When I first got into blogging, I didn’t have much idea about how can I get my blog (ReviewSaurus – Free software reviews)indexed by Google fast and it took quite some time for me to get my blog indexed by Google. Now, that I have a fair amount of idea about search engine optimization (I’m not a pro in SEO), I managed to get my this blog (TipsoSaurus – Tips and tricks for computers) crawl by GoogleBot in 1 day only. It may not be a very difficult task for many pro’s but I hope that new people will find this tips helpful. Here’s what I did to get this blog indexed fast :

1. Google Webmaster Tools : Remember, Google is your friend and so, don’t forget to tell it that you’ve started a new blog and that it should visit your blog. For that, make use of Google Webmaster tools and submit your website or blog address.

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Read Receipt is feature, which gives you a notification that the email sent by you has been read by the recipient. Nirmal explains to us the procedure of enabling the Read Receipt for a message in Microsoft Outlook. Now, lets look at the ways of enabling the Read Receipt feature in other email clients :

In Outlook Express 6 :

Go to Tools -> Options -> Receipts tab & then click on Request a read receipt for all sent messages.

Read receipt outlook express

In Thunderbird 2.0 :

Go to Tools -> Options -> Advanced tab -> Return Receipts button -> tick When sending messages, always request a return receipt.

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Jing Project

31 July 2007

Jing project logoJing is a new project by TechSmith (company behind the popular screen capturing utility called Snagit) and Jing is again a screen capturing utility (in simple words, PRINT SCREEN button) which can take screen shots for you and you can even screen cast using Jing. Jing is a Freeware and the reason for that is that TechSmith wants to make their screen cast hosting service popular as Jing incorporates the feature of uploading the screen casts directly to Screencast.com

Well, lets see how good this beta project is and whether it anywhere near to other screen casting softwares or not & if TechSmith will be able to make Screencast.com any popular :

PROS of Jing :

  1. It’s a Freeware (at this time only, it’s a beta and test project. TechSmith may start charging a price in future).
  2. Supports Macintosh OS X, Windows Vista & XP (requires .Net 3.0 Framework).
  3. Ability to capture Screenshots and make Screencasts.

CONS of Jing :

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BlogJet is one of the best blogging software with numerous options and great stability. However, by default BlogJet doesn’t give the option of making use of the FTP upload feature. If you setup the blog by automatic detect settings then it will make use of the blogging platform’s (WordPress, drupal, B2 etc.) uploading feature and will not offer to upload the files (images or videos) through FTP.

Now, there is a simple and manual way of making use of the FTP upload feature and you can follow these steps to achieve that :

1. When it asks you to create the account then simply select Configure Manually.

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There are many programs which load up in the startup of the Windows, however there are times when we realize that we don’t need all those softwares loading up in the startup because not only they make the windows boot up slow but also waste valuable amount of RAM.

In order to control these programs we can follow these tips and we can disable these programs from loading up in the startup :

1. Click on Start Menu.
2. Open up Control Panel.
3. On the top search box, type Startup.
4. Open up the Windows Defender Icon, which says “Stop a program from running at startup�.

You’ll see the list of programs which load in the startup. From that screen you can manage that which software you want to allow and the ones which you want to disable or remove. Once you disable or remove the program, it won’t load up in the startup.