Although I have known of Twitter for about a year now, I only recently signed up with the website. I do not like that I have to sign up for a second account if I wanted to place another Twitter blog widget on my blog. I would rather have sub-accounts for each blog. Well, Twitter, as you know, is a form of micro-blogging so I am sure that some people will disagree with me about the need to have sub-accounts.

Anyway, I only have one follower, somebody whom I do not know. I am fine with not having any follower at all, and I am not even going to let anyone I personally know, know about my Twitter ID.

I mostly use Twitter via Fring on my iPhone or Nokia E61i. Fring, as you know, supports multiple chat platforms at the same time so it is very convenient. There are times when I feel the need to “say” something but do not necessarily want to direct it to any particular person or look forward to a direct response, if you know what I mean. That’s when Twitter comes in handy.

With Twitter, I feel as if I am texting less. I get to save $$$ this way too. LOL

I am sure, if you are a digital camera user, that you would have had the very unfortunate experience of accidentally deleting media from your memory cards or flash drives. There have been times when I changed my mind after deleting an image! Sometimes, such media somehow gets corrupted or damaged, hence could not be read or retrieved.

If this happens to you as well, you may want to check out Photo Nose, a Photo Image Recovery Software that could help you to recover deleted or corrupted images and video files. The good thing is that this is not only very user-friendly but device and format friendly and you could try it for free.

Photo Nose comes in two versions; Standard and Professional. Of course, Professional offers more features and could even recover media in more formats. The price difference is only US$10 so I don’t see why one should not get hold of the Professional copy.

Right now, I could think of some photos that were erased from my memory card after I have transferred the photos to my computer but then somebody formatted my hard disk without backing up my files. Those deleted photos, numbering a few hundred, are somewhat important. Maybe I should try to recover them with Photo Nose.

If you have used photo Nose before, do let me know how you like it.

I recent learnt of CloudShout, a new blog tool that is an Izea innovation, from someone who posted it on Twitter. If memory serves me right, I have heard (or read) of this name “cloud shout” before. I think it was during a brainstorming session where IZEA was born. Anyway, CloudShout is still in closed Alpha but one could request for an invitation from their website.

The website introduces CloudShout as a blog tool that enables “real time conversation and community across the interweb” but it looks like me like any other blog widget or gadgets that bloggers embed on the sidebar of the blogs.

You know, I have just stripped most of my blogs from a lot of fancy elements, including stuff that make money, mainly because I am trying to speed up the loading time so I will not be installing this CloudShout widget anytime soon. It’s still in closed Alpha so you can expect lots of glitches.

Moreover, I hate to have these “community” widgets like Blogger’s Follow because, I am sure I mentioned it before, I hate to have my blog visits tracked and I will not subject my blog readers to the same. If you know of my blogs, I am sure you would notice that I did not use any of these on any of my blogs.

While some people feel the need to see who has dropped by, I don’t, simply for the fact that I couldn’t care less if none of the people I know or do not know visit or not.