Blazing Minds

Well it’s Friday again and as I say every week, where does the time go, anywho This week I’ve decided to bring you my top 20 Tweeters, this weeks list is made up of the 20 tweeters that have mentioned me @BlazingMinds on Twitter.

But before I bring you the big 20, I thought you all my like a little recap on what Twitter is, no seriously, this is probably the best way to describe Twitter to those that have no idea what it is, I tell you there are people out there who still don’t even know that Twitter exists ;)

Ok that’s enough of that, now on to the 20 Tweeters for this weeks Twitter FollowFriday
Are you in the 20? Read on to find out

Now we may all know that blogging can be very time-consuming, what with reading blogs, commenting and writing our own posts, but how can we give everything an equal share of our time?

I go to work during the day and I have to admit that when travelling from one job to another I do Tweet with my Twitter @BlazingMinds and if a blog idea springs to mind I either jot it down or dictate it on my phone for later.

But is there a good way of spreading our time in to the right amount to give everything a chance of getting something done during the day.

Do you spend more time blogging, working or putting your feet up, if your married does your other half give you a set amount of time that you have on “that bloody computer” each night, so you cram in as much as you can before it’s family time?

So putting it simply, how do you fit everything in during the day, do you even get chance to do everything that you want to do?

I personally spilt my day up. Work during the day, grab a few minutes here and there to catch up on my blogging, put my feet up for a bit with a Cappuccino and they maybe tweet a little, before placing my head on a soft cosy pillow to refuel for the following day

Yes it’s true, the James Cameron’s masterpiece that is Avatar is hitting our cinema screens yet again!

This time Avatar has been released as a Special Edition with eight minutes of extra footage and also some new creatures have been introduced to the movie and hits the big 3D screens on August 27th.

James Cameron is no stranger to the Special Edition genre, remember Aliens, The Abyss and Terminator 2. But those films were released with their Special Editions on DVD, this time we get the Special Edition in the cinema and yes, still in its 3D glory, actually it’s exclusively in 3D sorry 2D only cinemas, looks like you’ll have to miss out on this one.

The question on everyone’s lips though, is even if the film does have that extra 8 minutes of footage and we do get to see that little bit more of Pandora, is it worth the money to spend 170 minutes on some cinema seats to see the majority of a film that you have already seen?

For those that haven’t seen the original cut of the film yet in 3D the answer is probably, yes. To those that have already seen the film, maybe no, but to the fans of the movie, such as myself the answer is a 100%, yes!

I do like Avatar, my God, I’ve seen it that many times and all in 3D and the chance to see a little more of Pandora and perhaps the hope of opening up the characters a tad more with 8 minutes of extra footage, does intrigue me, plus the fact that my local cinema @ScalaPrestatyn will be showing the Special Edition just entices me more to see it again.

So if you have seen Avatar 3D already, will you go and see Avatar: Special Edition?

And just to whet your appetite a bit more I’m leaving you with the trailer for the Special Edition, it’s short, but enjoy

Have you ever seen those icons on Twitter? You know the ones, a plane, heart, star sign etc. Well there are several ways of adding these to your tweets when your on Twitter, but there is a great Chrome Extension which will give you a brilliant way of adding these Twitter Symbols when you are Tweeting.

Twitter Symbols will add an extra button next to the Tweet button on the Twitter website and will open an on-screen box allowing you to click on a Twitter Symbol to add to your tweet.

So all you have to do is click on the button and the selection box will open up, then you can simply add what you want to make your tweet a little different.

One thing I have noticed when using these Twitter Symbols though, is not all of them will be displayed on Tweetdeck, even with the option for International font/Twitterkey selected in Tweetdecks setting, but they do seem to work on Twitter itself

So by using the Twitter Symbols you can tweet a custom tweet like I have below:

If you are looking for a way of using these Twitter Symbols and you are using Chrome then this is certainly a useful extension to use and ideal for any Twitter user

I count myself very lucky that when it comes to bands, either by themselves or by their management sending me CDs to review, I’ve had some mighty awesome CDs dropping through the post box, it just goes to show that people do enjoy my music reviews.

Now the other day I received an album from Hampshire band In Darklight, I wasn’t really sure what to expect, so I popped the CD into my computer and uploaded it onto my iPod, it’s easier that way for me to listen to new material on the move

In Darklight were formed in late 2004, although the four band members – brothers Ben and Louis Sellers, Ross Archer and David Green – had been working actively as a band under various names since 2000.

This début album from the four piece band is one that you don’t need to play over and over to get used to it, it’s an album that you’ll play over and over again because it’s acoustically brilliant. Everything fits in together perfectly, guitars, drums, vocals the album is just a joy to listen to.

I can hear you asking what genre the band are, well when you check it out on iTunes, it says “Alternative”, but personally I would add pop/rock on to the alternative, the album is so strong on drums and guitar riffs that it up there with the big boys in my opinion, this is one of those albums that with have any air-guitar or air-drummer giving it some

But saying that, when the album hist the track “Leave Me Here” it slows down, to a wonderful acoustic guitar and some gorgeous dreamy vocals, then onto the short “[Always in my Way]” which nicely flows into “Surface”, boy these guys are truly talented.

As with the tracks I’ve just mentioned it’s not all power tracks, the track “In The Red” is one of those tracks that has no drums, and is one that would sound amazing live with just the piano and vocals of a melting ballad.

Finishing the album off with “Missiles” brings back those key sounds of In Darklight which make this album one that is a must for any music fans collection.

For once I’d like to get an album I could complain about!

I can’t really fault this debut album from In Darklight, even the CD packaging is well designed, Ok I can see you’re waiting for the overall rating of the album, so for sound quality, production and the pure talent of In Darklight I’m giving the album 4.5 out of 5

Check out In Darklight on their MySpace page and their album is now Available Amazon, iTunes and even as a physical Digipak CD.

Now those of you who read my blog, now about my gorgeous little red Mini Cooper, and how much I love it, what can I say it’s my pride and joy and it was a present for my *cough*th birthday

The only thing that annoys me is that with the Mini you don’t get a spare tyre, just a tyre welding kit in the bottom of the boot, just in case you do get a flat!

Yesterday, I had my very first puncture, the first puncture in all the years I’ve driven, so it was bound to happen sooner or later. I pulled into my friends drive and popped in the house, when I came back out I could hear a slight hissing noise and on closer inspection, found that the front tyre had a slow puncture.

So, in an effort to get some help, I rang my Mini service and was told to get it to the nearest tyre service to have it repaired, luckily it was slow puncture, so I managed to get to the tyre garage to get it sorted.

But, unluckily for me, the puncture, a tiny little whole, was in the wrong place to be repaired, so I had to buy a new tyre.

So now after £58 I’ve got three Michelin tyres an a Pirelli tyre, couldn’t get a matching tyre, poodoo!!!

Now a quick message to BMW Mini, redesign the Mini in a way that a spare tyre is “standard” fixture not an optional etc, that way, it would be a lot easier than having the silly tyre welding kit in the boot

For those that visit my blog often you may have noticed I been a bit lacklustre lately with blogging, I do apologise, this is all down to the little time I have at the moment, but to keep the juices flowing I thought I would bring you another Top 10 List.

This Top 10 List is of the posts that have been popular over the last week, as I’ve said before some you may have read and some, you may not, but please find it in your hearts to ReTweet them for me

Top 10 Popular Posts on Blazing Minds

1. How To Select All Your Facebook Friends When Inviting Them to a Page or Group etc
2. Experimenting With The New Twitter Button!
3. Top 10 Things on My Blog Theme Wishlist
4. How I Removed Orange Safeguard From My Mobile Phone!
5. What Would You Do For A Fiverr?
6. Getting Your Music Released – Tunecore Vs CD Baby
7. Why I Enjoy Blogging!
8. EZ Combs – Simple to use and effective for different hairstyles
9. Commenting Correctly on Blazing Minds
10. How To Write a Twitter Bio That Gains You More Followers

So there you have it, just a quick post on what’s been popular here on my blog over the last week, I hope if you haven’t read these then you’ll enjoy reading them and please ReTweet as many as you can