Your Twitter header image is an important part of your social media identity, but as always, it’s just one more thing to decide on. After all, your profile picture was hard enough, right? Fortunately for you, there are quite a few sites out there on the Internet available for you to find fantastic looking Twitter header images for your personal usage and for free.

Below are six of these wonderful sites, and each one of them brings something just a little special to the table. Try ‘em out, see which ones you like, and take one of their offerings for a spin. Furthermore, these sites are constantly updating with new images, and like-minded sites are popping up quite often as well. Let’s check them out!

TwitrCovers

TwitrCovers is one of many sites that allows you to download creative, high quality header images for free. What separates it from the rest is the ability to view your desired images as if they were on Twitter using its well-designed demo mode — pretty awesome. The website offers two methods for acquiring these headers. One, you could have the site install it for you via an app (which allows it access to your account), or two, you could manually download the image and upload it yourself.

Read a full review of TwitrCovers for more tips and information.

Social Media Image Maker

Social Media Image Maker, as its name implies, is a site for formatting images to be used on social media sites. Using a very thoroughly designed interface, you can create, crop, color grade, and upload images that are perfectly sized for Twitter. Images are downloadable in JPEG format and can be uploaded by the user. While the link above takes you directly to the Twitter section of the site, Social Media Image Maker provides resources for nearly every social media service available.

Customizing my image felt a bit like Instagram with its many filters and features like “blurring”, but because of this, it also felt slightly limited. Regardless, I appreciated the fact that I could manually download the image without letting the site access my account.

To find out more, read the full review of Social Media Image Maker.

TwitCover

Although it has nearly the same exact name as our first mention, TwitCover is yet another site that brings loads of free header images to the table. The site is stylized with a consistently updated blog format, but it also allows users to create their own header images using its in-browser app. Fancy, fancy, I say.

Unfortunately, here’s the catch: when authorizing TwitCovers to use your Twitter account, it posts a Tweet for you saying where you found your cool new header. Pretty janky… Instead, I recommend saving the image manually using right-click.

TwitterHeaders

TwitterHeaders is a site that reminds me just a bit too much of the old MySpace design websites, but that’s just my opinion, I suppose. Either way, it’s home to several interesting (and sometimes childish) Twitter Header designs. Just to be honest with you, I have a feeling that this site would be most visited by teens and preteens. You’ll find quite a few commercialized images incorporated into the headers here, and while I can’t vouch for their legality, I can say they aren’t too bad.

Customization is an option, but only text, clip art styled objects, and corny-looking backgrounds can be added. On the surface, the site also seemingly requires you to allow it access to your Twitter account, but a simple right-click lets you to save your desired image to your desktop. Else, TwitterHeaders will post a Tweet for you saying to visit the site.

TwitterHeader.org

TwitterHeader.org has absolutely nothing to do with the aforementioned TwitterHeaders, but its images may appeal to the about the same crowd. While not heavy on commercial images, TwitterHeader.org features several offerings that may appeal to those from the younger side of life.

Are there a few gems here and there that may work for you? Yes. However, you will have to do quite a bit digging compared to other sites listed here. Creating your own header and customization isn’t available, and the available images can be added to your Twitter account automatically, if you authorize the site to access it, or manually after downloading them. Another nuisance are the occasional watermarks that appear on the images.

(Note: At the time of this writing, it appears that the auto-upload feature is currently having some issues. The manual download should work fine.)

TwitHeaders

TwitHeaders has quite a few quality images that are extremely creative, mostly abstract, and definitely inspiring. In short, I think that anyone looking for a Twitter header image can find something here. Is the site perfect? Not exactly. First of all, it features things primarily in a blog format, and posting dates are not prominently shown. This means you can’t really tell just how recently the site has been updated. Aside from that, you can find a great deal of worthy content on TwitHeaders.

One annoying thing about the site I found was that it says you can “download” the images. Instead, when you click this, the site tries to access your Twitter account like the other sites mentioned. Technically, you could right-click and save the image, but as a user, I felt as though this was rather misleading.

A minor inconvenience is the site’s usage of water-marked images. Regardless of whether you auto-upload or take care of things manually, TwitHeaders’ watermark will remain on the images. Furthermore, allowing the site to access your Twitter account will let it post a “check out TwitHeaders” Tweet for you.

Conclusion

Twitter headers are a great way to express your identity on the web, and you should take advantage of this particular feature as well as you can. It’s more prominent than simple backgrounds, but at the same time, it’s much more subtle than just a profile picture. So which one should you choose? TwitrCovers and Social Media Image Maker should have you covered on all side, and are both good choices. If you don’t like the selection on TwitrCovers, give the rest of them a try, you’re sure to find something!

If you need more ideas on how to use your Twitter header image, check out these tips on how to make the most of your Twitter header image.

With that said, we’d love to know how you find your Twitter images. Do you take photos yourselves? Do you design them? What other websites do you use to download free ones? Have you ever paid for a cool stock image to use on Twitter? Let us know in the comments!

If you have ever read books to toddlers you know there’s something really special about seeing them enjoy the story. The more they understand, the more they enjoy it and it becomes a bit of a feedback loop until they suddenly move on to new stories. You may also have noticed that there’s a certain age where books with lift-up flaps, textures, things that move and instructions for the reader often become favourites among toddlers. That’s because they thrive on interactivity at this age. The more the better.

In fact, interactivity is often cited as a great learning tool. This is because the act of getting involved actually helps you to remember things. So, stick an interactive book in front of a small kid and you will teach them easily and most likely find that they love the book. If it’s also free, gorgeous and full of great lessons, there’s nothing to lose. Install the following great eBook apps for an extremely memorable experience.

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Confucius

Icky Mr Fox is all about Mr Fox’s disastrous efforts at getting some dinner, as he tries to catch Mr Rabbit and Mr Mole eating afternoon tea. The book is full of “tippy-tappy” objects which show the object’s name as words and sounds, designed to get kids learning about all the things they see in the story.

The app needs Adobe Air to run, but is the smallest app of the bunch at 7.5M.

Even Monsters Get Sick is a tale to teach little ones about looking after other people and to remind them that everyone gets sick sometimes. It’s a cute story about a kid with a sick monster – and how they wind up looking after all the neighbourhood monsters.

This app has beautiful artwork with animations and activities on every page of the story, plus 6 small games the kids can play along the way. The games are very much a part of the plot, so the kids get to feel they’re helping. The story itself can be read by your child or by a professional child actor.

The Meet Heckerty book is designed to be an educational, but sweet story. Heckerty is dubbed the Harry Potter for small children – all magic and violence-free, good-hearted deeds. The aim of this story is to teach kids that learning can be fun and that making mistakes and laughing while you learn is great. Heckerty is 409 years old and still making mistakes as she learns.

The storytelling is fantastic and aimed at either 3-8 year olds or people learning English. The app is also used by speech pathologists and people who work with kids with dyslexia or autism.

This book is the first in an intended series, so we can expect more wacky and magical adventures from this witch.

The Nighty Night app is the ultimate bedtime story for little kids. As part of your bedtime routine, get your toddler to read this story as one of the books for the evening. This adorable story takes you to meet lots of animals and the reader has to put each and every one of them to bed. By the end of the story, your toddler should have gotten the message that we all go to sleep at the end of the day. If you’re lucky, they’ll follow suit.

The pictures are beautiful and the soundtrack is gentle and sweet. This app is the perfect addition to the bedtime routine.

This app is the biggest of the bunch, taking up a whopping 130 MB of space. If you’ve got room for this on your phone or tablet (more likely) then it’s worth taking a look anyway. Your kids will love this one.

When it comes to kids, toddlers especially, the line between an app and an ebook can get very blurry. This is because they really can’t read by themselves, yet they understand and enjoy both a great storyline and interactivity. Obviously, real books will always have their place, but with eBook apps we can animate a few great stories, putting the kid in charge of the narrative at times and hopefully we can instill a love of stories and books for life. Check out a few more kids eBooks and apps like Playtales.

Which of these kids eBook apps did you enjoy the most? Tell us in the comments!

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