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Animated Desktop background with Bing wallpapers

February 18, 2012 by admin 3 Comments

Yeh !! i just installed this on my PC desktop background and its amazing , and its doesn’t mean you cant do this on your laptop or notebook, you sure can.

Animate your Desktop background with RSS or Bing wallpapers

All it takes is just a few tweaks and you are set , I have windows 7 installed and it works for me , hopefully will work for other versions as well let me know

How to get auto changing wallpapers Desktop background or animate your desktop background with rss wallpapers feed ?

Go to this url

http://tinyurl.com/bing-theme-code

1.Download the file generic.theme from the above link

This is you theme file you will modify to make it show “bing live wallpapers” and you will never have to get a new wallpaper , it auto changes the desktop background with new wallpapers

2. Save this file to your desktop , open it with notepad ( which is in directory windows/system32 if you can t find it)

How the downloaded file will look in notepad

3. Change the display name( right on top of this file ) to Bing Photographers or Daily photos and at the bottom of that file replace your feed url with http://themeserver.microsoft.com/default.aspx?p=Bing&c=Desktop&m=en-US

Close and save the file , then double click the file to get it loaded onto the system. A window will appear asking fi you want to subscribe to RSS feed , click download attachments. The photos in the bing RSS feed will then start downloading to your computer . It might take a minute or so for the images to start showing depending on your internet speed.

You can do further customizations like picture position and interval between images etc through background properties.

Alternate Feed urls for photographs & photo wallpaper feed

If you don like bing photos then you can replace that url given earlier with one of these urls instead

Webshots featured photos url

http://www.webshots.com/rss?type=featuredPhotos

NASA Photo of the day url

http://www.nasa.gov/rss/lg_imgae_of_the_day.rss

You can also add Flickr rss photo feeds this way. If you like this post do bookmark us or then share or like us on facebook

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Converting Your Videos for Smartphone and Tablets – ZAMZAR to the rescue

February 11, 2012 by admin 1 Comment

This tool is the God of Video conversion !!

You just email the content be it a document that needs to be made into pdf , or a 3gp file into another video format ( AVI , Mpeg ) or vice versa and its done and ready to download , and yes it converts into heaps of formats.

Converts Audio ,Video and document formats online

I came across this “zamsar online conversion tool” long ago and then lost the link in my email and did not bookmark it , did a few video conversions for my 3gp files . worked beautifully. They email you back the converted link when its done for download . I dont need it anymore most new phones now have the AVI of 4 mpeg format , but its still handy for converting other stuff

ZAMZAR is a Magic Free online converter

Zamzar, a popular tool for converting files online, has added a new option that lets you convert files by email itself. You can forward your email attachments directly to Zamzar, without downloading them to the desktop, and they’ll be converted in no time.

Here is a full list of what it converts online . Im sure you will add this to your book marks , and do add my blog and give it a like or tweet or whateva

Go to zamzar here

Email Etiquette and email writing tips

December 17, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

Often we receive emails from friends and relatives and wish they paid more attention while sending a message that sounded rude or then just forwarded randomly to other people or something similar that got us a bit annoyed or concerned .

Here is a short list of rules that can be followed so that you are seen a s a good email citizen doing the right thing. Please do add to this if something comes to your mind in t he comments columns below and will add it if appropriate.

Email etiquette

1. Take Another Look Before You Send a Message – Email Etiquette Rule
Don’t send anything you don’t want to send.

2. Do Not Default to “Reply All” or overuse Reply to All – Email Etiquette Rule
Only use Reply to All if you really need your message to be seen by each person who received the original message.

3. Clean Up Emails Before Forwarding Them – Email Etiquette Rule
Forwarding emails is a great way of sharing ideas, but make sure the original idea is really meant for all in your list and if the original email sender
would have wanted his or her message sent to all ?

4. Writing in All Caps is Like Shouting – Email Etiquette Rule
Don’t shout in your emails (and all caps is so difficult to read).

5. Make one last check that the address or addresses in the To: field are those you wish to send your reply to.

6. Always end your emails with “Thank you,” “Sincerely,” “Take it easy,” “Best regards” – or something nice !

Three great Free anti virus software for you as good as the paid ones

November 29, 2011 by admin 1 Comment

These antivirus programs are free and made by legitimate software producers and if you are thinking why they are giving it free, there is a reason. Like all strugglers you have to provide top class service to get the top position and its no different for these Antivirus software makers. They are not strugglers but already established antivirus vendors but they want more people to try their software before they can buy the full versions and so they are giving their software away for free. If you like it and want a buy a premium version ( with some extra features ) you will have to pay for it otherwise it remains free.

3 Free antivirus Software providers

These links below will take you to these free antivirus download website pages

1. AVG Antivirus

2. Avira Antivirus

3. Avast antivirus

Some of these Antivirus are as good as the established players in this market like Mcafee antivirus , Kapersky Anti virus and Norton antivirus and infact offer some innovative features that they don’t as well. These free software also scans your computer for rootkits which is awesome and is also considered a premium feature in some software’s.

Infact i was so impressed with one of these free programs ( AVG antivirus ) that i went ahead and bought a full version AVG antivirus for $39.99 from the internet from amazon and is it going great. Full version of these other free software are also available on Amazon

There is also a tool from Trend micro to do a online scan on your computer by downloading thier software you can check out more about it here.

Amazing free Collage maker

March 9, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

Ever wanted to make images like these with a freeware

The Best free Collage maker software

Vincent Chung, who has previously worked at Microsoft Research and Google, has developed an automatic photo collage maker software that can create extremely impressive collages / posters / photo mosaics in few mouse clicks. Here are some sample photo collages created using Vincent’s software.

Called Shape Collage, this software is absolutely free, lightweight (~300kb) and it’s written in Java so it works just the same on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux machines.
Try it and see and create somthing like this too and text collages also possible

Make collages in different shapes – Collage maker video

Download the free collage maker from here .

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Thanks Vincent

wpmu WORDPRESS 3.0 AND BUDDY PRESS- PART 3

June 26, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Whats new with wordpress 3.00 , WPMU and buddy press

THE GAME HAS CHANGED. WITH THE RELEASE OF wordpress 3.0 my plan to install and work with WMPU and buddy press has been taken to a entirely new level.

If you have been following my blog , my previous posts ( Part 1 Part 2 ( this one ) == Part 3 to come ) you would know that i was posting my journey to get WordPress multi sites installed on my blogs and also a review of wordpress and installation procedures and tips and advice.

With the release of wordpress 3.0 , the game has changed and now wpmu is shipped with your wordpress installation allowing you to make your wordpress blog into a multi user blog without having to go through a separate process to get multi user wordpress blog installed.

I will be dumping my previous multi user blogs to go through the installation of the New wordpress 3 and WPMU blogs with the new wordpress 3.00. so follow me as i go through this journey once again.Hopefully this time it will be quick and with less bugs and technical obstructions and problems.

Here are the new features in wordpress 3.00

WordPress and WordPress MU have merged, allowing the management of multiple sites (called Multisite) from one WordPress installation.
New default theme “Twenty Ten” takes full advantage of the current features of WordPress.
New custom menu management feature, allows creation of custom menus combining posts, pages, categories, tags, and links for use in theme menus or widgets.
Custom header and background APIs.
Contextual help text accessed under the Help tab of every screen in the WordPress administration.
Ability to set the admin username and password during installation.
Bulk updating of themes with an automatic maintenance mode during the process.
Support for shortlinks.
Improved Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies including hierarchical (category-style) support. (Try the Custom Post Type UI or GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools plugins to see the possibilities.)
A lighter admin color scheme to increase accessibility and put the focus more squarely on your content.

and here is a nice breakdown of the new features that wordpress 3.00 has at this blog here >> Nettutsplus blog and for the official wordpress 3.0 features and highlights page go here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0

Installing multi sites (network ) Like WPMU on wordpress 3.00

In wordpress 3.00 the WPMU feature is called creating network

Create a Network

In WordPress 3.0, you now have the ability to create a network of sites. To enable the Network menu item, you must first define multisite in the wp-config.php file.

Open up wp-config.php and add this line above where it says /* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */:

define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);

Notes

Giving WordPress Its Own Directory will not work in WordPress 3.0 with multisite enabled. It interferes with the member blog lookup.
You cannot create a network in the following cases:
- “WordPress address (URL)” is different from “Site address (URL)”
- “WordPress address (URL)” is used IP address such as 127.0.0.1 or port number other than ‘:80’, ‘:443’.
  - Use ‘localhost’ instead of ‘127.0.0.1’, if on local computer.

(See wp-admin/network.php network_step1() for more detail)

check for more detqails here : http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

Google sitemaps and wordpress 3.00 Multiuser blogs problem

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Goggle sitemaps plugins does not seem to work with the multisite installed as of now .. check this space for further news. I got this message when i activated wordpress 3.00 network ( or wpmu)

Google XML Sitemaps is not multisite compatible.

Unfortunately the Google XML Sitemaps plugin was not tested with the multisite feature of WordPress 3.0 yet. The plugin will not be active until you disable the multisite mode. Otherwise go to active plugins and deactivate the Google XML Sitemaps plugin to make this message disappear

Incidentally i did have a problem with the wp-config not saving in its original format after applying the multi user code . and tried another fix i copied the code into wp-config and just closed notepad and it asked me to save and i clicked yes ..instead of saving first ( it getting changed )and then closing.. you will understand this better only if you also run into this problem

Animated Desktop background with Bing wallpapers

Animate your Desktop background with RSS or Bing wallpapers

How to get auto changing wallpapers Desktop background or animate your desktop background with rss wallpapers feed ?

Alternate Feed urls for photographs & photo wallpaper feed

Converting Your Videos for Smartphone and Tablets – ZAMZAR to the rescue