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Do you want to add music to your blog, but don’t want to annoy your readers with (auto-playing, how-do-I-stop-this?) inline music? If that is the case, adding a music player is the best option for you. This article will explain how to add music, mp3, audio to your Blogger (Blogspot) Blog, So follow this step by step guide.

Step 1: First, upload the music file to any free file hosting servers on the net if you don't have your own. Once you upload, they will provide you with a direct link to that music file.

Step 2: Here is the code you need to add music to your blog


Step 3: You can add the music player anywhere you want in your Blogger blog..


That's it, Enjoy! (:


clarification code above:

If you want your own favicon, these are the steps to put your own favicon into a Blogger or any blog.

1. Create a favicon, from a image/logo that you like then with Favicon from Pics convert it in .ico or gif file.

2. Upload it in your host root, if you don't have a host, I recommend you to use imageboo to host your favicon.

3. Now that you have your URL/link of Your Favicon, you need to add it in your template. For this login to your blogger account, then click on Dashboard >> layout >> HTML.

4. Press CTRL+F and make a click inside of template HTML code and search for this tag </head> and just above it paste this code

You will see something like this

Note: if the icon is in .gif format, change type='image/x-icon'/> to type='image/gif'/>

5. Save your template.

If you need more help, don't be shy about leaving a comment below. (:

One of the Major Problem every Blogspot Blogger users have is whenever they try to change their templates, They loss their widgets even if they take backup of their template. After Changing their template, they need to add widgets again manually. If only one or two widgets in the sidebar or you just build your blog, it would not be a big issue, but if you have so many widgets in the sidebar and your blog is enough old then of course it will be more complicated. So what's solution?

I've created this tutorial/guide to help you to change your current template without losing any widgets.

Should you need more help? post in comments section. (:

Ads(advertisements) has been main money and income resource for many websites to cover costs of maintaining a site and providing service and bandwidth. So do Orkut and MySpace. In fact, Orkut has recently added an advertising banner on right sidebar to replace the original Friends’ list.

Orkut is a popular social networking site in many countries like Pakistan, Brasil, India etc. it is by Google. What about MySpace? MySpace used to be the world most famous social networking site 3 years back, it's shine has been surpassed by Facebook recently, remains a popular social networking service in THE US.


To use the plugin, user must use Firefox web browser. Orkut & MySpace Advertising Remover, currently at version 1.0, is an ultra-light plugin removes that advertising banner from Orkut and MySpace.

Download and install Orkut & MySpace Advertising Remover! 1.0 add-on for Firefox.

HappY SurfinG!!! (:

What is BloGTK?

BloGTK is a software/application that allows you to easily blog from the comfort of your own desktop. “But wait!”, you say, “I can blog already from my desktop, with the help of my browser.” Yes you can. But with BloGTK you can blog offline, save drafts, have multiple accounts, and you don't need to open a browser and and and much more. So, let’s take a look at how you can start using BloGTK as your desktop blogging system.

Installing BloGTK

Before we get into connecting to your blog we have to install the application first. This is very simple. You can install BloGTK from the command line with a command such as:

sudo apt-get install blogtk

or

yum install blogtk

Or you can open up your Add/Remove Software utility, search for “blogtk” (without quotes), select the resulting entry, and click Apply to install.

Once BloGTK is installed you will find the menu entry in the Internet submenu of your Applications or Main menu.

Making the connection

BloGTK doesn’t offer as many connection types as some of the other tools. But it does connect to:

• Blogger
• MoveableType
• MetaWeblog API

As of the current release (ver 1.1) BloGTK doesn’t handle the MetaWeblog API well so it does'nt support Drupal, Wordpress etc. yet. So for the purposes of this article I will show you how to connect to a Blogger account with this software.

The very first thing you have to do is go to the Edit menu and select the Accounts and Settings entry. When this new window opens.Notice the Server URL. For Blogger this is the exact URL you need to use to connect. Other than that you will enter the username and password for your Blogger account and make sure Blogger is selected from the list of Blogging Systems.

Once you have this done click Save and then click OK.

You should notice, at the bottom of the main BloGTK window (See Picture Below) the instructions telling you to use File/Connect to connect (or re-connect) to your server.You do not have to connect to the server right away. You can create your blog entry first and then connect to the server and post your entry. Or you can create an entry and save as draft for later posting.

To save an entry you go about creating and, when you are ready to save, click the File menu and select “Save Post As…”, give the draft a name, and save the draft. You can then open the saved post for editing later.

If you want to post immediately you only have to create your post, connect to your account, and click the “Post Entry” button.

In order to connect to your account you go to the File menu and click “Connect”.

Gotchas

Outside of the seriously lacking account types you can use, there is a gotcha you will find when using Blogger. The Blogger system is using a newer API and the current iteration of BloGTK can not make use of all of its features. For instance, you can not add a title to your blogs with this release. You also can not use the Extended Entry or Excerpt features as well. Outside of that, BloGTK works just fine.

When the 2.0 release of BloGTK hits the repositories this application’s usefulness will be extended quite a bit. All of the Blogger features will work and, hopefully, more APIs will be added so more accounts can be used.

Give it a try, Here is the link to download BloGTK.

HappY SurfinG!!! (:

Twitter’s search engine leaves a lot to be desired. The native search frequently brings up incomplete results, both in a current search and going back. Plus Twitter search seems to frequently be down, and always be shoddy.

The best alternative, and a great way to track and search Twitter, is Scoopler. Scoopler is a fast, real-time search engine for Twitter – that’s also got some cool features of its own. It does its main job well, and adds just enough features to make it miles ahead of Twitter’s own search.
For the sake of full explanations, let me tell you that Scoopler also searches results from Flickr, Digg, Delicious, and some other sites – given the relative slowness with which these sites are updated, Twitter tends to both dominate search results and be the most functional use of Scoopler’s search.
When you search for a word or phrase (pick your own, or use one of the popular ones Scoopler suggests), you’re taken immediately to a waterfall-looking column of tweets, that updates as new ones come in. Frequently, it’s too fast to read, especially if you’re tracking a popular subject; you can easily pause the updates if you need to catch up.
In addition, Scoopler does an excellent job with multimedia stuff – videos, images, links, and the like. Within the stream of tweets on your topic, Scoopler extracts all the videos, image, and links to a convenient sidebar, where it organizes them by type, and by the number of shares. If a video is being passed around, you can see it without digging through the stream to figure out what it is you’re looking for. You can easily share anything on Scoopler, too, just by clicking “Peek.”
One thing I like to do periodically is click the “view all” button on the home screen – this tracks all of the most popular topics at once. First of all, the speed at which they update is crazy. Second of all, it’s a lot like skimming news headlines, and is a great way to get caught up on what’s happening.
One day, I predict, Twitter will fix its search – it’ll probably look a lot like Scoopler, actually. But for now, Scoopler seems to be one of the best of a small number of Web apps that let you search and track what’s happening on Twitter and in the world, pretty much at the speed of light.

Try it! (:

"mail" is a command to send and receive mail in Unix, Linux and BSD operating system. To initiate a mail sending process, just type in the following command:

mail recipient@domain.com

Replace recipient@domain.com with a valid email address.

The system will prompt for a subject of the email before allowing user to type in the mail message body.

# mail receipent@domain.com
Subject: For Testing Only
This email is for testing the mail delivery system only.
^D (EOT)
Cc:

Once finished typing the email message, press Ctrl-D (shown as ^D in example above), which represents End of Text (EOT). Depending on system, mail may or may not prompt another input request for any recipients to cc (carbon copy) to. Press Enter to skip or accept the input, and get the mail sent.

Tip: If the sender and recipient is on the same system, it’s possible to omit the domain (@domain.com) part of the address, leaving only user name.

It’s also possible to use mail’s arguments or switches to directly send mail without interactive input. For example,

mail -s Test address@domain.com < /dev/null

Command above will immediately send a blank email with empty body to the recipient address with the subject "Test". For more arguments, type "man mail".

HappY SurfinG!!! (:

Meiga is one of the best file sharing programs to share files across your network or over the Internet. It is available for Linux, and the best part is that you can access files from other operating systems as well. Download the deb packages for Meiga from here. If you use other non-debian based distributions, you would have to compile from source.

Once installed, fire up the GUI. (Applications > Internet > Meiga in Ubuntu). You would be greeted by a mini window like this.
Click on add and browse to the directory you want to share, then choose the share name, you'll have to remove any spaces and make the name as simple as possible.
That's it, you have shared the folder successfully. Isn't it easy?

The person on the other side doesn’t need to install anything as long as a web browser or an http download manager is available. He would have to know your IP address and the share name to be able to access the files. Meiga makes it easy by showing you the URL in the statusbar as you click on each share. This is the URL other person would need to visit to access the files.
If you are on a network like your home network, chances are you would be knowing the IP addresses on your machines, so getting a file simply means browsing to http://[ip address]:8001/[share name] and you would see a list of all the files and folders within the shared folder.
If you are sharing files across the Internet, then of course, you would have to communicate the share’s URL to the other end via email or chat.

While the ability to share files with ease is the stronghold of Meiga, it can certainly do with some basic features like password protection the ability to view all shares on a particular computer. All in all Meiga is great for easy, no fuss file sharing with minimal effort.

Do you know of any similar application? Share with us in comments.

HappY SurfinG!!! (:

It’s always practical to have a gaming device at hand when your on the move It sounds little bit nerdy but true it is. You never know when you’re going to end up in line, stuck in traffic, or locked in an elevator for three days in a row.

However, before I switched Windows Mobile, getting some decent games on my pre-historic cellphone was pretty much impossible, and one doesn’t string a PSP around his neck all day and expect to be popular with the ladies. So, imagine my joy when I got to know that there are free games for iPod that I can download!

These games, which were mainly meant to be downloaded from the iTunes store, could help you kill that little time that was still moving, and although gaming sounds highly impractical with a scroll-click-weel and a center button, they’re great fun i must say.

However, paying for these games gets old quick. Especially because you’re paying 5 bucks (or 5 Euros - people really don’t seem to know how to convert prices) for games you’ve played in your browser a few years ago, like Tetris and music quizzes.

The problem with the iPod’s freeware games market is Apple’s overprotectiveness. It’s not easy to put games on your iPod that weren’t bought in iTunes. But today, we’re going to show you how it’s done.

Please Note: that the iPods supported by this tutorial are the iPod Video 5G and 5.5G (pictured above). Trying this with iPod Nano’s, iPod Classics, or any of the newer models will be bound to result in failure (and there is no other alternative but installing Linux on your iPod).

Either way, everything described in this tutorial, you do on your own risk. Everything 3.1 is not responsible for any potential problems, or damage to your iPod.

So let’s get started,

Prepping your iPod for free games

The process consists of three parts. First, we’re going to make sure iTunes won’t undo all our hard work with the next synchronisation. Then, we’ll need to copy the necessary files and folders to our iPod, and finally, we’re going to patch our firmware.

Configuring iTunes

First of all, let’s fire up iTunes and disable a few options. In Devices - iPod - Options in the Summary tab, make sure that Enable disk use is checked.
Also, go to the Games tab and disable the Sync games box.

Now, close iTunes and make sure your iPod is mounted. If not, remove it and plug it in again.

Moving the files

Next, configure Windows Explorer to display hidden files and folders. If you’re using XP, go to Tools - Folder Options. On Vista, this option can be found in Organize - Folder and Search Options.

In the View tab, make sure Show hidden files and folders is enabled.

Open your mounted iPod in Windows Explorer and navigate to iPod_ControlGames_RO and extract the hex folder of your downloaded games. Read more about where to get these games at the bottom of the article.

Patching your iPod

For this one, you’ll need to download iPodWizard (v1.3) and the right firmware file - 5G or 5.5G. If you don’t know for certain which you need, the 5.5G iPod is the one with search function.

Fire up iPodWizard and make sure the edit mode is set to Firmware File. Then, browse to the correct firmware. Finally, press Write to iPod and follow the directions on your screen.

Yo! Congratulations, you should now be able to find your games on your iPod under extras. Have fun!
Download Free iPod Games

If you do a quick Google search, a few sites will pop up where you can find free games for your iPod that you can download, one of those sites is Emobilez. This site offers a wide variety of free mobile/portable software, and has a healthy arsenal of games as well.

Although I’ve got my doubts with some of them (e.g. Lost and Zuma), all games are believed to be in the public domain.

Anyways, Happing Gaming!!! (:

by Ben Parr

What would you do if all of the activity and data from your Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, or Wordpress accounts were to suddenly disappear? It’s not as far fetched as it sounds – social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia lost all user data permanently this year. And hackers, downtime, and errors happen all the time. The moral? Always have a backup.

Just as you save your essay constantly so you don’t lose your work, or back up your entire hard drive in case it crashes, it’s prudent to have a copy of your social media data. That information can be just as important as your email and personal files, but there hasn’t been an easy way to copy that data from the cloud. Enter Lifestream Backup, a service that will back up your Twitter, Flickr, Google Docs, and more.
The service’s premise is relatively simple: you want to protect your social media data in case of chatastrophic circumstances, failure, or just to have a copy for your own records. To do this, Lifestream Backup connects to your social accounts and pulls the data, pictures, blog posts, and files you’ve added, created, or associated with your accounts.

The actual process of backing up is easy, and the results are accessible without much issue. For Flickr, it stores a copy of your photos. For Twitter, it creates an XML file with every tweet you’ve ever made. In total, Lifestream Backup supports eight services: Twitter, Flickr, Photobucket, Google Docs, Wordpress, Delicious, Basecamp, and Zoho. And according to Lifestream, Facebook, Gmail, and YouTube support are coming soon.

In addition to accessing all of your backups, you can also see your backup history. The company will tell you when the backup began, when it finished, and the result. You can set the backups to occur either weekly or daily, and you can get email digests of backup activity. Backups also occur fast – even though it told me it would take a few hours, backing up my Flickr and Twitter only took minutes.

Backing up your social media doesn’t come free, though – the service costs $4.95 a month, which is similar to standard data backup service like Mozy. This may be a worthwhile price to pay if you’re a heavy social media user.

However, even Lifestream Backup isn’t a guarantee that your data is safe. It takes information in the cloud and places it into another cloud, powered by Amazon Web Services. While AWS is incredibly reliable, it’s not perfect, which is also why you can download the data from Lifestream Backup. Overall, this tool provides a service that many of us actually need, but will not realize until it’s too late.

Don't leave, we have other interested posts for you, check out related post menu below.

HappY SurfinG!!! (:

I had an Ubuntu CD so passed it along and one of my friend(a big fan of linux) was able to install it just fine. The first thing he tells me is that there no icons on the desktop? How am I supposed to browse my files?

Some distros provide you with these icons on the desktop and some don’t. Having the icons on the desktop might be an overkill for the geeks. After all, the Places Menu works just fine. However, I guess new users still want those icons on the desktop (Ubuntu forums would attest to the fact). So, if you are looking to get the Home, Trash or the Computer icons on the desktop, it is very easy.

Follow along (works for all Gnome-based distros)

Hit Alt + F2, type in gconf-editor in the dialog box that comes up and hit Enter.
The Configuration Editor will open up. Navigate to Apps >> Nautilus >> Desktop.
Towards the right side, you'll see some options. Place a check against the icons you want to see displayed on the desktop. You can display the Computer, Home, Trash and Network icons from in here.
While you are there, you can also think about changing the names. If for example, if you want to change the name from “Computer” to “Varun’s Computer”, all you have to do is double-click on computer_icon_name, choose String as the type and then key in the name you want to give to it.
You can also uncheck volumes_visible option if you don’t want the mounted drives to appear on the desktop. I personally loathed them, could never get in terms with where they appear (on top of each other at times) and how to customize their positions.

That’s it! You can customize what to show up and what to not on your desktop very easily.

HappY SurfinG!!! (:

Choosing and using a new template for your Blogger powered blog can be quite a daunting task. What is the best method for installation? How can you choose the design and layout most suitable for your blog?


Well if you are struggling between these question, i've a killer e-book for you. I recently stumbled upon on the ThemeForest blog. Its damn useful eBook and i recommend you if you are a blogger or template maker. So here it is a Free E-book - The Blogger Template Book ~ by Amanda Fazani.

In this free eBook you can learn about:

• Different styles of layout and overall blog design
• How to install different types of Blogger templates
• How to maintain widgets when changing templates
• Where to download the best free templates
• How to speed up the loading time for your blog
• How to optimize your blog template to rank higher in search engines
• Useful resources to help you get the most from your Blogger template
• And much more.

The Blogger Template Book is a free complete guide to Blogger templates, it covers all the major and minor tweaks, hacks and tricks you can play with your blogger or blogspot template. Well If you are a blogspot user you can't give me any excuse for not downloading it.

Go and grab your copy of this free eBook!

All credits goes to Amanda Fazani for this useful eBook.

For more free Ebooks, icons, wallpapers, avatars and other cool stuff like this visit our free downloads category!

As always, enjoy, have fun with your design, and thanks for visiting everything31.com!

See you again tomorrow! (:

My hard drive is 120GB in total. My computer is a couple years old, and 120GB was gigantic when I bought it. I never ever thought that I would be able use all that space.

And then, one day i got that fun-filed message saying,”You have less than 200MB available space on your hard drive. Please free some space, or your computer will begin to die a slow, painful, bitter death.” I paraphrase, but it’s not a fun message to read. And it was a shock to me because I wasn’t downloading tens of gigabytes of stuff, so where did all the space go?

One quick download later, I figured it out. TreeSize, a great and simple application, is the solution to all your storage issues. There’s a free version and a paid version, but for the basic purposes of getting rid of all the cra… I mean junk, on your computer, the free version is great.
Once you download the software and run it. It automatically scans your whole hard drive (and any other attached drive you choose), and then sorts the folders by how much space they’re taking up. It searches through hidden files and folders, system folders, literally everything on your hard drive, to give you a complete look at the size of every folder.
TreeSize also tells you how much space is being taken up by each folder, and which subfolder is the largest one. It doesn’t isolate a particular file, as the tree in the free version just doesn’t go down that far. But once you get to the offending folder, it’s usually pretty easy to figure out.

TreeSize can open a folder for you, or even delete it for you right from within the application. This is where the warning comes in: don’t delete things just because they take up tons of space. A quick Google/Bing for most folder names, particularly ones you don’t recognize, usually provides information on what a folder holds and whether or not you can afford to delete it.
The reason I love softwares like this is because most of the space on my hard drive isn’t devoted to music, or movies; it’s devoted to old system restores, leftover logs from applications that I don’t use anymore, and more useless files that happen to make their way onto my system. I don’t need them, I don’t notice they’re gone, and about ten minutes ago, I freed up over 16GB of space by deleting a few of them.

TreeSize can make your computer run faster, free up space for more music, documents, and fun things, and avoid the disastrous slow-down and crash of your hard drive as it constantly spins, looking for massive files you don’t need anyway.

HappY SurfinG!!! (:

WebSlug is website which provides you a free service to measure your web site’s loading time/speed. You can do this directly from any web browser like Opera, FireFox, IE, or Chrome, and you can also compare one site to another.

The way I would use WebSlug would be to test a website’s speed. Make some minor modifications (one at a time) and test the speed again. A very handy tool at your fingertips to troubleshoot with – all you need is a web browser and an internet connection. The web site has this little tidbit for you:

Webslug is just a way of identifying potential problems with your website’s performance. How to improve it is an exercise we’ll leave to you. With that being said a general rule is that about 80% of improvements can be made on the front end.

Let’s take a look at how WebSlug works and play with its Compare feature. To start, I will show you guys the single website speed test. It is located here: http://www.webslug.info/index/single. All you need to do is type in a full URL into the address box and hit the “Run test” button. Check it out:
The site will load in that greyish box:
And when it completed, I saw this:
So, my site took about 8 seconds to load. Now, I am going to compare it to another website. In this instance, I chose www.buzzvines.com , which is a much bigger site with a lot more dynamic content.
Yesss!!! Everything31.com beat buzzvines by 3.07 seconds.

With that, I decided to compare another set of sites - Google and Bing. Which search engine is faster?
Wow! Interesting! Bing beat Google by almost 0.3 seconds! That’s huge considering their page is a lot busier!

Anyways do check your site speed with webslug, and let us know the result by posting it in comments,

HappY SurfinG!!! (:

Twitter is basically a way of posting short messages on the Internet comparable to Text Messages(Sms) but publicly visible and permanent. It is also possible to follow people on twitter so that their messages get automatically displayed in follower's Twitter. That’s the basic concept of twitter which proved to be very popular. Today i will tell you five very useful twitter usersripts, which can be loaded into the web browser in various ways. Probably the most popular and straightforward way is to use the Greasemonkey extension for the Firefox web browser. However it is possible to add userscripts to Opera, Safari or the Google Chrome Browser as well. So read this post with OPEN EYES!

1. Nested Twitter Replies

Twitter users can post replies to messages which are by default just displayed like any other message meaning that they are not grouped together. The Nested Twitter Replies userscript takes care of that by grouping the original message and the replies together.

2. Twitter Live Updater

The Twitter message pages do not get updated automatically which means that users need to refresh them manually to check for new messages. The Twitter Live Updater will refresh the Twitter pages automatically periodically.

3. Twitter2FB

Twitter2FB updates the Facebook status with the Twitter status.

Note: The userscript’s website lists hundreds of Twitter scripts that have been designed to change, add or modify functions and features on Twitter. They can really enhance the Twitter experience for users who regularly write and read messages.

4. Endless Tweets

As you know twitter displays a limited amount of messages per page. Users need to click every time they want to view additional messages. The Endless Tweets userscript will automatically load the next batch of messages when the user reaches the end of the page.

5. Twitter Trends Explained

Twitter trends are topics of public interest that are displayed in the right sidebar of the profile page. This covers a wide variety of topics from technology to politics and environment. There is no explanation on the topic by default which is changed by Twitter Trends Explained.


If you know any other useful twitter userscripts like these 5, please share them with us by writing a small review in post.
HappY SurfinG!!! (:

With the world economic climate still painfully low, Everyday more and more people are losing their jobs. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. unemployment rate hit over 9.01 percent in May 2009. Germany unemployment rate jumped to 7.6 percent, France was at 8.2 percent last month, and the UK was at 6.78 percent in March. It’s imperative that job seekers have all of the tools at their disposal to find new work. High unemployment rates don’t necessarily mean that there’s no work, it often means that the fields where there are available jobs are changing. Today i am going to tell you peeps 3 best job search websites to help you find a new job as quickly as possible.

1. Monster.com - The Monster of Online Job Hunting

Whenever somebody needs access to job markets across the world, Monster is an obvious place to start. Monster has grown into the largest job search site on the Internet, and serves just about every community across the Globe.

What makes the Monster of job search websites so useful is it's "International Search" will net you a pretty nice catch of job opportunities all across the globe. Of course, Monster also offers a free "home page", a place for you to post your resume, and an entire section of some pretty cool "career tools" to help you research every step of the job hunting process.

2. Job.com - An Obvious Choice Among Job Search Websites

I think when it comes to finding a job for yourself or for your peeps, visiting a website like Job.com makes sense. Like Monster, it is one of the few job search websites that offers the ability to search Internationally.

Under the"Additional Search Options", you can search from general areas of the globe, such as Middle East, Asia, United Kingdom or Pacific Rim. The site boasts over 700,000 listings, and they all seem fairly current. It also has the ability to publish your resume so that employers can view it.

3. HotJobs - When You Can’t Get Enough of Job Hunting

Yahoo! Hotjobs is definitely Monster’s greatest competition. One of the things that Yahoo is very good at is providing content, and job seekers who visit Hotjobs are going to get exactly that.

Yahoo! Hotjobs has loads of articles and widgets from tools like Yahoo Answers. It looks same "look and feel" of other Yahoo pages. Aside from all that bonus content, it offers a powerful job search engine that includes thousands of listings from all throughout the world.

If you know anyother good job search websites, help our readers by sharing them in comments section below!

Have a wonderful day, and best of luck! (:

OrSiSo is an Adobe AIR application, it is available for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. OrSiSo is a social network and chat-network aggregator, which currently supports Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Friendster, Flickr, AIM, Windows Live (MSN) Messenger and Yahoo Messenger.

The main idea of OrSiSo is to organize, keep track of and communicate with all your friends across all these networks. I certainly have been looking for a program which does just this.

Chat:- As an instant-messaging client, OrSiSo doesn’t offer many options, but does well as a chat client, especially with a combined buddy-list from all your networks. It’s worth noting that hyperlinks aren’t yet supported in the chat, I hope that this is fixed in a future release.

Pop-up Alerts:- Pop-up alerts are per network, and are treated like pages which you can flip through if you wish. Hyperlinks work here, and updates can be paused when you’re busy.

Photo albums:- Pics and Photo albums can be viewed from within the program; there’s no need to open a new browser window or tab. That is definitely a very very good feature.

Social Firewall:- The best and most unique features of OrSiSo are so-called the Social Craft and the Social Firewall. These settings let you organize your various “circles” of friends through drag-and-drop lists, and then customize which updates you see. In the example above, I’ve organized everyone into one of four circles, with the fourth circle reserved for persons from whom I don’t particularly care to hear from (I find myself regretting the mass-follow I did a couple months ago). You can filter received messages and updates by social circles just about anywhere in the program.

I’ve found it very user friendly adn easy to learn, use and is very well-rounded with features. Does it do the trick for you?

Here is a quick tip that might come in handy in certain situations. Most users have at least some software programs in their system autostart. This means that these programs are started when the Windows operating system starts. Sometime these programs take so much time to load and piss you off so bad.

Some users might want to skip loading these autostart programs from time to time to save some time to be able to work on the computer. The following solution works only when running Windows XP operating systems. Microsoft seems to have disabled the option in Windows Vista (and most likely kept it that way in Windows 7 too).

To start Windows XP without any startup programs press the [Shift] key while the computer system is booting. The key has to be pressed as soon as the Windows desktop background appears. This will prevent startup programs from being loaded automatically. It might take you a few tries to get it to work.

HappY SurfinG!!! (:

Have you ever faced such problem that when you click on a drive, it opens in a new window. If yes then here is the solution(s).

Solution 1:
Cheack Browse folders option under Tools >> Folder Options in General if it is set to open folders in same window or it’s own window. If it is set to "open folders in same window" then you don't need to change anything, and if it is not then change it to "open folders in same window".

Solution 2:
Go to Start>> Run >> regedit and navigate to the follwing key.
HKLR/Directory/Shell and in the right hand pane change the default valus data as none.
Exit the registry editor.

Solution 3:
You can use this small utility ” Flash Disinfector“. Just download and run it from you computer. Please Note that before running ” Flash Disinfector” close all your programmes and windows. The screen may go blank for a moment while you are running this utility. But don’t worry, this is normal.

You may need to restart your system after going through the above process.

Click here to download Flash Disinfector.

HappY SurfinG!!! (:

I’m sure you guys will agree that the one annoying thing when enjoying a random mix of your favorite tunes is the change in quality, especially in the volume. Since our music originates from so many different sources, quality is never the same, but variations in the volume are most unpleasant thing.

While it’s difficult to fix the overall quality, it’s rather easy to normalize the volume of any track with the right tool. That’s where MP3Gain comes in.

MP3Gain, does statistical analysis to determine how loud a file sounds to the human ear. Most other normalizers work with peak normalization, normalizing a song’s value based on its loudest passage. Furthermore, you will love to hear that normalizing your MP3s with MP3Gain has no effect on the quality, as no decoding or encoding takes place.

The program was primarily written for Windows. However, there is a Linux GUI and a MacMP3Gain version available.

So how does it work? It’s pretty simple. You add files or folders and set the target volume. The default is 89,0 dB. In other tools, you will find up to 92,0 dB as a default volume for normalization. However, I would always go with the default of the respective tool, unless you know what you’re doing when changing this.

When you have added all files you wish to normalize, click the Analysis button. From there, you can select either Track or Album analysis in the pull-down menu. MP3Gain now analyzes each file to check the current volume and whether the file has clipping issues. The Track Gain indicates the increase or decrease in volume required to match the target volume. You can clear the results by selecting Clear Analysis from the Analysis button pull-down menu.

Once the analysis process is completed, you can click the Gain button to initiate the suggested changes. Note that there is also a drop-down menu for this button from which you can select Track, Album or Constant, depending on what type of adjustments you prefer. The included help file does a very good job of explaining what the differences are.

Should you realize that you’ve made the wrong selection, you can cancel anytime and undo all changes MP3Gain made. Simply add all of the edited files that were previously modified and select >Modify Gain >Undo Gain changes from the menu.

MP3Gain is the right tool to solve the issue of varying volume levels in any MP3 collection & very easily!!!

HappY SurfinG!!! (: