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Okay, that was very cool! I just posted this little blurb from a website I was visitng!

Sean Tan Marketing is a company (person) I’ve purchased graphics from before and I trust this guy when he recommends something. So I went to check it out. This is pretty awesome stuff!

Free, online, and easy to use!

Who’s on your network?

Cisco has aquired Pure Networks, makers of Network Magic.  According to the blurb in their newsletter:

Is your neighbor using your wireless network? See who is accessing your network and easily lock them out with Network Magic.

Our award-winning software helps you set up wireless protection and encryption so you protect your network from intruders, ensuring that your computers, devices and data are secure.

Download a Free Trial here:  Free Trial

See What Your Kids Are Doing Online

Symantec is beta testing their new Norton Online Family Service aimed at child online safety.

Symantec is about to launch a new online safety service for your family that lets you check in on what each child in your family is doing online, no matter where you are. It’s easy to set up, access, and use. You can see which sites each child visits, how long they spend there, and how long they’ve been online. You can also set limits on what websites each child can visit, what terms they can’t search, who they can talk to, and how long they can be online.

Sign up for the Beta trial here: Norton Online Family Service

Synchronize Your Life

Automatically compare,  synchronize, and back up your emails, photos, contacts, MP3s, financial documents, and other important files with GoodSync!

Courtesy of PC Magazine, Download GoodSync free!

Just read an InformationWeek article by that name that is just too good not to share!

I’m becoming a social networking maniac and use twitter all the time! This article taught me a few things I didn’t know about twitter tools!

In case you don’t want to click off my wonderful blog and visit their page, here’s the low down.

The first tool they reference is TweetDeck, which I already told you about when I complained about their incompatibility with Shortkeys and WS_FTP software in a recent blog post.

TweetDeck allows you to post tweets and read all your tweets right from your desktop! It also allows you to look up a profile and follow, along with automatically updating your tweets on a regular basis so you get real time tweets.

The next tool they discuss is twhirl and it’s another software like TweetDeck.  Built also on Adobe Air platform, this one allows you to connect to multiple accounts including: twitter, friendfeed, Laconica, and seesmic.

The next two tools are related to Firefox and twittering (or is that tweeting?). Twitbin and TwitterFox. I personally had issues with Twitbin and never tried TwitterFox. But since I’m using TweetDeck, I really don’t see a purpose for using my Firefox with twitter any longer. But these may work for you!

The next tool they mention is Twitter for Facebook App. Now I jumped on that one! It’s just so hard to keep everything updated! This does make it so much easier.

Twittelator is a mobile type twitter application for ipod touch and iphone. There’s a regular version and pro version. The pro version is supposed to be available through the itunes store.

Now, as if all these are not enough, if you got a Blackberry, try to stay calm! Twitterberry lets you send and receive tweets off your Blackberry!

The next two tools allow you to automate twitter with twitterfeed and tweetlater. I use Tweetlater to automate my follows. When someone follows me, it sends them a private message inviting them to subscribe to our newsletters. (Good marketing, isn’t it?)  I’m not sure what twitterfeed does exactly, but you can rest assured I’m checking it out!

Friendfeed is further automation and allows you to connect multiple social networking feeds. I just set mine up but I’m still not comfortable with what it’s supposed to do. Anyone who uses it care to enlighten me?

Next up in their list is TwitPic. With TwitPic you can post images to twitter. (I definitely need a new cell phone!)

According to the InformationWeek article:

You can post from the TwitPic Web site, but most of the time you’ll use a Twitter client on a cameraphone, such as TweetDeck, Twhirl, Twittelator or TwitterBerry…

The last tool listed in the Information Week article is FriendorFollow. This allows you to find out who you’re following but they are not following you. Who’s following you that you’re not following, and people you’re following and are following you back.

The only time I usually get rid of a follow is if they are promoting so much that there’s no real conversation going on. Or of course, if someone offends me which only happened once. I don’t follow him any more.

Now, as if all this fun stuff isn’t enough, there’s a section in the article called, Twitter Tools to lower your self esteem. Qwitter and Twitterholic.  Qwitter, once set up, will send you an e-mail with the twitter post that caused the person to unfollow you. Too bad the guy that offended me didn’t have that!! Or did he?

I don’t understand why twitterholic was filed under “lowering your self esteem”. I would think it’s a good thing that I’m not in the top 100 twitterers? How does anyone get any work done?

So there you have those. I’ve got another post I’m reading now that has 27 cool tools and resources for twitter addicts! What? You want the link? Okay, from one addict to another, here it is: http://speckyboy.com/2008/11/12/27-cool-tools-and-resources-for-the-twitter-addict/

See you at the next 12-step meeting of Twitterholics Anonymous!

BTW*, to view the full InformationWorld article, click here!

*BTW=By the way for those who are newbie (new users) to this kind of talk! Just teaching folks! It’s what I do! Never assume that everyone knows what you’re talking about!  Oh crackers! I guess I need to explain twitter?  Next post! Sorry about that!