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There are many questions which keep me awake at night: I wonder when The Mentalist will be returning to TV? Who IS Red John? And honestly, HOW can you post a link to Twitter without that those pesky -5 grey characters appearing, reminding you that you've exceeded their 140 character or less word limit?!

WELL. While the former is still keeping me well and truly tossing and turning (tell me, channel nine, TELL ME!), I've since discovered how to conquer the latter, and a few other clever wee blogging tricks of the trade, too! Corrine: 1. Grey Characters: 0.

Use Tiny Url To Shorten The Length Of Links

It's free! It's clever! It'll turn that super long http://ghgfccccfgghhlljjjhjjfsfgghfdfahjajhagahh.com/ahah website address into one that is 26 characters or less! If you're using Twitter and want to share a link but are perennially batlling with their 140 character or less word limit, this is very pleasing news indeed.

Develop Your Own Photo Collages With Picnik

There are many wonderful image manipulation programs which will actually allow you to create these yourself. I do not own a single one of them. Luckily, Picnik is a very nifty little (free!) product which will allow you to make up your own collages, Photoshop free. Whee! (Psst! It's also a great tool to use for any photo editing, too!)

Create Whimsical Polaroid-Style Photos With Poladroid 

With the abundance of polaroid-style photos floating around on the internet, you could be forgiven for temporarily wondering how the heck everyone had suddenly acquired such a camera: ''was there some kind of sale? Were they just magically handing them out the street?! HOW?!'' But you see, you don't have to own one to be able to create these yourself: you can just download Poladroid and turn any image into a dreamy, polaroid-like photo, instead!

Become Friends With We Heart It & Tumblr For Beautiful Photographs, Sans Personal Photographer

Fact: 98% of the images used on Frock & Roll originate from We Heart It. This is fantastic because there are new, beautiful photos added to the website every second, but not-so fantastic because it can be incredibly difficult to credit the original source of an image. It's also guilty of thieving criminal lengths of my time. But hey - these are relationship quirks that I can absolutely learn to roll with in the pursuit of beautiful imagery!

Set Up A Flickr Account To Re-Size Your Images

Sometimes I'll find an image that's too large. Other times I'll stumble across one that's not small enough. Then, before it all gets too stressful and I start cursing about having the computer skills of a cat, I'll simply upload one of them onto Flickr, and bask in the magnificence that is their ''all sizes'' option, feeling significantly smarter for knowing that a cat could DEFINITELY not have mastered such a move. 

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Flickr! Poladroid! Picnik! Have you tried any of these services before, and do you have any clever blogging tools of the trade to share? 

xoxo

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