Easier file uploading in Google Docs

In my earlier blogging experience with Google Docs, I met with much difficulties in uploading and getting any computer file-copy in it. (Read about them in my earlier posts in this blog). Then I had to make the file suitable in Google Docs, and even in Blogger's Post Editor, before publishing it as a blog post. Now Google Docs has made it simpler to convert it to its own format. How does it provide this conversion? Read on:
Click the tab, Upload .. and in the page of Upload File, use 'Drag and drop files here' box for transferring copy of your file. Check boxes for converting the file to Google Docs format. Click on 'Start upload' tab ---> You have now your file copy in a Google Docs file page! Save it and use it as you wish.

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At Last an Easier Solution for Blogging with Word found out!
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Get all your websites by Fur.ly

We frequently visit our favourite websites. Typing each time their URL and getting them is tedious. Even if we use Bookmarks (Favourites in Internet Explorer) it may become a tiring and repetitive work. If we are able to get these desired websites selectively and easily it will be more convenient, isn't it? A website provides us this convenience as its service. It is Fur.ly. If you enter in it URLs of all the websites you desire to follow each time, it will provide you with a shorter common URL with which you can get all the websites in your Internet browser. On default, the first website appears. In it you can either move on to the second one by clicking on the Next found on its menu bar and view all of them one by one, or select and view any one of them from the drop-down list of these URLs. You can also save this common URL in your Bookmarks or Favourites, and get all the websites in a single click. I find also such websites load faster with this common URL! Try here for shortening multiple URLs into one: Fur.ly!

Tips for uninterrupted Net Browsing!

While browsing the Internet if there appears an announcement like 'Server not found' or 'Connection timed out' don't be discouraged about it. Do the following and resume your browsing:
1) First check your Internet connection whether it is connected or not. And restore it if it is not connected.
2) Refresh the web page by clicking on the blue arrow (Mozilla Firefox) or the double arrows (Internet Explorer) found on the menu bar or by hitting on F5 key of the keyboard.
3) Check the spelling of the URL typed in the address bar for any mistakes and correct it and hit the Enter key.
4) To avoid any such spelling mistakes and get the desired website quickly, click on the web links that are found to contain the URL embedded in it. Or you can use the Bookmarks (Mozilla Firefox) or Favorites (Internet Explorer) for this.

Defragmenting speeds up computer

When a file is formed on a computer disk, it may not occupy on it in a contiguous order. Moreover files that are deleted produce in their place a gap on the disk between the existing adjacent files. These files are called the fragmented files. These files slow down the speed of processing by computer to read or write a file. So, they require Defragmentation. With this defragmentation process the contents of the disk are organized close together in contiguity. This makes faster the computer's processing of files apart from creating free space by compacting the files.
Defragment (in Windows XP OS):
Start --> All Programs --> Accessories --> System Tools --> Disk Defragmenter --> select Disk --> click Defragment tab.

Click and read more about Defragmentation here:
Defragmenting
How to Defragment files?

Keying in data unaware to a spy!

Do you think that you are making private data safely in a computer? You may be wrong! Each of your key stroke on the keyboard may be monitored stealthily by using Keystroke logging (Keylogging). This monitoring may be based on a software or a hardware. The hardware may have been inserted earlier between the keyboard and computer stealthily! And also check for any such programmes (softwares) that have been included to your computer (Control Panel) and remove them.

Know here more about:
Keystroke logging

Trackback linkers and visitors!

Trackback is one of the Linkbacks. It is used by the author of the website to get notified whenever a visitor to his/her website links it to another website. This makes the author able to keep track on those who are all linking and referring to his/her articles. This trackback is thus used to increase the visitor's traffic also.

Removed links to restore traffic!

Recently, I was alerted by my friend that I shall get only a few visitors to my blog! He added that every Google Chrome using visitor is shown that my blog contains some malware. He advised me also to remove a 'third party widget' in the blog to get cleared off the malware. By using Google Chrome myself I viewed my blog and confirmed it: Good old Blogrolling.com, that is advised by all to incorporate link-rolls with it and increase the visitors' traffic, is now of offending nature! I removed all the widgets and links concerned with it, and now I do not get that warning anymore.
You can view here the explanation given by the offending website, that has announced its closure on 1st November 2010: RPC.Blogrolling

Make adamant picture shift!

While blogging, by default a picture is uploaded at the top in the Post Editor (of Blogger). To bring down the picture below the post you shall have to select it and drag it down below the text. But if you then want to change its position there, by dragging to the other positions (e.g. right or the left from the central position) it will go back and refuse to shift! To change its position here you shall have to try this: before uploading this picture, select the 'None' radio button. After uploading and bringing down the picture below the text, simply select the picture by a single click. Then click on the Align Left, Align Center or the Align Right icons found on the menu bar of the Post Editor as you desire. Now the picture would have shifted automatically to the desired position!

Tweet with a Tiny URL!

Nowadays here is an urgent need for communicating quickly. So, now we try to use newer methods like shortening a word itself (e.g. SMSing) or sending the website URL that conveys the whole message when clicked on (e.g. Tweeting). But if this URL itself is lengthy and exceeds 140 characters, is there any way to solve it? Yes, there are websites that shorten the URL submitted and allow it to be copied, to be pasted in tweeting page and published! All this service is free! You can try these websites: Tiny URL or Bitly

Tips for spacing in Blogger posts

In blog posting, bloggers experience certain hurdles in preparing the posts as desired. In Blogger (with old Post Editor), if you want to have a gap between the blog post's title and the first content photo, it will be hard to get it. Here is a way to get it: if the photo is at the centre position hold it with the Pointer and drag it diagonally down either to the left or the right side, to just the width of the photo and release the hold. Now the photo will occupy down a line's space! So, do not drag the photo vertically down, frantically: follow the tips that have been mentioned here.

Instant result while writing exam - Google Instant!

Everyday everybody searches in search engines spending much time. Now Google has realized and released a new feature in its search engine called Google Instant. This feature is said to save the searcher's time of about five seconds, by providing search results even before you complete typing the search word itself! It is done by its prediction of the most likely word for the partially typed word and instant production of results for that predicted word itself. The rest of the predicted letters for the word being typed is shown in light grey colour before you finish typing. You can also view the search results for each of the partially predicted word-parts (that are presented in the drop down list) by simply passing over and pointing the arrow on each of them! This Google Instant is compatible with Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer 8. Though it is restricted now to a certain geographical areas only, it is said that it will be soon extended to all other parts of the world.

Read here to know more about Google Instant:
Search result before you type! - Demo
About Google Instant

Tips on Gmail attachments for you!

When we find a method, we use it, adapt to it and go on using it. But there are many other easier methods that have been developed recently. For example, take attachment of files in Gmail. It has now features that you may not know. Find them here:

1) You can drag files from Desktop to 'Compose Mail' page to upload!
2) You can select multiple files by multi-selecting them (holding Ctrl key and clicking on each file) to attach!
3) Gmail warns you if you have forgotten to attach a file with your mail.
4) You can view files (sent/received) directly by Google Docs Viewer. So, to view the files you need not download and save them to Desktop anymore.
5) You can search for a forgotten attachment in 'Gmail's advanced search operators' (click 'Show search options' found near search boxes) and find it out easily and quickly.

Do you want to know more about these? Click on here --> Tips on mail attachments!

Replace Mouse with Trackpad!

Already touchpads are there on Laptops. But the convenience of using them near Desktop computers will be greater. The 'Mouse' will be driven out of its position by the touchpad that is called as Trackpad here. Using it with fingers to track shall be felt like flipping through pages in a book. This pointing device is connected to the computer through Bluetooth wireless technology. You can view here the world's first Multi-Touch Trackpad released by Apple Inc. --> Magic Trackpad!

Hacking mail account for Marketing!

Hacking email account is also done for purposes other than knowing the mail contents. Here is an example: it has been used for marketing electronic products! Yes, one person has hacked the password of my relatives email account. He/she has not only accessed the account's contents but also operated it and sent emails to all the Contacts in the Address Book (- including me!), as if he/she was my relative! But the contents of the mail endorsed an electronic product that he/she recently bought(!) at a cheaper rate! Here find one of those mail's contents:

I found out the hacking of the account when I contacted and inquired my relative by phone regarding the above mail's contents whether he bought the electronic item, and also about his sending such a mail. Spelling mistakes also pointed to the hacking. I reported about it to my relative and he immediately changed the password to a stronger one and protected his account.

Free SMS to mobiles - with Way2sms!

Nowadays sending SMSs has also become an essential part of communication in the society. All banks, TV channels etc. offer their services through SMS! If this SMSing is provided free of cost and that too unlimited, all will be trying to get it, isn't it? This Web(computer) to mobile SMSing is offered by a website, called Way2sms. This website assures you speedy and easy sending of SMS (but it is available only for the mobile networks present in India). It permits only your mobile phone number to be used as User id in it. If you register at this website your password will be sent to your mobile by SMS! Do you want to register? Try it here by clicking on: Way2sms!

Website faking Google.com!

I found out a fake website boasting itself as Google.com! That too appeared from Google accounts when I clicked on from one Google account to enter into another Google account. Yes, I tried to get Google Documents from GMail - signed in. Unlike any Google website, that website did not have the multicolored design present before its URL in the address box (of Mozilla Firefox). On clicking on the dull design, Mozilla Firefox alerted me as follows:

'The web site does not supply identity information. Your connection to this website is not encrypted.'

I proceeded then to click on its --> More information --> Page Info about the website --> Security tab --> View Cookies --> Cookies.
On the Cookies box I selected the Google.com cookies from the list displayed and removed them all together. Then I closed the fake web-site's page and signed out of GMail. After this, that fake website doesn't appear again and now I prefer to sign in directly into Google Documents account without entering it from GMail account.

Creating Your Search Story!

We search Internet often for knowledge by using Search Engines. Can we make a fun video out of our such searching? Is it possible to do it at all? Yes, it is possible - through YouTube's 'Google Search Stories Video Creator'. Simply log on to that YouTube's website, write (type) words in the search box of Google. The search results will be converted into video instantly. Next you can add music to it, preview it and then either download it or upload it to YouTube, to show it to friends and relatives. Click on here --> Create Your Search Story!

Check Accuweather for forecasts!

Whichever place you may go, you shall assess the weather conditions before getting out. But you may face unfavorable weather unexpectedly after getting out and traveling, or after reaching the destination. Here comes to you a helping hand in the form of weather forecasts from the Internet website, AccuWeather. In the home page of this website enter your location (city's name) and click on the Search tab. You shall be led to the forecasts about the current Temperature, Real-feel temperature, Wind flow, Humidity, Visibility etc. These can be referred not only for today but also for each hour, the whole week, the next week or the fifteen days! You can know about the weather conditions instantly by noting the icons displayed, when there is cloudiness, rains or thunderstorm! If you live in Canada, USA, UK or Ireland you can check the local weather more elaborately than anywhere else. Click on the country's name and in the shown web page you can see also the forecasts for Star-gazing, Phases of moon and about the Planets' position in the sky! If you visit this website you will stick to it and check it whenever you get out!

Tips to Unfollow Following blogs

Bloggers, when you have a long list of other blogs to follow, then you will wish naturally to remove some of the them - to 'Unfollow' from Following. Here is the way to Unfollow:
From Dashboard of your Blogger account go to --> Reading List --> click on MANAGE tab --> Manage Blogs I'm Following --> click on Settings (near the blog's name) --> sign in your Google accounts --> Stop following this site --> click on Stop Following.

Blogger, block your Follower!

In Blogger blogs 'Followers' widget is used to display the bloggers who have added themselves to view that blog and to follow it as they wish. If the author of the blog doesn't want a follower to be in the Follower's widget and wants to block him/her, he/she may find it difficult to do that. Here is the procedure for that:

Go to Dashboard ----> Click on the number of Bloggers shown as following ----> On the list of Followers click on the photo of the follower to be removed ----> below his name click on 'Block this user' ----> Click on Block.

Be alert to use your email account!

Nowadays email ids and email accounts have become essential for every individual as the name and address are essential for receiving snail mails (postal system). But unlike the snail mail one has to use it continuously and cannot leave it dormant. If you keep it idle, you may lose your email account with the email id and its contents! See here a sample email letter from a user friendly email provider, Sifymail, that alerted me about an account that lay idle:

More samples of Phising emails!

Phising email sent by fraudsters urges and directs mail users, who are already familiar with their website, to enter their confidential personal particulars at a fake website (phising website) that resembles that of their familiar and genuine website! But on deeper reading of the phising-mail contents by each word, many spelling mistakes can be found out. This should alert you. If there is an URL do not click on it. If you point on it with the mouse pointer, the browser will show in its lower left corner (just above Task bar on the computer screen) a different URL lurking embedded in it! Even if you have clicked on it, the Address bar will show up the phising web-site's URL that is different from that of your familiar genuine website! Get alerted then and close the web page by clicking on the X on the upper right corner. Delete the phising email from not only the Inbox but also from the Trash.

Below there are samples of Phising emails :

Related article in this blog:
Phising in Secondary Mail Account!

Tips to unlock the Word file!

Sometimes you might have come across problems in opening and reading a Word Document file. You may have seen squares and other geometrical figures replace the text contents. After all manipulations inside the document you may have become frustrated with your failed efforts - as I was then. But I found out a way to convert these gibberish figures into readable text. Right click on the file icon to get Properties from the drop down list. In the Properties, near 'Opens with:' click on the 'Change.....' tab to get the 'Open With' dialogue box. Now you get the 'Choose the Program to open this file' option. In the list select Microsoft Office Word and click OK, and close the Properties. Now double click on the file icon and see that the file now opens in Word, and rejoice in reading it!

Space Your Face - Fun at NASA!

Imagine yourself landing on Moon wearing Space-suite and dancing on the moon's soil! How will it be? It will be funny, is it not? NASA has made it for you, to carry you to the moon and make yourself dance - in its website, through animation! Upload your photo on its website, Space Your Face and then see yourself dance with a background music! You can email this dance to your friends too, and let them have fun and make fun of you!

Face in Space - NASA sends photos!

Nowadays rich people can travel to outer Space through rockets sent by NASA. Then what about other people desiring for space travel? NASA provides for them too: it has now allowed them to send their 'face' - photos, to the Space in oncoming last missions of its Space shuttles, the Discovery and Endeavor! For that you can participate in its Face in Space campaign. To load the Space shuttles with your photo (showing head and shoulders) click on here and upload --> Face in Space - NASA. After the mission is over you shall be issued also with a Flight certificate from this website of NASA!

Translate with Google Translate!

Though there is an international language, some nations in the world are self satisfied with their own language as sufficient for their communication needs. But in this age of globalization, international issues and problems like the pandemic diseases (such as Swine Flu) and other disputes have to be dealt with globally. All have to know and understand what is happening in other nations. Here comes an aid for that in the form of Google Translate. With this one foreign language can be converted into his/her own language and read to respond. Simply one can first select a language from the Select Language drop down list found on the Google Translate widget, that is present on the page of the website or blog. Within seconds the whole web page would have been now converted into the selected language! And then go and read the contents in the selected language. Even this blog post can be converted here and read!

Modern gadgets: iPhone, iPod, iPad ...!

The present fashion with the world is to listen or talk always with modern gadgets that are being released in the market one after the other. Yet others are not satisfied with this: they want also other facilities incorporated into the gadgets in addition. Result of this is the development of a separate market for each of such gadgets. Thus we miss to know about the features of these varied gadgets themselves before buying them.
Smart Phone: It is the regular mobile phone that has also the Personal Computer functions added. But unlike regular phones, it uses advanced applications like eBook Reader, Wi-Fi, etc.

iPhone: It is a Smart Phone as said above with the web browsing and Portable Media Player facilities. It provides touch screen as user interface. It is also compatible with third party applications like GPS, Games, etc.

iPod: In listening music iPods, the portable media players have created a craze among people, as the storage of music numbers are in thousands! A tiny gadget having such an unbelievable enormous storage capacity! Many types of iPods are offered like Classic (hand driven), Touch (touch screen), Nano (video) and Shuffle (compact). They have pushed out all those cassette and disc players out of market into the past.

iPad: It is a Tablet Personal Computer that has been made for web browsing, gaming, media playing, etc. It has been brought out as a device between a Smart Phone and a LapTop. It is of a size of a letter paper with half an inch thickness. It has a flash memory of 64 GBs. It can run applications in thousands. iTunes, iBook, and iWork are the few examples.

Google Wave to stun all!

A document texting combined with chatting, in which your friends also work together to improve it will be great one, isn't it? Google has started recently its lab version, the Google Wave. In it you can move to any friend's page, reply, edit his/her work or rewind and view the previous portion of the current conversation (chatting). All these interactions happen live in real-time! Google Wave is like a combination of the already existing Google Docs and Google Chat of GMail. Will this new Wave become popular like Twitter or FaceBook? We will wait and see!

Lost files? Recover them here!

On one day, recently, I found my computer's 'C' drive to have much free space unusually! But when I opened My Document, I found that it was empty - the whole folder contents had been deleted somehow and by somebody. I lamented for having lost all those data that I had been updating earnestly. Luckily, I was advised then to use a software to recover the folder contents. I succeeded in getting back those files, and rejoiced about it. Do you want to visit and have a look at that website? Click on here: Power Data Recovery!

Grow a tree for a reward of Mobile!

By promoting the usage of mobile phones the paper used in writing or printing can be saved. With this, trees are saved from being cut down on more and more demand for paper. As a result the world's environment is safeguarded. To create awareness about safeguarding the environment, a website is holding a campaign, Use Mobile Save Paper. In it you grow a tree online! You will be provided with a seed and then you shall have to do tasks to grow the tree out of it. After this, you shall have learned how to grow a tree and also have earned points out of it. With these points you win a BlackBerry smart phone, 8520 Curve everyday or a BlackBerry 9000 Bold weekly! You are thus rewarded with a phone for learning about the importance of tree growing, and to use it to promote saving of paper. Do you want to try it? Log on here --> My Tree!

Don't search. FIND it with Ctrl + F keys

If you want to find out a particular word, name or a phrase on any page displayed on a computer screen, it will be a laborious task of scanning all through the entire page line by line. In it there will be also the wasting of your time, making you tired, bored and frustrated. If there is an easy method that avoids all these and finds the desired word for you within a matter of seconds, it will ease your mind greatly, is it not? Yes, there is one such method for you: the Shortcut of pressing down the Ctrl key, holding it and then pressing down the F key once on the computer keyboard. On a web page this brings in a Search box above the taskbar of the computer screen (or a Find and Replace dialogue box in a Word document) where you can enter the word and hit Enter key (click on Find in tab in the case of document). That's all. You are shown the highlighted word (or all the places where that word appears)! In an Excel sheet you need not even scroll down to see all those positions; you will be shown a window (Find and Replace. You click Find All tab here) where all those places of the word are displayed. You need only to just click on the required line to view it!

Blog updation reading by RSS

Each and everyone surfing the Internet see the letters, RSS somewhere constantly on any web page. Like this RSS, there may be letters as ATOM or a small orange square with white wave-like markings inside or small bars (Chicklets) are also seen . What are they? Do they have any function? Yes, they do have - if you know about them and use them! All of them are of similar nature. Taking RSS (Really Simple Syndication) as an example, it is a websites syndication (publication). Here, after finding out an interesting and useful blog or website, the web surfer informs (subscribes) about his/her wish for automatically intimating him/her, whenever there is a publication of a new post at that blog. (This updated posts are the 'Feeds' from the blog).
OK. How to read then the recent posts from the selected blog? For this RSS feed readers like Google Reader, Bloglines or Mozilla Reader are used. These provide the reading person with a window in which the titles of new posts from the favorite blog are seen brought in. You can click on any title in it and read the full post.
You know now about the RSS. How to use RSS? First sign up for an RSS reader; then click on the RSS or Chicklets found on the favorite blog.and subscribe in it. Next, log in to the RSS feed reader and read the recent posts from the blog! After clicking on more such favorite blogs, you can see all their recent posts in your RSS reader without visiting all those blogs!
For those using Mozilla Firefox browser: Mozilla Reader activation is quite easy: Simply click on the orange chicklet found on the address bar of the browser and subscribe to use Live Bookmarks. Then you can read recent blog posts from the browser itself! On the Menu bar click on Bookmarks --> Bookmarks Toolbar --> Blog's name in the list --> Blog posts titles --> select a title to read.
Having read all these and applying it in use you can save both your valuable time and money.

Fixing image in Blogger Post Editor

Bloggers, if you want to upload an image in Post Editor of Blogger for publishing it in a blog post, you shall upload that first and then proceed to type the text below it. But after typing the text first, if you want to upload the image below it, that image will be uploaded only above it! To bring the image below you shall click on the image, hold, drag it down and release the hold there. Here you cannot shift also the position of the image to the other places from the uploaded position (the left, center or the right)! You cannot insert images between already typed lines too! Yet you can insert images in these places in another way. Just copy the image from your computer file, place the Insertion Point at the needed place of insertion in the Post Editor and paste. But by default the image will be positioned to the left. To move it to the center or to the right, select it by left clicking on it and then just click once on Center-Align tool icon or the Right-Align tool icon found on the Post Editor Toolbar. You shall now see the image positioned and inserted in the desired place!

Snapshot or screenshot from a movie!

Do you want to get a copy of the attractive scene from a movie that is being played on the computer? For that, you shall do as follows:

If Nero ShowTime is being used for playing the movie,
1) Right click on the playing screen -> Click on Capture Frame when the required scene is played.
2) Click on Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> open Paint -> click on Edit -> Paste -> Select All -> Copy To -> select My Documents -> enter the file name and Save it!

If VLC Media Player is being used,
1) Simply right click on the playing screen and click the Snapshot when the required scene appears.
2) Now move on to My Pictures, search and find in it the copy of the image and Rename it with right click ob it. That's all!
Now you can use the image for sharing it with friends or as a wall poster on desktop or for publishing it in blog!