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Windows 7 Theme: Download The Avengers Theme for Windows 7

Praveen — Sun, 13 May 2012 14:45:52 +0000

Decorate your Windows 7 with the latest Superhero movie “The Avengers(2012)” theme.The Avengers Windows 7 Theme is a collection of high resoution images that will enhance the looks of your desktop.The Avengers Windows 7 Theme consists of 35+ Hi-Res Wallpapers, character icons and custom sound clips to complete the theme package.

“The Avengers” Character Icons & Sounds

Customize your desktop with Avengers character icons and custom sound clips and get “The Avengers” movie feel. Replace your default windows 7 icons with “The Avengers” character(Hulk, Ironman, Hawkeye, Captain America, Black Widow, Nick Fury) icons.

Download: The Avengers Windows 7 Theme

Couple of Free Tools For Your Windows Machine

Jenny Simpson — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:44:07 +0000

Whatever we may say about Windows, but the truth of the matter is that it is still the dominant operating system for both desktops and laptops and the user base keeps in increasing with each system sold. Now new users who buy a Windows PC are in fix sometimes as it does not come with a lot of free software which is used daily.

Let’s find out about some free tools that you can utilize daily to make your life easier and make your Windows environment a better place.

1. Recuva

What to do if you have accidentally deleted some of your documents from the hard drive (internal of external) or your flash drive. This software will help you recover it as long as you have not overwritten the free space with data or formatted the memory. The software is available at piriform.com/recuva.

2. Screenleap

What if you want to share your desktop screen with someone? Don’t worry help is at hand. With Screenleap, which is a screen sharing service that works through the browser and you do not need to download and install anything or even sign up. You only need Java which is free and mostly everyone has it. This allows multiple people to view your screen at the same time. This software is available at screenleap.com.

3. Rocketdock

Now some users prefer Mac due to its slickness. You can have some of the slickness by using Rocketdock which is a customizable application launcher which provides a clean interface to add/ remove shortcuts and can replace the standard Windows taskbar. You can add themes and animation effects as well. It is available at rocketdock.com

4. XBMC

This is media software available at xbmc.org which enhances the user experience if you use the computer to connect to the TV or view pictures or listen to music. It has a number of add-ons and has an active user community. The interface is fully customizable and the computer becomes full-fledged entertainment device.

5. Truecrypt

Most of us have certain files on the computer which we do not like anybody to access and view. For this we can utilize the services of TrueCrypt (available at truecrypt.org). This is free open source encryption software that will secure files on your hard drive which even an experience hacker will find hard to access.

You can also create an encrypted section in the drive and it does not slow the system as well.

How To Edit MS Access Database(MDB File Format) Without Having MS Access?

Praveen — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:33:20 +0000

MDB Viewer Plus is a viewer plus is an freeware tool to edit Access MDB files. Its an portable version that doesn’t need any setup or installations. MDB Viewer Plus has been written to provide a free and quick easy way to view, edit and search MDB files without having Microsoft Access installed.The table info screen even has the ability to copy the list of field names in a table to the clipboard. A developer can then paste this list into their source code for direct access.
MDB Viewer Plus is currently being developed to support additional languages. It will make use of a language.lng file which is simply a text file laid out in the same format as an INI file.

Key Features of “MDB Viewer Plus”:

Can open MDB and Accdb files
Table opening, viewing and inline editing
Tabbed interface
Standard search and partial word search
Filtering / sorting records by fields
Record view (form style view)
Query – standard SQL select statements
Opening and saving of SQL statements to file
Table Info (field types) plus printing of structure
Exports to TXT, HTML, XML, DBF, XLS, WKS, RTF and PDF
Import from CSV,TXT,Doc,XLS,WK1,WQ1,SAV,DB,DBF,MDB,ADO,ADT,DAT,HTM,XML,WAB and VCS
Support Access 2007 Accdb files (Provided “Microsoft Office Access database engine 2007″ is installed)
Set / change / remove password
Support for Workgroup Files (MDW)
Selective opening of tables
Add index

Download: Latest MDB Viewer Plus ( Download link at the bottom of the page)

[Fix]Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance WordPress Error?

Praveen — Sat, 05 May 2012 15:57:21 +0000

Are you getting “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute” error on WordPress blog and Admin page? Don’t know how to fix it? Don’t worry In this post I will discuss in detail on root cause of the problem and give solution to it.

Problem:

When I was updating All in One SEO plugin in Geekyard I accidently clicked Settings in left side menu. That’s it I started getting an error “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. check back in a minute.” I tried refreshing and checking back the site after sometime the error was same. So, here is the solution for it.

Why this Error Occurs?

So, what is the root cause of “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. check back in a minute” error? When you auto update either WordPress or plugins, WordPress creates a temporary file in the WordPress root so users can’t access the site for a few minutes while the update is performed. Pretty good idea, but if the update fails or for some reason the file is never removed, then both the site and the WordPress backend are not accessible to anyone.

How to Fix it?

Logon to your FTP account.
In the root directory of your WordPress installation find “.maintenance” and delete that file.
Now your blog and your admin area are back to normal.

Top 6 big Mistakes of New Bloggers

Roberta — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:33:00 +0000

Everyone knows that this is an internet world and every single web user is interested to have his own blog. It builds up your online reputation and your status. Everyone starts it by creating a blog but forget to maintain it. There are lots of different points where you should work to show your blog’s presence. Blogs are created easily but it needs some efforts to remain it active for long.

Let’s discuss some of the big mistakes of new bloggers that make their blogs in the cold box:

Lack of Communication

New Bloggers often forget to communicate with their users after creating a blog. They come online after a long time then place their answers of the users. That creates a very negative point on your part. Instant communication or between 1-2 days are quite well. You also participate on different online communities and forums to show your blog’s online presence. People often don’t know the cold blogs. Communicate with your users through blog comments. Ask them to comment on your post. Take user feedback and improve your blog accordingly.

Lack of useful and fresh content

Fresh Content is the primary key to get huge traffic and user’s interest on your blog. If you publish fresh, unique and useful content for the users, they often come to visit your blog. Try to publish a post daily on your blog but if not possible you should publish fresh content on your blog twice a week.

Lack of relevancy

Selection of proper niche is must to attract the relevant users. Proper niche is important for further enhancements of your blog like placing ads on your blog. Advertisers have a strong eye on blog having proper niche to place their ads on them. So you must decide your blog’s niche and relevancy.
Minimum User Trust

New bloggers often lose their users interest and trust on their blog. The reason behind is the lack of fulfilling the commitments. If you commit something to your user then do that on time. Don’t delay or forget it. This will create a negative impact of you and users loosing trust on your blog.

Lack of efforts to make your blog grow

If you have created a blog and forget to introduce it to online people then obviously it can’t grow and rest somewhere online. To get rid of this, you must participate on online social communities to show the presence of your blog. Register yourself on some forums and participate in it. Place your blog’s link in signature field. Build some online links of your blog by using some off page SEO techniques like article submissions, blog comments, social bookmarkings, directory submissions etc.

Lack of Positive Approach

Some of the new bloggers follow the wrong approach. They get afraid of the online competition and left their efforts. Positive approach is must to live online. Although the competition is very hard among bloggers but the continuous effort will definitely give good result. Keep trying with positive thinking. The result will be better soon.

About Author:

Roberta Smith is an Entrepreneur who designs and develops solutions for a business. She also writes as a freelancer for a number of online communities and is writing this post for http://www.tustinautocenter.com

How To Protect The Content Rights Of Your Blog

Sofia Williams — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:29:20 +0000

Have you ever suffered from content theft? It’s a very common problem nowadays. Bloggers are finding their website content as well as even images have been stolen& are used by others without their permission.Content theft has been a real pain for the bloggers as well as for the webmasters.

We cannot completely eliminate this problem. But still by adopting few steps we can save our content. Many free and easy to use tools are available to deal with this problem. Copyscape and copysentry offers you a free service by which you can check whether your content has been copied or not.

Here, we are going to suggest you few steps that you need to follow to save yours’ precious content from theft.

By configuring your RSS feed: – It will add more protection to your blog content. You can enable this option from reading settings that control how your blog is presented to visitors. You can easily access it through your Settings -> Reading page. Don’t provide full contents in your feeds because lazy scrapper just copy the content from RSS Feed directly instead of manually checking the complete website. You can also add digital finger prints to your RSS feed. You can make use of RSS footer plugin to do this. Now, you must thinking that a spammer can remove such thing but see you have content copying quite difficult for him.

By placing a Copyright Notice: You must include a copyright notice page on your blog, which clearly specifies what is allowed & what is not allowed on your blog. A copyright notice should be placed at the appropriate position so that it is visible all the times. To do this you can make use of text widget from Appearance -> Widgets in the menu.You can place a copyright notice in your sidebar, on your about-us page or on every single post you write.

By using watermarks on images: This task will take some time while doing this using photo editing tool and it will also make the images less attractive if done improperly. Such kind of images serves as a warning to thieves that you are alert about your web content and can go by any extent for its protection. You can put watermark using Photoshop etc.

By disabling right click: It will protect content from theft by disabling spammers and plagiarists from selecting, copying & saving the content but it will also annoy valid viewers.

By reducing image size: Sometimes small size images are not useful for the spammers because if they try to increase the image size then it will result in poor resolution.By using photo editing software you can easily reduce the size of your images.

Gets your content including images registered: If you really want to protect your content then don’t forget to register your work. You can patent your website, its text & images. To follow this you need to study about copyright rules and regulations.

How To Check GD Library is Installed on Your Web Server or Not?

Praveen — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:32:26 +0000

What is the GD library?

GD Library is nothing but an web programmer’s dynamic graphics generation tool.GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers. GD is written in C, and “wrappers” are available for Perl, PHP and other languages. GD creates PNG, JPEG and GIF images, among other formats. GD is commonly used to generate charts, graphics, thumbnails, and most anything else, on the fly. While not restricted to use on the web, the most common applications of GD involve website development.

Why PHP GD Library is Important for WordPress?

WordPress will not be able to resize images to create thumbnails if PHP GD is not installed on your web server. Its very easy to confirm if GD library is installed or not. Recently we moved Geekyard from shared to VPS web hosting. While submitting post to digg, it doesn’t recognize the post image. Then in recent post also image was also not displayed. While cross checking “Special Recent Post” plugin settings we found the root cause i.e GD Library is not installed on web server. The following was the error message,

“Error! GD libraries are not supported by your server. Please contact your hosting/housing company support, and check how to enable it. Without these libraries, thumbnails can’t be properly resized and displayed.”

How to verify GD library is installed or Not?

1. Create a php text file and put the following code in it and save it as gd.php,


if (extension_loaded('gd') && function_exists('gd_info')) {
echo "Yes, GD library is INSTALLED on your server";
}
else {
echo "GD library is NOT installed on your server";
}
?>

2. Upload it to the main directory of your website using FTP client, like this:
http://www.yoursite.com/gd.php
3. If its installed it will show a message “Yes, GD library is INSTALLED on your server”, if not, then it will display, “GD library is NOT installed on your server”.

That’s it After that you can contact your Web hosting company to install GD library.

Gideon Sundback Birthday Celebrated in Google Doodle

Praveen — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:22:40 +0000

Zipper Man Gideon Sundback’s 132nd Birth Anniversary

What is Google doodle today? Just go to Google, and you will find a giant zipper running down the centre of the global search engine’s home page. If you drag your mouse down to unzip the zipper, it will split the screen, including the search textbox and reveal the relevant results for the name Gideon Sundback.Very funny

Google search engine is celebrating 132nd birth anniversary of Gideon Sundback, the Swedish-American inventor of the ubiquitous zipper — the fastening device that has revolutionised the clothing industry.

Gideon Sundback Father of Zipper

Gideon Sundback was born on April 24, 1880, in Sweden, Sundback moved to Germany following his studies and emigrated to the US in 1905. It was in the US where he started to work at Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh.

About the time of World War II the zipper achieved wide acceptance for the flies of trousers and the plackets of skirts and dresses. Sundback died of a heart condition in 1954 and was interred at Greendale cemetery in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

How to Enable Domain Privacy Protection?

Praveen — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 04:33:49 +0000

Domain name Whois lookup is a real thread to Webmasters. Day-to-day bloggers are increasing and so many domains are getting registered. So, most of the individual website owners prefer to hide website owner’s identity. Therefore, if you select the Domain Privacy Protect option while registering website, the website owner’s identity will not be available even if specific searches are done through whois or other domain lookup tools. This is a specific option available for website owners. This option is used by owners of personal websites and not by business websites. Business sites that are meant for commercial purposes must have their information put up to develop their trust in the customer.

Why is Domain Privacy So Important?

Domain name Whois Lookup gives all the details like address, phone number, personal email id etc. This will be a threat to a web masters, bloggers, especially if she is a female webmaster . So we have to enable to enable the domain privacy protection in your domain panel and this post will surely help you in setting up privacy.

How to Enable Domain Privacy?

For setting up Doamain Privacy , you need login to your domain panel. You will be getting domain panel where you have registered your domain like Squarebrothers, bigrock, hostgator, godaddy etc.

Login to your domain panel.(For Squarebrothers use http://dom.squarebrothers.com)
Enter your domain name and select “Domain registration service” and click continue as shown below,

Click Privacy protection option.

Click enable option.

That’s it by enabling this it secures your information by removing it from the publicly available Whois database. This minimizes the risk of identity theft, fraud, and spam. See the Geekyard Whois lookup result,

How To Submit Sitemap to Ask.com?

Praveen — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:49:22 +0000

Webmasters toil day and night on finding ways to increase web traffic. And they do lots of SEO(Search Engine Optimization) on optimizing their sites for the top search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. Ask.com also can contribute some traffic so its highly essential submit your website Sitemap to Ask.com.

Sitemaps are a way to tell Search engines about pages on your site that might not otherwise discovered by search engines.Ask.com does not have a webmaster center as Google Webmaster or Bing Webmaster, but they will accept the XML sitemap submissions. If you don’t know what is a Sitemap and how to generate a Sitemap for your site. Read this article first, Google XML Sitemaps Generator for WordPress Blog

How to Submit Sitemap to Ask.com?

Ask.com supports the open-format Sitemaps protocol. Once you have prepared the sitemap, add the sitemap auto-discovery directive to robots.txt

1. Just use this link,
http://submissions.ask.com/ping? sitemap=http://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml
Example: I have added,
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.geekyard.com/sitemap.xml to ask.com.
2. That’s it. You will get a message,
“Your Sitemap submission was successful
Your Sitemap has been successfully received and added to our Sitemap queue.
Thank you for your submission!”

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