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When i first started blogging back in 2007, my first choice was blogspot, since it offered a free platform which i could also link with my adsense account and hence also get some pocket money out of my passion for blogging. I must confess that making a simple blog was not a difficult job, thanking to blogger user friendly website. However, later on, when i learned the basic of blogging, i had to take a more challenging route of experimenting with different options to learn new tricks of the blogging in Google Blogpost.  For all such users like me, i have decided to make a collection of 20 Video Tutorials to Learn Blogging at Blogspot. Vscreencast really help in acquiring the skills in a much shorter time as compared to learning by reading long and complicated sounding articles with very few pictures.

So lets get to business. Here is the list of 20 Awesome Blogspot Video Tutorials:

1) How to Create a Blog with Blogger?

2) How to Purchase and Create a Custom Domain Through Blogger?

3) How to Customize the Blogger Template?

4) How to Add different Page elements in Blogger?

5) How to Add Google Adsense to Blogger Blog?

6) How to Create a Graphical header for Blogger Blog?

7) Create a Podcast with Blogger

How to Add Widgets or other fun things to Blogger Blog?

9) Add Games to Blogger Blog?

10) Adding Slideshow to Blogger Blog

11) Adding Bloglist or BlogRoll to Blogger Blog

12) Adding Feedburner to Blogs hosted in Blogger

13) How to Add Metatags to Blogger Blog?

14) How to Add Google Analytics to Blogger Blog?

15) Removing Comments and Timestamps from Blogger Blog

16) Removing Subscribe to Posts Atom from Blogger

17) Remove Blogger Navigation Bar

18) How to Adjust Blogger Privacy Settings

19) Automatically adding Technorati Tags to Blogger

20) How to Add Tag Cloud to Blogger

After following all the 20 videos, i am sure you will be in a better position to do your blogging and less reasons to worry about the necessary skill set required for effective blogging. If you like this post, please show your appreciation by bookmarking it in Digg, Delicious and Reddit.

Enjoy Blogging !

If you are using a Ubuntu Linux operating system and your computer is frequently used to connect to internet, you might want to block some sites from being visited using your computer. So here is a simple method for it.

How to Block Unwanted Website in Ubuntu Linux?

The process to block websites in Ubuntu Linux is very simple and doesn’t require any third party application. You just need to make a simple entry in the /etc/hosts file. /etc/hosts is a very important file which handles DNS and internet handling on Linux based systems. In order to block some site from opening, open the /etc/hosts file by typing the following command on the terminal:

gedit /etc/hosts

and add the following line:

127.0.0.1 domain.com

Example 127.0.0.1 yahoo.com

Here replace domain.com with the name of the domain that you wish to block. Once the above exercise is done, who ever tries to access the site will get a message “Failed to Connect”.

Done! Do let us know if you have any alternative method for the above task. We will really like to add it to the post.

If you ever need to ignite fire for your bonfire or you are thinking to get yourself warm in a chilly winter season, Looftlighter is the gadget you surely need at your side.  Imagine a hairdryer type of gadget that blows air and heat in excess of a thousand degrees fahrenheit. This is the main functioning of Looftlighter.

Point the barrel end at your pile of kindling and logs, and switch it on. After about 15 seconds, you’ll see a spark and some embers. Pull back about 3 inches, and keep pouring on the heat. In no time at all, you’ll have a roaring toasty fire! Now all you need are marshmallows, chocolate and graham crackers, and it’s a party! Stay warm!

Key Features

* Handheld electric firestarter without flame!
* US 110v power
* Puts out air and heat in excess of 1000 ° Fahrenheit
* It can start a fire in as little as 15 seconds

Price

The Looftlighter is available for $79.99 at ThinkGeek

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We have earlier written a post on “Top 8 Best Free Antivirus Softwares” and in that we included Panda Cloud Antivirus beta edition. We also covered it in a separate post here.  Now Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.o Final edition has been released after 7 months of beta testing.

In version 1.0 Panda Cloud Antivirus developers have improved most of the issues submitted during the testing period. Some of the improvements it incorporates are:

* Supports Windows Vista and Windows 7 64bits.

* Ability to restore any neutralized file.

* Improved detection & protection against rootkits.

* Free Technical Support forums.

Remember that Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.0 is 100% FREE for home users and non-profit organizations and schools. In adition, you can install it in multiple PCs.

How to Install Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.0 free edition?

If you have a beta version of Panda Cloud Antivirus installed, you should download and install the final version. Simply follow these simple steps to upgrade to version 1.0:

1- Uninstall any previous version of Panda Cloud Antivirus Beta or any other AV you might have installed from Start, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs. Make sure to reboot after uninstalling.

2- Download and run the Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.0 installer directly from http://acs.pandasoftware.com/cloud/CloudAntivirus.exe.

If you are having problems installing Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.0 don’t hesitate to post your problem at our free technical support forum available here.

We hope you like Panda Cloud Antivirus and please feel free to give us your feedback and opinions.

Click here to Download Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.0 Final release

Windows 7 is occupying a lot of space on different technology sites and everyone wants to cover something about it.  In such scenario, techies have forgotten their old Windows XP users who still wants to stick to their old XP. For all such users of Windows XP who wants to stick to their older Windows but are enticed by the Windows 7 outlook, we are sharing Free Windows 7 Theme for Windows XP users.  They can simply install the new theme and get the look and feel of Windows 7 at their old XP OS.

A Deviant Art user has released a Windows 7 theme, that can be used for Windows XP. The theme looks really beautiful and  gives Windows XP the looks of Windows 7.

How to Install Windows 7 Theme on Windows XP?

1. Download the Windows 7 Theme for Windows XP ZIP file here or here

2. Double click on UXTheme Multi-Patcher 6.0.exe from the UX Theme Patcher folder. Windows XP SP3 users can also download from here

3. Now open open Theme > Windows 7 M1 VS and double click on Windows 7 M1 VS.msstyles and it will be installed!

4. Party you got the much needed face lift for your Windows XP.

I recently found out that how to unblock contacts in GTalk is a serious problem for people and hence decided to make a post out of it. I did some search on the net and i came across various methods so i tested them and they all worked. However, these two were the most simple ones.  Check them below and let me know if you have any other way to unblock in Google Talk!

How to Unblock Contacts in Google Talk?

1) If you have blocked your friend from the Gtalk contact list then visit your Gmail.com (the same e mail address that you are using for Gtalk)

2) Once inside the gmail, check on the left sidebar and you will see the “Contact” link.

3) Click on the Contact link.  Once inside the contact link. Type the contact name or search in the contact box for the blocked contact

4) After you find the email id of the person, click on it and you will find a new tab/window on the right side.

5) Click on ”Auto” or “Always” and hence the contact will be unblocked. Go back to Google Talk and you can see the person in the list.

How to Unblock Contacts in Gtalk? (Method 2)

Now here is the second method!

1. Login into Google Talk  and click Settings link at top right.

2. Click Settings option on the left menu to see blocked contacts list.

3. Click to highlight blocked contact and then click on unblock button and its DONE

Try both of the above methods and if you still face any problem, feel free to drop us a message here and we will get it fixed. Dont forget to subscribe to our RSS feed to keep yourself updated and you can also become our fan on facebook.  Just click on “become a fan” below.

Google Chrome fans have been looking forward to some add on or extension that can allow them Easy Download of YouTube videos. TechNama is going to help them by sharing a software that will solve this need of the Chrome users. Since Google don’t allow such extensions or add on officially, the software is available in the unofficial version and the download link is given at the end of the post.

The YouTube Video Downloader for Google Chrome allows the users to download YouTube videos in FLV, MP3, 3GP, MP4, 720p and 1080p FULL-HD video qualities directly from the YouTube website. The option to download the videos is given just after the embed link on the YouTube page as shown in the picture below.

Give it a try and let us know your feedback.

Download Easy YouTube Downloader Extension

If you press Control+Alt+Delete on your computer and inside taskbar looks for processes, you will come across JQS.EXE running on low priority. The process takes around 1.5 mb of computer memory and 2 mb of virtual memory. Although, its not a burden on your computer but if you still want to close it, there is an easy method for it.

Before closing this process, i will tell you what this process is all about! Jqs.exe is the Java Quick Starter which was designed to improve the startup time of Java applets and applications by pre fetching Java Runtime Environment files frequently into memory. That’s mainly interesting for users who work with Java on a day to day basis. Everyone else might be better of disabling the Java Quick Starter. Think of a user who encounters one Java applet per month (or week), would it make sense to run the process all the time because of those few instances where it might start the application or applet faster?

Now in order to Disable JQS.EXE, you need to follow these simple steps:

• To disable just visit the Control Panel and open the Java entry.
• Now go to Advanced tab and look for the Miscellaneous entry below.
• Make sure to uncheck the activated Java Quick Starter entry.

Once done, you will see the result appear in the Task Bar where JSQ.EXE will be instantly terminated.

WAMPSERVER is the best tool to experiment all wordpress changes in local enviornment. In recent past i changed my Windows to Vista, 64 bit and then reinstalled the wamp server. The very first error that any one can experience right after installation is that server does not go online. The basic check here is to quit applications that may utilize port 80 for example Skype etc. Quitting Skype will put wamp online and you would get nice little white icon in taskbar status area/systray.

After putting wamp server online, i couldn’t access the localhost page as when i clicked on “localhost” menu option from left menu click it showed the error and took me to http://www.localhost.com/. If you are running it in firefox you would see the “The connection was reset” screen. Refreshing it many times and rebooting the system did not help as well.

Solution:
See if you can get the wamp local screen by entering the local ip address: 127.0.0.1. If you get the local configuration screen of wamp by ip address then you need to make changes in your hosts file. You can find your local hosts file in following location:

† Users of 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003, Server 2008, and Vista (but not Windows 7) cannot access the HOSTS file with a 32-bit editor.
‡ Actual location defined in Registry key \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\DataBasePath.

Open the hosts file and make sure 127.0.0.1 is associated with localhost or that is not commented out. By the way there are more chances that your file would look like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1       localhost

Vista has a habit of mapping localhost to IPv6 (: : 1) instead of IPv4, so you need to set up IIS or Apache or whatever you’re using to bind ports on both IPv6 and IPv4 to get localhost to work. The quick workaround is that you comment out the Ipv6 entry by just putting # before it starts. Commenting out would look like this:

#::1       localhost

I hope the quick workaround works for you.

I was just sharing Cool Google Talk themes with our valued readers and while doing that i realized, i should also write a blog post on sharing with our users how to Change Themes in Google Talk and How to Install Google Themes in Gtalk. So here is a the simple steps to follow:

How to Install Theme in Google Talk (GTalk)?

Its a three steps process

1) Download and extract all the Gtalk themes to a folder “themes” on your pc

2) Copy the “themes” folder and paste it in the following place

For Windows Vista

C:/Documents and Settings/(your user name)/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Google Talk/themes/user/chat/

For Windows XP

C:\Users\(your user name)\AppData\Local\Google\Google Talk\themes\user

The “your user name” will contain the name of your default login on the windows.

3) Of course the third step is “Done”

Now you are ready to change the Gtalk theme and get rid of the default themes.  If you don’t know how to change the themes, continue reading.

How to Change Themes in Google Talk (Gtalk)?

1. Open GTalk Messenger and go to Settings tab

2. Inside it, click on the appearance button

3. There you will find Chat Theme and you will see a drop box. Inside the drop box, you can select any theme from the default 10 themes or from

those installed by you.

4. Of course, click OK and its Done!

To Download Awesome Google Talk Themes, click here.

Screen sharing has never been this easy as LogMeInExpress have made it for all of us. LogMeInExpress is a really very simple to use as all you have to do is to visit the LogMeInExpress website here and press the “Share” button. It will result in downloading a small application. Once installed on your computer, you can kick start it and it will generate a 12 digit code, which you can share with whom you want to share your screen. It is worth mentioning here that you can share your screen through LogMeInExpress with 100 people at the same time. The recipients don’t need to download any software etc and all they need to do it to put the 12 digit code on the site and start viewing the screen.

Not only this, the LogMeInExpress also offers a remote control feature through which the person sharing the screen can pass on the control of the mouse pointer to those with whom it is shared. Above all it is very secure and it operates end-to-end on 256-bit SSL encryption, the same security levels used and trusted by major banking institutions for all their communications.  Lastly, this awesome service is currently available in beta and is free for both commercial and non commercial users.

Below are the System requirements for Host:

Windows 7, Vista, XP, Server 2003 & Server 2008 (all including 64-bit). Broadband connectivity to the Internet (i.e., T1, cable modem, ISDN, or DSL)

Below are the System requirements for Viewers

Windows 7, Vista, XP, Server 2003 & Server 2008 (all including 64-bit). Broadband connectivity to the Internet (i.e., T1, cable modem, ISDN, or DSL)

Has it ever happened to you that you forget your USB flash drive after using it on any computer? Since some computers have the USB slots at the backside of the computer, users tend to forget it once they are done with the job. In such cases, it might cause a lot of data lost or even the chances of not finding the USB flash drive at all are high. To solve such problems, i recently came across a very small yet handy software for this job. FlashRecall can help us in such situations as all it will do is to beep after some time using the mother board speaker and also pop out a small window on the desktop. The pop up windows looks like the one shown in the picture here.

The pop up windows displays some useful information like status, drive letter, serial number, and free space left on the USB drive. FlashRecall can also be used with flash cards such as Sony or SD memory sticks that come with various digital cameras.

The FlashRecall works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003/2008, and Windows 7. Both installer and portable versions are available

Click here to Download FlashRecall

Mobile Phone backups created with Nokia PC Suite is not in a plain format and hence you cannot read it. Now if you have created a mobile phone backup with Nokia PC Suite and one reason or another, you want to extract data from the mobile phone backup file created by Nokia PC Suite on your hard disk or computer, you can not do it unless you have NokNokWhosThere utility application, which comes handy in such situations. You can use it to extract contacts and messages from the backup file created by Nokia PC Suite. You can keep that file on your hard disk or add to your outlook contacts or even to another phone in case of loss or theft of your phone.

The NokNokWhosThere makes the life of Nokia PC Suite users much easy with ready access to backup file on the harddisk.

Click here to Download NokNokWhosThere

We often face the problems of loads of empty folders and sub folders in our hard drives or on our web servers. Now if you try to find it manually, it will become a hectic job when you have thousands of folders and subfolders and so on. However, there is one easy way to solve this problem of deleting all such unnecessary and empty folders. The solution is brought to us by Folder Vanity Remover. With just few clicks, it will identify the empty folders and sub folders and delete them from the system or the server to make life look simple.

Click here to Download Folder Vanity Remover

I wonder if there is any thing that is left untouched by the Apple revolution? Every site has made their own application for the Apple most famous phone i.e iPhone. Flickr, which is a world for picture lovers have created their own official app for iPhone to better serve their clients who uses iPhone. The Flickr iPhone app is free and hence you can give it a try without giving a second thought. According to TechCrunch:

Yahoo’s Flickr app has just gone live in the App Store. After only a little bit of time using it, I can tell that I’m going to like it. The main screen is a fairly mesmerizing slideshow of photos from your contacts on Flickr. There is an upload button that is easily accessible right on the main page, and the upload process is nice and easy. You can obviously name your picture and give it a description, but you can also easily manage what set to put it in, and what tags to give it. And the privacy settings are very clearly displayed on the upload page.

The main page search functionality works well, and thumbnails are populated quickly. If you click on a photo, you can also go to a larger version loaded in a different screen that allows you to swipe left and right to move between images. It does not look like pinch to zoom works, however.

So what are you waiting for? Come on look at the screen shots and go ahead and download the Official Flickr iPhone App by clicking here