How to Make Safe Your Twitter Application

Posted by a_usman on Jul 8 2009 in How To, Internet, Social Media, Tips and Tutorials | 1 comment

safe secure twitterThere are like hundreds and thousands of Twitter applications right now, and new ones are popping up daily. There are many interesting ones, but not all are clean and legit.

Many Twitter apps which claim to get you followers quickly, actually spam using your accounts with links and to market their own products.

Incase you’ve signed up for such an application and want to get rid of it, Twitter has given the flexibility to block such apps from your account. You can easily revoke their access to your account.

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Permanently Delete Files and Folders from Windows

Posted by a_usman on Jun 25 2009 in How To, Tips and Tutorials, Windows | 0 comments

recycle-bin-direct-deleteI am going to share this tip because of two reasons:

1. Sometimes people want to delete files and folders  permanently from windows without sending them into recycle bin.

2. Sometimes they want to delete a file temporarily but it is deleted permanently and when they open the recycle bin, there is no file to restore. You can say these two options are opposite to each other.

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How to Dispaly Wordpress Categories in Two Columns

Posted by a_usman on Jun 14 2009 in Blogspot, How To, Internet, Tips and Tutorials, Windows | 0 comments

How to display wordpress categories

If you have such a wordpress theme which have a wide sidebar, and you want to dispaly the categories in two columns, then this hack is perfect for you.

The stadard wp_list_categories() functions echoes a list of all your categories in one column or row but using the below mentioned code in your theme, you can generate the wordpress categories in two rows.

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How to Remove and Hide Blogger NavBar (Top Navigation Bar)

Posted by a_usman on Jun 14 2009 in Blogging, Blogspot, How To, Tips and Tutorials | 0 comments

how to remove navigation barWhen browsing Blogger powered weblogs hosted on blogspot.com domain or custom domain, there is always a NavBar (Navigation Bar or Banner) that appears on top of the blog. The Blogger NavBar contains Search Blog textbox, Flag Blog to notify Blogger about objectionable contents on the blog, Next Blog link to visit another blog randomly, plus links to create a blog or sign in to Blogger.

No many visitors nor bloggers themselves may find it useful though. It’s possible to hide and remove the NavBar with a little CSS hack. The trick will not interfere or mess up with the custom layouts that webmaster has designed, and pretty safe and easy to implement. In fact, if you’re publishing the Blogger blog to own custom domain with FTP or SFTP, it’s possible to turn off NavBar.

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When You are a Successful Blogger?

Posted by a_usman on Jun 10 2009 in Blogging | 0 comments

successful bloggerA lot of posts are available about “How to become a successful blogger?” on net, but the purpose of my this post is little different.

Here I want to share my thoughts regarding the success of bloggers when we come to “content of blog”. Many bloggers get bored after some time and they don’t know what to write and how to write the new content and this is really difficult task which contributes a lot in the success of any blog (espcially personal-type blogs). This concept may not equally apply for business blogs.

If you write “How to become successful blogger?” in google search engine, you will come up with a lot a lot of posts. All these posts/articles have the same type of tips like:

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How to Start a Blog: Blogging Guide Series

Posted by a_usman on Jun 8 2009 in Blogging | 2 comments

how to start a blog

This is the second article for “Blogging Guide Series”. In the first post, I have discussed what niche you should select for your blog and are you ready to blog and have you got guts for blogging. If you have not read that post, just go back and read it before you enter a new world ( Before Blogging: Blogging Guide Series ).

Now if you have decided to have a blog, just follow these steps:

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Some Do’s of Twitter

Posted by a_usman on May 20 2009 in Blogging, Social Media | 1 comment

twittering

A lot of people are using twitter these days. The statistics show that number of twitter users have dramatically increased from January 2009. Many people are still learning how to use this media. A lot of applications and programs are available now, so that you can remain in contact with others twitter friends using these apps.

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