Gmail is huge hit amongst users not only because it is a part of family of Google, but due to many reasons. There are so many extra features created by some professional and independent developers. Every feature makes it more users friendly and hence it is becoming the most favorite of all users.

Canned Responses

If there are common messages to be sent to all friends, it can be done with a button next in compose form.

Google Calendar Widget

All upcoming events, locations and details can be viewed in Google Calendar. It is seen in left of the mail box.

Google Docs Gadget

There is special notification by Google docs, recent dos, starred docs and even faster search.

Google Maps Preview in mails

Google maps will show address of all the senders who are sending mails, as it previews all addresses.

Image Insertion

All kinds of images insertion can be done by URLs too. You need to be online for this, as it would not work in offline mode.

Mark as Read Button

Just select the mails and click on ‘Mark as read’ to avoid having them unread in your mails.

Message Sneak Peaks

Conversation can be easily peeked without right clicking and opening them in new window.

Mouse gestures

Mouse gestures are helpful. Holding on right click of mouse  and moving it left will help to view previous conversation,  moving it right will help to go to  next conversation, while moving up will help to go to main inbox.

Preview Pane

reading mail is easier when it is connected with list of conversation. Gmail allows with the preview Pane feature too.

Sender Time Zone

Why to call the sender and disturb him at any odd hours when you know the time the message was send.

Undo Send

whether you forgot to add a sender or has too many names in sender list, undo button is here to help. Message can b stopped even after hitting send button by clicking on ‘Undo’.

All these features make Google very special and friendly to be used by everyone. So start accessing Google Labs now.

Yesterday, Boxee for iPad is released along with the Boxee Media Manager (for streaming files from PC to iPad), it also have a new bookmarklet to save things from the web to your watch later queue, and a few updates to the Boxee Box.

Here are some features for iPad users that are totally new and just came out of the Boxee factory

Features of Boxee for iPad

Watch Later Options – Your queue anything from your media center and can watch Later on iPad. It can easily take your video playlist with you on the go. .

Friends Connect -  Yes, you can connect with your friends and have social experience.

Featured – You can also get the sneak peek dope from Boxee’s editorial staff. You can find stunning, hilarious, creative, and insightful videos shared from . We’ll keep you up to date with the best stuff on the net.

PC to iPad, Easily – Eliminate the need to convert or sync videos to your iPad. Boxee streams videos in almost any file format from your PC or Mac to your iPad over WiFi. Install the Boxee Media Manager, select the videos you want to share, and you’re ready to rock.

Send to TV – Find something on the iPad you’d really like to see on the big screen? Boxee Box users can send video from their iPad straight to a TV. Boxee software users don’t fret, this feature’s coming with the fall update. Can’t wait that long? Add it to the list of reasons it might be time to upgrade to the Boxee Box.

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CSS, though effective, by itself is a long and tedious process to go through. Graphic designers spend a lot of time developing and working though the code to provide the edge of design that they want to make to text. Additionally, this apart from being tedious and time consuming, is also complex and not the easiest to handle as a new person trying to add text effects or if you are new to the concepts of graphic designing.

CSS Text Shadow now makes it all easier for you. It generates the CSS code for different text styles, thereby saving a lot of code development time that graphic designers might have to spend. Additionally, it is available absolutely free of cost. It is a web tool that helps you find and use different text shadows.

To use this tool, complete the following:

1. Select the shadow type that you want to use.
2. From the Font Family, select the font you want to use.
   This will display the kind of font and shadow you have selected with sample text.
3. After seeing the preview, you can modify the text to what you want.
4. After you have added the text, click Get Code.
   This generates the CSS code that you can copy and use.

While surfing on internet you see a site which is using nice looking fonts and you want to use it on your site but unfortunately do not know the name of that font. Then what do you do? The first thing you do, is look into source code and the other thing you do is search for third-party applications. But what do you do, if that site contains many fonts? Then it becomes hard to find that font. No need to take so much pain in finding that font because there is a chrome extension which allows you to find a font in single click. WhatFont is a Google Chrome Extension which identifies all the fonts used on a webpage and offers you in-depth detail like which font family the font is from, what font size has been used, the weight and the line height. It can identify and give complete details of all fonts used anywhere on a single page of a website. This extension has a drawback that it does not identify fonts used in images.

It is the easiest way to identify web fonts and in this post I’m sharing a simple how to guide which clearly shows how you identify a font in any webpage.

Step1: First install the extension using this link

Step2: Click on install button to install this extension.

Step3: Now, hover on text and you will see the font in a little black box.

Step4: You can easily see the font we are using on TechProne little black box.

That’s it Isn’t that easy? It is a very simple extension but will be helpful when it comes to web designing and blogging. Do you find it useful, then why not share this extension with your friends?

The general rule about social media is that it is only as good as you can use it. So, finally being efficient and effective on social media finally depends on you. Twitter is a social media that has been gaining in popularity with millions of users accessing it. With the kind of population it has it becomes of prime importance to ensure that your voice is heard and you understand the implications of what you put out there for everyone to see. Here are a list of 10 tools that Twitter offers to make your tweets reach the right kind of audience, at the right time, and can provide you with feedback on how you have done.

1.    Tweetdeck : This is like a personal browser to stay in touch with the latest updates and being in touch with your contacts. It can be used to customize tweets with columns, groups, saved searches and automatic updates. It helps you stay in touch with people and topics of your choice easily.

2.  HootSuite : It is a tool that helps you manage multiple social networks all using one client the HootSuite. It also makes it easy to manage many users over many social network accounts for companies that have more than one contributor. Additionally, it also provides graphs to show individual and group contribution statistics.

3.  Nurph : This is a tool that helps you chat on Twitter. One of the best ways to make a social network work for you is to be on it and have a voice. Nurph. You can tweet to nurph.com YourTwitterName, this can then be used to bring your friends & followers together for a real-time chat.

4. CoTweet : It helps marketing and customer support professionals to manage their social media conversations from a centralized dashboard. This ensures that the communication goes from corporations of any size are all speaking in one language. This is useful for companies of all sizes.

5. Twellow : Twellow is similar to the yellow pages, except that this maintains a directory of public Twitter accounts. It also categorises the accounts and has search features that can help you find the people and categories that are of importance to you.

6. Twoorl : Twoorl is a web application that gives you updates on the impact that your Twitter account in the Twitter world. It provides you information with metrics on usage trends, associated clouds and user comparisons. It is priced at $9.90 a month and has a 20 day free trial available.

7. Twaitter : Twaitter helps you schedule your Twitter messages with easy. It helps you regulate the Twitter messages, manage your calendar, translate your tweets to different languages and update your blogs and RSS feed to your Twitter account.

8. Dlvr.it : This tool provides you the option to unite your blog with your Twitter. If you have written a blog and want to share it with your Twitter followers, this tool makes the transition easy. It provides you the option to syndicate content from social media.

9. ManageFlitter : This tool helps you manage who follows you and see who is not following you back. It also provides information on which of the Twitter accounts are inactive. This ensures that you follow and are followed by people that are serious about tweeting and therefore make you more efficient.

10. The Archivist : This is a service that uses the Twitter Search API. It helps find archived tweets. Using the information that the tool returns you can create an archive, analyze, export or share the Tweet. This is developed by the Microsoft’s MIX Online team and help you gather older information easily and effectively.

As a blogger you know how important images are and embedding them in a blog post makes it perfect & more attractive. If you add some effects in that image, then it looks too good. There is a free service called imageoid which offers you to quickly add effects to images and in addition to this you can also resize them & finally download it on your PC. 

This service supports formats like gif, jpg, png images of size 600KB for adding effects. To add effects on any image, the only thing you have to do is to upload that image and get started with adding effects in it. If you are not satisfied by adding effects you can easily erase the effects using reset button. Some of the effects available are Graysacle, Blur, Noise, Sepia, invert, Mosaic, etc.

I find this service pretty good and though you also like it? Share your feedback with us in comments section.

Link for Imageoid

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Have you been falling short of completing all the items on your to-do list? Are you in a dilemma and unable to make a decision at work? Do you have a key opportunity coming up in a place where cross-cultures are confusing you? Are you wondering on improving the quality level of your product without also impacting the pace of production? Is your memory failing you at times that you need it the most?

These are just some of the areas that may be troubling you and you may be wondering where to start to improvise on these fronts. A good place to start is your ‘mind’. Surprising as it may seem, though it appears that acquiring the right techniques and skills maybe your solution, the mind is what drives you and helps you acquire the required skills. Hence these techniques are known as ‘mind tools’ and listed below are some explore some of the mind tools:

1. Learning: Learning involves sourcing the information you need, understanding it and using techniques that will help you remember it whenever you need it. Part of acquiring the learning skill is identifying your own learning style; you can then create a suitable atmosphere around you to enhance your learning or even share your learning with others. Another important technique is to make note of important points as you learn a subject, repeat them over and over in your mind, use examples to learn something, and periodically review it to enable you to remember it whenever you need that information. Associated with this are the numerous memory improving techniques like link and story method, the alphabet technique, the number-rhyme mnemonic, memory games etc.
2. Communication: Acquiring this skill means planning how to communicate your message, what channels to use to send the message across effectively, making use of non-verbal communication and so on. By being assertive, confident, and presentable and having clarity of thought is just some of the ways to make a good impression while speaking. Continuous improvement can come about by exchanging feedback as a listener as well as a speaker. At work, a large part of our communication involves making presentations in front of an audience, leading meetings and discussions, sending company-wide or department wide messages through emails or circulars, and so on. And since we work with other people, we may need to negotiate with vendors/suppliers or just our colleagues to get out message across and find solutions to issues at hand. With globalization, we also have to understand cross-cultures and know how to communicate and work with people across nations. The challenges are many and so are the tools to learn from.
3. Time management: One of the first things you need to do is find out how you are currently using your time, keep an activity log. Secondly, prioritize your activities – the urgent/important matrix and the action priority matrix are two effective tools that help you with this. Once you know your priorities, scheduling your time accordingly is the next important step. Simple practices such as keeping important tasks of the day for the ‘morning’ time when you are fresh and your energy levels are high or reducing the time for each task as you accomplish it week by week.
4. Problem solving: Since it’s not realistic to expect problem free projects or workplace, you need to be equipped with the best problem solving skills possible. Keeping one’s mind alert to think of possible solutions, checking out the pros and cons of each solution and thereby eliminating the options that may yield the minimum or least success, thinking logically and avoiding steps that may result in failure are some of the key things you need to keep in mind and work with. Some of the problem solving approaches that can be implemented are appreciative inquiry, the Deming cycle that follows plan-do-check-act process, the straw man concept etc.
5. Creativity: It’s all about ideating. To bring out the best of creative solutions that your mind can think of you can involve yourself or your group in brainstorming – a technique that invites radical ideas across the board, star busting – understanding new thoughts and options by brainstorming questions, round-robin brainstorming – everyone in the room contributes their ideas and thoughts about the subject, etc Variations of some of these approaches can also help in bringing out the most creative and suitable solution for the problem or challenge you are facing.
6. Stress management: Stress builds up and gets accumulated when you ignore the early symptoms making it hard for you to carry on. Stress tests reveal the level of stress you are facing and gives you an idea about the amount of rest or ‘unburning’ that is required. Stress Diaries are also helpful in understanding short term stress in your life, identifying the levels of pressure that you can operate at, and ways of managing the stress effectively. Strategies like action-based, perception-based, coping strategies etc assist you in depth about adopting strategies that enable you to relieve stress. Other factors such as eating right and on time, sleeping enough, relaxing when in crisis and so that your mind is alert to think of suitable solutions, managing your anger etc are personality development practices that help in effectively managing stress.
7. Decision making: Decisions have the power to alter and influence your mind and either leads you to your successes or failures. SWOT analysis helps in identifying the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats related to an event, a project, money or person. Paired comparison analysis   , Conjoint analysis, Pareto analysis, Decision trees, etc are some of the decision making models that you can adopt to enhance decision making skills. In matters of finance, cost-benefit analysis, break-even analysis, cash flow forecasting are models which help cut or minimize the possibility of failures.
8. Leadership: Leadership is all about leading and winning the team or company to success. Not only are natural personality traits important but they can be acquired with practice too. Other key factors that build you to be an effective leader are understanding power, understanding the different styles of leadership, understanding cross-cultures and practices, and using emotional intelligence while being a leader.
9. Team management: Team management skills come after interpersonal skills. Once you have your interpersonal skills in the right place, you can practice some team management skills like developing, coaching and motivating your teams, rewarding and appreciating people, doing effective performance management, and delegating effectively.
10. Career: Personal SWOT analysis is the best step to take to understand your strengths and know your opportunities. Crafting your job to fit you better, choosing alternate roles in the same organization are things you can do to address career issues. If the current job is not satisfying despite the efforts to improve it, then a change of career might be the best suitable option. Planning the area of expertise, strengthening your skills and playing it up to your advantage, adjusting well to new policies and environments or taking a break to return back with gusto are some of the common but effective ways of managing your career.

In the Android Developers blog, Xavier Ducrohet, Android SDK Tech Lead posted a blog announcing the release of the SDK Tools for Android 3.0. In the blog he announced ‘The APIs are final, and you can now develop apps targeting this new platform and publish them to Android Market. The new API level is 11’.

Apart from the new platform Google has also released updates to the SDK Tools (r10) and the ADT Plugin for Eclipse (10.0.0). To help developers and users understand the extent of the changes made and the platform’s highlights, Google has provided information in the Android 3.0 Platform Highlights page.

The ADT Plugin in particular has an array of changes including, a new palette with categories and rendering previews, accurate rendering of layouts, ability to manipulate the View properties using selection-sensitive action bars, and improvements to zoom features like – fit to view, persistent scale, and keyboard access. Additionally, changes and improvements have been made to “merge” layouts and layouts with gesture overlays.

Google had released a test version of the Android 3.0 Honeycomb SDK in January 2011 to help developers test their application on the platform. However, this time they have made a more formal unveiling of the platform as a completed product.

Human Resource Manager of a company knows the complexity involved in recruiting employees and maintaining corporate brands. But not many are aware that the process can be made simpler yet effective with the use of Social Media. Although the world is embracing social media, some HR management is still wondering on how they should be taking part in it. Human Resource of a company can make use of social media to share information, learn, educate, collaborate and get connected with the world.

Social media can take many different forms, including Internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, microblogging, wikis, podcasts, pictures, video, rating and social bookmarking. It can serve as a significant tool in networking with professional contacts, hiring employees, making new contacts and also maintaining corporate brands. So here are some Top 10 ways an HR can make use of Social Media.

Recruitment

As more people sign in with social media to locate appropriate jobs, conversely HR management sign in to find applicants and segmenting tools to make the process narrow and easier. LinkedIn is of course the most important and interesting social media tool available today to help hr in recruiting employee. It serves as an opportunity for candidates to place themselves on industry and approach the companies without hassle. Simultaneously it becomes easier for HR to locate employees and pre-screen the person’s resume and move ahead with the process for future hiring. It really helps the recruiter to save time in the virtual process. Create a page on your intranet using Yahoo Pipes to consolidate the WatchLists for key candidates and competitor hires. Another latest option available is a job search engine called TwitJobSearch.

Build relationships

Joining groups like RecruitingBlogs, and HRMToday can offer great learning for HR. You should also not miss out on Ning that offers anyone to make their own social network online at free of cost. You have a chance to search for and join Ning groups that is particularly dedicated to your market or positions that you recruit for developing relationships with and hire candidates. After all, social media is simply the act of expanding and grouping the number of people you know by meeting your networks’ friends, their friends’ friends and so on. You can use social networks Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, LinkMe, Twitter to build relationships with potential candidates.

Communicate

Blog can be an effective form of communication, which let you communicate important messages or announcement to the people. It allows reader to post feedback and comments. Further social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace are incredibly powerful tools for communicating ideas and information. For example, Ernstandyoungcareers is making best use of Facebook for sharing ideas. So build your company’s Facebook Page and have a dedicated tab for your current openings.  Instead of sending emails, write blog posts, tag them & refer employees to the key posts for communicating information.

Training and development

Social Media is another effective tool for training and development of employees at work. Physical class room trainings are traditional ways and no more required with the advent of social media. Implement a microblogging tool, such as Yammer or Co-op, internally for training and development. Creating and sharing YouTube videos can be of great help in training employees of company. In addition developing micro-training programs for induction training using Udutu Teach Facebook application can be easier. Wikis and other sharing tools are optional. Any doubts can be addressed via instant messaging!

Employee Management

One of the major tasks for HR is employee management that involves, new employee, performance of existing employee, salary details, and so on. HR need to have all the employee related information stored at one place, so that accessed when required. Sites like Orangehrm is world’s leading open source HRM solution for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). OrangeHRM offers a flexible and easy to use solution for small and medium sized companies free of charge. By providing modules for personnel information management, employee self service, leave, time & attendance‚ benefits and recruitment companies are able to manage the crucial organization asset – people. The combination of these modules into one application assures the perfect platform for re-engineering and aligning your HR processes along with the organizational goals.

Compensation and Benefits

Candidates can surf through sites like SalaryScout which is a network of users seeking fairness in compensation and benefits. Other site called Glassdoor is a free career community where anyone can find and anonymously share an inside look at jobs and companies. The information comes from current and former employees, interview candidates, and even the companies themselves. Now with more than a million salaries, company reviews, interview questions, office photos, and more, candidates have all the information they need to manage career and make more informed career decisions. Companies and HR can negotiate better with candidates about compensation via such social media sites. Ann Bares blog on compensation force should not be missed that offers practical news, information, tips and musings about employee performance and compensation.

Task Management

Virtual reporting involves hassle, disturbance and can be time consuming for both manager and employers. Now the task management can become simpler with the advent of social media for HR. All you can do is create a group in Facebook/MySpace and let the employee post their task done for the day on that page. They can discuss and add the entire task on daily basis and report the tasks of the day so everyone in the company is aware of what the other person is doing. Additional they can place complains, issues or any other problem directly to HR via this.

Maintain Corporate Brands

Who are you? What do you expertise in? What can be accomplishing about your brand? How would you like to be known and documented by colleagues, other professionals, and potential employers? This entire information you can put in your social media profiles and this will eventually improve your corporate image and personal brand in market. Having a company’s website is a must, as visiting your social media profile users will then want to more about it. So a website will complete in and out can maintain corporate brands well.

Promoting and Advertising

There are various ways an HR can promote and advertise with the help of social media. Advertisements targeting users on social media channels are turning more widespread with social ads. By knowing who is using which social media site, HR can promote their company to the targeted audience on the suitable social site. Other option could be to have your employees & managers run online career fairs, talk about life in the company, court potential talent using social media.

Learn and Share

Human Resource of a company can learn through some amazing slideshare presentations regarding webinars and seminars. Likewise learn to subscribe for RSS Feeds that can be really helpful, for example Top 50 HR Blogs by BSchool can be a real source of information for Human Resource of a company. Of course, sharing what is needed is possible via various sources of social media.

Facebook is very addictive social networks with lots of spammy applications and user’s. We usually avoid spam’s but things get worse when someone misuse the Facebook Photo tagging feature for you. Some applications like “Who Staked Your Profile” and others contaminate your and your friends wall after gaining the access.

You can disable Facebook Photo tagging by few simple steps:

1.Go to your Facebook Privacy Settings

2.You also simple go to “Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites >What your friends can share about you” and Unchecked the “Photos and videos of me” .

Below mentioned screen shots will help you in disabling the Facebook Photo tagging:

a) Go to “What your friends can share about you through applications and websites”

b) Uncheck “Photos and videos of me”

After saving the changes no one can tag you via photos on walls. Though this tip will block photo tagging but your friends can still tag your profile with @username functions.

Today all of us are trying our best to minimize the use of papers and do as much as work possible digitally. This policy is also being used by different companies who want to accomplish most of their work with the help of digital devices only. Things are well when they are unofficial or rather you can say personal. But when it comes to official documents it becomes necessary to have a digital signature which authenticates the identity of the company and employees dealing with official matters on the behalf of company. But choosing a digital signature is not a child’s play and one has to keep so many things in mind while choosing digital signature. This is required so that not everyone can copy your signature and misuse it. When you choose a signature you can choose one which includes fingerprint in it so that nobody except you can use it.

Now the thing which must be coming in your mind is from where to get a digital signature. Well do not worry as you do not have to do all the work alone and can take help from mylivesignature which is a cool web application and helps you in creating the signature of your own choice. The website has done all efforts to make generation of signature easy for their users. When you will visit the home page of mylivesignature then you will find two ways to access it. One way is that you can sign up with the website and proceed with the process. Although you have an option of not signing up and getting the work done, but it is recommended to get registered for the following reasons:

• Have all your signatures in one place
• Gain access to downloads and plugins for Free
• Manage orders and access settings that non-registered users don’t have
• Get special pricing, discounts and offers on signature art products

There are different types of signatures out of which animated email signatures are quite popular these days. You can check all the styles available and tips regarding digital signatures. Hope this helps when you need to create digital signature for free!

Internet is a great source for reliable information on anything you need today, just that you need to reach out at the right place. When it comes to digital photography, anyone can pass as a good photographer by learning online information, however things get trickier when looking for best performance. On the other hand, you will come across many tips and tweaks to understand the capabilities of digital camera. But again, if you are a beginner then it is advisable to go for some handy tutorials that can improve your knowledge in photography completely. These tutorials are well-written by individual or group of photographers that has various level of experience to help you grow in all aspect of photography. We have already seen some best examples of action photography, underwater photography and city life photography. And is now time to look at digital photography, so Techprone here offer you Top 10 free digital photography tutorials, where you can learn and master your photography skills.

Digital-photography-school –

Digital photography school is designed to offer simple tips to help digital camera owners get the most out of their cameras. You can find all articles right from how to hold a camera to all lesson that make you a brilliant photographer. Darren Rowse is the person behind DPS, yet you will find many tips and tutorials written by other talented digital photographer.

Geofflawrance -

This free digital photography tutorial site will show you how to take better photographs. Each photo tutorial will help you turn your ‘snaps’ into a picture that will delight your viewers rather than bore the pants off them. This site has lot of interesting things such as video tutorials, make money from photographs, quiz and forums. The tutorial section is so neatly designed and segregated from basic to advanced photographers.

Digital-camera-help –

Digital cameras help contain large number of photographic articles that you can use in your day to day clicking. The most impressive part of the site is that they teach you everything in a very clear way. Almost all articles contain diagrams that teach you step by step of the photograph. You can also get lot of free images and don’t forget to take part in forums for better understanding.

Digital-photography-tips –

The digital photography instruction offered by this site is like having a photography expert at your side, helping you take better photos. Every snapper can produce top notch photographs. It doesn’t matter how much your camera costs, or how large it is. If you are looking for some digital photography instruction and want to take better photos – this one can serve your purpose!

Basic-digital-photography -

Digital photography could be really challenging for the beginners and this mainly focus on them. You will find excellently done articles like “learn how to take beautiful photos, how to use photo editing software to touch up photos and many others. The important thing is to learn the basic photography concepts, then keep practicing your skills. One day, you’ll become an expert photographer, is what the site believes.

The digital photography connections -

Digital photography connection is an exclusive site that offers huge number of free tutorials. You will find well explained articles based on memory cards, photographing fireworks, shooting HRD images and shooting track sharp images. This is also a good place for people looking to learn some great lightroom digital photography.

Short courses –

Short courses is a well-designed compact site help you with superb digital photography tutorials. These articles are written for all level of photographer. You will find from what is a digital photography to caring for your camera and just anything about the topic. The site has manuals listed for sale, but the free offering is equally good.

Camera town -

Camera town is a site that mainly focused on reviewing the products, it does have some exceptional digital photography video tutorials that you cannot just miss. The category of tutorials comprise of just anything in between 3D to workflow. Don’t miss on this site if you really want to excel the art of photography.

Woven shadows -

Jerry Hyman is the man behind woven shadows who loves to share the joy of photography. This site is top rated for free digital photography video tutorials and Jerry gives you just right tips without wasting time. You can surely master digital photography by going through all videos step by step.

Layers magazine -

Layers magazine comprise of excellent tips, tricks and tutorials associated to digital photography. All this tutorials are well explained via videos by the expert photographers. There are varieties of tutorials related to Photoshop, fireworks, lightroom, flash, dreamweaver and more.

I understand that there many other digital photography free tutorials site exists and they should be good as well. I would love to hear from you about your favorite site for learning digital photography.

Taking snaps, making them personalized and then giving unique touch is an interesting hobby among people today, as well as steady jobs for others. Digital photography is part of our day to day lives and we find them almost anywhere. And certainly is the most excellent way to remember the places and people you visit, however we now have an advanced technology called image stitching that let you merge multiple images with overlying of view into a sectioned panorama.

So if you are interested in creating your own panorama, you must check a superb image stitching software called PTGui. This is panoramic a powerful stitching software for Windows and Mac OSX operating system. Originally developed as a Graphical User Interface for Panorama Tools (hence the name), PTGui now is a full featured photo stitching application. The cool thing about this software is that you don’t really need to be a professional photographer in order to make panoramic images, just keep in mind few rules and you are done.

How it works?

As you enter the software piece you have project assistant to help you go ahead. You can add photos here for further workings and you will also find an option called “image calibration” that help you set up camera and lens parameters for achieving high quality photos. You are free to sort, correct and replace images with source images separately and more actions for lens settings like focal lens, lens type you would have to toggle the advanced button.

Creating beautiful panorama is just limited by your imagination, PTGui offers many default projection styles that can be made use of. Don’t forget to set up control points that are hugely important for the pictures that can save your time in reconstructing and reconfiguring the stuff you have in mind. Once you are done with the adjustment check out optimizations which is available in the same panel. For further advanced option click on Finder bar and anything you do on the project can be viewed in real-time Panorama Editor. Once you are sure of completing the project check the preview and proceed.

Important Features -

• PTGui can stitch multiple rows of images
• Create 360 degree cylindrical panoramas, ‘flat’ partial panoramas and even spherical 360×180 degree panoramas
• No need to keep the camera level: PTGui can stitch rotated and tilted images
• Virtually unlimited output size: create Gigapixel panoramas from hundreds of images!
• Create templates with frequently used settings.
• Support for OpenEXR (.exr) and HDR Radiance (.hdr) source images
• Batch Stitcher can generate control points and set up a panorama.
• Layered output allows full control over the final stitched result
• PTGui stitches most panoramas fully automatically, but at the same time provides full manual control over every single parameter. This enables stitching of ‘difficult’ scenes, where other programs fail.
• Full 16 bit workflow for best image quality

These are just handful of features I have mentioned and there are many more waiting for you to explore. However, you might have come across Photoshop stitching engine that does the job satisfactory, but you would certainly need PTGui when the project does not work find on Photoshop engine. PTGui offers quick and expert method of creating beautiful panoramas and can serve great for most of the passionate photographer. This piece can be a great choice when playing around with 180 or 360 degree VR.

Managing the twitter together with WordPress blogs is an efficient way to land into social media. You can manage your WordPress blogs together with Twitter upto any extent with the helps of below listed WordPress plugins.

1. Topical Tweets Topical Tweets enables the display of Twitter Updates in your blog for a specific query
2. Tweetable Integrate Twitter with your WordPress blog. Automatically tweet new posts, display your latest tweet in your sidebar, etc.
3. Advanced Twitter Widget Widget that will enable visitors to give you/the site a virtual beer by clicking on the widget.
4. Gigya Socialize – Increase Registration and Engagement using Facebook Connect, Twitter and OpenID

Increase your site registration and Engagement using Facebook Connect, MySpaceID, Twitter and OpenID.

5. Tweelow Plugin Simple plugin that displays count of your twitter followers.
6. Twitter LiveBlog

Twitter LiveBlog is a plugin that lets you liveblog on your WordPress blog using Twitter.

7. Twimp-wp

Publish blog posts to multiple twitter accounts.

8. Twit Connect

Integrate Twitter and WordPress. Provides single-signon and avatars. Changes in Version 1.11 – Bug fix for missing ‘=’ in login code.

9. Pretty Link Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. Create short links suitable for Twitter using your own domain name!
10. dB Twtpoll This plugins adds a shortcode for embedding polls from Twtpoll really easy.
11. Twitter real time search scrolling This plug-in will scroll the most recent twittered contents based on the entered search word. Enter search word and see the live content in side bar.
12. WordPress Dashboard Twitter The most creative name **WordPress Dashboard Twitter** in fact represents a Dashboard Widget for WordPress, that turns your Dashboard into a Twitter
13. Twitter News Feed Collects Tweets based on specific Twitter usernames and hashtags and then adds them as post
14. Buzzom Badge This plugin let’s you display a small badge which shows your Buzzom profile.
15. WP-TwitterSearch Displays the latest results based on a twitter search. Options include setting multiple search terms and limiting tweets shown.
16. Twitter Tools – Google Analytics Tagger Tag all your URL’s posted to twitter with Google Analytics tags using Twitter Tools
17. WP to Twitter Posts a Twitter status update when you update your WordPress blog or post to your blogroll, using the Cligs URL shortening service.
18. Twire This plugin will bring Twitter functionality to your buddypress installation. You must have 2 things: 1. WordPress MU, 2. Buddy Press
19. Twitter Bubble A sidebar widget showing the latest twitter update in a nice talk bubble, suitable for wide sidebars.
20. Lifestream Streams your activity from over 50 different sources to your blog.
21. Easy Retweet Adds a Retweet button to your WordPress posts
22. Twitter Blog Tweets your post, then captures tweets replying to that tweet and converts them to comments.
23. Feed2tweet Feed2tweet plugins allows you to publish your new posts to your twitter account.
24. Zipli-Retweet Adds a retweet button to all WordPress posts in your blog and update your twitter account with post from your blog.
25. Twitter Friendly Links Your very own TinyURL within your OWN domain! If you DO promote your blog posts in Twitter, then you MUST make your links look cool!
26. Twitter Followers Display your Twitter followers or people you are following in your sidebar.
27. Twitter Friends Widget

Displays your Twitter friends with their profile images in the sidebar.

28. TweetMeme Button

Adds the TweetMeme button into your posts and RSS feed.

29. TwitPic

Displays your latest pictures from TwitPic in the sidebar of your blog. The plugin is widget ready and comes with many configuration options!

30. Make Me Social

The “Make Me Social” wordpress plugin send each new post you make to the most famous social services.

31. Twitter Publisher Share a new blog post on Twitter using awe.sm or bit.ly url shorteners.
32. Twitter Tools Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
33. Lock a Blog

This plugin allows you block content wordpress post for underage readers.

34. Twitter Links Plus+

Checks Twitter usernames mentioned in the content and in the comments (eg. @tquizzle) with the Twitter service to see if that user is indeed a Twitter

35. Twitpost

A plugin that posts a short blurb on your Twitter page linking to a post you’ve recently published.

36. Comenta WP

Publish all your comments directly to a twitter account. You can customize the message published.

37. Capture the Conversation

What are people saying about your post, right now?

38. Twitter To Wire

This plugin will allow your twits to be automatically added to your Buddy Press wire. You must have 2 things: 1. WordPress MU, 2. Buddy Press

39. TweetScribe

TweetScribe plugin connects your WordPress blog with TweetScribe.me

40. PingPressFM

Allows you to spread your blog to 30+ social networks via ping.fm. Now with support for scheduled posts and custom triggers.

41. Wickett Twitter WidgetDisplay tweets from a Twitter account in the sidebar of your blog. As seen on WordPress.com.
42. Short URL Generator

This plugin automatically generates a Short URL for your article. You can choose your favorite provider and get multiple options.

43. Commentwitter Gives commenters the option of Tweeting their comment with a link to your post.
44. Tweetly Updater

This plugin sends Twitter updates on new or edited posts, uses bit.ly.

45. TwitterSearch

TwitterSearch allows users to keep track of twitter search terms from within their wordpress dashboard.

46. Tracked Tweets

Posts are added to your twitter account. Tweet can be formatted. URL’s are shortened using Tinyurl or bit.ly, and Google Analytics tracking is added.

47. Thread Twitter

Thread Twitter fetch your tweets and display them in thread style.

48. Tweet Cloud

Cloud of popular words and phrases from a user’s Twitter profile.

49. RF Twitter Post A simple plugin that will post to twitter whenever you add a new post to your wordpress blog.
50. Simple Twitter Link

Simple Twitter Link displays a link allowing Twitter users to update their status with a link back to your post or page.

51. TwitterPosts

This WordPress plugin automatically sends new posts of your blog to twitter as soon as they get published.

52. Twitter Digest

Creates a daily post containing tweets from a twitter account.

53. Social Media Manager

Manage & monitor your social media brand. Facebook, twitter, digg, youtube & tumblr. Post to multiple twitter accounts easy.

54. WP Quote Tweets

Allows authors to quote Twitter updates in posts or pages using a simple shortcode. [quotetweet tweetid=123456789].

55. Fresh From FriendFeed and Twitter Keeps your blog always fresh by regularly adding your latest and greatest content from FriendFeed or Twitter. No external passwords required!
56. Twitter Profile Field Adds an additional field to the user profile page where they can enter their Twitter username.
57. Twitter Tracker

Tracks Twitter search results or a Twitter hashtag in a sidebar widgets.

58. Social Links Sidebar

Social Links Sidebar is a sidebar widget that displays icon links to your profile pages on other social networking sites.

59. iTwitter Twitter plugin for WordPress. A useful plugin for those who uses Twitter.
60. Tweet Tweet Archive your Twitter conversions in your database, and use your free web texts to receive sms notifications.
61. Twitter Keywords

Add tweets about a certain word, in certain language and from a specific user on your sidebar

62. Shorten2Ping

Sends status updates to Ping.fm or Twitter everytime you publish a post, using Bit.ly or Tr.im for the permalinks.

63. TwitterCounter

Integrate TwitterCounter.com badges on your blog to display the number of followers you have on Twitter

64. Twittley button

This plugin will install the Twittley button for each of your blog posts in both the content of your posts and the RSS feed.

65. Twittrup

Updates Twitter when you create a new blog post utilizing an shortener service of your choice.

66. Tweet Blender

Adds Twitter sidebar widget and creates an archive page. Blends Twitter tweets for multiple screen names, hashtags and/or keywords into a single stream.

67. BackType Connect The BackType Connect WordPress plugin lets you show related conversations (from Twitter, Digg, FriendFeed & more) inline with your own comments.
68. The WordPress Bar Seen the DiggBar on Digg.com? Add a similar feature to your WordPress blog by creating a navigation bar for all external links outside of blog.
69. YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter

Use YOURLS (a free GPL URL shortener service) or another public service (tinyURL…) to create short URL of your posts and tweet them.