This entry applies to those who are using Twitter as a tool to do whatever it is that you do. If you are not using Twitter, you can skip the entry and go straight to the comment form and tell me that you do not use Twitter… … And if you are a celebrity using Twitter, this entry does not apply to you too…

Assuming that you are using Twitter to promote something, you would need to have lots of followers. In order to have many followers, you have to have something that attracts people to follow you or you can start following as many people as you can and hopefully some would then follow you back in return. The latter since to be a workable method to build up your followers despite that it is a time consuming effort.

But then, there is a problem to that method. Twitter impose a limit to the number of people that you can follow based on some caculated ratio that is only known to them. That means, if you only have 1 or 10 or 100 followers, you could only follow up to 2000 people. After that, the ratio kicks in and you must have some number of followers before you can follow 2001 people. This is mainly put in place to get rid of spammers and other undesirable people.

So, from time to time you would get people following you and some people, such as I, would then follow them back in the intention of having mutual benefits of following each other. Like anything else in this world, there would be some bad people who would follow you just to get you to follow them back so that they can increase their followers. Once you have followed them, they would them un-follow you so that they can start following someone else and increase their follower again. You would end up with less followers thus you are unable to add more people to follow… Bad eh!

What can you do? I think that there are many tools out there to help you manage this. My favorite is FriendorFollow. This is a site where you can check/do 3 things.

1. People that you are following but they are not following you back
2. People that are following you but you are not following them
3. People that you are following and they are following you back

I make use of no. 1 and 2 a lot. No.1 is for me to remove those who have stopped following me. You don’t follow me, why should I follow you unless you have something that I really like.

No. 2 is used when I want to return the favor to those who take the trouble to follow me. But when they misbehaved, I would then use no.1 on them…

By using this, I can weed out any bad followers as easy as 1 2 3…

The service is Free! No registration required. Just key in your Twitter ID on the front page and then use the Following, Fans, and Friends Tabs accordingly. You must log on to your Twitter if you need to follow or unfollow someone. FriendorFollow is at http://friendorfollow.com/

Happy Twitting!

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This is for those who are using Firefox and Yahoo! Messenger but very much in love with Google Search.

One fine day you happily installed Yahoo! Messenger on your computer. Then you realized that your happiness was short lived when you discovered that Yahoo!, without asking for your permission, had changed your Firefox Location Bar and Default Search Engine. Now when you put in your keywords in the location bar, Yahoo! Search would be fired up instead of your beloved Google Search. You then looked all over Firefox and unfortunately, there was no way to remove it.

You can now live with it or you can do the following…

Changing the Location Bar search

1. Type about:config in the location bar aka address bar and press enter.
2. Type keyword.URL in Filter.
3. Double-click on the displayed line.
4. A box will pop up. Change the string value to http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
5. Or if you want to fire up the Lucky Search, use http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=

That’s it for the Location Bar search. If you want it to search using something else, you can always modify the string value to your liking.

Changing the Default Search Engine

1. Type about:config in the location bar aka address bar and press enter.
2. Type browser.search.defaultenginename in Filter.
3. Double-click on the displayed line.
4. A box will pop up. Change the string value from Yahoo to Google.

Done.

You are now free of Yahoo!

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Are you using Facebook badge to promote your Facebook on your blog? Have you encountered the problem that after a while, your badge just disappeared and only the links were visible? Well, that infuriated me!

I know that there could be many solutions out there that address this issue but I have found one that works for me. The solution is pretty simple. You just need to change a word that was automatically generated by Facebook.

<!-- Facebook Badge START --><a href="http://www.facebook.com/papaberuang" target="_TOP" style="font-family: &quot;lucida grande&quot;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: #3B5998; text-decoration: none;" title="Berry Bear">Berry Bear</a><br/><a href="http://www.facebook.com/papaberuang" target="_TOP" title="Berry Bear"><img src="http://badge.facebook.com/badge/661479842.364.1910549269.png" width="120" height="239" style="border: 0px;" /></a><br/><a href="http://www.facebook.com/badges/" target="_TOP" style="font-family: &quot;lucida grande&quot;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: #3B5998; text-decoration: none;" title="Make your own badge!">Create Your Badge</a><!-- Facebook Badge END -->

Depending on the blog platform that you use, you would get a bunch of code like above. Now look for a code that provide the link to the badge image. Just look or search for the word “img”. You should get something similar to mine below:

<img src="http://badge.facebook.com/badge/661479842.364.1910549269.png" width="120" height="239" style="border: 0px;" />

You would notice that the image URL has the word “badge” written twice. Change the first “badge” to “www”. Your code should now look like this:

<img src="http://www.facebook.com/badge/661479842.364.1910549269.png" width="120" height="239" style="border: 0px;" />

That’s it. Your badge should be there now. Happy promoting!

p/s:

I have not tested this thoroughly. Not sure whether the badge would be automatically updated once you changed your profile picture. Try it at your own risk. So far, I am happy with my result.

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I must have been outdated since I only know how FPX works after talking to Lankapo recently and reading his blog on Tune Card.

So, for the benefit of other outdated Tune Card users like me out there who does not know how FPX works, I have come up with this short tutorial on how to reload your money via FPX.

Why do you want to use FPX and not the other methods mentioned by Tune Money? Apart from saving yourself from a long queue or wait at the banks or post office and filling up those not so friendly form, reloading via FPX is much cheaper and your account will be updated in real time. No more waiting!

As you can see, it only cost RM 0.50 to reload via FPX compared to RM 2.00 at the banks and post office.

Follow the steps below to reload your Tune Card.

1. Disable the pop up blocker on your web browser temporarily as the processing requires a few pop up screens.
2. Log in to your Tune Money account and look for the Reload Money link. It should be on the right sidebar.



3. Click Reload Money.



4. Enter Reload Amount. (Minimum is RM 50.00) and click Next.



5. Select FPX and click Next.



6. Accept the terms, enter your email address and choose a bank that you have online banking facility with.
7. Click Submit.



8. Log in to your bank account.



9. Request PAC (depends on your bank) and wait for the SMS on your mobile phone.



10. Click Next



11. Enter the PAC that you have received and specify the account for withdrawal.
12. Click Submit.



13. Once you received the Transaction Status as Successful, your Tune Card has been reloaded.
14. Click Close



15. FPX will also automatically log out from you bank account.
16. Click Close.



17. You will then get you confirmation on the successful reload.
18. Note: Processing time depends on the speed of your connection.
19. The end.

That’s how easy it is to use the FPX to reload your Tune Card. What are you waiting for? Go and use your Tune Card now!

P/S:

Papa Bear is no longer outdated now.

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