“Embed Almost any Document on Website” plus 1 more | Blogsolute

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 11:10 AM PDT

No Blogging platform has facility to embed documents and other things by default. Like Videos and images, How can one share his Documents? But, Using 3rd party web service, its now possible and damn easy.

Here’s an interesting service called Embed.in which allows you to embed almost anything on your blog. It supports Embedding of Word Documents (DOC and DOCX, Photos (JPG, TIFF, PNG), Photoshop Images (PSD), SQL database file, JavaScripts (JS), Excel Sheets(XLS and XLSX) , Powerpoint Presentations (PPT and PPTX), Rich text Document RTF), Cascade Style Sheets / CSS, PDF documents, Adobe Illustrator Artwork / AI, EPS or Encapsulated PostScript and all Open Office (ODP ,WPD, ODT and ODS) and Microsoft office File Formats. What More? You can embed whole Webpage just by giving its URL.

The Working of this Web service is like charm. Simple, Straight, Speedy and Easy. It works as its tag line says – “The Best way to show Documents on your Website” I never found such a great service before. Here we go with its working, features and specifications.

You don’t need separate account as it supports Logging in through 3rd party accounts like Google, Yahoo, AOL, Twitter, Wordpress and OpenID.

To Embed just click Select File and Browse the file you want to embed. It will be there with embedding code just in few seconds. You have three options to embedding any documents.

Embed : It opens a Flash player with your Document inside. With necessary options like Print, Download, Zoom and Full Screen View. You can configure which option to enable or disable. Example Preview :
Thumb : Thumbnail preview of the document is Shown and and overlay window open when clicked. It looks cool and saves space. Example Thumbnail Preview below:
Link : You will see just the Text link of the file name and Overlay windows appears with the document inside when clicked.

Last but not the least, you can customize the appearance of each embedding option discussed above using specific height, width and color. Also, Using Analytics feature- you can track information about number of Views, Downloads and Prints of a document in your account.

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8 Ways to search Twitter Tweets

Posted: 26 Jul 2009 12:49 AM PDT

No doubt that number of Twitter users and the content is growing exponentially. There is everything published in the form of opinions, links, guides and recommendations. One way of Not to miss these intersting tweets is Follow the people and other using search engines.

Finding things on Twitter is not just a curiosity, but can offer many benefits that were totally unknown: If you have a blog you can now know what your readers think of this or that article, if you have an online business you can discover what your perception are being made about your service, if you are a podcaster or other web service you can measure how far the reception has been, if you’re a fan of cinema, a music band, a TV series or a game you can read what other people are saying, and possiblities are endless.

Personally I use Twitter for three things: to share what I am doing, to know what readers think about the articles on Blogsolute and expand knowledge in certain areas. In both cases, the Twitter search engines are crucial and I think that if we use it in creative ways, it can multiply the use and benefit we got from Twitter and become a tool for real work.

1. BackTweets

If you have a blog, website or business on the Internet then you “must” use it. Just enter the URL of the site you want to view and instantly have all the tweets related to that site. But, and here is his strong point, also look for the URL type bit.ly shortened with services or tinyurl. If you are going to consult frequently with each search results page has a feed to subscribe. It also offers an advanced search to improve the effectiveness of the results.

2. Twazzup

It has numerous useful features like real time tweet updates and besides that it shows you the trending topics and Most Popular links from you.

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3. Tweet Scan

It has a classic home page: search form and topics, nothing more. As a special feature, it offers the ability to limit searches to a single user. For example, I could find everything on Windows 7 published in Twitter.

4. TweepSearch

Twitter allows you to find other people with similar hobbies or using Biography you have on your page. Enter your nick and after few seconds shows a list of other people here.

5. IceRocket

It is a search engine blogs and websites but also Twitter. As a distinctive feature offers the ability to respond to any of the tweets from the page itself, which is something that many others do not.

6. Nearby Tweets

Search to find tweets near you or in your locality. Enter your city and alternatively a keyword to filter the results. For example, Mumbai and Film. Very interesting when there is an event (a party, a concert, etc.). And want to learn from those who live or are living there.

7. Twitter Search

The official search of Twitter. ndeed it is quite fast, offers feed in the results, lets you filter results by language and shows trending topics, among many others. Furthermore, its advanced search options are impressive, you can filter almost anything.

8. TweetGrid

Perfect time to follow the various topics that interest you and that you can divide the screen into a grid configurable to your searches. For example you can split the screen and have 1 × 2 to search windows 7 rtm and office 2010

tweetgrid