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Starting A New Blog | The First Essential Steps every Blogger must Consider

Going to start a new blog, great! But if you want a really cool & attractive blog you should first consider a few things that are indispensable for newbie stepping into blogging. This article will introduce you to essential aspects of blogging before you actually start & help you to have one with a professionally-crafted design & content.

Identify the Central theme/idea for your blog

Deciding the central category/idea/theme for blogging: It should be clear what is the basic theme of your blog that all your blog content would reflect. Write some of the articles early before you have the blog. It will help you easily post them quickly on your blog.

Choosing the blogging platform

Deciding the platform for blogging & signing up: Choosing the platform for blogging is easy depending upon the services provided & eminancy of the platform. Sign up & start blogging.

Most popular blogging platforms are:

If you are new to blogging & want to put first steps towards blogging for fun, you should go for Blogger platform which is best & easy to start with. Blogger provides you with all the elements which can be easily used to write your posts & publish them to the world, even when you don’t have any idea of web html & web programming. Just go & sign up in the blogger account & start on writing . Blogger also provide major facilities to work on the templates not only by editing the  Html but also to add extra codes thorugh adding the gadgets code in the layout.

WordPress.com too offers similar type of services to bloggers but in a completly different way. This platform is easy to work on & allows users a limited control over their blogs in terms of choosing themes & plugins.

But if you own a domain & have hosting space, then WordPress.org is the excellent & most widely platform used by bloggers. WordPress.org platform extends capabilities of the blogging & provides many support services like  themes & plugins uploading. It has taken blogging to the next level.

Blogging Services are very large in number & are greatly influnced by the popularity & taste of the bloggers. The number of bloggers using a blogging service also vary accourding to the region & countries.

Choosing the right theme/template for your blog

Deciding the fully working & attractive template/theme which suits your blog central idea: A 3 column template will be the best choice & can be downloaded free. Many websites are itself dedicated for providing free blogger templates & wordpress templates.

Writing the first blog article & publishing it

Writing the blog content is one of the most important stage which you need to take seriously. I had already explained it here

The 10 most important things bloggers need to know before writing a blog article


The 10 most important things bloggers need to know before writing a blog article

Article content decides it all. Your articles decide the audience, their responses & their credits. When you start a blog (Don’t have a blog yet,  See 10 Nice Reasons to Start a Blog | Blogging is Power, create an article there are ten ways you can approach your subject matter. Which approach you choose will have a big impact on how fast you grow awareness and audience, plus will be decisive in how easy you find the actual writing. What needs to be done before taking pen on the paper is really important to know because it answers how you can write an article more effectively.

Almost every writer likes to put the best content for the readers & a little pondering before putting their fingers on the keyboard can produce best results. Brainstorms, outlines, and research are all part of the planning and preparation steps that many writers work through before they sit down to actually string words together. But there are ten important questions that every writer must ask before creating that first draft & publishing it.

1. Knowing & attracting your Audience

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Rather than focusing your topic you can focus your audience. This is a tradeoff between these two. You identify a motivated audience, cater your blog articles specifically to them, and then can select anything that interests you that will interest that audience too.

2. Decide on an identified, focused subject

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Identifying the right key for the lock is the art of subject identification. Audiences love when you are ultra-specific in your goal and articulate it well. It works especially well when you identify a pressing need.

3. The Power of Titles

Any article is first identified by the title. The title should be appropriate & put the major idea of the content. The title has the ability make or break a blog post. It impacts how (and if) it’s found in search engines and social bookmarking sites, it influences whether people visit your blog in News Readers, it affects whether people leave a comment and is vital in whether people actually read what you have to say.

4. Good Images conveys it All

Image gives life to simple words on the paper & every image you use must say something related to the topic. This technique can be used for providing an additional point of interest in your posts. I do use images in every post on this blog but find that when I do that those clicking through on the post in my feed reader increases. Images have the power to communicate in ways that words cannot – use them.

5. Be Original & Creative

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Try to speak your own words. Come up with your own content. It helps giving readers an assurance that they reading a fresh & new content. They have got something new. You can think something unique to say and say it in a creative and fresh way. Say what everyone else is saying in the same way that everyone else is saying it and you’re almost guaranteed of being largely ignored. Stick away from any type of copyright infringement.

6. The Presentation stands for 50% of all your work

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Many times online readers tend to scan content & images on the website. As a result if you place visual cues in your posts that draw their eye to important points you’ll find people stick with you longer into your posts. Think like what you will like if you visit a website that is, think like the reader’s point of view & it will help you how to present the things more simply & beautifully.

See also: Top 8 Website Killer & Common Blog Design Mistakes | Dont Let them Go

7. Work on content organization & structure

A single well written list post can launch a blog to great heights in the blogosphere. While the prolific nature of lists in the blogosphere can also mean your lists get ignored, but listing the thing helps keep your article more organized. I find that when writing the same content as a list that you write as an essay like article the list will almost always get more attention. They easily caught the attention of eye & let readers to stick to the content until they catch the idea behind them.

8. Style of your writing

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There can be some difference in the tone of your writing that could not match with what readers want. A fiction piece will have an altogether different tone than a well-researched article. The language you choose, and the styles in which you write are largely directed by your target readership. Always pick a up a tone & style that is simple, clear & understandable.

9. Publishing & Socializing on a Right Platform

Few pieces of writing are publishable across different formats. You should at least have a general idea of the final format; especially be aware of whether your piece is headed for print versus electronic publication. For choosing the right socializing platform for your article after publishing it, you need to think on the need & effect of the article content on the set of readers & audience. Once you understand that, socialize it across suitable platforms.

10. Impact of the Article

Almost every writer wants to make readers feel something. It is important to think the impact of your article on the readers.

One of the positive impact can be Decrease in the Visitors Bounce rate on your website & can yield high traffic to you blog.

See Tim Ferriss View on Building A High Traffic Successful Blog [Video]

What do you want your readers to feel? Hope? Anger? Joy? Controversies? Is your article is imparting knowledge? Is it going to affect a specific set of people thinking? Writing informs, entertains, and sells. It intrigues, educates, and inspires. It’s imperative to know what impact your work will have on readers. Otherwise, it may end up having no impact at all. It is always to look up the results of what you are planning to do.

What do you think now? Share your views with us & comments below.

How to Remove Win32 Sality completely

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Win32 Sality virus mainly spreads though removable medias like the USB flash drives and external HD’s. This virus are is known as the variant of “new folder” virus and are capable of replicating itself into every folder inside the hard disk.

Common problems with Win32 Sality includes:

1. Able to install any antivirus or any software.

2. System functionality like Task Manager, Reg-edit , MS-config etc. can stop working & in some cases control panel as well as your folder options.
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Make your Web Searches More Effective & 10 Times Faster | Use Operators & Limiters

Everyday more than billions of searches are done on various search engines & more than half of that on Google, each search yielding about another thousand results. Nobody wants to spend time scrolling through thousands of search results to find the page that contains the information they’re looking for. In fact, few people bother looking beyond the first page of 10 results, choosing instead to re craft their search phrase and try again. Some go for more advanced searches but its complexity in taking inputs is even more time taking.

But with the help of a few search operators, you can increase substantially the chances that you’ll find what you’re looking for on your first search try. So, here comes the role of operators & limiters to make your searches more effective & about 10 times faster in showing the exact result.

Using (~) Operator

Place a tilde (~) directly in front of your search term to find pages with words similar to the term in question. So searching ~inexpensive domains will return pages that have the term “cheap domains,” “affordable domains,” and “low-cost domains” as well.

Using (+) Operator

Use the plus sign (+) to search for two terms appearing together.

Using (-) Operator

Use the minus sign (-) to find pages that contain one term but not another.

Using (*) Operator

Use the asterisk (*) wildcard to search for a term along with any other word, and quotes (“blah de blah”) to find an exact phrase.

Using (site:) Limiter

If you looking for on the site by going to Google or another search engine, and entering a search term along with site:www.thesitename.com (or .org, .edu, etc.) will yield you the exact website with specified URLs.

Using (define:) Limiter

Use define:word to return a definition.

Using (link:) Limiter

Use link:url to find pages that contain a link to a specific site or page.

Using (inurl:) Limiter

Use inurl:searchterm (or allinurl:searchterm) to retrieve pages whose URL contains a specific word or phrase.

Using (intitle:) Limiter

Use intitle:searchterm (or allintitle:searchterm the find pages with the word or phrase in their title; and,

Using ( info:) Limiter

Use info:url (or id:url) to get information about the page.

Using (safesearch:) Limiter

To keep adult-oriented content out of the results, use safesearch: searchterm.

To Find Weather

If you’re looking for a weather report, simply enter weather place or zip code and press Enter to see the temperature, conditions, and forecast for that locale.

Using (related:) Limiter

And to see pages similar to another page, type related: url.

**Javascript Bonus

Curious about when the page you’re on was last updated? Just type javascript:alert(document.lastModified) in the address bar and press Enter to see the date and time in a pop-up window.

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How To Use BitTorrent to Download Torrents | Step by Step Guide for Beginners

In my previous article on Torrents, Ultimate Beginners Guide for Torrents, Ken asked me this in his comment

I do not know how to start a Torrent, search for a torrent or download a torrent because I Know Nothing at all about Torrents and would like to know if you can help me, Please?

So, here is a step by step tutorial to

1. Download and Install a BitTorrent Client

2. Find and Download a File

If you want to learn from basics & understand more about torrents, torrent trackers, BitTorrent Clients, Limewires & how does torrent works? you can see this & can learn about a faster & better search engine for torrents, Kisckasstorrents here.

Download and Install a BitTorrent Client

  • Click on Save File.
  • When the download is finished, go to BitComet Setup(.exe File) double-click on it.
  • Click Run, Ok, Next, I Agree, I Agree, Next and Install. The program will install. Click Finish. The program will start up.

Find and Download a File

  • Click on the text field near the top left of the page, and type in your desired ebook, game name etc. Click Search.
  • You will be taken to a search-results page.
  • You will probably see a page like this, with a mix of files with different sizes.
  • Click on the name (widest column) of a torrent that sounds good. That row will expand to display some ads, a Download .torrent link, and information about the files that the torrent links to. Click on the Download .torrent link.

To the right you see a number of Seeds and Leechers for each Torrent. A Seed is a user who has the whole file and is sharing it. A Leecher is someone who, like you, is in the process of downloading the file.

So you’ll want to pick a version of the file that has lots of Seeds and Leechers, so that the download is faster and more certain to be successful.

  • If you have never downloaded a torrent before, a window will pop up, asking what you want to do with this file. Choose “Open with BitComet”, check “Do this automatically for files like this from now on” or “Always use this program to open similar files”.
  • BitComet should open automatically and ask you if you want to download this file. Click OK.
  • Wait patiently for the file to download. When it’s done, the file will be in the C:Downloads folder.

Install BitComet Free BitTorrent Client & Speed up Downloading[Video]

Looking on Common File Extensions

  • If the file is a .MP3, .RM then it is an audio file which you can play in a music player.
  • If the file is a .AVi, .MP4, etc, then it is a movie file you can watch on your computer or transfer to a DVD, iPod, PSP, etc.
  • If the file ends with .RAR or .ZIP, then it’s basically a kind of archive ZIP file, and you need to decompress it using WinRAR.
  • If the file ends with VOB, ISO, CUE/BIN, or if it’s a VIDEO_TS folder, then it can be burned onto a DVD for viewing on a DVD player.

Remember, downloading media on BitTorrent is illegal.

Did you liked the way we put using BitTorrent client to download torrents? What are the Clients you use for downloading torrents? Share with us your views & comment.

Using META Tags for Search Engine Optimization: Meta Descriptors that Search Engines look for

Getting a top ranking in search engines is  a No problem Now! All you need to do is add a HTML “meta tags” to your web pages, and you’ll elevate to the top of the listings in the search engine results. Meta Tags the most useful for search engine optimization. Other techniques includes Increasing Blog Traffic: Submitting your websites & blogs to 100+ search engines & directories for Free

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15 Useful Gmail Email Settings That Should Not Be Missed

Gmail, known for its faster access & reliability, is one of the best free email provider that offers unlimited (or ever increasing?) mailbox space (Currently 7356 MB) with user friendly internet mail client. Apart from the basic mail settings available on other free email services, Gmail also has other settings that you might never use before , but may be useful for you in the near future. All of these settings are available from the Gmail “Settings” page.  How to Use Gmail in Offline Mode? Google Gears makes it so explains its extented ability to be accessed in the offline mode(when your network is not connented to Internet).


Here are the 15 Gmail settings that you probably miss out. So, configuring & customizing your Gmail account that suits your taste will be quite useful to you.

1- Gmail display language – if your mother tongue is Italiano, Bahasa Indonesia etc. , why don’t you try Gmail with some local flavors?

2- Maximum page size – 50 email documents in one page is too much clutter? Set it to 25!

3- My picture – send out your email attached with avatars automatically, so people recognizes you faster.

4- Personal level indicators – turn off the arrows on your mail document list if you find it annoying. I prefer to have it turned on so I can differentiate an email from a mailing list from personal emails.

5- Snippets – turn off / on snippets (message excerpts) besides your mail document list.

6- Vacation Responder – have Gmail automatically reply for each one of your email, useful when you are out of the office for a few days.

7- Send mail as – use a different address as your sender’s email address (From:). Imagine sending an email via your Gmail and ask the recipient to reply to another alternate email address.

8- Mail Fetcherget other email documents from other POP email accounts displayed inside your Gmail. Great to combine multiple accounts into one.

9- Filters – automatically sort received email documents from different recipients to specific folders / labels. Comes with multiple filter types.

10- Forwarding - send a copy of each newly arrived emails to another email account. For backup maybe?

12- POP Download / IMAP Accessaccess your Gmail email documents from your desktop email client, online or offline.

13- My Clips – show or disable web clips (news headlines, Gmail tips, blogs, any RSS and Atom feed, relevant sponsored links, and more). Useful to show instant updates of your favorite RSS feeds.

14- Gmail Labs – Try out the experimental stuff from the gmail team & experience the innovative facilities in your Gmail account.

15- Themes – Give your Gmail account more interesting looks & feels by choosing your Gmail theme form a variety of Gmail themes pack.

Learning Scheme Programming Language Made Easy

Today modern programming languages have changed the the way how to design & solve problems more effectively & in a productive way. Although present day programming languages like Java, DotNet, C# etc have been evolved for the concepts & layout set previously by languages like Pascal, SIMULA, C, C++ but each programming language presents a particular world view in the features it allows, supports, and forbids.

Scheme is currently gaining favor as a first programming language in universities and is used in industry by such companies as DEC, TI, Tektronix, HP, and Sun. Scheme is a general-purpose computer programming language.

It is a high-level language(OOP), supporting operations on structured data such as strings, lists, and vectors, as well as operations on more traditional data such as numbers and characters.

Getting Started

Download Latest PLT Scheme Version This program will install like any other program in few clicks.

Running DrScheme & DrScheme Interface

After its install, It can be launched form the Start Menu or from the shortcut icon on the desktop.

Dr Scheme Interface is very simple, above part is the Definition window & just below it you can see the Interaction window.

Getting into Programming

According to Ken Dickey, Scheme is a small, exceptionally clean language which is, very importantly, fun to use. The language was designed to have very few, regular constructs which compose well to support a variety of programming styles including functional, object-oriented, and imperative.

The language standard is only about 50 pages, including a formal, denotational definition of its semantics. Scheme is prefix and C is infix:

In Scheme                                      In C

	(+ 2 3 4)			(2 + 3 + 4)

	(< low x high)			((low < x) && (x < high))

	(+ (* 2 3) (* 4 5))		((2 * 3) + (4 * 5))

	(f x y)				f(x, y)

        (define (sq x) (* x x))		int sq(int x) { return (x * x) }

In Scheme, unnamed functions are created with the key word lambda.

(lambda (x) (* x x))    	-> a function

(define sq (lambda (x) (* x x))

(sq 9)				-> 27

((lambda (x) (* x x)) 9)	-> 27

((if (foo? x) * +) 2 3 4)	-> if (foo? x) is true,

						 then (* 2 3 4)

						 else (+ 2 3 4)

(define (curried-add x) (lambda (y) (+ x y))

(define add3 (curried-add 3)) ;; add3 is a funciton

(add3 7)		-> 10

((curried-add 3) 7)	-> 10

There are seven kinds of expressions:

  Constant:			'foo #Z 3 "a string"

  Variable reference:	foo joe a-long-name-for-an-identifier +

  Procedure creation:	(lambda (z) (* z z z))

  Procedure application:	(cube 37)

  Conditional:			(if (< x 3) sqrt modulo)

  Assignment:			(set! x 5)

  Sequence:			(begin (write x) (write y) (newline))

Scheme has the usual assortment of data types:

  Characters: #a #A #b #B #space #newline

  Strings: "A little string"

  Arrays (called vectors): #(1 2 "string" #x 5)

  Lists: (a little (list of) (lists))

  Numbers: 47 1/3 2.3 4.3e14 1+3i

  Functions (also called procedures)

  Booleans: #t #f

  Ports (e.g. open files)

  Symbols: this-is-a-symbol foo a32 c$23*4&7+3-is-a-symbol-too!

- A vector’s contents can be any data objects.

- Symbols may include the characters + – . * / < = > ! ? : $ % _ & ~ and ^.

- Symbols are case insensitive.

- Symbols are used for identifiers, so identifiers (variable names) are case insensitive.

Useful Resources for Learning Scheme Online

1. R. Kent Dybvig. “The Scheme Programming Language, Second Edition” View

2. Chez Scheme User’s Guide View

3. PLT Scheme Guide by Matthew Flatt, Robert Bruce Findler View

4. Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days by Dorai Sitaram View

I think that those who want to start programming in Scheme, they can start with it more easily now. The resources that have been mentioned above are itself more then sufficient to learn Scheme.

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Unlock over 250 Hidden Useful Mouse Shortcuts using GodMode Feature in Windows 7 & Windows Vista

Keyboard Shortcuts & commands play various important roles whenever working on Windows. They are fast, easy to work on & more importantly can better take on the mouse tasks more often. Shortcuts help us become more productive and do our work fast.

Already We have seen how to Access & Activate Windows 7 Hidden Regional Countries Themes.

Now a simple trick  can unlock over 250 hidden mouse shortcuts on your Windows PCs. This works on both Windows Vista and the Windows 7.

Create A new folder on your desktop and name it: InfoRids.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Actually you are free to use any word above before the period(.)

The new folder that gets created is actually a System Folder that contains links to some 245 areas of your Windows Operating System. This works on both Windows 7 and Windows Vista. You can check a screen-shot below.

In case you still want more shortcuts, you can go on creating folders and naming them as listed under. This list comes from Richard Smith a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Services, UK.

LOCATION.{00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}
BIOMETRIC.{0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428}
POWER.{025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D}
NOTIFICATION.{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}
CREDENTIALS.{1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70}
NETWORKAPPS.{15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4}
DEFAULTS.{17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966}
ASSEMBLIES.{1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43}
WIRELESS.{1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}
NETWORK.{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
DRIVES.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
PRINTERS.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
REMOTE.{241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}
FIREWALL.{4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423}
PERFORMANCE.{78F3955E-3B90-4184-BD14-5397C15F1EFC}

The feature has been christened “GodMode” by many bloggers but actually this neat feature is intended to give developers quick access to areas of the operating system at Microsoft. This feature is intended to give developers quick access to areas of the operating system.

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How to Speed up Mozilla Firefox about 3-30x Faster

Firefox 3.5.5 releases promises a lot of new Features that provide its users a much better experience in browsing the web world. Already a browser war is going on the web & but everything is revolving around faster access, faster results & speed factors.

See also How to Accelerate Internet Browsing Speed on your Mobile 3 times faster than now.

Here are some very effective techniques that can make your Mozilla Firefox 3-30x faster then now.

How to Speed up Mozilla Firefox about 3-30x Faster

1. Open Firefox & Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll
down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading. So, Double click all those entries to Enable them.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

How to Speed up Mozilla Firefox about 3-30x Faster

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer.
Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0“.
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

4. After altering the entries given above close the firefox window and restart.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages 3-30 times faster now. See also How to Make your Web Searches More Effective & 10 Times Faster | Use Operators & Limiters

Any questions, queries, views??? Share them below through your comments.

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