Computer Tricks and Secrets

Wouldn’t it be nice if Twitter had an Export button? You search for a trending #hashtag, or an old tweet , or your brand name, and all the matching tweets get saved in an Excel or Google spreadsheet. And this archive would just update itself in the background as new tweets arrive. Meet Twitter Archiver , the simplest tool for saving tweets, forever It is a Google add-on that takes 5-minutes to setup (watch video tutorial ) and will easily capture all tweets that match particular search terms in a Google Spreadsheet automatically. You can use the tool to monitor tweets around any conference hashtag, learn what people are saying about your brand, track popular search terms, save tweets from any geographic location and more. Save all kinds of tweets with the Twitter Archiver How to Save Tweets in a Google Spreadsheet To get started, install the Twitter Archiver and it will create a new Google Spreadsheet. Go to the Add-on menu, choose Twitter Archiver and select the Authorize menu. All...

How do you get SMS notifications on your mobile phone for important emails in your Gmail? Google doesn’t support text notifications for their email service but Twitter does. If we can figure out a way to connect our Twitter and Gmail accounts, the Gmail notifications can arrive as text on our mobile via Twitter. Let me explain: Twitter allows you to follow any @user via a simple SMS. They provide short codes for all countries ( see list ) and if you text FOLLOW to this shortcode following by the  username, any tweets from that user will arrive in your phone as text notifications. For instance, if you are in the US, you can tweet FOLLOW Anmol  to  40404 to get my tweets as text messages. Similarly, users in India can text FOLLOW Anmol to 7536860559  to get the tweets via SMS. The short code service of Twitter can act as a Gmail SMS notifier. You create a new Twitter account, set the privacy to private and this account will send a tweet when you get a new email in Gmail. Follow this acc...