Saturday, September 5, 2009

Post to Twitter through Desktop Application / Update Twitter Status From Desktop

There are many twitter desktop applications available on the net that will help to post to twitter directly from your desktop. Usually we post to twitter / Update twitter status from the Twitter website. It is very easy to post to twitter when we are browsing. But when no browsers are opened up and we need to update our twitter status quickly, then it becomes a pain. So here is a desktop application for twitter that will help you to post to twitter/ update your twitter status right from your desktop.

Almost all the twitter clients for desktop have similar features. Twhirl is one of the best twitter client around.
Twhirl stands out from most of the twitter clients for desktop, because it supports both Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. So almost all internet users can use Twhirl. This is because Twhirl uses the Adobe AIR platform.
With this wonderful twitter client, desktop tweeting will be very easy and you need not open any web browser to update your twitter status or for posting your updates to twitter.

Some of the Features of Twhirl - Twitter Desktop Application



  • Twhirl can connect you with multiple Twitter accounts and also supports laconi.ca, Friendfeed and Seesmic accounts.

  • You dont need to bother any more shortening big urls for twitter. Twhirl can Shorten long URLs (using digg.com, bit.ly, snurl, twurl or is.gd)

  • You will be notified when new messages arrive.

  • You can also post to various other socail networking sites aprt from twitter, like Jaiku, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and more via Ping.fm

  • Post images to TwitPic

  • Search tweets using Twitter Search and TweetScan, and follow topics in near-real time with saved searches

  • automatically find tweets mentioning your @username



Screen Shot of Twhirl - Twitter Desktop Application
Post to Twitter through Desktop Application / Update Twitter Status From Desktop
There are many other features too.
When you hover the mouse cursor over your twitter friends avatar, options will be displayed like Retweet, direct messages, favorite , replies.

Download Twhirl

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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Best Utility to Optimize PNG and JPEG images on MAC

PNG and JPEG optimizing softwares are just simply helpful especially for web users. There are a lot of PNG and JPEG Optimizing softwares for Windows users. On the other side the numbers are less for Mac Users. ImageOptim is a Nice and Sleek utility for MAC users to Optimize PNG and JPEG images in their MAC Operating System. ImageOptim will make the JPEG and PNG optimization job dead simple.

ImageOptim is a great boon for webmasters as it will compress the image, save for web and reduces the image size.
Best Utility to Optimize PNG and JPEG images on MAC
ImageOptim make the PNG and JPEG images smaller (in terms of disk space) by finding optimal compression parameters and by removing unneccessary information, like file comments, EXIF tags and color profiles.

When the images get smaller without much loss of quality you webpages will load pretty fast without consuming a lot of bandwidth and saving the users time. ImageOptim is a must have utility for webmasters.

Download ImageOptim

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Monday, July 6, 2009

Download Purplera1n For Mac Now & Guide to Jailbreak iPhone 3GS OS 3.0

Download Purplera1n For Mac Now-Jail break iPhone 3GSJust a few days ago i made a post on Download Purplera1n and Jailbreak iPhone 3GS OS 3.0 in Windows but during that time Mac users might have been disappointed. But here is some happy news for the Mac users too.AriX and westbaer have released Purplera for Mac. But here too there is a small unhappy news The Purplera1n Tool for Intel based Mac users is only available. Purplera1n For Mac PPC users wont work at the moment.

How to Jail Break iPhone 3GS using Purplera1n For Mac Users


  • First Make sure you have taken a back up of your iPhone 3GS.

  • Now Download Purplera1n For Mac

  • Unzip all the contents of downloaded file.

  • Connect iPhone 3GS 3.0 to your PC and double click Purplera1n. Now click on make it ra1n.

  • Now Follow the on screen instructions given by the software and proceed the jail breaking Phone 3GS 3.0.

Note: Running Winter Board and purplera1n wont work together.

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Friday, July 3, 2009

Get Pwnagetool 3.01 For Mac OS X - Download Now

Pwnagetool 3.01 For Mac OS X - Download NowThe only two tools released by the Apple iPhone Dev team to jailbreak iPhone & iPod Touch 3.0 was Pwnagetool and Redsn0w tool. Redsn0w has been released for both the windows and Mac users. Mac users was disappointed by the Pwnagetool since is was only for windows Users. Now here comes Pwnagetool 3.0 for the Mac Users. The Pwnagetool 3.01 has been released after fixing the compatibility issue with PPC version of Mac OS X.


This was the information post along with the torrent.
PwnageTool 3.01 is a Mac based iPhone firmware creation tool for creating custom ipsw/firmware for the 1st gen iPod Touch, iPhone and iPhone 3G (NOT 3GS). This version supports the 3.0 firmware from Apple. For full details (which are often updated) visit the iphone DevTeam blog. http://blog.iphone-dev.org.
This version fixes compatibility with the PPC version of Mac OS X also the Icy package is updated.


Download Pwnagetool 3.01 For Mac OS X


This DOES NOT work with version 3.1 of the iPhone OS.
Since there is no official reports about the release of Pwnagetool 3.01 For Mac OS X i dont recommended to try it.

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Friday, May 8, 2009

How to Install Windows 7 on Mac OS X Operating System

How to Install Windows 7 on Mac OS X Operating System
You might have seen the tutorials on web on how to install windows vista on a Mac OS X Leopard operating system. This was made possible by using the boot camp software on Apple's Mac OS X Leopard. Just like the extinction of previous operating system’s now Windows XP have been laid to rest and now its turn for Windows Vista to go because of the upcoming Microsoft’s most talked Window 7 Operating system. Windows 7 is really an advanced operating system which has been made after rectifying many errors found in the Windows Vista Operating System. This makes more users to use Windows 7 than using Windows Vista. Apart from the Microsoft’s Windows Operating Systems there are many Operating Systems which are used widely like Mac OS X, Ubuntu etc. The Second widely used operating system in the world is the Mac OS X. Both Windows 7 and Mac OS X have unique features which are very useful to us. So how about installing Windows 7 on Mac OS X and enjoy both Windows 7 and Mac OS X Leopard together! On account of Apple using the Intel Processors on its PC’s it has become possible to run Windows 7 on Mac OS X Operating System. So Mac users can now enjoy the software’s and features which were available only to windows users. So, here is how to install Windows 7 with Mac OS X using the boot camp Boot camp software.

Before Starting with here are the Requirements for Installing Windows 7 on Mac OS X.

  1.  Windows 7 DVD. Get the Direct Download links for Windows 7 RC.
  2.  Mac OS X Leopard DVD.
  3. Mac OS X with at least 15 GB free space. (15 GB is for the Windows 7 Installation).
  4. Download the latest version of Boot camp to install Windows 7 with Mac OS X leopard. Download latest version of Boot Camp from here.
  5. It is recommended that you back up your important files first before proceeding with the installation of Windows 7 on Mac OS X Leopard.
    So let's start the steps to 

Install Windows 7 with Mac OS X Leopard Operating System




  1. In Mac OS X Leopard take the boot camp manager from applications.
  2. Now we need to allocate the space for the Windows 7 Installation on Mac OS X Leopard.
  3. The below Window appear in Mac after you press continue.
  4. Make a point that you need to give enough space available for Mac OS X Leopard. Windows 7 installation normally takes 4.5 GB of space. So you only need to allocate 15 GB or 25 GB space for Windows 7. You can allocate more space if you wish to install more software’s on Windows 7 after its installation.
    How to Install Windows 7 on Mac OS X Operating System
  5. Now press on Partition (see above) in the Window. 
  6. If every thing has been done correct you will now be able to see the boot camp software’s icon on the Mac OS X desktop.
  7. Insert the Windows 7 installation DVD into your drive and press Start Installation.How to Install Windows 7 on Mac OS X Operating System
  8. You won't be able to able to see Windows 7 installation in the list because in the latest version of boot camp software only up to windows vista in updated.
  9. Your Mac OS X will now reboot and you will see the partitions that are available. 
  10. Click on the boot camp partition and press Format and the Windows 7 installation will start eventually.
  11. Soon after its installation it will reboot now take out the Windows 7 installation DVD right now itself.
  12. The system will boot into the Windows 7 installation. You can now customize the various options such as the display, time zone, language etc.
  13. For the installation of device drivers insert your Mac OS X DVD into the drive. 
  14. Now you will see the Boot camp installer popping up and select “install Apple software update for Windows “.You can connect to the internet for your driver’s updates, Windows 7 Updates etc. After the installation is complete your system will restart now.
  15. During the restart process push the options key and you will be able to see the multiple boot options for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows 7 as shown.
  1. How to Install Windows 7 on Mac OS X Operating System
    Enjoy the newly installed Windows 7 Operating system with Mac Os X Leopard.

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