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Microsoft’s "Learn for Success" Program Now Open for IT Students

Thursday, April 16, 2015 / No Comments

Microsoft’s "Learn for Success"

Microsoft is inviting young IT students to participate in its summer internship program, with only 37 positions available across branches in Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. In order to make it to the list of selectees, candidates will be required to take part and prove themselves in a competition that Microsoft calls ‘Learn for Success’.

How to Show or Hide File Extensions In Windows 8

Saturday, January 31, 2015 /

Since Windows 8 has been released for both Tablets and Desktops, some functions have become very user friendly and easy to implement for users while others have been made difficult. The choice is between a pointing device like a mouse or touch friendly screen. For example, the start menu has been removed. The users who have been using the start menu for ages and have been accustomed to it will feel annoyed and it will take some time to get familiar with the new Metro interface.

If you frequently use Windows Explorer, you may be familiar with how to show or hide file extensions in Windows 7 or earlier versions of Windows. It was always the same like going to Tools –> Folder Options –> View. Since Windows 8 comes with the ribbon interface, this has changed. In my opinion, the ribbon interface has made it easier to show or hide file extensions in Windows 8. Not you can easily show or hide file extension by going to the View ribbon tab and checking the option “File name extensions”.

Record your Skype Calls Automatically [Skype Auto Recorder]

Thursday, January 29, 2015 /

Skype is a very useful instant messaging tool for individuals and businesses. There are many businesses which make use of Skype for communicating with their clients. There are times when we want to record our voice calls on Skype. Unfortunately there is no built-in feature for voice recording in Skype.

There are several third party tools which can record Skype voice calls for free. Skype Auto Recorder is one such free software which can make your life easier by automatically recording all the voice conversations on a computer. It only needs configuration once and then starts recording all the calls from Skype.

How to Send Large Files And Folders Online With uTorrent

No email system or instant messenger allows the user to send large files online. If you have a big video, or a movie or a lot of pictures to send, you should take the concept of ‘mailing them’ out of your mind. For Google, you can only send a maximum file size of 25 MB. Most other email services will use the same limit. Uploading files to cloud storage takes a lot of time. Even downloading them is not an easy task.

If you have huge amounts of data and want to send it to your friends, uTorrent can do the transfer work for you without actually uploading the data online. Since uTorrent works for all platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS etc., this method should work on all Operating Systems. We will be running this tutorial on Windows 8.

The benefit of downloading files through uTorrent is that the downloads can be queued and can actually be “resumed” when the source (where the original files reside) becomes available. In this article, we will go through how to send large files through uTorrent with resuming capabilities.

How To Extend 30 Day Trial Software To Run Forever

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 /

If you have recently downloaded a trial software and want to test it for more than the trial period which is normally 30 days, this article is exactly for you. This article describes different ways to extend the trial period of trial software.

The below methods will not be able to get you complete software. If the trial version of the software runs with limitations, they will still run in limitation as the trial software will always remain in trial using these methods.

Please note that we are suggesting these ways only for people who want to evaluate the software for more than 30 days and then buy the software. It is always recommended to buy a software if you like it. This will help the developers keep the software up to date.

The best way to use the software in extended evaluation is to contact the software vendor and ask them for an extended evaluation time. They will most probably entertain your request and give you some extended evaluation time.

Reinstall the software/Reset Date and Time

The easiest way to reset a trial version of the software is that you can uninstall it and then re-install it again. This will reset the trial version. Most modern software use advanced techniques and will not allow you to reset the trial version of the software even after re-installation.

The other workaround is to play with your system date and time. You can adjust your system clock to a earlier date after installing the software. The software will continue to work as it uses the system date to see if the 30 day trial period is over or not. Most modern software have protection against this method. If these two methods fail, you may see the next method.

How To Enable Right Click and Copying On Any Webpage

Recently a client asked me that he had to copy a lot of data from a website but the website would not let him right click or even select the text and copy it. He said that this was a weired problem and was only one website was affected by this problem. Upon some research and analysis I came to know that the website was using a script (JavaScript) to disable the right click menu and preventing copying of text and images from the web page.

This JavaScript trick is usually used to prevent people from copying data from a webpage but it can be misguiding and frustrates people. If anyone is using this trick, he may well be losing loyal visitors and even customers. Anyways the solution to this problem is quite simple. Let’s do it for all three browsers.

3 Ways To Disable Windows Update Forced Restart In Windows 8

Thursday, August 28, 2014 /

“Your PC needs to restart to finish installing updates. If you’ve already saved your work, you can restart now”. How many of you have seen this warning when Windows 8 automatically downloads and then installs the updates? In this article, we will talk about how to disable Windows Update forced restart warnings.

If you have been using Windows 8 for a while, you must have come across the annoying warning “Your PC will restart in 2 days”. The amount of time decreases with each warning message and at last you will see this warning message 15 minutes before Windows 8 restarts automatically. Unfortunately, there is no way you can stop the restart from happening except quickly running the command shutdown /a from the command line. This command will stop the automatic shutdown process.

We present three ways to stop Windows 8 from forcing the PC to restart:

1. Using Windows Update Force Restart Disabler

This is by far the simplest way to prevent Windows Update from restarting the computer. You will only need to download and run Windows Update Force Restart Disabler. It will automatically disable Windows Update from automatic restarts. When you run the utility, it will ask administrative privileges and then give a success or failure result.

2. Using Group Policy Editor

If you are using Windows 8 Professional or Ultimate editions, you will be able to use the Group Policy Editor to disable Windows Update restart notifications. Follow the steps below:

Importance of Users Generated Tags, Votes and Links for Traffic

Tuesday, August 26, 2014 /

The positive impacts of social bookmarking for distributers of news locales, online journals, and other sites is remarkable. Social bookmarking can acquaint destinations with others with applicable tastes, drive movement to your site, and profitable backlinks.

Generated Tags, Votes and Links for SEO

Observing social bookmarking administrations like Delicious and StumbleUpon help web indexes in numerous courses by:

Indexing Sites Faster : Humans bookmark sites launched by their friends or colleagues before a search engine bot can find them.
Deeper Indexing : Many pages bookmarked are deep into sites and sometimes not as easily linked to by others, found via bad or nonexistent site navigation or linked to from external pages.
Measuring Quality : Essentially if more users bookmark a page, the more quality and relevance that site has. A site with multiple bookmarks across multiple bookmarking services by multiple users is much more of an authority than a site with only several bookmarks by the same user.

Top 10 SEO Tools and Add-Ons for Your Online Business

Wednesday, May 21, 2014 / No Comments

SEO tools are an important part of any online entrepreneur’s resource arsenal. Luckily, the internet abounds with dozens upon dozens of SEO tools, covering a wide range of functions.

The word SEO tool is a term that includes any piece of software or service which can:

help you improve your website’s visibility
build a credible online brand
garner strategic and competitive intelligence
research keywords and links
track social media performance
create better content and
grow your website

Below there is a list of 10 of the most popular SEO tools out there, with explanations of how they can assist in your online business.

1. Google Analytics

Currently, Google Analytics is the Internet’s top rated web analytics and reporting service. For online marketers, it is an invaluable tool that can be used to obtain detailed statistics about a website’s traffic and its sources. This essentially helps publishers understand how visitors are interacting with their website.

Google Analytics can identify where visitors come from, how long they stay on a page, and what country they access the website from. Thanks to its integration with Google AdWords, it can also track conversions; and it’s e-commerce reports can track sales activity.

Blogs and websites may share Google Analytics data with potential advertisers to show how their website is performing and what kind of audience it reaches.

Basic functionality is free, while the premium version can be accessed for an annual fee. Google Analytics Premium offers the chance to work directly with Google and obtain “enterprise-level data.”

2. MozBar

If you are interested in link building, then this is one of the most convenient browser extensions you can get. MozBar lists important SEO metrics for each web page you visit, including domain authority, page authority, on-site HTML elements, and number of backlinks. It also allows you to highlight the types of links you’re interested in (dofollow, nofollow, internal, and external), as well as determine the website’s location, based on its IP address.

All of these features are available with the free version of MozBar. For $99 per month, you can create a standard Moz PRO account, which unlocks access to additional MozBar analytics features, but also to the entire Moz toolkit, including a mentions tool, a rank tracking tool, on-page keyword optimization, a keyword difficulty and SERP analysis tool, and more.

3. Copyscape

CopyScape is an online plagiarism checker and duplicate content detection service that can be quite helpful if your content is being distributed across the web.

Content owners and publishers can use this service to check whether their content has been stolen and republished elsewhere on the web, or whether old content is being repackaged and presented to them as something unique and original. Copyscape functions by matching original content with pages on the internet that contain similar text.

Copyscape also offers two premium services. Starting from $4.95 per month, the Copysentry service monitors your pages and automatically checks for copies once a week, while Copyscape Premium can perform comprehensive plagiarism checkups for only 5c per search.

4. SEER’s SEO Toolbox

A free, all-in-one toolbox based on SEER’s own in-house tools and designed to satisfy most SEO needs, SEER Toolbox targets online marketers who lack the technical know-how of seasoned programmers. Consequently, it works with spreadsheets, not programming code, boasting that if you can use the SUM () function, then you’ve got all the knowledge you need to excel (pun intended).

Importance of Data Recovery and Backup in Protecting your Business

Tuesday, April 22, 2014 / No Comments

Importance of Data Backup and Recovery

A backup is a representative copy of data at a specific time. The phrase "backup and recovery" usually refers to the transfer of copied files from one location to another, along with the various operations performed on those files.

A good backup strategy is essential for data security. Backup is the last defense against data loss, providing a way to restore original data. It has the following advantages:

Protecting you in the event of hardware failure, accidental deletions or disaster;
Protecting you against unauthorised changes made by an intruder;
Providing you with a history of an intruder's activities by looking through archived, older backups.

Beginners Free Guide to Make Money with Google Adsense

Friday, April 18, 2014 / No Comments

Google Adsense is one of the best ways to make money from your site but it is not a money making machine. You might not become a millionaire with your Adsense monetized properties but with some luck, and above all knowledge about what works with Adsense sites and what doesn't, this could become a stable source of income for you. By the passage of time you earn more using Google Adsense by your experience.

How Much Can I Make Money With Google Adsense?

This is a question almost everybody asks before landing on the Google Adsense. There isn't a universal answer; Some Web masters are making a full time income from a single Adsense site, while others with 5 or more sites can't even cover their hosting fees, because every person can use different strategies.

Guide to Google Adsense

How much you will make with Google Adsense depends on many factors. Some of them are outside your control - i.e. the overall state of the economy or what advertisers Google has managed to attract. However, there are also many factors within your control. For instance, obviously, if you have one site with 10 pages only you will make thousands of times less than if you have 10 sites with thousands of pages. Basically, all equal, the more content you have, the more you will make.

1. Choose a Profitable Niche

Niche means, what your site is about, or to put it more professionally, which niche your site is in. Different niches aren't equal – there are more and less profitable ones. There are niches, such as health, fashion, photography or finance, where high value clicks are common and niches, such as culture or history, where you can make almost nothing with Adsense.

This is why you need to choose a niche where clicks pay well. It is true that good niches are very, very competitive but even in the most competitive niche, there is always place for one more good site. After you choose the niche, you need to find the high volume keywords in it and optimize your site for them. To search for keywords with high search volume, use the Google product as AdWords tool foe searching the high paying keywords.

2. Place the Ads in Visible Places

Strategic placement is the very important factor of the ad units is vital for your profits. Quite logically, when you place ads where they are more visible, this seriously increases the number of clicks you will get. The best places are above (i.e. in the top half of the page) and in the text itself. Basically, the closer the ads to the text are the better. You can have a look at these Adsense placement tips from Google to see which places are considered good, best, and worst for ad placement.

3. Optimize the Ads for Higher CTR

Strategic placement of ads unit is important but there are other aspects you need to take into account when you optimize your pages for high CTR (Click Thru Rate). Here are some more tips how to fine-tune your ad units in order to attract more clicks:

How to Verify your Domain Ownership for Google Apps

Thursday, April 17, 2014 / No Comments

To use Google Apps, you must verify that you own your domain. To do this, you have to create a CNAME record using the authentication token provided by Google.

When you have acquired the Authentication token from Google login to cPanel for your hosting account. Go to Simple DNS Zone Editor. Select the domain name you would like to setup with Google Apps from the “Select a Domain” drop-down menu.

In the “Add a CNAME Record” section enter the authentication code in the “Name” text box and enter google.com in the “CNAME” text box.

Then click the Add a CNAME record button. The following confirmation for successful CNAME creation will appear.

Now that you have created the necessary CNAME record, you need to "tell" Google to verify your domain.

Follow the steps below to complete the domain verification:

Log in to your Google Apps Dashboard and click Verify domain ownership.

Which Social Media Network Are Best for Marketing Purpose?

Thursday, March 27, 2014 / No Comments

If you’ve been involved with marketing on the web for 10 years or more, could you have imagined what the web looks like today back in 2002? Considering the changes over the past year between Google, Facebook, Pinterest and Mobile, looking ahead just 12 months can be a challenge. The state of constant change requires an adaptable approach. One that involves a cyclical process of planning, implementation, scale and refinement.

During that process of continuous optimization, it’s important to take the temperature of trends for your specific target market as well as at a broad level. I’d like to use this post to take your general social media temperature when it comes to the most important social networks for business. This is a gut feeling check for how you perceive the list below of social media/network properties that companies are currently using for business purposes.

Please take a few seconds and take the following poll about mostly U.S. centric social media and networking sites. Pick up to 3.

Social Media Network Best for Marketing

Pick the 3 social media or network sites that are best for overall business use:

Twitter (76%, 208 Votes)
Facebook (67%, 182 Votes)
LinkedIn (60%, 165 Votes)
YouTube (38%, 105 Votes)
Google+ (15%, 41 Votes)
Pinterest (14%, 39 Votes)
Slideshare (12%, 33 Votes)
FourSquare (5%, 13 Votes)
Other Network or Media Site Not Listed. Please Mention In Comments. (2%, 5 Votes)
StumbleUpon (1%, 4 Votes)
Flickr (1%, 2 Votes)
Tumblr (1%, 2 Votes)
MySpace (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 273

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