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How to add a Youtube video in your blog! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 First of all find the video
that you want to embed in your blog in YouTube. On the right of the video there is a column below tags and above related videos list which is named "Embed"! Select the code that is written in the column, right click and then copy. Go to your blog, write the post in which you want to include the video. Then click the "edit HTML" tab (for blogger users, it is next to compose on the up right side of "create/edit post" window) and paste the code you copied from Embed column in Youtube. Be sure you paste the whole code (check that the code you pasted starts with tag and ends with tag). Click publish, view your blog and you are ready to watch the video you embeded!
Google Analytics to your Blog! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Google Analytics
is a powerfull online free tool by Google, which helps you track your web site's visitors. It provides many information, like the reffering source for where the visitors came to your site, or where do they live, what browser or operating system do they use, how many of them visited back your web site and more. Now to the point:Visit Analytics site and sign up using your Google account (if you do not have one, you will be promted to create one).After that, sign in and click the "add website profile" button.Enter the URL of your blog and click next.Google gives you a tracking javascript code to place to your blog.Sign in to blogger and open the edit template window.Go to the end of the template code and find the < /body > tag.Place the code exactly before the < /body > tag (this is recommended for the tracking to work properly).After you place the code, click save settings and republish your blog for the changes to take effect.Now go to Google analytics again and click Read more:Google
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Google Webmaster's tool to your blog! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Google analytics lets you track your visitors and be informed about how they see your blog. Time to be informed on how Google and its crawler (Googlebot) see your blog. Go the Google Webmaster
s page, sign in using your Google account and click "Webmasters tools (including sitemaps)". Type your blog or site url (the procedure is tha same) and click "add". Then you will be asked to verify your url by adding a META tag or by uploading an HTML file. If you use blogger select verify via META tag. Select the META tag, right click, copy. Then sign in to blogger, open the edit template window and find the < /head > tag. Paste the META tag exactly before the < /head > tag. Click save template changes. After you placed the META tag go to Google Webmasters again and click "Verify". You will be promted that your blog was verified successfully and now you can get full information on how your blog is crawled by Google. Information appears after 5-6 days (some information like page rank or crawl/inde Read more:Google
Migrating! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 My blogs migrated to New Blogger (it should not be called beta anymore I think...). The migration was very easy (I owned a google account) except the fact that I had to customize my sidebar again because all of the HTML code I have added to my template (buttons, links, hit counter etc) was gone... Although the customisation of the template in New Blogger is very easy, you click the "Add HTML/Javascript" button, you enter the code in the popup window and that's it. You do not have to manually align buttons, counters and links or looking through the entire template to decide where to enter the HTML code so it appears exactly where you want the item to appear. The WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editing environment is much more usefull. If you decide to switch to new blogger, do not forget to enter again yout META tags in head section.
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Benchmark your pc! Is it stable? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Here is a very simple guide to benchmark your computer and see how it performs. First of all download Cinebench 9.5 and Stability Test (broadand connection required for cinebench. Both of them do not need installation). Close all programs, so the maximum amount of ram and virtual memory is free. Now:Open Cinebench. First we are going to benchmark the cpu.Click the "Rendering (1 Cpu)" icon (if you have a dual core cpu this test uses only the one core).After the test is finished and if you have a dual-core cpu click the "Rendering (x Cpu)" icon. As you see now in the rendered picture, the process takes less time and both cores are used. When the test is fineshed you can see under "Rendering" buttons how faster is your pc when both cores are used. Performances over 435CB-CPU are considered as high.If you have a graphics accelerated card you can run the three graphics tests below.Time for stability test! That means time to burn our cpus. Unrar Stability test and double click the CPUStabTes Read more:Benchmark
Welcome! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Here I will post some simple tutorials to make your life with computers easier! Enjoy
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Speed up your pc! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 If you feel that your pc is slow, you should try the followings: Windows XP use a page file, which is realy big (sometimes it is up to 4GB). The page file is virtual memory. The pc uses virtual memory like RAM, but virtual memory is space on your hard disk, which is much slower than your RAM memory. If you have 512MB-1GB RAM do the followings:Right click on My Computer icon, select properties.Select "for Advanced users" and click the first "options/selections" buttonSelect "advanced" and on the Virtual Memory tab click changeSelect the first button so you can set the capacity of page file and type in both spaces 1024. That means that your page file will be 1024 MB all the time.Click ok and restart your system when you are promted to so.When the system restarts, defrag your hard disk drive using windows defragment tool and you are ready!If you have 2GB RAM or more you do not need to use page file. To set page file off, follow steps 1-3 and select "Do not use page file". Click ok and res Read more:Speed
Clean up! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 If you notice that your hard disk drive is almost full, try the followings:Go to start-->Programs-->Accessories-->System tools and run a disk cleanup. Decide what you want to delete from the list and clean it.After you cleaned your drive, double click on my computer icon. After my computer is opened, click Tools on the top, next to Favorites, and select Folders Options. Select the Second tab next to GeneralSelect show hidden files and folders.Click ok.Now you should be with my computer folder opened if you followed the steps above. Double click your hard drive icon (C: probably)Double click documents and settingThere should be three folders: One with your name, one called "Default user" (which is hidden folder) and one called "All users". Double click to open the one with your name.Double click Local Setting (also hidden folder) and open temp folder.Delete everything that is in this folder.Empty your recycle bin and you are ready.Temp folder contains files that are usually used, or in Read more:Clean
How to add a favicon to your site! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Favicon is a small icon displayed beside the url of a site and beside the site name on the tab (if you use a browser that supports tab browsing). You can see a favicon
in the foto below.Lets see how you can add your own favicon to your web site or to your blog. A favicon is a 16x16 or 32x32 image saved in .ico or .gif format. You can transform your image to these dimension using a photo editing program like Adobe Photoshop. If you do not want to do it by yourself or don't have a photo editing program you can generate your favicon here.Upload the photo you want, click generate andDownload the Zip File that contains the favicons.Now upload the favicon to your server (where you host your site). If you use Blogger, you cannot upload files. There are two ways to use favicon with Blogger. You can upload the favicon to another server that you have access to and link through blogger template there or if you have not access to a server you can create a new post called "Favicon", upload the fav
How to seperate a big track to multiple tracks with nero! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 All of us have mp3s and other audio tracks
that are huge (for example you download a live set of your favorite dj and it is a 80 minutes non stop track). It is not usefull to burn this track in cds as they are, because the cd will contain only one 80-minute track. The solution to seperate
a track like this to multiple tracks (to cut for example the live set to the tracks the dj played) is realy simple and easy for anyone! The only program you need is nero express. Lets start:Open nero express and import the track you want to trim and seperate. (It does not matter if the track is in mp3 or wav format.)Right-click on the track name and select properties. In properties window click the second tab which is called indexes, limit splits.Now you can see the track in wave form. Click the wave form, where you want to cut the track and click split. Devide the track in as many new tracks as you want.When you are ready, click apply and now you can burn your cd and listen to it choosing any track y
Create a shortcut to shut down your PC 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Did you know that you can log off, shut down
or restart your pc with a single click? Here is the way: Right click on the desktop and select create, new shorcut. Write (or browse the path) C:WindowsSystem32Shutdown.exe (where C is the letter of the drive on which Windows are installed to) and click next. Name your shortcut
as you want and click finish. Then single click the shortcut you created and select properties. In target field add to the command line -1 if you want log off function for your shortcut, -s if you want shut down or -r if you want restart function. After adding this, you can add also -t x (where x is seconds) if you want a countdown until your system shuts down or restarts. Also you can add -c "text" (where text write anything you want) if you want a text message to appear when you click your shorcut.
Another way to track your blog traffic 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Searching through the Internet, I found 103bees. 103bees is a service, with which you can track the visitors of your blog or site. I use it alongside with Google Analytics, because 103bees offers the option to see what search terms did users entered and reached your pages through search engines (like google, yahoo and live) and what was your page ranking in the results. It is very easy to track your visitors with 103bees, you just have to register an account (it is completely free), add some code to every page you want to track (the codes loads up very quickly and validates for w3c standards) and you are ready. Although 103bees is very usefull, it cannot replace completely Google Analytics, as Analytics offer the geo map overlay, marketing information about your site and various other statistics.
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How to find your MAC adress 1970-01-01 00:59:59 It is very easy to discover your MAC adress
(MAC adress is needed sometimes to make operations on your network or router). So follow these steps and you will discover your MAC adress:Click Start, Run and type cmd in the text boxWhen the command promt window opens, type ipconfig/allThe 12-digit Physical adress is the same as your MAC adress.You will have multiple MAC adresses if you have both wired and wireless connection on your system.
10 tips for a successfull blog! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Here are ten tips that in my opinion are the element for a successfull blog:Write quality content. Quality content means to write on topics that other would like to read and content that you know well because to attract readers you have to write something that is not mentioned by everyone.Categorize your blog when you create it. Blogs that covers a lot of irrelevant subjects at the same time are not successfull most of the times.Write for readers and not for Google and other search engines. First of all you have to think about what would attract more readers to your blog and then how to make search engines index it.Start promoting your blog to blog catalogs after you have written some posts, so readers can read many posts. A blog with a single post does not attract anybody. This will help you also with the search engines.Put a foto on your profile to blog catalogs like technorati. People remember photos and are attracted by them.Read other blogs and try to come to contact with other bl
Web 2.0 Logo made with Photoshop! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I designed a web 2.0 logo using Adobe Photoshop
! Thanks a lot to Alleba for his great video guide! Visit this link and create your own web logo. It is much more easier than you can imagine! Below you can see Alleba's video guide.
Modify the RSS icon for your blog or site! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The RSS feed icon has an orange colour by default. According to the RSS icon's license you are free to change its colour so the icon fits well to your site. There are two ways to change the colour: one using Adobe Illustrator (which means change the colour manually) and one using Adobe Photoshop. Illustrator gives a little bit better results but this way is more difficult if you are not an Illustrator user. Anyway most of the times we use small versions of RSS icon, so its hard to notice a difference. I will show you the "easy" way using Photoshop. Lets start! First of all download the feed icons from here (there are PSD, EPS, JPEG and PNG versions of the icon in the zip file). Unzip the file and:Open the greyscale folder and choose the .psd icon you want (for example the 128x128 which is the biggest dimensions offered).After you open the file with Photoshop, check if the layer pallete is visible. If not press F7 to make it visible.Right click on the "Feed icon" layer in layers pallet Read more:Modify
How to speed up your computer's boot 1970-01-01 00:59:59 As you may have noticed, when Windows boot, a lot of programs start running in the background (you can see these programs alongside with windows's processes in the task manager -processes tab- by pressing ctr+alt+del. Most of them put also an icon in system tray). These programs of course take time to load, which means that Windows take more time to boot! Most of the times, programs that run in the background are not needed, so you can eliminate your system's boot time by disabling them. Lets start:Press start and then select runType msconfig and press enterIn the window that appears choose the Startup tabHere is the list of programs that load when you boot your system and continue running in the background. Disable any program that you want, click "apply" and then "ok". Restart your system when you are promt to and enjoy how faster your pc boots!Notice that it is safe to disable all these applications! They have nothing to do with the services that run also in background. You can le
Blogger navbar and Internet Explorer 7 1970-01-01 00:59:59 As you may have noticed, if you use Blogger
with a blogger template, Internet
explorer 7 displays your blog with a problem on the top (Blogger nav bar is hiding part of the header). The solution for this problem is to put some html code into your template and hide the navbar (very few people use the nav bar, so it is better to hide it and have your site being displayed correctly). Between <head> and </head> tags paste the following code under the */layout*/ line. (everything between /*....*/ is comments and it does not affect your site, so be carefull to paste the code under the comment line).#navbar-iframe {height: 0px;visibility: hidden;display: none;}Save your template, view your blog and enjoy how Internet Explorer
7 displays it!
Microsoft Word became crazy? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Searching around on the Internet I found this trick: Open an empty Word file (I have not tested it in Word 2007), type = rand (200,99) and press enter. Wait for 3 seconds and then a lot of pages will be filled with a repeating sentense (I use the Greek version of Word 2003 and the sentense that appears is part from a poem). As I released after, this is not a bug, it is an easy way to transfer text and Microsoft
knows that it happens. If with a single line like this, Word could write down pages from my exercises, it would be for sure my favorite program to use.
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Validate the Youtube embed code! 2007-04-20 09:49:00 I wrote about it here and it is really usefull. As we now the embed
code of youtube is a mess as it uses the embed tag which does not validate as xhtml. Using the code this tip you can embed a youtube or google video to your site or blog and keep your code validated:<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/moviecode" width="400" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/moviecode" /></object>The moviecode is a code found in each youtube video adress and is after v= until the first ampersand (&). For example in this URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmHHjUZPyMY, the code is xmHHjUZPyMY.
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Build a digital clock with Java 2007-04-24 11:27:00 Here is a piece of code to build a Java clock applet that uses threads, gets the data for time automatically and is not interrupted if you click something else on the web page. There are some comments around the code to help you understand what's happening. Program build and tested with Netbeans 5.5. If I find a way, I will upload the applet here to see it running in real time!import java.awt.*;import javax.swing.*;import java.util.Date;import java.text.DateFormat;// builds the clockclass MyClock extends JApplet implements Runnable{ private Thread myThread; // the threadprivate JLabel clock; // the labelprivate final int interval = 1000; // time in// millisecondspublic void init(){ clock = new JLabel("", SwingConstants.CENTER);clock.setFont (new Font ("Verdana", Font.BOLD,28));clock.setBackground(Color.BLUE());clock.setForeground(Color.WHITE);clock.setOpaque(true);getContentPane().add(clock);setSize(250, 100);}public void start(){ if (myThread == null){ myThread = new Thread(this, "cl Read more:Build
Draw stars using Java 2007-04-24 00:41:00 Here is a tutorial to make your way into drawing graphics with Java. This program creates a semi-circle line of stars
. The stars are randomly colored. I made the program using Netbeans 5.5, and I tested the code also with Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8.1. Both of them are free. The output is what you see above (star color may differ as they are randomly colored).import javax.swing.*;import java.awt.event.*;import java.awt.*;import java.awt.geom.*;class psy2k extends JFrame {public psy2k(){ super( "Psy2k star draw" ); setBackground( Color.white ); setSize( 400, 400 ); show();}public void paint( Graphics g ){ int xPoints[] = { 55, 67, 109, 73, 83, 55, 27, 37, 1, 43 }; int yPoints[] = { 0, 36, 36, 54, 96, 72, 96, 54, 36, 36 };Graphics2D g2d = ( Graphics2D ) g;GeneralPath star = new GeneralPath();star.moveTo( xPoints[ 0 ], yPoints[ 0 ] );for ( int k = 1; k < xPoints.length; k++ ) star.lineTo( xPoints[ k ], yPoints[ k ] ); star.closePath(); g2d.translate( 200, 200 )
Download my first Wallpaper! 2007-04-23 17:31:00 I made an attemp to make a wallpaper with Adobe Photoshop CS2. I used lot of gradients and layer effects. Feel free to download it by clicking the folder icon below and tell me your comments. I love minimal things: that's why my wallpaper looks like this. In the .zip file there are three versions of the wallpaper: 1600x1200, 1280x1024, 1024x768 pixels. If you use a different screen resolution feel free to mail me and I will send you a version that fits your screen.Download
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Read and print a serial file using C 2007-04-23 13:21:00 If you have a serial .dat file that has data like these below, you can easily import and use them with C (for C++ it is almost the same).Sample file:If the file is named customers.dat, use the code below to read and print the data with C.#include int main(){int number;char name[30];double bill;FILE *cfPt; /*File pointer .dat */if ((cfPtr=fopen("customers.dat", "r"))==NULL)printf("File could not be opened
");else {printf("%-10s%-13s%s
", "Number", "Name", "Bill");fscanf(cfPtr, "%d%s%lf", &number, name, &bill);while (!feof(cfPtr)) {printf("%-10d%-13s%7.2f
", number, name, bill);fscanf(cfPtr, "%d%s%lf", &number, name, &bill);}fclose(cfPtr);}return 0;}
Read data from a URL and show them on screen with Java 2007-04-26 17:20:00 The following code reads data from a URL and then it shows them on screen
. This is an amateur example of the use of java.net packet. If you are an experienced user, you can use ContentHandler and ContentHandlerFactory to choose who can be a data controller.import java.io.*;import java.net.*;public class ReadUrl{ public static void main (String[] args) { for (int i = 0; i < url =" new" connect =" url.openConnection();" in =" connect.getInputStream();" bytes =" new" len =" in.read(bytes))">= 0) System.out.write(bytes, 0, len); }}
Tips for debugging your web pages 2007-04-25 10:38:00 After building your site, it comes the hard stuff: testing and debugging the page. There are a few rules that you can follow to make your life easier:Make sure that you spelled everything correctly (for example img is not written igm)Make sure that the Doctype of your pages matches the (x)html you are using (for example if you use deprecated tags in your code, you should choose (x)html transitional instead of (x)html strict).Follow the rules of nesting. If you open a <p> tag and then a <a> make sure that the closing </a> comes before the closing </p>Avoid the use of non-standard tags as they may lead browsers to conflicts.For elements that have content avoid the use of <p ...... /> and prefer <p> ...... </p>. Both of them are valid (x)html but the first may cause problems to some older browsers. Use the first method though for elements that are empty or contain data, for example <img src="http://easy-how-to.blogspot.com//picture.jpeg" alt="p
Create a drop-down menu for image selection using java 2007-05-10 12:04:00 The following code uses JCombo class for creating a drop down menu that provides the user the ability to choose and see the selected image. Note that the images you want to inlcude in your app should be saved in the main directory of your program (if you use netbeans for example open the project folder and save the images there).import java.awt.*;import java.awt.event.*;import javax.swing.*;class ComboBoxTest extends JFrame {private JComboBox images;private JLabel label;private String names[] ={ "cutlass_32.png", "pet-monkey_32.png","pirate-captain_32.png", "first-mate_32.png" };private Icon icons[] ={ new ImageIcon( names[ 0 ] ),new ImageIcon( names[ 1 ] ),new ImageIcon( names[ 2 ] ),new ImageIcon( names[ 3 ] ) };public ComboBoxTest(){super( "Psy2k-Photo Selection" );Container c = getContentPane();c.setLayout( new FlowLayout() );images = new JComboBox( names );images.setMaximumRowCount( 3 );images.addItemListener(new ItemListener() { public void itemStateChanged( ItemEvent e ) { Read more:selection
The bad co-worker: recognise him! 2007-05-16 14:08:00 Everybody of us has experienced the phenomenon "bad co-worker", but let me explain what I learned from my experience (web-developing, coding, graphics):He (the bad co-worker) designs a layout and then he sends it to me for slicing. BUT when I open the layout in Photoshop, I realise that it consists of 200 layers, ungrouped and named with names "layer 1, layer 2, layer 3, ......., layer 200". Believe me pal it is much easier for me to deal with grouped layers in categories like Header, Footer etc and names like Title, sidebar background etc than guessing or right clicking its layout's component to find the appropriate layer.If I am out of luck at all the layout file is merged down and in .jpg format with the sample text (which should be deleted) on it.When he writed code, he does not use "ENTER" button for changing line. The code is a mess, without comments and looks like simple text.When his pc has a problem, he asks the others first and then tries to fix it on his own.He prefer askin
Create a Colour Chooser Window with Java 2007-07-30 13:21:00 Here a simple piece of code on how you can easily create a Colour
Chooser window. The program uses JColorChooser method which is part of the java.swing packet. The code is:import java.awt.*;import javax.swing.*;import java.awt.event.*;class ColorChooser extends JFrame { private JButton changeColor; private Color color = Color.lightGray; private Container c; public ColorChooser() { super( "Using JColorChooser" ); c = getContentPane(); c.setLayout( new FlowLayout() ); changeColor = new JButton( "Change Color" ); changeColor.addActionListener( new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent e ) { color = JColorChooser.showDialog( ColorChooser.this, "Choose a colour", color ); if ( color == null ) color = Color.blue; c.setBackground( color ); c.repaint(); } } ); c.add( changeColor ); setSize( 400, 130 ); show(); } Read more:Window
Java packages you should know and use 2007-09-19 15:33:00 Here is a list of the main and most commonly used java packages. Packages are imported using import <package name>;, for example import java.net.*;java.applet: includes class Applet and other methods that allow applet creation. javax.swing.JApplet is used when an applet enhances GUI swing componentsjava.io: includes classes for data input and outputjava.net: includes classes for network programming like socket and datagram programming.java.rmi: incudes classes and methods for creating applications for distributed computing.java.security: includes classes for authorisation and data encryption.javax.swing: incudes classes for GUI.java.sql: incudes classes for connection with SQL databases.
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