StumbleUpon Toolbar gets Web Page Sharing across Twitter and Facebook via Su.pr

By Martin Kaba • Sep 28th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Ubuntu, Web Utilities, Windows

“I already have the Stumble toolbar installed. Just give me a button to send to Su.pr so I can submit it to Twitter without another bookmarklet”. That’s exactly what a StumbleUpon user asked for a while ago in the Su.pr Suggestions Feedback Forum. Now the StumbleUpon team has made it possible to post a web [...]

Firefox: Seamlessly Update your Twitter Status and Get Updates with Echofon (TwitterFox) Add-on

By Martin Kaba • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

Why use another Twitter application when the Twitter teams keeps rolling out design tweaks for its web version? I no longer find it necessary to get a “”full fleshed” and often bulky Twitter application with all the new features the web browser version offers. Twitter fans who use the web browsers for tweeting like Firefox [...]

Twitter Adds Design Tweaks to the Web Browser Version

By Martin Kaba • Sep 18th, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Firefox, Web Utilities

Twitter adds power to your web browser by rolling out new design tweaks to the web browser that are quickly noticeable when you go to a user’s profile page. Formerly the ‘Follow’ button was the only option under the username, but now there is a newly designed follow button, and close to it there is [...]

Get RSS and Twitter Updates on Your Monitor with FeedRoller

By Martin Kaba • Sep 4th, 2009 • Filed under: Windows, freeware

Windows only: FeedRoller does what it says, it places at the top of your monitor your RSS feeds and Twitter Updates. On my 24″ LCD Monitor it’s almost perfect, but my 17-inch laptop monitor is just too small, I can’t let FeedRoller’s black background banner eat up more space.

One Gmail Address for Multiple Twitter Accounts

By Martin Kaba • Aug 27th, 2009 • Filed under: Email, Web Utilities

From 0 to 5 the Difficulty Level for completing this task is 0. It all boils down to dotting your Gmail username which is also your Gmail email address to trick Twitter. For Google these Gmail email addresses (for example) are the same, they belong and refer to the same person; yourusername@gmail.com, your.username@gmail.com, or your.user.name@gmail.com.

xTweet: Tweeting from within XBMC Media Center

By Martin Kaba • Aug 20th, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

The title of the post should be “trying to tweet from within XBMC with xTweet”. xTweet is an extension script for XBMC Media Center that transforms XBMC into full-featured Twitter desktop client with specific features like; Tweeting about the a song or video you’re playing. As shown in the screenshot xTweet also packs those features [...]

DownloadHelper 4.6 Adds Capability to Tweet a Video Over Twitter

By Martin Kaba • Jul 27th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Multimedia, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Video, Windows

For Windows/Mac/Linux: DownloadHelper, the Firefox extension that helps you capture videos from websites by simply clicking the DownloadHelper animated icon gets a new exciting feature. This top firefox extensions gets an update from version 4.5 to version 4.6 and adds the capability to Tweet a Video Over to Twitter.

Chritter: A Google Chrome Twitter Extension

By Martin Kaba • Jul 2nd, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Open-Source, Windows

Chritter is a Google Chrome extension that places non-intrusive Twitter updates on your Chrome Status Bar. So whilst navigating with your Chrome Browser, Twitter updates appear down there and keep you informed on what your contacts are up to.

Firefox Extension: Add Notifications to Web Applications with Yip

By Martin Kaba • Jun 12th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu

Firefox has a new exciting extension, called Yip. In Linux/Ubuntu, it brings standard Mozilla pop-up notifications ( the Thunderbird type of Taskbar tray pop-up mail-notification) for web applications to your Firefox browser. Tests can be carried out with web applications that have notifications implemented like Meebo, Filttr – – a twitter web application and client. [...]