Techie Blues

Six Apart, the company behind various blogging softwares like Typepad, Movable Type and Vox has acquired the microblogging startup Pownce for an undisclosed amount and are closing it down by Dec 15th.

Ever wanted to view your tumblr site in an iPhone version. Then check out Tumblephone. You can view your tumblr site in an iPhone optimized version.

Tweet Wheel is a web-based visualization tool that shows your twitter contacts in a circular manner. It also shows how your contacts are connected with each other.

Tumblr, by default does not provide any means to export your posts to other blogging platforms like Blogger, Wordpress etc. So if you ever plan to move your posts from Tumblr to Blogger, then you are in for a long tedious process. Luckily you have methods now through which you can backup your tumble blog.

Recently Twitter has added an election bar mentioning the hot keywords of the upcoming presidential election. Well you can close it by clicking on the “X” mark at the right but it reappears again when you refresh the page or navigate to other pages. Now you can remove it with simple addition of a filter.

Ever wanted to create signatures containing the latest posts from your blog. Well you can do it now via Feedsr now. It allows you to create banners containing your latest posts.

Interested to create a twitter badge with a background picture of your choice? Look no Further, Say Tweet is here. You can go there and create a canvas image with your latest tweet as a speech Bubble.

UserNameCheck is a cool website where you can check whether or not that name is already in use in a popular list of sites, right from blogger and digg to friendfeed and youtube.

The new interface of Twitter was introduced few days ago. Check out the changes happened to your favourite twitter website.

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