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Beware with Twitter Links, Malware Arrived on Twitter

Twitter links are mostly in short URL format and you never know what you are clicking until you see the opened site. It is always better to click links from only trusted contacts. Kaspersky folks are reporting that malware is making its way to twitter, Twitter, so be cautious with suspicious ... Read More →

Nested Twitter Replies Greasemonkey Script

Twitter is awesome but sometimes it is not enough, the conversations are mixed in the timeline and it is difficult to follow them. If you are also feeling the same checkolut this Greasemonkey script by Pratham, it shows nested repelies in the twitter timeline. The big advantage with this is that ... Read More →

Twhirl Supports Identi.ca

Twhirl is one of the best twitter cleints out there, not only twitter it also supports Friendfee and cross-post to Pownce and Jaiku. The new version of the Twhirl added support for Identi.ca, the new open source microblogging platform that launched few weeks ago. Identi.ca doesn't have all the ... Read More →

TweetDeck: Twitter Desktop Client

TweetDeck is a Twitter client with some useful features. It is an Adobe AIR application  which supports groups and has different panes to better categorize tweets. With tweetdeck you can visualize tweets, replies, direct messaged in different panels. This is done using a local database to ... Read More →

Identi.ca: Open Source Microblogging Platform

Identi.ca is an open source implementation of a distributed microblogging platform. There are enough twitter clones but this one is different from others. One of the striking features of this app is that you will have full control of your data, meaning if you want to migrate to another service you ... Read More →

Create Twitter Extended Profiles

Early adopters and social media junkies use twitter for connecting with friends, peers and others, what if the profile page of twitter can be customized to include a simple bio of you so that others know your other online destinations. Adam at Mashable pointed out to a technique used by folks like ... Read More →

Plurk: Twitter Clone with a Timeline

Plurk is the new social microblogging tool that is buzzing all over the blogosphere today. When i signed up first it was confusing but then got used to it. So what is plurk, Plurk is a microblogging platform like Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku etc but with rich user interface and some more features. ... Read More →

TweetCube: Share files with twitter followers

Tweetcube is a new service built around Twitter API that allows to share files with twitter. Pownce has this feature of sharing files with followers but twitter lacks this one. Tweetcube is a free service, you can share images, videos, songs, zip files. The upload limit is currently 10MB/file. ... Read More →

15 Useful Adobe AIR Applications

Adobe AIR is a platform that allows developers to create applications that run on your desktop. Adobe AIR is a good platform to build desktop apps, these apps work both on windows and mac computers (Linux coming soon). Some of the folks have built useful desktop adobe AIR apps using Adobe AIR, here ... Read More →

TwitLinks: Tech News from Twitter Links

The number of services built on top of Twitter is increasing day by day, some are useful apps and some add just noise. Twit Links is the latest app built on top of twitter which scans twitter accounts of Top tech bloggers and presents the links shared by them. It grabs the links content with a short ... Read More →