CSS button generator

There are many old timey Button generator out there but with new css you can make some awesome buttons. To save your time you can use generators. One of the best and easy to use button generator can create awesome css buttons like the image below.

The css will be already generated for you to copy paste. You can very use these codes in your website or blogs very easily. An example of the code is shown below

Get this

If your still confused about how to use your generated button, You can check out step by step tutorial here.


And now to give you the magic link:

http://www.cssbuttongenerator.com/

Thngs to remember when choosing a blogger templete

In the crowd of thousands of free blogger template you should always choose the "right" template for your blog. If you are a serious blogger or have a good mission for your blog you should definitely take this seriously. Even though they shouldn't, they will judge you by the looks of the blog right after the article. You can find lots of different customized paid and free blogger template over the internet. And here are some good tips you should remember when getting a template for your blog or customizing it.

1. Choose your type

The first thing is to match with the work your doing. If you  have a blog about dead people and mystery it will not be great choice if you use a super colorful template. Think about your blog as a reader and the environment they need for to enjoy the article you write. 

2. Number of columns

This can be define as one of #1 's sub category. Where you should know about your blog. Don't get any ads ready blog if you are new blogger or don't have much experience with html. Think about what your visitor will do and how fast and easily they can do it. Think about this and get a template.

3. Know your rights

Although you can find billions of free template you should know how much free is it. Most of them allow you to use it with link back others might give it for free or not allow for certain use. To avoid future problems read and see the rights of you to use the template. 

4. Color Counts

If you don't have enough knowledge about html editing you should choose your color that matches your requirement and content. 

5. Size and neatness

Choose your size of the blog where the actual content will appear. Using too many types of "cool stuff" might not be goof for your visitor and the speed of your blog. If the blog is too laggy people won't be interested in going to see anything extra you offer.

6. Your reader's have diabetics

Adding plugins, wages, script are good to make your blog "cooler" but you should remember that your readers have diabetics if you give them too much sugar they will most likely die! Keep it balanced.

Remember if you are expecting visitor it's not you who will need the information, your reader will. So do whatever it takes to give them the simplest interface and user-friendly fast blog.


I wrote this post originally on my other blog pretty long ago, I think it still worth some value.

Using Free Image

There are many needs of digital images online. It is And there are billions of images out there you can just copy paste and use it to your blog. For bloggers it is very important to have a good image with each post and most of them Google search it and use it to their blog. It might be a great high quality image but most likely your now hosting a copyrighted material. If you want to hide from all the penalties you also Google search for free images which gives you few billion result of site that will provide you "free" images, which aren't actually as free as you think it is.

Google is the world

What Google search does is to view all the indexed images over internet and there are no way to know if it is actually copyrighted or not. If claim the copyright for a copyrighted image, either the copyrighter or your host can take down your site. If you think you are lucky, you will already be penalize on traffic by your search engine.

How about royalty free?

Royalty free is a system where there is a copyright holder and they allow you to use their images with out royalty fee. With of course limitation. It can mean you have to pay the creator one time fee, or creator will limit you to certain size, length and where and how you can use the image. So don't go crazy with royalty free stuff. There is a copyright holder who can take action against you for going over limitation.

The free photo sites then?

Definitely not. Every free image distribution sites has certain limit. Some makes you link to their site (takes your juice), some wants a limited time royalty. Some are just scam and list of images from Google. Some sites says their photos are public domain (see below for more info), while they get the images from user upload where anyone can upload a copyrighted photo isn't a good place to find your photo either. Of course there are actual free images that you can use for your site out there, but since most of them are not actually what you need don't take the chance.

Public Domain?

Yes you are allowed to use public domain image freely in your site or blog. Public domain images are images that doesn't have any copyright holders. It's in a position that it is unable to restore the copyright claim for the photo. Thus you can use the image for almost anything without royalties or permissions. But you can not claim copyright for the image. Unfortunately not every site that says to have public domain photos are public domain, so be careful using one. Public domain is the best choice if you are looking for free images.

So where can I find public domain images?

There are lots of public domain image search out there. Here you can find a Wikipedia's big list of sites for your need.

Windows Mobility Center - adjust laptop settings

Windows Mobility Center in Windows 7 is a very useful tool. You can easily adjust all the settings related to your laptop or Tablet PC. Several options and settings which you can customize include Brightness, Volume, Battery Status, Wireless Network, Screen Rotation, External Display, Sync Center setting.

How to Open Windows 7 Mobility Center

The Mobility Center .exe file is located at C:\Windows\System32\mblctr.exe

Click the Start Menu --> type mblctr.exe in the box --> press Enter --> then open it quickly to Click an icon to open options for the setting.
Or you can also use the Windows key + X key to open.

Notes: Windows Mobility Center is only available on laptops.

If you find the wireless connection icon is gone in Windows Mobility Center, your wireless card might be disabled. In the case enable it. Or the driver is missing.

Sound Recorder - record audio

How to open Sound Recorder in Windows 7?

Click Start button --> All programs --> Accessories --> Sound Recorder

TO Start Recording, make sure your system have installed Windows Media Player Plugin(Download Windows Media Player Plugin for Sound Recorder), and also computer have a sound card and microphone.

* Click "Start Recording" to start.
* To finish Recording, click "Stop Recording" button and save it as a .wma audio file.

windows media player cannot play dvd video on windows 7

When I use Windows Media Player to play a DVD video on windows 7, there is no video on dvd playback or PC gets the message “Cannot play DVD video.".

There are some possible reasons:

1. The video card driver is out-of-date.
Go to download the last driver and install it.

2. Your PC without a compatible DVD decoder.

3. Your computer hardware is not powerful enough to play DVDs.
Update your hardware.

Remove This copy of windows is not genuine

After I restarted my computer, I got the following text in the bottom of the screen in windows 7 7022 beta:

this copy of windows is not genuine

Lots of windows users should face the common problem these days, because you don’t have the legit copy of windows 7. Each time you logged in windows 7, the message would show in the image above appears.

How to resolve this issue
How To Remove Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage

I suggest you buy an upgrade before expiration. You can buy it from the MS store, such as Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade costs $120.00.

Google sidewiki disable in Internet Explorer 8

Today I find a Sidewiki is currently available in Internet Explorer 8. I had installed Google Toolbar in Windows 7. Because I don't want to use the feature, try to disable google sidewiki by the following steps:

Open your Internet Explorer --> Click the Google Toolbar's wrench icon to adjust the options --> deselect the 'Sidewiki' checkbox on the Tools tab -->
Click Save --> Now you have remove google sidewiki.

Reset windows 7 boot manager

I have installed Windows 7 & Xp. Now I want to reinstall XP, but I don't want it to kill the boot manager.

Personally you should use Easy BCD Software(It required Net Framework 2.0).

You would install XP then recover Windows 7 with the "recovery disc". Then run Easy BCD in XP to reset the Windows 7 boot manager.

Modify Windows 7 Boot Loader

How to set up your PC to dual-boot between Windows 7, XP or Vista! In Windows 7, try to modify Boot Loader.

1. Click Start Menu --> All Programs --> Accessories --> right-click the Command prompt --> Select "Run as administrator"

2. In the elevated command prompt, type the following command to modify Windows 7 Boot Loader.

bcdedit /default {ntldr}
*******This places Windows XP as the default OS to boot first with.

bcdedit /set {current} description "My edited Windows Boot Entry"
******* It changes the title of the boot menu entry "{current}".

bcdedit /timeout 5
******* It changes the wait-to-select-OS menu timeout.

To show more informations about bcdedit, type "bcdedit /?".

How to delete all RSS feeds on windows 7

I had added hundreds of RSS feeds to IE 8.0 on Windows 7. But i need to delete all RSS feeds in IE at once. There is a simple way to do.

Go to

C:\Users\$user-name$\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Feeds

$user-name$ is your Account name in the computer. Now you just delete all contents.

Change start menu size

How to Change the Height of the Windows 7 Start Menu?
If you are not sure where can go to the settings to resize the start menu,
there is a quick and simple way to change the Start Menu size. I think many new users don't realiz it.

Right-click the Start button --> select Properties --> Under the Start Menu tab --> uncheck "Store and display recently opened programs in the Start menu."--> Click the Customize button --> change the Number of recent programs to display to 8 --> click the OK button.

Cannot add new folder in start menu

After I create or add a new folder in start menu, but can't rename the folder with some error:

The action can't be completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program. Close the folder or file and try again.

How to Fix the issues:
* First you should be administrator in Windows 7.
* Click Start button --> All Programs --> Accessories --> Command Prompt.
* Enter the following commands in Command Prompt:
cd C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
mkdir Multimedia
mkdir " The folder name you want to create"

Change Windows 7 wordpad line spacing

Are you having trouble with WordPad in Windows 7?

Line spacing: Change the spacing between lines of the text. Add orr remove the space after paragraphs.

How to Change Windows 7’s WordPad line spacing:

On the menu bar of WordPad, there is a “line-spacing” button. Click the button, a menu will appear. You can select 1.0, 1.15, 1.5 or 2 to meet your needs. Select the "Add 10pt space after paragraphs.” can remove the blank line.
Or you can use keyboard shortcuts to change the line spacing:
Set single line spacing by Ctrl+1
Set double line spacing by Ctrl+2
Set line spacing to 1.5 by Ctrl+5

Windows 7 WordPad Keyboard shortcuts

Windows 7’s WordPad is a very good program for me. Now I had collected some useful keyboard shortcuts for WordPad.

F1 Open WordPad Help
F3 Find the next instance of that text
F10 Display keytips
F12 Save the document as a new file

Ctrl+A: Select the entire document
Ctrl+B: Make selected text bold
Ctrl+D: Insert a Microsoft Paint drawing
Ctrl+F: Find text in a document
Ctrl+I: Italicize selected text
Ctrl+U: Underline selected text
Ctrl+N: Create a new document
Ctrl+O: Open an existing document
Ctrl+S: Save changes to a document
Ctrl+H Replace text in a document
Ctrl+Y: Redo a change
Ctrl+P: Print a document
Ctrl+L: Align text left
Ctrl+E: Align text center
Ctrl+R: Align text right
Ctrl+J: Justify text
Ctrl+X: Cut a selection
Ctrl+C: Copy a selection to the Clipboard
Ctrl+V: Paste a selection from the Clipboard
Ctrl+Z: Undo a change
Ctrl+1 Set single line spacing
Ctrl+2 Set double line spacing
Ctrl+5 Set line spacing to 1.5

Ctrl+= Make selected text subscript
Ctrl+Shift+= Make selected text superscript
Ctrl+Shift+> Increase the font size
Ctrl+Shift+< Decrease the font size
Ctrl+Shift+A Change characters to ALL CAPITALS
Ctrl+Shift+L Change the bullet style

Ctrl+Left Arrow Move the cursor one word to the left
Ctrl+Right Arrow Move the cursor one word to the right
Ctrl+Up Arrow Move the cursor to the line above
Ctrl+Down Arrow Move the cursor to the line below
Ctrl+Home Move to the beginning of the document
Ctrl+End Move to the end of the document
Ctrl+Page Up Move up one page
Ctrl+Page Down Move down one page
Ctrl+Delete Delete the next word

Alt+F4 Close WordPad
Shift+F10 Show the current shortcut menu

windows 7 paint invert colors

How to invert colors in the windows 7 paint?

Under the Image tab on the menu, once drop-down menu, you can choose "Invert Colors".

How to print list of files in a folder windows 7

How to print a list of files in a Windows 7 directory.

There is very easy to print a list of files in directory on Windows xp. You just need to dropdown file, hit print director, and it provided a basic listing of files in the director.

I wonder if there is a simpler way to do in Windows 7.

1. Click Start button --> All Programs--> Accessories --> Command Prompt.
2. Use "cd directoryname" command to go to the directory from which you want to print a file list.
3. Type "dir > filelist.txt".
4. Double-click on the filelist.txt file and press "Ctrl-P" to print list of files in a folder on windows 7.

Or you need to instll firefox on Windows 7. And drop the folder on the Firefox icon, then firefox will open with a printable file list. It's the easier way.

Disable searchindexer.exe in Windows 7

SearchIndexer.exe (Microsofts Windows Search Indexer) in Windows 7 is the powerful windows search, but sometimes it uses a amount of CPU Usage and may utilizes near 100% CPU usage. Looking at the Resource Monitor the process 'Searchindexer.exe' is getting High CPU. So you need to disable or Delete SearchIndexer.exe to stop Windows Enhanced Search.

How to disable searchindexer.exe in windows 7.

* Click Start Button --> Control Panel --> Programs and Features --> Turn Windows Features on or off.
* Clear the Indexing Service's chek box on the "Windows Features" window and click ok.

Now you turn off Windows Search's Index service and Windows 7 still has its simple search functionality.

How to print windows 7 sticky notes

Windows 7 Sticky Notes is very useful for me. You can write down your notes and change the fonts or colors of the note, but how to print sticky notes in windows 7. When Right-click on a note, I con't find out printing function in the menu.
It's necessary to copy the note text into MS Office Word or WordPad to print for me. But it's an extra step. MS will add that feature in sticky notes.

To get printing function in notes, you can use Microsoft Office OneNote 2003. You can print a page of notes by clicking Print on the Standard toolbar in OneNote.

windows 7 headphones not working

I have an HP laptop with two headphone jacks. But I found in windows 7 headphones not working.

How to fix Headphones don't work in Windows 7

For Realtek HD integrated sound:
* Go to the sound manager --> disable your front panel detction.
* Also Upgrade to the last sound drivers.