Shrink Picture for used in e-mails, social networking, blogs and messengers

People nowadays can do many things online conveniently. From games to business, everything has been made easier time to time. But, I think there are four common things people usually do online. What are the four common things?
1. Working with e-mails, like Gmail or Yahoo Mail.
2. Using social networking, like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc.
3. Writing blogs using Blogger or Wordpress.
4. Chatting or making calls with messengers, like Skype, Yahoo or MSN Messenger

Alright, what people do with these four things also have a common thing they usually need, that is "Photo" uploading. Am I right? You send photos as attachment for e-mails. You may also upload your photo to share with your family and friends. You enrich you blog with photos to make look more beautiful. You also send photos to share them through Messenger.

Well, anything you do online with photos will certainly take up time for uploading when you want to share the photos. And probably you don't want to waste your time on waiting for the uploading process which may take up quite a long time. For certain people, such thing maybe a fun thing cause you are expecting the other party to see your photos. To some people, it's just a waste of time which they wish that if only it could be faster. And also, you will hit the roof when internet connection is down at that time.

People love time-saving tips and stuffs. And that's why some programmers write software that save time. And one of  the way to save time, is by shrinking the photos you are going to upload. Shrinking photos means reducing the size by compressing it.

To start Shrinking photos, you have to download "Shrink Pic", a free program that shrinks your photos into smaller size. It has 3 options of shrinking: High, Medium and Low. Use "High" to get the smallest possible size. You can also customize your own photo size. Shrink Pic works in the background and it detects when you are sending large photos. And resize the photos you are sending, so that your sending progress is faster. It won't change anything on your original photos, instead it just creates a temporary reduced size one. Then after sending, it will tell you that it has sent the smaller sized photos.

Shrink Pic is not only useful in reducing photo size. It also helps to rotate the photo to the correct orientation. It detects every process of uploading photos and works automatically for you. This means uploading photos that will take minutes to finish will become seconds only to complete. So, what are you waiting for? Start using Shrink Pic for saving your photo uploading time now!

Google now applies new sign-in page for adsense publisher

When you open your Google adsense for signing and start working for your adsense, checking your earning today, you'll probably see a different look. The new sign-in page looks quite different where you see a clearer white background. This also arises a doubt in entering your user name and password. You might think why there's a sudden change.

In fact, Google also has a page where it tells you why Google has changed the look of sign-in page. Here's the page of the reasons why it has changed. Whenever you are entering a new page which also arises you doubts, make sure that you check again that you are typing the correct url for the site you are opening. Then check whether the sign-in page of the site has a "LOCK" icon in the address bar, just on the left of your url. When you see this "LOCK" icon on Google Chrome, it means you are on a secure page. Google suggests that you use Google Chrome for browsing.

How to get Free Traffic using Blog Directories

Blog Directories idea actually came out when most website directories don't accept blogs to be submitted in the website directories. And that's why people create blog submission to collect all blogs contents.

More and more blogs are created everyday. To enhance the promotion of blogs, bloggers usually submit their blogs to blog directories. When a blog is submitted to a blog directory with high page rank, the blog will get a backlink from that blog directory. That's why blogger loves blog directory submission and treat this as a must after having a blog. After every post of new article, you need to ping blog directory, so that it will send a crawler to see if you have updated your blog.

There are many free blog directories where you can submit your blogs, such as: technorati.com, bloggapedia.com, digg.com, blogcatalog.com, blogtoplist.com. For more information about how to get free traffic using Blog Directories.

Future Google Pagerank Prediction - A way to motivate yourself in blogging

What would you do to motivate yourself in improving your website? Do you read motivational books? Do you read articles written by professional bloggers? Well, there are many inspirational and motivational stuffs online to help you. But, besides articles, audio books and videos, there are also tools that help you to motivate yourself in blogging or you can say to motivate you to keep on working on adsense.

So, how to motivate yourself for adsense using those tools? Well, one of the SEO tools online which I found is called "Page Rank Prediction" tool. This PR prediction tool will help you to get a view of how your site will rank in the future. In fact, this is just an analyze and not a really reliable tool as I have said before "prediction".

We all know that prediction is not something very sure or even not sure at all. But prediction does come from certain basis. It may be a result coming up by calculating the quality and quantity of your backlinks. The result is just an estimation. Perhaps, it may come true if you keep on doing what you are doing currently in a routine manner.

Don't be desperate if you get very low PR predictiction. Just keep on working to achieve your goal. Don't be overwhelmed if your PR is high. If you don't work hard for it, it won't come true, and probably your current PR will also drop. Remember use this Future Pagerank Prediction as a motivational tool only.

Sharing my experience and simple advice on adsense.

In my experience, we should find out our ability in writing contents according to our expertise and interest in certain field or topic. This means creating several blogs according to your interest and expertise at one time. Then keep posting on those different blogs of our interest and expertise. As newbie to adsense, you'll never know until you've tried it yourself.

After a few months, you'll probably see two situations. (Suppose you have 5 blogs)
1. Which blogs are you really keen on posting?
This means if you are still posting on 2 of 5 blogs and probably have left the 3 other blogs. That means you might earn more on those 2 blogs. Keep on doing it. And post even more.
2. You'll also see which blogs give you better earnings.
If you find that the blogs that give you better earnings are also those with your most regular updated ones, then I will suggest you continuing to focus on those blogs with more earnings and of which you have real interest and expertise on them.

The conclusion is start your blogs right away, work hard on those blogs, and analyze those improvement based on your post number, clicks and earnings. Then, I think you will know which blogs really ensure your adsense in the future. Sounds very simple, right. Don't worry too much about earnings. Just start and work hard on it. When problems come or when you are low in motivation, go searching on the internet to gain back your motivation in adsense.

Online Document Conversion - convert your document for free online

PDF files are usually used as e-book or e-manual. You can't edit PDF files directly. This means you can't take the contents and use them in Word Processor. But, this doesn't mean that there is no way to get the contents. By using certain conversion programs you can turn those PDF files into document formats like RTF, DOC or TXT.

There's an online service which helps you convert PDF files and Image text files into real document format like I mentioned before. Image text files are text files that are converted into image to avoid from editing. Image text files can also be the scanned result of a text or document. This is like the image that resulted from your scanner of a page of document. Of course by scanning, the result will be image, until you use OCR programs. OCR stands for Optical Character Reader.

Ok, let's go back to the PDF online converter. This website also has a feature to convert image in JPG and TIF format into document. That means your scanned document is editable after the OCR process or conversion.

To start your conversion online, you first need to sign up an account at Online Document Conversion. Then, you'll have a free account. One e-mail for one account with 5 credits (five times of conversion) for the conversion of either image file or pdf files.You can see the picture below for more details of the conversion formats. The result of the conversion will be sent to your e-mail. If you want unlimited conversion, then you'll need to pay for it. Just upload a pdf or image file and start your conversion now.

Creating 3D animated movies easily with Miivies.com

You'll probably wonder how those animators create 3D movies. And you may also ever have the idea of being one of them. In fact, if the animators' jobs aren't easy. As you know that there are many kinds of 3D designer software, like 3D Studio Max, Maya, Lightwave 3D, Blender 3D, etc. Those programs aren't easy to master, because the menus and the commands are just totally different from the menus and commands on Microsoft Office, which are easier to understand.

When I first saw the interface of 3D Studio Max many years ago, I felt so confused about the interface of the program. I didn't know where to start doing the 3D project. Even if you have the tutorial videos or reference books, you will still take a lot of time to learn.

But recently I found a website which gives us a lot of convenience in creating a 3D animated movie. It's Miivies.com. This website gives all you need to create a 3D animation. All you need to do is to think of your own movie story. You can create a 3D movie by just "click-and-drop" of object, which means most of your time is spent on selecting the characters, background, sounds, etc. It seems like the WYSIWYG of 3D animation programs.

Now,  you are just like a director n Miivies. You can select the character and choose the actions of the character. Choosing the background for the movie. Finally make them speak what you want. Miivies supports many kinds of languages, not only English although the interface is in English. This means that your character can speak many languages that you set for them.

You need to sign up for an account at Miivies.com to start your first project. You also need to install Unity Web Player. Since this is 3D web application, you'd better  have computer with higher specification to run the application smoothly. Well, everything is up to you now. I believe you will be able to create a animation movie of your own soon. Click here to start your first animation project at Miivies now.

Blogger's new feature - Dynamic View on Template Designer

Blogger seems to have improved from day to day. When it has applied the Template Designer, which we can customize our own template easily, like changing the layout in column, changing the background easily, adjusting the width, adding CSS to the template. Those have been applied for quite a long time, but this morning when I was logging in to Blogger, I found that Blogger has applied "Dynamic View" on the Template Designer.

Template Designer has become more flexible with this Dynamic View. You can have better view of your post because they are arranged in a way that all posts are side by side. This also means that the new view can accommodate more post in a blog. The new template view seems to look more a bit like those wordpress templates called Magazine style.

Woogle - the simplest Wordpress template that looks like Google

Are you searching for a Wordpress theme that looks simple? Well, what do you think is the world's most popular and simplest website? I would directly think of Google. What about you?
If you need a template that looks like Google, there's no problem. Such template really exist. But, it's for Wordpress. So, you can decide whether to blog using Blogger or Wordpress, if you want to have a site which look like Google.
The "Woogle" is a free template specially designed for Wordpress blogger. But, don't you think that this Woogle is too simple? Never mind if you just that simply plain Google website. Click here to download Woogle Wordpress template.

Blogger promotes BlogWorld Expo 2011

Recently, when I have finished posting an article at Blogger, I will always see "BlogWorld Expo 2011' advertisement appeared next to the text "Your blog post published successfully". Now, advertisement can also appear inside Blogger on blog post publishing time.


Perhaps it's a good chance for those webmaster who wants to promote their site or blog through this kind of blogging conference. The condition is to create your own killer content. Maybe at the end of the content, you can put your name and your site url. Thus, creating link to your website which is linking from a high page rank website. Of course this will also push your rank a bit and at the same time promoting yourself and your site.


From this kind of activities or conference, you'll also meet experts of blogging at BlogWorld. That's what they said. BlogWorld is also said to be the World's Largest Blogging Conference.It's held on Nov. 3–5 2011, Los Angeles CA. Are you going to join this blogging conference?

Is your site doing well in Google search?

Have you posted a lot on your new site, but found that your site is not doing well in Google search? If so, you might probably feel frustrated and eventually would stop posting articles, thinking that it would be a waste of time.
But before you decide to give up, you should understand how to improve your site in Google search engine. At least keep on posting good articles. Then start using Google Webmaster Tools. It can tell you how your site is performing in the search engine. An exclamation point symbol will tell you what's wrong with the site in the search engine.
Building a site with high traffic isn't an easy task. You need a lot of time to manage it, and most of all, presenting good quality contents. Many webmasters also quote "contents is the king".
Google Webmaster Tools can tell you if something is wrong with your website. For example, when the Google crawler reaches your site, but your site server is down, an error message will also be sent to you. You can see in the "Web crawler errors" section. You'll also see an error if there's something wrong with your robot.txt file. So, don't let those problems block your improvement in getting to the top of Search.
Here's a video on how you can use Google Webmaster Tools to understand how your site performs in the Google search.

How to make an iPAD from scratch? iPAD DIY by a Chinese man

Have you ever thought of assembling your own iPAD? Do you think it's possible to create an iPAD or something that look like iPad and has all the basic functions of iPAD such as: touch screen browsing, iPad style look? Well, a Chinese man has ever done this and he even posted the video of him assembling his own iPad from scratch. Let's see how he did it.
Part 1 - Assembling iPad from scratch

Part 2 - Demonstrating the DIY iPAD

Fotoflexer - an amazing online photo editor

Fotoflexer is an online image editor which enables you to fix your photos and decorate your photos with beautiful items. You can create dazzling photo effects in your browser with this free online application. You don't have to download anything. All you have to do to edit your photo is just by uploading the photo you want to edit. Then, unleash your creativity to add more effect to your photos.

You can add stylish text and some objects such as a heart shape to your photo. It supports layers, too. You can distort the photo to create slimmer photo of yourself. You can also retouch the old photo or do some photo make-up for your photo.

Fotoflexer supports 22 different languages including: Chinese, Japanese and Korean. So for you who understand Chinese only, can use this instead of Meitu Xiu Xiu (which you need to download and install before you use it). For those who have ever used Photoshop or Meitu Xiuxiu, this online application will let you feel really at ease in using it.

You can easily edit photos from your social networking, like Facebook, Myspace or photo sharing website like Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket and many more. Visit Fotoflexer now.

Clicktale - a tool that tells you how your visitor acts when they visit your website

Clicktale is a tool that tells you the experience of your visitor when they visit your website. You probably wonder what your visitor will click, where they are moving their mouse, and all their mouse movements when visiting your  website.

Click tale will record all the visitor activities on your website and make a report for you. With this feature, you can then analyze how you should design and improve your website. It's an easy to setup tool for your own benefit. It can monitor the mouse move and getting information on the heatmaps.

Easy 3D Title Animation Software: Aurora 3D Animation Maker

You probably wonder how some computer beginners can do certain difficult things with computer, like making 3D animation for a novice computer user. From my experience, using 3D software for a new computer user will be very difficult if you don't know the basic of 3D concepts.

But does it mean that computer beginners can't create 3D stuffs in short time? Well, you can actually create 3D stuffs, like 3D title animation using special software which is intended for that task. Of course, I am not suggesting 3D software like 3D Studio Max, Maya or Blender3D.

To create great 3D title animation with simple steps, you need to have 3D animation maker like Aurora 3D. It's one of those many programs to create 3D title and animate it. The following video will show you some samples 3D titles and animation made with Aurora 3D Animation Maker.

How to install Unity 3D Web Player and Game Developer

Unity 3D Web Player is an application which you need to install when running online 3D application or games. Some 3D related websites, have this application installed automatically at your first visit at their websites, but some requires you to download and install it manually by redirecting you to their official website. One of the online website that requires you to have this Unity 3D Web Player installed before running their online application is Miivies.com (an online based 3D animation maker website).

Here's a video on how to install Unity 3D Web Player.

What do you think about the changes of "google ads" into "ad choices"?

I have been wondering why the texts under Google advertisements have all changed from "Ads by Google" into "Ad Choices". And why Google has its Leaderboard advertisement style changed also. But I think Google Adsense has found that "Ad Choices" seems to be better that the previous one. Why I think so? It's because that the word "Ads by Google" probably has caught the sight of every blog or website readers. And this also makes the readers know that the ads are just ads, no matter how you blend them into looking like contents. And what I think is that when people know directly that ads are ads, they probably won't click on them.

Anyway, I do believe people will directly click whenever they are in need or curious about the contents of the advertisements shown by Google. So, I don't find a need to really blend them unless you need you blend in order to make it look neat. That's why I think.

About the leaderboard change, I really like it that way. It seems to fit more advertisements into the new leaderboard rather than the old one. Don't you think so? It also looks nicer with smaller text and longer text. Big gaps or spaces inside an advertisement will always make your blog seems weird. I dislike the Large Rectangle when it shows only one ad text at the center of the whole rectangle.

No matter how they change, I do believe that Google will keep on improving to suit the need of advertiser and publisher. There's a link here where you can read more why Google changes the name of ads into "Ad Choices".

Dental Damage Online Mini Games

Dental problem is one of the many health problems. Now, you can also relieve your stress by playing this dental online game. This game is called "Dental Damage". You play as a dentist who repair dental damage by clicking and moving your mouse around the damage tooth area. It's quite fun, though. This game has several levels, so it won't make you bored very soon. Have fun playing this Dental Online Game.

Digsby - a simple application that manages all your social networking activities

Have you joined many social networking and have lots of accounts to manage? Are you feeling stressed on logging in and out from one social network to another one? Well, if you have such problems, you probably need a program that manages all these activities automatically for you.

Digsby is the answer. It's a program which handles or manages many of your accounts. It's a combination of Instant Messenger (IM), Email and Social Network altogether. Digsby supports Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. It means you can use it for any operating system, since those three operating systems are the most common ones of the world.

A. Instant Messenger
Digsby is useful because it supports those most commonly used Messenger, like AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ,  Google Talk, Jabber and Facebook. With this IM manager, you can switch from an IM to another easily by just clicking the tab of IM you want to use. And you can also send sms directly from this program to your friends.

B. Email
Digsby helps you to manage emails easily because it can manage emails of  Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP altogether. What a convenient software. When a new email comes, you can open it directly without any hassles.


C. Social Networking
Digsby is really a great helper for those who have Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and LinkedIn accounts. It helps you save troubles for getting information of your social networking friends' status updates, new uploaded photos, and upcoming birthday. It's an all in one Social Networking manager.

It also supports widget that you can have it on your website or blog. So, you can have your own chat box just right on  your website. You may also customize the digsby widget to your preference. And the great news is that it's free to download Digsby.

How to enable Auto Save option in Microsoft Powerpoint?

Microsoft Powerpoint is a common program used to create Presentations. Most people won't take notice on how important to save a presentation before they lose it. And this has taken notice by Microsoft, I think. And perhaps, that's why they created "Auto Save" or "Auto Recovery" functions.

This post is actually written for a friend of mine whose presentation was lost during power failure. And the worst is that she didn't manage to save it. She gave me an inspiration to write this post. Ok, let me tell you briefly how to use Microsoft Powerpoint Auto save feature.

It's very simple. At the first time you save the presentation, there's a Tools button on the Save dialog box.
Click "Save options" on the Tools button. Then click Save, after that you can customize how documents are saved. Tick "Save AutoRecover information every... minutes." Determine the number of minutes you want Powerpoint to autosave for you. And that's how to activate autosave in Powerpoint.

App Store Dream Lantern (梦想灯笼) - make your own 3D lantern

App Store Dream Lantern is an application which you can download free from app store. This application is a fun and cool application which enables you to create your own 3D lantern. You can show off this 3D lantern to your friends on moon cake festival. How great it is to show a personalized and customized item of lantern festival from your most precious iPhone or iPad.

Buying a real lantern to certain people may seem to be money-wasting. Using application to replace the real one also means environmental friendly cause you won't waste paper and your lantern won't get burnt. It's also as fun as the real one. Since it's an apple's application, you may share it online to let your friends see your creation. You can have a lantern competition to see whose lanterns look best.

Here's a video showing you how to make your own 3D lantern with this App Store Dream Lantern.

Click here to open the Dream Lantern application download page.

A short 3D animation for moon cake festival

Moon Cake Festival is one of the most important festival celebrated by Chinese all over the world. It's also called as Mid-Autumn Festival. You should know that when Mid-Autumn is, since the name of the festival has applied the season "Mid-Autumn". It has another name as "Lantern Festival" cause many people will bring out their own lanterns and walk down the street. Children love this festival most.

Then, why does this computer blog has such post on Moon Cake? In fact, there's nothing related to moon cake, but those creative people have had it related to moon cake festival, by promoting "moon cake shaped flash disk" and also you can see "creative 3D animation video on promoting moon cake".

If you want to know more about this festival, you can visit wikipedia.com

Here are some videos about Moon Cake Festival.

Moon Cake Promotion Video

Moon Cake Cartoon

Moon Cake Flashdisk

Aren't those computer related moon cake stuff?

Canon Scanner ToolBox for Windows 7

Hardware will become older day by day, and thus you need to upgrade your hardware after using it for a certain time if you want to keep your computer up-to-date. But upgrading hardware means you need to upgrade your software, especially the drivers and hardware related software.

The same applies to operating system. When you upgrade your operating system, your old hardware might require newer driver and related software to let your new operating system to recognize it. So, you might probably need to search for driver and software that support your new operating system on the internet.

One of the reason why I write this post is that I happened to get error when I used my Canon scanner on Windows 7. At the moment I installed the driver, no errors found. But when I installed the CanoScan Toolbox, I found that the toolbox software on my driver disc only worked for Windows XP and earlier version. I didn't support Windows 7. That means I need to download the newer version of Canon Scanner Toolbox on the internet.

Luckily I found a link where I can download the Scanner Toolbox at Download.com. If you also need such driver, click here to get the driver for free.

How to turn your own face photo into an avatar one?

AVATAR, the famous 3D movie of which the characters have blue-colored faces. In fact, you can create your own AVATAR character from your own photos. For this, you need photo editing software like Photoshop.

The main thing in this photo editing in order to look like the one in Avatar, is actually changing the color balance. Adjusting the color balance to more blue and cyan will make your photo look like Avatar. Of course, you don't take all parts of the photo into color balance adjustment. You just select the part of the face and then adjust the color of the face.

Here's a nice simple and basic tutorial on how to create an avatar with your own face photo.

What should you do when your PS/2 and USB keyboards aren't working at boot time?

Every computer needs a keyboard at the moment of boot time. Whether you are just bypassing BIOS or entering BIOS Setup, you need a keyboard to enter or change the value of the SETUP. In this case, no matter how skilled you are, you can't do anything without a keyboard.

This post idea came from the situation when I tried to build up a desktop PC with MSI mainboard, given by my cousin. He gave me the old Pentium 4 mainboard, and also given me the RAM and VGA cards. So after building it, I found that the keyboard just won't work. I tried with PS/2 and USB keyboard, and it just won't work. Then I called a technician who gave a solution which probably worked.

The solution is: turn off the PC and then remove the CMOS battery. Wait for quite a while around 30 minutes, then installed the battery again and turn on the PC. He said that this usually works well.

But unfortunately, it still didn't work for me. I brought it to another technician who was said to be expert in fixing mainboard.

How to make a stop motion puppet which costs around $10

Have you ever thought of creating your own cool stop motion puppet? Well, if you want to create your own stop motion videos with your own style, you really need it to make the puppets yourself. What about the costs? Talking about the cost is a relative matter. Different material cost differently. In fact, you can cut down the cost by using low price material. Some of the materials are free to obtain. Watch this video where the guy shows you how to create a stop motion puppet with $10 budget.

Youtube embed video code doesn't appear as video on blog post.

I have ever problem showing Youtube video on a blogger post once when I created a new blog. This is called embedding Youtube code. However, embedding code didn't seem to appear on new blog. The thing that puzzled me was that I could use the same method on my older blog to show the post, but it just didn't want to work on my new blog.

I get Youtube video embed code from Share button under the youtube video and then copy and paste the code on my Compose window. I really don't know why it works on my all of my old blogs, but just doesn't work on my newly created blog. I then saw "Edit HTML" tab, next to "Compose". I tried to post the code on "Edit HTML" window and it did work. Really weird, why embedding Youtube video code on new blog should be on the "Edit HTML" but on "Compose" just like the old blog can do. But never mind, at least I know how two methods on how to embed Youtube video codes.