Computer Tricks and Secrets

Facebook’s Free Basics has been on fire in India since its inception. First it started with internet.org but even it got a lot of negative response from experts all over the country as it was violating Net Neutrality. And now again Facebook has come up with Free Basics in collaboration with Reliance. Again all the experts started firing Free Basics as it was violation Net Neutrality in the country. If you are new here is everything you need to know about Net Neutrality . In an attempt to save Free Basics from getting banned in India, Facebook came up with this strategy by sending notifications to all the people and signing up in support of Free Basics. What does the notification say? This notification is very persistent, and it comes whenever one of your friends signs up without his/her knowledge. A regular internet user who doesn’t has much knowledge about Net Neutrality and Free Basics tend to fall for it and signs up in support of Free Basics which you shouldn’t. When you click on...

Whether you are adding titles in the lower third of a video or creating text captions to be placed on top of a coloured photograph, the text should be readable irrespective of the color of the background image. If you have been struggling to find the perfect text colours for your video or image, try this simple rule. Set the fill colour as white and use a thin black outline and your text captions will be clear readable over any other colour and brightness. This is exactly the reason why most meme generators on the Internet, including the one available on Google+ and Cheezburger.com, use a white font with a black outline for the text to be readable over any background. And if you enable text captions for any YouTube video, you’ll find they also use the white colour with a black outline and a little amount of drop shadow. Thus the titles ill display well in the foreground even if there are different colours used in the video. The source is unknown . One more thing. Prefer using Sans Seri...

Go long. Go wide. Go big. Google recommends that AdSense publishers switch to wider ad formats as more Adwords advertisers target these ad sizes, more competition among advertisers leads to higher eCPMs thus translating into increased earnings for the website owner. The statistics suggest that the best performing banner sizes are the 336×280 Large Rectangle and the 300×250 Medium Rectangle. In addition to standard IAB units, the AdSense program now supports custom-sized ads which may serve even bigger rectangular ads. Will they perform better than the standard ads? There’s no one-size-fits-all solution and what is working on my site may or may not be the most optimized solution for some other website. As a publisher, you need to run A/B tests on your site for about a week and only then you can you reach a conclusion based on the CTRs and CPMs of individual AdSense ad units. Split Testing isn’t a new concept for most AdSense publishers but with the introduction of asynchronous responsiv...

Wouldn’t it be nice if Twitter had an Export button? You search for a trending #hashtag, or an old tweet , or your brand name, and all the matching tweets get saved in an Excel or Google spreadsheet. And this archive would just update itself in the background as new tweets arrive. Meet Twitter Archiver , the simplest tool for saving tweets, forever It is a Google add-on that takes 5-minutes to setup (watch video tutorial ) and will easily capture all tweets that match particular search terms in a Google Spreadsheet automatically. You can use the tool to monitor tweets around any conference hashtag, learn what people are saying about your brand, track popular search terms, save tweets from any geographic location and more. Save all kinds of tweets with the Twitter Archiver How to Save Tweets in a Google Spreadsheet To get started, install the Twitter Archiver and it will create a new Google Spreadsheet. Go to the Add-on menu, choose Twitter Archiver and select the Authorize menu. All...

Social networking sites are best sources to drive huge blog traffic. If you can build good network in social media then you can get more traffic to your site. For that, you need to  submit your articles on social sites . In this article, I’m listing  Top 10 best websites to increase your blog traffic . 1. Google+ Google+ plays an important role in getting huge traffic to your site . When you submit a link in Google+, try to get maximum g+ to your link because all the links posted in Google+ are considered as Do Follow links . So if you can get Do Follow link from trusted and high page ranked site, it will increase your traffic in a great way. 2. Facebook We all know that Facebook is the most popular social networking site with billions of users. Facebook is the great way to increase blog traffic.  To get more traffic from Facebook follow these steps. i. Create a Facebook Fan page for your blog and post your articles over there. ii. Join Facebook Groups related to your niche and promot...

SEO is the art of developing a site to rank well in search results. SEO is for getting organic traffic to our site from search engines. In this article, I’m writing about Search Engine Optimization and Basic SEO tips for beginners . So if you have enough knowledge about SEO then I suggest you to skip this article. Well! Let us see about SEO in detail. What is SEO? SEO is the process of developing our site to appear at the top of search results. When users search for something in search engines like Google, yahoo , Bing etc., then these search engines will search for the webpages, videos and other stuff which are relevant to the search query and place them on search results. Generally High page ranked sites will get placed at the top of search results. But if you follow SEO tips properly, you can also get good traffic from search engines. SEO is of Two types. They are 1. On page SEO 2. Off page SEO 1.On page SEO On page SEO includes all the tips that you need to follow while writing ...

If you have to share a large file with someone over the Internet, there are generally two options – you can either put the file in an email message as an attachment or, if the file is too big to fit inside email, you can upload it to an file hosting service and then share the download links with the recipient. Best Services for Sending Large Files over the Internet Web email services like Gmail and Outlook allow you to send files up to 25 MB in size. For sending even bigger files, you can use a file-splitting utility like HJ-Split that will break the large file into smaller chunks of 25 MB each and you can send these in separate email messages. The recipient can download and join these parts to restore the original file. You can use online storage services like Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive for sending really big files. Microsoft OneDrive lets you upload single files up to 2 GB in size while the individual size limit is 1 TB (yes 1000 GB) in the case of Google Drive. For even bigge...

Amazon’s Kindle store has more than a million books that you can download and read on your Kindle e-book reader. Download Free Books for your Amazon Kindle While most eBooks available on the Amazon Kindle store are paid, here are some simple ways by which you can find and download free Kindle books for your reading pleasure. #1. Sources for Downloading Free Kindle Books Project Gutenberg ,  Open Library ,  Google Books ,  ManyBooks  and  FeedBooks are some popular websites that offer a large collection of classics and public domain (copyright expired) books in standard formats like MOBI that you can easily transfer to your Kindle over USB or Wi-Fi. Google Books are available in  ePUB format  which is incompatible with the Kindle but you can use the free Calibre software to easily convert Google ebooks from  .epub to .mobi , a format that Kindle can understand. Calibre does not however support conversion of DRM protected ePUB files to Kindle format. Also, the  Internet Archive  website ...