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Do you have lots of friends in Twitter? They may be connected somehow. TweetWheel helps you to check whether your friends know each other. It will be displayed with different colored lines. It looks like my Twitter friends do not really connected each other…
[via Twitterholics]

Someone just “tweet” too much. I mean your twitter account may be followed by spammers. Twitter Twerp Scan will scan your account completely to see whether the followers are spammers or not. They will use their algorithm to see whether the twitter account is only for public relation purpose. They will ask the Twitter account login name and password, but it will not be stored in Twitter Twerp Scan.
Since Twitter is so useful, you would not want someone spam it, right?
[via Download Squad]

When browsing the internet during the work, some sites are not safe the work. (Most likely, you accidentally clicked it and it pops out.) This No-NSFW firefox plugin can prevent the embarrassing moment happening. Currently the plugin does not works really well and still be able to access to porn sites even after installation. But, it would be a good idea and I think we will have a long black lists for this plugin.
[via Lifehacker]

TwitLinks follows popular tech bloggers on Twitter and put them in a single website. By going to TwitLinks, you will be able to read the latest and instant tech news without logging into the account. It shows the title and content of the news. Clicking the link will quickly direct to the source content. The great thing is that TwitLinks provides mobile version. Great way to check the latest tech news on-the-go.

Twitter lets you to reply to other Twitter users. @iwish used this function to make it work. @iwish is a Twitter wish aggregator which collects your wish. To use it, follow @iwish Twitter first. Then, in your Twitter home page, make a wish by adding “@iwish” in the front of the sentence. For example, I make a wish to have a car, then type “@iwish to have a car”. (You don’t need to type “I wish” cause it will be added automatically)
Wait for a while and your wish will be appeared on the front page of @iwish. Everyone else share the dreams on the @iwish front page.

YouTube’s front page display the video thumbnail which people are watching right now. It keeps on scrolling which may miss some great videos. If that doesn’t fit your need, try TubeSpy instead. TubeSpy is great user interface alternative of YouTube.
On the left hand side, it displays the video people are watching now. You can pause it and make sure you keep track with YouTube videos. Click the video you want and it will be played on the same video. Or press the green add button to add it to the right hand side and watch it later. It can also display the related videos. If it had the search function, it could be much better.
[via ReadWriteWeb]
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WordPress is a very popular web 2.0 blogging php tool. If you host WordPress yourself, you may already using the upload function. After you upload the image and put it into the passage, the default thumbnail size is 128. It may not fit your needs.
To fix it, you can resize it first using photo editing software But now, you have another choice. First, open the “image.php” file from WordPress directory “/wp-admin/includes/”, find the line with wp_thumbnail_max_size_length. Edit the value 128 to others you want. The value is counted using pixel.
Now, upload the file back to the site. Upload a new image through WordPress, choose “Thumbnail” and link to “File”. You should see the thumbnail size is changed according to the preference.

Most of the file hosting website have upload limit. You cannot upload one 5GB file to the internet at once. File Dropper seems the only site who allows you to do so. If you get a fast upload speed connection, you will be able to upload one 5GB file at once easily. File Dropper lets you to upload multiple files or even from URL.
After you uploaded the files, you will be able to get the specific download link. I tested to upload a file from URL, and the speed seems not really fast. Anyway, it’s still useful for you to share some huge files.

Sometimes when you are so excited to write blogs, the passage length got too long. It’s not easy to read. And it may drive away viewers too. This verbosity test can help to test whether your blog length is appropriate or not. Ouch. I better not to write too long. Just try yourself.

Sometimes the website is not really down. It may be your ISP or network problem only. Down for everyone or just me? is the website that make sure it’s down or not. Type the domain in the field and you will be able to check it. Easy and simple. It’s just the domain name so long and not easy to remember.
[via TechnoSpot]

