Computer Tips and Tricks

Cross platform podcast receiver:

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:45:00 +0000

Juice is a free Cross platform podcast receiver to get updates of your favorite audio podcast:

Want to listen to internet audio programs but can't when they are scheduled? This program lets you create your own custom online audio anytime, anywhere. Really.

Windows

Subscriptions tab

Downloads tab

Directory tab

Cleanup tab

Scheduler

Macintosh

Subscriptions tab

Downloads tab

Directory tab

Cleanup tab

Download Juice free

Facebook Fanpage RSS Feeds

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:14:00 +0000

How to get Facebook fan page RSS Feed? Whether you are a fan page admin or you want updates from a fan page, RSS helps you. In the left hand side bottom of every facebook fan page there will be ways to get updates from that page. Select "Get updates via RSS" to get the rss feeds, if you are a fan page admin, it will help you to submit to RSS directories and get some traffic which in turn yields you fans. It (rss submission) also gets you search engine exposure.

Sticky posts in Wordpress

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 05:48:00 +0000

Sticky posts in wordpress stick to home page. They will not be hidden/burried by new posts but just stay in home page.. Important announcements and static content can be made sticky. To convert a normal post to sticky after you published it. Go to quick edit in posts section. There will be a check box to select "Make this post sticky" meaning it will stay in home page. You can uncheck it when you want.

How to change category and tag base name in wordpress?

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:18:00 +0000

How to change category and tag base name in wordpress?

Instead of using "category" and "tag" in your permalinks you can change them to any name based on your blog theme, you can include keywords like
http://example.org/category/uncategorized/
to http://example.org/categorychanged/uncategorized/
http://example.org/tag/name
to http://example.org/tagchanged/name

After you login to wordpress dashboard: navigate to permalinks under settings section. Give your category base and tag base a name (keyword) and save it... your blog will now be powered with more relevant keywords which helps in search engines understanding your blog.

How to Check if Antivirus is Running in your computer?

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:05:00 +0000

To know if the anti virus is active in your computer, go to services. Go to start and in run command type services.msc, you will see the services window. In that check the service corresponding to your anti virus software. I use CA antivirus and my CA related service is up and running (it is in automatic state) and is started. If you find your anti virus service is not started, you will need to start it and then make it automatic (double click and change the property to be automatic and NOT manual or disabled)

Talk to Google.com instead of typing

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:04:00 +0000

You have the option of saying what you want to search to google. After you go o Google.com instead of typing the search box click the mic icon in the corner of text box and say what you intended to search. Your computer should have mic feature inbuilt and if its available you will see results in google.com for what you said in the mic .. No need of typing required to use mic option... Its handy at times...

Google in 2084 funny pic from new york times

Fan page notification in Facebook

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:57:00 +0000

Fan page notification in Facebook: Want to see how many people have responded to your fan page update, like or commented? right side of your fan page you will see a button called "Notifications" click on that and you will see the latest activities by your fans to your fan page updates. Only available to fan page owners and admins. It will be refreshed and next time you will see the updated notifications.

This will be helpful for fan page owners/admins to respond to their fans reactions and keep the conversations up and goin in Facebook fanpage. It makes the fans more focused to your pages and attracts new fans to your page..

How to make Notes in Facebook Fan pages

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:47:00 +0000

How to make Notes in Facebook Fan pages
Select the edit info button in your fan page, and t hen go to apps in left hand side. Select the "Notes" application and then add the note. You don't have WYSIWYG editor in Facebook and hence html needs to be copied and pasted in notes editor.

Time To Make The Emails

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:59:00 +0000

Technology Tip Number 13
Time To Make The Emails

Did you know that you can use Microsoft Outlook to make emails in advance and have them go out automatically hours, days, weeks, months or even years later? For example, let's say you want to send out an email about a team meeting next Friday but you want everyone to receive it on Thursday. Instead of waiting until Thursday to compose and send the email you could write it now and time it to go out on Thursday morning. You could even use this feature to schedule a reminder email to yourself about an upcoming event or meeting.

If you don't use Microsoft Outlook for your email check the system you do use for similar features. Also, please note that if you are using an online, webmail version of Outlook or Outlook Express these directions might not work for you.

Here’s send a timed email in Microsoft Outlook:

1) Start a new email by clicking the button in the upper left hand corner of the screen.

2) For this example we’ll have you send a timed email to yourself. Type your own email address in the “TO:” line of the new email. If you wanted to send a timed email to someone else or a group of people you’d type in their addresses instead.

3) Under “Subject:” type in “It’s time to go home” and type whatever you want in the message area.

4) Now to set the timing. Look for “Options…” in the toolbar and click on it.

5) In the box that appears check the box for “Do not deliver before” and then set the date and time as shown below. Then simply click “Close”

6) Now click to send this email to yourself. If you did everything correctly you should get this email from yourself at 3:00 PM today

One more note. If you’d like to check your message just go to the folder labeled “Outbox” in the folder view:

PRACTICE ACTIVITY: Try sending a timed email to a fellow staff member welcoming them back to work tomorrow morning.

TO KEEP ON LEARNING: If you'd like to learn more about using Microsoft Outlook for your email try searching the internet for:

Outlook Tutorials
Outlook tips and tricks

Have a Nice Day!

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Interesting post from Official Google Blog:

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:48:00 +0000

The Google blog has an interesting news about how the bees attacked their headquarters in the mountain view, California.
This is quite an interesting post guys :)

Official Google Blog: Hello from the Hiveplex

Best Flight deals - Ding

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:10:00 +0000

Want to save on your next air trip? Always on a lookout for best flights deal? Then this desktop or iphone application can help you save loads of time and money. You'll get alerts whenever there is a limited and special flight deals for your favorite destination. The application is called Ding application and it's a free download.

What is Ding?

The DING! application alerts you when exclusive, limited-time-only airfare deals on select flights are available for purchase. You can't find these deals anywhere except DING!, so make sure to download it today. You can register to receive DING! alerts by downloading our desktop application or by installing the Southwest Airlines app to your iPhone®. Simply choose your home airport(s) and you'll begin receiving alerts when great DING! deals to Southwest destinations all over the country are released.

Know more about Ding and Download Ding here

Build your own Computer

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 04:38:00 +0000

Do you know how you can try to build your own computer? Video gives a nice introduction.

You can design your computer yourself, isn't it awesome?

How to Build a Computer Motherboard

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:35:00 +0000

Video shows step by step on How to Build a Computer Motherboard

How to put songs on ipod without iTunes

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:32:00 +0000

Watch the video to know how to put songs on ipod without iTunes

How to Transfer Songs from iPod To Computer FREE with iTunes

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:31:00 +0000

How to Transfer Songs from iPod To Computer FREE with iTunes. Please check the video below.

Track your Blog Visitors

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:29:00 +0000

Tracking your blog/website visitor is very important so that you can provide better content/service that improves interaction between your blog and its visitors. Undoubtedly Google analytics is the best free analytics service provider out there. If you wish to track each and every action of your visitor then you may consider a paid service like performancing.com, comparison of performancing with others is given below.

Performancing Metrics -VS- The Othes Taken from Perfomancing.com

	pMetrics	Google	StatCounter	SiteMeter
Detailed information about every visitor
Log custom data for every visitor (usernames, emails, etc)
Track outbound links
Track downloads
Track Javascript and Flash events
Video analytics
Mobile hardware reporting
Visitor hostnames and organizations
Detailed info on organizations (address, phone number, revenue, etc)
Twitter analytics - monitors and summarizes conversations about your web site or other topics of interest
Dedicated iPhone version
Dedicated version for other mobile devices
Create extra user accounts with access to specific sites
Powerful filtering and segmentation
Developer API
The best bounce rate metric in the biz
Goals and conversions
Dynamic goals (don't need to be pre-defined)
Split testing
Campaign tracking
Supports Google Analytics campaign tags
Customizable dashboard
bit.ly integration
Search keyword rankings
Favorites
Alerts
Available in multiple languages
Email reports
IP tags
IP filters
Real time data
Live view of every individual visitor on your site right now
Widgets to put on your web site
Get your stats via RSS feeds
Aggregate (multi-day) view for all data
Data export
Works with visitors who have disabled JavaScript
Official WordPress plugin for easy integration with your blog
FeedBurner RSS stats integration
Clean, modern interface
Public statistics
Free version available
Affiliate program to earn you cash or free premium service

New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret - Official Gmail Blog

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:14:00 +0000

New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret - Official Gmail Blog

New York Times about Google in 2084

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 06:02:00 +0000

Google completely occupying the internet and its users :)

What is Kindle?

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 01:45:00 +0000

Kindle is Amazon's flagship ebook product. It is compact, sleek, and portable and helps reading ebooks on the go, it has also inbuilt wifi feature. The amazon kindle file extension .azw. You can buy ebook from amazon store and read them whenever you wish, on the go.

It is a perfect gift to your beloved :) It is reported Amazon sells more ebooks these days as Kindle users are rapidly growing.

It is without a doubt the stylish next generation device

Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, Graphite, 6" Display with New E Ink Pearl Technology

How to find Domain/Website Who-Is Information

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:20:00 +0000

If you thought anytime about who is the owner of a particular domain or website and other information about that domain or website then domaintools help you to find the whois information.

To know the contact information like domain owners, admin or technical contact this tool helps you. Also you can see some technical information about that domain or website like the nameservers the domain uses, number of websites hosted on that particular server/IP and other nice information.

You can also see the domain name registration dates and expiry dates. Every webmaster would find this tool very useful. You can find this at Who Is Domain Tools where you need to enter the domain name or the IP address.

I just made a search there for Google.com and i found interesting info on its name servers and registration dates :)

You can also find the number of servers hosted along with Google.com. Note that this is for informative purpose only.

How to open all the new Internet tab to Home Page

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:15:00 +0000

The first tab opens to home page while other will open as a blank page. You can make the other tab also open in home page. For this

Open internet explorer and click on “Tools” and then “Internet Options”.

Then click on “General” tab. Under “Tabs” click on “settings”.

In the Tabbed Browsing Settings dialog box select “Open Home Page for New Tabs Instead of a Blank Page” and click “Ok” and again “Ok”.

Next time you open internet explorer and add tabs all will open in home page.

This tip helps you in opening the Home page whenever you open a new tab in your browser

How to remove Cache from Internet Explorer

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Temporary files (cache files) should be removed on regular basis to increase performance of computer. To remove the catch
• Open internet explorer and click on Tools > Delete Browsing history.

• Then delete the files listed in “temporary internet files” section.

• After some time when the cursor returns to arrow we have to click “OK”.
Now all cache files are cleared and you will see a slight increase in the speed of computer.

How to bookmark in Internet Explorer

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:28:00 +0000

You can bookmark our favorite sites, so that you can open it quickly whenever you like. To bookmark
• You have to open the site on internet explorer by typing its address or searching on search engine.
• You can see two yellow stars on tool bar. One is only yellow star and the other is yellow star with green arrow. You have to click on yellow star with green arrow.
• The site is added as bookmark and next time you can directly open the page by clicking on the icon saved.

How to disable add-on from Internet Explorer

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:12:00 +0000

Sometimes you install add-on which is not used after wards and it occupies space. So you should disable add-on for better performance.
To remove add-on
• First open Internet Explorer on the computer and close other programs. Then click on Tools > Internet options > Program > Manage add-ons.

• We can see the list of add-on. We have to click on the add-on which we want to disable and click “Disable” and then “OK”

How to update Microsoft Internet Explorer

noreply@blogger.com (jai) — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:46:00 +0000

Microsoft Internet Explorer should be regularly update for better performance.
To update
•Connect internet and then click Start > All programs > Windows Update > Check for Update
• There are options for “Express” and “custom” updates. For high priority updates use “Express” options.
• After scanning see the list of possible updates and select all and click on “Install updates”. We may have to run/save for starting it.
• After downloading completes install and restart the computer.

Computer Tips and Tricks

Cross platform podcast receiver:

Juice is a free Cross platform podcast receiver to get updates of your favorite audio podcast:

Want to listen to internet audio programs but can't when they are scheduled? This program lets you create your own custom online audio anytime, anywhere. Really.

Windows

Macintosh

Facebook Fanpage RSS Feeds

Sticky posts in Wordpress

How to change category and tag base name in wordpress?

How to Check if Antivirus is Running in your computer?

Talk to Google.com instead of typing

Fan page notification in Facebook

How to make Notes in Facebook Fan pages

Time To Make The Emails

Interesting post from Official Google Blog:

Best Flight deals - Ding

Build your own Computer

How to Build a Computer Motherboard

How to put songs on ipod without iTunes

How to Transfer Songs from iPod To Computer FREE with iTunes

Track your Blog Visitors

Performancing Metrics -VS- The Othes Taken from Perfomancing.com

pMetrics

Google

StatCounter

SiteMeter

New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret - Official Gmail Blog

New York Times about Google in 2084

What is Kindle?

How to find Domain/Website Who-Is Information

How to open all the new Internet tab to Home Page

How to remove Cache from Internet Explorer

How to bookmark in Internet Explorer

How to disable add-on from Internet Explorer

How to update Microsoft Internet Explorer