, but they are also fun to be playing with. I could just remember my first emotion when I played ball with my pet Fififishie (I was happy).  She's really cute and bubbly.

And here she is,

Pet Society has many features you would want to dig on, invite your friends and visit their pets. Its so much fun. yay! You might consider checking Pet Society Blog and see what's new in the neighborhood.