Tutorial ~ How to make your tweet as your email or forum signature

Posted by Mrs Imran on Jul 21, 2010
Filed Under Application Review, Tutorial | 2 comments

Ok here’s the trick..hehe (trick la sangat kan), but it’s pretty neat as you can attach your latest tweet in your email or forum (as signature) and also on your blog or website. This is not a paid ad. I just feel like sharing If you guys “like” this simple tutorial, kindly share on FB or retweet (use my new and sleek share & retweet button above this post) so that I know there’s a demand and from time to time I can make more simple tutorial similar to this.

I discovered Tweetbars when I was lurking for “tetsuhighrose” Daily L.I comic thread in lowyat, read my post about the comic here. Huhu. Worry not, this is really a child play as you just need to copy and paste the code into your signature box and your tweet will shown up almost immediately.

Here is how to go about;

1) Visit http://www.tweetbars.com
2) Insert in your twitter ID as below image and click “get one”

3) After that..taraaa codes are ready to be paste wherever you want. Looking good aight? Refer below image.

This is example of my signature in email I don’t fancy attaching signature at the end of my entry as I think it got no use and definitely will require extra times in loading my page which will only hurt my readers who’s struggling to get connected to internet. So, I attached it in email and……

as my forum signature too! (featuring @kujie in my tweetbars)

So, sapa-sapa yg suka letak signature berbagai rupa bentuk, try lah tweetbars. But, tweetbars is only for twitter user lah. The best part is, your tweet display in tweetbars will continously changing as you tweet more. Meaning kalau hari ni I email you, and my tweet is for example “abcdef”, then tomorrow if you open the same email again, the tweet will change to “xyz” (providing you ada tweet lagi lah selepas your latest tweet semalam). Hope you guys get it lah, haku ni kadang-kadang cakap berbelit. Hehe. So, eh TGIF eh?

p/s: I got my first order for the chocs! Yay! Will update soon

Love~Hate Twitter

Posted by Mrs Imran on Jun 11, 2010
Filed Under Application Review, Memory Lane | 15 comments

Ok, I know am so degil, I suppose to sleep by now actually, but dunno what’s keeping me wide awake this late…haihh it really requires mountain of effort to change a habit. In my case, I wanted to sleep early at night and live long [as last few days I read an article in newspaper and it said that people who gets less than 6 hours sleep at night more likely to die fast...whaddaaaaa, confirm la haku mengelupur lepas baca tu]

So, am trying hard to sleep early, but till now as I type -obviously I failed. This is no good, I must try harder…err tomorrow.

I was blog hopping and read on a very interesting topic here about blog + twitter and facebook. Great post Millie! You shouldn’t let your blog berhabuk again cos ur blog has just added 1 more follower/fan —> me!

Picture source :  www.google.com

Ever since Twitter started to make a hit to social media users, many bloggers found that Twitter is so much easy and simpler than blog. No exception to yours truly as I do think the same too. Many said Twitter is the new blog, or Twitter is the new Facebook or Twitter is the new whateverrrrr…

I got my very own opinion on this topic and allow me to share okeh.

I love Twitter because..

• easy to update my status
• great platform to share small things in between major blog posts
• can make money also thru ads. tapi skang saya sudah malassssss mahu compose ads. hihi.
• easy to access thru handphone and pc software
• perfect media to stay connected on the go
• can share pic and video also, how cool is that?
• can simply menyampuk org lain punye tweet and make new friend instantly! even celebrities and perdana menteri malaysia. hehehe…
• sharing links thru twitter is brilliant! banyak org curious akan click and ur followers can retweet and their followers plak akan click and then retweet..u know spreading like a virus!
• hmm what else? the best part, it’s free la

I hate Twitter because..

• my readers prefer to comment on my entry via twitter [lucky I got the twitoaster thingy that could relay comment made on twitter back to my blog post, but some didn't get through] Tapi not that I marah la org komen via twitter, I ok jer…sbb kenelah akur dengan perkembangan teknologi heee, sbbnyer I pon kadang2 komen via twitter jugak. Cumanya I terfikir…kalau lah Twitter tidak wujud, sure tkder channel lain for readers to comment except blog kan? Lain lah kalau org rajin nk SMS and komen pasal blog. Hehe. Ada ker?
• Somehow it also lessening blog reader’s excitement towards new entry/post. Because often they will get mini updates [or sneak peek] via twitter. So mcm dah tahu or dah boleh agak, jadinya tk berapa nak surprise. From now on, no mini updates or sneak peek thru twitter lagi from me. Hee. Wpun adalah tidak tahan mahu bercerita….but l love my blog more than my twitter. Blog ada hmmm..nostalgic value
• hmm what else? I can’t think other than the above la…sbb saya nk cepat tido ni. Dah pukul 3.20am. Kalau korang ada benda nk tambah, silalah tambah ok.

Conclusion, I still prefer and love blog, since I think I can express myself better here. Macam kad hari raya tulisan tangan dengan kad hari raya versi SMS. Yg mana you all rasa lebih mendalam makna kata-katanya?

Surely kad yg tulisan tangan kan? Sbb nyer org yg tulis kad tu, takes extra miles to get the card send to you seperti mencari pen utk menulis, sekali pen tk jumpa, dah jumpa pen tkder ink pulak, terpaksa cari another pen, then tk jumpa, susah2 sangat gi kedai beli pen kilometrico baru, kalau nasib baik tkder aral lagi baru lah boleh tulis sepatah dua kata. Itupon kalau tulisan tk cakar ayam, boleh la buat sekali terus siap, kalau cakar ayam, nk kene padam 2-3 kali sampai lunyai kad. Lepas tu nk kene cari gam, nk gi beli stamp then nk gi pos…Panjang ceritanya beb..

And masihkah ingat pantun femes? Nostalgic ok pantun ni..

Pecah Kaca Pecah Gelas
Sudah Baca Harap Balas

To cut it short, it requires such a HUGEeeeeeee effort ok to get the card posted. Terharu ok, lelebih lagi bila ur chenta hati yg willing to go thru the hassle to send the card. Itu belum lagi kad buatan sendiri. Imran pernah hantar kad bentuk ketupat eons ago and I still keeping it now. Yer betul bentuk ketupat yer kawan-kawan, sgt tk lawa kad tu. Tapi I sayanggggg bangat!

But today, ucapan selamat hari raya dengan corak-corak meletup bagai [sungguh kreatif] boleh forward within few clicks jer. Kalau I dpt, then I delete or worst tgk kt preview inbox jer, kalau ada SMS yg sama before tu, tkkan nk baca benda yg sama over and over again yer tak? So, simply delete without reading.

Basically my experience using twitter ni…more to love hate experience la. Once in blue moon, I feel like deleting my twitter, but on second thought tk jadi…for now come follow lah me on twitter here is the link. Ehe.

To blogger[s] who’s reading this, I share mine already, what’s ur verdict?

p/s: blog will always be my creative outlet

Twitter in Plain English

Posted by Mrs Imran on May 26, 2010
Filed Under Application Review | 4 comments

Guys, I found this video when I was searching for something on the internet (I think I was looking for wordpress plugins). It is a video demonstrating what is twitter all about in interesting way I should say. Easy to understand and the drawings kinda cute.

To those who still wee bit clueless on what is twitter and pretty skeptical towards this particular social media, I encourage to watch the video. Hey u got nothing to lose plus you would surely enjoy the hand sketch cartoon drawing.

As for me, I can be consider as an avid fan of twitter. My tweet now is about to reach 4000 tweets and counting. Thanks to twitter client software I should say as without those software I don’t think I can tweet that much and I don’t think I would heart twitter at all. Twitter was originally a web base social media, whereby you need to open a browser, login and start tweeting.

But thing is, to tweet at the web is pretty messy and there’s no notification whenever people reply your message, mention your name in their tweet or direct message you (direct message means, the message is for your eyes only, your followers or your friend’s followers can’t see the message, it’s like email just that it is in 140 characters, pretty short uh? that’s the thrill…hehe).

Therefore, without notification , I found it difficult for me to cope with all the tweet that’s coming in. Especially now semua orang sgt pantas tweet! and shall you follow generous number of people, for sure your screen will full with tweet in split seconds. But of course to create a new twitter account, you must first visit Twitter website and create your account there lah.

So, that’s when twitter client software comes in handy. After signing up, we can just forget about the website and use software instead. I use 2 different software for twitter for few reasons that I chose not to disclose here, not because I wanna be secretive or what, it just that am just too plain lazy to explain. Huhu. Malas nk taip panjang. Ini pon dh panjang dah ni.

Here goes few screenshots of Twhirl product of Seesmic and Echofon that I use for twitter (am using MAC version for both) . There are many more like TweetDeck, Digsby and etc. So, that’s all. If you want to read some of my tweet you can check on my right sidebar or better still FOLLOW ME on twitter then we can share those tiny little things happen in between blog posts or major updates.

Snapshot of Twhirl. Click to enlarge.

Click to enlarge

Bummer. Wrongly scale the image. Can u guys read wording in the dialogue box. If cannot, then too bad lah. Hehe. Sila guna magnifier glass.

Echofon snapshot. Click to enlarge. Thanks to all for being such a good sport! U guys rocks.

Big Bang Advertising

Posted by Mrs Imran on Jan 29, 2010
Filed Under Application Review, I Heart & Recommend | 6 comments

It’s the Holy Friday again. Today will be my last day in PJ for this week. I will be here again around end of next week for Ichiro’s aqiqah and perhaps for my sewing class too. I found a teacher already and she will come to my house and teach me personally. Can’t wait for that! Seriously. But the schedule hasn’t confirm yet, hope she could make it next week.

To those who quite familiar with my previous live chat Olark, just to inform that at the moment I’m testing another type of live chat which is Zopim. There will be an advertorial post for Zopim later, but for the time being I need to test the software first before I could write a review. The software is pretty brilliant compare to Olark I should say, but it is still in Beta mode.

Maybe by next week I can conclude the advantage of using Zopim. To those who’s planning to install Olark, perhaps you guys might want to wait for my review before purchasing Olark. To Cik Pid and Isma, tunggu dulu ok. Sbb Zopim is much better in a sense of it has it’s own dashboard [you can access this dashboard from within your wordpress account or in separate window] and you can chat directly from the dashboard. Meaning if your office or workplace block all type of messenger, then this is the best solution! Message from Zopim also can be relayed to the IM messenger, which for me is a must feature for all kind of live chat.

Ok dah terbagi teaser review la plak.

I got few more advertorial post, but haven’t receive the product sample yet, thus, will just wait until the advertiser send me the sample.

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