The standard Twitter profile is fine for the casual user who just wants to stay in touch with friends. However, if you are tweeting for a business or are managing a brand, you really should have a representative profile on your Twitter page, particularly the background and the color scheme. Big companies with big fat budget can always hire people to design and set up their Twitter profile page, but if you are a poor start-up, or just a lone individual, here is a beginner guide to help you turn your plain boring Twitter page into a professional business profile.
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The Beginner Guide To Customize Your Twitter Page
By | December 20, 2011 | 3 Comments
Adjust Ubuntu Unity’s Settings Easily With GUnity
By | May 30, 2011 | 2 Comments
If you are using Ubuntu Natty, and the Unity desktop, you will surely know that there are very little configuration options available. If you wanted to make any change, your best bet is to install the CompizConfig Setting Manager and search through the vast list for the options that you want to change. If you are looking for something simpler, GUnity is the one for you.
GUnity is a third party application with various options for you to customize the Unity setting. In short, it is the Compiz Config Settings Manager specially for Unity.
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Bartender Lite = A More Useful Android Notification Bar
By | April 10, 2011 |
One of the most under utilized parts of an Android phone is the notification bar. While it is useful for alerting you of emails, calendar appointments and SMS messages. The Android navigation bar can do so much more.
Previously on Make Tech Easier, we showed you how to put a reminder note in your Android notification bar. If you are looking for more uses for your Android notification bar, Bartender lite will let you create application shortcuts in your notification bar.
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4 Excellent Techniques To Enhance The WordPress Admin Bar
By | April 3, 2011 | 3 Comments
If you have upgraded to the latest WordPress version (3.1), you will discover that it shows the WordPress Admin bar for you and your logged-in users. While the WP Admin Bar is supposed to make your life easier by providing useful links at the top of the page, it does not provide any form of customization, which crippled its usefulness.
Here are 4 useful techniques you can use to customize and bring out the best of the WP Admin Bar.
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I Have Installed Ubuntu…What’s Next?
By | March 16, 2011 | 17 Comments
Does this sound familiar to you? You have taken the plunge and install Ubuntu on your computer. The next moment, you have no idea what to do next and where to head. Now, before any doubt creeps in and you are wondering if you have make the right choice leaving the comfort zone (Windows or Mac) and venture into the unknown ground, let us show you what you can, and should do after installing Ubuntu
Note: While this article deals with Ubuntu, it should work for any other distro as well.
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Platform: A Drag-And-Drop Customizable WordPress Theme
By | January 28, 2011 |
According to the latest statistical data from Royal Pingdom, there are approximately 152 million blogs exist today. To put that number into context, there are more blogs out there than the whole Japanese citizen in the world. If you want to stand out among this kind of crowds, you need to work really hard – and customization is the key.
One of the most common way to customize your blog is to use themes. If you are a WordPress user, you should be familiar in the concept of themes. But even though there are literary thousands of free themes out there, using them will not really help you to stand out – as everybody is doing the same thing. A quick calculation will tell us that in average one theme is used by more than tens of thousands blogs.
That’s why customizable themes is the solution. During my quest to find a good customized WordPress theme, I found Platform, a theme that can be easily customized by dragging and dropping the elements.
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How to Customize Your WordPress Administration Area
By | December 3, 2010 |
WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems out there. Thousands of bloggers use WordPress to power their blogs, websites, forums and other online publications. The best thing regarding WordPress is it’s rich inventory of useful plugins – there are different types of plugins available for customizing your requirements.
Do you know that the WordPress administration area can be customized according to your needs? You can hide the features you never use, change the logo in your WordPress login screen and do a lot more creative things right inside your WordPress blog’s backend.
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Twimbow: Personalize Your Tweets With Colors
By | October 30, 2010 |
Twimbow is a new web-based twitter client. Not the newest concept, I know. However, most of the other Twitter apps are geared toward the power user or business user. Twimbow is a little different.
What makes Twimbow different is that it color codes your tweets and let you personalize it to your liking.
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How to Unlock Gnome Panel For Customization in Ubuntu Netbook Edition (UNE)
By | April 25, 2010 |
Even though Ubuntu Lucid has not been officially released, I believe some of you have already upgraded your system to the beta or release candidate version. Now, if you have upgraded your Ubuntu Netbook Edition to the latest version (10.04), you will notice one thing: the top Gnome panel is locked and you can’t perform any customization on it. Yes, you can’t add/remove applets; nor can you delete the panel or move it to the side. In short, there’s nothing that you can do about it.
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GeekTool: Turn Your Mac’s Desktop Into An Information Center
By | March 9, 2010 |
Being a geek, you have the urge to modify everything you own. That’s of course applies to your desktop as well. You saw how your Linux friends can modify their desktop and display information with Conky and you are dying to have the same setting in Mac. If that is the case, then GeekTool is the one you are looking for.
GeekTool is a System Preferences module for Mac OS 10.5. It allows you to display information on your Mac desktop so you can quickly check out the time, your Twitter stream, or any other things without any hassle.
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