8 Free Social Networking Icons

In this post, I attatch 8 social networking icons, that you can save individually and use on your own site/blog for free. Enjoy!

Just a note: In the process of making these icons, I did not use any copyrighted images, all aspects of the icons were made myself.

MSN Messenger For Mac – Now With Webcam?

Hello,

Whilst having a look around on the Mactopia website today, I found that the site has released a new beta of MSN Messenger for Mac beta 8. It also looks like this version included webcam, audio and much more.

I found it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx

Enjoy!

Sending Flash Game High Scores To Twitter

It’s been a while since I posted a tutorial relevent to Flash, and in addittion – earlier this week I posted about promoting your Flash game. So it seemed fitting for me to post this today. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can allow players of your game to send their score to Twitter.

This method we will use today is the only method that allows us to intergrate this social feature without creating a Twitter application, so therefore the user has to login to Twitter and click the ‘Tweet’ button. So the user can always change their score!

Twitter allows people to tweet statuses by using this URL:

http://twitter.com/?status=

So, a good place to put the ‘Tweet score’ button would be when the user is presented with their score. When the button is then clicked, the actionscript would be something like this:

Actionscript 2:

getURL('http://twitter.com/?status='+

	escape('played '+gameTitle+' '+shortUrl+' and scored '+score+' #'+hashTag),

	'_blank');

Actionscript 3:

navigateToURL(new URLRequest('http://twitter.com/?status='+

	escape('played '+gameTitle+' '+shortUrl+' and scored '+score+' #'+hashTag)),

	'_blank');

So, the final tweet would look something like this:

TWITTER_NAME: played awesome game, http://urlhere.com and scored Score #hashtag.

So go and allow your users to promote your game!

Get More Registrations On Your Blog

You’ve made yourself a neat little WordPress blog, You’ve spent ages trying to piece together exciting blog posts, You’re expecting loads of blog registrations – and it’s just not happening. This is a common scenario for many new blog admins (like myself). Well, fear no more (or less), in this blog post – I am going to show you one of the many easy methods to make this happen!

This tutorial will work even more for you if you have a Twitter profile, if not – it dosen’t matter!

1. Install the Members Only plugin for WordPress here.
2. Install WordTwit here. (Only if you have a Twitter profile, if not move on to step 3).
3. Configure these plugins to work with your blog. Make sure on the Members Only plugin, you make your blog private to members only!

Now that we have the plugins installed, let’s get on with the main focus of the tutorial!

1. Create some blog posts, with stunning titles, e.g. 16+ Plugins You Can’t Live Without!
2. Now, publish the blog post. Making sure it publishes to Twitter via WordTwit.
   
3. If you don’t have Twitter, submit your blog to Google, however, this will take longer.

So, with all the steps over, let me explain what this tutorial should of achieved, and how the method works:

• You create blog posts, with excellent blog titles.
• Another person sees the link to this post.
• Person sees that blog is member only.
  
• Person registers to gain access to post!

See it’s simple! And it worked for me!

Manage Your Twitter Followers

Twitter has so quickly seen a boom in activity recently, so that mean’s more tweeters, right? Well, it’s time you manage your followers! This can be easily done by using a free online service known as ‘Buzzom’. This website let’s you ‘flush’ any people you are following, who aren’t following you back.

1. Navigate to http://www.buzzom.com
   
2. Click on the ‘login with Twitter’ button.
3. If not already logged in, you will be prompted to login to twitter.
4. You will then be redirected to  a screen with 3 large blue buttons. Click on ‘flush’ .
5. Now, if you are following people who are not following you back, check the check box next to their user name.
6. Then click the form button ‘flush’ (not the blue button).
7. You can also follow your followers back, do this by clicking the big blue button called ‘reciprocate’
   

You should now be up-to-date with your followers.