Tag Archives: tumblr

Custom Themes for your Micro Blog

Posted 06 October 2008 | By John | Categories: Featured, Plurk, Twitter, tumblr | 2 Comments

There comes a time in every microbloggers life when they want to re decorate. And to help with the search for the wallpaper here are a list of just some of the sites I’ve found;

We will start with Twitter first

Twitter Gallery is a new invention and as a result has a small collection for [...]

Turn your Tumblr blog audio into a playlist

Posted 05 September 2008 | By John | Categories: Tumblr Apps, tumblr | No Comments

Tumbltape is a site inspired by the popular and ill-fated muxtape (still down trying to sort out some issues with the RIAA) each tumbltape is created from the latest songs on a users tumblelog. As a new songs get uploaded your tumbltape playlist will get updated.

Tumbltape will work out the artist and track name from [...]

SweetCron Released

SweetCron Released

Posted 28 August 2008 | By John | Categories: Latest News | No Comments

Yes thats right,  SweetCron has now been released, and for those people who don’t know what the hell i’m talking about SweetCron is an open source Life Streaming blog a bit like Wordpress meets Tumblr. I had already posted the first preview video, here is the second;

You can go and download the software from here, [...]

Tumblr Release Version 4 beta

Posted 12 August 2008 | By John | Categories: tumblr | No Comments

From the announcement back in July about the new template code, the big updates are starting to come. Tumblr are about to announce the biggest interface overhall since last November, and they want you to try it out.
Nearly every piece of the interface has changed. We’ve tried to perfect the presentation of the Dashboard, and [...]

Pikchur now supports Plurk

Posted 11 August 2008 | By John | Categories: FriendFeed, Jaiku, Plurk, Pownce, Twitter | No Comments

Just a quick post to let you know that Pikchur, the simple service that allows you to update your social networks and Micro blogging platforms with pictures have now added Plurk to the list. Pikchur already supports many platforms including Pownce, Twitter, Tumblr, Jaiku, Facebook, FriendFeed and identi.ca with promise of more platform integration to [...]

Some big updates coming for Tumblr

Posted 21 July 2008 | By John | Categories: tumblr | No Comments

Tumblr the micro blogging platform will be announcing some “big updates” in the coming weeks with a complete overhall of the template engine being first on the list.
We’ve tried to make Tumblr themes as open and customizable as possible, and the things you’ve created have blown our minds.  But there are still things we’ve wanted [...]

Want to type more than 140 Characters in Twitter?

Posted 27 June 2008 | By John | Categories: Plurk, Plurk Apps, Twitter, Twitter Apps | No Comments

Well you can’t, but a new service from the makers of ControlC brings TinyPaste to the table.
This service lets you type or paste in a large amount of text, and then assigns it with a tiny url, to put into tweets, Plurks etc…

 
TinyPaste also comes with a nifty Firefox extension that allows you to select, right click [...]