Tracking your Blog Visitors

So you have a blog with great content, optimized for search engines and ready to get exploding traffic? But how do you know which of your articles are most liked by your visitors, and how many unique visitors and impressions your blog gets daily? To track these, you’ll have to feed your blog with few lines of JavaScript; or if you find it hard, plugins are there for you. (more…)

Deleting a Virtual Hard Disk [Windows 7]

My previous post should have helped you learn to create Virtual Hard Disk Drives. Now if you don’t find the use of a Virtual Drive you created, you can easily remove it. Here’s how.

Before you proceed, be sure to take a backup of files you have in your virtual HDD. (if needed)

Open Disk Management by typing diskmgmt.msc in the RUN command. (more…)

Create Virtual Hard Disks [Windows 7]

Have you ever wished you had an extra Disk Drive to set aside your documents, files, etc.? This is one of the new features of Windows 7, that helps you create Virtual Disk Drives, similar to your Hard Disk drives.

If you are not a Windows 7 user, you can always use TrueCrypt, a freeware tool, to create encrypted virtual disk drives. The process is similar.

To start with, right-click ‘Computer’ (My Computer) and click ‘Manage’. Choose ‘Disk Management’ under ‘Storage’ in the left pane. Or type in diskmgmt.msc in the run command to directly open up ‘Disk Management’ window.

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Add ‘Open with Notepad’ to Context Menu

When I come across files with unknown extension, I prefer to open it with Notepad. The same when it comes to files like PHP, HTML, CSS and the likes. Adding a context menu option, to open with notepad, helps you quickly open up files without having to go through the long ‘Open with’ way, obviously saving your time. Though this is a common registry trick, for sure you should have read about this in many sites, if you haven’t heard, read below. You should also be knowing to deal with Registry Editor, if not, you can download the registry key directly at the end of this post. (more…)

Block Spammers from Visiting your Site/Blog

SpamWhether you are using WordPress, Joomla or any other CMSes (Content Management Systems) that involve comment system, you are prone to spam comments. For a spammer to post a spam comment, he/she should obviously visit your site first. This blog post will help you learn to block spammers from visiting your site based on their IP. This doesn’t mean that you’ll have no spam comments, but this could reduce the amount of spam comments, as spammers have the habit of re-posting the same comment. (more…)

Creating an ISO Disc Image

Though there are many Disc Image Creators available, MagicDisc from MagicISO is used here. MagicDisc is a free, small (1.28MB) and a simple application that supports creating disc images in multiple formats (standard ISO, BIN, CUE, NRG and UIF). (more…)

Convert and Download YouTube Videos

Youtube Logo - Download YouTube videosBasically, YouTube doesn’t allow you to download its videos. Download managers like IDM (Internet Download Manager) help you download the video in FLV (normal) or MP4 (high) format. But what if you don’t have those download managers? Here are few sites with which you can download YouTube videos. (more…)

Safely Migrating Permalinks [WordPress]

WordPress LogoChanging Permalink Structure is not as easy as it looks. Simply changing the value in Settings->Permalinks will leave your Search Engine indexed pages/links with a 404/Not-Found error. Thus you may risk losing your valuable visitors, and your posts with the new permalink structure will not have the old Page Rank (PR). Here’s a tutorial that will help migrating permalinks without losing traffic nor Page Rank. (more…)

Guide : Playing Movies with Subtitles

This was a query by one of our readers. Before you proceed with playing movies with subtitle, you’ll have to make sure to

  • Get a Subtitle file (.srt, .sub, etc)
  • Where to place the subtitle file and what to name it
  • Make the video player (WMP, VLC, etc) read the subtitle file

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Registry Editing disabled by Administrator

Registry Editor IconThere are few reasons why Registry Editor gets disabled, and when you attempt to open Registry Editor when it is disabled, you get a message box that reads “Registry Editing has been disabled by your Administrator”. Few Trojans are made specifically to disable registry editor and few others are made in order not to revoke it from Startup (CurrentVersion/Run). If you ever up with this problem, be sure to first check your PC for Viruses/Trojans. I’ve already blogged on basic security which you can find here. Then proceed with the following solutions. (more…)

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