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TwitThis is again a simple social networking site which displays Twitter Messages about your posts. In fact it seems an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website with this type of mediator tools.Below here you will get step by step tutorial to add TwitThis Button In each of your Blogspot posts. This Button can be used by any blogger user.

TwitThis is again a simple social networking site which displays Twitter Messages about your posts. In fact it seems an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website with this type of mediator tools.Below here you will get step by step tutorial to add TwitThis Button In each of your Blogspot posts. This Button can be used by any blogger user.

• Now Click on HTML (see below shown picture for further assistance)

• Now Check the box of Expand Widget Templates (see below shown picture for assistance)

• Copy the following code where you want in the posts section (for example below the post title).

Twit This!

Don't Change the code seen above, paste it exactly look like now.

If you like my TwitThis link (), add this class in your CSS file and use it in the previous link:

.share-twitthis{
background:url(http://tinyurl.com/ay2jsc) 10px top no-repeat;
padding-left:42px;
font-size:11px;
line-height:18px;
}

It's Done !! Please Post Comments if you have any doubt or any suggestion, you simply can share your views.

So many bloggers are running blogs with different niche worldwide now a days with feedburner email subscription services. if you are a webmaster and a blogger you might have used feedburner for sending regular updates to your blog readers via email subscription.

This article is about changing the feedburner email subscritption mailing preferences, after reading this article you will be able to change the Email Subject/Title, you can select your current timezone to customize email delivery to your readership's local and set the time of sending mail to the readers, you can attach your blog logo in email and customize html details etc..

How to change subject of feedburner email feed?

1. Log in to http://feedburner.google.com/.

2. Select your feed for which you need to change the settings and Click on Publicize tab.

3. Click on Email Branding.

Almost every blogger is using RSS Feed Subscription widget to create a powerful way of communicate with the blog readers. This article is on blogger widget and this widget is "subscribe to our rss feed widget". This RSS widget is something special then the ordinary widgets, because it uses jQuery Popup Bubble.






With this widget you can ceate a jQuery Popup Bubble rss subscription icon which will help you to increase your blogs look and feel.

If you are eager to add this widget in your blog then you must ask a question here about how to add a cool popup bubble to an RSS feed link using jQuery to my blgo?. Answer is very simple - with little bit of JavaScript, HTML and CSS code.

See the working demo RSS Feed Subcription Widget For Blogger or Demo.
Thanks to Digital Vision Team for making this RSS Subscription widget.

Steps to add Bubble RSS Feed Subcription Widget in your Blog:

1. Add JavaScript code:
Log in to Your Blogger Account
On Your Dashboard, Click on Layout (see the image below)



Now Click on HTML (see below shown picture for further assistance)



Find this code

and replace it with this code

2. Add CSS Code: Now find the code ]]> and replace it with the code given below.

.rss-popup {
margin: 100px auto;
padding: 0;
width: 100px;
position: relative;
}

div.rss-popup em {
background: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLFWMWNOROgH5LwfeIg8EOqC6ybnEmdnfWn0EZ66-kferUvUIVlqNgGkW-EyxukvE5RWNklR8U2YTSedx-eBFue4cRWDuj8LwGbMh43r66MHHGpm2MnHg4T-lig1p-Jdo8Pan7tAO8rd0/s400/bubble.png) no-repeat;
width: 100px;
height: 49px;
position: absolute;
top: -70px;
left: -0px;
text-align: center;
text-indent: -9999px;
z-index: 2;
display: none;
}

#rss-icon {
width: 42px;
height: 42px;
background: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWhfTSJMjbBTRhOg1sxgpNOSCQtVJUJAW3VuMDTYlzzPrEvOyhow5a9vOCeIbVqYOkofBjUcDc2cgYKpUxLapiTScDitH20ocMGlNR1B0ZZTykOZbA2-78D5Kl80-Ox0NZbzNuY05fWYE/s400/icon.png) no-repeat 0 0;
text-indent: -9999px;
margin: 0 auto;
display: block;
}
]]>

3. Add HTML Code:

Step 1. Go to your blogger dashboard and select the blog in which you want to add drop down menu.
Step 2. Navigate to the Layout > Page Elements.



Step 3. Now click on Add a Gadget where you want to put this RSS Subscription widget in your blog and paste the code given below (Change the feed-link with your rss feed address) and click on save button.



Now you can see your cool bubble RSS feed subcription widget ready for the bloggers.

Give feedback on this article and post your doubts. Happy blogging :)

Share your Facebook information on other websites. If you are a facebook user and running any blog as well, here is a tip for you to add your facebook profile badge on your blog like blogger, wordpress, Typepad and others as well.There are so many friends of mine are asking me questions like.
How to get profile badge from Facebook?
How to create Facebook profile badge?
How to include Facebook profile on website?



Excerpt: "To create a badge, just click on the "Create a Profile Badge" link at the bottom of your profile page. This will take you to your Facebook Badge page. On this page, select the "Create Badge" option. You will be walked through the creation process".

So now to add the facebook profile badge on your blog or website you need to follow the steps given below.

First, go to your Facebook account and log in. Then head on to your profile page, by clicking on your name or "Profile" on the top navigation bar.

Then on the left sidebar, scroll down until you see "Create a Profile Badge", something like this.



Select the layout and the information (items) you would like to display.



And then click save.



After that, select the code, copy and paste it to your blog as one of the page gadget on the layout settings page.

That's all about profile badge, now you can make photo badges and fan badges also with ease.

If you have already a domain name and want to use that domain name with blogger then this article will help you to define the prerequisites and hence you will be able to set the custom domain name with your blogger account.
This is as simple as hosting your blog within blogger but without .blogspot domain.
example: http://www.geekblogger.org, yes correct my blog is hosted in blogger :).

1) If you don't have any domain already then Choose and Register Your Domain.
The first thing you'll need to do is to choose a domain name, like example.com and register it. You can register domain names from any of a number of different registrars, and you can use .com, .org, .net or any other valid addresses. Remember: you only need to get the domain name; you don't have to pay extra for hosting service. The easiest way to register a domain is to buy your domain directly through Blogger. If you go this route, we'll automatically configure all of your relevant DNS settings and attach your new domain to your existing blog immediately.

Update the DNS Settings:
DNS stands for Domain Name System, and a DNS server determines what site a given address takes you to. So far, you have a domain name but none of the servers on the internet know what to do with it yet. To take care of this, you need to do two things:

Create a CNAME record for your blog's address, which should be a subdomain of the form www.example.com.
To create a CNAME record for your domain with the DNS, associating your domain with:
ghs.google.com.

The exact procedure for doing this varies depending on your domain registrar, but you can find instructions for many common registrars here. If yours isn't listed, or if you run into other difficulties, you can contact your registrar directly and they'll be able to help you out.
Create 'A' NAME records for your naked domain (blog.com)

Note: The following information applies to naked domains only!! If you're setting up a subdomain then this does NOT apply to you! :-)

Creating A records for your naked domain is important as it allows Google to redirect people who use in your naked domain name (blog.com) to your blog page (www.example.com). If you do not do this, visitors who leave off the www will see an error page.

There are four separate A records you will create, and can be done from the same control panel you accessed your CNAME records. Simply point your naked domain (example.com, without the 'www') to each of the following IP addresses:

216.239.32.21

216.239.34.21

216.239.36.21

216.239.38.21

Your DNS setup is now complete!


Update Your Blogger Settings


Almost done! At this point, you have a domain name, and the DNS servers know to direct people to Google when they want to see your blog. But Google hosts lots of blogs, so we have to make sure the right one is associated with this domain. You'll do this on the Settings | Publishing tab for your blog in Blogger.




If you're publishing on Blog*Spot, you'll see a link near the top offering to switch you to a custom domain. Go ahead and click that link.



The Blog*Spot Address setting now changes to Your Domain. Fill in the domain you registered, and then save your settings.



Now the only thing left to do is to tell everybody about your new address!

Notes:
If your new domain isn't taking you to your blog, wait another day or two to make sure all the DNS servers have been updated. If it still isn't working, contact your registrar to make sure you entered the DNS settings correctly.

Your original Blog*Spot address will automatically forward to your new domain. That way, any existing links or bookmarks to your site will still work.

You can use this feature with domains (e.g. example.com) or subdomains (e.g. ). However, you cannot specify subdirectories (e.g. example.com/blog/) or wildcards (e.g. *.example.com).

Your posted images will continue to display on your blog as described here.

After making the changes check who.is, and your ANAME and CNAME records should be display something like given below here.


You can get the errors given in below screen shot during the setting of custom domain with your blogger account.

1) Another blog is already hosted at this address.
2) Blogs many not be hosted at naked domains.
What is a naked domain?
A naked domain is simply a domain name without the 'www' prefix. For example, google.com (naked) instead of www.google.com(non-naked.) To fix this, simply enter the non-naked (means add www before domain name) version of your domain and save your settings.


Solution:
1) solution of the problem 1 is that you might have already hosted blog some where else, wait 24 hours after changing the ANAME and CNAME records.

2) solution for problem 2 is just add the www as prefix against your domain name.

That's all you need to do for running your custom domain blog withing blogger.

Let me know if you have any doubt or query :)

TweetMyPC is a free utility for Windows that enables you to remotely control your computer via SMS. How it can be done? well let us quickly come to the procedure.

First of all you can download TweetMyPC(V 2, the latest version) free from Download TweetMyPC. Once you download TweetMyPC, double click on setup.exe to install the application. Its just a matter of clicking ‘Next’ few times.This application requires .NET 3.5 or higher installed on your system. Below is TweetMyPC’s screen :




Now, you have installed TweetMyPC on your system and ready to use it. Following are the steps :

1) Create a Twitter account(say ControlMyPC, this is just an example and you need to create your own account) on www.Twitter.comdedicated for your PC. This is because TweetMyPC only responds for updates. This account will be used by TweetMyPC to receive the tweets and act upon them.

2) Configure account ControlMyPC to receive updates from your mobile. For this you can take a look at my earlier post Send updates to your Twitter account by using your mobile.

3) Double click on TweetMyPC icon on the desktop and provide you twitter log-on details. Then ‘Save and close’.Wait for some time for the application to verify your login details.

4) Once your log-on details are verified, you can send commands like shutdown, log-off, Restart, lock workstation, etc through your mobile to your twitter account and TweetMyPC will act accordingly.

Caution : If you are using Windows Vista(32 bit) then you may encounter an error regarding un handled exception when you click on’Save and close’. To avoid this, just run the TweetMyPC.exe file as administrator.

Below are some commands that can be used in latest version 2 of TweetMyPC. Commands are not case sensitive.

1) Shutdown:For shutting your pc.

2) Restart:For restarting your pc.

3) Logoff :For logging off your pc.

4) Lock:For locking your pc.

5) Hibernate: For hibernating your pc.

6) Screenshot : Enables you to find out what is happening on your pc when you are not around. It takes a screenshot of your desktop and sends it to Twitpic.

7) Getprocesslist : On reading this command, TweetMyPC will create a list of all the running process and email the same to the Gmail id which you have mentioned on its screen.

8 ) Getfile : On reading this command,TweetMyPC will send the file as attachment to the Gmail id which you have mentioned on its screen.

9) Custom commands: This is the most exciting feature which is present in latest TweetMyPC V2. It was not there in version 1. This feature allows you to create your own commands. Just go to menu option ‘Settings’ –> ‘Commands’. Below is a screen shot. You can create a command like WMPLAYER and select wmplayer.exe in ‘Select file’. So, whenever you send WMPLAYER through SMS,window media players will start in your pc. I am using Windows Vista Home Premium and unfortunately this functionality is not working for me :( . As soon as I click on ‘Add command’ after selecting an exe file, it throws an error message ‘Unable to open database file. Please try again.’. I’ll dig in further and try to search for solution of this problem.

Still, other more useful commands are working fine and I am happy about it :)


In the end I would say that it is a superb utility and a must have for all of us.

That’s it for now friends.

BatteryCare is a software to optimize usage and performance of your laptop’s battery. It monitors the battery discharge cycles and helps increasing its autonomy and improving its lifetime.

Following are the features :

1) Battery’s discharge cycles monitoring : The advanced algorithm accurately records when a complete discharge cycle is performed. When the configured number of discharge cycles is reached, a notification balloon pops up to remind that a full discharge is required.

2) Complete battery information : It calculates the statistical remaining time in laptops that don’t support the battery time left information and only list the charge percentage. Shows all the detailed information about the battery, such as wear level, capacities, consumption, manufacturer, etc.

3) Notification area information : In battery mode, the notification icon shows the remaining time and percentage of battery.

4) Automatic power plans switching : Depending on the power source of the computer, BatteryCare can automatically select the power plan you prefer.

5) Control over Windows Aero and demanding Services : Automatically disable the graphics accelerated theme in Windows Vista and/or demanding services that degrade battery lifetime. Once the laptop stops running on batteries, the theme is re-enabled and the stopped services are restored. Just click on ‘Option’ on the top left corner of BatteryCare window. Below is the screen shot.



6) Auto-updates : No need to trouble in downloading new installers, when a new version is available, the program updates itself.

7) Lightweight in the system : Given the concern about the battery optimization, BatteryCare does not interfere with the system performance. It requires only a mere 0,1% of Processor and Memory resources.

Defragging individual file(s)! Well it is possible to defrag single or multiple files by using free utility called Defraggler. Defraggler enables you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation tool!

You can download Defraggler from Download Defraggler. After download it is just a matter of clicking a few ‘OK’ and ‘Next’ to install the tool. The tool supports Windows 2000, 2003, XP and Vista(32 and 64 bit) and both NTFS and FAT32 file systems.

Once you install Defraggler, it is quite easy to use.

1) Just double click on the icon present on your desktop and following screen will appear :



2) Now select any of the drive and click ‘Analyze’. It doesn’t take much time to analyze. My C drive is 30GB and it took Defraggler a few seconds to analyze it.

3) Afterwards click on ‘File list’ tab to view fragmented files. Now you can select a single or multiple files and click ‘Defrag checked’. This will do the job.

You can also check a drive for errors and defrag free space via Menu option ‘Actions’–>’Advanced’.

Friends, now a days word Google is synonymous to word search engine. I think this will soon become official and would be included in dictionary :) .

Now coming to our topic. well, you all must be using Google a lot for your daily search about various topics. Today, I am writing about how to make your search results more relevant and streamlined. You just need to need take care of below points to achieve good results.

1) Use operators in your search terms : These are some symbols which if included in your search term would give you very good results. Below are some examples. Operators are in blue colour.

Search term Find pages containing

Computer Virus the words Computer and Virus

Computer OR Virus either of the word Computer or Virus

“tech2know mobile phone” the exact phrase tech2know mobile phone

There are a number of operators. You can take a look at all of then in Google cheat sheet.

2) Use Advanced image search to find wallpapers which are exactly of the size of your desktop : At times you want to search for wallpapers for your desktop but the resulting wallpapers doesn’t fit on your desktop. Well, solution is already mentioned in this points heading. The procedure is also quite simple.

Go to http://images.google.com –> Click on ‘Advanced image search’ –> Click on ‘Use my desktop size’.

3) Use Google Squared to get results in a grid or spread sheet format : Take a look at Google Squared for more information.

4) Use Any time option to find pages according to time when they were published : Sometimes you search for a term and are more interested in the pages, say that were published in the past 24 hours or past week. So, just use this option. Below are screen shots.

Here I have searched for ‘term ‘Computer hardware’.

*On the search result page, click on ‘Show options’.






*Afterwards you can choose specific pages which were published in Past 24 hours, Past week or Past year.


Thats it for now.

This tool pretty useful for recovering data. DiskDigger can recover files from any type of media that your computer can read. This includes USB flash drives, memory cards(SD, Compact Flash, Memory Stick, etc), and of course your hard drive.The types of files that it recovers include photos, videos, music, documents, and many other formats.

DiskDigger can even scan reformatted or badly formatted disks(disks to which Windows can’t assign a drive letter), and even disks with bad sectors. It bypasses the Windows file system drivers and scans your disk directly. It has its own built-in support for the following file systems: FAT12 (floppy disks), FAT16 (older memory cards), FAT32 (newer memory cards and hard disks), NTFS (newer hard disks), and exFAT (Microsoft’s new successor to FAT32).

DiskDigger is also very compact and portable. The entire program is a stand alone executable file that you can run from anywhere. There’s nothing to “install,” and the program doesn’t leave any trace of having been run.

You can download DiskDigger free from Download Diskdigger. It’ll be downloaded in zip format.

1)Once you download DiskDigger, unzip it and double click on DiskDigger.exe. Following screen will appear.




2) Select any drive, say drive D, by clicking on it and click ‘Next’.

3) Clicking ‘Next’ in above step will result in below screen where you can choose the way you want DiskDigger to search for files.




Scan the file system for deleted files (dig deep) : This scans the file system that is present on your media, searching for deleted file entries. Supported file systems are FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS. The advantages of this are:
- Very fast
- Recovers all file types
- Recovers file names

And the disadvantages are:
- Doesn’t support all possible file systems (see above for supported file systems)
- Doesn’t scan entire disk (only scans what the file system is aware of)

Scan the disk surface for traces of lost files (dig deeper). This thoroughly scans every sector of your media, searching for traces of known file types. The advantages of this are:
- Scans entire disk
- Goes underneath the file system, therefore independent of file system

And the disadvantages are:
- Slower (sometimes much slower) than the first method
- Doesn’t recover file names or fragmented files
- Only supports certain file types
- Finds ‘existing’ files as well as deleted files

4) Select one of the above options(dig deep or dig deeper) and click on ‘Next’. DiskDigger will show all the files that are recovered. You can restore any file by selecting the file and clicking on ‘Restore selected file(s)’. You can also find specific files by using ‘Search criteria’ tab. Here you can specify name of the file(full or partial) which you want to search. Just click on ’search deleted files once you are through with mentioning file name. Following are the screen shots :

DiskDigger result screen



Screen shot when you click on ‘Search criteria’ tab.



That’s all about recovering your data through DiskDigger. You can also take a look at my earlier post Encrypt your data with free TrueCrypt for encrypting data in hard disk, USB drives.