Digital Insights: Do-It-Yourself - SEO, Wordpress, Computer Tips & Tricks

How To Find Good Freeware Programs

Finding good freeware software can be tricky sometimes, because many shareware programs position themselves in search engines as "Free to download" and you can download only trial version of the program which has limited features. Recently I had to download a couple entire websites for offline browsing (because they were shutting ...

A List Of 10.000 Hacked Hotmail Accounts Leaked On The Web

Today various sources reports of a massive hotmail login information leakage on the web. The number of exposed hotmail accounts rise from 20.000 to even 30.000. How to know if your hotmail account is hacked? Well there's no universal technique to know that, but keep in mind that the infamous list ...

Wordpress Shows Only One Entry Per Category

Just a quick note to myself and others who experience a problem of Wordpress showing only one entry (post) in category view. At first I thought it was related to my theme, because I often edit in for various performance tweaks, but even changing through default Wordpress themes the problem persisted ...

Wordpress Login Problems [error 404]

Today after coming back from summer holidays to my dorm room I encountered strange Wordpress login problem where I couldn't login to all my Wordpress instalations on Hostgator hosting (404 error after providing valid login credentials). My first thought was that someone hacked the admin directory because there where no ...

How To Compress Fraps AVI Game Videos 20x Times

FRAPS is a state of the art program to view how many FPS (frames per second) your graphics card displays a game. Aditionally you can record gameplay and save it on your hard disk as a video file for later viewing or uploading to Youtube. Hovewer, FRAPS makes huge files while ...

Transfer Roboform Paswords Into Another Computer

As you may already experienced, one of the most powerfull password managers Roboform doesn't offer simple export/import feature to transfer all paswords (Passcards) to another computer or just backup temporarily when you maybe want to reinstall windows. You can make an html file (Logins->Print List->Save as html) with all your passcards gathered ...

Yahoo Geocities Gone Crazy

Recently I got email from them telling that Geocities closing date is October 26, 2009. Although I'm not using their servic anymore for a long time they still sent me an email informing about these changes. However, you may download your files this way [excerpt from Yahoo email]: "To quickly download ...

How To Edit .pps Files With PowerPoint?

When you try to open .pps file it instantly goes to presentation mode without allowing you to make any editing. Even if you try to load that document into PowerPoint program, it still runs in presentation mode. This can be easily bypassed by renaming the extension from .pps to .ppt. ...

Check Which Speaker Is Right Which Is Left

This tip came me while listening to new Moby song called “Shot in the back of the head”, which is available to download for free here. The song starts with swinging sounds from left to right speaker but I listened with my old headphones that has no marks of R (right) ...

How To Post Links On Youtube In Comments

Here is a nice trick to bypass Youtube comment filter and insert links into comments. As you know, commenters are not allowed to post links on the comments because of possible spamming. Hovewer not every link is a spam and sometimes your link on Youtube comments could be appropriate. So to ...

Launching A New Website

If you are building new websites, like setting up new blogs, you probably don’t want to show Google or other visitors it before everything (templates, links, descriptions, meta tags, etc.) is completely set up. For example, when you install Wordpress, there is a default Hello World post displayed on the ...

Play MP3 Songs From Youtube With Muziic

Finally there is a solid Youtube MP3 player available to play songs directly from Youtube. As you may know, Youtube is the largest song database in the world. For example if you search for Beatles, you will get 137,938 results. Quite impressive. Muziic Youtube MP3 player is very stylish and good looking ...

Correct Pronunciation Of Words

If you're learning english, you could sometimes come across a word with unclear pronunciation. And if your english learning program doesn't provide pronunciation for words you can instead use Youtube. Notice when you write a comment on Youtube video there is a small button on the right that says "Audio preview" ...

Gmail Blackout

February 24 was a black Tuesday for Gmail addicts. The panic that Gmail was down spread everywhere from IRC to Twitter back and forth. Some of Gmail users were so desperate that you could feel their desperation from tearfull words on the computer screen. One of them ...

Google Shows Monopoly On Hotmail

At first I thought that Hotmail developers were so lazy and didn't bother to change the description tag on their site but further SEO investigation revealed that in fact Google decided to demean Hotmail a bit. Here's what you can see on the SERP for the keyword "hotmail": From the description ...

Make Page Heatmap And See Most Attractive Spots

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="98" caption="Image by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten via Flickr"][/caption] Heatmaps are very useful determining what is the hottest parts of your website. Looking at the heatmap you can see how to improve the layout for your website by placing most important buttons, navigation links or ads on the ...

Download Torrents With Firefox Add-on

Image via Wikipedia Finally those who were signed on FireAddons website received email about the alfa releases of FireTorrent 1.0 and FireDownload 1.0 add-ons. FireTorrent Firefox extension lets you download BitTorrent files with a single click. Version 1.0 has been built from scratch and is based on the ...

Finding Titanic On Google Earth 5.0 (Video)

In my previous post about how to find Titanic in Google Earth 5.0 I wrote how to find the approximite destination of Titanic wreck. Now the updated details are that you have to put these coordinates in the search box on the left 41.731944, -49.945833, hit Enter and you are heading ...

Download Old PC Games Free

Good news to all players who wants to legally download PC games free. Sometimes companies decide to change licence from commercial to freeware. Usually this is done for old games that are no longer in marketplaces. Actually commercial games which were released as freeware were re-released with a freeware license. ...

mIRC: How To Join Multiple Servers At The Same Time

Image by Surfe via Flickr While searching for ways to join several mIRC servers at the same time I found the simple answer to that question. If you are using latest version of mIRC (currently 6.35) then simply execute mirc.exe second time and you can join second server and channel. There ...

How To Find Titanic Location On Google Earth 5?

[caption id="attachment_481" align="alignnone" width="554" caption="Titanic in Google Earth"][/caption] This is weird. I tried to search for Titanic in Google Earth 5 but nothing found except some unrelated cities:Titanic, Pollard, Clay, AR 72456, Titanic, Harvey, Jefferson, LA 70058 and few more. But where is the real Titanic? Quite funny, the biggest ship ...

How To Count The Distance Between 2 Points On Earth?

With today’s globalization the distance is nothing. You can fly around the globe in less than 24 hours. But how long is the distance between your home and your holiday destination in Bahamas? It’s very easy to do with Google Earth 5. To measure the distance between 2 points on Earth ...

Wordpress Forever

When you get the momentum and keep it steady you are going to be successful. That suits Wordpress blogging platform for sure. As you can see from the picture below, Wordpress is leaving its closest competitors Joomla and Drupal far behind (or below). [caption id="attachment_461" align="alignnone" width="591" caption="google trends"][/caption] Only Joomla managed ...

Clean Google Chrome Files

New version of CCleaner 2.16 was recently released with added support for Google Chrome to files on your computer too. In case you haven’t heard about CCleaner its a freeware program to optimize your system, enhance privacy and clean computer from bad files. The program removes unused files from your system. ...

How To Identify Wordpress Theme

Blog themes can be custom and general. If you see the Wordpress blog and wonder what theme it is using there is one simple trick to discover that. Just go to Firefox and open the blog page. Then right click and select View Page Source. You should look for lines that ...

How To Remove Watermarks From Images With Photoshop CS3

This is a Photoshop tutorial on How to remove watermarks from images. Check pictures BEFORE and AFTER to see the result of this tutorial. Although I mentioned Photoshop CS3 in the title the principles remains the same no matter what version of Photoshop you have. The method to remove watermark from ...

Download New Google Talk Labs Edition

Google has improved its chatting program GoogleTalk. In this new version you can hide from your contacts like in MSN Messenger or Skype. [caption id="attachment_409" align="alignnone" width="290" caption="Google Talk"][/caption] Google Talk was created few years ago as an attempt to give IM market a new participant. Every Gmail account holder can use ...

IE8 Final Release

Microsoft will soon release its currently beta version of Internet Explorer 8. Recently, the company has released a trial of Internet Explorer version 8RC 1. RC means Release Candidate, and that this is the last test the browser before the final release version. If the developers and the browser beta testers ...

Find How Many Visitors A Site Has

Some websites demonstrate their statistics for everyone by putting visible web stat counter on the sidebar or footer while others prefer to hide such information and rather use Google analytics, php scripts or other analog tracking applications. A good way to measure how many traffic a site has is to use ...

IE8 Shows Distorted Web Page?

If surfing the internet, you suddenly saw distorted page, as if it lack of proper css file, do not panic because it can be your new updated IE8 browser that cannot display pages properly. [caption id="attachment_389" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Incorrect Display with IE8"][/caption] Somehow, Microsoft believes that web developers should adapt to ...

Why You Should Be Lazy And Go To Your Site Through Google

The poll made to measure what are the proportions of Google usage could make you laugh at first. But the seems to be silly answer "When you're too lazy to type in ".com" " could become little SEO advantage for your site or blog. After "being lazy" and coming to my ...

Download Youtube Videos With Firefox Add-on

This is by far the easiest way to download any Youtube video I ever seen. It doesn't require to install any program except firefox Media Converter add-on. Once installed you will see small icon next to address bar. It is grey when no video is found on the page and turns ...

Write Posts Offline And Then Publish To Your Blog

If you don’t have internet connection all the time, perhaps you write your posts outside using your notebook, you need Windows Live Writer, which could write posts offline and then publish to your blog without you manually logging and performing other actions. Windows Live Writer can work with the following ...

Windows 7 Wallpaper

While waiting to get my PC ready to install Windows 7 I decided to search what's inside the ISO image. Mounted Windows-7 .iso image shows inside files. [caption id="attachment_347" align="alignnone" width="413" caption="Windows 7 inside DVD"][/caption] A search for pictures found only 17 images and graphic files inside Windows 7 installation DVD. One ...

SDXC Card Can Store 2Tb Of Data

[caption id="attachment_342" align="alignright" width="139" caption="SDXC"][/caption] CES 2009 exhibition presented a new generation of SD cards - SDXC (eXtended Secure Digital Capacity). Although they at first glance are no different from the normal media, but the maximum capacity can reach up to 2 terabyte (2,048 gigabytes!) Thus, one SDXC card will be ...

Translate Unknown Language Easy

Ever came across the website which has interesting picture but the language is hard to identify because if it orient it might be Chinese, Japanese, Hindi or Korean. To guess and manually check the possibilities you will waste many time. But there is a faster solution to translate unknown language. Nicetranslator ...

Windows 7 Free Download To Test

[caption id="attachment_333" align="alignright" width="113" caption="Windows-7"][/caption] Microsoft officially introduced the new operating system Windows 7 a beta version, which should appear this summer. You can download it for free from Microsoft site (here you will also receive the registration code for activating Windows 7), and test your computer. However you should hurry ...

Digital Life Automation Tips. Path To Productivity.

If you're tired of doing the same operations every day with your computer you should create your own automation system that speeds up your working. A short list of automated things you can do with computer: Startup folder Put your everyday use programs in the Startup folder (C:\Documents and Settings\[User name]\Start Menu\Programs\Startup). You ...

How To Download Songs From Last.fm Free

[caption id="attachment_322" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Music"][/caption] If you want to get the songs from Last.fm and other sites that play decent quality full songs with no limitation you can use this trick, that records every sound from the computer speakers. The basic principle is simple: you connect your sound card's line-in and line-out ...

How To Watch DVB-T With VLC Media Player

If you have usb dvb-t stick and need some robust program to watch digital tv on your computer, then VideoLan is the best choice. It has built-in codecs so you don't have to worry about installing them. It even has rare h.264 codec to watch digital tv in countries where H.264/MPEG-4 ...

How To Avoid Key Loggers?

If you're afraid that some virus or trojan might log your keypresses on the keyboard you can use on screen keyboard to make impossible to track what password combination you are typing. On screen or virtual keyboard lets you type in important information with your mouse. You select symbols from virtual ...

10 Best Webcams According To ComputerBild

Popular journal ComputerBild tested and reviewed 10 webcams and placed them in order of quality and price. If you have poor quality webcam even a aface of a beauty will look bad. Top ten list of webcams are: 1. Microsoft LifeCam VX-700 [caption id="attachment_294" align="aligncenter" width="190" caption="microsoft-lifecam-vx-700"][/caption] Excellent price and quality. It records 640x480 ...

How To Save Images From Word Document To Desktop?

If you wonder how to save pictures from Word document like from web browser you may see that word doesn't offer such a function to directly save image. Instead you can use simple trickprovided that you have Power Point installed. Copy the image from Word document and paste it into the Power ...

How To Join (merge) .TS Files Together?

This is a simple trick to join 2 or more .ts files into one large file for burning to DVD or other use. The best thing is that you don't need any program to do the joining of .ts files, eveything is done with a few clicks os a mouse. At ...

Where VLC DVB-T Recordings Go?

[caption id="attachment_281" align="alignright" width="195" caption="VLC recordings"][/caption] VLC program is very powerful and capable of recording DVB-T programs from your USB or other digital tv capture device. Hovewer its' recording is not clearly specified and you have to search where the VLC recorded files go. One inportant thing I noticed about VLC recordings that they ...

Hostgators Web Hosting Overview

Just a simple Hostgator's hosting overview before you decide which hosting company to choose. How your site works Your web site is made up of a group of files and directories, much like your Documents folder on your home computer. Only in this case, everyone in the world can see some of ...

Access Your File Properties Faster

This is a little trick to view file properties faster with only 2 clicks of a mouse (to view file properties normally it takes 3 clicks). To view file properties for a single file or a group of files you have to: Select them; Right click on them; Select properties; Hovewer this method is sometimes very ...

Old SEO Trick To Increase Organic Traffic From Google

This quite old white-hat SEO technique to increase your organic traffic from google SERP results. If you cannot make it to the top and someone is to strong for you to compete in terms of SERP position you can try this little trick to make your page title stick out of ...

Quickly Retype Code From The Screen (Extract Text from Image)

Are you familiar with the situation when you see the html, php or any other language code on the screen but can't copy it because it's an image? So typing the code down by yourself isn't the best idea. At first you will waste your time instead of understanding more of the material. You need ...

» Multiple Website Hosting With Hostgator (same account)

This post will explain How to setup multiple websites under Hostgator hosting account using cPanel. I suppose you have your primary website running on Hostgator and now you want to open another great forum, e-shop, blog, etc. Let's start by buying a new domain name. I personally use Namecheap.com for my domain ...

Make Website Screenshot Vithout Visiting

Have you got suspicious looking email or saw a link that seems to open a page fool of trojans or other malware? If you want to see how the page in the hyperlink looks like you can get a photo preview. Go to "thumbalizr" and paste the link in box. You ...

Fix ALTDvb – BDA:Missing IID_IBDA_DigitalDemodulator

[caption id="attachment_227" align="alignright" width="164" caption="dvb-t-usb-stick"][/caption] I have some noname USB DVB-T tuner which fails to work with Alt-Dvb program, after some research I found the solution how to fix it. If you try to run AltDvb program and it crashes with this error: BDA:Missing IID_IBDA_DigitalDemodulator try to fix it by downloading this additional ...

Scan Bookmarks And Favorites For Dead Links

Have you ever checked your Internet Explorer bookmarks if they still work? Many bookmarks will expire over the years because some sites are shut down, others restructure their pages and forget to properly redirect. So you will end going to a page that does not exist anymore Checking every bookmark by ...

How to install Statcounter on Wordpress?

Statcounter.com is a very good suplementary tracking system besides Google analytics for any of your project would it be blog, eshop, news site or other. The best feature of statcounter in my opinion is the ability to track particular visitor. You can view which keyword he used to get to your ...

Microsoft Promises Faster Hotmail

Microsoft is silently annoucing its new forthcoming version of Windows Live Hotmail. More security, more storage space, more speed and more new features. Some improvements look like a try to even service with Gmail and other email providers. For example it is said in the footnote in gray letters that storage ...

Free PR7, PR6, PR4 and PR3 backlinks. But only for a few minutes.

No kidding. You can get PageRank7, PR6, PR4 or PR3 backlinks for absolutely nothing. The problem is that you get free backlink for only short period of time. You should count on luck if Googlebot crawler comes at the right time to see your link on the page. The page itself ...

Javascript Add to favorites (bookmark this page) works for IE and Firefox

You can earn more repeated visitors by making them to bookmark your page. Keyboard shortcuts to bookmark favorite pages are: (Ctrl+D) for IE and Firefox, (Ctrl+T) for Opera. Some people like the old way to bookmark a page by adding your page to favorites (IE) or bookmarking (Firefox). Many online examples show you the only ...

Activate mod_rewrite module on Apache2.2 Windows installment.

I decided to take a look at highly glorified cms called snews and test it locally on my Apache2.2 server but struggled to enable mod_rewrite module in order to get my urls rewritten. As you know mod_rewrite is used for rewriting URLs at the server level. The best example would Wordpress permalinks, ...

Check and install (enable) php GD support of your webserver

GD library allows you to write and use php scripts witch can manipulate images. It is used for such services as CAPTCHAS or image watermarking on-the-fly without modifying images itself. At first make sure if your webserver (hosting or personal machine) supports GD library. Download this gd-test file. Extract and upload gd-test.php to ...

Install MySQL along with Apache and PHP5

Mysql is a free relational database which can work with php and apache on your computer. More than 11 million sites use Mysql as their database. In this tutorial I'll show how to download, install and configure Mysql. Download the latest version of mysql from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ It is enough to choose Windows Essentials but ...

Watch Hulu, Aol, Abc and other Only for Americans Sites

Recently I searched for free american based anonymous proxies which could help stream such sites like hulu.com, aol, abc and others and in one comment found this beautifull advise for others who don't want to go through many technical stuff but just watch free videos from outside USA. Hotspot Shield (HS) is ...

Install Apache and Set Up PHP5 With It

This is a follow up article about how to install apache and php5 together. Earlier we installed php5 on Windows XP on local computer. Now let's install and configure Apache to run locally on your computer. Apache installation Go to http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi and download latest apache version. As of the day writing this post, ...

Install PHP5 on Windows XP Manually

This post will explain how to setup PHP5 to run from your computer. It will not cover all-in-one packages which install php, apache and mysql with default settings. If you find it usefull, please bookmark this page for later reference. PHP5 INSTALLATION Go to http://www.php.net/downloads.php and donwload latest php5 binary (zip package). Extract ...

Force Google to Index Any Page of Your Site Really Fast

Image via Wikipedia I found this great tip in the bluhateseo irc chat. And by using it, you can force Google to index your newly created page and as a bonus also get a backlink. All you have to is to submit your page into Kaboodle. Kaboodle is a social shopping community where ...

Get old Firefox 2 back

If you regret that you installed Firefox 3 and lost half of your add-ons working you can switch back to old Firefox version 2 and wait for better times. Here you can find old versions of Firefox and many other programs if you feel that older version was better. I also noticed ...

Determine from Wikipedia keyword popularity

Many common words and phrases are dominated by Wikipedia and it has first position in search engines. As you know the vast majority of people always clicks on the first or second result. If your search phrase is being dominated by Wikipedia the least you can squeeze out of it ...

Install Wordpress 2.6 with Hostgator account

This blog is hosted at Hostgator so I'll explain how to install your Wordpress blog in less than 5 minutes. Wordpress needs MySql support and some free space. At first create a new database for your Wordpress blog with phpMyAdmin or hostgator's MySQL Account Maintenance. Notice at the creation success message that your ...

FIX ZEN CART. ERROR! Profile does not exist, loading default Profile instead. (PL_DEFAULT_PROFILE)

If you tried to install this Zen Cart module Printable Price list and experienced this error: ERROR! Profile does not exist, loading default Profile instead. (PL_DEFAULT_PROFILE) Read some suggestions experienced by me on how to fix it. At first this error could be thrown because SQL patch was installed incorectly. Try to at ...

The fastest guide on how to upgrade your personal Wordpress blog

When you see the message: "Worpdress 2.x is available! Please update now" you shouldn't be lazy and skip the updating because you never know if someone could exploit vulnerabilities of the previous versions of Wordpress. Another good reason not to skip the updating process is that Wordpress is allways improving ...

How to Connect 2 Skype Users at a Time from the Same Computer

If you want to use Skype for business and personal use but don't want to share your personal skype username the only thing is to have 2 separate Skype contacts working at the same time from 1 computer. Hovewer you can not simply launch another instance of Skype like Word document. ...

How to bypass regional restrictions and watch videos from outside US

Some video services like ABC, HULU.com, Disney and others put a region restriction so residents from outside US can't watch video from these sites. What those sites do is a protection called IP location checking. If it sees that your IP is from other country than US it says: "no ...

How to extract .daa files?

You have downloaded .daa file and winrar or other archivator doesn't recognize this file type. Direct Access Archive or daa is a rare file type but here is how to extract it. You will need to download 2 programs: http://w-shadow.com/files/daa2iso_gui.zip and http://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz/daa2iso.zip Extract all the zips and put all files inside ...