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Each and every day social blogging become more and more popular among the crowd. There are plenty of web 2.0 tools that would assist you to get into social blogging. However it is not always a easy choice to select the appropriate tools for your needs. Before all of that, we need to simplify the meaning of social blogging..

Social blogging is a popular concept developed due to the advances of weblogging, micro-blogging, and social networking. These ever-changing constructions represent the new way of communicating for people who like to express their activities and share their common interests.

 

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Choosing the right social blogging tool varies from person to person. Because each individual has their own type of interests. This post is not necessarily directed to micro-blogging. There are tons of posts on twitter and so on.

Each social blogging tools offers various features which enables users to do web scraping and share it amongst their favorite social media platforms. Web Scraping includes features such as re-blogging content or part of a content and media captured from several sources.

Lets get down to the features of some major social blogging tools.

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Previously i wrote about coomeko , they enables you to create fun comics out of your digital photos, scans etc. Let me introduce you with ToonDoo.com , ToonDoo offers more robust features with a twist of social networking sites similar to myspace or friendster. Yes i've seen many social networking sites for video,image/photos, audio, podcasts etc etc but hey there are lot of cartoonist around the world. Well ToonDoo actually manage to focus on them and yeah you can be a cartoonist for free too. ToonDoo is offering more cartoon stock graphics and emotion icons for you to add with your photos or you can just use the characters to make up your own. Get your comics reviewed by other members, you can embed the cartoons on your website, additionally you can add the toons to your favorite bookmarks sites. You can now create your own comic strips, share them with the rest of the world or insert them in your blogs with just a few clicks and drag-n-drops!

Some unique features of ToonDoo:

• Choose from nearly 400 characters, props and backgrounds
• Create 1, 2 or 3-panel comic strips
• Customize characters, props and speech bubbles
• Upload pictures and photographs
• Embed in blogs and websites
• Share, mail, recommend and bookmark your comic strips

Lets take a look under the hood of ToonDoo. Signup is fairly simple. Once you signup and logon. You'll be presented on the home page.

What amazed me is the toondoo editing interface. It's powered by adobe flash technology and has a huge library of objects to drag and drop. What the editor interface is missing is the ability to tune digital photos and apply filters.

A published toon will be tagged and can be reviewed by other members of the site. Well currently i didn't notice a friends community option for it. you can easily embed the toon code in your site using either flash or html code.

The TAG cloud is present and it's similer to the other social networking sites.

ToonDoo is an offering from Jambav.com, a fun site for kids backed by the software powerhouse, AdventNet Inc. based in USA. Jambav has created and continues to devote its energies to preparing a unique array of instructional, educational and entertainment software for children of all abilities.

Well Known SysInternals Console programs for the Administrators, are a suite of quick, diagnosis, problem solving, handy and really useful utilities. The SysInternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information. Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications. SysInternals has been Renamed into Windows Sysinternals.

Since Microsoft Took over the Sysinternals.. Now They realesed the complete suite under Microsofts Package. They removed certain utilities like BSOD screensaver or NotMyFault.

SysInternals tools includes various utilities like..

AccessChk , AccessEnum , AdRestore , Autologon , Autoruns , BgInfo , CacheSet , ClockRes , Contig , Ctrl2Cap, DebugView, DiskExt, Diskmon, DiskView, DU, EFSDump, Filemon, Handle, Hex2dec, Junction, LdmDump, ListDlls, LiveKd, LoadOrder, LogonSessions, NewSid, NtfsInfo, PageDefrag, PendMoves, Portmon, ProcessExplorer, ProcessMonitor, ProcFeatures, PsExec, PsFile, PsGetSid, PsInfo, PsKill, PsList, PsLoggedOn, PsLogList, PsPasswd, PsService, PsShutdown, PsSuspend, RegDelNull, RegJump, RegMon, RootkitRevealer, SDelete, ShareEnum, SigCheck, Streams, Strings, Sync, TcpView, VolumeId, WhoIs, WinObj, ZoomIt
(Click on the utilites names to know more about them)

Download Sysinternals Suite (8 MB)

Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel are indispensable.  Here's mine.  Each has a distinct purpose, and I probably touch each at least a few times a week.  For me, util means utilitarian and it means don't clutter my tray.  If it saves me time, and seamlessly integrates with my life, it's the bomb.

Here are most of the contents of my C:/UTILS folder. These are all well loved and used.  I wouldn't recommend them if I didn't use them constantly.

This page includes a huge list of life changing utilities for you. 

Get the Entire list of Stuff [via ComputerZen.com]

This application plugs-in to Visual Basic 6.0 to analyze your code and suggest possible improvements.

If you are programming in Visual Basic 6.0 and planning to move to Visual Basic .NET, then the Visual Basic 6.0 Code Advisor is for you.

The Code Advisor for Visual Basic 6 is an add-in used to review your code to ensure that it meets predetermined coding standards. The coding standards are based on best practices developed by Microsoft to produce robust and easy-to-maintain code.

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