Internet and Technology Tips

How to maintain two profile pics in Facebook?

noreply@blogger.com (Chaitanya) — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 05:29:00 +0000

Facebook is the most popular among social networking. Here is the trick to maintain two profile pics in your facebook. Just follow the steps below.

Step 1: select the photo you want to keep as your second profile pic, copy the bid of that photo.

Step 2: Goto your timeline and click on you profile pic and click on Edit Thumbnail.

Step 3: Right click on your photo and click on Inspect Element.

Step 4: Box appears below. Find <form id= "squareform" in that box. Expand form tag.

Step 5: Paste the photo bid that you copied in the first step. Paste it inside the form tag and click on save.

Enjoy guys.. Stay tuned for more tricks here www.facebook.com/ItechnotipzPage

How to download a website to use it offline?

noreply@blogger.com (Chaitanya) — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:06:00 +0000

Hi guys, in this post I am gonna discuss about downloading and using a website offline. Now-a-days in this computer era, nearly 70% of the youth in developed and developing countries are using internet. Some have 24hrs internet facility, but some doesn't. This post is especially for the students/people who don't have access to internet 24/7. If you have 24/7 internet facility, please don't download websites, just use them.

There is a software named HTTRACK, it is an open source, you can download it for free (click here to download). The following are the steps to download and use HTTRACK software.

1.) Download the file that suits your operating system (click here to download). The download page looks as follows.

2.) Install the software.
3.) Click on the NEXT button in the start window. The start window look like follows.

4.) Enter the project name, category and click on NEXT.

5.) Add the website url you want to download, in the space specified.

6.) Click on FINISH to start downlaod.

ENJOY guys...

How to keep your own photo as Facebook page background?

noreply@blogger.com (Chaitanya) — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:55:00 +0000

facebook is the most popular social servicing site. Every one of us has a facebook account. Daily we will be in touch with our friends by sharing something on our facebook wall. Generally when we open facebook, its welcome page will be as follows.

We can change the view of this Facebook welcome page. Google Chrome has came with an extension called FB Refresh. With this extension we can keep our own image as facebook background as follows.

Note: This is available only on GOOGLE CHROME browser.

Steps to get your own image as fb backgroung.

1.) Open Google Chrome
2.) Goto Chrome Web Store (click here)
3.) Type fb refresh in the search box, as shown below.

4.) Add the extension to your Chrome browser.

5.) After adding it goto browser settings.

6.) Goto extensions , select options in fb Refresh as shown below.

7.) Choose the image and click save at the end of the page.

Now you are done, enjoy..

How to add Facebook pop-up widget to Blogger?

noreply@blogger.com (Chaitanya) — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 07:04:00 +0000

Facebook has became the leader of Social servicing sites. Now- a-days everyone is having facebook account. As part of our SEO, we can use facebook to increase traffic to our blog/website. We can place a like box on our blog/website but it will not prompt the user to like our facebook page. So, adding the pop-up box is the best option for this. This pop-up box prompts the user to like our facebook page. The following is the figure that shows you how this pop up box look like.

Facebook POP-UP widget

The following are the steps to add Facebook pop up widget to blogger.

1.) Login to you blogger account.
2.) Select the blog for which you are willing to add Facebook pop up widget.
3.) Go to Layout on the left menu.
4.) click on Add a Gadget.
5.) Select HTML/Java Script from the list.
6.) Paste the following code there.

<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<style>
#fanback {
display:none;
background:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);
width:100%;
height:100%;
position:fixed;
top:0;
left:0;
z-index:99999;
}
#fan-exit {
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
#fanbox {
background:white;
width:420px;
height:270px;
position:absolute;
top:58%;
left:63%;
margin:-220px 0 0 -375px;
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 0 50px 0 #939393;
-moz-box-shadow: inset 0 0 50px 0 #939393;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 50px 0 #939393;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
margin: -220px 0 0 -375px;
}
#fanclose {
float:right;
cursor:pointer;
background:url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCCS32k4_16El6WK9p7xB3QLxzRlcKsO40t8Z1hoIJDJgEbr2RJjIdKv7w-yFHslFYoAlgmFw1sJ9daU3slIgZqxSBw5PmDhqRoMEvmdxFrlcosWEUC9bUJcn-HqTN6Bpk_sWN4Hpyo87f/s1600/fanclose.png) repeat;
height:15px;
padding:20px;
position:relative;
padding-right:40px;
margin-top:-20px;
margin-right:-22px;
}
.remove-borda {
height:1px;
width:366px;
margin:0 auto;
background:#F3F3F3;
margin-top:16px;
position:relative;
margin-left:20px;
}
#linkit a.visited,#linkit a,#linkit a:hover {
color:#80808B;
font-size:10px;
margin: 0 auto 5px auto;
float:center;
}
</style>

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
jQuery.cookie = function (key, value, options) {
// key and at least value given, set cookie...
if (arguments.length > 1 && String(value) !== "[object Object]") {
options = jQuery.extend({}, options);
if (value === null || value === undefined) {
options.expires = -1;
}
if (typeof options.expires === 'number') {
var days = options.expires, t = options.expires = new Date();
t.setDate(t.getDate() + days);
}
value = String(value);
return (document.cookie = [
encodeURIComponent(key), '=',
options.raw ? value : encodeURIComponent(value),
options.expires ? '; expires=' + options.expires.toUTCString() : '', // use expires attribute, max-age is not supported by IE
options.path ? '; path=' + options.path : '',
options.domain ? '; domain=' + options.domain : '',
options.secure ? '; secure' : ''
].join(''));
}
// key and possibly options given, get cookie...
options = value || {};
var result, decode = options.raw ? function (s) { return s; } : decodeURIComponent;
return (result = new RegExp('(?:^|; )' + encodeURIComponent(key) + '=([^;]*)').exec(document.cookie)) ? decode(result[1]) : null;
};
//]]>
</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
if($.cookie('popup_user_login') != 'yes'){
$('#fanback').delay(100).fadeIn('medium');
$('#fanclose, #fan-exit').click(function(){
$('#fanback').stop().fadeOut('medium');
});
}

});
</script>
<div id='fanback'>
<div id='fan-exit'>
</div>
<div id='fanbox'>
<div id='fanclose'>
</div>
<div class='remove-borda'>
</div>
<iframe allowtransparency='true' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' src='//www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?
href=http://www.facebook.com/Itechnotipz&width=402&height=255&colorscheme=light&show_faces=true&show_border=false&stream=false&header=false'
style='border: none; overflow: hidden; margin-top: -19px; width: 402px; height: 230px;'></iframe><center>
<span id="linkit"><a href="http://itechnotipz.blogspot.com/2013/12/add-Facebook-pop-up-widget-to-blogger.html">Get This @Itechnotipz</a></span></center>
</div>
</div>

How to record the work that you are doing on your computer

noreply@blogger.com (Chaitanya) — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:39:00 +0000

Hi guys, In this post I am going to discuss a very interesting topic i.e,.How to record the work that you are doing on your computer. Some times we might think of recording the work we are doing on our computer, there are some software to record the work on Computer screen, the most popular among them is FSCapture. This is the software from FastStone family. You can download it form our friend Google or Click here on the following image to download it.

Follow the following simple steps to do this task:

1. Download and install FSCapture software.

2. After installing, when we double click on the shortcut, it will display the following

3. Click on the video symbol, as shown in figure.

4. When you click, a box appears on the Right bottom of your screen, it will be as shown in figure, select the options as shown in figure.

5. Once you click on Record, the following dialogue box appears.

6. If you want to insert any title, that must appear at the video startup, click on the check box as shown in figure.

7. Once you click on the check box, there appears a screen and a box where you should type your TITLE and DESCRIPTION. Now click on Start to Record.

How to create a blog?

noreply@blogger.com (Chaitanya) — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:42:00 +0000

In this new computer era, every graduate is becoming a techie, many are attracted towards Internet. In this internet world, there is a way to show or to introduce ourselves to the world i.e, running a website or blog. Using these blogs we can even make some money online. In this post I am discussing about how to create a blog.

There are some websites which provide a free software to create blogs, the following are the most popular websites:

Using the above websites you can create your own blog for FREE of cost. They will host your blog for free.

Way to create a blog using BLOGGER:

Blogger.com is one of the product from Google family. The following are the steps to create blog in Blogger.

1. Open www.blogger.com.
2. login with you Gmail username and password. The following screen will be displayed.

3. Click on Continue to Blogger as shown in above figure.
4. In the following page click on New Blog button.

5. Once you click on New Blog button, the following screen will be displayed.

6. In the above screen, give the title, appropriate address and click on create blog.
7. Once you click on create blog button the following screen will be displayed.

8. Click on the above shown button to write your POST.

How to keep my own image as Gmail background?

noreply@blogger.com (Chaitanya) — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 09:50:00 +0000

Google has got its own reputation in the internet world, to maintain its standards Google is coming with many more new products and new features. Recently Google customized Gmail page with new standard view. where we can customize our page with different themes. Instead of applying the predefined themes, we can even keep our own image as the background image of gmail page. You can see the customized background image of gmail page below.

To keep your own image as gmail background, just follow the following simple steps:

1. Login to Gmail
2. Goto Settings --> Themes

3. In the themes page you can see CUSTOM THEMES option as shown in figure, in that click on LIGHT or DARK.

4. Once you click on any one of them, you will see the following screen

5. Click on Upload Photos to select photos from your PC.

Enjoy the new Gmail page...

How to get start button in WIndows 8 Operating System

noreply@blogger.com (Chaitanya) — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:13:00 +0000

As we know, Windows 8 is the latest version of Windows Operating System from Microsoft. As this version is designed for touch screens, this is not provided with start button, instead it is provided with a colorfull screen with all the applications. But when we install this operating system on the desktops, or laptops which don't have touch screens, people are facing some small sort of problems. To overcome these problems we must have a start button. Pokki gives us an excellent start button which is very similar to the start button of windows previous versions. Just follow the following steps to create start button to Windows 8.

Open www.pokki.com
Click on Windows 8 label as shown below.
When you click on Windows 8 label, it will display the following screen
When you click on Free Download button, you will get a .exe file, save it and install it, you can get Start button as shown in the above figure.

How to block a website in PC without using any software

noreply@blogger.com (Chaitanya) — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:47:00 +0000

There is an option to block the websites in your PC without using any software. Follow the following steps:

Goto MyComputer --> open C drive (Drive in which Windows OS is installed)
Open a folder named Windows folder
Inside Windows folder, search for System32 folder
Inside System32, search for Drivers folder
Inside Dirvers, search for etc folder
In etc folder you will find a file named hosts. The file will be as follows.
Open hosts --> goto last line --> press enter
Type 127.0.0.1 <space> www.example.com , as in the following figure.

Still confused.... Have a look at this video...

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How to Download Youtube videos without any software

noreply@blogger.com (Chaitanya) — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 05:09:00 +0000

YouTube! one of the biggest site owned by Google, which contains videos. Every one will try to download videos from YouTube, but there is no option provided for download. So, we will use different downloading software's like IDM, youtube downloader to download videos from YouTube. Here is the way where we can download the videos of YouTube without using any softwares.

There are some websites which provide the facility to download YouTube videos. The following are some of them..

using the above website we can download the videos very easily. Both are similar. The following steps shows you the procedure to download from www.keepvid.com.

Open the site www.keepvid.com
Paste the url of the video you want to download in the space provided, as shown below.
To download videos your system must be java enabled. If your system doesnot contain java it will show as follows
click on the link provided, http://www.java.com/getjava to install java in your PC.
After installing java, refresh the page or close it and open once again.
Now click on download option, your video will be available in different formats.
Download the format you want.

There is another method to download.. You can see this in Video.