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This post describes the process of migrating posts from WordPress to Blogger blog. Exporting from WordPress: Log in to your WordPress account. Go to the Dashboard. Click on Tools: Export Choose what to export - posts or only the pages. If you want only the posts, or only pages or both. Mostly you would need to select both. Click on Download Export File. Read more »

If you had taken Blogger backup from Google Takeout , you would have realized that the format for each of your blog is an ATOM file. WordPress does not have import tools to import Atom files directly. Although an ATOM file is in XML, so also an RSS file, it will not be imported correctly. Here is my personal experience in converting Blogger Atom to RSS and successfully importing it to WordPress. This example is on Windows OS. Steps to convert Blogger Atom to RSS: Read more »

If you are using Drupal Commerce, you might have observed that on the Shopping Cart, there is an editable Quantity text field displayed in the cart after the user “Add to Cart”.In some scenarios, the quantity is always one. A similar case here is that we were implementing Drupal Commerce for a school and the product is a fee type. So the quantity expected is always one. So we had to disable it. If you are also looking for ways to disable the quantity text field in the shopping cart, here is how to do it without any code edits. Read more »

On a Samsung Galaxy series of Android phone, you can easily take screenshot by swipping the edge of your palm from left to right, which can be enabled from the settings. When a friend asked how to take screenshot on his Sony Xperia, we literally spend about 10-15 minutes searching his phone settings if it had to be enables somewhere. But we did not find any such settings. So we hit the internet and realized you can, but it is not so straight forward.   Read more »

Most of our computer keyboards comes with Standard US keyboard layout. And it is not possible to type Hindi characters from our regular keyboard unless we install Hindi keyboard input. If you need to convert English words to Hindi character, there are tools online that converts English characters to Hindi character. Instead of online tools, if you are looking for offline Hindi typing tools, see here: How to Type in Hindi Using English Keyboard on Windows (Google Hindi Input Tools Example)? The following are some online tools which I have personally used that can help in conversion of English characters to Hindi characters. English Characters to Hindi Characters conversion (not translation): Read more »

Contact us page gives a professional look to a website.  It makes site visitors readers to contact the owner personally when comment on a post is not suitable. It is also useful for people who use Blogger as a platform for business websites for interacting with its audience. Blogger has a contact form widget and we'll see here how to add it to Blogger like any other widgets , and also how to display contact form on a page instead of showing it in the widget areas . Add contact form on Blogger Read more »

  What is a responsive web design? " Responsive web design (RWD) is an approach to web design aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones)." How do know if a website is made Responsive? Read more »

USB drives have made our lives easier to share files. But what if we can do away with it in some scenarios where there are different computers "on" in the same network at home. We can do so easily by setting up "Homegroup" if you are using Windows 7 or Windows 8. A HomeGroup makes it easier to share files and printers on a home network. You can share pictures, music, videos, documents, and printers with other people in your HomeGroup. Other people can't change the files that you share, unless you give them permission to do so. HomeGroup is only available on home networks. Setting up a HomeGroup could be ideal for home and small office to simplify file sharing between computers.   You can even stream music and videos too. Check out this example.In this example, I have two laptops with Windows 7 and another with Windows 8. Read more »

Facebook App need to be created when you want to integrate Facebook's Social Sharing features on your websites. What you will need from the Facebook APP is the APP ID and APP SECRET (key) to provide to scripts or your custom code. With it, you can integrate Facebook comments, like box, login with Facebook etc. Check out the developer section on Facebook for specific information. Creating a Facebook APP is simple. Let's create one: Steps to create a Facebook App: Read more »

In my earlier post, I blogged about how to share internet connection using a small USB Wi-Fi adapter here . The device is small and cheap. It is best suited for sharing internet connection from a desktop computer to other wireless devices such as laptop and phones. Today, let's talk about how to share internet connection on your Wi-Fi enabled laptop to other devices. Basically we want to create an Access Point (AP) on our laptop that other devices can connect to to access internet. On earlier versions of Windows we could create ad-hoc wireless connections between computers but it is no longer possible in Windows 8.1 using a visual interface. We have to rely on the good old command prompt to do so. What you need for this example: 1. An internet connection to a Wi-Fi enabled laptop 2. Other Wi-Fi enabled devices such as another laptop or mobile device Step 1: Create a virtual Wi-Fi network on Windows 8.1 Read more »

D rupal is a great Content Management System (CMS) software which can be used to create great websites with a lot of flexibility and customization options. If you are looking for web servers that you can run on local Windows machine for web development purposes, then you can also check out XAMPP / WAMP. You can see my previous posts:    XAMPP Installation, Configuration and Drupal Installation on Windows   How to install and run XAMPP on Windows? (Guide) In this post, we shall see how to disable the "Create New Account" link in the login page, so that visitors cannot create user accounts on their own. This is useful when new account creation is managed by site administrators.  Read more »

When you connect to a wireless network, the settings and profile of that specific network is saved on your android device so that you won’t have to re-enter your network credentials again, such as the password. Overtime, we might have several Wi-Fi networks saves some of which might be obsolete. Also, if the Wi-Fi network has bee removed by you or the owner and recreated with the same name, then a duplicate entry would exist which might also affect connections. Removing will also help you to reconnect if you are having connection issues due to duplicate entries. Steps to delete Wi-Fi Network on Android Device : Read more »

See previous post here how to create HomeGroup in Windows 7 and Windows 8 for file sharing in home network, how to connect to homegroup etc. When you create a HomeGroup, by default all folders inside  "Pictures", "Documents", "Videos", "Music" as you see in the 'Libraries" are shared in the HomeGroup. If you would like to remove some folders from being shared, do the following. Public folders such as "Public Documents", 'Public Music", "Public Videos" and "Public Music" are also shared by default. If you have any folders or files in these documents, move them to other locations. Choose what to share:  How to stop sharing folders in HomeGroup? Read more »

If you are faced with a situation where your LAN connection shows " connected ", and there are no error notification on the network icon in system tray, but you cannot connect to the internet, then try the following. Such issues can occur after some system changes were performed either by you or some software in your computer. AntiVirus installation and un-installations can also trigger such issues as it was in my case this time. I had Kaspersky AntiVirus removed and ever since I could not connect to the internet though all my network adapters shows fine. In this particular scenario, I have a wired connection with a static IP which works on another computer but not on one particular desktop computer running Windows XP. Preliminary network checks: Read more »

If you had access to a WiFi network before and you cannot connect to it anymore than check the following. You might be getting "Unable to connect" error, or the connection appears to be fine but you have no access to internet. Or it asks you for a password and the password is accepted but you still cannot access. A situation like this might occur when you or the owner of the WiFi has changed some settings of the WiFi such as the SSID (WiFi Name) or Password. Or it may be that the owner completely deleted the previous one and recreated with the same name. When you connect to a wireless network, Read more »

If you have created a responsive web site and you would like to test it, you can do so right from your browser. This example is on Google Chrome browser. You can test using Developer Tools in Google Chrome. Start Developer Tools in Google Chrome: Read more »

So you have created a Responsive Web Design website and you would like to test right from your browser? Yes, you can do that.    What is a responsive web design? " Responsive web design (RWD) is an approach to web design aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones)." Source : Wikipedia How do one normally test a  Responsive Web Design? Read more »

What is a responsive web design? " Responsive web design (RWD) is an approach to web design aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones)." Source : Wikipedia How do one normally test a  Responsive Web Design? Read more »

What is Firefox Hello? Firefox Hello is a video chat service released by Firefox. It is a Skype-like video chat service which was in Beta since October 2014 and went Live just a few weeks ago . Firefox Hello is built right into Firefox browser, one can now chat over video at ease by just sharing a link. What it means for a user is that - No need to download software and install for the video chat No need to sign up for account*. Read more »

Blogger displays Newer Posts, Older Posts and Home links at the bottom of your blog posts page (not static pages) to navigate across your posts. If you would like to customize those links, you can do so. What you can do: replace the default text by Blogger with your own add images instead of text links To customize the Blogger links - Read more »

Facebook allows us to create pages on various topics and categories. Anyone can create Facebook pages. Unlike groups which have membership, you invite people to like pages. People who follow your page will see your posts and updates on the page. Creating Facebook Page: To create a Page:     Go to facebook.com/pages/create     Click to choose a Page category     Select a more specific category from the dropdown menu and fill out the required information     Click Get Started and follow the on-screen instructions Deleting a Facebook Page: Read more »

To manage a website remotely, FTP is one of the most preferred way. Whether you want to move your development files to a production server or to backup some files from the website to your local computer, you can easily do so using a free software such as FileZilla. FileZilla is a cross-platform graphical FTP, SFTP, and FTPS file management tool for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and more. FTP accounts allow you to access your website’s files through a protocol called FTP or File Transfer Protocol. Use a third-party FTP program such as FileZilla to access your files. To log into your account via FTP, enter “website domain” as your FTP host, the username, and password. Let's talk about how to configure the FTP client (FileZilla in this case): First, create an FTP account Read more »

We had Kaspersky Antivirus 2013 on our PC which was un-installed using the Windows "Un-install Programs" in Control Panel. It disappeared from the "Add and Remove Programs" list but it remained even after restart.  If you have a situation like this, this is what you can do to remove the zombie program. How to remove Kaspersky Antivirus stuck in your conmputer? But before we proceed, do you have a password set in the Kaspersky Antivirus Program? If you remember, well and good. Disable  Kaspersky Internet Security password protection: Read more »

If you have created a Google+ page and you no longer need it then you can delete as described in the following steps. Warning: Deleting a page is permanent and can’t be undone. To delete a Google+ page you must be the owner of the page. To delete Google Plus Page follow the steps below: Read more »