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Hosting Your Own Bidding Site Using Your WordPress Blog

2012-02-15T20:12:00.001-08:00

You can use your WordPress blog to create an eBay-style environment, where you advertise goods for sale and flog them off to the highest bidder.

Using WordPress as an auction platform is an easy way to avoid paying seller fees and commissions to third party sites. Selling from your own website gives you full control over how you run your auction.

So how’s it done? If you want to save your pennies, a free plugin is the way to go. WP Auctions allows you to create a bidding system on your WordPress blog, using widgets and an AJAX popup form.

The plugin is written by Owen Cutajar and Hyder Jaffari from Weborithm, and the free version is available through the WordPress Plugins Directory.

Setting it up

This is a step-by-step guide to installing the plugin and setting up an auction on your WordPress site. Note that you’ll need to be running WordPress 3.0+ for this plugin to work correctly.

You can upload the plugin via the WordPress dashboard or an FTP client. Once WP Auctions is installed, you need to activate it in the ‘plugins’ panel.

From there, go to your widgets interface and drag your new WP Auctions widget into your sidebar (or wherever you prefer to place it – on some blogs it might fit better in the footer or header).

You’ll now find your new WP Auctions menu in the left sidebar of your WordPress dashboard.

Before you create an auction

In the ‘general settings’ interface of the WP Auctions menu, you’ll need to nominate a currency and PayPal account for your auctions, as well as contact details for bid notification. PayPal is currently the only payment gateway supported in the free version of this plugin.

You can add a custom bidding increment here too, so that each bid must go up by $5 or $10 or whatever you choose.

For added security, you can also require that all bidders have a registered WordPress account, which will reduce the number of fake and spam bids that your auction attracts.

This security feature is optional, however, and you’ll surely get more interest in your auctions if you leave them open to everyone.

In the ‘other settings’ panel, you can choose from one of five color schemes for you auction. The scheme shown in this tutorial is ‘earth’.

Creating an auction

Once you’ve got your general settings configured, you can create your first auction under the ‘add’ menu in WP Auctions.

In the ‘Auction Details’ panel you’ll need to specify the following information:

A name and description for your auction
Your starting price
The date and time at which bidding closes
How you will accept payment (only PayPal in the free version)
You also need to upload a photo for your auction

If applicable, you can include shipping information here too: where the product will be sent from, locations you are able to send it to, and how much extra it will cost.

The ‘optional settings’ interface allows you to set a ‘buy it now’ price for your auctioned goods, and post additional photos of the product you’re selling.

Once you’ve created your auction, this is what it will look like on your blog:

Nice and simple. Clicking on the ‘Bid Now’ button will take users through to this AJAX-powered popup screen, where they can place their bid and leave a contact email address.

Embed your auction in a post or page

Instead of displaying your auction in a sidebar widget, you can embed it in a post or page of your blog instead. This might suit you better if the auction is a one-off event that will only run for a couple of days. It’s fairly straightforward to do this – instructions can be found in the WP Auctions FAQ.

This is what an auction looks like embedded in a blog post:

Collecting payment

When your auction ends, an email is automatically generated and sent to the winning bidder. You can customize the message in the WP Auctions control panel in your dashboard. The email includes a link to a PayPal order summary, where the bidder can review their purchase and make payment.

From this point on, it’s between yourself and the winning bidder to arrange postage and shipment of the goods.

The Verdict on WP Auctions

In three words: very, very simple. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing depends on what you’re trying to do.

If all you want is a basic buy-and-sell auction system that fits easily into your existing WordPress setup, then WP Auctions has everything you’re likely to need.

The good points…

The WP Auctions interface is intuitive and user-friendly. Even the newest of WordPress newbies shouldn’t have any trouble using this plugin.

Unlike some other auction and marketplace plugins, with WP Auctions you don’t need to modify the structure of your site or use a special WordPress theme. The plugin is designed to work harmoniously with any kind of site design.

The main drawback of WP Auctions is limited functionality. The free version only allows you to run a basic “highest bidder wins” model, which is fine for selling physical products but doesn’t leave you with many other options.

On the downside…

How To Do It?

How To Build WP_AUCTION?

Thanks To : Tim Gregg

Microsoft Windows Developer Preview

2011-10-31T21:15:00.000-07:00

The Windows 8 Developer Preview is a pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers. These downloads include prerelease software that may change without notice. The software is provided as is, and you bear the risk of using it. It may not be stable, operate correctly or work the way the final version of the software will. It should not be used in a production environment. The features and functionality in the prerelease software may not appear in the final version. Some product features and functionality may require advanced or additional hardware, or installation of other software.

Note: You can't uninstall the Windows 8 Developer Preview. To go back to your previous operating system, you must reinstall it from restore or installation media.

Windows 8 Developer Preview with developer tools English,

64-bit (x64)

DOWNLOAD (4.8 GB)

Sha 1 hash - 6FE9352FB59F6D0789AF35D1001BD4E4E81E42AF

All of the following come on a disk image file (.iso). See below for installation
instructions.

64-bit Windows 8 Developer Preview
Windows SDK for Metro style apps
Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows 8 Developer Preview
Microsoft Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview
28 Metro style apps including the BUILD Conference app

Windows 8 Developer Preview English, 64-bit (x64)

DOWNLOAD (3.6 GB)

Sha 1 hash – 79DBF235FD49F5C1C8F8C04E24BDE6E1D04DA1E9

Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows 8 Developer Preview and
Metro style apps on a 64-bit PC.

Note: This download does not include developer tools. You must download the
Windows 8 Developer Preview with developer tools 64-bit (x64) to build Metro
style apps.

Windows 8 Developer Preview English, 32-bit (x86)

DOWNLOAD (2.8 GB)

Sha 1 hash - 4E0698BBABE01ED27582C9FC16AD21C4422913CC

Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows 8 Developer Preview and
Metro style apps on a 32-bit PC.

Note: This download does not include developer tools. You must download the
Windows 8 Developer Preview with developer tools 64-bit (x64) to build Metro
style apps.

Live SDK

The Live SDK provides a set of controls and APIs that enable applications to
integrate Single Sign On (SSO) with Windows Live ID and access information
from SkyDrive, Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger. To learn more,
sign up for our technical preview.

System Requirements

The Windows 8 Developer Preview works great on the same hardware that
powers Windows Vista and Windows 7:

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch
To run Metro style Apps, you need a screen resolution of 1024 X 768 or greater

Notes about installing the Windows 8 Developer Preview

A clean install is supported on all builds, but you can upgrade if you are installing a
download without the developer tools. You will receive the full set of migration
options when setup is launched in Windows. To dual-boot, you must first boot from
media and choose an alternative partition.

How to install the Windows 8 Developer Preview from
an ISO image

The Windows 8 Developer Preview is delivered as an .iso image that must be
converted into installation media stored on a DVD or a USB flash drive. On
Windows 7, the easiest way to convert this file is to use Windows Disc Image Burner.
On Windows XP and Windows Vista, a third-party program is required to convert
an .iso file into installable media—and DVD burning software often includes this
capability.

Note: The .iso file that contains the developer tools requires a large capacity DVD
called a DVD-9, as well as a DVD burner that can handle dual-layer (DL) DVDs.
Most modern burners should be able to handle this format.

Reference : @Microsoft.com

Making registration simple and social in just a few steps

2011-07-22T01:00:00.000-07:00

Today we're launching a new registration plugin that gives website owners the ability to offer quick, easy and social options for sign-up.

It is an excellent alternative to using Facebook Login (formerly Facebook Connect) when:

you want to provide an option for users without Facebook accounts
your site needs additional information that Facebook doesn't provide
a traditional HTML form suits your site more

By minimizing the friction associated with signing up for a new account and making it easy for people to bring their friends with them, we've seen that people are more likely to complete the sign up process, stay on sites longer, share more content, and come back more often. For example, in beta tests with FriendFeed, Facebook sign ups increased 300%.

How it works
The registration plugin is an iframe that websites can add with just one line of code, and customize to request the specific fields required to create an account. When a user is logged into Facebook and arrives at the registration plugin on a website, they'll see that the form is prefilled with the relevant information he or she has already shared on their Facebook profile. Users can see the specific information the site is requesting of them, giving them more control to decide whether to sign up.

The site can request information stored on Facebook (e.g., name, verified email address, current location, etc.) or custom information (e.g., text fields, checkboxes, dropdown menus, security checks, typeaheads, etc.). Users can decide whether to share their information with the site by clicking "Register," or if a Facebook account isn't required by the site, select an option to fill out the form manually. Because the plugin works through an iframe, no data is shared with the website until the user clicks "Register."

When a user registers for the site with their Facebook account (similar to Facebook Login), the site is given permission to access the user's basic information on Facebook in addition to the data presented in the form, and in turn can provide the user with a personalized and social experience.

Getting started
To integrate the registration plugin, simply add the iframe or XFBML to your site:

Using iframe:

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/registration.php?
             client_id=113869198637480&
             redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.facebook.com%2Ftools%2Fecho%2F&
             fields=name,birthday,gender,location,email"
        scrolling="auto"
        frameborder="no"
        style="border:none"
        allowTransparency="true"
        width="100%"
        height="310px">
</iframe>

The redirect-uri should point to the page which will process your signed_request. You can customize the fields attribute to suit your needs. See the docs for a list of valid fields.

Using XFBML:

<fb:registration
  fields="name,birthday,gender,location,email"
  redirect-uri="http://developers.facebook.com/tools/echo/">
</fb:registration>

The redirect-uri and fields are identical to above. You must use your own app_id for the redirect-uri to be on your domain.

For more details on getting started with your implementation, please visit our technical documentation.

We hope you'll try it out and let us know what you think.

how-to-import-your-blog-into-facebook

2011-07-22T00:47:00.000-07:00

here’s another how-to that will eliminate the need for you to “re-blog” stories on Facebook. If you’re a blogger that isn’t already linking to your stories on Facebook, you might want to think about it. Here are a few simple steps to increase your web presence by leveraging the power of the social graph. Why not?

How to Import Your Blog Into Facebook

1) In the “Applications” menu (in the bottom bar), choose “Notes.”

2) Under “Notes Settings,” click on “Import a blog”

3) Type in the URL of your blog and make sure to check the mini-EULA

4) At the bottom of the preview, click on “Confirm Import”

And that’s it — your blog is now available to all your Facebook friends and family! Whenever you post new articles on your blog, they will automatically appear on your Wall and in your friends’ News Feeds, driving traffic to your site.

Best websites to convert your raster images to vector for free

2011-07-20T11:43:00.000-07:00

Some of you know the difference between raster images or so called bitmaps and vectors. Raster images (bitmaps) are made from thousands of pixels (dots) with different colors. Vector images are completely different. They use mathematical relationships between points and paths (lines and curves) which are used to produce an image. The advantage of vectors towards raster images is that they are small size and while resizing them they don’t lose any detail. In other side, raster images are heavy and when you resize them, they lose details, so that’s why they need high resolutions in order to maintain the quality and the details. The designers, mostly prefer to work with vectors, but that doesn’t mean that they always have vectors available. Fortunately there are some great websites which offer you conversion of your raster images (bitmaps) to vector. But before we continue, let me tell you that converting online your raster images to vector may not always give the desired effect, so to do that, it needs a little mastery.

1. VectorMagic.com

VectorMagic is definitely the best online service for bitmap images to vector conversion. You will be able to generate your vector in five steps: attach your image, configuration of the given options, vectorizing, results of conversion and completed vector ready for download. It has a great user interface, very intuitive and easy to use, no sign up required but after completing the conversion of your bitmap image to vector, in order to download the final product you need to subscribe to VectorMagic. To see how VectorMagic works, take a minute and see it here.

2. Online-Convert.com

Online-Convert.com is an online service which allows easy and fast conversion of various types of files and documents, like audio, video, pictures, office documents, archive files etc. But the best thing they offers is the online conversion of bitmap image to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format. In order to convert your image to vector, you just need to attach you image and click Convert. When it’s ready, it will be automatically downloaded directly to your PC.

3. Autotrace Web Interface

Autotrace Web Interface it’s a great raster image to vector conversion system developed by RO IT Systems and built by open-source components such as Autotrace, ImageMagick, and various unix and linux image-processing components. It has a simple interface and very easy to use. First you have to attach your image and then filling some text fields regarding to the conversion, like line information, noise handling, so you need to have some knowledge in order to get the most of it.

Conclusion

As I said in the beginning, converting your raster images (bitmaps) to vector using online tools will not give you the desired effect, but still if you have some knowledge in the field of graphics theory you will be able to get great results. These 3 online tools are the only that offer you raster to image conversion for free, but there are also website specialized for professional image to vector conversion, but to have their service you have to pay good amount of money. If you ask me which of these services I will recommend to you, without doubt I will say that you should go for VectorMagic, for the fact that it gives amazing results while converting.

10 Free Social Media Icon Packs for web designers and bloggers

2011-07-20T11:26:00.000-07:00

Social Media Icons are a very important element for every blog and website. So every webmaster and blog owner should take count of this must have feature, because thats the best way to attract your readers to join you to your Social Media site accounts. So here is a small collection of Free Social Media Icon Packs which will help you decorate your website and blog.

Hand drawn Social Media icons

It is a free Social Media icons set designed by Ondrej Rafaj made for bloggers and web designers. It includes 15 original icons for Google, Flickr, LinkedIn, MySpace, YouTube, RSS, Technorati, Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, Yahoo, GMail, Feed Burner, RedDit and calendar.

Download

Free Social Media Bubblicons

A very beautiful free Social Media icon set, including 20 icons in PNG format with 48×48 px size from most popular Social Media sites. The author of these icons is Supratim Nayak from designinstruct.com.

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Buddycons – Vector Social Media Icons

This Social Media icons pack – Buddycons, contains 126 vector social media icons in PNG format. You can find them in two shapes, circular and rounded rectangle. These icons are free to use for personal and professional purpose. This social media icons collection is designed by Orman Clark.

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Bulb Social Media Icons

A great collection of 9 PNG Social Media icons in form of a bulb with liquid. Designed by Sargsyan

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OLED Social Media Icons

Interesting OLED style Social Media Icons designed by Arrioch.

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Sticker Style Social Media Icons

The sticker style Social Media Icons pack contains 11 icons from the most famous Social Media sites, designed by Clay Clauley.

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Social Media Icons by carrizo

This pack contains 17 Social Media icons in PNG format, designed by Carrizo.

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Jet Black Social Media Icon Set

These social media icons are free and contain all of the most popular social media and content sharing sites. The icons come in three sizes (32×32, 64×64, 128×128).

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WG Social Media Icons

A social media icon pack containing 16 social media icons. All items are in png format. Dimensions are 48×48 pixels and these icons are designed from WebGraphics.net.

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Social Media Disc Icons

Great social media icon pack, designed by z3olyte.com. The pack contains 11 social media icons in 4 sizes: 256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64 and 48 x 48.

Download

Create tribute sites for your loved ones with YourTribute

2011-07-20T11:17:00.000-07:00

We all want to make happy our loved ones, the persons that mean something to us and especially when there is some reason to do it, like weddings, birthdays, graduation party or similar. If one of your most loved persons is having a big day in his life, thenYourTribute will assist you to prepare something special for him.

YourTribute is an online tool that allows you to create personal websites (a tribute) for special someone or a special event. It is a new baby, a wedding, a graduation, birthday, memorials and anniversaries, YourTribute is there to help you create personalized websites or a so called Tribute site for any kind of event a people.
A Tribute can be created in minutes, but remains online for life to provide an everlasting record of the special occasion. YourTribute gives you great features in order to create an interesting tribute site like: beautiful themes for any kind of occasion, photo sharing, videos, friend invitations, blogging, virtual presents, integration with Facebook.
A great feature is that YourTribute allows you to import your contacts from your Facebook account and invite them to your events. As I said before, Your Tribute is integrated with Facebook, which makes it easy for you to share your Tribute with your Facebook friends.You can also send beautiful online invitations, for FREE, from your Tribute. Choose from one of our numerous stylish designs and add a custom message to your online invitation.

Create flowcharts and sitemaps online for free with SlickPlan

2011-07-20T09:00:00.000-07:00

SlickPlan is a web based flowchart/diagram and sitemap generator. To use SlickPlan for free you need register, but it is an advanced registration. As an option, before registering, you can try the demo version. But after it, I’m sure you will be very satisfied with the options which SlickPlan offers to you. Registered users have the option to save the generated sitemaps and flowchars, as well they can convert them into HTML or PDF format.

SlickPlan was developed with the web designer and developer in mind, but it can be used by anyone who needs a quick and professional sitemap or flowchart for their planning project. You can create a visually stunning, free sitemap in seconds and send it directly to your clients via an HTML link or exported PDF. When you’re done, easily generate the HTML as an unordered list and insert it into your page.

SlickPlan is a great solution for the most of web designers and web developers who often use the navigational charts to represent ideas and projects to their clients and associates. However, in addition to professionals in this field, it is a great tool for those who need easy and simple creation of organizational charts. This website generator is useful, the design is intuitive, so this combined with the opportunity for unlimited free use, making it a valuable tool to help you in creating flowcharts, diagrams and sitemaps.

Create logo online for free with LogoEase

2011-07-20T08:44:00.000-07:00

The logos are a valuable part of any company, brand, organization, business, website or blog. That is the element that identifies them and makes people remember you. If you want people to recognize your blog or website, it is important to create a logo for it which makes you and your website to be more serious in front of your visitors. The logo is your best representative, so we should never neglect the power of the logo by saving our money on design. But if you need a quick, decent and practical solution then I suggest you to use LogoEase, a great web based tool which allows you to create a logo with minimal effort.

The service initially provides a selection of predefined logos grouped by topics: medicine, sports, writing, music, etc.., which later you can process them along with other elements. You can insert text by selecting the font, size and color of the letters. The elements can be arranged in layers, rotate, turn, increase, reduce, move and paint the appropriate color, piece by piece.

LogoEase features simple and intuitive interface that allows you to create free logos in a few minutes. After finishing you can download them in the following formats: eps, png, jpg and tiff, but only if you are registered user. You can download and save a total of 10 logos at once.

Edit your PSD files online with Pixlr

2011-07-20T08:29:00.000-07:00

Pixlr is a website that offers services for editing of your photos. The reason why I’m writing for it is that this website not only allows you to edit your photos without a problem but also opens and edits your PSD files. The first contact I had with Pixlr I was amazed. I needed to edit quickly some of my PSD files in my friends computer who had not installed Photoshop in it . I googled for online PSD editor and I landed at Pixlr.com.

Could you imagine a Photoshop application running online?! Yes, that was the impression I got from it. It has similar interface as Photoshop and other photo editing softwares, similar editing tools, menus and the most amazing thing in it is the fact that the Pixlr online image editor supports layers. Pixlr editor offers a fast editing of your images with huge set of tools like: crop tool, lasso, shape drawing tool, color replacer, color picker, red eye reduction tool and literally everything you have seen in Photoshop. After editing your PSD file you can quickly save it in the popular image file formats like png, jpg, bmp and pxd. You can edit your layers and also adjust them with various effects.

But that’s just a part of the services that Pixlr offers. Alongside the photo editor, Pixlr offers the following services:
Pixlr Express - the online tool which allows you to quickly add effects to your pictures with one click.
Pixlr Grabber - extensions for Firefox and Google Chrome which offer print screen tools to capture pictures from your browser.
Pixlr imm.io – image uploading service which allows you to quickly upload your images and share them with your friends.

My last words

For me Pixlr is one of the most valuable services that can be found on the Internet today. I say this because of the fact that every single online service is started with the aim to help someone and Pixlr is for sure among them.

Cut your pictures online with CutMyPic

2011-07-20T08:26:00.000-07:00

There are a lots of online based photo-editing websites which offer quite good options and features in order to get decent results in your pictures.I posted a short review for Pixlr, one of the most popular online photo-editing tools. The fact that these photo-editors are online based, they are the best solution for you when you need to edit you photos quickly. But there are always more specific solutions for specific cases. So the web tool we are suggesting now will help you to edit your pictures online as quickly as possible.

CutMyPic is an very interesting web based tool which will offers you a quick and simple editing of your pictures, without need for registration. It will allows you to discard unnecessary parts of the image, to soften its edges and set shadow effects.

The procedure is very simple: you attach a picture from the main page of the site and wait to be redirected to the studio. You wait, depending on the size of the image, which has no prescribed limit. Once the image is uploaded, you can crop the part you need, to the newly created picture you can add softened corners and edges and set shadow with the desired intensity. Also you can rotate the picture, and on the other side, CutMyPic will give you the information on how much your picture is reduced in pixels. Once you press the “Done” button, you can download your edited image or send it via mail.

How to add multiple authors in Blogger Blogs

2011-07-20T08:21:00.000-07:00

Although Blogger is a free blogging platform it offers to the bloggers enough tools and opportunities to develop and lead a professional blog. All the famous blogger began with Blogger but there are those who still use this blogging service to run their successfull blogs. One of the features in this blogging service is that it allows to create a multiple author blogs. For those who don’t know, in this article I’m going to show you step by step how to transform your blogger blog in multiple authors blog. So let’s begin.

1. Login to your Blogger Account and at the Dashboard in the Manage Blogs section under your blog click Settings.

2. Under the Settings tab click Permissions

3. After you clicked the Permission link at the Blog Authors section click Add Authors (in the picture below you can notice that there are 2 Admins and 1 Author, so we are going to add a new one)

3. After you clicked Add Authors, the Blog Authors section will expand and a box will appear. In that box you have to write the e-mails of the authors you want to invite to take part in your blog and then click Invite.

You can notice that now you have invited your Author and Blogger sends an e-mail to his e-mail account where he ask the person to become a contributor to your blog and gives him the link for registration.

4. The registration form looks like the picture below. In order to register you have to put your gmail account (Username and Password) or if you don’t have one, click Create your account now. After this fill the information and click Accept Invitation.

5. When the new Author has accepted your invitation, at the Permission settings under the Blog Authors section you can notice that the Author appeared. That’s all if you want to have an Author.

But if you want to give admin privileges to your author than you have to click grant admin privileges (but be careful because giving your authors admin privileges you give him the privilege even to delete your account from the blog). So if you want to take him the admin privileges, just click revoke admin privileges.

That’s all bloggers. Hope you liked this short tutorial.

How to add Adsense revenue sharing feature in Blogger blogs

2011-07-20T08:15:00.000-07:00

Although blogger is a free blogging platform, it offers great features and opportunities to bloggers for developing a relatively professional blog. To make a multiple author blogger blog is possible. We posted an article on how to add multiple authors in blogger blogs. But recently we have seen that most of popular WordPress blogs in order to attract new guest authors and writers to their blogs, except offering them the opportunity to display their articles they also give them the opportunity to show their adsense ads within the post. They manage to do that with the help of various WordPress plugins, the so called “Adsense revenue sharing plugins”.

If you run a blogger blog and you want to make it an Adsense revenue sharing blog and allow your authors to display their Adsense adds, I have the pleasure to tell you that you can do it. Although there is not a blogger widget which will automatically transform your blogger blog to Adsense revenue sharing blog, but still you can do it manually, just by following some relatively simple instructions which I’m going to reveal now.

First login to your blogger account, go to Design and then click at Edit.HTML At the Edit Template page check the Expand Widget Templates option.

Now you have to be careful here. First find <data:post.body/> (press CTRL+F and paste the code in the box in order to find it quickly). Now we have to continue with the most important part, adding the code in order to install the Adsense revenue sharing feature in your blogger blog. To do that, copy the code below and paste it just above the <data:post.body/> code.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>   <b:if cond='data:post.author == "Author1"'>   PASTE THE ADSENSE CODE FOR AUTHOR 1   </b:if>   <b:if cond='data:post.author == "Author2"'>   PASTE THE ADSENSE CODE FOR AUTHOR 2   </b:if>   <b:if cond='data:post.author == "Author3"'>   PASTE THE ADSENSE CODE FOR AUTHOR 3   </b:if>   </b:if>

Here you have to be careful. You need to replace Author1, Author2, Author3 with the real name of the authors which you want to include them in your Adsense revenue sharing program in your blogger blog (for example, if you want to add me, type my username Reegon, LOL) and paste their adsense code instead of the ”PASTE THE ADSENSE CODE FOR AUTHOR”.

After finishing, just click on Save Template. As you can notice, the code above is only for 3 authors. To add a new author, just copy the following part from your the code and paste it again.

<b:if cond='data:post.author == "Your New Author"'>   PASTE THE ADSENSE CODE FOR YOUR NEW AUTHOR   </b:if>

IMPORTANT: When you paste the adsense code, it may not work if you don’t encode it. To do that visit the following page, paste the code there and click on Encode. After encoding, just copy and paste it as it is described above.

That’s all, if you have any problem while installing, feel free to ask by adding a comment from the form below. Happy blogging!

How to use the address bar as calculator in Firefox and Chrome

2011-07-20T07:39:00.000-07:00

I know that maybe it sounds funny, but on my opinion I think that using your address bar as calculator may be very useful. Instead of opening the windows calculator or searching on Google for calculator applications, this feature will be right in front of you and will assist you in doing quick calculations with basic operators: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division.

Ok now, lets see how can we do that on Mozilla Firefox. For example if you want to multiply 12 by 12 than just write it on the address bar in the following way:

javascript: 12*12

and you will get this as result

But that is not all, you can also calculate more difficult mathematical expressions like it is shown on the picture below.

Ok we finished with Firefox. If you want to do the same in your Google Chrome web browser than you have to write the mathematical expression on address bar in the following way:

javascript: alert (12*12)

So I guess we can find this trick useful sometimes. Maybe funny but can be helpful.

How to make a mobile version from your Blogger blog

2011-07-20T06:39:00.000-07:00

Months ago, Blogger introduced a set of mobile templates available for all Blogger users so they can use them to make a mobile version from their blogs. But few days ago, Blogger announced that besides these mobile version templates, you can also use all the 27 Template Designer templates. Starting from the fact that today most of the internet users access the web from their mobile and smart phones, it is easy to figure out the importance of having a mobile version from your blog. Why mobile version? Because the mobile users hate the ordinary version of websites, because they load slower on mobile phones. So dear bloggers, don’t waste time and enable the mobile version of your Blogger blog. To do that, follow the steps described below:

1. Login to your Blogger account and go to Settings.

2. Now at the Settings section find and click at Email & Mobile.

3. To enable the mobile template option, just select Yes. On mobile devices, show the mobile version of my template, preview your blog if you want and click the Save Settings button at the bottom.

And I guess that the mobile version of your Blogger blog is ready. I opened a new blog for testing purpose and take a look what I got when I enabled the mobile version option. In my opinion I think it looks great and quite professional. Take care! Happy blogging!

Best online tools to generate Favicon for free

2011-07-20T06:34:00.000-07:00

Adding a Favicon to your blog or website is very important for completing your blog design and creating a blog with full identity. For those who don’t know what’s a Favicon, it is the small icon, usually 16×16 pixels, that appears at the URL toolbar and the particular tabs of the Web Browser, which icon is associated with a website. I’ve noticed that there are plenty of successful blogs and websites which have not yet designed and added a Favicon to appear on the URL toolbar.
The process of branding your blog or website doesn’t finish with your blog template and logo, you need to take care also of some small things like you Favicon. Before you start designing the Favicon for your blog, you have to know that usually the design of a Favicon is based on the logo or the initials of your website name. You can notice that Dipinit uses a Favicon based on the logo.
Ok now, do not waste time anymore and start designing or generating the Favicon. Here are some great online websites which offer you the opportunity to create a Favicon for free.

Favicon.cc

Favigen.com

Favicon.co.uk

Favicon Generator

DeGraeve Favicon

Shaheeilyas Favicon

Favicon-generator.org

Animated Favicon

Tutorial:

Make a Google Search by image

2011-07-20T06:30:00.000-07:00

To do a search in Google just by using an image? Wow, seriously, I could never imagined that. But what can we say when behind these awesome features is the mega giant Google, it is simply amazing. Searching by image is a new feature presented by Google days ago at his “Inside Search” event. This is a completely new way of using the search engines, exploring the internet with just a picture. This is not browsing through image results but using an image as a keyword and getting results related to it.

To do a search by image you have to click at the camera icon located within the search box in the images.google.com after which you will get a popup window asking you to upload or insert the URL of the image which you want to use for searching and click Search to get the results.

This new feature in Google Search will be very handy while searching touristic places but is also very functional while searching other things. Depending on the quality of the image, Google may not find the right results but for sure will reveal what’s on that image. There are four ways of searching by image on Google: by drag and drop an image from the web or from your computer directly into the search box, uploading an image from your computer, entering the URL of an image or by right-clicking on image in the web but only if you have installed the Google Chrome or Firefox extension in your browser which will serve you the fastest search by image.

Use Google Audio Player to embed MP3 audio files on your blog

2011-07-20T06:25:00.000-07:00

If you want to share a song or a podcast with your readers then the Google Audio Player is a great solution if you want to embed MP3 audio files in your blog or website.Although it is not evident when you see the player, but it is powered by Google and designed for Google Reader but it can work on other sites and blogs. The Google Audio Player is a flash object and you can embed it very easy everywhere in your blog or website.

So to embed the player in your website or blog use the code below.

<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="audioUrl=MP3_AUDIO_FILE_URL" src="http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3523697345-audio-player.swf" width="500" height="27" quality="best"></embed>

In the code you just have to insert the URL of the Mp3 audio file instead ofMP3_AUDIO_FILE_URL and you can also change the width and height of the player in order to suit better with the place where you have embed it.

Shorten Your Links and Earn Money from it with urlf.ly

2011-07-20T06:20:00.000-07:00

Url shortening is a unique way which enables you to make every URL shorter than it is in length without losing the link to the required page. The URL shortening is from great importance when it comes to microblogging and various instant messaging technologies or any other way of sharing links where the number of characters in the message is limited. The most used microblogging service today is Twitter. Starting from the fact that every tweet you make on Twitter is limited in 140 characters, than posting an interesting link would take most of the characters, so using an URL shortening service to shorten your links is more than necessary.

If you are an avid user of Twitter or simply you have need to forward shortened links, the best way to do that is by using URLF.LY. It is a completely free URL shortening service and the best thing in it is that you get paid for sharing the links. All what you need to do is filling the registration form and start shortening your URL. URLF.LY will pay your for every person that visits your URL. I recommend this to all bloggers who have built a good audience, because it is a great alternative to monetize every link, not only in their blog posts but also their links on Facebook, Twitter, Forums etc.

So why you have to choose URLF.LY? It’s simple, because it has great paying rates. You can earn more than $4/1000 visitors to your links. All advertising is strictly family-safe with no popups. You will have real-time statistics with revenue reporting. Also they offer a referral program and let you get 20% commission from your referrals. Many tools – Mass url Shrinker, Easy Links, API and Low $5.00 minimum payout.

10 Free Psd Photoshop Resource Sites

2011-07-20T06:14:00.000-07:00

Graphic design is becoming easier and much easier every day. It is a fact that every computer geek at least once in his life has considered himself to be designer. Yes, it is true, today everyone can create masterpiece within a minute, just by downloading and editing a finished project. Ok, that’s the reality today, no one can avoid it, neither me. I’m not a designer, but I do design everyday. I work on Photoshop, Corel, Illustrator…and do various design projects for my websites and blog. But how I do that? I rarely start a project from a scratch. I usually find finished projects, I edit and combine them in order to gain something that I’ve imagined and for sure that saves me a lots of money. But today, generally everyone uses finished projects, even the best designers. That’s why today I decided to share with you a collection of great websites which offer finished PSD files which would have been able to fulfill your needs or just inspire you.

1.deviantART

2. FreePSD.com

3. DownloadPSD.com

4. PSGalaxy.com

5. PSDList.com

6. OfficialPSDs.com

7. PhotoshopFiles.com

8. FreebiePixels.com

9. SearchPSD.com

10. psdGraphics.com

Best Websites to Download Technology, Science and Engineering Ebooks for Free

2011-07-20T06:12:00.000-07:00

Here is a small list of websites in which you can find tons of e-books related to various technology, science and engineering fields. All the materials on these websites are free to download and 100% legal. So don’t waste time looking for illegal and pirated e-books, here you have the opportunity to learn everything in a legal way.

Free-ebooks.net

One of the largest ebook resource sites, having unlimited number of e-books in various categories, from computers and programming to beauty and fashion. You can access these e-books and download them just by registering for free.

FreeComputerBooks.com

FreeComputerBooks.com offers you a huge collection of free e-books, notes, lectures and tutorials from various topics like technology, computers, mathematics, programming and engineering.

FreeTecheBooks.com

FreeTecheBooks.com is an search engine like website where you can search through a huge database of technology related e-books and documents.

OnlineComputerBooks.com

OnlineComputerBooks.com offers to you computer free ebooks and sample chapters related to Information and Communication Technology, Computer Science, Internet, Engineering, Business, Marketing, Maths, Electronics, Physics and Science which are provided by publishers or authors on their websites legally and free of charge.

FreeBookCentre.net

FreeBookCentre.net is a website which contains strictly science and engineering related free e-books in various topics like: Computer Science, Electronics, Science, Medical and many more.

FreeEngineeringBooks.com

FreeEngineeringBooks.com is the right place for the engineers of all fields. It offers free e-books, notes and online references on various engineering topics.

ScienceBooksOnline.info

ScienceBooksOnline.info is a place for free science related e-books, text books, lecture notes and documents. You can find science e-books in various topics like: mathematics, astronomy, medicine, biology, chemistry, physics and also engineering related e-books.

FreeTechBooks.com

FreeTechBooks.com is a website which offers you a wide range of free e-books, textbooks and lecture notes basically from the field of computer sciences and mathematics.

Top 5 Free Icons Websites

2011-07-20T06:09:00.000-07:00

If you are bored of your standard icons on your desktop or you want to make some new design changes to your website or blog then here is a list of the best free icons websites which for sure will be an excellent solution for you.

IconFinder.com

IconFinder.com provides a huge amount of free icons and icon sets and it is a perfect solution for all designers and developers. It is the first Search Engine focused on icons.

IconArchive.com

IconArchive.com is the largest icons database with over than 200.000 icons and a great place where a huge amount of designers and graphic artists find inspiration and material for their design projects. It is a professional tag based Search Engine for icons.

Iconspedia.com

Iconspedia.com is also on of the largest online sources of free icons and a community of the best icon designers on the net. It has a great design and very high functionality. Offers a very professional way of searching the icons which are categorized in various categories.

FreeIconsWeb.com

FreeIconsWeb.com is a great design resource website which offers to designers and graphic artists wide variety of icons resources such as free icons,stock icons, custom Icon Design, useful tips, tutorials and much more.

Icones.pro

Icones.pro it is a french website that provides a huge database of over 20,000 various icons that you can download them quickly and easily.

How to add Daily Painters Widget in Blogger Blogs

2011-07-20T06:03:00.000-07:00

Here is a excellent widget for you blog. It is called Daily Painters Widget. This widget allows you display paintings from famous painters on your blog, so as Dip In It we are recommending this widget for our readers! This is a useful widget for almost any blog, just depends if you want to have it in yours. To add this widget is quite easy, just follow the steps below!

01. First step open this link.

02. Customize your Widget (Select a color scheme, select your blog service from the list below)

Choose Widget Color

and Blog Service (Blogger.com, WordPress.com etc.)

03. Click at Get Instructions.

04. Copy HTML code

Under the Page Elements Section go to Add a Gadget.

From the given list find and choose HTML/JavaScript.

Paste the code in the new window and click Save.

Below is a picture of the widget (how does it look)

List of Website that Provide Blogger Templates

2011-07-20T05:55:00.000-07:00

What’s a blog?

“A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.

Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules.

In simple terms, a blog is a website, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what’s new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not.

Since Blogger was launched in 1999, blogs have reshaped the web, impacted politics, shaken up journalism, and enabled millions of people to have a voice and connect with others.

And we are pretty sure the whole deal is just getting started.” – Blogger.com

The List

1. Btemplates

2. BlogCrowds

3. Bloggertemplateplace

4. BlogSkins

5. JellyPages

6. BloggertemplatesFree

7. bloggertemplates.info

8. ourblogtemplates

9. DeluxeTemplates

10. BloggerStyles

How to add Google +1 button in your blog posts in Blogger

2011-07-20T05:41:00.001-07:00

The Google +1 button, the Facebook Like opponent, is a social button which allows you to share your links through out Google profiles, so it has the same function as Facebook like. Google announced the +1 button in March, this year, but now begun to appear on variouswebsites and blogs, right beside the texts along with the Facebook Like button and Twitters Follow button. So in this article I’m going to show you how to add the Google +1 button in your blog posts in Blogger.
First visit the official page of Google +1 button in order to grab the code. You can do some customization of the button, like the size and the appearance. There are 4 types: standard, small, medium and tall. In order to remove the counter in the button click on Advanced options link and uncheck Include count. After that just copy the code.
Now we can start installing the button and make it appear to your blog posts in Blogger. First login to your blogger account, go to Design and then click at Edit.HTML At the Edit Template page check the Expand Widget Templates option.

Now you have to be careful here. First find <data:post.body/> (press CTRL+F and paste the code in the box in order to find it quickly).
But first lets talk about where you want to put the +1 button. If you want your +1 button to be placed above the post content then you have to paste the code above the <data:post.body/>, but if you want to place it below the post content, paste the code below <data:post.body/> (see the picture below).

Now lets talk about the side in which you want to place your Google +1button. If you want to show it on the right side of the post then the code should look like this one:

<div style='float: right; padding: 4px;'> THE GOOGLE +1 BUTTON CODE GOES HERE </div>

If you want to place the +1 button on the left side of your post then write left instead of right on the code above.

Happy blogging!