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From Devil’s to Devils’ Workshop… (with new theme!)
5 Twitter(web 2.0) application websites Which You Should Try
Five Gmail Labs Features Fail to make it

From Devil’s to Devils’ Workshop… (with new theme!)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 07:36 AM PST

(Disclaimer: Images in this post are not screenshots of DW’s new theme!)

From a Devil’s Workshop to many Devils’ Workshop (community blog), DW’s every aspect has been changed in last 2 years except it’s theme!

Now after 18 months, we are here with a fresh new theme to accommodate our growing community’s needs. After tremendous feedback from you guys, we faced a hard-time finalizing list of features that final theme will have.

Below are the some suggestions from you that were of tremendous help to us. Its not possible to list more than 100 comments/mails/suggestions here. Rest assured we read each of them and followed below with some of our own keeping in mind every aspect of DW.

Changing “Devils Workshop" to "Devils' Workshop" was the most valuable suggestion by Saeed and well explained later by Varun Agarwal.
Gautam asked to include social media/share icons, comment threading and some graphics.
Ajax, jquery inclusion and copyright updates was proposed by AKM .
Arjun S Kumar suggested to include threaded comments, magazine style layout, graphical effect .
New logo design was sent by Sridhar Iyer and we grateful for it. He also supported to get the magazine style layout and gradient blue-white color that we have used in this new theme.
SmashinGeeks asked to change the logo and the footer design.
S.Pradeep Kumar supported our decision to keep the old color scheme for the new theme.
There were a number of suggestion made by Rakesh Waghela @Webiyo.com . Some of them were to include categories in the header, improvisation of the comment input box and comments section, include striking content in footer, include more related content in the sidebar and to lay more stress on community building.

About new theme…

New themes color scheme may not be new to you but we were not running after colors. The goal was to design a theme which will take community spirit of Devils’ Workshop to the new level. Some new enhancements added are…

There were more than 100 categories which are reduced to 10-15 now. That too with category icons and nicely designed category pages.
Home-page now has a slider which displays 10 recently featured posts.
Commenting now has inline-replies enabled. Also comments are threaded now.
Comment form now has those HTML formatting buttons.
Single posts now have prominent social-sharing buttons.
Author info box on single posts now supports Twitter handle. Just add your twitter-name to your DW profile.
Related posts now shown with thumbnails on single-post pages.
Sidebar now have recent-posts, popular-posts and entire blog-network’s recent posts in tabbed manner.
Performance-wise all small images and icons that are part of theme are now displayed using CSS-Sprite.
Contact-form added in footer, so that you can contact us from every-page on DW!

Credits…

Its our readers who decided for most part what should go online. Rest, almost every rtCamper here contributed codes, plugins and feedback during month-long development of this theme.

Vivek Jain and Saorabh Kumar took lots of efforts in finding and fixing bugs in various browsers. Still, if you find any bugs or issues, please let us know.

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5 Twitter(web 2.0) application websites Which You Should Try

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 04:27 AM PST

Twitter is the best Social-Networking website. Its gaining the great prominence all-round the world. Its been the best platform that was designed ever for Business, Marketing, Sharing, etc.

With about more than 50 Million tweets daily and 600 tweets per every seconds Twitter is making its impact in the web. Bagging such a tremendous craze, few authorities were been concentrating on the Twitter applications. As a result, they have even created the dedicated websites for twitter that which are making the user’s work quiet easy. In that I have listed the top 5 web 2.0 twitter application service providing websites. Check them out

TweetValue
GroupTweet
TweetTube
Twtmaps
Nearby Tweets

TweetValue : TweetValue is a recently launched Twitter application that tells the Twitter users, how much their profile is worth. Its pretty easy to use it. Just type your username of Twitter. Then it will display you profile worth. You can also display the worth of your Twitter profile by using the nifty badges on your webpages.

GroupTweet : This applications helps you to send the private messages to specific group of your friends. You need to create a private group account within Twitter and register that group at GroupTweet, such that all the members of the group should follow it to receive the messages. And if you send the message to that group account, GroupTweet will convert that into the direct message and will forward it to the members of the group.

TweeTube : TweeTube is online as well as iPhone application that lets you to share pictures, videos, bookmarks and other stuff on Twitter. At the site you can see easily share 25 sec Webcam video(this is only meant for Mac OS X). In order to share click on the service which you are going to use. enter the information, give your twitter name and password and then click on share.

Twtmaps : Twtmaps is a new application that allows you to enter your username that gives the map that shows all you friends locations as well as little information about your friends. You were also given provision for multiuser search also.

Nearby Tweets : This application is developed by Brian Cray. Nearby-Tweets is a geo-centric Twitter tool that which locates your nearby tweeters by using the Google Maps. This is completely a flexible tool that helps you to not only view the tweeters who are tweeting nearby your location but also you are allowed to search for tweeters from other locations too.

Do share your Favorite Twitter web2.0 tool. Also check out

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Five Gmail Labs Features Fail to make it

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 03:07 AM PST

Some of the Gmail Lab’s less useful features made it to gmail while the useful ones failed a test that never happened! Though, Google had to say that the choice to upgrade and retire features was made on user feedback and usage, but it doesn’t look like the same. Here are the Gmail lab features that you won’t see anymore-

Muzzle

This feature made it possible for gmail users to conserve screen in sidebar chat in Gmail. In simple words, it was meant to “cut the crap” from chat menu, by hiding your contact’s chat status messages. Now you can again see a cluttered version of gmail chat menu!

To protest against this, people have started signing a petition to get back muzzle, and a twitter account has also been made for the same- @GmailMuzzle

Email Addict

This feature encouraged users to take a break from email. “Closes Gmail for 14 minutes”, providing much needed break to Gmail addicts. May be Google didn’t want you to to loose any time looking up their ads!! And for this, they retired such a nice app.

Location in Signature & Random Signature

Both these features automated the signature processing in your mails. More info on these features can be seen here.

Fixed width font

It is often annoying to see random font changes in your mails. This feature kept your messages on a fixed width for paragraph breaks, double spacing and more.

Do you miss any of these features? No need to worry! You will get similar value from the Grease-monkey scripts too. Like, if you enjoyed the Muzzle feature, you can use the script – Gmail Muzzle Lab Reviving.

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