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Many users of Blogger.com want to use TLD (Top Level Domain) or Custom Domain to replace their blog address (yourblog.blogspot.com). Many of them have difficulty in configuring custom domain in Blogger, especially for those who register their domain in Namecheap.com. Besides the absence of clear guidance from Blogger for Namecheap registrar, there are also a lot of tutorials on the internet that

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After Google introduced Google Drive Site Publishing Feature, you can upload some static files like CSS, JavaScript, or Images to Google Drive and then use Google Drive as a kind of a free CDN (Content Delivery Network) for your website. Rather than host your website's files on a single web server, you can distribute the website's static files and load across multiple server. This definitely

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Gmail's filter is one of many great features in Gmail that make us easy to manage the incoming email. Using filters you can automatically forward certain incoming emails to other email addresses based on some specific parameters like From, To, Subject, Has the words, Doesn't have, Has attachment, and Don't include chats. On May 2013, I wrote about how to create a Blogger contact page using the

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Many hosting companies offer automatic script installation to help their users to create a ready to use and functional website. One-Click automatic script installer like Fantastico or SimpleScripts are the easiest and fastest way to install WordPress on a web server, especially for beginners. No need to create database manually, no need to upload any files, because everything is automatic. But

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WordPress is the most popular content management system in the world and used on millions sites. It has user-friendly interface and flexible architecture that makes it easy for anyone to use and customize it to fit their needs. Ease of installation of WordPress is one of many features available, in fact WordPress is famous for its five-minute installation. Many web hosting companies such as

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Many bloggers use a custom template for their blog and a custom template sometimes requires an external JavaScript file, but sadly we can't host the JavaScript or CSS file on Blogger because Blogger only allows us to upload images and videos. Previously, most bloggers would use Google Code (http://code.google.com/hosting) to host these files because Google Code's project hosting feature is very

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Windows XP installation process is a little bit different than Windows 7 or Windows 8 because Microsoft doesn't design Windows XP to be installed using a USB flash drive. You can install Windows 7 or 8 onto your computer directly from the USB flash drive because Microsoft creates a tool called Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool and if you want a simpler program you can use WinToBootic to create a

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As we all know, the design of your blog is the first impression of your visitors and that's why you have to select your blog's template very carefully because some visitors could have just closed the tab or browser's window if your blog has a very poor design and heavy to load. You can use the default Blogger template, but if you want a more unique design, you can modify the template source

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Every website needs a contact page. Typically a contact page contains email, phone numbers and your address. A lot of people prefer to contact the website owner via email, they will click the email address link (mailto:admin@example.com) and it will automatically open an email client installed on their computer. Webmail users will just copy and paste the email address from the contact page to

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I believe that you already knew that you can host your website with Google Drive. It's reliable, fast and the best thing about it is it's free. However with all these advantages, there's a negative side too, the URL of your Google Drive hosted website is too long and this will make the URL hard to remember. Different from Blogger and Google Site, Google Drive has not included the custom domain

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So many people are looking for a reliable free web hosting and yes, there are several web hosting companies that provide free web hosting with tempting features like 99% uptime and unlimited bandwidth. It is really hard to choose the right web hosting company because their features are so similar and after some time most of them are either disappearing or suddenly selling commercial web hosting

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I use my laptop everyday for blogging and everything is great, but there is a small problem after I used it for a while. When I watch movies or listen to music, the sound somehow distorted by crackling or popping sound. This is certainly very annoying. This sound problem is gone after I restarted the laptop, but after some time, the crackling sound is back again. I have tried everything from

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Previously I wrote about creating a simple contact form for Blogger using Google Drive. The contact form is quite powerful because you can change the required data, the blog owner's email and the email display format. But, there is a disadvantage, you cannot modify the form design using your own CSS because the contact form is in an iframe and the domain is different. On May 16 2013, Blogger

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There are many instructions available on how to create a simple contact form for Blogger blogs. But most of contact form created are unable to send the visitor messages to the blog owner's email. Blog owners should frequently open Google Drive (previously known as Google Docs) to check if there are messages from visitors. Yes, maybe you can receive notifications in your email when a change has

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Here, I am not going to discuss how to lock your computer with a USB flash drive, but I am going to show you how to manage access to USB ports to prevent important or secret data loss due to the unauthorized use of USB ports. Many of us have important files stored on a computer or laptop and sometimes there is a confidential file that should not be copied by others. When you're not in front of

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Everyday, multiple applications running on your computer at the same time. But sometimes we need an application window to stay on top of all other windows so we can still see and access it with ease. Not all computer programs have "always on top" feature, even this is not a feature that is built into Windows 7 and 8. But do not worry, there is a third party tool that is able to make any

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Previously I wrote about how to install Windows 7 and Windows 8 from USB using a tool from Microsoft called "Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool", it's simple and easy to use, but you have to use an ISO file to create a bootable flash drive. Actually there is another tool to create a bootable flash drive called WiNToBootic. With WiNToBootic you can create a bootable flash drive in the simplest way

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I installed Google+ plus comments yesterday. I did so because the Google+ commenting system looks promising and offers full integration between Blogger blog and Google+. But now, as you can see, this blog is no longer using the Google+ as commenting system and back to Disqus because apparently Google+ comment form not showing up on an older post. I've found the explanation about this case.

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A website or blog will not be complete if visitors cannot post a comment. Those comments really helped us to determine the topics that we will write in this blog. Blogger blog already has its own default commenting system, but now many blog owners use third-party service such as Facebook or Disqus because their system has a better connection with social websites. Now, Google is also making a new

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Nowadays we rarely use a CD or DVD for data backup. The DVD Burning process takes more time compared to copying from a PC to a flash drive or external HDD and the current price of flash drives and external HDD is inexpensive so people choose to backup their data to an external hard disk drive. But sometimes a CD or DVD is still needed, for example if you want to give a gift to someone would be

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A few days ago I bought a 32GB usb flash drive. This flash drive is just a standard pen drive without any lock switch which is used so that the flash drive is in "read only" mode. But when I tried to copy some files from the computer to the flash drive there is an error message saying that the flash drive is in read-only mode. I tried unplugging the flash drive from the USB port and then plug it

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ISO files are very popular, especially for the distribution of CD/DVD on the internet, even Microsoft provide DVDs of Windows 7 and Windows 8 in the form of an ISO file which can be downloaded directly from the Microsoft website, then you can burn it to a DVD or USB Flash Drive. Why ISO file?  If you want to backup a bootable CD or DVD to the HDD, you must create an ISO file. An ISO image file

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There are not many people who still use CDs or DVDs for data exchange. Even the OS installation process that used to use CD or DVD, is now using a flash drive. Microsoft also provides a special application to automatically transfer files from an ISO file onto a flash drive and make the flash drive boot-able. This application is called Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. This app has a simple

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Many people want to install XP on their computer, either as a primary or secondary OS with a dual boot system. The problem is that if your computer is not equipped with a DVD/CDROM, you have to use USB flash drive to install Windows XP. Unlike the Windows 7 or Windows 8, Microsoft does not provide special tools to copy Windows XP setup files to USB flash drive / pendrive. However, there is a

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Most of the ad code that you paste directly into blogger template will not work. Maybe there will be no error message when you save the template code changes, but when your blog page loaded in the browser, there are no ads appear. What's really going on here? Adsense, Chitika or Amazon ad code is a javascript code in which there are some characters that cannot be used directly in the blogger

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