Archive for the ‘Tips and Tricks’ Category

Effective Way To Improve Your Writing Tips

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Frankly speaking my English writing skill is not perfect enough to attract the readers, but I willing to learn and improve my English writing skill. I apologize in advance if you found there is a spelling or grammar error occurred in my posts.

Right now I already minimized the spelling error because I will use Microsoft Words to check my spelling before posting. As for the grammar, I’m sorry again to tell you that I’m still putting effort to learn, don’t laugh me if you found there is an error on my grammar, ok?

I just came across with the blog called Daily Writing Tips which you can find a lot of tips to improve your writing skills. Take your time to read every post in this blog, and I’m sure that you will gain a lot of information about writing tips. It’s really help you, believe me!

Disable Windows XP Build In Zip Feature

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

If we install Winzip or other zip programs, then we might not longer use Windows XP build in Zip feature. Although Windows XP build in Zip feature make us convenience but its function is unitary. If you want to disable Windows XP build in Zip feature, click on “Start” menu, select “Run” and type regsvr32/u zipfldr.dll, click OK to remove, that’s all.

Configure IE To Have More Than 2 Downloads

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Internet Explorer only allows maximum 2 downloads at the same time. If you want to download more than 2, then you have to configure something as below:-

1. Start > Run
2. Type “Regedit” and press Enter
3. Find this location (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
InternetSettings
)
4. Go to Edit > New > DWORD value
5. Add the following two DWORD value

MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server
MaxConnectionsPerServer

6. Right click the DWORD value that you added just now, select “Modify” option.
7. Change the value data to 10. (10 means you have maximum 10 download at the same time)
8. Repeat step 6-7 for another DWORD value, done.

Eliminate BIOS Login Password using DOS

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

If you have set the password to login to computer BIOS but you already forget it, you can go through the following steps to help you eliminate the BIOS password. Firstly, you have to use start up disk entering to DOS/Command Prompt.

1. Enter c:\windows\command this directory.
2. Type Debug and press Enter.
3. Type “-o_70_20” and press Enter. ( “_” represented space)
4. Type “-o_71_21” and press Enter
5. Type “-q” and press enter
6. Done.

If You Use Microsoft Outlook, Email Cannot Send Out and Internet Connection is OK, You should Read This Post

Friday, June 15th, 2007

If you have own domain and hosting, you definitely can create unlimited email accounts. Some people might use Web Mail to check their email, but the people like me like to use Microsoft Outlook to check mail. Of course if you use Microsoft Outlook then you have to manually configure the email account.

When you use Microsoft Outlook to send email, if you found that you cannot send out the email but your Internet connection is still OK. The most probably there is typo error on the email address or the email address has never existed.

I have experience for this problem because my office staffs (IT idiot) quite often disturb me when he encountered this problem. I asked to check his email address again, he always answer me that all the email addresses are correct. At the end I go to check, I found that he has wrong typed the email address. See! This stupid IT idiot always gives me trouble. I told him many times he also cannot understand what I’m trying to tell.

Web Tool to Create Animated Favicon

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

No wonder I saw some of the blogs are using animated favicon recently, now I know they actually are using the wed tool to create still/animated favicons from regular images at html-kit.com/favicon.

It is very simple to create animated favicon, firstly you need to create an image for the size of 16px x 16px, and then browse this created image from the website, type your scrolling text if required, tick the “Animate Favicon” if you want to create animated favicon, finally click on the “Generate FavIcon.ico” button. Take a few second to wait for generating favicon, then you should be able to download the file after that.

Please read the ReadMe text file from the download files to know what are those coding to be pasted on your blog.

12 Quick Tips to Seach Google like an Expert

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Explicit Phrase: Lets say you are looking for content about internet marketing. Instead of just typing internet marketing into the Google search box, you will likely be better off searching explicitly for the phrase. To do this, simply enclose the search phrase within double quotes.
Example: “internet marketing”

Exclude Words: Lets say you want to search for content about internet marketing, but you want to exclude any results that contain the term advertising. To do this, simply use the “-“ sign in front of the word you want to exclude.
Example Search: internet marketing -advertising

Site Specific Search: Often, you want to search a specific website for content that matches a certain phrase. Even if the site doesn’t support a built-in search feature, you can use Google to search the site for your term. Simply use the “site:somesite.com” modifier.
Example: “internet marketing” site:www.smallbusinesshub.com

Similar Words and Synonyms: Let’s say you are want to include a word in your search, but want to include results that contain similar words or synonyms. To do this, use the “~” in front of the word.
Example: “internet marketing” ~professional

Specific Document Types: If you’re looking to find results that are of a specific type, you can use the modifier “filetype:”. For example, you might want to find only PowerPoint presentations related to internet marketing.
Example: “internet marketing” filetype:ppt

This OR That: By default, when you do a search, Google will include all the terms specified in the search. If you are looking for any one of one or more terms to match, then you can use the OR operator. (Note: The OR has to be capitalized).
Example: internet marketing OR advertising

Phone Listing: Let’s say someone calls you on your mobile number and you don’t know how it is. If all you have is a phone number, you can look it up on Google using the phonebook feature.
Example: phonebook:617-555-1212 (note: the provided number does not work – you’ll have to use a real number to get any results).

Area Code Lookup: If all you need to do is to look-up the area code for a phone number, just enter the 3-digit area code and Google will tell you where it’s from.
Example: 617

Numeric Ranges: This is a rarely used, but highly useful tip. Let’s say you want to find results that contain any of a range of numbers. You can do this by using the X..Y modifier (in case this is hard to read, what’s between the X and Y are two periods. This type of search is useful for years (as shown below), prices or anywhere where you want to provide a series of numbers.
Example: president 1940..1950

Stock (Ticker Symbol): Just enter a valid ticker symbol as your search term and Google will give you the current financials and a quick thumb-nail chart for the stock.
Example: GOOG

Calculator: The next time you need to do a quick calculation, instead of bringing up the Calculator applet, you can just type your expression in to Google.
Example: 48512 * 1.02

Word Definitions: If you need to quickly look up the definition of a word or phrase, simply use the “define:” command.
Example: define:plethora

Source: smallbusinesshub