Windows Live Essentials 2011

We're talking about a great program: Windows Live Essentials 2011. If you're a blogger, you know that this is a must-have program. With Windows Liver Writer 2011 you can use it to write articles, posts, adjust the layout with a variety of stunning photo effects, and even you can directly use emoticons feature because it is there. All have been provided with complete, so you will gain great experience in blogging.

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It's time to get rid of Windows Live Writer 2009 because today has been present in 2011 a stable version. This version is better and have more features so feel like using Microsoft Word 2007.

These are features that have been completed on the Windows Live Essentials 2001:

  • Windows Messenger
  • Photo Gallery
  • Movie Maker
  • Mail
  • Windows Live Writer
  • Family Safety
  • Windows Live Mesh
  • Messenger Companion
  • Bing Bar
  • Outlook Connector Pack
  • Microsoft Silverlight

Click here to download the offline version of the installer : Download offline version of Windows Live Essentials 2011 [Size ~ 156MB]

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Display photo on your blog comments

I'm sure you often see the photo of someone who gave comments on a blog. Actually, it is easy to display the photo in our comments. Here I will show you the way that I think is the easiest and quick process. The steps are as follows:

  • Sign in and register at http://en.gravatar.com
  • Select |Sign Up|
  • Enter your email address, click | Sign Up | and wait until there is verification email in your email inbox.
  • Open email from the gravatar, then click the URL verification.
  • A new tab will be opened, then you are prompted to enter your nickname and password.
  • Gravatar default settings are usually still a gravatar standard (gravatar icon).

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  • To replace gravatar icon into photo or image, go to |My Account| then click |Add an image| and your photo will be uploaded.
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  • After that, you can crop your photos or images as you wish.
  • Click |Finish|.

    Easy isn’t it? From now, your photos will appear on your every comment on any blog.
    Hopefully useful.

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    AquaSnap to set the desktop window

    Windows 7 has a good effect like Aero Style, as well as Windows Vista. If you currently use Windows XP / 2000 and would like your desktop to display effect such as a Windows 7, use AquaSnap.

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    This program allows you to set the display of each window that open. So if you have a lot of work with various programs, you can set any window so that more efficient. The trick is just pressed the Shift + double-click the edge of the program window. Alternatively, you can also drag the window program into every corner that has been setting and automatically will be arranged.

    AquaSnap Features:

    • Works on multiple monitors
    • Can change the window size to half or a quarter and easily arrange
    • Multilingual GUI
    • Can change the skin interface

    If interested please download here. It's free :)

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    Speed up computer booting with Autoruns

    This time I shared about the software to speed up booting a computer through an autorun program setting.

    As you know, programs that run automatically on the autorun will slowdown the boot process and login. Even when the computer is booting, the speed will decrease and feels slow. In order to keep a computer fast you have to set which programs that autorun. So select that important.

    Actually, Windows has already provided a program to manage autorun by using the command msconfig. But now Microsoft has provided a simple program used by the user, its name is Autoruns.

    autoruns

    This program provides the option to hide the windows system files, to prevent errors to stop a program system. To use it just click | Option | Hide Microsoft and Windows Entries | or it could be | Option | Hide Windows Entries |

    The program is quite small and standalone. This means do not need to be installed, but can be run directly from a folder by double click the .exe file. To select a specific program so not autostart you can remove the checklist.

    If interested, please take here. Hopefully useful.

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    How to add Popular Post widget

    If you want to display a list of your most widely read articles by visitors, you can use a widget that has been provided by Blogger. Actually, this widget is quite old, but probably many blogger do not know yet.

    You can’t find this feature through the usually dashboard. So you have to go here http://draft.blogger.com. After that, go to | Design | Page Elements | and click | Add a Gadget link |. There are two types of widgets in there. One is used to display your most popular articles, other used to display total pageview.

    populer post

    You just adjust and select the parameters that have been provided :)

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    How to place ads below the post

    In order to more easily see by your visitors, ads code should be placed under the posts. This is more effective to increase the number of ads clicks.

    The steps are as follows:

    1. Please Encode your ads script first. You can use the Centricle tool to do so. Paste your ads script in the box provided, and press the Encode button.
    2. After that, log into Blogger. Click | Layout | Edit HTML |
    3. Check the "Expand Widget Templates"
    4. Find this code <data:post.body/>. Use Ctrl + F or F3 for faster
    5. Place the ad code that has been encoded under this code <data:post.body/>
    6. Click | Preview | to ensure there is no script error.
    7. If everything is OK just click | Save Template |
    8. Done :)
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    How to create Related Post on blogger

    At this time I will show you how to create a related post. This method is very useful to increase page views since the end of the article will be displayed titles of the articles are linked, so that visitors interested in opening our other articles.

    Simply, do something like this:

    1. Open your Blogger account
    2. Open | Edit HTML | then give a checklist on | Expand Widget Templates |
    3. Before making changes to the code, you should do a backup first with a click on the | Download Full Template | and save.
    4. In the area of the template code find this code <data:post.body/>. Use Ctrl + F or F3 for faster.
    5. Copy the code below and paste it right below the code <data:post.body/>

      <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'><div class='similiar'> <div class='widget-content'> <h3>Related Posts by Categories</h3> <div id='data2007'/><br/><br/><div id='hoctro'> </div><script type='text/javascript'> var homeUrl3 = &quot;<data:blog.homepageUrl/>&quot;; var maxNumberOfPostsPerLabel = 4;var maxNumberOfLabels = 10; maxNumberOfPostsPerLabel = 100;maxNumberOfLabels = 3; function listEntries10(json) { var ul = document.createElement(&#39;ul&#39;); var maxPosts = (json.feed.entry.length &lt;= maxNumberOfPostsPerLabel) ? json.feed.entry.length : maxNumberOfPostsPerLabel; for (var i = 0; i &lt; maxPosts; i++) {var entry = json.feed.entry[i]; var alturl;for (var k = 0; k &lt; entry.link.length; k++) { if (entry.link[k].rel == &#39;alternate&#39;) { alturl = entry.link[k].href;break;}} var li = document.createElement(&#39;li&#39;); var a = document.createElement(&#39;a&#39;);a.href = alturl; if(a.href!=location.href) {var txt = document.createTextNode(entry.title.$t); a.appendChild(txt);li.appendChild(a);ul.appendChild(li); }} for (var l = 0; l &lt; json.feed.link.length; l++) { if (json.feed.link[l].rel == &#39;alternate&#39;) { var raw = json.feed.link[l].href;var label = raw.substr(homeUrl3.length+13); var k; for (k=0; k&lt;20; k++) label = label.replace(&quot;%20&quot;, &quot; &quot;); var txt = document.createTextNode(label); var h = document.createElement(&#39;b&#39;);h.appendChild(txt); var div1 = document.createElement(&#39;div&#39;);div1.appendChild(h); div1.appendChild(ul); document.getElementById(&#39;data2007&#39;).appendChild(div1);}}} function search10(query, label) { var script = document.createElement(&#39;script&#39;); script.setAttribute(&#39;src&#39;, query + &#39;feeds/posts/default/-/&#39; + label +&#39;?alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=listEntries10&#39;); script.setAttribute(&#39;type&#39;, &#39;text/javascript&#39;); document.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(script);} var labelArray = new Array();var numLabel = 0; <b:loop values='data:posts' var='post'> <b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'> textLabel = &quot;<data:label.name/>&quot;; var test = 0; for (var i = 0; i &lt; labelArray.length; i++) if (labelArray[i] == textLabel) test = 1;if (test == 0) { labelArray.push(textLabel); var maxLabels = (labelArray.length &lt;= maxNumberOfLabels) ? labelArray.length : maxNumberOfLabels;if (numLabel &lt; maxLabels) { search10(homeUrl3, textLabel);numLabel++;}}</b:loop></b:loop> </script></div></div></b:if>

    6. Click | Save Template |
    7. Done.

    The result is like below.

    related post

    You can replace 'Related Post' (red color) with the words you like. For example, Other Articles, Read Also, or something like that. To show the 10 titles of related articles, change the number 6 (red color) with 10.

    Hopefully useful :)

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    How to choose friends who appeared in Friends Box on Facebook

    When someone opens our Facebook profile page they'll see a list of our friends in the Friends Box. By default, the list appears randomly every time we open our profile page.

    We can set, for example, that only close friends who appear in the Friends Box. To do this we must perform the following settings.

    • login with your facebook account
    • click the Profiles menu
    • at the Friends Box, click the pencil icon (edit).

    friendbox

    • on the edit box Show xx Friends, we can choose the 6, 9, or 12 to display number of friends who will appear

    friendbox2

    • on the Always show these friends box type the name of friend who will always be displayed
    • now try to refresh your facebook profile page and look at the friends box. Have any change?
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    How to connect to websites using different user names

    If you have multiple service accounts like Gmail and you use Firefox browser, you can only login using just one username in the same time. Multifox is a Firefox extension that allows Firefox browser to connect to website using different username. So if you have many Gmail accounts, you can open all of your Gmail account simultaneously. Each Firefox window will be able to access each account without disturbing each other.

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    Here are some features of Multifox:

    • Login will be stored in the same way as ordinary window, even when you close the window or exit from Firefox.
    • Profile and identity of each window are saved and can be used when Firefox was reopened.
    • New window that opens will have the same profile as the identity of their original window is opened.
    • Multifox start from the second one, because the first one is considered as a normal Firefox profile identity.

    If you think this extension can help you, then you should immediately get it. Please click here.

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    Protect your computer with Free Wondershare Timefreeze

    Wondershare Timefreeze is a free internet security tool that provides protection to your computer from viruses and malware. With this tool you can protect folders with a password and lock the folder with the folder protection features.

    Unlike traditional antivirus software that offers Internet security is to constantly monitor what is downloaded, Wondershare Timefreeze make PC security by creating and providing a virtual environment where you can run applications and surfing the internet.

    By the time you run Wondershare Timefreeze and activate the computer protection, the virtual environment is created and all operations are conducted in this environment. You can activate the "System Protection" by sliding the button at the bottom of the tab to "On". Altogether, including you downloaded is stored on the virtual environment. To save them into your PC, simply slide the button to "Off". All data generated on the virtual system will be transferred to your computer system.

    time-freeze

    Wondershare Timefreeze also serves as protection tools folder. There are two modes for the protection of folders, one mode prevents other users to access a protected folder, while Mode 2 allows another user to open a folder that is protected but is not allowed to make changes to files in it. This option is available on the "Folder Protection Settings" in the tab "Settings". You can also protect folders with password (lock folders) with the Password button. When you disable the protection or close the program, the program will ask you to enter a password.

    You can download Wondershare Timefreeze here.

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