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Saturday, November 1, 2014

Facebook The Social Cigarette!




Facebook - The most popular site of the world with more than 1 billion users. If Facebook were a country it could be in the third place- Just next to the China and India! And within next few years hopefully Facebook will exceed the population of China. Currently Facebook is the strongest online media. 


Why people use Facebook? Why they waste or pass their idle time or even working time on it? Why they cant go a single day without it? 

The answer is Addiction

As the chain smoker smokes cigarettes one by one just for bad habits, many Facebookers waste their time on Facebook without any break. You may browse Facebook at most 2/3 hours a day. But spending more than 6 hours on Facebook is not a good sign at all. 


Im not a serious critic of Facebook or Facebookers. Im just anxious about the future of the earth. Few factors are responsible to create imbalance. And Facebook is one of them. By the name of social networking site, Facebook is leading to social imbalance! Should I explain? Lets start - 

  • Leading to Wars: Within less than a decade of launch, Facebook has already led to several national wars. The wars occured in Lebanon, Libya, Egypt are all accelerated by the Facebook communities in those countries. When the Governments of those countries tried to stop the opponent parties, Facebook communities went against Governments. 

  • Spreading Aggression: A very common news throughout the world. But this is Facebook which is spreading racial, cultural and religious aggression among different communities. Sometimes a person of different values attack others directly through Facebook comments and posts. And this is the starting of endless aggression! 

  • Slow Down Productivity: Facebook is banned in many offices and educational institutes. Survey reports show that, many people waste half of their working time on Facebook! As it can also be visited from Mobile devices, people keep it open all the time.

  • Hackers Target: Your Facebook ID is the hackers target! Because it is easy to hack. Though Facebook authority has already increased security, but hackers are smarter. They can easily beat you as well as Facebook. Anytime you can lose your account. You may be able to recover it. But within short time, they can steal your sensitive information. 

  • Privacy: A very very serious issue of todays world. Youre an smart user of Facebook. You use secured connection of Facebook, sign out of Facebook every time, use secured password etc etc. But when one of your FB friends lose his account then what? Your chat records as well as sharing are there! Then how can you ensure your privacy? 

  • Detrimental to Health: Excessive use of something is always bad. Same rules apply to Facebook. When youre using Facebook, you cant do other tasks. Maybe you use Facebook sitting on a chair. And certainly this will have a negative impact on your physical fitness. Know more . . .  

  • Mental Instability: Facebook is great for creating new friends. It can also help you to find your old friends. But it creates distance among existing friends! Boys and girls often fall in love through Facebook within moments! And some of them break up within few days. Sometimes your status, likes and comments may lead to serious conflicts among your friends. Divorce, Suicide, Attempt to Murder are very common incidents. 

  • Family Crisis: This problem usually belongs to so called modern families or modern countries of the world. When all the members of a family use Facebook then it is very easy to arise family crisis. Suppose a husband may communicate with his ex wife. Or a wife may communicate with his ex husband. And a husband may not accept his wifes friend request due to privacy problem. Even the crisis may grow between the children and parents. Parents may send friend request to the children. But they may not accept their requests. Few days ago, an Indian husband forget to change his marital status on Facebook. Consequently his wife divorced him! 

  • Fraud and Cheating: This is a very common problem of Facebook. Millions of people are being deceived by Fake IDs every day. Some of them are losing money. Some of them are losing privacy. Even some people are losing their IDs by sharing  passwords with wrong people! 

  • Unnecessary/ Irrelevant Ads: For their own betterment, Facebook show ads on peoples pages. Sometimes irrelevant and stupid advertisements are being shown on profile. Which may look odd. Sometimes you will see the ads of different products and manufacturers ads. Sometimes Facebook forces users to like pages, join groups, share posts which are very irritating. 

  • Millions of Traps: Millions of traps are always trying to hunt you. Anytime you can caught by those traps. Suppose you get a link from your friend which says- See who have unfriend you, or See who have watched your profile. Never click on such links. Remove them as spam. If you even click on these links, it will be automatically shared with your friends and groups. 

  • Spam/ Virus/ Malware: This is a very common suffering for the web users. But Facebook is the land of cultivating virus, spam and malware. Spam or virus may take the form of a link or even could be normal image. Whenever you click on it, youre . . .

  • Criminals Weapon: Facebook is becoming a popular medium for blackmailing and threatening day by day. A criminal can easily go to a Cybercafe with his fake ID. And he can easily threats a person. For example, he may get your sensitive information. It could be a video, audio, image or text which belong to you. And which are capable of damaging your honor. He may demand monetary or other benefits from you instead of sharing these on Facebook. Even after you fulfill his requirements, he may share those things on Facebook. 



There are only few problems discussed here. Millions of problems are being generated by Facebook everyday. Dont know how to get rid of these. A shortcut way to avoid problems is to use Facebook only when it is necessary. 


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Friday, October 31, 2014

Google Authorship Show Yourself in the Search Result !!


Google Authorship Program with pen icon


If you search Google very often you may notice some search results appear with an image of a person. Basically it is the thumbnail image of the writer of that content. What do you think of it? How does it appear in the Google search result? Other search engines still dont have this feature. Then how/ why it appears in Google search result? 


A Search Result Google Authorship Program Enabled Site


Look at the above image. Search item is- marks pc. And the result is Marks PC Solution. You should notice my picture with the site. You can also enable your picture when your site appears in the search result. 

Actually this is a great feature launched by Google. Google named this feature as Google Authorship Program. If you wanna enable this feature for your site then you have to go through few steps which are not very critical at all. I decided to write about it more than a year ago. But failed to publish about it due to the heavy work pressure. 


But believe me, for my site, Marks PC Solution, I didnt enable this feature knowingly! Then how does my image appear in the search results? The answer is my Google Plus Profile. Yes, this feature works for that sites which writers have Google Plus Profile. 

If you already see your image in the search result with your sites link, then you dont need to do anything more. That means the URL of your Website/ Blog is already linked to your profile. Thus this features is already enabled for you. 



About Google Authorship Program

Google authorship program was launched on June 28, 2011. In that time, only a few hundred authors joined this program. Because many people were not familiar with this feature. But day by day, authors are being interested to enable this feature for their sites and contents.

Many of you may think Google considers authorship as a search ranking factor. But to be honest, still it not being used by Google as a search signal. Google uses more than 200 signals to determine search ranking. And in the future authorship program may be used as a search ranking factors. 



How to Enable this Feature? 

Well this is very easy. All you need is just a Google + Profile with a link of your site in that profile. Also make sure the following issues:

  • Make sure you have a high quality Google+ profile picture with a recognizable headshot. I mean your face should be identifiable on that picture. 
  • Make sure a byline containing your name appears on each page of your site. Have a look at the end of this post- Posted by Abdur Rahaman.
  • Make sure byline name and your Google+ profile name are exactly same. 
  • Make sure that your Google+ email address and your sites email address are same. If your sites email address is different then read more. 


Google+ Profile Links Sections


If youre sure about the above issues then just do the following: 
  1. Go to your Google+ Profile.
  2. Then move to the About tab of the profile.
  3. Now scroll down to the Links section. Look at the above image. 
  4. There are three options available: Other Profiles, Contributor to and Links.
  5. Hit on the Edit option. See the image below. 
  6. Add your sites name and URL here. See the image below. 
  7. Also add your sites name and URL in the Links too. 
  8. Now save it and wait for your picture to be appeared in the search result. It may take few hours to few days depending on how much time is required by Google to crawl your image. 
Editing Contribution Links in Google+ Profile


Finally, though Google doesnt consider authorship program as a search ranking signal, still it might be an important factor in SEO. You can consider this exactly as search description. Often people choose a site from search result by reading the search description of that page. And if the image of an author is familiar to the visitors and if that author is popular among them, then it will be very helpful for the visitors to pick the site from the search results! 


So what do you think? Isnt it also important to increase your sites visitors? Enable it now to get advantage!!! 



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Thursday, October 30, 2014

How to Change the Drive Letters



Few days ago my PC got some problems. And I need to reinstall my Windows 8. After installing a fresh Windows, I got surprised! Drive D was missing from my drive list! 

What happened actually? D drive was automatically named as E. And all the drives names were replaced by the next letter. Such as E with F, F with G and G with H. Though I dont the actual reason maybe it is caused by the new Windows, but I can show you how to get rid of this change. 

If you face the same problem, or just want to change the name of your drives, you can follow my instruction. 
  1. Right click on My Computer icon from desktop and select Manage.
  2. Now hit on the Disk Management from the left panel.
  3. Here you will get the list of your drives.
  4. Then right click on any drive that you wanna change, and hit on Change Drive Letter and Paths.
  5. Now Click on the Change and Select another letter for this drive from drop down list. 
  6. Finally hit on the OK button for twice. Open your Explorer to see the change. 


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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Ginger Corrects Spelling and Grammar Mistakes


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Ginger is an automatic spelling and grammar tool that corrects mistakes at the touch of a button. Ginger also has other features that Microsoft Word spell check does not. People who have dyslexia, are learning English or need documents with correct spelling and grammar can benefit from Ginger. Ginger corrects mistakes that spell check does not such as homophones. Ginger also makes context based corrections. For example if you write "Their is a big house" Ginger would corrected the sentence to "there is a big house." When editing a document press F2 to get corrections from Ginger. Ginger includes a text-to-speech option that speaks the input and output text aloud. The text-to-speech function can also read documents, web page and emails aloud. For users that wish to improve their grammar and spelling, Ginger offers informative lessons and quizzes. In order to use all of the features of Ginger you must have an Internet connection. The cost rages from $4.90 a month to $89 for a one time payment depending on the features you want. The premium version cost $89 and comes with text-to-speech, lessons to learn from your mistakes and spelling and grammar check. For $29 you get contextual grammar and spelling check. For a monthly payment of $4.90 you also get contextual grammar and spelling check. Ginger is only available for PCs. To test out Ginger type a sentence into the graphic above and press "Ginger It." Visit gingersoftware.com for more information.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Bypassing animated Google doodles

Google often replaces its browser logo with a graphical variation, which it calls a Google doodle. Occasionally,  Google animates a doodle. If you use a Chrome or Chromium browser, or a Chromebook, you probably enjoy most Google-browser startup doodles. However, you might not appreciate Googles animated startup doodles because you find them distracting.

This document explains how to bypass animated Google doodles easily in either Chrome or Chromebook.

Bypassing animated doodles in Chrome
If you use either a Chrome or Chromium browser, you can bypass animated Google startup doodles as follows:
  1. As shown in Figure 1, click the Customize button (three horizontal bars) to display its menu.
  2. Click Settings to display its page.
  3. In the On startup section, select Open the New Tab page as shown in Figure 2.
  4. Close the Settings page.
Figure 1 - Clicking the Customize button.
Figure 2 - Setting each Google-browser startup as a new tab page.

Bypassing animated doodles in Chromebook
If you use a Chromebook, you can bypass animated Google startup doodles as follows:
  1. As shown in Figure 1, click the Customize button (three horizontal bars) to display its menu.
  2. Click Settings to display its page.
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page, and then click Show Advanced Settings.
  4. Scroll to the On startup section, and then select Open the New Tab page. as shown in Figure 2.
  5. Close the Settings page.
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