Refollow is web based application (startup) which helps you to mange all your twitter friends and followers. It is very easy to use. I like this web application, because I had a problem with deleting more than 300 followers (there where some reasons) and it would be very hard to do it manually. So I discovered Refollow, which helped me with this problem it done it automatic and quickly.
I also liked that this web application has very good search system. For example if you want to find all those people who you are following, but who doesn’t follow you, so all you have to do is tick a checkbox and it will automatically show them and you will be able to delete them from your following list (unfollow). It also has an option to see non active twitter users, so you could unfollow them.
I like that this web application has option to select all and select a page, because it sometimes is very handy. It has a lot of other useful for twitter management tools, so go and see it closer, I suggest.
What i didn’t liked about this web application is that it has some problems with counting all your followers and friends. For example you have 280 followers and you click show all followers it shows 260 (in total) So where are those 20? It’s a small bug, if I can say that (maybe it’s only on Chrome?) which doesn’t make any disadvantages of this web application at all. Also I noticed that everything is little bit to slow, of course it could be my internet connection.
I also noticed that when you are in this application you can’t logout from your twitter, maybe it’s for all twitter applications?
Best of all this web application is free of charge and to login in it you can use two methods: login with twitter account and Twitter OAuth.
Have you ever used Refollow? What did you liked in it ? and what don’t?
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06-Nov-2009
Refollow – manage your twitter account
Category : Internet
01-Nov-2009
In middle of summer Microsoft announced that they are working on their new operating system Windows 7. They said that it will be better that windows Vista. They relayed also a beta version, which where available for free download on Microsoft homage. They gave it to people, so users could say what they like and what the don’t like- what they need to change of fix. I think it was very good step from Microsoft’s side, they started listen to people. This beta versions which where downloaded will work till middle of the summer 2010. After that you must buy the official version, otherwise it won’t work. So if you now are using beta version of Windows 7, you should consider upgrading.
On October 22 Microsoft has produced and started shipping to stores their final version (fully functional) of Windows7. It even was number one sealed products on Amazon. Everybody was waiting, how it will look in final, what’s will be new, etc. Many was saying that it gone be more powerful and faster than previous operating system (Windows Vista).
As always there was few editions of Windows 7 and prices also where different. So let me present them.
| Name | Windows 7 Ultimate ($219.99) |
Windows 7 Professional ($199.99) |
Windows 7 Home Premium ($199.99) |
| Improved Desktop navigation |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Start programs easy and fast | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Internet Explorer 8 included | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Watch and record TV on your computer | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Easy create home network | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows XP mode included | Yes | Yes | |
| Domain Join included |
Yes | Yes | |
| Back up to home or business network |
Yes | Yes | |
| BitLocker to protect your data | Yes | ||
| 35 languages included | Yes |
Via Microsoft.com
As you see the best choose for all jobs would be Windows 7 Ultimate edition, because it has all the options which you need and even don’t need. But if the price of it is to high for you I suggest to choose the Professional edition, because it has Windows XP mode included, which will help you to run all your Windows XP programs.
What I don’t like about this versions is that 35 languages which you can switch are included it the expensive version. It’s very hard to new computer users to understand what to do and any other language which they understand could help.
And also I don’t understand why they need these versions, it would be easier if they had one version in one price, so people don’t need to think which is better or worse for them, they just buy the one and that’s all no headaches for them.
27-Sep-2009
House M.D – TV serial
Category : Film
In hole of the television are many interesting and boring television serials. Everybody of as have their favorite serials or just only episodes. I also have few favorite serials, which I love to watch. I also like to discuss the serials and episodes. And one of my favorite television serial is House M.D.
What I am thinking about the serial?
I as human, who is interested in filming and script writing can say that this serial is just fantastic. The most important thing which saw watching this serial is that it is simple. It does not have anything which is hard to understand, ok only the medicine terms, but if you watch this serial often you start to understand these terms, because they are revising all the time. And you even do not need do understand them if you want to watch this serial, because it is interesting also without the understand them. If I compare with other medicine serials, that I can say that it is hard t find or there no exists a similar serial, but maybe I haven’t seen all the serials about medicine, but I still think that the idea of these serials is unique and incredible. I have seen few episodes of “ER” and I think there everything is happening very fast and it is hard to understand what the doctors there are doing, but in “HouseM.D”, everything what is happening is explained from the medicine opinion.
About the doctor House
Lead in this serial is playing Doctor Gregory House, the real actors name is Hugh Laurie. I think the personality of Doctor House is just fantastic, I think there are no words to describe this personality, but anyway I will tray. As may know Doctor House is an petulant and egoistic person, who thinks only about himself. And it is because he is limping. But still he is a smart doctor, who knows a lot. But the general difference, between this and other serials is that this is not only bout medicine but here also are inserted some people feelings. I think that everybody, who is watching this serial, knows some of the phrases, which are saying Doctor House and almost always they are funny.
About other persons in this serial
In this serial are many persons around the hospital and Dr.House. I think that they also play a responsible role in this serial. One of my favorite persons after doctor House is Dr.Forman. (Omar Epps). I think that he is the biggest heater of Dr.House. He is as good person, coppering with Doctor House.
If we speak about other persons, who are participating in this serial, then they also are as a balance between them and Doctor House.
First when the 4th season came up, I was disappointed, because there weren’t the old his team characters, I know that they quit from working with doctor house in the last episode of 3rd season, but I just wanted that they participated also in the 4th season. But after few episodes of 4th season, I started to like this all and when the Dr.Forman come back to the team it was again perfect.
Overall
This TV serial is one of the best I have seen. And it has amazing screenplay. Every episode I watch with interest and I know that there always will be something interesting, serious and funny. I like the personality of Doctor House and Hugh Laurie is a brilliant actor, I think it would very hard to find another actor for this roll. Everything in this serial is in the right place and it doesn’t need anything else. Now on TV screens we can see 5th season, which I think it shows that the serial will continue and will have ten seasons, which would be great.
My mark for this Serial is 9.9/10
Should I write more about tv serials and similar things? Which tv serials do you watch?
06-Sep-2009
Few weeks ago I wined a Nintendo Dsi- portable gaming system. Since then I have been playing and testing it and I have discovered some interesting and also boring features of it so in this article I wanted to tell you more about those advantages and disadvantages of this gaming system, also I will try to tell you overview of it.
Nintendo Dsi comes in two different colors, white and black, so you can choose a color which is better for you. I have white and using it for this few weeks it hasn’t became dirty, and if you are afraid only for that, then it’s not a problem for it.
In front of it, it has a 2 megapixels photo camera and nothing more is there. On the left side it has volume plus and minus buttons; on the right side it has a place for stylus and SD card slot. In front of it you will find headphones jack. In the backside of it has two left and right photo buttons, also a Nintendo Dsi game card slot. In down side you will only see the place where the battery is kept.
When you open it, first what you see are two screens, there are also power on and off button, gaming joystick and 4 buttons, with which you can play your games, also there are two buttons called Start and select.
Interesting fact, I think is that only one, of two screens is touch sensitive- it’s the one which is situated down side. Between those screens you will find also a second camera and a microphone.
When you first turn it on you will see a warning about health and safety. Secondly you will have a short setting up process, where you will need to take your photo, set the time & date and some stuff like that. When you will be done you will see your photo on the upper screen and the Nintendo Dsi menu on the second screen.
06-Sep-2009
Why you should blog
Category : Blogging
Today I wanted to give you some suggestions on why you should blog. There are many reasons for that, I will try to mention only the most important.
Of course, there are also lot of reasons why you shouldn’t blog, but let’s leave this topic for now.
(Photo via: Eriding.net)
Help others: The major thing why people are blogging it’s giving some help for those who need it.
For example, if you know a lot about website building, why not to share your knowledge with others, so new web developers could build good websites and make the web even better.
Your blog is like open and free encyclopedia for everyone, who is on the web and you are as author of it.
Get advice: My motivation for blogging is to learn from my readers, so they all turn their comments like a book of advices for me.
With your blog you can also ask for advice, for example in a blog post and if you will have some readers they will help you to do it.
Find new contacts: Blog also can help on finding new friends or even partners.
For example if you write your blog about gardening and one or more readers likes your thoughts or if they don’t agree with you, they will write their comment’s and if the discussion will be very interesting you can try to meet up with your reader and you can become friends. The same situation is when finding a new job partner.
Another example, you write about computers (hardware and software tips and tutorials) and one of your readers have broken computer and he understand that you can fix it for small price. So it’s a way how to find new clients.
Make your writing better: If write your blog for a long time, your writing skills will be better. I tested it on myself and it really works.
It’s very good for collage students, who are writing essays and other writings. It will also help you to express your thoughts more clearly.
If you are going to be a journalist, blog will help you to test yourself-can you be a good journalist or not.
Make money: This is the reason, which everybody likes in blogging. In now days (when the economical crisis is) everybody want make some extra money and I think that blog is new (for beginners) opportunity to do that.
Many of you think that it isn’t realistic to make money by blogging, but us a true example I can mention Darren Rowse it’s a guy from Australia, who makes money only by blogging. So if he can, why you can’t? Ok, maybe you can’t make as many as he, but by earning few dollars a day, you could get nice Christmas present for yourself.
What are your thoughts on this?
06-Sep-2009
Workspace for blogger
Category : Blogging
If you want to run a blog and work on it seriously, you need to think about the place where you will do it – the workspace; it is thing number one in your list before starting a blog.
The table
The first thing in your workspace is table. It is important because, you will hold on it almost everything-Laptop or desktop computer, printer and other tech. Probably you will write articles in notebook (it is my suggestion to do so), I think that there will be some books and other useful stuff for blogger.
My suggestion to you is that you should buy a large table, so there would be enough space for your computer and, you could do some writings on this table.
If you don’t have enough space for big table, you should consider buying two tables: one for the computer and other for writing and other stuff you will need.
The chair
The second thing which you will need for your workspace is chair. It is also very important thing because it affects your health, the position of your back, especially when you spend a lot of time in front of computer (for example by writing multiple or long posts)
In this question you must talk to shop assistant, but I like the chair which choose famous blogger: Paul Stamatiou you can read his thoughts about the chair he bought in his blog:(Review: Herman Miller Celle Chair)
Also thing about lightness in your workspace, but now let’s move to some tech stuff.
05-Sep-2009
Google Analytics overview
Category : Google
Today I want to speak with you about your traffic. Traffic is the most important part of your site, of course it’s in second place after site content, but anyway you must analyze, which content is most popular, which content you don’t need on your site or blog, how many visitors come to your site and many other aspects, which is important in site traffic. So as you understand you must monitor your stats to get higher traffic.
And here come Google analytics to help you follow after your site traffic. Google analytics I think is the best choose, when choosing between similar analytics programs for your site. First of all it’s made by Google, and it means that it’s stable and secure. Secondly it is easy in use. And third- it can be connected with your Google Adsense account.
Inside Google Analytics
In the screenshot you can see the main screen of Google analytics monitoring program. As you can see it shows a lot of useful information for your site metrics.
So the first part of the program shows detailed daily, weekly and even monthly statistic of visitors which come to your blog, on the second part of the program you can see detailed stats on your site usage- it shows how many visitors come to your site, how many page views there where, then it shows the middle pages/visits count. I don’t know exactly what the bounce rate is, but I don’t use it, but if you know some information about it, please let me know it, add the information in comments bellow this post. Then you can see the average of the time, how long visitors are on your site. And the last stop point of this part of program shows how many there where new visits on your site (Percentage), but you can get more detailed information about all this points by clicking on them.
The next part of the program is Visitors overview part. It shows the count of visitors, which come to your site. If you click on the view report link you can get more detailed information about your unique visitors and of course other information too.
05-Sep-2009
Ubuntu- Do I need it?
Category : Reviews
“Ubuntu is free, open-source operating system.” It can be installed on desktops, laptops and even servers. This is a good alternative for those who don’t want to pay extra charge. I had an opportunity to find out how it works; in the rest of my article I tried to solve the question “Do I really need it?” If you want find the answer, then continue reading.
Yesterday I had good chance to test the “Ubuntu 7.10” operating system. It was a LiveCD, so I didn’t need to install it on my hard drive to simply test it.
I did not check all functions of this system, but only the general.
What is an open-source operating system?
Open source operating system is the same, operating system like others, only this system is free of charge and the software code can by updated by any programmer in the world.
The real definition of the open source you can read in Wikipedia.
The Ubuntu
I think that Ubuntu is a good alternative for windows, because it has everything what we need. It has the Internet, Mail reading software, Office software, which includes (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) it is all named Open Office, which you can also use on your windows PC.
The original LiveCD boot’s too slow, but I think that it is not a problem. In the LiveCD you can everything preinstalled, like Firefox web browser, Open Office, Games and many more useful programs.
This Operating system for me was very easy to use, because there everything is made logically.
The best thing which I did not expect that the internet will be ready, after the boot, so I didn’t needed to configure it manually.
The LiveCD also gives us an opportunity to use it anywhere and also everything is legally.
The biggest disadvantage of this OS is that it hasn’t so many programs as windows have. But there are also people, who use the computer only to surf the internet, listen music, watch movies, chat with friends and etc. And this OS allows you to do it.
Ubuntu- Do I need it?
After spending only about 30minutes with this OS, I can say only the best. And which operating system to choose only depends on your goals which you want to reach and also in what cases do you use it If you use the computer only to write something, check out the internet, watch some movies or listen music on it, then you can choose the Ubuntu, and by choosing it you will also economy some money, because its free. If you are planning to use this computer for other goals like gaming, video edit, website making and etc. then the best choose for you will be the windows.
The desktop edition of Ubuntu is available for download on this link:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
To use Ubuntu you will need: PC with at least 384mb of RAM, and 4GB of hard drive space. The latest information about Linux can be found on official website:
www.ubuntu.com
I will be happy to hear your experience with the Ubuntu, in the comments bellow.
05-Sep-2009
Sony DCR-DVD 110E – Review
Category : Reviews
Everybody loves to take photos, so they can show their feelings and fun. But when the YouTube came, then everybody started to think on buying a camcorder. I had other reasons, when I bought it, and now I am happy, that I bought one, because it allows not only show my feelings but also show this all in action. I am satisfied with my camera now and that’s way I wanted to write a short review for those, who are thinking on buying this or any other camera, I hope this will help you to choose camcorder, which fits your needs.
Design and look
This camcorder is made very simple, it hasn’t a glossy design, and it’s just for simple users. If you are looking for camera, which will bring your friends attention then this isn’t the right camera. The body is made from silver plastic, only the back, where the Mini DVD is kept is black and it’s made from rubber. This camera is easy to hold in hand. In standard shop assembly it comes with special belt which allows you to hold this camera.
There aren’t many buttons, because the screen is touchable, this function you will see in almost every Sony made camcorder. There are still some buttons on the panel, they are the most important – stop and record button’s. Also there are the same buttons – record and stop buttons on the left side of the screen. I almost forgot there are also buttons to zoom in and zoom out. There are also located on both, the screen left side and back. This camera also has one minus and it’s the location where is the Mini DVD insert and eject panel, it’s just simply very uncomfortable, when you trying to change the disc, because the belt for holding is on the way of it. So please note, when buying this camera, check it in shop already, not just in home, when it’s little bit too late.
Also one interesting note, which I noticed using this camera and which I think is big plus for it. All the holes are hidden with something, so no one can see them.
So this is very simple designed camera which is mostly in silver and black colors. If you don’t want to be the superstar among your friends, then this camera is right for you, besides it’s easy in use, because it most cases you will use the touch screen.
05-Sep-2009
List of 5 Skype programs
Category : Software
Skype is most popular program to make free online calls and chat with friends. Since the first official version of the program, it’s become so easy and fun to use. Now it has many useful features built in, like video conferencing, Skype for cell phone, call forwarding and many other functions which makes this software most popular in world.
Latest versions of Skype have interesting feature called “Extras” it’s collection of programs which you can download or buy and use it with your Skype, most of them are made to entertain with your friend or group of friends, but there are also many programs for serious work. You can find them by going to your Skype and choosing “extras” from the Tools menu in the window. When you open them, you can see that they are organized in to various categories. There are many programs for business, entertainment, sharing, productivity and many other. In most cases they are free, but sometimes you can find a program which is available as a trial and you can only use it only for few days as a free of charge.
Pamela Call Recorder
This program will help you, when you need record your conversations. I am using it and I am complacent with it. Only the voice on other side is little bit to quiet, when you listen the recording. This program also allows you to add various sounds during the recording, like applause, baby cry, drums and etc. It also allows you to record a conversation, so it’s also very helpful when you want to create a podcast, between a people, who you can’t meet, but the podcast is very important.
White Board Meeting
White Board Meeting is a program which allows you to create a virtual white board, which can be used for deciding something in a big company, which has lot of people inside and can’t get them all in one place. It’s like Paint, but this is just for a group of people and it can be used in real time. But you don’t need make conversation to use it; it also works very well in offline mode. If you need a whiteboard, but don’t have so much money to buy it, then go on and try this virtual white board.