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How to schedule downloads in a torrent program?

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If you use torrent programs such as uTorrent or BitTorrent to download often and besides, if you use  limited data plans or if you use special data plans such as night plans - then scheduling torrent programs would help you a lot to manage your downloads.  Read more »

How to add "split post" or “read more” (Insert Blogger Excerpt) section in Windows Live Writer?

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In a previous post, I posted about Windows Live Writer being a good tool for blogging to various blogging platforms from a single tool. “Read more” helps in splitting the entire content into two halves – the first appear as a snippet in a blog’s front page. On clicking “read more” the user is taken to the entire blog post page. “Read more” prevents a blog from showing entire blog post content in the front pages. In Blogger, we can easily insert “Read More” section by clicking on the "split post" button from the toolbar or by adding the HTML tag in the source code: <!--more—> In earlier versions of Windows Live Writer, there is no split post feature. But manually adding the read more code in the HTML source code may be tedious. Instead you can download this plug-in in Read more »

Windows Live Writer–a useful tool for blog publishing

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If you blog regularly or just started blogging, you may love Windows Live Writer. Windows Live Writer is a blog publishing software by Microsoft using which one can publish blog posts to multiple blogging platforms. Windows Live Writer makes it easy to share your photos and videos on almost any blog service – Windows Live, WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, and many more. Writer is part of Windows Live Essentials, which includes free programs for photos, movies, instant messaging, e-mail, blogging, family safety, and more. Get Writer or get them all – they’re free! Windows Live Writer has features Read more »

Facebook | “You can’t post this because it has a blocked link” error

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There are reports of Facebook blocking websites/URL from sharing links on Facebook that their system considers spam or some one reported it to be abusive. For some, Facebook might have blocked the website because it is genuinely malicious or due to violation of Facebook policies. And in come case, it could be false-positive. There are people complaining in the Facebook community and forums online. Not sure if any one has got their website unblocked by Facebook. Even I have a website that got blocked and I still can't figure out why. Read more »

Photoshop | How to justify text in Photoshop?

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  Adobe Suite products are commonly used in graphic designing. Adobe Photoshop is primarily for photo editing. However, it is also used for designing as well. Usually, we also need to work on texts when designing. By default, text align options available from toolbar in Photoshop are left, right and center align. In this post, we shall see how to justify text in Adobe Photoshop. Read more »

How to add Share This Social Media share button for Website ?

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Source: Share This Social Media sharing tools are an important requirement on websites today to engage the multitude of social media users on various social media platforms, particularly Facebook, Twitter and Google+. If you want to add social media sharing buttons to your website, you should try Social Media tools such as “Share This". In this post, we shall discuss how to add Share This Social Media buttons on website. Read more »

How to configure ping servers on Windows Live Writer?

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Windows Live Writer, developed by Microsoft, is a desktop blog-publishing application that is part of the Windows Live range of products. It’s WYSIWYG blogging tool that can be setup to blog to multi blogging platforms including the popular ones such as Blogger and WordPress. Windows Live Writer makes blogging a breeze. You can add photos and videos, format, and publish to most blogging platforms including WordPress, Blogger and more. Windows Live Writer comes with a cool feature of sending pings to various web directories. Whenever you will publish a new post, Windows Live Writer will send ping to provided list of servers. It is important for bloggers as your blog will be known to the ping directories and help find your blog more easily. How to configure Windows Live Writer ping servers? Read more »