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In my earlier blog post, I had posted on " How to add Facebook comment to blogger? (New Blogger Template )" including tutorial videos describing the steps. In this post, we'll see how to integrate Facebook Comments on WordPress. There are WordPress plugins available to add Facebook comments on WordPress but adding manually gives the administrator more control of it's placement. Suppose, you would like to show the Facebook comments right above the default WordPress comments then, you can simply more the Facebook comment code to display it wherever you desire.  This post may be a bit long but please go through the details patiently. Let's move on. How to add Facebook Comments box on your WordPress site? Read more »

In this post, we shall see "How to remove Picasa Web Albums from Android Phone Gallery?". If you can see albums in the phone's gallery which you did not create, those are probably from Picasa Photo gallery from your Google Account / Google Photos. Read more »

The popularity of Facebook has prompted many website owners to include Facebook comments and Facebook Social plugins on their blogs and websites to allow easier sharing of content and interaction using Facebook. In this post, we'll see how to add Facebook comment in OSCLASS. Before we start integrating, we need a Facebook App and generate a code from Facebook Developers to integrate it with. I have already blogged about- " How to create Facebook App ?" before. So, please refer to this post and come back here. Or you can also watch this short video tutorial . The process in a nutshell is: 1) Go to https://developers.facebook.com 2) Create Facebook App 3) Get the code 4) Integrate it with OSCLASS Read more »

How to create Facebook app and add Facebook page like box in Blogger or Website? Adding Facebook Page Box using Facebook Social Plugins helps visitors to like your Facebook Page directly from the website and also see your Facebook Page posts from the website itself without the need to open Facebook. Check out this short video tutorial explaining how to create a Facebook app and add Facebook Page Like Box on Blogger. The same method can also be used to add Facebook Page box on any website.

Issue: Microsoft SQL Server 'sa' login locked out So, today, I got myself locked out of Microsoft SQL Server after entering the wrong password multiple times. If suppose “sa” login account is locked out, the above message will be displayed- How to enable “sa” login account locked out by Microsoft SQL Server? Read more »

Issue: Visual Studio Connect to Microsoft SQL Server Database Failed - A network-related or instance-specific error occurred Error Message: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 1326) Description: When attempting to connect to a database from Visual Studio, if you are getting a message from Visual Studio Data Connection that it was not able to connect to SQL Server, check the following workaround. Read more »

How To Share Google Map Link and Embed Google Map Code in Website? Check out this short video how to share Google Map link and Embed Google Map in websites, blogs, etc.

F acebook comment plugin is a good tool to enable on your websites or blogs so that visitors can comment using their Facebook accounts. Nowadays, a lot of users use smartphones to browse and a lot of users are now on Facebook. So it makes really easy for visitors on your website to comment using their Facebook accounts. If you haven't implemented Facebook comments on your website or blog sites, I recommend you to do it. The usual steps involves- a) Creation of Facebook App   How to create Facebook App ID (for Blogs and websites)? b) Integrating Facebook comment plugin on the website or blog. How to add Facebook Comments box on your Blogger blog site? Integrating Facebook Page on your website and blogs can also help your visitors to like your page directly from the website or blogs, and go to your Facebook page:  How to add Facebook Page widget on Blogger blog or website?  c) Enable notifications of Facebook Comments on websites For creation of Facebook App and integration of Face...

A situation may arise when we want to add widgets in Blogger template that should appear only on mobile templates and not on web browser templates. In that case, follow the steps below. Scenario: We shall take the following example to explain how to add Blogger widgets only for mobile template. I added an "AddThis" mobile sharing toolbar that should appear on top. When it appears, it blocks the title of the Blog. So I wanted to push down the header region a bit lower so that the "AddThis" widget does not block the blog title from view. So, I thought of adding a simple HTML widget and write "Loading...", and place it above the "header" widget. That will push the header a bit lower and every one can be accommodated happily. Usually, we can't add a widget in the header section. But you can do the following edit to enable and add a widget in the header region. In this exercise, we shall - Read more »

I f you are a Blogger trying to integrate Google Adsense on your blog, you might have encountered and "async error" if you add the Google Adsense code in Blogger template as it is. Google Adsense provides JavaScript code which can be added to websites and blog platforms to display Google Ads. A typical Google Adsense (asynchronous) Code looks like this: <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <script>   (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({     google_ad_client: "ca-pub-XXXXXXXXXXXXXX",     enable_page_level_ads: true   }); </script> The error message on Blogger looks like this: Read more »

Oracle VirtualBox is a nice software to run virtual machines on Windows as well as other operating systems. VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x and 4.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD. I was running GNS3 and Ubuntu on Windows using Oracle VirtualBox. But lately, I had to uninstall the software. For some reason I was not able to remove Oracle VirtualBox for sometime but finally got it removed. If you are facing a similar issue, you can try this. The Oracle VirtualBox version in use was: Oracle VirtualBox 5.0.20 Windows 7 64bit Issue: Unable To Uninstall Or Repair Oracle VirtualBox From Windows Oracle VirtualBox appears in the list of installed programs under Control panel. Upon clicking "Uninstall" the uninstall process startd but st...

A friend of mine who plays a lot of cracked games,  wanted his Asus Zenfone Max rooted. We tried common methods like Kingo Root app but didn't work. To root Android phones we need phone specific firmware and tools like we use Odin for Samsung smartphones. We didn't find tools for Asus Zenfone Max. Luckily, we came across a video by a Vietnamese- Huynh Pham on YouTube ( the link to the video is provided at the end of this post ).  So, in this post, we shall see the tools and steps required to root Asus Zenfone Max.   Though the steps described below worked in our case, we d o not guarantee the availability of the below tools as it is hosted by someone else. Also, neither do we guarantee that the process/steps described below will also work for everyone else . S o, TRY IT AT YOUR OWN RISK! How to root Asus Zenfone Max? Read more »