How To Protect Your Facebook Photographs.

People use to upload more photographs on Facebook then their status updates. Friends can see, comment, like and download your photos. When any of your friend download your photos, they do not need any special permission from you to download the photographs. Also Facebook doesn't provide you any notification about your photo being downloaded by anyone.

Now days some wrong minded people download photographs from Facebook and use them on the Dating websites, Matrimonial website and some sort of website for some bad purposes.
They uses your photographs for wrong purposes without any worry because you do not have any copyrights for your images which can help you to avoid such use of your photos.
You can get rid of this problem by Digitally Watermarking your photographs. Digital watermarking is a process of hiding computer information into your photographs but it does not affect your photograph at all.

Visit Whole Wikipedia Without Change In Your Address Bar.

Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia on the internet and you can visit it by typingWikipedia.org in your browser's address bar. Every Wikipedia page has hundreds of links to other pages on Wikipedia and external websites. When you visit any link the URL in your address bar changes accordingly.


You can visit whole Wikipedia website without seeing any change in the URL in your address bar. To do this you will need to access Wikipedia through the µTorrent Remote website.

Wikipedia Main Page with µTorrent Remote website URL in address bar

Add Horizontal Menu With Search Bar Above Blogger Header

Add Horizontal Menu With Search Bar Above Blogger Header

Blogger templates can have horizontal menu bar below the blog header. It is easy to add, just add the 'Label' widget below the header in the blogger layout and your menu bar with all your blog's topic is ready. But some time you need to add another menu bar for some special pages or topics like About page, Privacy policy page and Sitemap page etc. You always want to keep this type of menu apart from your main menu bar. So why not add this menu bar above your blog's header.

The search bar above or with header looks good than placing it in sidebar. In this tutorial you will get to know how to add horizontal menu bar with search bar on the top of your blogger header.
You can take look at the Live Preview.  

Convert Your MKV Video Format Into Other Format Within 4 Minutes

Convert Your MKV Video Format Into Other Format Within 4 Minutes

If you have a video in MKV format on your computer, you can play that easily using video players like VLC Player, JetAudio Player etc. But if you need to play those videos into your DVD player or in your LED TVs through USB. Sometimes these devices are not compatible with these file formats and they cannot play those MKV format videos. Then comes the need to convert the video format, for this you need some video converting tools, but this process is very irritating and time consuming.

For converting a MKV file of size 1GB, all video converter tools takes nearly 1 hour which is very long time. But there is a method of converting MKV file into other format in just 4-8 minutes.

Convert .docx files to .doc files

Convert .docx files to .doc files

If you want to edit a file or document which is given to you by your friend. And your friend uses the MS Office 2007 to create that document or file ( say .docx) unfortunately you have the previous version of MS Office like MS office 2003. Then you cannot open the .docx file or any document of Ms Office 2007 with MS office 2003, thats why you cannot edit that file to do your work. You can install MS office 2007 on your PC or Alternatively , Can convert the .docx file to the .doc format...This can be a good idea if you do not have MS office 2007 to install on you PC. Download and install Microsoft’s free Compatibility Pack for conversion. Note:- This still won’t give the older version of Word the newer features of Word 2007, and there’s a good chance any such features will be lost on files processed by the older version.

Microsoft Compatibility Tool

You can convert Presentation, Word document, spreadsheet and all other Office file with this software.

Upgrade Hotmail.com To Outlook.com

Upgrade Hotmail.com To Outlook.com

Recently Microsoft launches its upgrade for the Microsoft Account's mailbox. They have provided the upgrade for the Hotmail users basically, Hotmail user can upgrade there mailbox to a new and easy looking interface which is called as Outlook.
You can upgrade your Hotmail using your browser for the website version of Hotmail and for your smartphones you can download the new Outlook application.

HOW TO UPGRADE TO OUTLOOK.COM

From Hotmail Account

Sign in to your Hotmail account and click on the Options and then Upgrade To Outlook.com.

From Outlook.com

• Goto Outlook.com.
• Login using your existing Microsoft accout like @hotmail.com, @live.com.
• Enjoy the new outlook mailbox.

 Switching back to hotmail.com was available for the period of outlook.com preview. Now, the is no option in the settings to switch back to hotmail old interface.

SETTING UP OUTLOOK APP ON ANDROID.

• Download and install the Outlook App on your device from Play Store.
• Open the app and enter your hotmail.com email address and password.
• Click on next and follow instructions, the app will automatically setup your account

SETUP ALIAS TO YOUR OUTLOOK.COM ACCOUNT

You can set up alias or other email address with the same inbox from your outlook.com account.

• To setup alias you have to sign in to your Outlook.com account and then click on the Setting icon in the upper right corner of the window, and click on "More mail settings."
• click on "Create an Outlook alias."
• Now, enter the new name for your new e-mail address.
• You can create alias for only sending the mail and for both sending and receiving the mail.
• Outlook.com setup the same inbox for all alias.

Adding Account Lockout Security Feature To Windows.

Adding Account Lockout Security Feature To Windows.

Windows has  user account which can be of computer administrator's or other users of that computer. If you have a administrator account in your computer and you had set some restrictions for other users due to some reasons like keeping the data confidentiality and protecting other aspects on that computer. Then naturally some of the user can wish to remove those restriction by logging into your administrator account. Obviously, they wouldn't know the password but they can guess that by trying several login attempts.
Now, you will need to add some restrictions for login attempts for those type of user. Account lockout policy is the security feature that lock a account for a set time after number of failed login attempts set by you.

Windows operating system has already this feature, all you need to do is to configure it according to your convenience and use. In this post I will suggest you how to configure it.

HOW TO SET ACCOUNT LOCKOUT SECURITY FEATURE.

I will explain you to setup account lockout feature for Windows 7 and it will be similar for few previous version of Windows like Windows XP.
Any user of a computer can set this account lock for the own user account.
Follow the step below :

• Go to Control Panel and then select Administrative Tools.
• Now, open Local Security Policy.
• Now Local Security Policy window will open, click on Security Setting >>Account Policies in the left panel of this window.

 

Facebook AV Marketplace Providing Top AntiVirus Software For Free

Facebook AV Marketplace Providing Top AntiVirus Software For Free

Facebook had launched its Anti Virus Marketplace recently. AV marketplace is the center for the security software suggested by Facebook for your system. Facebook AV Marketplace is launched to provide on Facebook security and off Facebook security to the user from loosing their information and saving users privacy.

Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos and Symantec will augment Facebook's URL blacklist system with their own URL blacklist databases. The AV Marketplace will also let people download six-month licenses to full versions of anti-virus software at no charge.

You can get the free 6 month license when you will like the product by clicking the like button. There are anti viruses like Norton, McAfee, Sophos antivirus for Mac and other. When you click like button then only the download option will show up, in a way Facebook is forcing to like the pages of these Anti Virus products.

Posting on Facebook without internet.

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Almost everyone uses Facebook for social networking to keep in touch with friends, relatives and family. But for using Facebook we need to have internet connection or service on our computer or mobile phone.

Now you can post updates in your own voice on Facebook without internet.



Vodafone has a "Facebook on voice" service for its customer to make it possible on Facebook. Just Dial 51010 and record your voice message! The voice clip will be posted on your wall and all your friends can hear it!.
Your friend can also post voice message updates on your wall and you can listen to those updates on the same portal.

Snow brothers Nick & Tom at android

When I was 10 of age, I used to play a game lot more. The game was the best game I was have that time for my T.V. video game. Now that game, SNOW BROS, I found it again on the android play store.

Many of you are already familiar with this game.
I have downloaded on my phone and use to play it for hours. It is a game in which you can make snowball and roll with them to make points and also kills enemies.



Different type of bonuses and powers to the player make the game more interesting.
You also download this android game on your phone and make a try. You will also start liking this game.


Snow Bros for Android comes with two gameplay modes. The first gameplay mode is One Coin Mode: The mode that has to be cleared by only one coin. You can feel the nostalgic thrilling like in the arcade.The other mode is Stage Mode: The mode, which fitted to Smartphone environment, you can enjoy by selecting the stages.There is a total of 50 stages currently with 20 different enemies to tackle. You do get to compete with other players thanks to a leader board and there are also achievements to earn. 

If you are feeling a little nostalgic and want some real arcade gaming on your Android device, you should check this game out. Snow Bros can be nabbed off of the Google Play Store for $0.99.

Best Video Player For Android Phones

If you search for video player in Play Store, I am sure that you will get many apps related to your search.
These many results are the reason for confusion "Which app is good?" "which will play my most of video formats" and many question.
Android has several good video playing apps, but which is the best for your phone such that after installing one apps for video playing, you will not need other app for any other type of video format.
One of the best and video player is:

• MX PLAYER 

BY:-MX Technologies


MX Player is one of the best app for android phones. It is the complete solution for all type of videos because it plays almost everything. MX player provides support for subtitles in the video playback, so you can watch your favorite movie with subtitle on your Android phone. You can change font, color, border and position of subtitles.
The best part of the MX player is when you install this on your phone it will automatically prompt for downloading the codec which support your phones processor i.e. there is no need to download the wrong codecs for your phone.
Mx player provide pinch to zoom feature to zoom in and zoom out the moving video along with some gesture controls. The gesture control can be used to adjust brightness, volume and seek time only with the swipe of your finger on the screen. Mx player also gives resume video feature. 
The Mx player provides the 100s of file extensions (video formats) and decoders for each extension can be selected.
Mx player is the best app yet on Play store for videos.

How to capture Screen on Samsung Galaxy Y Android Phone

You sometimes need to capture the screen of your phone to save or send some details to anyone. Then for this you need another phone or camera to capture the screen of your phone.
There are some software which can do this for you like ScreenShot UX, an android paid app and Dalvik debugger by connecting your phone to the PC.

For Samsung Galaxy Y  S5360, you are able to capture screen without using any app or without connecting the phone to PC.

Some Special and Useful Android Applications

Google Play store has many applications which are so much popular that in every phone you can find them. There are many application which has same functionality but have different names. The crowd of application is very large which includes both useless and useful application. Here are some applications which I think are special and useful or interestingly different.

• Ants in my pants

Ants in my pants is an application for fun. It makes the phone screen the home of ants. Ants are everywhere on the screen when you are calling, messaging, playing game and doing internet.

 The ants looks so real that you can make fool of your friends by showing them ants on your phone. the application has the configuration mode by which you can control the number of ants on the screen of your phone. Application adds a widget on the home screen which act as the launcher for the ants on screen.

Display Own Phone Number In Your Android Phone Status.

Display Own Phone Number In Your Android Phone Status.

Android users can check their own mobile phone number in the phone status. Many android versions messaging features need  "My Phone Number" on the SIM card to link your picture to your contact in the contact list. But in India many mobile service operator doesn't include the phone number data with their SIM card. That's why when you check your phone status you can see that in "My Phone Number", there is no phone number or Unknown is displayed.

In this post I will try to solve this problem. I will tell you the procedure to write your own phone number on your SIM card and Hence displaying it in your Android Phone Status. Here in this tutorial I will use the Samsung Galaxy Y Young but the process will be similar for other phone models and other Android versions.

WRITING YOUR OWN PHONE NUMBER ON SIM CARD.

First you have to add your phone number information into your SIM card. The process in different from adding contacts to your SIM card. Follow these simple steps described below:

• First, Go to  Contacts and Press the Left Sub Key for more options.

• Now, click on More in the options and the click on Settings.
• Now, You can see Own Number option in Settings.

• Open Own Number setting By clicking on it.
• Enter Your Name and Phone Number in it and click on save button.

Now you have completed writing your own phone number for Your SIM card in your phone.

 

DISPLAY "MY PHONE NUMBER" IN MY PHONE STATUS.

For displaying your own phone number in your phone status first you will need to write it in your SIM card settings as described above.
If you have already completed above steps you can check your phone Status by going toMenu>>Settings>>About Phone>>Status.
Here you will see "My Phone Number" is not displayed yet.
For displaying it in status you will need to restart your phone and then check your phone status again.

Now, your own phone number will be displayed in the status.

Note:- In some other brand dual SIM phone like Spice and Micromax you can do this by going to your SIM Management Settings and adding  your phone number for that particular SIM.

Easy Way To Create The Mobile Version Of Your Website

Easy Way To Create The Mobile Version Of Your Website

You have your website which look good when opened with desktop web browser but when you open same website with your mobile web browser it doesn't look good because the layout become distorted and your contents on the page goes here and there. Making your website suitable for mobile browser, you need to design a layout for mobile version of your website which must be supported by mobiles and tablets.

It is already predicted that by year 2013 more people will use mobile phones than PCs to get online. Therefore it becomes a necessity for making and driving traffic to your mobile site.
You can design the mobile version of your website and can redirect all the traffic which is coming from mobile browser, to your mobile site with MobStac.
MobStac is a product of MobileMotion Technologies India, which join hands with Google India to launch "Let's talk MO" initiative.

1.Designing Layout Of Your Mobile Site

You will not need to design layout of your mobile friendly website because MobStac will do it for you. You have to follow only some simple steps:

• Go to MobStac website and sign up using your website URL.
• Choose the device type and theme color for your mobile site.
• Third step is to setup your account with MobStac, Your initial mobile URL will be something like "yourname.mobstac.com" but you can change it later when you signup.

Google Search Tools Are Showing Up In Horizontal Bar

Google Search Tools Are Showing Up In Horizontal Bar

Google Search had changed its websites Favicon about last month ago. The Favicon used now is similar to the icon used in Google's search application for android or mobile phones. There can be reason behind this that Google is trying to provide the same interface on both application/mobile site and website.



Now Google.com search results are shown aligned to left because the sidebar containing the search tools is moved up like a horizontal menu bar on the website. This change can be seen in Mozilla Firefox browser only and for only Google.com search results not for the Google.co.in results. Google is trying this experiment that's why these change will not be shown every time.
The same type of look for Google search is shown on the mobile site of Google i.e. all the search tools are shown above on the page like horizontal menu bar.

Check Your Pending Friend Request Sent By You On Facebook

Check Your Pending Friend Request Sent By You On Facebook

You may have many friends on Facebook but there are many of your friends which are not appearing into your friend list because the request which you had sent them to add  as a friend are still pending. If you want to add all your friends to your friend list on Facebook but many of them are not responding then you can message them to accept you as a friend. To do this you will need to know which of your friend haven't responded to you and then you can message them for the further action.

Facebook will show you the list of friend requset which you have got but don't show any such list for the friend request which you have sent in past and is still pending. When there is a will then there is a way also.
In this post I will explain to you the way to find your friends which haven't responded to your friend request.

• Start the procedure by logging into your Facebook account.
• Go to Account setting » General Account Setting  
• Now click on  Download a copy of your Facebook data as shown in picture below.

How To Use Mozilla Custom KeyWords For Searching

How To Use Mozilla Custom KeyWords For Searching

Mozilla Firefox browser is one of the most used browser and personally I like this browser more than any other browser. Firefox has some inbuilt features and add-ons which make it smart than all other browsers.
In this post I will try to elaborate one of the inbuilt feature of Mozilla Firefox which is called Custom Keyword or I will say it Smart Keyword.



Custom Keyword can be used as the shorthand for different websites and search any query on the website particular website. For example, I want to search for "MBA Program"on Stanford university website, for this I will need to open Stanford University website and then type my query "MBA Program" in the search box and after clicking on the search it will show the results.

Let's do it in a different way, go to Stanford University website. Now right click in the search box and then click on "Add a keyword for this search.."

How To Take Snapshots Of Youtube Videos And Download YouTube Videos (without 3rd Party Softwares)

How To Take Snapshots Of Youtube Videos And Download YouTube Videos (without 3rd Party Softwares)

You always want to download  upcoming favorite movie trailers and video songs from your  favorite artists and many other videos. The place where all type of videos can be found is YouTube and fortunately you would reach to your video on YouTube  but there is no option in YouTube to save video to your hard drive.
You can take help of some third party software to download this video and another software to capture the snapshot of the best moment in the video.

You can download YouTube videos and take snapshot of them without any third party software because YouTube has given a hidden option to download and take snapshot of videos.
To download YouTube Video you can follow the steps as described below:

• Firstly, Goto YouTube.com and Search for your video you want to download.

• Right click in video and click on Pop out option

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Video will now open in a pop up window with a TV like Interface. 

How to create Contextual Action Mode Menu in Android

How to create Contextual Action Mode Menu in Android

Context Menus provides more flexibility and action which affects the specific item or a context frame in an user interface.It is available for any kind of view like ListView or GridView.
There are two ways of using Context Menus.

1. Floating Context Menu- visit here for more details.
2. Contextual Action Mode- This is a system implementation of action mode which displays contextual action bar at the top of screen with action items.Contextual Action Mode is available at Android 3.0(API 11) or higher version otherwise you need to use Contextual Floating Menus.

Lets us begin programming for Contextual action Mode.

• First open eclipse and start new project by selecting new-> file-> Android Application Project.

• Then fill the following details in the project window.

• Application Name-ContextualAction_Mode
• Project Name-ContextualAction_Mode
• Package Name- action_mode.contextual
• Build SDK-Android 4.1(API 14)
• and then click next and next and then finish.

•  Now open activity_main.xml under menu folder in the project.

•  In activity_main.xml of menu folder you will see the following lines in activity-main.xml .

 <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">  
   <item android:id="@+id/menu_settings"  
     android:title="@string/menu_settings"  
     android:orderInCategory="100"  
     android:showAsAction="never" />  
 </menu>  

• Just replace the above lines with these new lines in activity_main.xml.

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>  
 <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >  
   <item  
     android:id="@+id/action1"  
     android:title="@string/Menu1"  
   />  
   <item  
     android:id="@+id/action2"  
     android:title="@string/Menu2"  
   />  
   <item  
     android:id="@+id/action3"  
     android:title="@string/Menu3"  
   />  
 </menu>  

• Now open activity_main.xml in layout folder of the project.
• In the activity_main.xml of layout folder you will see the following lines.

 <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"  
   xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"  
   android:layout_width="match_parent"  
   android:layout_height="match_parent" >  
   <TextView  
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"  
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"  
     android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"  
     android:layout_centerVertical="true"  
     android:text="@string/hello_world"  
     tools:context=".MainActivity" />  
 </RelativeLayout>  

• Just replace the above lines with these new lines in activity-main.xml.

 <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"  
   xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"  
   android:layout_width="match_parent"  
   android:layout_height="match_parent" >  
   <TextView  
     android:id="@+id/text_view"  
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"  
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"  
     android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"  
     android:layout_centerVertical="true"  
     android:text="@string/hello_world"  
     tools:context=".MainActivity" />  
 </RelativeLayout>  

• Now open strings.xml in values folder of the project.
• In strings.xml of values folder you will the following lines.

 <resources>  
   <string name="app_name">ContextualAction_Mode</string>  
   <string name="hello_world">Hello world!</string>  
   <string name="menu_settings">Settings</string>  
   <string name="title_activity_main">MainActivity</string>  
 </resource  

What is Lint in Android?

What is Lint in Android?

Lint is static code analysis android tools which checks the android project source file for errors and optimization improvements like security, correctness, performance, usability and accessibility.It is android scanning tools which identify and correct the structural quality of a code.
More about lint:

• Its identifies and check that whether android application meet the functional requirement.

• Lint tool has following part:

fig-lint tools processing ,src-developers.andriod.com

How to run Lint from eclipse.

How to run Lint from eclipse.

Lint is static code analysis android tools which checks the android project source file for errors and optimization improvements like security, correctness, performance, usability and accessibility.It is android scanning tools which identify and correct the structural quality of a code.
Lets us learn how run Lint from eclipse.

• Select the project on which you want to apply lint.
• After selecting the lint select the lint tool in eclipse( list tool exist at the top of eclipse.)

 

• Or the second method of running the lint is right click on project and select Android Tools->Run Lint:checks for common errors.
• After selecting the lint tool you will see the lint Warning View

How to create a Popup Menu in Android

How to create a Popup Menu in Android

In Android application, menus are the common user interface components which gives user a dynamic user experience. Popup menu is also a type of menu anchored to the view.When some event happens like click on button the it appear below the anchor view otherwise above the anchor view.Other details.

• Popup menus are available after Android API 11 or higher.
• They can be use for command giving or providing functionality to the user for some view.

Now lets begin the programming for Popup Menu:

• First start your eclipse and select new -> project and click next.
• Now fill with following details:

• Project name- PopupMenu
• Application name- PopupMenu
• package name-menu.popup
• Minimum required SDK- select android 3.0
• tick on create custom laucher icon.
• tick on create project in workspace and then final.