Google Plus Keyboard Shortcuts

Google plus is a pretty cool place and it is most likely gonna be the next big social networking site. We have posted many tricks and tutorial on Google plus already which you can check out here. Now today I will share some cool Google plus keyboard shortcuts which can save your time clicking stuff. Not all the shortcuts are here but I think these will be useful.

J = To move to the next stream posted by your circle

k = To move to the previous stream posted by your circle

Space = Scroll Down

Shift + Space = Scroll Up

Enter while selected a stream = Comment box

Keep using this shortcuts and we will share with you more Google plus tricks and shortcuts in the future.

Get custom google plus URL

Google plus plays a big role in SEO and it's the latest social media which is about to burst. We have written several tutorials on Google plus so far. You can check them out. 

• How to Create Google plus page
• Get your Google plus ID
• Get your custom Google plus widget
• How to get your Google plus badge

Now I will show you a cool site where you can create a customize short link for your Google plus page or profile. Using this you can very easily share your link without having to wait for customize Google plus page URL. And best of all it is free. So, let's show you how you can get your customize/ and short Google plus link with very simple steps.

1. Go to gplus.to
2. Choose your name that will show up with the link
3. On the right, paste your Google plus ID
4. Click "add" and you will get your link
5. Copy the link and share it with the world!


Oh, and don't forget to visit through our custom Google plus link and follow to get updates on our future post. http://www.gplus.to/TripsOnTricks

How to get your google plus badge

Google plus is a very good tool for SEO master and the latest hit in the world of Social network. To increase the visibility of your site online easily Google plus is the number one place. You can catch more attention of your visitor through Your Google plus widget which can be easily added to your blog and website. We have already posted several tutorials on Google plus which you might want to check out

• How to create Google plus page
• Get Google plus id
• Get customized Google plus widget

And now you will learn about another cool Google plus widget by Google developer -Google plus badge. If you don't want to mess with coding, use the other widget instead.


Before you do anything first, back up your template.

Get Google Developer Google Plus badge

1. Go to this link
2. Paste your Google plus id in the box
3. You will see the preview, choose your badge style
4. Customize more by clicking on advance section
5. Once done, copy the first part of the code and find paste it before it
6. Now copy the second part of the code
7. Add the code under content under content in HTML/Java script gadget
8. Your done!

To customize your blog yo will need to find certain codes from your template to replace it, add new code or to verify. But be sure to back up your template first before you find and change any code. Finding any code is very easy in blogger. Just follow the simple steps below to find a code.

How to find code in blogger

1 Go to blogger.com
2. Go to Template>Edit HTML
3. Press CTRL+F and type/paste the code your looking for
4. The code will be highlighted on the screen

How to backup your blogger blog template

It is very important to back up your blogger template before you start messing with it. If you mess up the template and don't know where and how to fix you might have to change the whole template. By backing up your template you don't have any risk for any unexpected problem, if you do then you can just re-upload your old template and your blog is back to normal. Its very easy to back up your template in blogger blog. Just follow the instructions below.

How to back up your template on the new blogger interface

1. Go to blogger.com
2. Choose your blog and click on the down arrow
3. Click on the template
4. Click on the Backup/Restore from top right
5. Now click download full template and save it.

How to back up your template on old blogger interface

1. Go to blogger.com
2. Click design for the blog you want to back up
3. Click Edit HTML
4. Click on download full template and save it.

Importance of Google plus is expanded into various different places. Just like Facebook when you create a Google plus page or profile you will have a unique id. This id is important if you want to share your profile, develop a widget, software, use advance tools and many application in SEO. You can learn how to create Google plus page here. In my Google plus tutorials you will be needing to find your Google plus id. It's very similar to how you find your Google plus id in Facebook.

How to get your Google plus id

Google plus id for your Google plus profile

1. Go to https://plus.google.com/
2. Click on your name from the left
3. Look at the address bar and you will see a bunch of number
4. That's you Google plus id! Copy and and use it! (ex. 115887599610613827016)


Google plus id for your Google plus page

1. Go to https://plus.google.com/
2.  Click on the down arrow as shown on the picture and choose the page

3. Look at your address bar and you will see a bunch of numbers
4. That's your Page id! Copy and use it. (ex. 114075711759611887338)

Create Google Plus page

Google plus is the latest social media by Google. If you know the importance of social media in CEO you should know Google plus is times more significant. Since Google is the main search engine and Google uses the data from your Google plus account it c and share of you and your friends/clients. If you have a blog or small business you should definitely create a Google plus fan page similar to Facebook page. If you can get more + and share of your feed on Google Plus it is very easy to compete with High page rank sites and to focus on specific clients.

How to create Google plus page

1. Go to the following link
2. Choose a category from the left
3. Fill out the information
4.Check Google agreement and Click create

Your done! Now you can switch between your profile and your pages profile as shown in the picture below.

You can visit our Google plus page and circle us to keep up with the latest tricks.

How to get black safari nav bars on iOS 5

Hi everyone today I'm going to show you how to get black navigation bars on your iOS 5 device without jailbreaking

Step #1. Go to settings

Step #2. Tap on safari settings

Step #3 enable private browsing

Thats it you should now have black navigation bars

 
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How to get a custom username for Facebook

If you have a Facebook page you will have some weirdly big URL that you have to use and share. But if it was shorten and custom it would be 10 times better. It's pretty easy step to do so. Follow the step below and it's very easy and fast.

We will be able to change the URL to something like this.

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING

Once you change your page username you will never be able to change it back!

STEP 1

GO to https://www.facebook.com/username

STEP 2

Choose the page you want to select below and write your desire username on the right

STEP 3

Click check availability (be sure to read all the tips) and Confirm it. Your done!

NOTES:

If you have already used your old link of your Facebook page don't worry it will go to the same place!

Enjoy!

Remove borders form your blog image

Removing borders from your blog image is easy. You can do this using different ways. The first tutorial is a very simple CSS code that will change the setting for all the images in your blog to no border. 

Before doing any changes it would be best to backup your actual HTML, although it wouldn't be affected much!

►To remove image border from Blogger blog

1. Go to blogger.com 

2. Click design

3. Go to Template Designer

4. Click on Advanced

5. On the right where it says add custom CSS copy and paste this code

img {border: none}

6. Click Apply to Blog

7. Your done!

   

•  To undo the effect follow the same instruction and delete the code and then click apply to blog

• You can use the same trick and add it in the CSS of your blog to make it no border images.

►Custom No border image Tutorial

Sometimes it is useful to use border in some cause. But for the other cause if you don't want to destroy the border from all the images you can custom change the setting for each image.

Use the following code for your blog in HTML section

Hope that help you out. If you have any question, comment or concerns do so in the comment section below.

Facebook timeline news-get timeline now

Beside fighting with the Google+ the Facebook timeline finally here up close for you. You can very easily get the Facebook timeline using the developers version before but now it's open for pretty much everyone. Many people already got the invitation to get timeline. If you are still waiting for the timeline to officially come you can now check timeline out without doing the creative hack. Just follow the simple instruction to get and set up timeline before it becomes officially default. 

1. Log into Facebook

2. Go to Facebook.com/about/timeline

3. On the right you will see a green button says get timeline

4. You will be taken to your timeline to customize as you want (Only visible to you)

5. You can choose to publish after your done to show the world by clicking publish Now!

Where to find free images for your blog?

When you write a quality content you need a quality image. Finding free images for your blog is very important to keep your reader focused and to show you how professional you are. Since images says 1000 words it is always best to find the best images for your blog. You can get high quality images for 1/2 $ for a simple use, but getting the photo for free will save your pocket. Only problems with free photos are that they are not very high quality. So without giving you the list of places where you can find free photos here is one site that will give you high quality images and  copyright free.

►Morgue File

It's the place for dead pictures. That means copyright free high quality thousands of images. You can also search for other paid money using dream time. The best thing about this site is that it allows you to embed your picture right from their site. You can also crop the photo as you like and if you wish to give credit you can also do so using their all ready code. If you are unsure about the license click here to check that out.

Instructions:

1.  Go to www.morguefile.com

2.  Write the keyword for the free photos from upper right corner search box and click search

3.  For further search look for the search box on the upper right and be sure the it says "free photos" next to it

4.  Click on the image you want to use

5.  You will see two links, one is for image url and other is for page url

6.  Click on the image url and copy it to use it from their site, or download it by right click and save and upload it to your blog

7.  If you wish to give them credit from step 5 click on the crop and post

8. Crop as much as you need and click finish

9.  You can also see a code now to embed in your site or use the crop version from their website.

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It's always a good idea to give credit for image if you are not sure to avoid any conflict later on. This website is great because it allows you to use the image link right from their site. If you use blogger or similar site/ host there is a limited amount of MG/GB you can use, so it's always good to use the linking src. If you don't know how to do it, and how you can drive more traffic using the photo you can check out my other tutorial about how to customize your image for blogging to drive more traffic.

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Photo credit: 3rdworldman from morguefile.com

If you have any questions and concerns be sure to leave a comment below.

How to calibrate your iOS devices home button

Step 1. Open stocks

Step 2. Hold the power button until you get the "slide to power off" screen

Step 3. Hold the home button until stocks app crash's

Then you are done

 
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Delete a Partition in Windows 7

How to Delete a Partition in Windows 7:

Logging in Windows 7 as an Administrator --> Right click on the Computer icon on the Desktop --> Select Manage option --> In the left pane of the Computer Management window, click to expand:

Computer Management (Local)\Storage\Disk Management folder

Right click on the Partition or Volume Which need to delete --> select "Delete Volume" option --> Click Yes to delete the Partition to confirm.

Then the Partition will now be deleted --> Restart your computer.

Delete hiberfil.sys in windows 7

How to enable or disable Hibernate Option in windows 7:

Click on start button and open Command prompt.
To enable Hibernate in the command prompt, just type this command

powercfg -h on

and press Enter.

To disable or Delete the Hibernation File which is called hiberfil.sys, type

powercfg -h off

in the command promptand press Enter.

Close the command prompt. If enable, set your Power Plan settings for Hibernate.

Local Network fails With Unidentified Network

If you login in Windows 7 and find that Windows have no network connection with A "Unidentified Network", it is caused by the Bonjour DNS Responder Service.

How to fix the error:
Click the start button --> Type services.msc in the search box and hit press --> in the services list, find out

Id_String2.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B87 9762

Right Click it --> Select Properties select Disabled from the startup type --> Click STOP --> Click Apply --> Reboot your computer.

Now your network adapter comes up again.

Show Empty Removable Drives in Windows 7

By default, Windows 7 will not display empty drives. Here is how to show it.

Just go to My Computer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> View --> Then uncheck “Hide empty drives in the computer folder”--> click ok button to apply.

Change Windows 7 DNS Addressing

In the Windows 7, click the Start button -->the Control Panel --> Network and Internet --> Network and Sharing Center --> On the left hand panel, Click the "Change adapter settings " link --> You will see a list of adapters present on your computer --> Double-click the Local Area Connection --> Select the Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and click on properties button --> Check the change the Obtain DNS and fill the DNS server boxes. You can use the following OpenDNS ip:

Typing 208.67.222.222 in the Preferred DNS server boxes.
Typing 208.67.220.220 in the Alternate DNS server boxes.

Then click OK button to apply.

Install Windows XP Mode in Windows 7

If your computer runs Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 7 Professional, or Windows 7 Ultimate users, you can install Windows XP Mode.

First, go to the Windows XP Mode download page. Find out 'Step 1 - Select the appropriate installation'. Then select your system type and Xp Mode language. To finish it by clicking on the 'Download Windows XP Mode' button.
Notes: The setup file has approximately 460 MB.

When pop-up the setup file of Windows XP Mode window, click "Save File". Waiting for a mimute, you can start to install Windows XP Mode.

Enjoys.

How to Disable Windows 7 Desktop Preview

Maybe you dont like the Desktop Preview feature, here is a tutorials how to disable it.

Right click the extreme right side of the Taskbar. It will pop up a menu and choose "Peek at desktop". Then the aero peak will be disabled.