Connect Facebook and Twitter with IFTTT

In my everyday life I find that most people have a Facebook account to keep in contact with friends and distant relatives but it's not unusual for a particular person to choose not to use Facebook at all. In those situations I normally turn to Twitter to see if they have am account there. 9 times out of 10 people will use one of those two social networks. You can switch back and forth, posting your updates and sharing your pictures and links but did you know that it's possible to post the same thing to both accounts at once?

If you hook up your Facebook and Twitter channels to IFTTT.com then there are a ton of different ways you could connect the accounts together. We'll start with a few time savers before we move on to the ins-and-outs or message sharing. If you want to find out more about the service you could check out their website or read my post about IFTTT from last week.

Click to read more ...

How to Use Hootsuite to Increase Your Productivity

I am always asked by people how I can be on Facebook and Twitter every waking hour, trawl through my various daily blog RSS feeds and yet still manage to get my work done. I don’t keep it a secret: I use a social management platform to aggregate all my feeds into one easy to manage App that’s available on the web, on my phone and on my tablet. It’s called Hootsuite and it’s been a godsend to keep me updated while not taking up too much of my time.

The Hootsuite dashboard allows you to have up to 5 profiles linked to the App in the free version. If your using anything to manage more than 5 accounts your probably willing to shell out the $9.99 a month for the privilege.

What Social Networks does Hootsuite Support?

The Hootsuite app supports the usual Twitter and Facebook but it’s also works with a bunch of the other big named Social Networks and even a few other platforms too like WordPress and Foursquare. Here’s the full list of profile types it supports right out-of-the-box.

• Facebook
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Google+ Pages
• MySpace
• Foursquare
• WordPress
• Mixi

Click to read more ...

iDashboard iPhone App: All You Need on One Screen

iDashboard is a useful app that lets you create a customizable dashboard to connect things you care about in one place. Here's what you can have there:

• Alarm clock
• Calendar
• Facebook and Twitter streams
• Customizable RSS feeds for any news you need monitoring;
• Favorite music and more!

Here's our video review:

Facebook Cover Maker Application Review

[This review was submitted by the creator and TekSocial in no way endorses. We have not tried it yet.]

Athena IT Limited, makers of the popular Facebook Chat application “Chit Chat for Facebook” have released a new application that makes it possible to make your own Facebook Cover.

Over the past two years it’s been generally accepted that in order to have a “bespoke” Facebook Cover one must select a Facebook Cover from a number of popular Facebook Cover websites or use your own photo. The problem with the earlier option is that the Facebook Covers are made by graphic designers and you have no creative input apart from the selection of the Facebook Cover that you wish to use.

Enter Facebook Cover Maker, it’s an app that makes it very easy for you to select from various creative elements in order to design and create your own Facebook Cover. One loaded, the cover maker app asks for you to select a character, then gender of that character and then invites you select from a variety of creative to customize you Facebook Cover creation.

Click to read more ...

Ten Reasons Why You Should Consider Using A Facebook Messenger

(The review is submitted by the creator as an uptade to this video review)

Recently, Microsoft announced that they are abandoning the Windows Live Messenger instant messaging product and AOL has also announced that they are going to discontinue the development of AIM. These recent developments are somewhat indicative of what's happened in the instant messaging space over the past few years - traditional instant messaging networks and polygamy networks have increasingly become less relevant and Facebook has emerged as a dominant force in the instant messaging market.

Whilst Facebook chat initially emerged as a method by which to communicate with your Facebook friends through your web-browser, using your web-browser is not the only way in which you can communicate via chat with your friends. Indeed, you can also use your Windows computer desktop and you're Smartphone.

So, why should you consider using a Facebook Messenger Application on your Windows desktop?

Free The Browser

Click to read more ...