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How To Add A Vine Feed To Your Facebook Page

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Twitter’s Vine for iOS and Android - often referred to as the Instagram for videos - has not yet opened its API up to the public. This means other apps can't tap into its potential to do a lot of extra things, but there have been workarounds for some. We showed you how to embed a Vine video on a website and as of the last update to the app, users can embed videos more easily and share their Vine videos to Facebook as well. What you still cannot do, however, is embed your entire Vine stream on a web page. Fortunately, you can do so on a Facebook page that you own, and were gonna show you how. Read More

Create Evernote Templates To Organize Notes Your Way With KustomNote

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Everyone recommends Evernote so much these days that it gets hard to imagine at times what the world was like before the little catch-all app came along. While Evernote works great for generic notes in all the supported formats, there are scenarios where you need to frequently note down information that is in a specific format, and you want to be able to save all that information while keeping the structural separation of the format intact. There may be a few such services out there, but many want to avoid the hassle of using multiple note-taking apps and would want to stick with their tried-and-tested Evernote. Fortunately, we've come across a service that takes care of all of this. Meet KustomNote - a web app that works as a companion to Evernote and lets you create templates to quickly and easily collect your ideas, appointments, research data etc. in a format of your choice. Your notes are still saved in Evernote itself, but everything looks neat and clean, on top of being very well organized. Read More

Kikutext Helps Teachers Communicate With Parents Via Text Messaging

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Being a teacher can be a wonderful experience, but it’s quite exasperating too, especially early on. And, as if your classroom duties weren't enough, you’re required to maintain consistent communication with lots of anxious parents and enhance school-to-home interaction, so students perform better. While these apparently conflicting demands are stressful, they’re also central to your teaching experience, and hence, implacable. Kikutext is a web application that understands the necessity of these stresses and seeks to mitigate them. Using the system, teachers are able to send quick individualized status updates directly to parents’ cell phones as text messages. Parents can respond to these updates by simply replying to a message from their cell phone. Read More

Give Photos A Funny Makeover In Facebook, Picasa & Flickr With Coolpic

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There’s no argument about Adobe Photoshop being the best photo-editing software around but quite frankly, this feature-laden behemoth of a photo editor is also one of the most difficult to learn and use, and it doesn't come cheap either. For most folks, however, Photoshop isn't even a necessary tool. Provided you’re not a professional artist, designer or photographer, you don’t need such a complex and comprehensive program for basic photo tweaking. If you just want to do some casual editing, there are many third-party freeware tools available on the internet. Today, we’re going to take a look at a browser-based photo editor called Coolpic. The app is designed to give your Facebook, Picasa and Flickr photos a quick makeover by adding funny props and speech bubbles. It supports all major web browsers including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Read More

OneQstn Makes Creating & Getting Feedback On Surveys A Snap

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When I was working on my final project for a research methodology course, one unnecessarily frustrating problem I had was not being able to  find a free online service that would allow me to survey a lot of people (this was before Facebook Polls made an appearance). I needed something that was simple to use and that my sample population could fill out quickly without having to sign up or figure anything out. Sadly, I never found it and the project took longer than it should have to complete. OneQstn is the kind of service I was looking for; it allows a user to create a question, set as many answers as they need, and then share it on social media. Your sample population does not have to sign in with any account to be able to vote on it. You receive a 'results' link that you can visit from time to time to see how the polling is going. Read More

5 Ways To Put Hashtags In Facebook To Good Use

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Hashtags are a Twitter thing, or rather they were a Twitter thing until Instagram added them too, as did several other services and social networks. Twitter is still king of the hashtag and has them the most deeply integrated among all others, as a tool for making and following trends. The popularity of hashtags is such that they've been used even where they don't ‘work’, i.e. on Facebook. We all have that friend who does it, we all wish they would stop because they're not doing anything, until now. Facebook has finally given in, and added support for hashtags, meaning any hashtags will now be clickable and searchable on the network. They can be added to status updates as well as photo captions. The question now is, what can I do with the hashtag? Hashtags on Facebook have to be actually used in order to become truly effective on the network, and here are five great ways to start putting them to work right away. Read More

Use Twitter Analytics To View & Export Your Timeline & Follower Stats

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Analytics, for a long time were something that only webmasters were interested in. Unless you had your own website or blog, chances were you did not need them. All that changed with social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, and analytics became relevant for everyone. Neither Facebook nor Twitter users are starved for such services; the internet is littered with big names like HootSuite and several smaller ones that will tell you how many 'likes' a Facebook post received, how many new followers you gained, how many times something you tweeted has been retweeted, and more. If analytics interest you, you'll be pleased to know that Twitter has made its analytics publicly available to everyone, to graph out the number of new followers, unfollows, and retweets etc. over a timeline. They aren't very sophisticated just yet, and aren't live either; aggregate data takes 6 hours to appear, and it seems it's reporting the number of clicks on links inaccurately at the moment. Your data can be exported in CSV and XLS formats. If you've used Google Analytics, you won't be impressed but this is Twitter, and it measures different variables along different parameters. Read More

Silencer Hides Twitter & Facebook Updates That Might Contain Spoilers

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Spoilers are terrible not just because they give away a crucial part of a book, movie, or TV series, but also because they deprive the reader/viewer of the adrenaline rush they were to experience after reading/watching something with dedication. Fortunately, you can’t just stumble across a spoiler unless you go looking for it. That is, unless you visit social media sites where people drop them thoughtlessly. To avoid spoilers on Twitter or Facebook is a challenge, but then the same is staying away from these sites for those who are active on them. Silencer is a Chrome extension for just such a purpose; it hides spoilers on Facebook and Twitter. You can add possible words that might be accompanied by spoilers such as the name of a new book that you’re reading, a movie you plan to watch, or different characters in a TV show who might die unpredictable, I-did-not-see-that-coming, violent deaths (I’m looking at you, G.R.R Martin). Read More

License Your Twitter & Instagram Photos & Earn Rewards With Dotspin

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Every photographer starts out as an amateur one and with phones sporting such excellent quality cameras, just about everyone with a smartphone is an amateur photographer these days. You can discount people who take pictures of food and their pets, but  there are some truly amazing pictures taken and shared on Twitter and Instagram everyday. Dotspin is a service for protecting the rights to photos taken by amateur photographers as well as a place for photography enthusiasts to have their photos reviewed by experts and voted on by a community that shares their interest. It works on a surprisingly simple concept: most people share photos via Twitter and Instagram, and both these services allow you to add hashtags to your posts. Dotspin asks that once you've signed up for the service, you add the #dotspin tag to what you share online, which will prompt the service to add your image to their database where it will be accompanied by a license for how it can be used. Read More

Quickly Preview, Delete & Archive New Mail In Firefox With Gmail Notifier

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Email notifications have become essential not just on our mobile devices but on our desktops/laptops too. Throughout the course of a normal workday, you will open, close (and forget to close) many tabs and in between all that, you'll constantly visit your email to check for anything new. Extensions and add-ons that keep track of and notify you when you have new email are useful for precisely this: keeping you sane and up to date with your email. Gmail Notifier is a Firefox add-on that does just that, but has support for multiple accounts and an amazing preview panel that gives you an excellent overview of the new emails you've just received. You can delete, archive or mark emails as read from the panel, and navigate to the next/previous email without even having to open Gmail. The add-on gives you both desktop and audio notifications, and lets you manually check for new emails, switch between different email accounts, and edit the color of the preview panel as well as the notification on the add-on's navigation bar button. Read More

Open, Edit & Sign Documents In Gmail With The HelloSign Firefox Add-On

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Ever wonder why signing an online document can feel so primitive? That’s because most of us follow this simple-minded route: download document, print it out, sign, scan, upload, and send to the concerned party. Yep, primitive would be the right term. From the extension of the team behind HelloFax comes HelloSign for Gmail, a Firefox add-on that changes this by enabling users to create signatures on the spot, stick them on any document and send it right from within your Gmail inbox, without soliciting any cumbersome third-party software. If you need someone else’s signature, simply assign a field to the document and send your request to them - it’s that simple! The extension was initially released for Chrome and later, the HelloSign service itself went mobile with the release of its iOS and Android apps. Read More

Have Firefox Pause Other Streaming Songs & Videos When A New One Is Played

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Music is the backdrop of most of the work that I do and it's probably that way for a lot of people. Some listen to music saved on their computers, mobile devices or iPods, while others use online streaming and radio services. I favor Pandora and have it running most days in an obscure tab, but then there will almost always come a time when I unwisely open a YouTube link and have the video playback mix with the music playing on Pandora, thus creating some of the most horrible remixes I've ever heard. Be Quiet is a Firefox extension that can help anyone with the same problem avoid this whole situation. It automatically pauses any song or video streaming on another site when a new media streaming link is opened. For example, it will pause Pandora, Last.fm or any other service that has an HTML5 based music player, when a YouTube link is opened and vice versa. Pausing said video or closing the tab will automatically resume the music from where it was paused. Read More

How To Use Facebook Profile Photos As Emoticons In Chat

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Mentioning friends and tagging them in photos is something Facebook users are well versed in. It's how Facebook lets you personalize the updates you share, helping you organize and share photos more easily, and also ensuring that the people in question get to see the update by getting notified about being tagged or mentioned.  Both the mentioning and tagging features are purely functional, but there's a little fun feature in Facebook chat that lets you use Facebook profile pictures as emoticons. The emotions, used as such do nothing more than adding a tiny version of the user's profile image into the conversation. The user whose image is used is not notified that someone was talking about them, the image doesn't serve as a link to the user's profile, and it certainly doesn't give you a shorter way to invite them into the conversation or spam them with notifications. Read More

FooTab Makes Chrome Launch Faster Using On-Demand Tab Loading

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Chrome’s tabs are legendary – or should I say infamous? If you've found yourself staring at a blank screen for minutes on end while the browser struggled and spluttered to reopen yesterday’s fifty-tab session, you know what I’m talking about. The problem lies in that Chrome tries to reopen all the tabs at once, hogging the computer’s physical resources, and then crashing. On Firefox, the issue was resolved this eons ago with the powerful BarTab that prevents new tabs from loading until you actually click them, and the add-on's code was later added to the browser itself to bring the feature to it natively. FooTab can be considered it’s protégé, though admittedly less powerful and a bit unstable, depending on your OS, browser version and computer speed. But it’s definitely worth a shot; for a full ten seconds, the add-on prevents inactive tabs from sending web requests and only restores web traffic to them when you want to visit them. To activate a blocked tab, simply click it. Read More

Scroll Over Firefox Search Bar & Context Menu To Switch Search Engines

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Ever notice that a lot of other browsers don’t have the switch-search-engine function in their search bar, like Firefox does? Chrome, as Google’s flagship web browser, is naturally more inclined toward googling than surfing per se, for example, but Firefox tends to not think that way. Using the search bar next to the URL bar, you can quickly switch to a different engine, from Twitter to Bing and everything in between. Scroll Search Engines, an extension for Firefox, makes this even more convenient. Now you don’t have to click the down-arrow and select a search engine to go with;  simply hover your cursor over the bar, and use the mouse wheel to scroll through the available option till you have the one you want. Read More

TweetDeck Gets New UI With Slide-Out Menu & Better Column Navigation

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Twitter has just redesigned TweetDeck’s web interface. The change is noticeable the second you sign in to the service; the top bar has been repositioned to the left, and can be expanded and collapsed. You can compose a new tweet, add more columns and search Twitter from the top three buttons. The sidebar can expand to reveal the name of the columns you've added and the number of unread/new tweets in each column, your lists, and the search box. The columns you add are all represented by icons and should be easy to identify, unless they're for a search, which is represented by a magnifying glass icon and is almost the same as the Search icon itself. The new interface also makes it easier to follow your feed when you have a large number of columns added. Read More

Switch Any Chrome Tab To Incognito Mode & Back With A Click

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Incognito mode is a great tool for Chrome sleuths, but switching back and forth between Incognito and normal browsing windows can prove a bit of a hassle, and one can often lose track of which tabs you had open in which of these windows. Well, you can give Incognito Tab Switch a try; the browser extension works both ways, so you don’t have to fumble around going from private to normal browsing mode ever again. Quite convenient, isn't it? Wondering if that feature’s really worth another button on your toolbar? Check out the screenshots and details after the jump. Read More

Share Files Of Up To 1GB Size With Your Facebook Friends Using Pipe

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If you were to name a few websites that waste time, Facebook would be among the top five for sure. And if you were to name a type of web service, of which a new company or name pops up every other month, it would have to be file sharing. Put these two together and we have Pipe: a Facebook app that lets you transfer files to your Facebook friends, from within Facebook. There's no need to install anything on your system, so it doesn't matter if you use Mac, Windows, or even Linux. You can transfer files to friends when they are online, or offline. Friends who are online will be sent a message that you're sharing a file with them. They can then visit the Pipe app on Facebook and accept the incoming file. If your friends aren't online, you can upload the file to your 'Locker', from where it can be downloaded when your intended recipient is online and sees your message. The service launched only a few hours ago and not only has a nice clean design, but is also fairly fast. Read More

Get A Universal Google Services Menu In Chrome & Remove The Black Bar

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For a lot of users, Google is the internet, and that makes perfect sense; why go anywhere else if your local store is better than the competition? I know it sounds a bit hyperbolic to say this, but Google makes some of the best apps, products and services around. How it enables users to access them is quite another matter altogether; most of us aren't particularly inclined towards the black bar that runs across the top of Google’s homescreen, since it’s limited and non-customizable. Let me introduce you to the brilliant Black Menu, a Chrome extension that places all of Google's most popular apps and services together in a simple, customizable panel, bringing everything you need within single-click radius. If the internet ever had a start button, it’d be this. The developer is also offering Black Bar Removal extension to get rid of the black Google bar that you will no longer need with Black Menu. Read More

Protect Privacy On Facebook By Removing URL Tracking Tokens In Chrome

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Facebook tracks your online activity, no matter where you go on the network. It uses the information to show you better ads, and we all know how very 'accurate' and 'useful' those Facebook ads are. You can avoid being tracked by Facebook by signing out when you aren't reading your feeds but Facebook has a huge presence; it’s integrated into operating systems and browsers like OS X and Firefox, and more. It’s also one of the easiest ways to sign in or sign up for a service, as well as comment on and share a lot of online content. Basically you’re at an impasse; signing out of Facebook means you can protect your privacy but it comes at the cost of having to sign in again, or not at all, to a service, and being unable to share content on the network. Do Not Track Me Facebook is a Chrome extension that gives you a solution. It prevents Facebook from tracking you so you can stay signed in and enjoy all the benefits of it, without compromising your privacy. Read More