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Saturday, May 5, 2012

Create and Generate Facebook, Twitter and Other Social Networks Fonts

We are talking about the fonts styles used in Facebook, Twitter, Google and other social networks you love. These fonts styles are used in their logos. But do you think it's possible to generate one like facebook? It's possible.

Why generate Facebook font?

If you love customizing your blog's set of social icons like facebook, you can create and download the facebook font so easily. You don't have to guess whether Facebook or else Twitter font styles as I have found a very useful tool for generating them.

Font Me Me let you generate you favorite social networks' fonts.

Fonts generated in Font Me Me are .png images, meaning they have transparent backgrounds, you have no problem in placing them on you blog as they will inherit the background of your chosen template.

Use your favorite color.

You can customize their colors, you can freely use your favorite colors, or the set of colors within your blog template.

How?
Posted by Editorial Team on 5/05/2012 12:32:00 PM in ,

Friday, May 4, 2012

Build Up Your Vocabulary to Enhance Writing Skills and Begin Writing Quality Post

Recently I decided to do freelance writing, after I have passed the test, I started to bid for orders. In order to write well, I need to read more. Reading can be boring sometimes, but if you write academic essays, you have no choice but to read and read.

It Starts from Feeling Pressured

Yes I am pressured even until now, but it doesn't give me stress at all. It's different. It's energizing. It's pushing me from behind to move.

Rich Ideas Are Coming In

If you are done with your course, it doesn't mean that you have to stop scanning your books and notes. Learning should be constant, and it can be best acquired through reading. Reading would simply build up your vocabulary.

Rich Vocabulary Spices Up Your Post

I go with freelance writing to boost my skills in writing. That's a preparation for my long term blogging career. Since the blogoshere has all the tricks, you need to equip yourself with necessary skills in order to become a competent blogger. Indeed, blogging is a stiff competition among bloggers, it would never be easy especially if you are not prepared.

Use Techniques to Build Up Your Vocabulary

The quality of your blog posts reflects how good you are as a blogger. If you have a rich vocabulary, you can write fluently within various subjects. And you can extend your knowledge to an extreme level if you will use a technique to make learning a constant habit.

Simple Techniques

  • Learn gradually, read slowly
  • Use context clues to understand the meaning of difficult words (new words)
  • Secure a handy dictionary and thesaurus, or online dictionaries
  • List down new information, use it

Use and Apply New Information or Idea You Learned

Do you remember when you were still a child? Your Mom or teacher would asked you to read a particular list of words repeatedly. Well, repeated actions would simply yield higher retention rate. When you found useful information, incorporate it with your daily routine.

How to Further Increase Your Vocabulary


See you :)
Posted by Editorial Team on 5/04/2012 12:21:00 PM in

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

3 Best File Recovery Tools that Will Help Recover Your Deleted Files

Problem

Files such as Word Documents, Excel Workbooks, Powerpoint Presentations, Videos, Photos, and other Programs were accidentally deleted in your PC. Most likely due to virus, or an authorized used (carelessness).

There are several file recovery tools that can be used for free.

I recently deleted my important files as well, and I stumbled upon a useful program that helped recover most of my files. But today I consider the research and actual observations of 4 experts in file recovery programs. To extract the best, I use a simple technique to determine the best ones.




Based on the excel presentation I made, Recuva is the most common file recovery tool, followed by TestDisk and PhotoRec. I formulated this technique to help you decide faster as there are too many free downloadable tools around to recover your files for free.

3 Best File Recovery Tools

Based on the technique I used, there are 3 most mentioned tools for file recovery ready to help you.
  • Recuva
  • TestDisk
  • PhotoRec
Recuva according to CNET:
CNET Editor's Review:
Recuva is a free file recovery program that makes it extremely easy to locate files that were once thought to be lost forever. The wizard-like approach and intuitive user interface will appeal to all user levels.
Recuva User's Review:
It was a dark and stormy night when the blood sucking vampires grabbed my computer network. Zap ssssllluuuurrrrrrrppppp - hacked. My recovery took days and most files were deleted by the recovery operations. This program worked like a charm - better than the others I was using. It helped with the music in 1/2 time the others were taking. (mtdragon)
Free. No need to spend single cent.
Please remember that your file names may be change. Please don't cry, ask God to help to locate the different file name which contains your data. (Justin_Gupta)
TestDisk and PhotoRec according to CNET:
CNET Editor's Review:
TestDisk is a powerful data recovery utility. It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally erasing your Partition Table).
PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost pictures or lost files from digital camera memory (CompactFlash, Memory Stick, SecureDigital, SmartMedia, Microdrive, MMC, USB Memory Drives), even Hard Disks and CDRom.
User's Review:
Pros:

TestDisk and Photo Recovery recovered all of my 1000-odd accidentally deleted photos, each over 5MB in size.

Cons"

I was awfully nervous when confronted with a DOS-like window and almost went crazy trying to find out WHERE the tool saved the recovered photos (finally found them in the same folder as the application). (
Use it. It is extremely stable. i was able to recover stuff that nothing else could. Learn the interface and it will become a breeze. Just don't do stuff you do not understand.. search for documentation first! This is extremely powerful software that does not require a degree. Just some patience, and common sense. If your partition / files/ pictures are there, this WILL recover it, if you use it right. (Catcome)

Personal Experience:

I was terrified when I lost all my important files, but thanks to Pandora Recovery! In the presentation above, Pandora Recovery is listed at No. 3 in PC Support About.com, if you want to give this a try too, you can download and read more reviews at CNET.

Pandora helped me recover all my MS Word Documents, all my JPEG files, and some of my MS Excel Workbooks. Unfortunately, few other Excel documents were totally corrupted.

Resources:

Disclaimer:

Am not affiliated with CNET. It is just happened that I trusted CNET because it gives me safe downloads ever-since :)
Posted by Editorial Team on 5/02/2012 12:41:00 PM in ,

Monday, April 30, 2012

The Best Alternative for Picnik – Aviary Photo Editor, a Facebook App!

Hello there, so I am back with a mission of giving you a good alternative for Picnik Photo Editing Tool.

According to an interview with a friend, though most of the tools used in Picnik can be found and used in Google+ Creative Kit, she still encountered problem because it's not as friendly as to the Picnik Interface.

So far, I have enjoyed using the Creative Kit, but for those who were using Picnik for a long time, they would rather say it's the best, and rather look for an alternative aside what Google+ has for photo editing.

What's the best alternative?

They said, it's Aviary Photo Editor (Phoenix)
Just a personal opinion, knowing that there is a competition between Google+ and Facebook, when Google completely shutdown Picnik, why Facebook use Aviary Photo Editor without shutting down it's website? Well, it's up to use to weigh things fairly. I am both enjoying Google and FB for the main-time :)

Going straight to the topic:

According to Matt Smith at Makeuseof, most likely, Aviary Photo Editor is the closest option for Picnik!

I want to personally try this photo editing tool too, since facebook has just recently launched Aviary as Facebook Photo Enhancer, try it here - Aviary at Facebook or find out what Mashable says!

What I've found out?

  • The Interface is friendly. You can edit photos from your computer (upload), from an existing image on the web (URL), or you can edit images from your Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, Tumblr, and Ning Accounts!
  • Well, if you are not familiar with this photo editing tool, you can read Aviary Tutorials.

What's Next? Google Creative Kit VS. Aviary Photo Editor @ FB
Posted by Editorial Team on 4/30/2012 03:19:00 PM in ,

Are Blogging and Freelance Writing Perfect Combination?

Hello there, did you come up with the idea of doing together blogging and freelance writing at the same time? Is it possible anyway? A loud yes!
You can maintain a blog, write regular blog posts and write essays and articles as a freelance writer. It can be tricky as you will be serving two masters at the same time, but you need not to be a supernatural being to do such.

I had a conversation with my friend during our dinner, and I told him that blogging and freelance writing are not different things. The two share similarities, and these are:

  • Both done in forms of writing
  • Both follow grammatical structure
  • Shaped and written with creativity and passion
  • Both enhance your communication skills
Both done in forms of writing
You don't have to learn writing and do an actual cooking at the same time. All you need to do is transform your ideas into words. Whether you compose your post or draft your essay-- you need a pen and a piece of paper to express what you are most knowledgeable at.
Both follow grammatical structure
You might ask me: Are you a freelance writer? My answer is simple: Yes. I want to indulge more with grammar, that's the main reason. Post writing is not as hard and strict as to following academic styles. You might choose to stick at the writing rules and methods set by you. But engaging to a more difficult and recognized way of shaping composition is rewarding-- it would help you grow. The rules set for writing academic papers cannot be directly applied in doing our blog posts, why bother? Well, the connection is indirect, and it is worth knowing. Writing discipline, well, it's applicable to anyone.
Shaped and written with creativity and passion
Regardless of the writing styles: whether they are formulated by grammarians or a blogger like you-- they are both written as an expressions of your creativity and passion. When you are posting, you share your chosen topics of interest and so as writing an academic essay. You don't write about topics you are not interested in. Subjects written with passion possess power to reach and inform!
Both enhance your communication skills
While blogging, you are reaching out to the blogosphere. You are communicating to your readers. But how can you communicate and inform properly if you lack the skills? Hence, you need to enhance your communication skills, and one of the most effective ways is freelance writing. By doing so, you are giving yourself a chance to be trained more.

Anyway, have I informed you well?

Read this post for more: Why Bloggers Should Also Be Freelance Writers

Discover how Google + Creative Kit turn a pen and a blogger logo into one perfect image for this post!
Posted by Editorial Team on 4/30/2012 08:45:00 AM in ,

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Google Drive is Ready - Open Any Type of Files Wherever You Are

Google Drive is finally installed in my PC.

Yesterday, I was so excited about this new service from Google and I quickly wrote and introductory post about it.

Today, I am notified that the drive is ready, so I give a try, and the result - Satisfactory 'so far :)'!

Anyway, is this a brand new idea? No, it's an advance version of the Google Docs! This is something that will help us instantly drag and drop our files to the drive installed in our computer, ready to be opened anywhere we are!

Are you ready? Did you let Google the chance to notify you? If not, visit Google Drive now, and try it!

Let me share my actual experience:

Well, as soon as I received the notification, I promptly downloaded the installer for the drive. Let me share some screenshots:
After running the googledrivesync.exe, the following screenshots will appear on your computer screen:
I selected the Start Sync, and this will be the next: (Since I miss to take down notes the correct sequence of the process, the sign-in thing may appear here or earlier.)

The Highlights:

  • You can see your Google Drive Shortcut at your computer screen:
  • Now, easily drag and drop any type of files at your drive! This time I tried files in folder.
  • So anytime, go to Google Drive at your browser and your files are ready. Please note, you can see the sync symbol just at the left side of your file if the file is still downloading, and a check symbol if everything is on the go:)
  • Now, see examples files copied to the Drive :)
    • MS Word:
    PDF:
    Video: (As per experience video won't appear on your drive unless its done syncing.)

My last words:

It's good! I won't compare the Drive to the other services available out there. Google indeed give me a free 5GB Drive for bringing all my important files anywhere-- instantly! Thanks Google!

Want more Reviews?

Visit ComputerWorld for more, find what they found out about the service:)
Posted by Editorial Team on 4/28/2012 12:17:00 PM in ,

Friday, April 27, 2012

What’s New - 5GB Free for File Storage and Sharing at Google Drive!

Hello there, this is really a super big news!

And I can't help myself but share this to you. And this time of the year, since Google + was officially launched, I am always looking forward for a new useful services that Google will offer to all of its users! And here we go, sooner or later we will have our Google Drive Account! Like Google +, the Drive has been released to few for testing purposes for sure--but it's coming! So, let yourself be notified by email now as soon as it's live!

A must see video!


Google Drive will be the perfect replacement for our USB, CD's, etc. What's good, it's owned by Google... nothing to worry about!
Each one of us who have Google Account will owned 5GB free of the Google Drive!
Whatever programs we are using, whether it's Word and Excel Documents, Powerpoint Presentations, Videos, Photos -- well, they assured that everything is sharable! What's the use of carrying a USB?

Let me enumerate some good reasons why I am super excited with the launching of the Google Drive!

  • Saved my files of any kind to the Drive.
  • Access my files from wherever I am (With internet connection, of course!).
  • Easy file sharing to anyone I know! Email won't let me attached bigger files :(
  • My friends can edit files together if necessary just in one place--the Google Drive!

So, what Google says? - [With] Google Drive, keep everything, share anything.

You can take more looks at the fresh Google Drive at engadget!
Image is a screenshot from Google Drive edited at Creative Kit :)
Posted by Editorial Team on 4/27/2012 12:16:00 PM in , ,

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Picnik Is Not Over as Google Plus Creative Kit Got Picnik for You

Since Picnik was over, we are on the go now to find the next superb photo editor that will instantly help us in editing our photos. I know that many of us love Picnik and disappointed of its closure. But now, all we can do is sit back and try another online photo editor that is as good, as fast, and as useful as Picnik.

Picnik is not Over!!!

I also used Picnik before, not that much, but I enjoyed editing my photos there. Anyway, if you really miss the whole thing then it's not really gone in the wind as you can find Picnik at Google + Creative Kit! The team behind Picnik has been working with Google for few years, and it's hard to serve "two masters at the same time", so a decision has made!

Last day I able to make a quick tour at the creative kit, some of you may type Google + Creative Kit at your browser, but all you see are those guidelines on how to use the thing. Where can you find it anyway? Well, log-in to your Google Plus account and select one of you photos (click and view your photo) and you will see just at the upper left corner the Creative Kit.

Anyway, let's try Creative Kit now!

Steps:

A friend of mind is sad for losing Picnik, she love editing her own pictures, and I introduced her to Google + so she can have the access of the Creative Kit! I also read several "not good comments" about the closure of Picnik. Anyway, it's normal-- they loose a friend! But, Google Plus + Creative Kit is here, our new companion for photo editing! You can read those comments, and a nice tutorial about how to use the kit at Guiding Tech. Anyway, I have mine as well:
  • Go to Google Plus
  • Go to your Photos, well, you got choices: from your phone, album, your posts (if you have a blog), and photos of you.
  • Click a particular photo from your album for example, and you see a Creative Kit button just at the upper left side of the interface.
  • And... Picnik is not over! You will see when you click the Creative Kit button.
  • What can you see about this? I enjoy editing my photo as much as I did at Picnik!

Why not give it a try? Indeed, Google has everything for us to enjoy!
Posted by Editorial Team on 4/26/2012 04:01:00 PM in ,

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Get Professional Blog Designs and Services for as Low as 0.00!

I am not joking, in fact I am excited to tell you that I offer free services such as:
  • Header customization
  • Sidebar Customization
  • Blog Wrapper Customization
  • Blog Content Customization
I am also presenting to you a new way of attracting your readers, making them feel that you are really serious at your job:
  • Post Content Customization - well, it's giving a distinctive design for your heading, sub-heading, etc.
The last but not the least, I can design a whole professional blog for you like this (Click to see the actual blog):

What's the deal?

I want writers, share your thoughts about blogging here at SB and you can avail the above free offers. Please think about it :) See you.
Posted by Editorial Team on 4/24/2012 05:01:00 PM in , ,

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Upload and Center Your Header Banner with Blogspot Default Template

Recently, I discussed about making professional banners with transparent backgrounds without Photoshop, and I also mentioned that blog customization must be done with your separate blog, we called it - 'Test Blog'.

Now, let's begin the experiment, and we will start it at our test blog header. I expect that you already have your header banner with you.

Reminder: This is more about 'experiment', a lot more on what you can do at the 'Blog Template Designer'. Anyway, this blog is about the simplified way on doing the tricky part of making your blog a lot more customize and professional looking, like we got here!

Objective: To center the header banner of your blog using a blogger default template.

If you are done making your header banner and want to see it on the center of your blog, then we can do that easily.

Steps:

  1. Upload your header banner as "Instead of Title and Description".
  2. When you are done, view your blog, by default your header will be seen on the left.
  3. Now, let's move it to the center. Got to your Template >> Edit HTML, check Expand Widget Templates and find this code by pressing Control and F of your keyboard:
    4. .header-inner
    Copy the next codes:
    .header-inner img {margin: 0 auto !important;}
    .header-inner {text-align:center !important;}
    Paste the above codes here as shown below:
    .header-inner .Header .descriptionwrapper {padding: 0 $(header.padding);
    }
    .header-inner img {margin: 0 auto !important;}
    .header-inner {text-align:center !important;}

    /* Tabs
    ----------------------------------------------- */
    .tabs-inner .section:first-child {border-top: $(header.bottom.border.size) solid $(tabs.border.color); }
  4. Save your template, view your template. Perfect?

Argument:

Some known tutorials told you to put some customizations before ]]></b:skin>, well, I also put many codes just before ]]></b:skin> to customize the looks of my blog. The problem arised when you are going to check the organization of your HTML codes.

If you want to work with your HTML codes neat and tidy, definitely you need to put extra effort putting customization to the right places.

More Guidance:

  • When you codes doesn't look exactly familiar, look for .header-inner or #header-inner and fine the last closing }, be guided by the demonstration below:
    • .header-inner .Header .descriptionwrapper {padding: 0 $(header.padding);
    }
    .header-inner img {margin: 0 auto !important;}
    .header-inner {text-align:center !important;}

    /* Tabs
    ----------------------------------------------- */
    .tabs-inner .section:first-child {border-top: $(header.bottom.border.size) solid $(tabs.border.color); }
  • If your codes start with #, do this:
    • #header-inner .Header .descriptionwrapper {padding: 0 $(header.padding);
    }
    #header-inner img {margin: 0 auto !important;}
    #header-inner {text-align:center !important;}

    /* Tabs ----------------------------------------------- */
    #tabs-inner .section:first-child {border-top: $(header.bottom.border.size) solid $(tabs.border.color); }

Are we done? Please do not hesitate asking for help...
Posted by Editorial Team on 4/21/2012 06:06:00 PM in ,
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