Today I feel like sharing about my Twitter and what do I use it with. Twitter is one of those so called micro blogging tools  and the only other similar thing out there is Plurk. I have seen Plurk with its fancy time line display stuffs but somehow I am still sticking to Twitter, which I find simpler and more straight forward. Furthermore, with the number of followers that I have right now, it would make it harder for me to move away from it.

Here are the tools or programs that I am currently using to complement my Twitter:

TwitterFox – I just need to see what are my friends and and the people I follow talk about and it would be not practical for me to log in to my Twitter account and refresh it all the time to see the latest tweet. With TwitterFox, an add-on to Firefox, this is done automatically and I have the option to reply as well as put in my own tweet. This is a must have for those who are following the tweets.

TweetLater – This is a powerful program that allows you to schedule your tweets, auto follow those who follow you and many more things. So far I only use this to auto follow those who follow me and send welcome and thank you message to my new follower.

TwitterCounter – This is for the vain pots out there. It gives you a little counter that you can add to your blog as display the number of folowers that you have. I have it installed at the footer of this blog. It does not do anything much but it is a nice little thing to show on a blog.

FriendOrFollow.com – This site helps me manage my Twitter contacts. I use it to review those people who I followed but not following me back and it gives me the option to remove those people from my list. It is very useful for doing housekeeping on your Twitter. There you can find, 1-People who don’t follow me back. 2-People I don’t follow back. 3. Mutual Follow.

Magpie – Last but not least, why not make some money while you tweet. This is an affiliate program that let you tweet some paid advertisements using your Twitter account based on your own preferences. I have made Euro1.96 so far on this. It is free to join but the competition is high and it takes time to get something there.

Well, you do not have to do anything but just use your Twitter as you always do.

There you go! Do let me know if you have are using or know any other Twitter related stuffs that I should have. Happy tweeting my fellow twitters!  To those who wants to follow me, just click on the blue bird ya!

Even though more than 60% of visitors visting this blog is using Firefox, the worlwide usage share of web browsers still shows that Internet Explorer (IE) si still the top web browser in the world.

If you look at the chart on the left, IE still holds a big 72.22% usage leaving the others way behind. Why?

Technically, I would not be able to answer you as I am using Firefox as my main web browser while IE and Chrome are used only for making sure that this blog has no problem on the other two.

Personally, I would be able to give my opinion as to why IE is still very popular out there. Firstly, most people use Microsoft Windows instead of Mac or Linux. The fact that Windows is more user friendly to the common people, makes it almost the default OS for most computers.

Therefore, IE comes installed with Windows and it is ready to use with some minor settings required. Some of the computer vendors would even do it for their customers without any extra charge. All the user needs to do is click IE and they are connected to the internet.

Secondly, this is related to the common people who bought computers above. Most of them thought that by installing another web browser, they can no longer use their IE. In fact, when I got my first computer, I had that very same idea too and therefore, I stick to IE.

Only after getting to know more about computers and internet, I leaned that a computer can run multiple web browsers at the same time since they are nothing but just like any another program that can be run on a computer. It took me a while to have the guts to install Firefox and I have never looked back since then.

In conclusion, those are the two major factors, in my opinion, that let IE be where they are right now and not because they are more superior to the other browsers. I am sure IE fanatics would shoot me down like flies when they read this. But then, I am just stating my opinion and nothing more.

To bloggers out there, do not dismiss IE if you are already using other web browsers. Make sure that you test load your blog on IE to ensure that they have no problem so that the 72%+ IE users are able to read it. If not, your blog would be skipped and that would be your loss.

If you are using Firefox, you would be familiar with the real time spell checker that checks your words as you type them. This is one of the reasons why I decided to use Firefox as my main browser instead of IE or any other browsers.

Whenever you misspelled a word, it would be underlined with a dotted red line and all you need to do is right click on that word and you will get a list of words to replace it. Great stuff! However, sometimes you could make a mistake like what I had done where instead of choosing a word, I clicked on the “Add to Dictionary“. Firefox would not ask whether you are sure or not before saving it and there is no undo function either…

I tried all the links on the browser trying to find an option to allow me to remove the misspelled word that I have just added and after a few hours, I gave up. You would not find anything that says something such as, “edit custom dictionary” or anything close to that. You would not want to just leave any misspelled word in your dictionary as the browser would then think that you prefer to misspell the word as it is. You see, Firefox would not argue with you…

Well, do not panic. You are not stuck with it. As usual, when everything else failed, I went to the search engines and looked for the solution and I found one. An easy one, I would add. This is what you need to do.

1. Go to your Windows Start menu and click Run. You normally click an icon on the bottom left of your windows to launch the Start Menu. If you can’t do this, stop and look for somebody who knows how to do that as this is part of the basic knowledge that you should have when running Microsoft Windows.
2. In the Run box, key in %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles and click OK.
3. That will bring you to a folder called xxxxxxxx.default. Open up the folder.
4. Look for a file called persdict.dat and open it up using a text editor. Notepad will do just fine.
5. Find your misspelled word or words and delete them.
6. Save the file and you are done!

In my case, I found more than one misspelled words there. I must have accidentally added those misspelled words to my dictionary. How about checking what you have in yours?