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Facebook Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions by Mashable. Twitter Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions by Mashable. An expert's guide to YouTube | Webware. In the past, we've done Newbie's Guides for certain services, but we wanted to switch things up and really dig into a product's advanced features. Video-sharing site YouTube is the perfect service to start with because it's massively popular and incredibly simple to use, but also has a few powerful features that are tucked away. This guide is to help you learn how to use some of these advanced features and to serve as a simple reference page. For the sake of simplicity, we're only covering searching, viewing, and sharing. We've skipped uploading since it's pretty straightforward and made simple with the service's recently launched multifile uploader .

We're also not including any third-party downloading tools because that is against YouTube's terms of use and is already an official first-party feature on some content. Searching Using YouTube's search tool: YouTube's search engine works a lot like Google's. . • Limit to words in the title. . • Exclude a term. . • Play the wildcard. Viewing Sharing. Mobile Twitter Guide - How To Use Twitter From Your Mobile Phone.

What can I say, I leave the country for a couple of weeks to attend my gran’s funeral in Nigeria and I return to find the UK taken over by tweetfiends Twitterholics! Only kidding of course. On a more serious note, Twitter is weaving its way into the US Congress, much like it is making its mark on UK parliament. Lots to say and report on as far as Real Fresh social media projects is concerned but in the mean time, here’s a post I sent to Chinwag’s incredibly active WebTV list on how to set up your mobile phone to use Twitter a while back. It appears quite a few (non-techie) people are flummoxed about how to set up mobile phones to enable Twittering on the go. All this talk of helping online journalism students learn Twitter using the (nifty) #twask hashtag inspired me to dig this out from my inbox and post it on the web.

Hope it helps someone. If you found it useful please tell me why in the comments! Here we go…. Twittering from an iPhone Tweetie – costs $2.99 There are two steps: 1. 1. Deanna zandt » A non-fanatical beginner's guide to Twitter. (If you’re not sure what Twitter is, or why you should consider Twittering, check out “Why Twitter, anyways? “) Edited 1/3/2010 to include updates to Twitter interface over the past few months.

Note 11/9/2010: This was written/edited/updated before Twitter’s redesign in September 2010. I’m hoping to update certain bits in the coming months, but for now, know that some references to the interface might not make so much sense. Sorry! Thanks to a bunch of mainstream media coverage, a lot of folks around me are becoming more interested in participating in the Twitterverse. Sure, sure, you could also just Google “beginner’s guide to Twitter” and read a any number of other guides that have been written. Grammar and vocab First, it’s good if you can get some of the lingo down before jumping it. Following. Finding your people OK, you’ve got your phrasebook, now it’s time to wade in.

On the left side of the screen, the second block down shows you suggested users to follow. But what do I say? How to Attract and Influence People on Twitter — The Ultimate Tw. Pocket Video Cameras - Buying Guide. The year 2008 saw the emergence of some great pocket video cameras that are no larger than your mobile phone, inexpensive, they shoot good-looking video and are almost as easy to operate as an iPod – no confusing controls, just a single record button. These pocket camcorder attach to the computer via the USB port and record video in a straight-to-web format perfect for YouTube and other video sharing websites. Gone are the days when you had to carry a heavy camcorder strapped to your hand that recorded video on a tape and required at least a firewire port for transferring video from the camera to the computer.

If you looking to buy one this holiday season, you have three pocket video cameras to choose from – Flip Video Camcorder, Creative Vado and Kodak Zi6. Creative Vado Pocket Video Camera ($100) This has a 2" screen with 2x zoom and 2 GB internal memory perfect for recording upto 2 hours of video (resolution 640×480, MPEG4 AVI). Creative Vado HD Video Camera ($200) The Last Guide to CSS Layout You’ll Ever Need :: Searchlight Dig. HOLIDAY SURVIVAL GUIDE: 20+ Tools for Family Travel. The holiday season is fast approaching, and with it, hectic travels. This is the busiest time of the year when it comes to traveling, especially for families. Luckily, online and mobile tools help make the experience much more manageable.

From travel planning sites to navigation apps and services to help you keep track of your spending, here are over 20 resources to help you survive the holiday travel season. Planning Your Vacation – Has a useful site dedicated to families on the go. Believe it or not, they don’t just recommend that all families just go to Disneyland or Disney World! – Also provides a tremendous amount of ideas for family travel and vacationing. . – Has a special section just for family travel and vacations. . – Like an online travel agent that works with the information you provide on the type of trip or vacation you want to take. . – A travel planning service specializing in group trips. Navigating Your Way – Want to know where the best place to eat is? Managing Your Trip.