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Showing posts with label HOW TO GUIDES. Show all posts

Monday, September 6, 2010

Free SMS service to find place, store, bus in Bangalore (India)

There is a Free SMS service to find place, store, bus in Bangalore (India) started by a company named latlong. Need help locating a place in Bangalore? Want to find out how to get there? SMS to 90088 90088

How many times have you needed to get to a place in the city that you are not very familiar with and wanted some help?
How many times did you quickly want to find out where is the nearest ATM or petrol bunk? Latlong aims to assist you everytime you need to get to some place. It will empower you with relevant information when you are on the move. Latlong is right now on SMS and available for use in Bangalore and Chennai.

Try the service by sending SMS to 90088 90088 as shown below

Use keyword WHERE to find out where a place is.

For example, use:

1. WHERE tyagaraja nagar
2. WHERE gnr kalyana mantap NEAR jayanagar
3. WHERE suranjan das road
4. WHERE icici atm NEAR south end circle

Use keyword GO to get help going to a place.
For example, use:

1. GO rajajinagar entrance FROM itpl
2. GO victoria layout TO navrang cinema
3. GO hebbal flyover FROM dairy circle


How to Show Default (Same) Thumbnail in WordPress blog posts

Here you will learn how to Show or display default (same) thumbnail in all WordPress blog posts if you have not set. Many bloggers want to display or show same default image thumbnail for all posts or group of posts, but they have to set each time.
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Here is a new WordPress plugin in which you can set default thumbnail for posts. Remember that your theme should have thumbnail activated. If you dont set a thumbnail for a post, then this plugin will set the default thumbnail you have choosen.

Steps to show default thumbnail:

  • DOWNLOAD this plugin
  • Upload this plugin and activate it
  • Now go to settings >> default-post-thumbnails
  • Now you can upload a new photo which you want to set as default image, you can also select from your imagegallery


How to Change Caller Tune Song (Music) in Vodafone Mobile Phone

How to Change Caller Tune Song (Music) in Vodafone Mobile Phone. Are your friends bored of listing your old caller tune song, then change the song with the new one.
mobile caller tunes

Steps to change a caller tune song:

Through SMS:

SMS and send it to 55655 (toll free) ans you will get a sms of list of songs. Then reply with song number (1 / 2 / 3) as instructed in the sms to change and set your new Callertune song.

Through Voice:

Call 55655 and just say the name of the song or movie. Listen to song options and set your new Callertune song.


How to Activate AT&T iPhone 4 (Activation Problem Solution)

How to Activate AT&T iPhone 4 (Activation Problem Solution). AT&T has sold around 600,000 iPhone 4 and all the 600,000 users tried to activate their iPhone 4 and some of them could not activate.

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Due to overloading of the iPhone 4, some users are not able to activate the new iPhone 4. Here are the steps to take when your iPhone 4 is not activated -

  • Charge your iphone fully as soon as you receive it
  • Contact AT&T at 1-800-331-0500 or 611 from a different wireless device and enter the wireless number that received the upgrade to iPhone 4
  • Choose option #2 to activate your phone on a different mobile number, and an AT&T representative will help you from there
  • After speaking with the AT&T representative, you will be instructed to launch iTunes (www.itunes.com) and connect your device.

Chat on Facebook while you work (Place Facebook Chat box on sidebar)

Many users want Chat on Facebook while they are on work. You can now Place Facebook Chat box on sidebar and continue your work without opening full window of Facebook website. Note that this trick works only on Firefox.
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Steps to place Facebook chat on sidebar:

  1. Open Firefox, go to Bookmarks and then select Organize Bookmarks
  2. Click on new Bookmark tab and enter the following:
    Name: Facebook Chat
    Location: http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php
    Check Load this bookmark in sidebar.
  3. Now open the Firefox sidebar, click Facebook Chat and start chatting with your Facebook friends while you do your work.

How to remove (hide) Facebook right sidebar Advertisements

How to remove (hide) Facebook right sidebar Advertisements. If you use Faceboo you can see Ads and suggestions in right sidebar, and some users want to remove or hide those Advertisements.
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Facebook users who using Mozilla Firefox web browser to visit facebook website can use some of the script to hide those side bar ads. Here are some of the scripts -

  • Remove All Facebook Ads – Removes banner ads, sponsored items in news feed and sponsored sidebar items from Facebook.
  • NoFacebookAds – Removes Facebook flyer and network adverts, including ‘social adverts’ such as the annoying Danish barber adverts.
  • Hide Facebook Ads – Hide “Facebook Flyer” adverts on Facebook left sidebar on homepage or profile page.

Orkut Profile (About me) Photo not Uploading in Old version – Solution

Orkut Profile (About me) Photo not Uploading in Old version – Solution. Some people are using still old version of orkut social networking as they dont like nChange Orkut Profile Photo 400x251ew version.



The old version people cant upload their profile photo. If you edit your profile and upload new photo they it will not display or take long time for cropping. Here are the simple steps (solution) to add photo in older version -
Login to your orkut profile
Upgrade to newer version of orkut
Edit the profile and select change image
Now upload the image and crop it as per your requirement
After your image is added to your profile, you can again downgrade to older version, thats all.

You can Download Windows Live Messenger Beta 2011 from June (release date)

You can Download Windows Live Messenger Beta 2011 from June (release date). Microsoft has announced that they launch Windows Live Messenger 2011 Beta – the next version of instant messaging software in month of June this year. Windows Live Messenger 2011 is social network enabled which allows the users to chat on social networking sites like MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook and many more.
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Microsoft has revealed that they would launch a public beta of their upcoming update to the Live Messenger in June this year. Windows Live Messenger 2011 is going to be a major update to Microsoft’s instant messaging service. Windows Live Messenger 2011 would be more social as it would support a variety of third party social networking services.

Windows Live Messenger 2011 BETA details:



How to Quit Social Networking Addiction (Facebook, Twitter, etc)


Many people are addicted to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, etc. Learn how to quit social networking addiction, here is the simple video guide.


Samsung Galaxy Beam (Projector phone) Specifications data sheet

Samsung Galaxy Beam (Projector phone) Specifications data sheet. The Samsung Galaxy beam smartphone cones with a Pico projector loaded on its back that provides a paltry 6 lumens of intensity.
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Here is the full Specifications data sheet:

product fact sheet

How to Use Your iPad as a GPS Car Navigation System

How to Use Your iPad as a GPS Car Navigation System. Here is the video guide to know how to use your iPad as a GPS Car (even bike) Navigation System. GPS can be especially helpful when navigating unfamiliar territory.

Verify your Paypal by linking your Indian Bank account (Easy Method)

Now Verify your Paypal by linking your Indian Bank account, which is the easiest method for Indian user to verify and confirm your Paypal online account for more limits and much secure transactions.


Steps to Verify Paypal with Indian Bank Account:

Login to your PayPal account

Go to My account >> Profile >> Add/Edit Bank Account

Then Click Add, it will ask Name, Bank name, IFSC code (Its bank unique code, get from your bank or find in internet) and Account number

Fill all the details and click Continue and add the account

Now again go to My account and in side bar (Notifications) click Verify Bank account

PayPal will now send 2 small deposits to your account (below Rs 5)

After 4-7 days check your bank transaction details, you will find 2 small deposits from PayPal
Now Login to PayPal and enter those 2 amounts and get verified.

How Social Bookmarking increases Pagerank and Traffic

How Social Bookmarking increases Pagerank and Traffic. Social Bookmarking Sites are great for generating targeted traffic to your websites. These sites allow you to create accounts and bookmark. Here is the video guide about what to do and what not to do.



Free Unlimited Parallel (Simultaneous) Downloads from HotFile, Mediafire, 4Shared, ZShare, Easy-Share

Free Unlimited Parallel (Simultaneous) Downloads from HotFile, Mediafire, 4Shared, ZShare, Easy-Share. There are many file hosting websites which allow only 1 download simultaneously and some of these website limit maximum downloads per day, and some websites have time ticker where user has to wait for some time to download his file.

FreeRapid screenshot

There is a software named FreeRapid to download unlimited files from almost 87 file sharing sites which uses simple Java downloading technology. Now you don’t have to wait for more time to download files nor you will have limit on parallel downloads. Simply put your download link URL in FreeRapid interface and it will automatically start downloading your file, bypassing download wait time.

Features of FreeRapid Downloader Sofware:

  • Proxy option to download files anonymously
  • Parallel download support from more than one site5
  • Simple Captcha recognition feature
  • Easy to use interface
  • Compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac 3. Download history to check previous download list
  • Option to shutdown computer on download complete

DOWNLOAD LINK [If this link does not work, then search in Google and download this software]


How to Download (Transfer) Youtube Videos to iPod, iPad and iPhone

How to Download (Transfer) Youtube Videos to iPod, iPad and iPhone. Simple methods to transfer youtube downloaded videos to your iPod touch, iPad and iPhone touch, watch these video guides -





How to Use WordPress Tags and Category for Better SEO (NoFollow or DoFollow)

How to use wordpress tags and category for better SEO in your blog, they should be indexed (nofollow or dofollow). Many wordpress users use both tags and categories to their blog posts to identify particular set of posts or pages.

wordpress seo tags category

When creating post content for wordPress, SEO is also important to make your content visible to search engines. When you make a post you will assign some category


and few tags, but most of the people don’t allow the search engines to index either tags or categories. Making tag and category index (dofollow) to the search engines may help in SEO to het more traffic, but many people will make a mistake here. They index both tags and categories, never do that or else your blog may penalized by search engines. If you want to make use of tags and category for SEO, make either tags or category index but never both and make sure the tags and category page is only showing excerpt (summary) of the articles rather than the entire article, otherwise search engines will count it as duplicate content and you may get lower rankings. You can make use of ALL IN ONE SEO plugin to index tags and categories separately. If your blog is updated daily you can index tags and if your blog is updated weekly then index categories to search engines. Also make sure that you are not using some plugins to link tags and category keyword in posts and pages, otherwise the search engine spider will be in a loop and you may be penalized.

How to Get Indexed Your New Website (Blog) By Google Fast (Quickly)

How to Get Indexed Your New Website (Blog) By Google Fast (Quickly). Easy way to get indexed new created website or blog by search engines, mainly by Google.


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There are many websites which will tell your website or blog’s page rank, worth, value, number of visitors, alexa rank, etc.. Now if you want your newly created website to be indexed by Google and other search engines, then make use of these value website which have high page rank, here is how -
Just copy these all websites in a notepad and edit yourdomain.com with your website name and then open all these websites one by one and wait till it loads thats all, in 2-3 days your new website will be indexed.
whois.ws/whois-info/ip-address/yourdomain.com
whoisx.co.uk/yourdomain.com
www.quantcast.com/yourdomain.com
www.thegetpr.net/site/yourdomain.com
nakedweb.org/www.yourdomain.com
tatlia.com/www.yourdomain.com
websitevaluebot.com/www.yourdomain.com
peekstats.com/yourdomain.com
webworth.info/yourdomain.com
statswebsites.com/www.yourdomain.com
cash81.com/www.yourdomain.com
www.cubestat.com/www.yourdomain.com
whois.tools4noobs.com/info/yourdomain.com
www.alexa.com/siteinfo/yourdomain.com
www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=yourdomain.com
www.siteadvisor.cn/sites/yourdomain.com
whois.domaintools.com/yourdomain.com
www.aboutdomain.org/backlinks/yourdomain.com
www.whoisya.com/yourdomain.com
www.who.is/whois-com/yourdomain.com
www.robtex.com/dns/yourdomain.com
statout.com/www.yourdomain.com
georanks.com/www.yourdomain.com
webrapport.net/www.yourdomain.com
worthlook.com/www.yourdomain.com
worth.im/www.yourdomain.com
www.statbrain.com/www.yourdomain.com
www.builtwith.com/?yourdomain.com
www.aboutus.org/yourdomain.com
uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=yourdomain.com
www.pageheat.com/heat/yourdomain.com
www.aboutthedomain.com/yourdomain.com
websiteshadow.com/yourdomain.com
domainsearch101.com/domainsearch/yourdomain.com
page2rss.com/page?url=yourdomain.com
www.surcentro.com/en/info/yourdomain.com
www.quarkbase.com/yourdomain.com
www.esitestats.com/yourdomain.com
websitevaluebot.com/www.yourdomain.com
http://www.siteadvisor.cn/sites/yourdomain.com/summary/
http://whois.domaintools.com/yourdomain.com
http://www.aboutdomain.org/backlinks/yourdomain.com.com/
http://www.whoisya.com/yourdomain.com
http://www.who.is/whois-com/yourdomain.com
http://www.robtex.com/dns/yourdomain.com.html
http://www.zimbio.com/search?q=yourdomain.com&btnG=Search
http://whois.ws/whois-info/ip-address/yourdomain.com/
If you want to open all these websites at once, the you can make use of URLopener. Just copy these all websites, edit it to your domain name and paste in URLopener and click on Open all and wait to load all the websites, which may take some time, then close all the tabs.

Methods to Protect (Secure) WordPress Blog From Hackers

Methods to Protect (Secure) WordPress Blog From Hackers. There are many ways and methods which will help to protect and secure your wordpress blogs from the hackers, make sure you use all these methods to save your blog.

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Here are some of the ways and methods to keep hackers away from your wordpress blog -
Always upgrade your WordPress blog up to date. But the versions of wordpress will come in no time, upgrading from time to time is not possible for all bloggers, but atleast upgrade your blog once in 6 months.
Make use of LockDown wordpress plugin, which will lock out users if they enter password wrong, the number of times you have set in plugin settings (most of them will set as 3)
Changed your blog passwords frequently and don’t set common passwords, make use of numbers, special characters, upper and lower case combination.
Always remove or delete unused themes and plugins as they will make your number of files more.
Always Back up the blog and database, so that if your blog has been hacked you may ask help from your web hosting company. They will remove the hacker and you can restore your blog.
Hide your blog’s wordpress version number. To do this just remove the following line from your theme’s header.php – php bloginfo('version'); ?>" />
Before installing new plugins check if the plugins are good and working properly, because weak plugins may have unwanted codes which may damage your site or its page ranking.
By default username will be ‘admin’ during wordpress installation, change your username.
Always login to your blog via SSL if your host has an SSL certificate.
These are some of the simple methods and ways to protect and secure your wordpress blog from hackers and others. If you have more tips please share with us via
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Changes in Redesigned New Version Firefox 4 (In Pictures)

Changes in Redesigned New Version Firefox 4 (In Pictures). The latest version of internet browser Firefox 4 has many changes which are improved for much easier and user friendly. Here are the changes in new Firefox 4:


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1.Design:

Firefox 4 has got new fresh design and theme which looks better that previouse version. The new Firefox design is only for the Windows release, so Mac and Linux users have to wait for some time.

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2. Tabs:

Tabs are now on top by default. If you don’t like tabs on top, you can disable them by right-clicking empty space on the toolbar and unchecking Tabs on Top.

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3. Menu:

The menu bar has been replaced with the Firefox button. You can get your menu bar back by right clicking empty space on the toolbar and checking the Menu Bar.

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4. Switch to tab:

In Firefox 4 You can search and switch to already open tabs in the Smart Location Bar. And there are some minor changes in Firefox 4 like the loading progress indicator favicon, Crash protection for Windows, new Bookmarks Button and other changes.



Sunday, September 5, 2010

How to Add Watermark to Uploaded Images Automatically in WordPress Blogs

How to Add Watermark to Uploaded Images Automatically in WordPress Blogs. we can easily add Watermarking to images in wordpress blog now with the plugin.
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Watermarking is a process of add text to images, this is usually donw by bloggers and website owners to secure their images from lazy blogger who copy and paste in their blogs. Watermarking can be done by using photoshop or other tools, but it will take time to add one by one. Here is a great plugin to make this process easy -
Download Watermark RELOADED wordpress pugin
Upload and activate the plugin
Go to settings and select the image sizes on which watermark should appear
Also select the watermark text, position, color and size.
This is one of the simple plugin to add watermark to your images, once you set the setting the plugin will take care rest of the thing. Now you can save time in watermarking your images.
 
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