If you thought blogging was an easier way to publish content for the majority of people, consider twitter as a micro-blogging tool. Twitter is one such service which is becoming a rage among bloggers. you come across the twitter gadgets and twitter bookmarks on many popular blogs and websites, which is an indication of growing popularity of twitter. Many of you already know of Twitter and for those who don't know, this is how twitter describes itself.
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
Twitter has a clean and simple interface, it makes publishing content easier and faster, even simpler than most blogs. once you have registered on-site, you can start posting your updates(not more than 140 chars. at a time), you will eventually get people who will "follow" you around on twitter and make you more popular. Twitter, is the latest tool for blog promotion as well, Register on-site and create your own space on twitter, publish frequent updates using the main site, desktop clients, mobile devices or widgets and gadgets developed by third party and create a fan following, which will send free traffic to your blog.
Avatar's are graphical representation of your online identity that you assume when participating on discussion forums, blogging or in any of the social networking sites like orkut, technorati, digg etc. There are variety of images available freely on the internet which you can choose as your own avatar. An avatar is like your first impressions, which people notice instantly and as it's said "First impression is the best impression".
Check out the following sites for some cool, funny and awesome free avatars
http://www.allavatars.com
http://www.free-avatars.com
http://www.coolavatars.net
http://www.avatarhell.com
Make your blogging more fun, by giving your visitors reason to smile. Put some funny Blog Comics on your blog using a free service from Blaugh.com
Blaugh.com makes the installation of its funny blog cartoons on your blog, easy and hassle free. No registration is required! Just explore the site and find the cartoon that you would like to put on your blog. Below the cartoon will be the HTML code that you need to add to your blog/post. copy the entire code from the textbox below the blog comic and add it to your post or blog.
ClustrMaps.com brings a widget that shows the location of your site visitors on a tiny map that could be easily put on your blog. They provide the HTML that gives you a tiny map. The location of each visit is based on the IP address of the computer used.
When it loads, it increments a counter and shows the locations of all visitors to your page. Clicking on it zooms in to a big world map, and (optionally) lets you zoom in to the continents, as in the example below
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For the live demo of this widget in action please visit http://clustrmaps.com
Viruses are annoying little programs which mess up your computer. In past we've recommended using a resident anti-virus program to actively defend against virus attacks. We had also suggested trying out the google pack which includes Norton Security Scan and loads of other useful software
As a second line of defence, We advice you to periodically check your computer using Free online virus scanners. The following links takes you to the reputed antivirus company sites, which install a small piece of code in your browser(ActiveX/Java) to scan your computer.