Three Tips A Day

Qwitter: Get notified when someone unfollows you on Twitter

The funny thing with Twitter is that it will notify you when someone becomes your follower but will never say a word about anyone deciding to unfollow you. When you have a large number of followers, it becomes very hard to determine who unfollowed you and for what reason did he do so. Qwitter is one free service which notifies you when someone unfollows you on Twitter. It also returns the last tweet you sent to that person(which in many cases might be the reason why they unfollowed...

What is FTW?

If you've heard this acronym in online conversations or mobile messaging and have wondered what it stands for, here it is - For The Win. Contrary to the sinister meaning of its evil twin - For The Win has a positive notion. FTW is used to express delight and enthusiasm about something new - a product, a service or a relationship. Samples of FTW usage might be: "I'm loving my new iPhone, Apple FTW!" "Hybrid Theory is an awesome album, Linkin Park FTW!" Now that you know what it means,...

How to create FREE Word Clouds

Word Clouds are chic and look really nice on your blog or report. You can use them to highlight important tags or frequently used words, characteristics and in any which way you want. But creating Word Clouds in Photoshop can be very tricky and tiring. Wordle is a free online tool to create free word clouds. It provides a wide variety of fonts, color schemes and layout options to touch up your wordle. This is what we created fro ThreeTipsaDay: You can print your Wordle pictures or...

Convert Text to Speech for Free: vozMe

Always wanted to listen to that favorite article of yours but could never get around to doing so? vozMe is a free text to speech convertor which lets you convert some specified text to speech which can be downloaded as mp3. Features of vozMe: vozMe has a host of features that can be pretty useful for all. Some of them are: Convert text to speech in male or female voice an iGoogle and Facebook gadget for the same a vozMe bookmarklet for embedded text to speech conversion in...

What is XSL?

XSL stands for Extensible Style Language and is a family of transformation languages for expressing style sheets. XSL is the second style specification to be offered by the World Wide Web Consortium(W3C) after Cascading Style Sheets(CSS). An XSL style sheet is a file that specifies how to display an XML document of a given type. XSL family has three languages: XSLT: XSL Transformation which is a transformation language for XML documents. XSLT is widely used for general purpose XML...

Can you open this? – How to check for website downtime

Sometime ago we told you about a remote pinging tool to check domain downtime. Here we have another tool quite similar to the one we wrote about. Can you open this? is a remote pinging service which you can use to check whether a website is down. So you can now be doubly sure that there is something wrong with your computer(or maybe ISP) and not with the website. All you need to do is to type the name of the website you want to check and click 'Can you open this?'. This FREE service...

Wish you all a Very Happy New Year!

Three Tips a Day wishes everyone a Very Happy New Year!...