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Transfer Twitpic Images To Flickr Automatically

vivekec007 — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:24:39 +0000

If you have the hobby of tweeting photos via twitpic and want to transfer the whole collection into your Flickr account then there is a popular service called Twitpic to Flickr which freely offers to transfer all the images from Twitpic to Flickr.

Twitpic to Flickr synchronize all your photos automatically and upload it automatically from Twitpic to Flickr.

How To Use Twitpic to Flickr

Step1: First click on Twitpictoflickr and simply enter your email address in it as shown below:

Step2: As soon as you enter you email address, it will ask your Twitpic user-name or Twitter user-name.

Step3: After providing user-name, you just need to authenticate your Flickr account as shown below:

Step4: As soon as you connect your Flickr account you see a confirmation window as shown below:

Step5: Now all your previously uploaded photos on twitpic will starts syncing on flickr (you can create separate sets for all your Twitpic images on Flickr).

Note: This service will transfer images from Twitpic to Flickr (images on Flickr will be intact unless and until you manually delete them). If you find this service useful, then why not share it with your friends via tweets and Facebook.

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Schedule Your Flickr Uploads Using FlickrQ

himanshuyadav — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:30:16 +0000

If you want to schedule your Flickr photo upload then there is a nice service for this purpose and it is known as FlickrQ. Now the question arises, why anyone wants to schedule the Flickr upload. Well, there may be many reasons.

The main benefit of this process will be more profile interaction. Every time you upload new pic, your friends visit your profile so often to see the new photographs. It will result in more interaction such as comments, favorites and views.

Also if you are going somewhere outstation where there is no computer or internet availability then you can schedule uploads which daily updates your Flickr stream.

Another benefit of using this service is it is a web based service, which means no software download, no mess with the system registry files.

Here’s a step by step instructions to use this service:

Sign up for FlickrQ. There is a plus point for WordPress users because this site is developed on WordPress platform.
After registration, you’ll receive a conformation mail with the username and password. Login with the given credentials.
Now go to upload settings and enter your Flickr upload email address.
Upload your photographs. You can drag and drop photos to the given area.
Give title, description and tags to the photographs.
Set the upload to Flickr time.

That’s it, now logout with the service. It will upload photo to the Flickr according to the schedule time. You can schedule as many photos as you want.

Go to FlickrQ and start upload and schedule photographs for Flickr.

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10 Tips to Become A Professional in Digital Photography

JamesAdams — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:58:16 +0000

Photography is an art and a science. Being able to see beauty and recognise good subject matter is an artistic talent, and knowing how to use your environment and your equipment to produce the best photograph is a methodical discipline. The advent of digital photography has made it even more accessible than ever before, and care needs to be taken when adapting to the new digital medium. Here are some tips for getting great digital photos.

1. Know Your Equipment

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Great photos are the result of care, patience, and effort, and not the product of your camera. Brilliant photos can come from a pocket camera or an expensive DSLR. This does not excuse you from learning about the details of your camera, however. Your camera’s manual is full of tips and advice on how best to utilize your camera’s specific features, equipping you with the knowledge not only of how to manipulate the camera’s settings to suit your environment, but also helping you decide whether a given camera is suitable for a particular type of photograph.

2. Know Your Subject

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You may have been using a digital camera for a long time, but how much do you really know about the camera and the techniques you can utilize to create different styles of photography? Reading up about the subject is a surefire way to ensure that you’re able to learn more about photography and the ways that you can present a subject. There are vast sources of online material, books, courses and videos available which can enable you to expand your horizons and gives you the chance to learn a few new skills, which assists you in creating a number of professional and attractive photographs.

3. Experiment With Your Camera

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Reading the manual is essential, but true knowledge comes from the application of that reading. Digital photos are essentially free. Take the same photograph a hundred times with different features and settings to see how it changes the photo. Take a hundred photos using the same setting to see what situations it works in and which ones it doesn’t. Methodically examine the results of these types of experiments to get an intimate understanding of both your camera’s functions and of the general principles of photo composition and creation.

4. Practice, Practice, Practice

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Never stop taking photos. Photography is a skill that requires practice to improve and regular activity to keep your skills fresh. The only way to notice your weak spots and decide on what to improve is to have photos you have created available to sift through. Study your work to see what you do well, and what you need to improve, and then go try your ideas.

5. Don’t Be Overly Cautious

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Sometimes you need to take a lot of photographs to find a real gem. Being cautious with the amount of photographs you take can mean that you miss out on that one exact moment which really makes a picture shine. Do you find that you tend to hold back when taking photographs? Letting loose allows you to get a wide variety of shots of your subject, which gives you a chance to pick out subtle differences and focus on the few pictures that really stand out.

6. Photograph Deliberately

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Great photos are almost never the result of accident or happenstance. Know in advance what you want to photograph and why you want to photograph it. Do you love landscapes? Sports action shots? Plan out what kind of positioning and composition best suits those shots. Pay attention to the environment around your subject matter, as the incidental details of a photograph are just as important as the focal point. Treat everything in range of your camera as if it were deliberately placed there, and think about the significance imparted by every element. There are no accidents in photographs.

7. Take Big Photos

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Digital photos have the ability to capture enormous images, and the more data you have to work with, the wider your options are for creating ideal photos. Your final products are never going to be the full size as the original, but having a larger image to compress and trim into a finished product gives you more creative flexibility. Large raw data can be cropped more easily, and you can experiment with different resizing and formats to create the ideal result.

8. Use a Tripod

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Tripods are not essential for all photos, but the enhanced stability they offer is great for long distance shots and for stabilizing the horizontal orientation of your photos. They can be cumbersome to carry, but will enhance the quality of your photos enough to justify their use.

9. Keep Up To Date With Technology

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Digital cameras and their accessories are becoming more and more advanced as time goes by, which means that they are gradually becoming more efficient, more effective and altogether easier to use. It doesn’t hurt to keep track of any new products that are being made available, as they may help you create photographs that you had no idea that you could create. Even if finances are tight and you’re unable to purchase the new equipment, it doesn’t hurt to know about these new accessories so that you’re aware of all the options on the market.

10. Control Your Light

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A few tips for light: use the camera’s flash as little as possible, bring your own light, and use natural light to your advantage. Light dictates the composition and quality of your photo more than anything else. Keep light in the background to avoid overexposing your subject matter, and experiment with shutter speeds to discern the ideal amount of light exposure for your current location. The darker the area, the slower the shutter speed.

Photography is an extremely sophisticated practice. These tips will get you started with digital photographs. Keep an open mind, and experiment and explore as much as possible to improve your photography.

Guest Author : James Adam’s

James is a tech writer and analyst working for Cartridge Save where he reviews inks such as the HP 901.

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10 Wonderful Collection Of jQuery Slideshow Tutorials

Nikita Porwal — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:24:11 +0000

Looking great means, your site will be visited more. Java-scripts a precise means aimed at making your website look great. And to achieve that, jQuery is all set to make your dream into reality by serving you with swift and crisp JavaScript Library that eases HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. It is completely designed to rewrite the way a JavaScript is written. Today any website, be it small or large scale requires slideshow to showcase your pictures/images to your readers. Although you will find lot of ways to incorporate slideshows in your website, but implementing jQuery slideshow is extremely easy and fun. Learn how to implement a jQuery slideshow with a HTML code and then you can make use of the top 10 collection of jQuery slideshow techniques for your existing or next website.

1. Galleria

Galleria jQuery Plugin

You can’t just miss out on Galleria when looking for excellent jQuery Sliding show techniques and tutorials. Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS.

Interesting Features of Galleria

Unobtrusive javascript
Degrades gracefully if the browser doesn’t support javascript or CSS
Lightweight (4k packed)
Displays the thumbnail when the actual image is loaded
CSS powered – create your own gallery style
Super fast image browsing since the images are preloaded one at a time in the background
Can scale thumbnails and crop to fit in thumbnail container
Can be used with custom thumbnails and more

2. Image Scroller

Building a jQuery Image Scroller

Image scrollers employ the jQuery’s brilliant animation qualities and by and large incorporate loads of fun with code. Obviously there isn’t anything new about Image scrollers; but new versions of the same keeps popping up most of the time. Mainly these new developments are a result of the user initiation that is for example, for the current displayed image to swerve over a button to be pressed or any other specific action will be required. The new Scroller is completely different and this is designed to be autonomous that it starts scrolling once the loading of the page is done.

Interesting Features of Image Scroller

Autonomous Scrolling;
Widget is totally cross- browser.
Interaction to enable an option to change the direction of the animation.

3. Gallerific

A jQuery plugin for rendering rich, fast-performing photo galleries

Galleriffic is a jQuery plugin that provides a rich, post-back free experience optimized to handle high volumes of photos while conserving bandwidth.

Interesting Features Of Gallerific

Smart image preloading after the page is loaded
Thumbnail navigation (with pagination)
jQuery.history plugin integration to support bookmark-friendly URLs per-image
Slideshow (with optional auto-updating url bookmarks)
Keyboard navigation
Events that allow for adding your own custom transition effects
API for controlling the gallery with custom controls
Support for image captions
Flexible configuration
Graceful degradation when JavaScript is not available

4. Flickr Gallery

Open Source Flickr Photo Gallery Using jQuery

An amazing open source image gallery designed specifically to aid the concepts of jQuery, is the Flickrgallery, it even allows one to easily pullout the photos from the Flickr photoset directly. This plug-in makes the dynamic image gallery a reality. Some time users face lightbox issues when working on same page, so you can first learn how to resolve jQuery, Prototype, and lightbox issues to make them work on same page.

Interesting Features Of Flickr Gallery

Pulls out images from the Flickr photoset easily.
Compatibility to provide Light- box effect to small images.
Easy to add or remove images from Flickr
Thumbnail navigation with superb scrolling bar

5. Resizable Image Grid

Create a Resizable Image Grid with jQuery

Dragging and sliding your images are no longer confined to your desktop applications like the Picasa or similar apps. You can make your image grid dream come true even on your web page, hats-off to the resizable image grid.

Interesting Features Of Resizable Image Grid

Dragging & Sliding of Images on the web.
Fun working with em unit

6. SlideViewer

jQuery Image Slider

Sorting or arranging the images and the photos on display on your webpage has become such an Easy task. Thanks to the jQuery intelligent option SlideViewer.

Interesting Features Of SlideViewer

Listing of images.
Creates of dynamic links, for easy accessing.
Clicking next, the image will smoothly slide over to the next position.
Option to customize animation, time for transition.

7. Supersized

Full Screen Background/Slideshow jQuery Plugin

The image transition or the sliding is all taken to new heights. jQuery’s commitment in the web designing stream is further been imposed strongly by these full screen Image gallery, It’s completely hypnotizes you, Cos it makes you feel that you are almost running a desktop application.

Interesting Features Of Supersized:

Image ratio is maintained while resizing to suit the browser.
Navigation key permits Pause, play, forward & back options.
Images are cycled around as slide shows.

8. GalleryView

Content-gallery plugin

A complete in-house solution from jQuery is their very own formula for successful Content-gallery visualization java script is the GalleryView. It serves a complete visual glory of animated view of the gallery. If you are working with WordPress then know to add featured content slider into WordPress using jQuery. Also note that if you are using jQuery 1.4.x, please update to GalleryView 2.1. A minor bug fix has been implemented for the new version of jQuery.

Interesting Features Of GalleryView

Any HTML content can be displayed using this vibrant java Apps.
Timing of the animation can be employed using timers plug-in.

9. PikaChoose

PikaChoose jQuery Image Gallery

Pikachoose is a lightweight Jquery plugin that allows easy presentation of photos with options for slideshows, navigation buttons, and auto play. Pikachoose is designed to be easily installed, easy to setup, and well… all around easy. Creating an image gallery shouldn’t be a complex thing. I’ve created a new plugin that I’m packaging with PikaChoose called SliderJS.

Interesting Features of Pikachoose

Easy navigation and auto play
Easy to install and set up
Thumbnail navigation with superb scrolling bar

10. Image Flow

Image Flow jQuery Plugin

The Apple bug has also successfully bitten our JQuery genius. A more of an inspiration on the likes of Apple’s Cover flow, this Java based scripts serves the very same effect completely flawless. Keyboard or mouse Scroll or dragging all possible in this amazing tool.

Interesting Features Of Image Flow

Navigation possible with Keyboard or mouse Scroll or dragging.
A free Application for any site.
Just 11 KB (uncompressed mode) means it leaves a very small foot print.

You might also be interesting reading our Top 50 Design and Web development Resources that help you understand the concept of jQuery in a better way. We would love to hear you in case you use some of the best jQuery slideshow techniques and tutorials apart from mentioned above. Meanwhile you can add us on Facebook and Twitter for more updates!

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Free Flickr Pro Account Winner

Honey Singh — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:39:21 +0000

Congratulations to Dan Taylor, the lucky winner of Free Flickr Pro Account running on our fanpage.
Thanks to all the ninety four contestants for participating in Flickr contest. We choose the winner from random draw, have a look over the screen-cast while choosing our winner.

Note: After successfully running this contest i’m deciding to run more weekly or monthly giveaways for our regular readers. I’m also waiting to hear your voice for creative and innovative contest suggestions.

Contestants List

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Picmeleo – Tagging, editing and sharing photos on blogs

Honey Singh — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:37:23 +0000

If you like photo tagging features of Flickr and Facebook then you should know how to tags images on your blogs. Picmeleo Alive is a smooth photo tagging service which allows blogger’s like us to highlight details in the photos with a simple mouseover bubbles. Unlike normal hotspots, Picmeleo Alive bubbles appear only when the mouse is over the photo. we can easily embed the tagged photos into our blogs with a simple embed code and Picmeleo Alive works with most common blog platforms such as Blogger, WordPress, Typepad and Tumblr.

How to tag photos with Picmelo

1. Go to Picmelo Alive application.
2. Import image from your computer.

3. Use “Add bubble” for tagging and marking anywhere on the photo.

4.Save the photo and embed the simple javascript code on blogs or websites.

While reviewing this product I asked following few questions from Shumeng Ye of Picmeleo:

Transcript of Interview

Honey: Tell me more about about Picmeleo.
Shumeng: We are a Finnish startup based near Helsinki. Our products include the photo tagging service Picmeleo Alive and a free embeddable editor.

Honey: What is the core technology used in Picmeleo.
Shumeng: Its simply based on Flash.

Honey: Who are your target audience.
Shumeng: Picmeleo Alive is a useful for anyone with a need to mark photos, bloggers in particular.

If you like the service then they also offer aFacebook image editing app of Pickmeleo.

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How To Blog From iPhone

Nikita Porwal — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:24:34 +0000

Been a blogger-bug all the while, smitten by the iPhone trend…, is your blogging imagination and your iPhone seems to be world apart, They aren’t, just get them linked, and you will soar your blogging world along with the iPhone at a snappy pace. Inked below, are just the needs to make a blogging more fun to be with, with your new iPhone.

There are many a bloggers who have been running a blog for quite some time, And even though there are huge number of blog that lie rather quiet over many a weeks, their new iPhone world has awakened their senses to find time to reflect on some recent developments through their new I-world. The old phone, like the one’s from the Sony Ericsson (used by many bloggers) served them with a software that enabled them to transfer their clicked images to be sent straight to their blogger.com, but for sure you know iPhone failed on this front.

How To Blog From iPhone?

The motivation for a lively blogger with an iPhone is that, many of the blogging sites that encompass within them the programmable API. And loads of alternative means to create blogs, and most of them are already been employed. Email to webpage technology allocates web content to be created within an email client and then be easily published by propelling an email which is read by the server and circulated.

In contrast, the iPhone has a great web browser, that eases its way manages forms extremely well, so it’s an amazing means for posting to any website. But uploading photos or images is major challenge still because of the built-in restriction imposed to access the file system (However this concept doesn’t lay strong with the hacked iphones). On the contrary the iphone’s snappy quick, hyper-pacey and cool email client over-rides the issues of posting or uploading photos on to a blog site.

Easy Steps:

Using the blogger.com’s email as a blog option, you can click photos on the iphone; select the Email photo option;
And send to a private address that only you are aware of;
The same will be received by blogger.com & published as a blog entry.
A perfect Snappy-quick solution, just like your iphone.

The above discussion is also applicable on the Flickr, and publishes the same on any blog site that supports xmlrpc, such as WordPress, Drupal, and Movable Type. Apart from blogging you can also download exciting game on iPhone and perk up your experience with it!

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Free Flickr Pro Account

Honey Singh — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:34:15 +0000

Flickr has its own charm when it comes to photo experiences, it have wide outreach and groups of inspiring folks. This is your change to win free Flickr pro account without any hassle or “much much”. I always prefer Flickr pro for arranging unlimited sets, better stats and analytics which helps in SEO and getting targeted traffic from image search. If your are a photographer, artists, or a blogger then i’ll recommend you Flickr pro service.

How to get Free Flickr Pro Account

You can get free Flickr pro account by participating in Free Flickr Pro Account contest. See how to get that:

Rules:

Become a Fan of Honeytech Blog (If you’re not!)
Tag yourself and your friend on the Flickr image at the Honeytech Blog Facebook fanpage album
One lucky winner will be announced at the end of 27th April

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Top 10 Websites To Get Royalty Free Images

Nikita Porwal — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:59:49 +0000

Google Image Search is one of the top technologies today at Googleplex as it serves millions of users around the world that are looking for appropriate images. That displays the importance of images in each one’s life. Especially if you are blogger, web designer or a graphic designer then you highly rely upon new images for day to day work. When you develop a website, the first thing that strikes our mind is to get more views, visitors and incomes. And images help the readers for better understanding of the text content. So generally do Google Image search or may be Yahoo Image search, but at times the result may be disappointing and you might feel like digging the alternative sites too. However, this certainly does not mean that you have shell out dollars to obtain images, there are few excellent royalty-free image sites existing that offer equal quality product at low or no cost. With that in mind, honeytechblog compiles Top 10 websites to get royalty-free images, which can certainly help you getting amazing images.

1. GettyImages

Gettyimages is the leading provider of digital media worldwide, creating and distributing a range of assets – from royalty-free stock photography and editorial images to footage, music and multimedia – that help communicators around the globe tell their stories. Getty Images creates and distributes the world’s best and biggest imagery collections, making them available in the most reachable and usable way – 24 hours a day, every day. From contemporary creative imagery to news, sports, entertainment and archival imagery, their products are found each day in the full range of traditional and digital media worldwide.

2. Corbisimages

The Corbis Royalty-Free Collections covers health, nature, sports, and a full range of current, relevant subject matter. Search unlimited-use images at incomparable value. Corbis imagery is packed with power and emotion and includes areas such as business, technology, people, lifestyle, nature, places and backgrounds. It’s a library of more than 140,000 images and 264 CDs from which to choose from.

3. iStockphoto

iStockphoto is the internet’s original member-generated image and design community. Get easy, affordable inspiration with millions of safe, royalty-free photographs, vector illustrations, video footage, audio tracks and Flash files. The site’s photo library contains over 4.5 million stock photos, vector illustrations, Flash files, video footage and audio from over 75,000 artists.

4. Photoxpress

PhotoXpress.com is the world’s largest free premier-quality image bank, providing creative professionals a vast and legal image library for both personal and professional use – including Web site design, brochure illustrations, advertisements and editorial illustrations. You get free, high quality, high resolution images and that is up to 10 downloads a day.

5. Freedigitalphotos

At freedigitalphotos you get thousands of royalty free photos and illustrations for websites, newspapers, magazines, video and TV productions, iPhone applications, PowerPoint presentations, forums, blogs and school work. All photos available there are free for corporate and personal use. Every image is free, with an option to buy high resolution versions for use in print or graphic design. If you are a photographer then you can create a free account to share and sell your photos.

6. Morguefile

Morguefile offers outstanding collection of photos for download. The morguefile contains photographs freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects by visitors to the site. Don’t forget to check out their top free photo collection, which is indeed worth looking at. The best part of morguefile is that you can download images from the site without even creating an account.

7. Imageafter

Imageafter is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial. In the directory you can expect free high resolution images of objects, places, animals, mechanics, insects, signs, circuits and plants etc. All stock photos can be freely downloaded and used in you commercial or personal works. The size of the images range from 1600×1200 to 2560×1920.

8. Photovaco

Photovaco offers free stock photos with high resolution for both personal and commercial projects. You can use these free photos in websites, video, TV production, forum, blogs, school projects and print medias including newspapers, magazine, books, CD covers. That means you can download, edit and use all photos anywhere and anyhow you like except for abuse.

9. Jupiterimages

Jupiter Images is one of the leading suppliers of stock photography in the world – with a comprehensive photo library covering royalty free images and stock illustration. You’ll find top collections including Ablestock, Comstock and PhotoObjects. Between them, they offer imagery for almost any project, with a wide range of conceptual and lifestyle photography, including everything from holiday photos and sports stock to industrial shots.

10. Picturesindia

Picturesindia is an Indian site that wishes to provide an enticing and enchanting journey for its viewers by presenting them a collection of royalty free images, encompassing sections of never explored India. This unique collection has all possible intricate details that will surely be a visual treat for its viewers. From images of hotels, monuments and tourist attractions of India to photos of ancient Indian civilization everything is just a click away at Pictures India. Browse through the vast collection of images of India and download these images free of cost for various purposes like advertising, publishing and web designing.

So which is your favorite site to get royalty-free images? Do share those excellent sites with us via comment.

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Top 10 Expectations Of Social Media In 2010

Nikita Porwal — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:02:23 +0000

2009 has been an interesting year for social media industry with evolvement of social media experts, social media books, social media startups and social media companies. Having a social media strategy, became common practice for all minor and major corporations just to get hooked with social media powers. As we know that more businesses are turning their heads towards Facebook, Twitter and Web 2.0 tools to achieve the desired, it is now impossible to separate social media from the online world. And on the business side it is imperative to analyse carefully how the tools perform and change with time. While past year was all about involvement this year will be more about connecting social media to business and it is also time to measure the returns on investment done. We can expect lot of changes, improvement and innovations this year, so to compile all honeytechblog brings you Top 10 expectations of social media in 2010.

Top 10 Expectations Of Social Media In 2010

1. Social media to take major role in politics

Politics will lead the way in new marketing techniques and the use of social media would certainly help deciding the result of political election. One cannot deny the fact that today social media is quickly becoming a necessity for political campaigns. President Barrack Obama’s campaign was a live example last year. Some of the reason why you can consider social media the best option for political campaign is because it would help to increase supporters, donations and also to build political network. And don’t forget the process of selecting a leader will be much easier than ever.

2. Make money with Social Media – A reality

In 2009 we saw social media has changed forever the way people used the technology to interact with people, and today people are hunting for options to make money with it. Now, in 2010 there will be great rise of aggregating platforms, location-based features, more social networks, revenue sharing plans, and targeted ads that can help bring lucrative job opportunity. Users would be able to generate his or her own experience with the help tools, features, and apps that magically unite innovative companies to them.

3. Twitter to serve billions of tweets each hour

There was a recent update from Twitter co-founder Stone claiming that the site would serve billions of tweets every hour. With the growing popularity of the micro-blogging platform this update certainly looks like realty. Further Stone also says that no matter how the algorithms get, no matter how many machines we add to the network, Twitter will tend to grow and will also support billions of search queries a day. Twitter will become the mainstream in 2010 for local news and more.

4. Mobile – Chief device to access social media

According to a survey by Armano, with the banning of social media activity increasing in the workplace each day and Smartphone sales on the rise, the social networking addiction would now be carried over to mobile devices. In 2010, people would increasingly use their mobile phones on-to-go for accessing social networks, search, watch video, read content and locate location based information. With this we can not only see the rise of accessing social media via mobile but also the sale of mobile phones are expected to augment.

5. More corporate to use social media tools

We know that social media has turned the way we interact with other. For millions of people it is a passion to use every day. While some might just be addicted other would be making a living out of it. Last year many corporate have understood the power of this fact and have adopted the use quicker, for example 35+ Examples of Corporate Social Media in Action and 10 of the Smartest Big Brands in Social Media. This year we would see more corporate to use social media tools drastically. Using social media tools are not only vital to work around but also make life easier.

6. Search engine optimization to lose importance

Although you can say that SEO and social media marketing are relative term there is a huge difference in the process. Earlier there social media campaign was a part of SEO and experts did it for few extra bucks. But now social media will rule and SEO will tend lose its importance, because social media offer quick success while SEO process takes time. Another reason is that SEOs seem to be more technical, where social media buffs emphasize creativity and content. Social media is taking over very fast and SEO will soon be replaced with social media

7. Women to rule social media

Image source from the twitter song

Mashable came up with an interesting data, that exposed the number of men and women using social media. The data shows that equal numbers of men and women use sites like LinkedIn, DeviantArt and YouTube. When it comes to sites like Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, MySpace and Bebo, however, women outnumber men. In fact, there’s only one major holdout for men on the social web: social news site Digg, where 64% of users are male. 2009 revealed the growing role women play online and 2010 will be ruled by women in social media. BusinessWeek also revealed in a post that “According to a Rapleaf study, while both sexes still use social networking sites in huge numbers, women are the ones holding down the fort “. Moreover more than 42 Million U.S. Women Use Social Media and you can also check the list of 50 women’s having influential social profiles and blogs.

8. Location-based network to be seen

We recently saw Geotagging features rolled out by Twitter, but it is for limited basis as of now. And the company has seen huge subscriber for it, so the network is likely to grow. Location-based network will experience severe growth in 2010 for many purposes. These features will not only help the companies to locate right seeker, but will also help the end user in hitting the right bar. Foursquare and Gowalla will monetize their networks to a lucrative position faster if other network do not react fast in 2010.

9. Spammers’ and hackers’ to find their place

Web is no new to spammers and hackers. There has been end-numbers of steps taken to remove spammers but far away from through success. In 2010 while social network tend to grow dramatically, we can also predict that there will be more number of spammers and hackers to find their place. So, social media gurus should come up with strong ideas to get rid of spams and to have a healthy experience for users.

10. Social Media Job roles to rise

In 2010 another major change we will see is the role of social media jobs. The job roles will increase considerably than last year. Social Media will lead the way in redefining customer relationships with the new technology. There will be more job seekers and providers in the year 2010. Have a look over the presentation on Job Search With Social Media & Mobile

So what do you think will be the trend in social media and web as a whole for the year 2010? Will it be a boon or a bane? Come share your thoughts with us and leave a comment below!

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Top 10 Camera Mobile Phones Of 2009

Nikita Porwal — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:49:15 +0000

Gone are those days when we use to see mobile phones as a single utility device. Today it is much more than picking up calls and sending SMS. You can play music, record videos, watch clips, pay bills, store data, browse internet, get interesting apps on it, take pictures, share it on Facebook, flickr, and much more. Most of the people find taking pictures as the best utility of all, as capturing beautiful moments in life is just unbeatable. While you are on a college trip, or on a family vacation – good quality camera mobile phones can replace professional cameras in taking snap. But then landing up buying a camera cell which is not-so-good can certainly spoil your good moments when you take a hard copy of it. There are certain things you should remember before buying any mobile phone.

In case of camera phones, most of the people make a mistake of thinking that the higher the megapixels, the higher the quality of the phone. But no, megapixels play only 50% of the role and other features you must look at are, autofocus, sensor, flash, optical zoom, speed, interface, panorama options etc. Phones without camera are of rare “phenomenon” today, but not every handset can offer you the best quality. We have already reviewed Top 10 Music Phones of the year and this article on honeytechblog intends to provide information of Top 10 Camera Mobile Phones Of 2009, so that you pick up the best.

1. Sony Ericsson Satio

This definitely one of the best the camera phone of the year. This 12.1-megapixel camera with Xenon flash and intuitive touch focus gives you stunning, high-resolution shots you’ll want to blow up big and keep. With the Sony Ericsson Satio camera phone, all your favorite stuff is just a touch away. Tap directly into TV series, mobile videos, podcasts and music via the ingenious full-touch media menu on this amazing entertainment phone.

Interesting Features of Sony Ericsson Satio

Camera Options – 12.1-megapixel with Xenon flash, auto-focus, Geo-targetting, Image stabilizer, red-eye reduction, video recording, 12x digital zoom and much more.
Screen – 360×640 pixel – 16,777,216 color TFT touchscreen
Display – 3.5? touschreen, 16:9 widescreen display with 16 million colors
Memory – SanDisk microSD™ support
Networks- GSM/GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA
Colors – Black – Silver – Bordeaux
Connectivity – Wisepilot™ turn-by-turn navigation, Bluetooth, Google Map, WiFi and more.
Sizes – 112.0 x 55.0 x 13.0 mm – 4.4 x 2.2 x 0.5 inches
Weight – 126.0 gram

2. iPhone 3G S

With a 3-megapixel autofocus camera and a photo application that makes it easy to share, iPhone 3GS is the most photo-friendly phone ever. The new 3-megapixel camera takes great still photos, too, thanks to built-in autofocus and a handy new feature that lets you tap the display to focus on anything (or anyone) you want. You can now also shoot video, edit it, and share it — all on your iPhone 3GS. Shoot high-quality VGA video in portrait or landscape. Trim your footage by adjusting start and end points. Then share your video in an email, post it to your MobileMe gallery, publish it on YouTube, or sync it back to your Mac or PC using iTunes.

Interesting features of iPhone 3G S

Camera options: 3-Megapixle with AutoFocus, Crop, Rotate, Geotagging and video recording
Display –Touchscreen 480 x 320 pixels (3.5 inch)
Size – 115.5 mm (4.55 in) (h), 62.1 mm (2.44 in) (w), 12.3 mm (0.48 in) (d)
Connectivity and Network – Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), Bluetooth, USB 2.0/Dock connector, Quad band GSM 850 900 1800 1900 MHz GPRS/EDGE including, A-GPS; Tri band UMTS/HSDPA 850, 1900, 2100 MHz. 3GS also supports: 7.2 Mbps HSDPA
Special features – Accelerometer, Proximity Sensor, Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating, Cut, Copy, Paste, Voice Memos, Voice Control and much more.
Memory – 32 Gigabytes
Weight – 4.8 Onces

3. Nokia N86 8MP

Nokia’s best camera phone till date with 8MP resolution sensor and this phone and 28mm wide angle lens. Take ultra high-quality pics with the 8 megapixel camera with auto focus, flash and Carl Zeiss optics. You can also capture clear images in bright and dark conditions with a wide exposure range, variable aperture and high speed shutter. And then share photos through Ovi*, email and MMS, or print them with a compatible printer. Capture DVD-like quality video day or night with a wide exposure range, stabiliser, and integrated video light.

Interesting Features of Nokia N86 8MP

Camera Options – 8 Megapixels with AutoFocus, Dual LED Flash, Video recording.
Display – OLED Display screen, 16M Colors
Size : 240 X 320 pixels, 2.6 inches
Memory : 8GB
Connectivity – 3G, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, Radio
Weight – 5.36 oz

4. Samsung Memoir SGH-t929

Samsung Memoir is widely known as a camera with the mobile phone. With 8.0 megapixels, a Xenon flash and a host of dedicated camera functions, the Memoir sets a new standard. But the Memoir™ doesn’t stop there. It’s also a music player, a full Web browser, a GPS navigation system and one of the most advanced touch screen phones in the world. The photo quality is superior, and the overall feature set is very striking. It does carry great performance.

Interesting Feature of Samsung Memoir

Camera Options – 8 Megapixels with Xenon flash, auto focus, multiple shooting modes, Smile Shot smile and video recording with camcorder.
Display- 240 x 400 pixels, 262 144 colors, TFT
Network – GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA 1.8 Mbit/s/HSDPA 3.6 Mbit/s
Special Features – Caller groups supported, 1000 -names capacity, Multiple Numbers Per Contact, Picture ID, Ring ID
Multimedia and Music Player – MPEG4, 3GPP, H.263, H.264 – MP3 ringtones, AAC, AAC+, WAV, MIDI
Size – 4.17 x 2.11 x 0.55 inches
Memory – microSD/microSDHC
Connectivity – USB, Stereo Bluetooth
Weight – 4.40 oz

5. LG KC910 Renoir

Renoir takes super-sharp 8 megapixel pictures that can be edited in camera and are instantly ready for sharing online or printing. The phone’s list of features includes some that are usually only found on extremely high-end standalone cameras, such as Schneider-Kreuznach certified optics, a Xenon flash, auto and manual focus, sensitivity up to ISO 1600 and geo-tagging.

Camera Options – 8 megapixel camera with autofocus, manual focus and xenon flash
Video recording (MPEG4, 320 x 240 pixels, 120 frames/second)
Display: Touch screen, TFT LCD, 262k colors, 240 x 400 pixels (3 inches)
Audio – MP3/AAC/AAC+/AAC++/WMA formats
Messaging: SMS, EMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Memory: MicroSD Card Upto 16GB
Connectivity: 3G, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, Radio.
Size: 108 x 55 x 14.5 mm
Weight: 110g

6. Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot C905

The 8.1-megapixel C905 Cyber-shot™ phone is equipped with Xenon flash and is always ready to capture the best moments of your life. C905 has all the functions you need for perfect pictures, smart Contrast balances light and color, face detection helps you focus on people and many more.

Interesting Features of Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot C905

Camera Options – 8 MP pixels with autofocus, xenon flash Geo-tagging, face and smile detection, smart contrast, image stabilization, smile detection and videocalling
Video recording – QVGA@30fps
Display – TFT, 256K colors
Size – 104 x 49 x 18-19.5 mm
Memory – Memory Stick Micro (M2), up to 8GB, 2GB or 8GB card included
Network – GPRS/EDGE/WLAN/
Connectivity – Bluetooth, USB
Weight – 136 gram

7. Samsung M8910 Pixon12

Samsung M8910 Pixon12 is the world’s first 12-megapixel camera phone for instant photo shoot. The Samsung Pixon12 enables users to take perfect pictures quickly and easily, thanks to a Dedicated Camera Power Key which gives users fast one-touch access to the camera function. Once the camera is turned on, users can point and shoot, capturing images as fast as today’s advanced digital cameras. The Samsung Pixon12 also features fast image saving, so users can move to their next shot within around 2 seconds.

Interesting Features of Samsung M8910 Pixon12

Camera Options – 12 MP with Tracking Touch Auto-Focus, Image Stabilization, Beauty Shot.
Video Recording – D1(720×480)@30fps, QVGA@120fps
Display – AMOLED Resistive touchscreen, 16M Colors
Size – 480 X 800 pixels, 3.1 inches
Memory – microSD, up to 16GB,
Connectivity – Bluetooth, USB
Network – GPRS/EDGE/WLAN/ HSDPA,7.2 Mbps, HSUPA
Weight – 120 g

8. Nokia 6700 classic

Capture and share print quality images with this 5 megapixel camera. The comfortable and straight forward design makes clicking photos quick and easy. This is actually the lowest priced 5MP you will locate on the market with excellent web browsing and call quality features. The most interesting part apart from camera options, you will find is the battery life. It comes with solid 12 hours battery life with music player on.

Interesting Features of Nokia 6700 classic

Camera Options – 5 Megapixel with Autofocus, LED flash, Active toolbar, Photo editor on device, Color tone modes: normal, greyscale, sepia, negative and Direct printing to compatible picture printers.
Video Recording – 640 x 480 @ 15fps or 352 x 288 @ 30fps
Display – TFT screen, 16M Colors
Size – 240 X 320 pixels, 2.2 inches
Memory – MicroSD Card Upto 8GB
Connectivity – 3G, GPS, Bluetooth, Radio.
Network – GPRS/EDGE/WLAN/ HSDPA,TCP/IP support
Weight – 113 grams

9. Samsung T939 Behold 2

The Behold® II is the latest Android phone with corporate email synchronization, WiFi, and visual voicemail. And its Webkit-based browser is fully integrated with Google applications so you can check Gmail, automatically add an event to your calendar, and find directions with Google Maps. The Behold® II also features a 3.2” AMOLED screen so you can view your graphics, photos and YouTube videos in clarity. And it is everything you need for multimedia, offering 16GB of expandable memory, Bluetooth 2.1, MP3 music player and a 5MP camera/camcorder with auto-focus, flash and 8x zoom. It’s truly something to behold.

Interesting Features of Samsung T939 Behold 2

Camera Options – 5 MP, 2592?1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging and video recording.
Display – AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size – 320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches
Memory – microSD, up to 16 GB,
Network – GPRS/EDGE/WLAN/HSDPA
Connectivity – Bluetooth, USB
Weight – 4.2 oz

10. Nokia N97 mini

The sleek Nokia N97 mini integrates the web into your life and seamlessly connects you to your friends and favorite online services. It is younger than Nokia N97 and also comes with different design, slid opening, and better features. With this you can capture high resolution pictures and record video in DVD quality. Further impressive part is that you can save up to 10 hours of quality video on 8GB internal memory, or store up to 30 hours with a microSD external memory card.

Interesting Features of Nokia N97 mini

Camera Options – 5 MP, 2592×1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Dual LED flash, video light and Geo-tagging
Video Recording – VGA@30fps and VGA@15fps
Display – TFT resistive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size – 360 x 640 pixels, 3.2 inches
Memory – microSD, up to 16GB
Network – GPRS/EDGE/WLAN/HSDPA
Connectivity – Bluetooth, v2.0 microUSB
Weight – 138 g

You can no doubt drop the option of buying a camera for yourself, if you pick any phone from the above list. These phones are best of the year and hey it is Christmas time. So probably you could get one for your loved one as a beautiful surprise gift. Happy Clicking!

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Top 10 Free Image Hosting Sites Worth Trying

Nikita Porwal — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:21:14 +0000

Images hold a special place in our life, whether they are college, wedding, tour or any other pictures for that matter. And thanks to Internet that we can share such precious photos with our family and friends in no time. It may not be possible to take out a hard copy for each and every pic you click, but backing it up online is very much possible with image hosting sites. Such sites offer you great service, apart from making it fun and easy to show off your digital photos. Also many blogger face issue of limited bandwidth, so making use of image hosting sites could be a sensible decision. Whether you are looking to cut down on bandwidth cost, share your pictures online, or just wanting to have a backup – make use of the Top 10 Free Image Hosting Sites accumulated by honeytechblog that are best so far.

Picasa

Picasa was designed by Google to offer us best and free image hosting service. This one offers you unlimited bandwidth which is the best feature and even provides you with 1 GB of free storage. Uploading photos in seconds, save shared photos, editing pictures, store videos, sorting, moving and deleting Pictures are among few best options available to play with. Your web album could be of 20MB and is also limited to 50 megapixels. You can access Picasa directly by using your Gmail account.

Flickr

Flickr is mostly preferred by designers and photographers that are happy with limited storage and bandwidth. You get maximum storage space would be 100 MB and free upload of 2 videos each month which are limited to 90 sec and 150MB size. Photo tagging, commenting option, resize pictures, set privacy levels, posting photos to any blogs, are among some of the cool features available with Flickr. You can access Flickr by just creating an account for free.

Photobucket

This is my favorite; Photobucket is the premier site on the Internet for uploading, sharing, linking and finding photos, videos and graphics. You can create a free Photobucket account that can store thousands of photos and hours of video. The free account is limited to 1MB file size and you get 10 GB monthly bandwidth and 1GB storage space. Sharing of photos, videos, and albums by email, IM, and mobile phone, multiple uploads, image editing, group album and scrapbook builder are some of the nice features available with Photobucket.

Imageshack

You cannot miss out imageshack if you are truly looking for handy media hosting site. Major flash file, images, movies, and videos can be uploaded and shared quickly with this. The best part is you can upload as many files you desire, just take care that you picture should be less than 1.5 megabytes. This hold same for flash files as well and videos could be less than 50MB. Direct linking, resize images, keep track of previously uploaded image easily, and different linking codes are some of the cool feature you can play around with.

FreeImageHosting

This image hosting provider allows you easily upload, link and share images online and you can also display them on social networking sites such s MySpace, Xanga, and Friendster. You will be happy to know that there is no storage, bandwidth or hosting period limited apart from being completely free of cost. GIF, JPG, BMP, and PNG images and photos can be hosted using this service. Direct linking, maximum file size of 3000KB, easy browse and upload are some of the best feature that would attract you. Here you don’t need to register, but having an account can fetch you more interesting features.

Pixavid

This might be relatively new in the field of image hosting by of course worth looking at. You get an easy way to share pictures and also post them on personal sites, message boards and emailed. Pictures can also be shared on Facebook, Twitter, Stumbleupon, Reddit and other social networking sites. Pixavid uses JQuery, Uploadify and other quality plugins to serve you better. Direct linking, popular, pick of the day, download, lucky dip are some of the great feature you must look at.

ShotAddict

This one is highly recommended for photographers, as they conduct some cool photo contest that can be great opportunity to display talents. You can be an ordinary member for free and take advantage of cool features like store your images, make them public or private, share with your friends, join free photo contest. But to get more out of it you need to be a premium member that would charge about $28.88 a year. You can also ready photo tips, tutorials and articles that can be useful.

WordPress

Honeytechblog love wordpress as it is amazing in all ways, so it deserves a place in this top ten list. You can create a free account to host your precious images with wordpress. You get 3GB of hosting space and unlimited bandwidth as well. You are free to upload mp3, m4a, wav, ogg audio files and also to increase your space with a Space Upgrade. Video upload and embed them are also among cool feature.

ImageVenue

ImageVenue.com is a free image hosting solution. It is designed for you to share digital pictures with friends, post images on message and bulletin boards and blogs. You can also hot link images from your personal website or eBay auctions. File size limit is 3.0M and you can upload as many images you want. Hot linking, mass uploading and sharing are features that will surely attract you. Registration is not required, but having one could be great.

WebShots

Webshots is one of the largest photo- and video-sharing sites with 7.2 Million* monthly visitors and more than 520 million photos to explore. Store and share 1,000 personal photos + 100 more for each month of membership with WebShots. You are allowed to Share photos, videos and slideshows on Webshots and your personal website. Download professional photos, easily manage photos, order prints and make custom photos gifts are among good features you might like to try out.

The above listed websites are just great with powerful features and they are also simple with work with. Do mention your favorite image hosting sites in meanwhile have a smooth and enjoyable experience with these.

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Sakib Mahmud — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:31:38 +0000

We usually covering tons of things on honeytechblog and we shared WordPress Theme resources, Twitter Bot List, Joomla Video Tutorials, Video Tutorials Of WordPress, Money making, Free SEO Tools, Web based Suite, Greatest Blogs Hosts, Video Sharing Site List, Social Bookmarking List, Free Web Builder’s List, List Of Real Time Service, Flickr Search Tools List, and it’s still growing and we generating tons of new things everyday.

In this post, we trying to cover up something different, something great — you didn’t expect. We covered world’s most top rated posts, which has generated in this year’09 and getting millions of hits, hundreds or thousands times bookmarked in social networks. We tracked the information from different websites. Smashipgapps, TechCrunch, Lifehacker, devsnippets, maximumpc.com, mashable, nytimes, makeuseof, fedoraproject, youthedesigner and so on top rated websites we have enlisted.

Thanks those websites (we listed) to generate such types of great posts and we know that only creative, effective, enthusiast geeks can generate such productive things — which really helping others too.

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Sakib Mahmud — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:57:15 +0000

After the Windows Vista, the next generation operating system is Windows 7. It brings more functionality, more reliability, superb flexibility and user friendly working environment. “Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna) is an upcoming version of Microsoft Windows, an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, netbooks and media center PCs” – Wikipedia says.

In below we are trying to share some exclusive Windows 7 Wallpapers, which makes you so excited and you will leave Windows Vista and start to using Windows 7.

Windows 7 Wallpaper Pack By Maoractive

Windows 7 wallpaper By 24charlie

Windows Seven by Youness-toulouse

Windows Se7en Pack 1 By Frnak

9 Superb Cool Wallpapers

Windows 7 Imagination By Gigacore

Windows 7 Energize By WindowsNET

Windows 7 By Rehsup

Windows 7 By Deviantarnab

Windows SEVEN By Havocki

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Windows 7 Wallpaper By QuantumEcho

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Sakib Mahmud — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:38:22 +0000

LiteFlick a jQuery lightbox plugin based websites which brings today’s most interesting photos from flickr.com and it’s totally different from Yahoo! Images features. Within a click you can see the images and even without refreshing pages again and again — you can enjoy the flickr’s photos within short time with faster experiences.

LiteFlick brings 10 x 8 grid of photos which looks great and it’s better though flickr.com showing on search with details information and the users identity. On liteflick by one search you will 80 photos per seconds and easy to get detailed information. In below you will get most popular tags and as well related tags which makes you more happy. More then hundreds or thousands pages may generate, you can see all pages by clicking next pages option. In search bar their is two options — username based search or any text. When user base it will show photos from specific user based storage and when text it will be whole flickr based. On left hand side, you will see recent and interesting options which inspiriting you to visit or surf more on liteflick.

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