Twitter has become one of the worlds largest sites overnight and a lot of people are trying to jump on the bandwagon. Here is a collection of the best free sites that focus on Twitter backgrounds. Im sure that out of this list you will find the right Twitter background for you.
MediaCore is a free open source video, audio, and podcast publishing platform. It is built for organizations who wish to distribute media in a variety of formats on their website while maintaining the ability to control the user experience.
The purpose behind MediaCore was to make a central media library that could pull media from any source, track statistics, enable commenting, and provide a high degree of control over the presentation and administration.
Administrative Workflow is straight forward and is built based around moderating and approving user-submitted media. Media can be added through either the front-end or administrative back-end.
Viewpipe is a new movie site in which users can watch full movies online for free. The site has no limitations, but the current movie list isnt really that up to date.
Once you find the movie you want to watch it then directs you to a page in which you need to fill out a quick survey to watch the movie. I find the site poorly designed as it is just a customisation of a free wordpress theme, plus Im not a big fan of the fact that you need to fill out a survey to watch a movie. There are a lot of improvements needed on this site.
A Facebook Page is a public Profile that enables information about business and products to be shared with Facebook users and the public. An user should be able to create one in a few minutes. This article “Creating a Custom Facebook Page” explains how to add custom tabs to your Facebook page to make it do more. He has explained how to built a carousel, navigation tabs, forms, etc on your facebook page easily.
You will need to use FBJS (Facebook Javascript). This provides the functionality we need to develop custom facebook pages. This is also to protect other users privacy at the same time and restrict Javascript features that can be abused. This tutorial helps you cut short your search and gives you a head start in your quest to build custom tabs within Facebook pages.
FreeLoader is a great company for cool gizmos and gadgets that come in handy and save you some money. Their new solar charger which they have just unveiled is the latest in a long line of such products. It’s small, slim and handheld, as you can see in the picture above.
It consists of two solar panels and a lithium battery. It can charge the average iPod in just eight hours which isn’t too bad considering you could just leave it on your window sill. This will give you 28 hours of power for an iPod or 70 for the average mobile phone. It flips around to open like a switch blade and then folds right back up, just like that. You wouldn’t notice it in your back pocket.
This would definitely suit campers and explorers who need to charge cameras, phone and iPods while away instead of carrying three or four cumbersome battery packs. Freeloader don’t concentrate on the green aspect, only the practical side.
“We don’t want people to buy it because it’s green. We want them to buy because it’s useful. The green part is an added benefit,” said CEO, Andrew Williams
Are My Sites Up is a new website monitoring service which lets you know when your blog or website is down. Currently the free version of this software allows you to track 5 websites and monitored in 60 minute or less intervals. Are My Sites Up has also released a desktop application based on Adobe Air which helps you check the status right from your desktop. This application will sync with your Are My Sites Up account and retrieve all the accounts.
There are so many people all across the world who download videos from Google’s video portal Youtube. YouDown is a software program for the Windows operating system that can be used to download videos that are hosted at Youtube.
Users can either copy and paste single urls into the interface of the program or import text files that contain multiple Youtube links. The import only works if the text document contains one Youtube link per line.
YouDown requires the Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and a Windows operating system.
Inbox2 is a new web application that is currently available in beta, in which lets you pull all of your emails and social network communications to a single unified stream.
Currently, Inbox2 is completely free and you can either user their standalone application or a Facebook application. If you already spend tons of time on Facebook, for example, you can add your email, Twitter, and other updates to your Facebook notifications instead, as well as read and send messages from any of your non-Facebook accounts without leaving Facebook’s site.
Inbox2 also integrates well with your existing system, allowing you to import your existing labels and stars from other services like Gmail. It also has support for Microsoft Exchange 2007, and is planning on releasing an iPhone app in the near future (followed by apps for other smartphones). Take a look at their demo video below for a closer look at how it all works.
Sometimes Im terrible at explaining my ideas, so why not give it go through the medium of Art! FlockDraw is an easy to use online whiteboard with all the tools you need to quickly, collaboratively sketch your next big idea and share it with the world.
Simply click the “Start Drawing” button on FlockDraw’s homepage, and a whiteboard opens up in your browser. Use the set of tools in the sidebar to create lines, circles, text, or freehand drawings in any combination of the seven available colors. A unique URL is assigned to each drawing so you can invite others to join and draw with you in real-time.
Beyond the whole fun-to-use aspect, FlockDraw has plenty of useful real-world applications—from remote teams working together on projects to parents who want to doodle online with their kids as a way to reconnect while traveling. Give FlockDraw a try and let us know in the comments how you’d use this neat web app.
It always amazes me that people come up with specific season related wordpress themes and icons. Here is a new set for Christmas.
The theme is decorated using Smashing Christmas Icon Set and its main goal is to give a blog a very festive, snowy, New Year’s atmosphere. The theme has no particular requirements, except that the WordPress 2.8.5+ should be installed.
The theme is free to use in private and commerical projects. It is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions.
Watermarking images is a great way to see where your images are being distributed too. Here is another free tool to watermark images with good customizable features. The application is portable and does not require any installation. The watermark image program, is a free software tool that can add digital Watermarks to all your images, photos and pictures in a batch.The program can also resize the images before the digital watermark is added.
When creating the watermark, you can use either text or another picture as the source of the watermark. If you want to add the watermark to the background, you can set the logo or the text to be more or less transparent. Apart from this, you can also select the location of watermark from 9 different locations available for selection.
Features
Watermark digital images, pictures, photos
Resize images while watermarking the image
Multi threaded
Maintain directory structure in destination directory or combine all watermarked images in one directory
Skip or overwrite existing watermarked images in destination directory
Automatically check for new version of watermark image
This is a very useful tool to watermark images in batches and with good set of features, it is totally worth.
