Archive for the ‘Web Tipps’ Category
Podcast with preview
With the new iTunes 9.0.3, slightly released after the iPad Keynote, there is a nice and big surprise for all podcasters.
Previously, when a user clicked a link leading to a podcast, it brought you to an empty white web page. Then, iTunes was opened – and if not installed you got a offer to download [...]
Social Whale
The Social Whale is a great replacement for the twitter.com website or a local installed application. It does look almost like the original website, but has some nice features the original should ever have:
multiple accounts
auto refresh with countdown and caching
API limit counter
view followers by reciprocals, new followers and quitters
integration of twitter counter statistics
picture upload, URL [...]
Youtube Video link power
When embedding or linking to a Youtube video, you have lots of parameters you can put in the URL. Those are influencing the player’s behavior and view. This is very useful, especially on embedding directly into your website or blog.
Playback with a seek
One of the most unknown and rarely used parameters is the playback with [...]
Welcome to the Google Wave
So many people are talking about the Google Wave. It is still beta and Google limited the amount of users who may have access. You can either fill out a form and wait for an approval or get invited by someone else who still has invites left.
Since I got an invite (special thanks to Leuk [...]
G-Mail within Apple Mail
Do you use a Google mail account? Then add your account into your Mail application and have no more need to manage your mails via the webmail interface. The webmailer indeed is quick and easy to use, but I like having my mails all together and searchable on my computer.
Take the following settings, to enable [...]
dict.cc – German and English dictionary on the iPhone
I am using the English language very much, although my native Language is German. It is the best way to communicate to people all over the world and of course absolutely mandatory in combination with learning, sciene, technology, computers, and so on.
To learn and improve my English, I need to look quite often into a [...]
Will Wordpress 2.9 become a media edition?
Wordpress blog systems gained very popular and can be seen all over the web. Since I began blogging I like it. It is a quick and innovative development. The most important thing for me is not only the quick and easy installation. Also frequently updating all those nice plugins is just a child’s play.
The handling [...]
Twitter poll
If you want to make a simple, but sexy poll, you can use twtpoll for free. Unfortunately the results are displayed as a flash animation.
In the interface you can set the questions and if the answer should be unique or multiple. Also an expiration date is possible and you must not keep it alive forever.
The [...]
What is the followfriday?
You may have noticed on my Twitter timeline that I am frequently using the hashtag #followfriday. Some people are asking my time by time what that is and so I decided to write this little article for a simple reference.
What is a hashtag?
First of all, you need to know what a “hashtag” is. A “tag” [...]
Twitter counter
On twittercounter.com you can see well done tiny statisitics for your twitter account to see your personal development. This tool displays you the followers, friends and updates in a nice graph.
With that it is totally easy to see if your popularity is even growing. A viewing range from one week up to three months is [...]
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