How the Web paid tribute to Michael Jackson!

The news about Michael Jackson's untimely death shocked the world.  The blogosphere started flooding with news on various mediums including Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook.  In no time apparently everyone was talking about Michael Jackson’s demise on 25th June, 2009.

There were even some instances that people were seeing rumored news about other celebrities death as well.  But rumors are rumors.

So lets have a look how Web (internet) paid tribute to this world fame celebrity – Michael Jackson:

• Michael Jackson Facebook fan page has over 4,778,212 fan (at the time of writing)
• Michael Jackson Ultimate Playlist on Entertainment Weekly has got a collection of 16 best songs of Michael arranged in playlist.
• On many music destinations like Lala, Last.fm & iMeem etc. Michael Jackson is on #1 of their list for the week.
• View Michael Jackson: A Life in Pictures.
• Michael Jackson to be made into butter statue.
• The two best Michael Jackson videos have been viewed over 46,701,146 (The Thriller) and 31,638,839 (Beat it) on YouTube.  Below is the embed for Thriller for quick viewing.
• Top discussed topics and shared links on twitter (using Topsy)
  Michael Jackson dies : TMZ.com (4634 Tweets) – News Breaker
  Billie Tweets - a Twitter tribute to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" (1613 Tweets) – A cool interface showing song lyrics included in tweets.
  Michael Jackson: A Video Tribute at Mashable (415 Tweets) – A collection of
• Not even that, it is said that people who never heard of Michael Jackson, or may be just heard of him, have become his fan after his death.
• And don’t just look at the people paying tribute but also there are people taking benefit of Michael Jackson’s death by trying to spread the malwares.
• In fact, TechCrunch even noted that The Web Collapses Under The Weight Of Michael Jackson’s Death.

And why not should the web get collapses when everyone everywhere is talking about Michael Jackson only whether it is Google, The New York Time, Twitter, Facebook or any other social network or new source for that matter.

Myself, at Knowliz, would also like to pay a small tribute to ‘The King of Pop’ Michael Jackson by remembering him today through this post and collecting some sources of information, songs, videos and articles etc. to give Knowliz readers a way to quickly learn about Michael.

Feel free to share the best articles, videos, songs and blogs you came across for this great artist.  Share it on Facebook, Twitter and with all your friends and pay a small tribute yourself.

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Solution: iPhone Battery Drain, Apps crash, Slow response - OS3.0 Update Problems

I am sure all iPhone users are happy to see the latest Firmware update from Apple – OS3.0.  Because they get the most wanted feature – Cut, Copy, Paste and many more enhancements including Push notifications.  Find out 40 awesome iPhone 3.0 features you can expect from this upgrade.
And most probably, everyone owning an iPhone might have already upgraded it to 3.0 using iTunes.  If not, then I suggest you do it today.

As always not everything comes wrapped into a gift package for you.  All good things comes with some problems too.  That’s true for iPhone 3.0 update too.
A lot of people (including me) are reporting that the after iPhone 3.0 upgrade, they are seeing significant battery life drop, more apps crashing and some apps even fail to load at all.  They are also reporting that the overall response time of iPhone has reduced drastically.  Page refresh takes longer than expected and apps take more time than ever to even load.  Even the phone seems to be hot all the time.

Everything is sluggish after the upgrade: scrolling, the home screen, and especially 3d games, the frame rate gets terribly choppy. This never happened before with 2.2.1. I've restarted the phone, restored it in iTunes, nothing seems to help.
I've unchecked everything under Settings > General > Search Results thinking it could be a Spotlight indexing problem, but it hasn't made a difference. This is maddening, hope someone figures this out soon! 
                                                                                             ………says el maynardo

If you are also among those people, then don’t worry, you are not alone.  And be happy, I have found a solution which worked for me.  Most probably will work for you too.
One thing before you start following this guide, please understand, this method may or may not work for you.  But be assured you are not going to lose anything even if it doesn’t work out for you.  Though in any case, please follow this guide on you own risk, I am not responsible if anything goes wrong.
Frankly speaking, the culprit in most of the cases is ‘Push Notification’.
There are various workarounds and involves many steps of testing to see what exactly is the culprit in your case.
Method 1:
Try disabling ‘Notification’ under ‘Settings’.  It has been reported that this step has helped some people.

Method 2:
This step can be combined along with Method 1.  Try disabling ‘Fetch New Data’ under ‘Settings –> Mail, Contacts, Calendars’ to OFF.  That has also helped some people.

Note for Jailbreakers and Unlockers of iPhone:  If you are among those people who have unlocked your iPhone to use it with T-Mobile.  And if you are not subscribed to any data plan, then please understand ‘Push Notification’ doesn’t make any sense to you.  So just go ahead and disable it right away. (explained later)
Why?  Because if you don’t have any data plan, your iPhone keeps trying to connect to the Push server and drains the battery.  If you are not subscribed to any data plan then ‘Push Notification’ doesn’t even makes sense, because you are not connect to internet all the time.

 
If it doesn’t help, then go ahead and follow rest of the guide.
Method 3:
This method involves connecting iPhone to iTunes on your computer and resetting it to factory settings.  Please follow the rest of the article very carefully:
AT&T Subscribers:

1. Restart your computer and iPhone before going to the next step.  (This is to make sure no background process is running on any device.)
2. Open iTunes on your computer.
3. Connect your iPhone to computer using USB cable came with your iPhone.
4. Once iTunes recognizes your iPhone, right-click on the phone and select ‘Back-up iPhone’.  (This is to make sure your iPhone is properly backed-up and you don’t loose any app and data from your device.)
5. Once the back up is complete, go to the iPhone ‘Info’ tab in iTunes as shown below.
6. Click ‘Restore’ to restore your iPhone to its Factory settings.
7. Follow on screen prompts to complete the process.
8. Once the process is complete, disconnect iPhone from your computer.
9. Check if everything works fine.  If it works then you should see a message to update it again to 3.0 in the Info tab mentioned above. 
10. Update by following on screen prompts.
11. Re-sync your iPhone by restoring your old profile.  This old profile was created in step 4. 
    
    AT&T users please skip rest of the points mentioned below as they are written for T-Mobile users and those who want to use iPhone by unlocking it.
    
    Other than AT&T subscribers:
12. If you are going to use T-Mobile by Jailbreaking and unlocking it.  Then nothing would seems to work right now as it is not unlocked yet.  You won’t be able to make any calls or anything.
13. So now the first step is to Jailbreak it so that it at least works as an iPod Touch. Follow the steps mentioned in this post and then come back here.
14. Follow Method 1 and 2 to save on battery life.
15. Your iPhone should be running faster now.  Apps will be launching and running smoothly and hopefully they won’t be crashing any more.

I was able to sort out the battery problem by following the above mentioned process, which is basically to restore and reinstall only.  But it works and hopefully will work for you too.  Everyone seems to report various results, but restoring and reinstalling has helped most of us.
There is something really wrong with OS3.0 update ‘Push Notification’ which causes the battery to drain very fast.  Hopefully we will see a 3.0.1 update from Apple soon to resolve this issue.
If you want to see the responses and problems other people are facing, please head over to Apple Discussion thread.
Please drop in your comments below to let me know if any method worked for you or if you are seeing any more problems.  And if this article solved your problem then a little appreciation by sharing this post on Digg, Stumble, Facebook and Twitter etc wouldn’t hurt anyone.  Will it…???

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Knowliz: Monthly Recap - June 2009

Once again month end is here.  Half year is gone.  And as 30th brings June 2009 to an end, I am here again with the monthly recap for June 2009.  Here are the articles published on Knowliz in this month. 
Just so you know, this month Knowliz reached a milestone of 400 articles filled with Tips & tricks, tutorials, reviews and many many lists on various topics.  You may want to looks into the archives to see what interests you and read it through yourself.

Please click through the links to read the articles you missed or if you want to share them with your friends.  Here is the list:

1. Gadget & Electronics Deals of the Week – 4th July Edition: Cool deals on Electronics and gadgets.
2. Unlock iPhone 3G 3.0 on Windows using redsn0w: How to: Ever wanted to know how to unlock and iPhone so that to use it with T-Mobile.  Read this post for complete details.
3. 51 Best Abstract iPhone Wallpapers – Fun Sunday Series: A cool collection of iPhone wallpapers.  This is a Fun Sunday Series which will appear every Sunday on Knowliz.
4. Best of Blogosphere (BoB) – Week Ending 20th June: As the title says, best articles from Blogosphere on that particular week.  Read it as it has many really good articles from various sources.
5. 20+ Places to Listen & Share Music for FREE: A collection of over 20 services that lets you listen to music for FREE and let you share them with your friends on Twitter and Facebook etc.
6. Use IMs to update Twitter, Facebook, Blogger etc. using Pixelpipe: I know it becomes very tough to keep all your social profiles up to date all the time.  That’s why this article shows you how you can easily.
7. 20+ Ways to Share Photos/Images on Twitter: Another collection of over 20 services that lets you share photos and images on Twitter.  Bookmark this article and share it with your friends who might be interested in this.
8. DISQUS, IntenseDebate & JS-Kit – Analysis: 3 comment services dominate the entire Blogosphere.  But what is what and how do you make a choice, find out here in this article.
9. Indian Govt. has Online Grievance Forum now: Quite surprisingly, Indian Govt. has also got some online presence. Looks like now you can at least complain to the government directly using this Online Grievance Forum.
10. Why PC World wants me to renew 6 months before my yearly subscription expires: I don’t understand it.  If you are also among those people then let me know your response to such early renewal notices from various magazines like PC World, PC Magazine and Money etc.
11. CardStar iPhone App reduces your wallet and keychain weight: No month can go without an iPhone App review.  If you don’t know CardStar is a Free iPhone App which converts all your keychain tags and membership cards into digital format.  This app you can use to check out and get the generated bar code scanned at the service desk.
12. Gadget & Electronics Offers of the week! Dad & Grad Special: Another article with lots of Electronics and Gadget deals.
13. How to send email in Hindi and other Indian Languages: Have you ever wished to send an email to your mom and granny in the language they understand?  No problem, you can go through the details in this article and start sending the emails in your own native Indian language.
14. How to Uninstall Adobe Air Applications on Ubuntu? I know sometimes there is no easy way to uninstall applications on Ubuntu.  But if that happen to be an Adobe Air application, then you came to the right place.  Go through this artilce for details.

Hope you find Knowliz not only interesting but also a good source of information providing lots of tips and tricks on technology and other topics.  Keep reading Knowliz and help me bring the best to you always.

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Gadget & Electronics Deals of the Week – 4th July Edition

There are some really good deals for you below through our sponsors from Gadget and Electronics section.  I hope you will like them.  Please hurry as most offers end 4th July, 2009.

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• Samsung 2243SWX 21.5 inch Wide Screen 1000:1 LCD Monitor $184.99 Free Shipping after coupon code SUMMER10 - http://bit.ly/gVajJ
• Samsung HZ10W 10.2MP Digital Camera (Black) $227.99 Free Shipping after coupon code SUMMER10 - http://bit.ly/L2fP2
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• Nikon COOLPIX S220 10MP Digital Camera (Silver) $139.99 Free Shipping - http://bit.ly/p3uuR
• Save EXTRA 10% off Sony LCD TVs 37" and larger with code SONYLCD1 6/21-7/4 at Sears - http://bit.ly/kTrdQ

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• 5% - 17% Off Select Digital Cameras at Best Buy, Valid 6/28-7/4 - http://bit.ly/IIr2y
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• Samsung 32" Class 720p LCD HDTV only $449.99 after $100 Instant Savings at cart 6/28-7/4. Save $100! at Sears - http://bit.ly/DTJEC

Electronics Sale:

• Laptops As Low As $349.99 at Best Buy, Valid 6/28-7/4 - http://bit.ly/ocBSg
• Garmin - nüvi 260W Portable GPS at Best Buy - http://bit.ly/AZKNO
• Nikon - 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera – Black at Best Buy - http://bit.ly/NvE7S
• Apple® - iPod touch® 8GB MP3 Player – Black at Best Buy - http://bit.ly/KsKjI
• Dell - Inspiron Laptop with Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor T3400 - Pacific Blue at Best Buy - http://bit.ly/2rpcRX

Enjoy these cool offers on this 4th July week.  Most of these offers are valid till 4th July, so hurry.  You might not get a better deal than these in near future.  I will be back with more offers next week.

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Unlock iPhone 3G 3.0 on Windows using redsn0w: How-to

If you are not among the people who bought an iPhone in US from AT&T, then the chances are your iPhone is locked and it can’t be used as it is with T-Mobile and other service providers.  However if you bought iPhone in Europe or India then you might have already bought a factory unlocked iPhone.

To use it with T-Mobile and all, you will have to unlock this device.  Unlocking an iPhone involves two steps, one Jailbreak and then unlock. 

Jailbreaking is required to install Cydia which obviously is not available through iTunes store.  Please follow the below mentioned method to jailbreak and unlock your iPhone so that it can be used other than AT&T.

Step 1: Jailbreaking the iPhone:

1. Restart your computer and iPhone before going to the next step.  (This is to make sure no background process is running on any device.)
2. Open iTunes on your computer.
3. Connect your iPhone to computer using USB cable came with your iPhone.
4. Head over to iPhone Dev Team Blog to download the official torrent for ‘redsn0w’.  ‘Redsn0w’ is a must download to jailbreak iPhone 3G and other devices but not iPhone 3GS.
   (I assume you know how to download file using a torrent.  Else use one of the unofficial mirror location to the file.)
5. Either download Apple iPhone 3.0 firmware update file,‘iPhone1,2_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw’ or search if it already exist on your computer provided you upgraded to 3.0 already.
6. Once you have successfully downloaded ‘Redsn0w’, please run the file by double-clicking it.
7. On the very first screen you will see ‘Browse’ button, please click on it to select the ‘Firmware restore’ file from step 5.
8. Select ‘Next’ to go to the next screen.  After you click ‘next’ please don’t select ‘Icy’ at this time, let ‘Cydia’ selected before continuing.
9. Click Next and follow on screen prompts to jailbreak your iPhone.
   (Your iPhone may restart several times.  You might even feel that your iPhone is not responding, but don’t worry, just have little patience.  Let redsn0w do its job.)
10. Once the process is complete you will be able to see the default ‘Home’ screen know as ‘Springboard’ on your iPhone.  You can play with it at this time as an iPod Touch.  But you won’t be able to make any calls yet.
11. You will see a new app on your iPhone called ‘Cydia’.  This is where you can install various awesome apps that are not officially available from Apple iTunes.

If you are on AT&T and just wanted to download and use some unofficial apps which are not available in iTunes store, then you don’t need to unlock your iPhone.

Launch Cydia to search and install these apps from it.  Qik, Ustream Broadcaster are some of the cool apps you can try to start recording and broadcasting video from your iPhone 3G.  Or read this article to know how you can record video from your iPhone.

If you are on T-Mobile or other networks, then you will need to unlock your iPhone to use it as a phone.  Please read further steps mentioned below.

Step 2: Unlocking the iPhone:

1. Connect iPhone to some Wi-Fi network.
2. Launch Cydia, let it load the packages.  Please select ‘User Graphics Only’ if you are not a developer.  (Most of us fall into this category.)
3. Select ‘Upgrade essentials’ to reload Cydia contents.
4. Go to ‘Manage’ tab and then select ‘Sources’
5. Click on ‘+’ to add a source as ‘http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com’.
6. Let Cydia reload the content once again.  Once done, search for ‘ultrasn0w’ and run it.
7. Once the process it complete you can restart iPhone once and insert your T-Mobile SIM card.  Now you will be able to make call and use iPhone as a phone too. (Make sure 3G is off.) 
8. Congratulations, your iPhone is now unlocked and can be used with any GSM SIM card.
9. Restart your iPhone and insert the SIM card.  Enjoy….

Disclaimer: It goes without saying, it is your responsibility to check and follow the on screen prompts properly.  Software and other downloads are created and maintained by iPhone Dev Team.  It is your responsibility to understand warranty issues and all and I can’t be held responsible if anything goes wrong with your device.

Edit: Just realised that this is the 400th Post on Knowliz. I think I have come a long way on Knowliz with 400 unique articles and obviously there is a long way to go.... Thanks to everyone who made this possible by giving some attention to Knowliz and appreciating the content time to time.

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51 Best Abstract iPhone Wallpapers – Fun Sunday Series

Today I have brought you an exhaustive collection of 51 Best Abstract iPhone Wallpapers.  I have collected them from various sources, hope you will like them.  At the bottom of this post I am going to provide you the link to some of these places where you can find even more cool wallpapers.

To use these wallpapers either browse this article on your iPhone and save the images or you can download these on your computer and then sync through iTunes.

Hope you like this collection.  Feel free to download, reblog, share these wallpapers with as many people as you want.

If you like this article then please consider subscribing to Knowliz too so that in future you get similar articles automatically as soon as I write them.

I request you to Digg, Stumble, Tweet this article and/or share it on Facebook, Orkut etc.

Some resources for you to look for more wallpapers: http://www.thememyphone.com/ & http://www.iphoneatmo.com/

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Best of Blogosphere (BoB) – Week Ending 20th June

I got a chance to go through some really interesting articles this week.  I have collected them for you too.  Feel free to browse through, I am providing some small details about what they contain. 

You might also know that Apple has announced for its iPhone OS upgrade to 3.0 and everyone owning an iPhone is really happy to see that upgrade.  But many of them including me are still waiting for ‘iPhone Dev team’ to release ‘Ultrasn0w’ which unlocks the iPhone so that it can be used with any service provider.  Fingers crossed, still waiting….

1. How to use the best 40 features of iPhone 3.0: Very detailed article showing what all is changing and how to use those improvements.  Anyone owning an iPhone should go through that article for sure.  At the time of writing this article has received 2114 Diggs. [via iSmashphone]
2. 50 Best ways to track your website daily traffic: The article details about 50 ways to track website traffic.  I am sure all my blogger friends over there will want to bookmark and go through this post. [via InstantShift]
3. 25 Twitter Apps to manage multiple accounts: For some of those who have the ability to maintain multiple twitter accounts, this article will make it even easier to do so.  [via Mashable]
4. How to build your personal brand on Twitter:  Again, an article helping you out in building your brand on twitter.  What you need and what you need to do, read all it here. [via Mashable]
5. Top 7 Twitter Tutorials on Youtube: A collection of top 7 twitter tutorials to help you get started on Twitter. [via Mashable]
6. Redsn0w in June:  Most important post for anyone looking to Jailbreak and unlock iPhone after 3.0 update. This article provides all the necessary information and download link you will need to Jailbreak an iPhone.  Note you can’t jailbreak iPhone 3G s with this tool. [via iPhone Dev Team Blog]
7. How to Jailbreak an iPhone on OS 3.0 using redsn0w (Windows): Step by step details about how to jailbreak an iPhone on OS3.0 using redsn0w on Windows.  If you want to unlock too, then you need to wait until iPhone Dev team releases Ultrasn0w the successor of yellowsn0w. [via iClarified]
8. Disqus, Intensedebate and JS-Kit – Analysis:  An article giving a complete analysis and comparison of the three most popular commenting services available to bloggers. [via Knowliz]
9. 20+ ways to share photos/images on twitter: Title says it all.  Over 20 services to help you share photos on twitter. [via Knowliz]
10. 20+ places to listen and share music for FREE: Bookmark this post and never get bore again, because this article provides you links to over 20 services where you can listen to and share music with your friends for FREE.  You can listen to music on web, or on the Go with iPhone with most of these services and share what you are listening to on twitter.  Let your followers listen to what you are listening. [via Knowliz]

Hope you enjoy reading these helpful articles from around the blogosphere.  I will be back with such article next week. If you happen to find something interesting and you want it to appear on Knowliz, drop a comment or send out a mail to blog [at] knowliz.com. 

Enjoy, Have a good weekend….

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20+ Places to Listen & Share Music for FREE

There are numerous online destinations where you can search for and play for any song you want for FREE.  None of these services cost a dime, but you can always pay to get ad free unrestricted access to the vast library they have.  With free accounts you also have some restrictions like the number of songs you can skip and all.
But if you are getting bore and want to listen to some recent popular songs, then you don’t mind some advertisement in between.  Would you?
Most of these services not only create a radio station of choice but also let you share songs on various social networks like Twitter and Facebook.

Some of these popular destinations are mentioned below.  Some of them have iPhone applications as well, which I am putting in a separate list for iPhone users.  If you know any other service which is not mentioned here, then please add yours in comments below:

1. Pandora: One of the most popular music player on the web.  Create an account to start with.  Building your own radio station with the songs and artists you like.  Pandora will keep playing unlimited songs matching with your interests.
2. Last.fm: Last.fm recommends music, video and concerts based on what you listen to.  Once you start playing music on Last.fm, it starts building your own station which you can play and share anytime you want. 
   If you happen to be a Songbird user, then you can scrabble your songs to Last.fm so that they are available when you don’t have access to them.  There are many great features which I want you to try.
   You can even get FREE mp3 music downloads also.
3. Slacker: Similar to Pandora and others I mentioned, just search for the song on Slacker to play. There are some default stations created for you to get immediate access to popular songs also.
4. Blip.fm: Search for an artist or a song to play the song you want.  Create your own music station and share it with others.  Or you may listen to what others are playing on blip.fm. Blip.fm asks the twitter question of ‘What you are doing…?’ in a different way by asking ‘What are you listening…?’
5. imeem: imeem is a social network that enables users to discover, interact and express themselves with media, including music, video and photos, and form connections based on shared tastes and interests.
   You can create/upload your own music, videos, photos etc too and share this with you friends easily.
6. iLike: iLike helps people discover and share music, playlists, and concert alerts. The iLike Sidebar for iTunes and Windows Media Player suggests new music, creates automatic playlists, and connects people through music.
7. Lala: is the only service where you can not only listen to your favorite music but you can also buy it cheaper than iTunes and Amazon.
8. Jukefly: is a music player designed to play your music collection from anywhere. Or you can listen to 1000s of radio station already up there.  To start you need to sign-up and install a small app on your computer.  You don’t have to upload your collection to Jukefly.
9. Justhearit: is in private beta, but you can still search for a song and play audio and video from across the internet like YouTube and all.

(Image Source: Slacker Radio)
10. Mixtape.me: Similar to other service, just search, listen and create your own playlist or browse for Popular lists already on Mixtape.me.
11. Grooveshark: Good quality songs are available for you to listen and share with your friends and followers on twitter, Facebook etc.  Just search for a song to start with or browse a library of millions of songs.
12. Songtwit: Search for a song, preview it, login with twitter and post your message along with a link to the song.
13. Tinysong: is actually powered by Grooveshark.  Tinysong actually provides you a link to the song you search which you can add in your message or tweet to share it with your friends.
14. Twisten.fm: It is really an amazing service which converts twitter into a radio station by searching tweets having links to songs.  This is a nice way of checking out popular songs people are listening and sharing on twitter.  Just login with your twitter credentials to start listening to music.
15. Twiturm: lets you search and share a song on twitter.  You can also listen to them by browsing for new music with Genre.
16. Twt.fm: is not exactly a place for listening to music but you can search for a song or an artist, preview the song and then share it on Twitter.  Twt.fm will create a song page with your twitter background for your followers to listen to it.  Who said you can’t listen to music on your own page? 
17. Song.ly: Same concept as twt.fm but Song.ly has got browser add-ons which makes it easier to share songs and listen to them on the landing page.
18. MusicIndiaOnline: If you want to listen to Hindi songs, then this is one of the choices.
19. Raaga: Raaga is also a choice for Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi and other regional Indian songs.
20. You add it… This list is no way near to complete because there are so many cool services people use to listen to their favorite music that I don’t even know.  I would request you to please add it in the comments with some details as to why you like it and how do you use it. (if possible)

On iPhone:

(Image Source: Slacker Radio)

1. Last.fm (iTunes link)
2. Pandora (iTunes link)
3. iMeem (iTunes link)
4. Slacker Radio (iTunes link)
5. AOL Radio (iTunes link)
6. SHOUTcast Radio (iTunes link)
7. Y! Music (iTunes link)

All of these services mentioned above have iPhone applications.  They provide you unlimited choice of songs you can listen to on the GO.  Pandora, iMeem, Last.fm and Slacker lets you search for an artist or favorite song and then play a station based on that.  Whereas AOL Radio, Y! Music and SHOUTcast Radio have a wide array of preselected Radio stations.
Now, tell me with these many choices will you ever have to worry about music anymore. And as I said this post is not at all complete unless I take readers input because lot of cool services are still untouched.  I would request you to please drop a comment on this post so as to let everyone know which service you use and love.
Don’t forget to bookmark, share this article if it gave you some links to the service you didn’t know about.

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Use IMs to update Twitter, Facebook, Blogger etc. using Pixelpipe

Pixelpipe is a service which has been reviewed here on Knowliz several times.  And I have no doubt saying that it is one of the best services around to manage your photos and videos.  As I mentioned earlier also, with Pixelpipe you can share almost any media file (photos, videos etc.) to almost all popular services.  (Follow links in this post to read previous reviews)

Pixelpipe also lets you update your various blogs, twitter and other micro-blogging services.  Few days back it was only possible with their web interface or through iPhone app.   However, now you can update Twitter, Facebook, Blogger and many other services using IMs (Instant messengers) like AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk and all.

To do that, just follow these simple steps:

• Add respective messenger bots as a friend in your favorite IM.
• For AIM, add “PixelpipeAIMbot” as your buddy.
• For Yahoo, add “im.pixelpipe” as your friend.
• For Live Messenger, add “im@pixelpipe.com” as your contact.
• For Google Talk, Jabber and XMPP, add “pixelpipe@im.pixelpipe.com” as your friend.
• Send a message ‘verify-<Application Key>’ to these new buddies and friends with your pixelpipe application key. (Sign in to your account to get it?)
• Add routine tags like @twitter, @blogger etc. to your message to be sent out to respective locations. (Don’t worry, these tags will be removed before sending your message.)
• No third step.  Your message is already posted. 
• Next time whenever you wanna tweet and all, just send a message to these new friends.  Your twitter feed etc. will be updated.
• If you don’t mention a tag, the message will be posted to all your services added to Pixelpipe account. Read more about it here…

Cool enough…Now you don’t have to install any more app, just to update your various social network status. 

Just so you know it is a similar approach Ping.fm, another social network aggregator service, takes to update your various social networks.  You may wanna give Ping.fm and Pixelpipe a try.  You will never regret, you did.

You can use Pixelpipe with various mobile apps like Nambu, Nimbuzz, Fring, IM+ Lite and all using iPhone, Nokia and Windows mobile phones.

Let us know in comments how do you update your twitter and facebook status generally?  What services you use and how often do you update?

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20+ Ways to Share Photos/Images on Twitter

You might remember, some days back I was running a poll on Knowliz asking users, 'How do you share pictures on Twitter?'  The poll was posted on twitter several times over the last couple of weeks.

Well, the poll was closed on 31st May and the result is here.

Twitpic is a clear choice with Twitter users.  I also did a quick twitter search to find out if people are using something else too, but a quick glance at the adjacent image can reveal that people are using Twitpic only.

Though right now looks like there is war going on for this choice, as lots of lots of services are entering the field.  These services are bringing tons of cool features to the table.  They are making it easy for twitter users to share images easily through web, email or on the go from iPhone. 

And yes, most of them are not down most of the time as twitpic has been. 

I just feel that may be most of the people over at twitter are not even aware of the alternative services they have for image sharing.

Therefore, today I am going to make you aware of some of these great image sharing services along with a small detail about their features.

At Mashable there is an article telling you 5 Ways to Share Images on Twitter.

In fact, I got some cool services for my article also from this post.

Other than just uploading images through web, there are many ways you can share images on twitter.  Most popular method is Email.

Well, without much ado, here are some of the services I am talking about.  (Add more in comments if you use them):

1. Twitpic: As mentioned above, it the most popular service to share images on twitter. Create an account using your twitter login details and start sharing photos via web, email, your phone or from Desktop applications.
   
2. TweetPhoto: TweetPhoto lets you share photos on Twitter and interact with any user or photo. You can share your photos on Facebook too, check out who viewed your photos, favorite them or Retweet them if you want.  All photos are geotagged by default.
   Arguably a Twitpic killer.  BTW, it also doesn't support Twitter OAuth, instead asks you to enter your twitter login details.
   
3. Twitgoo: Twitgoo is another quick and easy way to share images on Twitter. Upload your pictures through web or from most of the popular Desktop applications.  You may also edit your images using Picnik and then share them on twitter within Picnik.  You need to provide your twitter login details to use this service.
   
4. Twitsnaps: Another service that lets you share images on twitter as soon as you provide your twitter login information to create an account.  (Suggested by @ajinkyaforyou)
   
5. Twitlens: Login using twitter OAuth and start sharing images quickly.  Twitlens even lets you share video too.
   
6. Twitxr: Twitxr not only lets you share on twitter but other social networks like Facebook & Flickr as well.  It works with most of the latest mobile phone, have an iPhone app too or you can share photos by email.
   
7. Pikchur: It is integrated with multiple platforms like twitter, Tumblr, Friendfeed etc.  So you may use any service to login to Pikchur and start sharing images quickly.  It even works with Desktop twitter apps like Seesmic Desktop etc.
   
8. Picktor: Picktor is another social picture management service & community that enables users to communicate and manage all of their popular social communities (i.e. Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, Hi5, Orkut, or many more). Picktor makes it easy for you to pull photos from anywhere, including platforms like Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, Myspace, Photobucket, Webshots, Twitter and more!
9. yfrog: yfrog is a service from Imageshack that lets you share photos and videos on twitter easily.
   
10. Pixim: Login via twitter and start sharing pictures quickly. Though it doesn't incorporate Twitter OAuth, instead asks you to enter your twitter login details.  See stats about your images and what your friends are sharing using Pixim.
    
11. Pic.im: You need to create an account on Pic.im to be able to share images on twitter.  Though the benefit is you can share the uploaded images on Flickr too.  Pic.im can be used on iPhone with Nambu app.  Or you may download the native Pic.im app just for image sharing on iPhone.  It is a sister service of tr.im. (@bhans uses Pic.im because of its tracking ability)
    
12. Posterous: Posterous lets you create a Photolog kind of thing for the images you share.  Just email your photos to post@posterous.com or twitter@posterous.com and they will be available on your page.  People can leave comments using Twitter or Facebook Connect as well.  You can link your other social profiles and share images on all at the same time.
    
13. Utterli: It is a 'DO IT ALL' kind of a service.  Suggested by @djuggler.  It is a twitter like interface where you may follow people, comment on their utters and do similar thing.
14. Twitc:  Twitc is a new photo, video, and file sharing application for social networkers. Upload, manage, organize, search, and download over 180 file types, including videos and content from third party sites such as YouTube, Hulu, Yahoo Video, Spike and LiveLeak.
15. TweeTube:  As they say, easiest way to share stuff (photos, videos, files & links) on twitter.
16. Twicli:  Twicli is another service for posting photos to Twitter, yet it stands out from the rest with a set of very useful features. Twicli is provided by Picli, a photo sharing site based on users’ votes.  (Reviewed at Twitip) Darren finds Twicli to be the best service for image sharing on twitter.
    
17. Friendfeed: Friendfeed also allows you to share photos.  You may 'CC' that note and picture on twitter too.
    
18. Brightkite: Brightkite lets you share photos of the places you are visiting on the go from your phone or via web.  You can have your status updated and photos shared on twitter and Facebook both.
    
19. Ping.fm: Supports more than 40 social networks.  You can use IM or Email to update your social networks.  Ping provides you an email address you can use to send photos to twitter.  There are various combination of commands you can use to update your status and blog. (@pizzocalabro uses Ping.fm as mentioned in the comments on the poll)
    
20. Tumblr: Similar to Ping.fm and Friendfeed, Tumblr also allows you to share photos and other media on twitter.  (Thanks to @djackmanson)
    
21. Emails: Most of the services I mentioned above provide you with a secret email for your account.  You may use these emails to send photos via these emails to post them on twitter for you.
22. Flickr: Flickr and other similar services are also jumping to let users share images on twitter.  You may link your Flickr and Twitter account to share images quickly on twitter.

Below are the comments from the poll.  Check out what people use for their image sharing needs on twitter.

That's a tremendous amount of services that let you share images and other media on twitter. 

I am sure, that’s not all.  People will be using many more methods and services to quench their thirst of sharing images on twitter.  Lets hear that in comments below. Drop a comment below if you are using some other service/method for that purpose.  I will love to hear your feedback and the creative ideas you may have in this regard.

And, don't forget to follow me on Twitter @Knowliz.

 

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