Hello Readers,
After so long time I’m writing an article. Today we will see some cool gadgets, widgets for blogs/websites. The widgets like weather info, visitors map/location, local time, Facebook connect, Twitter tweets etc. You can also have these kind of widgets on your blog or website. You just need a code sinnpet to get these widgets. Today we will some useful widgets that you should have on your website or blog.

Visitors Map / Location
1. Cluster Map : Cluster Map provides the visitor location and count of visits from specific region. This is free widgets. You just need to register your self on this websites. Cluster map represents visitor location by red dot. The dot size depends on the traffic of your website. The dot size gets bigger when your website gets massive hits.

2. Feedjit (Live traffic feed) : Feedjit provides a Live traffic feed. Its a very good option to get the details about website visitors. This is a free widget. You can get the details like from which part of the world the visitor arrives on your blog and on which page with the exact time. Here you can see the details about visitor’s OS, browser and Country. You can pause the feedjit service if you want. I like this widget, so I’m using this in my blog.
Social Networking
1. Facebook Like box : Today everyone is crazy for facebook. Faceboook plays a key role in social networking. You can create a page on Facebook, where you and your followers can share thoughts. You should have the like box in to your website. If a new user see your website and he wants to follow you then he can simply click on like button provided there to become a fan on facebook. This widgets is provided by Facebook.

Click here to get your own Facebook Like box : http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box
2. Twitter Button: Twitter is very popular website among netizens. Almost all of us use Twitter daily to share, read the information. If someone likes something then he share it on twitter so other people can also know about this. The same funda you can use via giving the twitter button to user. They can share it on twitter if they like.
Click here to get your own twitter button : http://twitter.com/about/resources/tweetbutton

Weather
Yahoo! Weather Badge : Yahoo Weather badge is a really cool widget. It shows the current temperature of the specified location. You can customize this as per your need. It shows almost all important cities weather. You just need to select city and set other 2-3 things, that’s all your weather badge is ready. I will recommend this widget for websites which gives information about Regional and Travel.
We will some other cool gadgets in our next Part of “Top widgets for your website”.

1. Open a photo.
2. Select the Elliptical Marquee Tool.
3. Click and drag across the image to select the area of the photo you want to keep.
4. Go to Select > Feather and enter a radius amount. A value between 20-50 works well. The higher the value, the softer the fade will be.
5. Go to Select > Inverse.
6. If you want a background color other than white, black or gray, choose the color in the toolbox now.
7. Go to Edit > Fill and select a color or pattern to fill in the background.
8. Go to Select > Deselect.

1. Be sure to save under a different name so you don't overwrite your original.
2. After step 4, you can optionally copy and paste the feathered selection to another image.
3. There is a one-click Vignette in the effects palette of Photoshop Elements, but by learning the manual method, you have control over the softness of the fade and the background contents.
4. New: See my updated tutorial on how to create a vignette effect non-destructively.