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Getting Ready to Convert your Blog into A Money Making Machine

Posted by on September 16, 2011 No comments

Before you start, to take a journey of converting your blog into a money making machine, I am going to tell you the first requisite thing to focus on.

What you will need to Kick Start?

Yes, that’s important. To get the taste of the fruits you need to plant the tree first. So, to start with you need to establish the base onto which you are going to work.

(Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlhank/3760913731/)

(Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlhank/3760913731/)

First you have to setup a blog & start blogging. What is a blog? This quick video helps you understand that.

I had already covered Starting a New Blog for Free using a free tools for setting up and publishing your own blog online. With its easy-to-use and customizable templates, you can create an account and start blogging right away.

You can also choose to go with hosted blog(with custom domain) & start with wordpress as the blogging platform.

Go for a Valid Payee name & Email address(For AdSense)

Sign up for a valid email address(I prefer Gmail, Why?) if you not have already & enter correct full information there. Make sure that you are using a strong password. For Google AdSense, this email & your valid present resident address, will the basic necessity.

Payments will be made out to the name on your account, so make sure to include your full and valid name.

Go for a new Paypal Account(Its Free)

For most of the online money transactions you need to Sign up for a Paypal Accout. You can Sign up here.

Sign up for PayPal and start accepting credit card payments instantly.

Paypal is a free, most secure, widely used online service for online money transactions. This will be helpful to you in future & making everything easy while joining the Affilates program.

Once you have done with that you ready to make money online.

I am going to cover Does your website meet all the necessary requirements? & most of everything that is required to convert your blog a Money Making Machine in my next articles.

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Google Sidewiki – New Google Toolbar Feature allows to Read, Publish & Share your Insights + Video

Posted by on September 15, 2011 1 comment

Now Google Toolbar is equipped with a new feature, Google Sidewiki which is meant to allow users to Read, Publish & Share Insights & related information in the sidebar, next to any webpage. Its really very useful to track how many people visit the same pages and look for the same information & get the information that is added by many others have done while searching the same.

Google Sidewiki, with the major aim to contribute helpful information to webpage visitors, appears as a browser sidebar, where you can also read and write entries along the side of the page & share them.

Google has implemented an algorithm that promotes the most useful, ordered & high-quality entries allows you to see the most relevant entries first.

Google Sidewiki as a feature of Google Toolbar, is now only for Firefox and Internet Explorer but it will be available soon  in Google Chrome and elsewhere too.

Also, you can to start exploring the web with Google Sidewiki, visit google.com/sidewiki to download Google Toolbar with Sidewiki and contribute your own entries alongside pages on the web.

The Best Free Powerful FTP clients for Website Administrators

Posted by on September 10, 2011 No comments

If you maintain a Web site or blog, you need a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client to interact with the files stored on the host(Server). Mainly used for uploading and downloading files to and from a Web server, FTP clients can also download obscure files and documents from any number of servers around the world. The good ones make the process of uploading and downloading fast and painless with features that eliminate unnecessary steps and offer common security protocols. Instead files transfering, good FTP clients can give give you the power to mangae files at the both ends with the ability to perform more administrative actions on the files.

A number of different clients are available and found many that work quite nicely. But there are things in an FTP client, like drag-and-drop support and user friendly bookmark management might not be as high on your priority list. What’s most important is finding one that offers the best features for your specific needs.

There are plenty of FTP clients you can buy with all the features you need, but why pay if you don’t have to? Here are some free ones that make the process a little easier.

Best Free Powerful FTP clients for Website Administrators

FileZilla offers a paned, side-by-side interface in which you can drag-and-drop files to and from a specified server. It has all the advanced features you might need, like timeout detection and SSL secured connections. The site manager makes it easy to sift through your sites (if you have more than one) so updating specific pages is easy. You can also run multiple simultaneous transfers.

Core FTP LE is a feature-packed FTP client that’s free to home users and students. This one offers drag-and-drop transfers, a session manager, auto-transfers, and much more with an easy to understand interface. It’s a wonder this one costs nothing.

If you need a good FTP client or are looking to switch from your old one, check out one of these free programs. As always, let me know in the comments if you have a FTP client you like better (so I can use it!).

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Find & Delete Duplicate Images on Hard Disk with Dup Detector

Posted by on September 10, 2011 2 comments

Duplicate images are redundancy and they causes extra hard disk storage space. Somtimes while copying & pasting images with keboard(ctrl+v), unrequird copies of previously existing images are pasted. Finding and deleting them manually is tedious and requires absolute patient. Imagine all the searching, compare and delete.

Dup Detector in a Windows software developed by William L. Hunt that can detect and delete duplicate images intelligently. Dup Detector searchs a folder (including subfolders) for duplicate and near duplicate images.

But how does Dup Detector manage to find the duplicates? Here’s the recipe:

Dup Detector creates a data file by opening and reading image pixel data for each image in your collection. It then finds duplicates by % match and displays matching pairs from a log file.

Dup Detector supports checking on these following image file formats – jpg, bmp, png, tif, pcx, tga, wmf, emf, psp. It’s free, so you don’t have to pay a penny to clear some extra space for your hard disk.
Download Dup Detector

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Make a Ton of Ringtones & Swap Ringtones on Android (First Look Video)

Posted by on September 8, 2011 No comments

The Wonderful Mobile Application, Sharetones which is available for iPhones & windows, is now availabe for Android users, as Sharetones 1.0 beta.

Creating ringtones from songs you already own on your phone, Sharetones is able to send your songs to a database of over 65,000 tones and return several options that someone else has created. One ringtone may capture the intro instrumentals; another may clip the chorus. Best yet, for a limited time, it’s beta version is also Free.

The app won’t charge a thing on Android throughout the beta period, but after that it’ll cost you $1.49 for 3 recipes, $2.49 for unlimited use for a month, or 7.49 for unlimited use for a year.

Here is a video(Very First look) showing Swapping Ringtones on Andriod.

Top 3 Ways to Download Unlimited Videos from Any Website for Free

Posted by on September 7, 2011 No comments

Web is an ocean of videos & there are numerous video sites. We all love watching videos. YouTube has gained popularity from a wide range of audiences – from kids who love to watch cartoon shows to adults who browse through TV shows they miss. It uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display its videos. It now has three main video formats: standard, high and 720p HD. However, it does not usually show download links for its videos since they want videos to be viewed through their website. Third-party programs (browser plugins, software applications, and websites) now offer a way to download YouTube videos.

Here are the top 3 ways to download videos for free.

[1] VideoDownloader Mozilla Firefox Plugin

Can download videos from many video streaming sites including YouTube or any page that has embedded music or video. When installed, a small VideoDownloader icon will be added in the browser’s status bar and toolbar. Clicking the icon while navigating in a supported page will open a dialog box. You just have to right click and save the file into your system. The file downloaded is in FLV format.

Add to FireFox (Older Versions)

[2] Orbit Download Manager ‘s Grab++

Just Download Orbit Download Manager & install it. Its Free. Enable its Grab++ tool & reload the webpages with videos, music etc you want to download. It will automatically grasp them & allow you to save them onto your system.

Download Orbit Downloader

[3] YouTube downloader (Free)

YouTube downloader is the most popular third-party, free and is easy to use software for downloading YouTube videos. Once the program is installed, it will just ask for the link of the video you want to download. After hitting the OK button, it will ask you for the file name and where would you want to save the file. The software can also download videos from other sites such as Google Video and Yahoo Video. It can convert the downloaded videos to formats compatible to your iPods, PSP, cell phones, and other media players.

Download YouTube Downloader

Whats New in FireFox 3.5 Web Browser that makes it More Advanced

Posted by on September 6, 2011 No comments

FireFox browser’s latest version 3.5 is released. Firefox 3.5 release promises a lot of new Features that provide its users a much better experience in browsing the web world.

Private Browsing

Now Surf the Web without leaving a single trace.

Search Suggestions

Start typing in the search bar and it will prompt you with a drop down of filled-in suggestions, plus you can use the search bar as a calculator, converter and more.

Password Manager

Remember site passwords without ever seeing a pop-up.

Awesome Bar

Find the sites you love in seconds (and without having to remember clunky URLs).

Downloadable Fonts

View a wider variety of fonts on Web sites while you surf.

Super Speed (With TraceMonkey JavaScript engine)

According to Results of a SunSpider test on a Windows XP machine FireFox 3.5 is fastest, compared to FrieForx 3.  New View Web pages way faster, using less of your computer’s memory. Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox3, and ten times as fast as Firefox2.

Anti-Phishing & Anti-Malware

Enjoy the most advanced protection against online bad guys.

Session Restore

Unexpected shutdown? Go back to exactly where you left off.

Open Video and Audio

Firefox is the first browser to support open video and audio formats, allowing practically limitless new ways for sites to display rich content.

One-Click Bookmarking

Bookmark, search and organize Web sites quickly and easily.

Forget This Site

Having second thoughts about having visited a certain Web site? With this feature, you can remove every trace of that site from your browser—no questions asked!

Easy Customization

Thousands of add-ons give you the freedom to make your browser your own.

Web Application Integration

Expand the power of Web-based applications. Now you can choose a Web mail clients (like Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo! Mail) to launch when you click on that email address.

Tabs

Do more at once with tabs you can organize with the drag of a mouse.

Instant Web Site ID

Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity.

Location-Aware Browsing

Now Firefox can tell websites where you’re located so you can find info that’s more relevant and more useful (for example, getting directions or finding restaurants near you).

The Video taking a close look on FireFox 3.5

Download Link: Click here to download Firefox 3.5

The Next Firefox 2010: Meet Namoroka

The next Firefox is currently slated to be released in early- to mid-2010, according to Mozilla’s developer notes. That, as we saw with Firefox 3.5 , can always change as things moves forward; in fact, Mozilla’s already given Namoroka the additional nickname of “Firefox.next” to avoid getting attached to any specific figures.

What Microsoft forget to implement in Windows Explorer | StExBar provides you that

Posted by on September 5, 2011 No comments

Windows explorer helps you do things more easily. But If you have something that Microsoft had not provided in Windows Explorer like your own favorite commands which are not just available from the toolbar, but also via hotkeys and via a context menu. This means that you can line up all your favorite applications right on Windows Explorer’s toolbar.

StExBar is a toolbar for Windows explorer that adds a number of handy commands and shortcuts to it. By default StExBar includes some common action like create new folder, copy file path, rename, open command prompt and a few others. You can also add custom executable files to it.

The StExBAr Below the Windows Explorer

The StExBar Below the Windows Explorer

It comes with a  ‘lightweight’ console which simply requires command you like to execute into the edit box on the right of the StExBar and hit enter. The command will be executed in the system console.

For example, creating a new folder will be just a one click away. It allows you renaming multiple files at once.

You can also perform the following activities with one click:

  • Rename many files or folders at once using regular expressions strings
  • Copy the full paths for files and folders
  • Copy the name of files and folders
  • Open a command window set to the current working directory
  • Show/hide system files with one click
  • Add your own custom buttons and commands
  • Use the text box on the right to filter items in a folder
Configure it according to your taste

Configure it according to your taste & Add more commands

You can also go into the Options dialog and change the order of the commands if you like. You can also hide the filter box or use it as a command prompt replacement. Customize it with your own taste.

You can actually use that text box on the right as a command prompt. Go into options and uncheck “Use filter instead of cmd replacement”. Now you can type commands into the box just like you would if you did Start and then Run.

So, StExBar is a must have utility for making day to day tasks very easy & comfortable.

Why WordPress as Website or Blogging Platform? The 6 Heavy Reasons you can’t Ignore

Posted by on September 4, 2011 1 comment

WordPress, first appeared in 2003, is a free and open source blog publishing application. WordPress is the official successor of b2cafelog which was developed by Michel Valdrighi. The latest release of WordPress is version 2.8, released on 11 June 2009. When you think of WordPress you probably think of blogging. That’s how most people use it. They sign up for a free blog and start posting about a variety of things. Some blogs are very specific and targeted while others are just general every day kind of blogs. You might not be aware of it, but some excellent looking websites are also using WordPress without using it as a blog at all.

Those 6 heavy reasons that insist you to use WordPress as your first website or first blog are:

Its Free & Open Source

WordPress is an Open Source software which allows it to be used free of cost. You can use it on any kind of personal or commercial website without have to pay a single dime for it. It is built on PHP/MySQL (which is again Open Source) and licensed under GPL.

Ease of Use

WordPress is designed for the masses. That means there’s really no specialized knowledge necessary to sign up for a blog and get started. If you want to go beyond the free blog and take advantage of their premium features, they’re thrilled. So they lead you through it step-by-step to make it easy.

It assumes that you have Zero knowledge of web designing. Deciding to go from a free blog to hosting a domain with your blog as your site is fast, inexpensive and easy. At that point, your .com address contains the blog, which you can arrange pretty much any way you want.

Built-in Tools

Using the blogging and content tools provided by WordPress, it’s easier for many to create a great looking website than it is to use a more complicated piece of software. To create a WordPress site you don’t need an HTML editor or some “what you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) software to help you build the site. You can still use these, for the most part, but you can also do the same things right through the WordPress interface, including using CSS.

You also won’t need a tool for uploading like an FTP client, and you won’t need to learn a complicated file manager or control panel. If you’ve chosen a theme and made a few blog posts, you already understand how making changes in WordPress works. There’s really no learning curve in going from free blog to website.

Search Engine Friendliness

WordPress blogs, if they’re using keywords and contain relevant content, can rank high in searches on those keywords. Google tends to favor some sites over others, while completely ignoring some domains. Content on WordPress tends to be favored. So your website, as long as you actually do concentrate on keywords and content a bit, will probably have a better chance at showing up in search engines than if it were hosted somewhere else.

Popularity and Community

If you’re not paying WordPress and website experts to do your website for you, then the idea of setting up a website anywhere, let alone on WordPress, is probably daunting. But because WordPress is so popular and used by so many people, it’s easy to get help with a problem.

If you have your website set up with Host X and you’re having problems with the PHP, you can wait to hear back from them or do an online search and try to find the exact problem in the exact server configuration in detail. But the WordPress community has active forums where you can ask questions. And chances are your blogging question has already been asked and answered, so your problem could be solved with a quick search.

Support & Forums

If you got stuck somewhere, then its a NO problem. This is because there are so many people using WordPress, so many websites on support which are always there to take you out from the trouble easily. Also,  many Intellient Minds are working in WordPress support forums, where you will be listened & answered.

See what is new in WordPress 2.8

SEO Guide for Creating XML Sitemaps for your website

Posted by on September 2, 2011 1 comment

After understanding what are sitemaps & importance of sitemaps for SEO of your site it is now required to go for the first step, creating sitemaps for your website. What are Sitemaps & how important they are in SEO?

There are so many methods to create XML sitemaps. XML sitemaps can be create using online tools or by softwares.

Create XML Sitemaps Online

Somtimes it is needed to create sitemaps online which is a much easier option when your site is having page size less than 500 MB. This option is excellent for you if you own blogs on Blogger, Typepad or other free blogging platforms.  To build your website XML sitemap online you can use the excellent free service provided by xml-sitemaps.org which helps to create sitmaps in different formats like XML, ROR, Text & HTML.

Just enter the website URL & other details just what I have done in the following screenshot below & Click Start.

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This process will take some time depending upon the pages in the website.

Result will allow you to save the sitemaps in all the different format. Just Downlaod them & its done.

Create XML Sitemaps using Plugin

Thanks for the Google Sitmap plugin allows to create sitemaps for once & leave the rest of the job to this plugin.

This option is most suitable & easy to implement if you own a website hosted on servers & use WordPress platform. Simply download the plugin & upload it to the server using FireFTP or FileZilla software. Activate it from the plugins page & configure the options you want. All Done.

Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones.

So, Once you have an latest sitemap in hand you can submit it to different search engines, which will be covered in the nest post under  Complete SEO Success Guide for Bloggers section.

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