Blogger comments subscribe

You love some blog post on blogger platform and you’ve just commented it, but what if you forgot the url of that blog? You should subscribe to the comments of that post to receive followups from other users or the blog authors.

Now blogger.com have just introduced this very useful feature. They announced it on blogger buzz.

Even though I love this feature, I’m still eagerly waiting for Google to introduce us to be able to schedule blog posts, just like many of wordpress users normally do.

How to create image trail with Paint

I love MS Paint for its simplicity. Even though it is such a small program, it could have done a lot of jobs. Of course, don’t compare it with Photoshop or any other premium photo editing standard software.

Most of my screenshots editing have been done with Paint. What’s more? You can create trailing effect with Paint too.

First you need to hold select the part of the image
And then hold down Shift key
Then drag the way you want to trail it.

Here is the sample trailing pic I have made.

Got Google Pagerank

Many new bloggers are now enjoying the green indicators of Google PR. Obviously, Google updates many new sites yesterday. I’ve got PR 3!!!!

So that Bridge to Nova is no longer a newbie in the world wide web anymore. We are grown-up now. You may have read that many pro bloggers are talking about you shouldn’t care PR. But I’ll tell you that you really really should. At least, it is a pride and my bragging right. Trust me, all those probloggers would blog and brag about their PR if they’ve got +1 or +2 increases. Cashquests have got a great article why you should care about PR. Have a nice weekend all.
Excuse me, I’m going to open champagne now.

How to lock computer in Remote Desktop Connection?

I really love the Windows Remote Desktop Connection. No matter what critics are saying, Microsoft usually deliver the best in the software business.

When I remote to the server, sometimes I want to leave for a while and I want that computer to be locked. I’ve tried Windows+L, but it’s not working anymore.

So I googled about it. Now I’ve got the solution. It is quite easy to do that. Simply create shortcut as follow.

• Right click on the Desktop
• Choose New –>> Shortcuts
• And then in the dialog box type the following

rundll32 user32.dll,LockWorkStation

After that give the shortcut whatever name you like. Next time, when you want to lock your computer, simply double click on that shortcut and it’s all set!!!

Reference : mydigitallife.info

Hackatonish – Mac in a pc

I have been trying to run Mac on my PC. I have been reading about Mac good news here and there. Many people suggest that Mac is very superior to Windows, blah, blah, blah. So I thought I should give it a try.

But I don’t want to invest that much money for Mac hardware. That’s why now I’m into Hackatonish, which kernel has been patched to run Mac on non-Apple hardware. As of now, I have installed Jas MacOSX 10.4.8 in VMware. I have found out that Mac is quite suck though.

No, I’m not talking about performance, I know VMware is slow for every OS. But when I try to download Google Talk, with Mac version, I can’t talk, I can only type. What’s the point of having Google talk without having ability to talk? After that, I have downloaded attachment from my friend email and then when I tried to download Winrar, there’s no GUI support for Mac version. Geez!!

I pray it won’t end up like my linux experience.

Stay tuned for my updated Mac experience. I may install it on real pc soon.

How to fix Google Sitemap error for blogger feed redirects to feedburner

After I have used feedburner for my feeds, I have setup feed redirect in the Settings –>> Site feed as follow.

After two or three days, when I login to my Google Webmaster account, I have got the following warnings in my sitemap error.

When I click to view the warnings in details, I saw this:

Line: 2 Invalid XML: too many tags – Too many tags describing this tag.
Line: 2 Incorrect namespace – Your Sitemap or Sitemap index file doesn’t properly declare the namespace.

It made me very frustrated. Feedburner isn’t compatible with Google’s Blogger services? After talking with my geek friends and emailing to Google, I have got the following solution.

• 1. I have to delete the old sitemap.
• 2. After that, I add new sitemap with ?redirect=false

That’s it! Since then, I can see my sitemap with errors or warnings free as below.

Don’t panic if you click your own Adsense

Well, I don’t use adsense here. So I don’t have to scare of one day getting email about I’m getting banned due to fraudulent click. But for one of my friend, who depends on Google adsense, it’s life and death situation.

One day, he accidentally click one of adsense and send email to customer support informing about the accident. (Yeah! he’s that honest) After two days of nightmare, he got the following reply from Google.

Thanks for letting us know about the clicks on your ads. We appreciate your honesty and your efforts to keep your account in good standing.

Although publishers are not permitted to click on their own ads for any reason, we do understand that accidental clicks may occur, so we don’t require that you contact us every time you click on your ads.

If you were clicking your ads out of interest or to see who was advertising on your site, we suggest the AdSense preview tool as an alternative. This tool will allow you to check the destination of ads on your page without the risk of generating invalid clicks.

Because we closely monitor all account activity using engineering systems and thorough human analysis, chances are we’ve already detected your clicks on your ads and discounted them. While these clicks still show in your reports, we filter out their associated earnings so that advertisers aren’t charged.

Whew!! He can relax now. So I just want you guys you know that if you accidentally click one of your adsense ads, don’t panic. It’s not the end of the world.

Reopen closed tabs in Firefox

Last month I share with you guys about the Firefox shortcuts that I frequently use. But right now, I found out this new, very nice shortcut again. I used to accidentally close tab in Firefox, sometimes in my favourite website or sometimes in totally first time new interesting site. To reopen, I have to dig down in my history list.

I don’t have to do that anymore. I can press Ctrl+Shift+T to reopen the tab I have just closed. More interestingly, you can press Ctrl+Shift+T as many times as you want to reopen many closed tabs. It’s quite handy for me indeed.

Firefox shortcuts I frequently use

I love Firefox. It’s fast, sleek and secure. Right now, my main browser is Firefox. I can’t use IE to browse internet anymore. It’s too noisy. The reason Firefox keeps quiet is due to Adblock plus.

• Home Page Alt + Home
• Full Screen View F11
• Refresh Page F5
• Find / Find Again F3
• Add Bookmarks Ctrl + D
• Bookmarks Ctrl + B
• History Ctrl + H
• Page Source Ctrl + U
• Tab New Ctrl + T
• Tab Close Ctrl + W
• Window New Ctrl + N
• Window Close Alt + F4

This list is ordered by the frequency of my usage. Of course, I don’t have any statistics about my usage. So it’s just a guess.

How to allow users to remote desktop in Windows 2003

In Windows 2003, I’ve created an ordinary user account and then I’ve add that account in to Remote Desktop Users group already as in the following picture.

But when I login remotely, I’ve got the following error.

To log on to this remote computer, you must be granted the Allow log on through Terminal Services right. By default, members of the Remote Desktop Users group have this right. If you are not a member of the remote desktop users gruop or another group that has this right, or if the remote desktop user group does not have this right, you must be granted this right manually.

I’m sure if you got this error you’ll feel frustrated like I did. How can you manually grant this user right to remote desktop? Okay, it’s not that difficult.

• First Go to –>> Administrative Tools –>> Terminal Services Configuration
• And then Choose Connection and in the right panel right click on RDP-tcp
• And then choose Properties. In the Permissions tab, add the users you want.

That’s it! Now enjoy your server remotely.