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Free Twitter icon

Looking for free Twitter icon? Now, you no longer need to design the tweeter from your knowledge and you could get those twitter icon for free.

And now, you may get them for FREE from www.twibies.com.

Create your own Twitter Follow Button

Actually Twitter.com come with the follow button creation as you may refer to the URL as below to get the button created.

To get this done, you may follow the step as below.

1. Access to the URL as below,
http://twitter.com/about/resources/followbutton
2. Enter your username.
3. Choose the Option that you needed and you would get the code as the said result.

Manually add Twitter Tweet button without using javascript

Twitter is a powerful social networking site to most of the user, but have you ever think on how to add tweets button to your blog without using the plugin?

It could be simply as just paste the code to your script.

Get your code like example below.
Tweet this Post.

For WordPress self host user, may use the script as below.

<a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=<?php echo urlencode(the_permalink()); ?>&amp;text=<?php echo urlencode(the_title()); ?>&amp;via=blogaccount&amp;related=myaccount">Tweet this</a>

For Blogger user, may use the script as below.

<a expr:href='"http://twitter.com/share?text=" + data:post.title + "&amp;url=" + data:post.url + "&amp;via=blogaccount&amp;related=myaccount"'>Tweet this!</a>

Remember to change the blogaccount to your blog name and myaccount to your twitter name.

Get a Twitter button for your blog

For many reason, you might want to have pretty twitter button for your blog that do not have plugin allowed such as Blogger, Tumblr, etc.

First of all, access to http://www.twitterbuttons.com/, and you shall be able to view like the above image.

Enter your twitter username and select your logo.

Next, select the Select button and a code will be appear. For MickGenie.com, I am applying it to the sidebar.

Get your twitter button by today too 🙂

Polygamy support for Windows Live Messenger Wave 4

Sometimes, you might want to have polygamy(one or more) Windows Live Messenger account running from your PC, but you found out Windows Live Messenger Wave 4(Beta 2010) do not have such feature.

To enable that, you may simply have the A-Patch installed.

With A-Patch installed, you may get the feature as below.
– Removed advertisement from main Windows.
– Polygamy, Open one or more account at once.
– Removed “See more feature” options.
– etc.

A-Patch make it having more than 80 features that allow you to ignore those annoying thing, get it today by downloading here.

External Web Page Performance Test

Nowadays, the web page performance testing tool such as Mozilla Firefox plugin firebug with page speed, Yahoo! YSlow, Google Chrome Developer Tool, you may try to use the external web page performance test tool named PageTest (www.webpagetest.org).

The web page test allow you to test your website performance with single web site or comparison.

Below is the sample result from the single website.