Computers are important and like any other machine, many problems and errors crop up while working on computers. These complications can be related to hardware, software, or are inherent in the execution of the various routine tasks by the computer. One of the most commonly encountered errors during the software execution of the computer is the various dll files (dynamic link library) errors.

These errors are for the most part encountered by those computer users, who operate upon Windows-based operating systems, and need to do with the various dynamic link library files residing in the registry of the operating system in the computer. Although these various dll errors can prove to cause a lot of impatience as well as frustration, fixing these errors is not a task which would prove too much a challenge, if you really get a hang of what is required to be done.

The very first step in the course of solving a problem is to find out the root cause and the various reasons behind the problem. The registry structure of a computer is such that it is composed of a number of .dll files. These dynamic link library files are imperative for the smooth execution of the various applications as well as programs, residing within the memory of the computer. There are times when some undesired action deletes or accidentally renames or relocates these dll files. As a result of this undesired action, the applications or programs requiring these dll files for execution can no longer execute, and rather issue a not found warning or a dll error.

Apart from this, there are a host of other reasons as well, which result in the occurrence of dll errors. Even computer viruses have often been seen to affect registries and be an able cause of these dll errors.

Often, many of the individual programs are linked to these missing dll files. In situations like these, it is easy to pin point the particular program which is causing the dll error to appear, by simply executing the program. The thing to do next is to go over to the internet and search for a suitable add on or a patch for reinstating the program in its original state. If this does not cure the problem, the only option you are left with is to reinstall the software. This is bound to work as reinstalling the software or the program would reinstate the desired dll file, which has gone missing.

In case the source or the real cause behind these dll errors is not known, the restore facility provided in the computer is more than a savior. In such a situation, running the restore facility would only work if you know the exact date when the dll error first popped up. If this doesn’t even fix the problem, what can be suitably done is to run a full system virus scan, which would restore the system into order.

This was a guest post by Bob Newman. Bob is a freelance writer and software developer for QIQI Soft. If you wish to write a guest post, you can find the details here.

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During my first 6 months of blogging, I made a lot of mistakes which is just normal in my humble opinion. Just learning from them made me grateful. And I was lucky I didn’t make the really big ones! (user name, theme). So here is what I learned and my suggestions.

1. Finding the best blog platform or host

Before I found my current host, I left three from which I didn’t get a single comment! So do a research first. Decide if you want a ‘monetized’ or an advertisement-free blog. Some hosts allow monetizing, some don’t. So if you choose to self-host your blog, then it’s better to monetize it to cover your expenses.

2. Choosing your user name (or domain name) carefully.

Some blog platforms do not allow their users to change that so you might be stuck with what you choose. And changing a username is like changing a BRAND name –you’ll probably lose some of your followers who don’t want the change.
I suggest you choose one as if it’s a website name because you wouldn’t know if your weblog might someday be a big website. A name which can be ‘verbalized’ is best. See how websurfers turned the proper noun Google into a verb? (It’s just bad that my own would sound bad if verbalized – pochpeed).

3. Choosing your blog Theme

There are specific themes designed for your niche or speciality.

4. Choose your niche carefully

This was my first mistake. At first, I started writing just about everything that floats my boat. Then I learned that you could monetize your blog at least to cover your writing expenses, time and effort. Some professional bloggers even teach that you shouldn’t spend on your blog or site until you’re earning from it.
So decide if you want a monetized blog or not –then decide what your blog will be specifically about. Will it be about Technology, Science, Business, etc?

5. Continue search for better blog platforms

Most probably, your first blog host will not be the best.

6. Practice Ethics of blogging/networking

This is the continuing and maybe, the hard part. How do we make sure we’re blogging politically correct?

a. Your content
We have freedom of speech so it’s really up to you what you write even if it’s offensive; which of course I practice but don’t endorse. But if you will write a rant or offensive piece, target specifically so the innocents wouldn’t think they are part of it. You wouldn’t want your followers to think they are part of your target. If you’re after popularity or sales, then you wouldn’t want to offend everyone so be careful what you write.

One way to make sure your piece isn’t offending: have a kind-hearted person or editor read your article then ask if it’s reader-friendly.

b. Your comments
Now this is where most bloggers offend each other the most. I myself have offended through comments without intending to although one or two I admit were careless though innocent; and that is why I’m reluctant to write about this – it would smell hypocrisy.
We just really can’t be sure how our words will be interpreted. And that is the reason why we should be extremely careful. Tips:

1. Never make or reply to an offensive comment when you’re still angry.
   Most of the time, we will find that it’s not really worth our anger as time passes. What I do is ignore offensive comments if I want someone to stop sending it. You bet it works. We will even sometimes find we can learn something from the offensive comment. The offensive commenter might even become your fan if you befriend the person!
2. If you think you have made an offensive comment, follow-up at once and apologize before you get a reply. The more time passes, the more damage the comment will do because it spreads.

c. Spamming
This not only apply only to commenting but also to e-mail marketing.  The rule is DON’T SPAM. What do you think your reader will do when the reader learns you spammed him/her? Of course the reader will spread the news which would brand you as a user of your fellowman. I suggest you use a blog host or platform that uses Akismet.

Now there are human spam comments that you really need to spam. Human spam comments are innocent and not dangerous right?

Wrong!

It can be an attempt to steal hits, comments, or hijack your weblog altogether which I have experienced. If comments are not related to the post, it is spam especially if it asks you to click a link. So check the link first before clicking.

A good way to block spam comments manually is this:

Go to your WordPress Dashboard and follow Settings –> Discussion. In the comment blacklist, enter words like porno, gambling, and whatever words, IP’s, and e-mail addresses you think should be banned. Be extra careful who you spam or blacklist!

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Again, I missed BarCamp Kerala 5, and was stuck before my PC at home. I knew a good share of the people at the event, still I didn’t get the feel of the event.

Why were #wci tweets so efficient and why were #bck5 tweets suck not so good?

Of course, BarCamp Kerala should not be compared with WordCamp India; BarCamp’s are loosely organized unconferences, whereas, WordCamp is a well coordinated, international event. Still, effective tweets would help convey the ideas presented at BarCamp’s beyond the walls of the room.

There was another BarCamp Kerala, last Sunday (11-Oct-2009) and I tried to fill up the gap this time by Live Tweeting the same, and as far as I know, it worked. Here is a brief Analysis.

How to Live Tweet an Event, Effectively

#1 Create a Dedicated Profile

You are going to have at least 500 tweets per event, so create a profile specific to the event. BarCamp Kerala uses @BarCampKerala for the same.

#2 Use a Hash Tag

This is obvious, you don’t need to be told this. Hash Tags make it easier to follow the related tweets. Choose a small, yet meaningful hash tag. BarCamp Kerala 6 used #bck6

#3 Everyone Loves Tips

We all love tips, a good share of the blogs just do that. People do not care much about what’s going on at the event, or who is on stage. But they always like to know what the speaker is saying about.

For e.g. Instead of Tweeting out event status like, “Mr. X on stage, he is speaking about Million Dollar Mosquito’s” over and over, do it once. then start tweeting what he is saying. Like, “Use Onion Peels to repel Million Dollar Mosquito’s – says @mr.x #mci”

Your followers would be more than happy to retweet the tips. From the point of view of an outsider, he gets some new info from the second tweet and not from the first. Doesn’t mean the event status tweets are unimportant, just don’t stick on to it for ever.

#4 Quotes Work Great

Tweepl really love to retweet amazing quotes. And you will find many quotes of wisdom from the talkers at any event. All you need is good typing speed and sharp listening skills. Tag them with #quote in addition to the hash tag of the event.

#5 Pass the Info

Before the start of the event, do these:

• Ask the attendees to follow the profile you have created for the event.
• Tell them about the hash tag and advice them to tag all tweets related to the event with the same tag.
• Request them to retweet relevant tweets related to the event.
• Request the speakers to revel their twitter username (a.k.a twitter handle) to the audience right before the start of their talk so that they can associate tweets related to his talk with his handle.

#6 Trend Setters need some serious work

I am told that, right now, there should be at least 3000 tweets to go trending. There would be other parameters like the no. of people involved and the relevance. Maybe Twitter has someone to hand pick the trending topics. (It was much easier in the early days, a chat tagged #AdsenseTalk with three of my friends went trending in about 2 hours.)

Try to convey the idea to the group right at the start of the event and ask them to tweet hard. if you have 30 people tweeting about the event, 3000 tweets shouldn’t be very hard. You can do that in an hour and I assume you would be trending. It’s your ultimate twitter advertisement, so I think its worth the pain.

It’s all fun, anyway!

#7 Third Party Clients Make it a lot easy

I use TweetDeck for most of my tweeting. One can create a search column in TweetDeck and list all tweets tagged the specific hash tag. Using similar clients will help you follow the event better and also makes retweeting easy.

Happy Tweeting. Live!

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Windows is the world’s most popular OS. There are millions of softwares for it. In this post, I have summed up 10 free softwares that you will find very useful. Without any further addo, here are they:

1. Launchy

Launchy will make you forget about Start Menu and even Windows Explorer! It is a small utility that lets you launch programs easily with a few keystrokes. By default, you need to press Alt + Space and it will show up. Just type name of application and hit enter to launch it. You can select the areas to index(start menu, drives etc.). A very nifty utility if you have lot of programs in start menu.

Download Launchy

2. CCleaner

CCleaner lets you remove useless keys in Windows Registery safely. I am using “safely” because it can backup all the changes made to registry. It can also remove browsing traces, private data and unused files. There’s also a Program UIninstallation option that lets you remove programs and left over registry entries of such programs. It will help a lot in keeping your PC clean.

Download CCleaner

3. Fresh UI

Fresh UI lets you apply many tweaks to user interface of your Windows without having you to go deep down into the dark cave full of dangers (in short, Windows Registry )! There are lot of tweaks available right from changing boot screen to removing those shortcut arrows from, well, shortcuts(I hate them!).

Download Fresh UI

4. BootVis

Bootvis is a free utility from Microsoft that lets you optimize your PC for shorter Start Up times. It also defragments your startup programs so that they load up faster. However, it works only with XP!

Download BootVis

5. K-Lite Codec Pack

K-Lite Codec Pack has all the essential codecs needed to play major audio/video formats. Install it and forget it, no need to hunt for any codec individually. It also has Media Player Classic which is a light media player.

Download K-Lite Codec Pack

6. Q10

This is, in my opinion, the best software ever made for writers! Before I tell you anything about it, close your eyes, take a deep breath and count how many times you were distracted when writing your last post. Q10 removes all those distraction by occupying all the space available on your screen(in short, it’s a full screen text editor) With no toolbars, no status bars and not even a title bar, this software is perfect for people who like to write without distractions.

Download Q10

7. Game Booster

At any time, there are 25+ useless process running in background on your windows PC. They can take up a good amount of RAM and CPU and this can make games frame. If you experience slow-down with games(especially in crowded areas), try Game Booster. It will close all the useless programs thus increasing amount of available resources.

Download Game Booster

8. Pidgin

Pidgin is what the doctor has ordered for IM addicts(however, the doctor in case is evil as Pidgin will only make you more addicted!). You can easily manage multiple accounts including many popular services like GTalk, Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger.

Download Pidgin

9. Opera

Opera is web-browser complete web-suite that is master of all trades. In small 6 MB pack, you get most standard compliant browser, a capable mail client, RSS reader, widget support, Dragonfly(web page debugger) and notes manager. Opera 10 also has a “Turbo” mode in which it can fasten surfing speeds on slow connections(by compressing images).

Download Opera

10. Your Choice

I will leave this one on readers. Tell me which software you would like to see in this list and why.

This was a guest post by Ishan Sharma. He blogs on Blogging With Success. If you liked this article, check out How To Sell A Dead Horse For $500 by him.

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These questions were given to me in competition as part of Qbit, a technical fest at my college. You can use anything online to find the answers.

How much of the internet have you seen?

Test #1

Q: On the desktop, create the following:
a. Three folders with the same name xyz
b. A folder with no name.

S: First, answer for the second question

b. Google Helped here:

Create a new folder
Select the folder and right click and select Rename
give ALT+0160 ( type 0160 with ALT tab pressed)

The Reason : ALT+0160 will create hexa decimal value. Hexadecimal value for 0160 will be null.

Source

Use the Keypad on the right, it did not work when I tried with the other set of numbers. Or Use the On-Screen Keyboard (Run > osk).

a. Create a folder with the name ‘xyz’. For the second folder use xyz and add the ALT + 0160. Now an invisible character will be added but the name will still appear as xyz.

The third time, name xyz and add the invisible character twice. Now you have three folders with the same name!

Test #2

Q: Suppose you want to find out the number of hits to a site say ‘www.qbit09.com’ and from where these hits are coming from. Also the web browser they used for viewing the site. Generate the necessary code that is to be included in the source code for that purpose.

S: That’s easy. We are talking about Google Analytics. Sign up for Google Analytics, submit any site and they will give you the script, nice and clean.

Test #3

Q: Generate the following image on your web browser

S: This is a Firefox Easter egg. Type in ‘about:robots’ without quotes to the address bar and see what happens. There will be a ‘Try Again’ button towards the left corner of the message. Press it and it will read ‘Please do not press this button again’. Press it again and the button will disappear.

Gort!-Klaatu-barada-nikto!

The phrase “Klaatu barada nikto” originates from the 1951 Cold-War-era science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still. The phrase “Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!” was used to stop Gort, the robot in the film, from destroying the Earth.

Source

Try ‘about:mozilla’ now. That’s another one.

Test #4

Q: Obtain the number of times the name of the sports person ‘Tigerwoods’ has been searched in the net over the last month (last 30 days) with graphical details.

S: There are many tools that gives detailed reports, but not many shows graphical details. Google Trends shows a graph, but then ‘Tigerwoods’ is not a very popular term, Trends didn’t have enough data.

Bing’s xRank is the solution.

Test #5

Q: Find the results for what Barrack Obama said about the issue ‘Recession in USA’ and what did John McCain say counter to that.

S: Google In Quotes, a Google Labs product finds quotes from stories in Google News. It can be used to compare what two people said over the same issue.

Test #6

Q: Obtain statistical information about the sale of ‘umbrella’ in Hong-Kong during the year 2008.

S: Google Trends is of use here:

Test #7

Q: Elimine la carpeta llamada “eliminar” en el escritorio

S: First use Google Translator (Detect Language > English) to decipher it out. It means “Delete the folder named ‘delete’ on desktop”

The folder was on the laptop they gave me. It contained two folders con and lpt1. These folders can only be created and deleted using the command prompt. First delete the two folders inside delete using command prompt.

The same applies to:

CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.

Here is the how to create and delete folders with these names.

Test #8

Q: Find the share price value of BHARATHI AIRTEL on 14th March 2008 and 2nd November 2007. Display accurate results.

S: I have seen my dad using moneycontrol.com to keep track of stop prices of the Indian market. But soon I found that Money Control did not have the history of prices.

Thankfully, Yahoo Finance had.

Test #9

Q: Display the search queries for which Google has displayed the blog ‘edugurijis.blogspot.com’. Download the table containing the percentage of impressions for those search queries.

S: The solution lies with Google Webmasters Tools. The username and password for the specified blog was given upon request. Webmasters Tools shows the Top Search Queries and a table can be downloaded easily.

Test #10

Q: Download a software to load the new Orkut scraps on your desktop.

S: I googled and found a post on Mashable that reads “20+ Orkut Apps“. Wow! I had 20 to choose from, I selected Orkut Cute, a desktop client for Orkut.

The judges had some other application in mind and I had trouble downloading there. Finally I had to convince them by telling them how big a brand Mashable is.

During the course of the event, I used Twitter Search, Digg Search and Su.pr. I missed my browser bookmarks, I have some really cool search tools bookmarked. If you have any alternate tools for any of the above tasks, please advice, thanks.

I had teamed up with Sreejith and we rolled out as winners. YAY

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With the buzz surrounding Google’s penalty for duplicate content, more bloggers have resorted to showing only excerpts on the home page of their blogs. These excerpts usually end with a link prompting the reader to click if he/she wants to continue reading the article. These links are created using the wordpress Read More Tag.

Why You ought to Use the Read More Tag

The read more tag can dramatically increase the amount of pageviews on your site/blog. I would have gone further to explain this but Alex of Blogussion has already done an excellent job explaining this with his post; Double Your Pageviews – Pros & Cons of Displaying Partial Posts.

Read More Tag in the Post Editor

How to Configure The Read More Tag Effectively

Wrong configuration of the read more tag could leave you ranking for useless anchor texts such as “Read the rest of this entry” or “Continue reading”. What I’m saying in essence is that you MUST add nofollow to the Read More link. Since I’m a huge fan of the less wordpress plug-in movement, I prefer to edit the file directly. Follow the steps below to add nofollow to the read more tag.

Using FTP, navigate the wp-includes folder of your wordpress installation and download the file, post-template.php. Remember to store a backup of this file should things go wrong along the way.

Depending on which editor you use (I use Macromedia Dreamweaver), open the file and find line 226 or search for the line that has the following code:

$output .= apply_filters( 'the_content_more_link', ' <a class="\"more-link\"" href="' . get_permalink() . ">$more_link_text</a>", $more_link_text );

Change the above code to:

$output .= apply_filters( 'the_content_more_link', ' <a class="\"more-link\"rel=\"nofollow\"" href="' . get_permalink() . ">$more_link_text</a>", $more_link_text );

Save the file and upload it back to the wp-includes folder and reload your blog’s home page.

The above tweak would have done two things to your read more link.

1. The link would no longer have the #more-postid attached to the end of the url e.g. http://www.ooo.com/goofy.html#more-301 becomes http://www.ooo.com/goofy.html and when you click on the link, the page opens right at the beginning of the post and not at the beginning of the read more tag function. This is helpfully for your readers who find it hard to remember what they just read in the excerpt.
2. Checking the link using Zachary Fox’s Firefox Addon, Nofollow, reveals that the link is now a nofollow link.

NOTE: You’ll have to apply the above tweak each time you upgrade to a new version of Wordpress. Unfortunately not everybody is as patient as I am so some of you are better off getting this fix using a plug-in though while writing this piece, I googled but couldn’t find a plug-in that does this.

Update: The Custom More Link Plugin does exactly the same job. If you don’t like editing the code, use the plugin.

This article was written by Udegbunam Chukwudi who in his pastime writes about free blogging and make money online tips @ his blog Strictly Online Biz. Topics already covered at his blog include Upgrading & Speeding up wordpress blogs, Making Money through Paid Online Surveys, Google Adsense, Web Hosting Reselling and CPA Marketing amongst others.

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(An extract from each post is included for easy reference)

First,See if your System is ready for Windows 7 with Upgrade Advisor:

Download Free Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor

Only PCs with Windows Vista can be upgraded to Windows 7. Remember Windows XP users are required to do a clean install of the Windows 7 RC as well as the final product. If you are running Windows XP and do not have .NET Framework 2.0 yet, you will be asked to download and install it.

Why do you need Windows 7? Here is the answer:

18 Cool Things Windows 7 does, that Windows Vista Doesnt

Snap into place

Simply drag your window to the left or right edge of the desktop to snap and resize the window to one half of the screen. Drag the window to the top to maximise it. A pretty neat idea made neater by the use of the keyboard shortcuts (Win + respective arrow keys). No longer do you have to frustratingly position the mouse at the edge of the window to resize it.

But there are many Windows 7 versions, which one to choose from? How much do they cost? OK, here is the buyers Guide:

Windows 7 Buying Guide : Which Windows7 version to choose

The various editions of Windows 7 are designed such that each version has all the features of the previous editions plus something extra that makes that edition unique. Also, you can use the Anytime Upgrade feature to purchase a serial key online and upgrade your existing Windows 7 license to a more advanced edition.

For instance, if you decide to buy Windows 7 Home Premium today, you can use Anytime Upgrade and shift to Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate edition anytime.

Now that you have decided on your copy of Windows 7, here is the user manual:

Windows 7 Complete Guide

Windows 7 is Microsoft’s biggest user-interface overhaul since Windows 95. It’s no surprise, then, that even Windows veterans could use a crash course on how to use it.

Time to hack!

The Ultimate Guide to Make Windows 7 Blazing Fast

Disabling the Unwanted Services to Speed up Windows 7

There are many services in windows 7 that we dont require for our daily use. There are some exceptional cases though. Services such as “print spooler” is only needed when we use a printer. If we use a printer only occasionally we can safely turn off that service in Windows 7 and turn it on only when we need to take a print.

Free Tools for Windows:

Process Hacker – A Powerful Windows Task Manager Alternative

Windows Task manager only lists running processes, but Process Hacker allows you to investigate where these processes are coming from (even if they are hidden) and displays helpful graphs and statistics about them. Its kernel-mode driver gives the application the power to terminate, suspend and resume all processes and threads, including those that are usually untouchable by Window’s task manager.

Windows Password Recovery Tools

This is a collection of amazing password Recovery tools for Windows. There are tools to find your saved IM passwords, email passwords and any other passwords that you might have forgotten. Some tools list all saved passwords right when you open it; open them when you have no one around.

For the bigger picture, follow @MillionClues on twitter.

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For guiding me in your path, for teaching me more of WordPress, keeping my server healthy and for blessing me with the best readers I could ever have. Be with me Lord! And help me fight the Hackers and Spam and all other forms of evil I might encounter on my way ahead.

Million Clues! is one year old.

On my last birthday, when I turned 20, I looked back and thought. What have I done with my 20 years? Though every moment was worth living for (school life, amazing friends and the celebrations), there was nothing I could point out as ’something’. I turned 21 today, and here it is, my cute little space on the web, that I am a lot proud of!

Thank You all for being part of me, for all your support and words that kept me writing on and on.

A Little bit about Myself

To all the new readers: Hi, My name is Arun Basil Lal. I am a student in Engineering from India, who attend college with the sun and blog with the moon.

Am on Twitter and Facebook, add me up too. Thanks for reading this blog, I hope you are enjoying.

(About Page – FriendFeed – StumbeUpon – Digg)

Here I Stand

Some Statistics, I guess this is the right time to say:

• Total Published Posts: 125
• Comments: 1998 (I reply to all comments, so 999 comments from readers, about 8 comments per post)
• Visitors per month: 11k (for last 6 months)
• Top Traffic Soruces: Google > StumbeUpon > Yahoo > Twitter
• Google Page Rank: 4
• Best Alexa Average for 3 months: 83,365
• Twitter Followers: 245 (on @MillionClues profile)
• Total Guest Posts: 10

Suddenly Everyone wants a Blog…

“Total waste of time”, “You got nothing else to do?”, “No one is gonna read”. These are some of the comments I got when I was starting off with Blogging. Not many of my friends even cared to ask what I was doing. Oh! Reading and writing are not very popular subjects of discussion at college.

Now that I have started getting checks, everyone wants to know what I am doing, how I do it. Surprisingly, even some guys who never went online started asking. I like the treatment.

Was it worth the time? Hell, yea! Blogging looks like the best decision I ever made. Thank You all again!

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Pidgin has a Twitter plugin Twitgin. With this plugin, one can tweet, re-tweet, reply to tweets and send DM’s. This plugin can also be used to make backup of tweets.

Saving Tweets using Pidgin

• Download and Install Pidgin.
• Go to Tools > Plugins. From the plugins list, tick Twitgin – Twitter plugin for Pidgin.
• Enable Logging from Tools > Preferences > Logging. Tick all check-boxes.
• Add a new Twitter account. (Navigate to Accounts > Manage Accounts > Add… Choose protocol as TwitterIM, give twitter username and password)

Now Pidgin will fetch all tweets from those you follow and show in and IM window. Every IM you send will be a status update. You can reply to tweets by clicking their username. See your mentions (@replies) by typing in /replies in the IM box.

All tweets including your friends updates and your own tweets, will be saved a text file (or html file, if you had chosen html in the logging preferences). You can access the log from Buddies > View user log… (Use Name as twitter.com and Account as the respecive twitter account.)

On the window that follows, watch for “Browse Logs folder” button (see image). This opens up the folder with all logs saved as txt files. That’s your twitter backup.

Bonus: Add Facebook chat to Pidgin using Facebook Plugin.

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Soon I found the local installation quite useful. Many a times, I found myself spending time with the offline WordPress blog than the online one. Most of the posts in the articles tagged WordPress Hacks and Plugin Killer are a result of this.

Why go for an Offline Blog, when you can Blog Online?

An offline WordPress installation has a lot of advantages for most of the people.

Testing and Experimentation

This is probably the biggest of all. Try out new plugins and themes without wrecking your blog. Experiment with codes, customize your themes and surprise your readers with a fully functional new look, unlike others who edit the theme after uploading the default theme.

Will your Backup’s Work?

How will you know that the database back-up you took is valid and working? What if you find that a backup is corrupt right when you need it the most? Take backups and see if they are working by testing them out in the local installation of WordPress.

An Offline File Comparator

You can use WordPress to compare two files. You can easily find what are different between two versions of the same file. Details here: WordPress as a File Comparator.

Handle Outages

You are in a mood to blog, unfortunately your server is down or your internet is unavailable. With a local installation, you can write the post offline and copy paste it when you are back online.

Word Processor

WordPress has a decent Word Processor. Combine that with the spell-checker in Firefox, its a much better editor. You cannot save text or handle formats, but the editing part is pretty good.

How to Setup WordPress Offline

• Download WordPress.
• Download WAMP.
• Use this guide to Setup WordPress on your local machine.

Can you think of any more uses? Happy Blogging (offline).

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Tr.im is good; I loved their statistics and the idea of choosing custom URL’s, but now tr.im is closing down. U.NU is amazing for its simplicity and just-what-you-need style. (I don’t use bit.ly just because everyone else use it.)

Then one day, I tried Su.pr – the StumbleUpon baby. Its amazing.

The SU.PR Edge

Central Control of all your Links and Detailed Stats

Su.pr lists all shortened links along with quick stats on a single page. You can easily say, which did well and which link flopped. Statistics are comprehensive with the re-tweets, traffic sources and of course, the traffic from StumbleUpon and other sources.

Promote Your Own Blog

In Su.pr settings (above red dot) you can specify up to 3 domains. When Su.pr links are used, the target page will contain a sidebar. Links from the promoted websites that are popular on StumbleUpon will be shown here. So with every tweet your links get more exposure.

More Traffic

With the Toolbar and Sidebar in place, the links get easily thumbed up and reviewed brining more SU Traffic. In my case, the SU traffic is much more than the twitter traffic (below red).

Suggested Posting Time

Su.pr keeps track of the performance of your links, analyses them and suggests the best posting time for each day (orange). So now you know when to shoot that ace link of yours.

Schedule Tweets

What if the best posting time is at 2.00 am? Just schedule the tweet. (Green)

Post to Twitter and Facebook

Once you allow Su.pr access to Twitter and Facebook (via settings), you can post status directly to Twitter and Facebook. (Green)

Thumb Up and Review

For links not submitted to StumbleUpon yet, a “Thumb Up Now” link (pink) is shown instead of the thumbnail. You can Submit the link or write a review – the links are ready for you.

You are always Credited

Its not easy to find amazing unique links. When your tweet comes in someone else’s time line, he owns the tweet. He can choose whether to credit it back to you or not. But with Su.pr, the links you shorten always carry your name to it, you are always acknowledged.

Su.pr is really working for me, it took a couple of hours to get used to, but now its perfect. Thanks to Ishan for pulling me into it.

Which shortener do you use?

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With a simple hack, Windows users can access their favourite with a single character, saving the extra time needed to use the mouse to click the bookmark, or the time spent in choosing it from the suggested list.

Access Favourite Websites Faster

Windows uses a file to map IP addresses to host names. We can use this file to map our one letter short-forms for websites to its corresponding IP addresses. Essentially, this hack will work for those sites with static IP address. Most popular sites have a static IP.

• In your Windows Explorer, navigate to Root Folder (Usually C:\) > Windows > System32 > drivers > etc
• Find the file named hosts and make a backup of it somewhere else.
• Open the file in Notepad or any text editor of your choice.
• Find the IP address of your site using this tool. Type in the IP address in a new window and see if its working. (e.g.: IP of twitter.com is 128.121.146.228)
• To the end of the file named hosts, add the IP address of your favourite site and the character you would like to use for it. Separate the IP address and the character with a space. (e.g.: 128.121.146.228 t)
• Save the file. Open a browser window, type the character (e.g.: t) and see if its working.

This is browser independent, works on all browsers.

Did you know that you could assign keywords to Bookmarks in Firefox and then access them easily? Here are two Time Saving Features in Firefox that you might have missed.

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Tudumo is a To-Do list maker. It is a clean and elegant way to manage your tasks.

To start with, head over to Tudumo.com and download a trial copy. Unlike many other trial software’s, you don’t have to wait for a splash screen and you are not reminded about registration. For 60 days, you can use the whole full version of Tudumo as good as a registered one.

How Tudumo Works

Tudumo uses Headings and Tags to organize the list. You can add all the actions (tasks) related to a specific project under a heading, for instance, and all the things you got to buy from the store under a common tag.

One can set a due date and time for a particular action, and when its about time, Tudumo gives an alert. Every action can have any of the 6 states. For instance, actions that are not important at the moment can get the status ‘Someday/Maybe’

The software installation comes with some sample headings and tags and some shortcut tips. The help is also simple, yet comprehensive.

Shortcuts

There are some easy shortcuts to deal with all the tasks. The Quick Add Shortcut (Win KEY + Ctrl + T) is amazing; a small window pops up – add a task and tag right from there. Anything followed by @ in the quick add window is considered as a tag.

Another thought out shortcut is the Esc key. Pressing Escape key closes down Tudumo to the Task tray, near the system clock.

(Common Shortcuts: Ctrl + N for new task; Ctrl + H for new Heading; Ctrl + T to add a tag; Ctrl + D to set the due Date. Press Ctrl + F1 for more Shortcuts)

Tudumo Live

Screen shot of a Tudumo Window:

• Green Dot – Action or Task
• Red – Heading
• Blue – Due Date (when the task is overdue, the date turns red)
• Orange – State of a Task
• Black – Filter (based on state of tasks)
• Pink – Tags (clicking it shows tasks with the same tag)

On my Vista Home Premium 64-bit, I had a minor problem. I have set it to start minimized when windows starts, but it just wouldn’t start minimized.

For $30 a copy, its well worth an investment. Try it out, I bet you will like it.

Do you use any similar GTD software? How do you manage your tasks?

Related: Time Management Tips for the Busy Bloggers

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6 URL Bookmarklets

Just drag and drop any of these to your browser tool bar, and when you need to shorten the url of any page, just click it.

• Idek
• Cli.gs
• To.ly
• Is.gd
• Su.pr
• U.nu

Click any of above to see what happen, the resulting window will come up with a short url for the long url of the current page. Have fun!

(The bookmarklets might not render properly in emails or feed readers, get it from the page online)

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The first time I heard about this guy, he was releasing 6 WordPress plugins a week. ‘Holy crap, You must be kidding me’, that’s what I thought. What I heard was true. That was in the August of 2008.

This year again, he did the same madness. A week of plugin shower. 7 plugins in a row.

Here are @binnyva’s collection of plugins

Eventr WordPress Plugin for Event Registration

This plugin can add a event registration feature to any WordPress blog. You can accept registrations and create a page of registered users. This plugin was originally created to manage registrations for BlogCamp Kerala 2008, and later was used for BarCamp Kerala registration too.

Pollin WordPress Plugin

Pollin lets you add polls to your blog. Can be easily inserted to any post or page using a short code. Looks neat. See a demo here.

Surveys WordPress Plugin

Add Surveys and manage them from within WordPress admin. You can insert surveys easily to any post or page using a short code.

Quizzin WordPress Plugin

Add quizzes to your posts or pages using this plugin. Can be added using a short code. Designed for maximum ease.

Quartz WordPress Plugin

Show random quotes or links or tips to visitors. The input quotes or tips can be done manually one after the other from the admin side or from a text file (that’s quite convenient).

Autofields WordPress Plugin

Filling up WordPress custom fields and excerpts is boring and tiring, this plugin makes it a bit easier by doing it for you. It fills the excerpt with the first paragraph of your post and fills up a custom field for image with the first image uploaded. Useful for themes that uses image as custom field like most of the StudioPress Themes.

Weather Man WordPress Plugin

Weather Man uses Yahoo Weather API to display weather of any place as a Sidebar Widget or you can merge it with posts using a short code. Travel and Tourism Blog owners, take note. See a demo.

MiniCart WordPress Plugin

Add a shopping cart or a Donate Button to any post or page using this plugin. You can create a item, which can be a product or a service and then insert the checkout button using a short code at the end of any post. See the instructions for more details. Demo.

Gallifrey Image Gallery WordPress Plugin

Once installed, Gallifrey will over ride WordPress default gallery and work with transition effects in place of it. It uses smart image loading, which loads the images only after the rest of the page is loaded. Watch a Demo.

(Plugins following this are not WordPress plugins, but were released during Plugin Week 2)

Web 2.0 Shadows – GIMP Plugin

Its a GIMP Plugin that will add a shadow and background to your work.

Page Ad – Drupal Plugin

Drupal is yet another Content Management System, just like WordPress. Usually its more used for Websites, WordPress rules the blogging world.

This plugin lets you control ads on Drupal and lets you create page specific ads. Tested on Drupal 5.

Export To WordPress -  Joomla Plugin

This piece of code will create a WordPress importable export from Joomla. (Joomla is a CMS, just like WordPress and Drupal). Moving to WordPress from Joomla? This is for you!

Link Code Insert – A GreaseMonkey UserScript

For Firefox users, with Greasemonkey installed, this piece of code will let you insert the html code for a link. Install the script, select some text and press Ctrl + Alt + A,  <a href=”"> and </a> will be inserted around the text. Makes it easy to add html links anywhere online.

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Scenario:

1. You are reading a web page Page A which is loaded in a “Firefox Tab”. Let us call the tab – Tab A.
2. You are about to open a link on Page A in a new tab. You either hold down CTRL key and click on the link (OR) Right-click and select “Open link in new tab”. A new tab is created. Let us call the new tab – Tab B with page B loaded in it.
3. Now as you think you no more need “Page A” (or) you are a clean person like me and hate cluttering of tabs (or) you were curious to see what the close button would do and so you close Tab A.
4. After a while you realize you actually need to go back to Tab A and try to click on Browser’s Back button on Tab B and it is DISABLED !

Given that you don’t remember the URL of page A & you are not able to find a link back to page A. You might attempt the following things.

• As a true Firefoxian at heart, you know where the recently closed tabs will be listed. So you click History > Recently closed tabs. If you are had not closed more than 10 tabs after that, you might find your tab listed there.
• Or click History > Show all history and spend some time and finally succeed in finding it there.

As this has happened more than twice, I sat down trying to figure out a simple way in which I succeeded and so I am here to share it with you.

Solution: Create a custom back button !

Right click on your Firefox bookmarks tool bar and select “New Bookmark”. Fill in the name with “BACK !!”. That’s the name of our cool powerful back button. In the location box just copy & paste the script below and click Add.

javascript:window.location=document.referrer;

Let me explain. First we say the browser its a JavaScript. Then we tell that the current window’s location has to be set to the current web page’s referrer. Referrer is a property of every web page and it has the URL of the page from which you came from. The property will be blank only, if you had typed the URL in the address bar of the browser and opened the page.

Create another bookmark the same way with a slightly modified JavaScript and try playing with it.

javascript:alert(document.referrer);

FYI – Alert is a built in JavaScript function for showing information in a message box. To learn more cool JavaScript functions you can head over to OpenJS or W3C School tutorials. Thanks for reading this article and hope this helps you

This article was written by Quakeboy. He blogs at TechTola where he writes about the Internet, the blogoshpere and shares useful Tips and Tricks. He writes in short bursts, with just the right amount of information you need. If you have something to say, you can write a guest post here.

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Writing Emails that Win Replies

Ever since I started Blogging, I get tons of emails a day. While I try to answer all emails, there are some emails that catch my attention and makes me reply right when I read them. Here are some observations.

Simplicity is Awesome

Start off with a simple introduction of who you are and what do you do. Do not bother writing a biography, no one really cares. Get to the points directly, cut all the other crap in between. The reader will love you for that.

Rules of Writing for Web Holds Good

Emails that are scan-able and easily readable gets replied better and faster. Break things down, use bullets and numbering wherever appropriate. Break huge chunks of text into short paragraphs.

Turn Spell check ON

A spell checker is an amazing thing; it makes you look smart without much effort. Use a browser with spell check support, like Firefox and make sure your emails are error free before you hit the send button. People hate to read misspelled text. It gives an impression that you do not care about what you say.

Watch your Footer

Format your footer well, be minimal and include some links where the recipient can find more information about you, like a link to your blog. But do not stuff the footer with links to all your social profiles and sites, a link to one page where there are more links about you is more than enough.

Some email programs automatically add adverts to your email footers, when the email hits someone else’s inbox, such adverts suck. Better use a ad-free service like Gmail where you do not have any ads.

Do not add your name to the footer. Add that personal touch to every email by signing it off with your name where you type in it every time. People can easily say if its you typed in the name or if its part of the footer.

Delay Your Replies

When you have a thread of emails going on, if the subject matter is not urgent, leave amble delay in between your replies. This is especially useful when you are emailing a stranger or a high-profile user. People are busy; an immediate reply would be disturbing and he would probably ignore your reply. A delayed reply would invite another reply from the other end

Also find 15 more tips for Writing Effective Emails. One of my Favourite Tip:

Be Personal and Personable

Personalize email with relevant remarks to the receiver, put in a quick comment about their site, product or work. Address the person by name, sign email with your own name, and a friendly comment like “Enjoy your weekend!”

Good luck with your emails.

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When StudioPress Themes (back then, it was called Revolution Themes), who had made their themes available for free download, decided to remove the free download links from their site, I uploaded all the themes I had in my collection and made it available for free download. I had the entire set with me and the post went popular in no time.

If I would judge myself as of today, that was something really crappy to do, but on that day, it felt perfectly OK. No, am not trying to repent over my mistake. Why should I?

• It brought me close to 400 visit’s a day for the next two months. It stood as a pillar post.
• It helped a lot in the SEO contest at Dollar Shower where I was the first runner-up.
• That one single post gave me the kind of revenue that made me believe for the first time, that I can actually make money online.
• It brought me in contact with people whom I still do work with.

The point is – The blunder I committed actually did Wonders.

Similar stuffs happen to me quite often. I guess am not alone.

Turn to what Steve Jobs said in his talk to the graduates at Stanford. Life is a Game of Dots, you never see the big picture until all dots are connected.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And Never brood over your blunders.

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Microsoft Paint Features that you may not know

Do you know to draw this image in paint? There are a lot of things that we easily miss from MS paint. I never liked paint, but after reading this, I felt its good. Amit often makes me feel wow!

10 Image Optimization Tools to help reduce image file sizes & page load time

I have discussed about Image optimization before. Its a collection of tools to help you optimize images for the web without affecting the image quality. You don’t need all of them, but if you do not use any, this list will help you find the best one for you.

Enlarge Images Without Losing Quality

While the last one was about compressing images, this one is a set of tools that will help you enlarge smaller images. 4 tools that can enlarge images to huge sizes without the image getting pixelated.

22 Stock Photo Sites You Can Download Free for Commercial Use

You will always need images to illustrate your posts and presentations. This is a list of 22 sites where you can get images for almost all your needs. Some are good, some are popular, you decide. Also see the ones I use.

28 Online Photo Editing Websites To have Fun With

You are going to love this. You don’t need any artistic skills to make crazy looking photos. Here is a collection of tools that helps you play with your images. Watch your time fly away.

Hope you enjoyed these links.

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• One reason was my slow old pc. I solved it with a new Dell Studio 15 Laptop.
• Second reason was behavioural. I started off without much plans, still don’t have any, so the way I spent time on the pc was also random.

In an effort to solve the time leakage issue, I listed out where all I spent my time and found ways to solve it. Here is a log of changes I made, it may not apply to you directly, but I believe you will find some pointers towards the solution of your problem.

Busting Time Wasters and Maximizing Throughput

Managing Email Bulk

Managing my inbox was the hardest of all tasks I had online. I get anywhere between 100 to 150 emails a day, and I used to spend most of my online time with gmail, so when I sat down to manage my time, emails was my first priority.

• I started off by un-subscribing to the newsletters I had subscribed, but those I never read. Saved close to 10 emails a day. I used to think that I would read them all someday; well that someday never came around for the past two years, and never will it come. There is no point in having something that you are never gonna read.
• Then there were some newsletters that were not easily scan-able or those often contained affiliate links. The content was good at times, but still reading them was a pain. Was it worth the pain? No. You don’t need to know everything in the world, have the phone number of someone who knows everything or close to it. Luckily I have those phone numbers.
• I had setup a bunch of Google Alerts, mostly to track people I liked. Some of them were so popular that I would get 5 to 8 alerts daily. I removed all the Google Alerts that were not extremely important.
• Some friends and acquaintances used to send me forwards that I never even opened. I was worried that they would be offended if I ask them to stop sending me forwards. Its your time that’s wasted – even deleting emails takes time and unwanted emails makes the inbox messy, I used to miss out important emails. I asked friends to stop sending me forwards and luckily they complied without complaints.
• I had these invitation emails from social sites. Some friends would join and they would give out their login of their email, and the site would send invitations to all contacts, bet you get a lot of them. At the end of every email there is an option to opt-out from future invitations. Use that.
• Spam was the next culprit. I had this habit of checking the spam folder every now and then. 99% of the times there wouldn’t be any good email, it would all be pure spam. Now I check spam only once a day and deletes all of them at the click of a button.

Managing Emails Using Filters, Thanks to Gmail

If you haven’t noticed yet, the most powerful feature of Gmail is its filters. It took me 5 years to realize the power of filters, because I never tried.

Gmail filters can automatically manage your emails the moment it strikes your inbox. With filters you can label emails from a particular sender or with a particular subject that you choose. You can even archive your emails automatically and skip them from the inbox.

I created two labels – ‘Scan and Mark’ and ‘Reply Later’.

• The ‘Scan and Mark’ label would contain all the emails that would convey the message right from the subject line. I use it to label new comment notifications, new twitter Direct Messages, new Facebook friend requests, replies to Facebook status updates, emails that had ‘fwd’ in the subject line and similar emails that you needn’t open to know what’s inside.
• ‘Reply Later’ label is to mark emails that I have to reply. There are many uses for procrastinating email reply’s. Sometimes you wouldn’t have to reply to them at all. Also, you can reply to them when you are in good mood. Writing something in terrible mood is a bad idea.

I created filters that would automatically apply these labels to the respective emails. Most of the time, the ‘Reply Later’ label would be applied manually.

The first thing I would do after logging in to gmail would be to filter all emails with the ‘Scan and Mark’ label and scan the headlines. If I find something interesting, I open the email, else I just select all the emails and would mark them as read.

Then I would go to the inbox and manage the rest of the emails. Now I have less than 15 emails to handle per day. That’s a huge improvement from the 150 emails I had when I started off. With over 35 filters in action, and more filters added every day, the email problem is completely solved.

Twitter Mania

Next to emails, the greatest time sucker was twitter. I could never work and tweet at the same time, so when I was tweeting I was not working. Twitter is so addictive that I would forget that I have other things to do, so I knew I had to find a way out.

• I disabled all the twitter ‘following’ notifications – the email that twitter would sent you went someone starts following you. I would check the followers once a day and would follow them back, eliminating the need for additional notification and saving emails.
• I had created a new twitter account @MillionClues to share out links to awesome blogging and WordPress resources. I had decided not to talk to people in there and I never did. If I do not talk to them, they do not talk to me. That is not the case with @ArunBasilLal. I talk to my friends, they talk back and I am trapped in there. If I did not talk, some would complain. The new account solved this issue.
• Most twitter DM’s are the welcome messages that people send you when you follow them. A filter would label all emails with subject “Direct Message From” as ‘Scan and Mark’. When I scan those emails, if I find familiar users, I read the DM, else I simply mark them as read without opening the email. Auto DM’s can go to hell.

Reading Blogs

My love for emails made me subscribe to blogs via email. At first, when I used to read one or two blogs it was cool. Later on, I moved to an offline reader RSS owl, but I still had emails from the other blogs that I had subscribed in my early days.

An offline reader had two issues -
1. Though there is an auto update mode, you have to have the program running. In my case, the program was never running.
2. You had to check for program updates once in a while and moving to a new version was pain.

So I moved to Google Reader, no more software updates and by the time I login to reader, all the updates would be there. Instead of me going for the updates, it would bring them to me. Unlike emails, you would have all blogs in one place.

With Google Reader I could subscribe and un-subscribe to feeds secretly. Also, I have it wherever I go, I can read my feeds even from college. Also, If I find myself overloaded with updates, I could easily mark them all as read.

Now that I had moved to Google Reader, I had to un-subscribe from the email updates. When you do that, the author gets a notification – “A user has un-subscribed”. Friends would go crazy, thanks to Gmail Filters again.

I created a Filter for the email updates and the action was to ‘Skip the inbox’. So I would get all the updates, but all of them would be archived automatically and friends wouldn’t know.

Grouping Common Tasks

I read this sometime back in ProBlogger where Darren Rowse saved a ton of his time by batch processing common tasks. I tried the same and its worked.

Instead of handling things as it happens, the following jobs are now handled once per day
1. Reply to comments. (moderating and checking spam queue)
2. Reply to emails and questions (with some exceptions).
3. Reading Blogs via Google Reader.
4. Writing posts once a week. (not fully successful yet, but its getting better)
5. Checking Spam. (Binny advised never to check spam ever, not sure of it yet)

Random Tools

I comment on blogs that I have on my reader, I read blogs once per day, so comments will also follow that schedule. Anand introduced me to a Firefox plugin, AutoFill Forms that would fill out the comment boxes at the click of a button. I find this quite useful. I read a post, then I press Alt + J (the key combo to fill forms) and this plugin takes me to the comment box with Name, email and URL fields filled up and the cursor in the comment box. I can simply start writing my comment, then press tab and an enter.

I use FreeMind -a free mind mapping tool to organize post ideas. Its simple, light and works perfect for me. I can create maps of ideas, group them into points and sub-points and use it as a reference when I write posts. The mind map for this post is here.

The WordWeb dictionary is also helping me out. Right click on any word with the control key pressed and it will show you the meaning and synonyms. Am not really awesome at English vocabulary, so it really helps me out in between chats and tweets even.

Far From Complete…

I just started working with Tudumo, a Getting Things Done (GTD) software recommended by Anand. Yesterday I used it to wake up my sister from her short sleep, more on that later. Oh! I mean more on Tudumo, not the sleep.

Hope you enjoyed reading. What GTD software’s do you use? And how do you manage your time? Any tips would be highly appreciated.

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