Why are the images from my blogger template broken or not appearing?

Many new blogger users find that the images from their blogger template are not appearing or taking too much time to load. Most of them are users who have taken their template on websites providing for them freely. You never face this problem? i bet that it will happen soon.

What is the reason?
A template is not only made with CSS, but to make a beatiful 2.0 quality template, some high quality images should be added. Most of the template makers often uses free hosting to host the template images while they make one. The problem is that it is not only YOU that download that particular ready made template from his website, but hundreds of other bloggers were also around or will come later, so the images bandwidth need to be huge. For example if you are using a cool template you got from some website and lets say you get a minimum of 2000 visitors per day, and the folks who are also using that same template downloaded from same website also get a considerable amount of visitors, the amount of bandwidth for those images should be larger. Often they are hosted on Photobucket or imageshack. They free images hosting but both have a limited amount of badwidth set, photobucket allow 25Gb of transfer per month and imageshack provide 300 megabytes of transfer per hour. Although they are enormous amount of bandwidth for free we should not deny the fact that hundreds or thousands of other bloggers are using the same images.

So what to do?
I recommend you to choose well your template before starting your blog, when you finish downloaded one, use notepad (or similar) to open it and search for all images links in the template and paste them in your browser and hit enter( one link at a time), obviously the image would appear if there is still some bandwidth left, save it to your computer, continue till you save all the imaes to your pc, do not remove the links from the template yet(use copy) as you will need it for reference while you will replace the images of the template maker with yours, you'l need to upload all the images you've saved on your pc to an imagehost.

Where to host the images?
Create an account on these website below and upload your images.
1. Photobucket - 25 BG of bandwidth per month, so if you think this amount of bandwidth is sufficient for YOU ONLY, then go ahead, photobucket also have an easy use control panel, and never got server problems since my experience.

2. Imageshack - 300 megabytes of transfer per hour, now this amount of transfer for only your blog, but imageshack sometimes got server problems.

3. Googlepages - 100 mb of hosting, bandwidth very limited ( recommended for private bloggers that got very small amount of visitors).

4. Tinypic - unlimited image hosting and unlimited bandwidth - recommended for blog that are very populated.

5. Freewehosting - depends on which one you have register, more information will be provided when you register.

After you have uploaded your images, you will get a link for each image, copy and replace the original image link in your template. When you finish you just need to upload it and enjoy, now you completely own the template, If you have problems replacing the images, leave comments.

Watch live security cameras - google hack

I found this trick while watching BBC some months ago, a man was typing some code in the google search engine and he get a list of pages as usual. But not normal webpages, these are links to open security cameras around the world, whether it is in someone house, in the shop, on a poll, on a boat, and cities, as long as the cameras is an open security one, it is indexed in the google search engine and i wanted to share this for people not already know about it.

Screenshot of what i see from those links

So what the idea?
Whats most crazy is that you can move the cameras. On the left sidebar of the pages you will find navigation key as well as key to zoom in and out. Thats fun, watch the world.

Where is it?
Go to google.com and paste the key below to the search engine and click search.
Here is an example of the key inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode= (click on it)

Here is a list of other keys you may use to find the links to those pages
inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=
inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=Refresh
inurl:axis-cgi/jpg
inurl:axis-cgi/mjpg (motion-JPEG)
inurl:view/indexFrame.shtml
inurl:view/index.shtml
inurl:view/view.shtml
liveapplet
intitle:â??live viewâ?? intitle:axis
intitle:liveapplet
allintitle:â??Network Camera NetworkCameraâ??
intitle:axis intitle:â??video serverâ??
intitle:liveapplet inurl:LvAppl
intitle:â??EvoCamâ?? inurl:â??webcam.htmlâ??
intitle:â??Live NetSnap Cam-Server feedâ??
intitle:â??Live View / - AXISâ??
intitle:â??Live View / - AXIS 206Mâ??
intitle:â??Live View / - AXIS 206Wâ??
intitle:â??Live View / - AXIS 210â?³
inurl:indexFrame.shtml Axis
inurl:â??MultiCameraFrame?Mode=Motionâ??
intitle:start inurl:cgistart
intitle:â??WJ-NT104 Main Pageâ??
intitle:snc-z20 inurl:home/
intitle:snc-cs3 inurl:home/
intitle:snc-rz30 inurl:home/
intitle:"WJ-NT104 Main Page"
inurl:"netw_tcp.shtml"
intitle:"supervisioncam protocol"

Have fun;)

Photoshop Error, msvcrt10.dll not found, corrected

Recently i've been downloading some plugin, custom shapes and styles for Photoshop CS3 from the internet, i've copied them to their respective folder in the program files, so that when i open photoshop i can get new pattern and fonts. But when i click on the photoshop icon to open it say:

And i never move or delete a single file called msvcrt10.dll  but still i got this error, repeatedly. Everytime i would click on the photoshop icon to open it, the warning box would appeared. I ask from my friends what could this be? where did the problem come from?


I search over the internet and all i could found was the file name but not the file. I make my little effort to know where was the file located before it get deleted, and i come accross the main folder of Photoshop in the program files. Now all i need to do was to get the file and copy it there again, fortunately i got the photoshop dvd from a friend and i got the file in name to name and i copied it to the main folder of photoshop, and yes it works, when i open photoshop it open fine. So i decided to upload this file for you, if ever you would require it and you cannot find it on the internet nor you got the photoshop dvd. Download here.

Add a blogger widget only on homepage

This blogger hack is a special one. I will show you how to make a widget appear only on the frontpage i.e the homepage only, it will not appear on any other page or posts pages. Look at this example below which i take from my blog itself.





From the above image you can see clearly that on the second screenshot on the right the widget for entering email address for subscription is not showing, it is shown on the homepage only as promise. I choose this widget for this cool blogger hack because when you click on read more on any of my post, you can still subscribe from the form at the bottom, though it is already there. But some people might want a widget to appear only once even it is not going to show up on other pages.

How to make the widget show up only on homepage
This is very easy, you just have to add up a line of code and its end tag. But no anywhere, specific location? so where.. To find the location follow my steps carefully.

1. You will need to know the widget ID whether HTML, FEED etc..

Click on "Edit" for the widget you have selected in the Edit Layout section to find it, it is usually at the end of the link in the address bar, see screenshot below.






2. Now go to "Edit Html" Section and check the "Expand Widget Templates" box. Scroll till you reach your Widget ID, mine is HTML8. The easiest way if using firefox is to press (CTRL + F) and write your widget ID, it will automatically go where your widget html codes are. For my example it is in an HTML one, so my code is <b:widget id='HTML8' locked='false' title='' type='HTML'>. Below <b:widget id='HTML8' locked='false' title='' type='HTML'> you can find <data:content/>.

3. Add the following code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>

</b:if>

so that it look like this:

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>

<data:content/>

</b:if>

4. Click Save Template.

5. Guess what?? thats all ;) Enjoy it, You can do it for any type of widgets, If you have some problem let me help you. post comments, let me know !

Are you new to windows live messenger? Wilma is here

Do you know that windows live messenger have a bot. yeah its true, it has the appearance of a woman and is called WILMA. What is the objectives of Wilma?

Wilma is a robot created by Microsoft to help both new and existing msn user. It is also called the Live Messenger concierge agent. It is helpful if you want to know all the features that windows live have.





I want Wilma to help me out using MSN?

ok folks, no rush she is a bot although she has the appearance of a beautiful lady. She will accept everyone who add wilma@live.com to her contact list and help everyone.





What more?

Wilma the Messenger consierge also show a video but of course not a live one but may be a recorded video that is arranged in order to play on what you ask Wilma. On the run you will see her typing and laughing out. And when you; for example, type something bad or something good she would react about that on the video. You can try this by accepting the Tutorial video when you start your conversation. Please be polite, start by saying 'hi'.Nap just kidding here. You can ask anything About Windows Live and she would propose a list of numbered title which you might be interested in knowing. You just have to type the number and send it. You will be reply instantly.

How to know my readers opinion on my articles

One classic method to know if your readers likes your articles is when they leave comments for a particular note when you have obviously allow that your readers leave them.
I am about to introduce to you a new way that will not affect your readers about leaving comments but an additional widget under each of your post which will make your readers rate your articles. It is not other than a new service called . The outbrain widget - The outbrain widget offers a simple yet powerful ratings & recommendations widget that blends seemlesly into any blog design. The widget includes a 5-star rater, and personalized recommended links from your blog as well as others.


Where to install the widget?
Normally if you are on blogger their service which is free automatically brought a ready made page element in the layout section in your dashboard, but if you want to place the code elsewhere so that it appears under each of your post; find this <data:post.body/> and place the javascript code under it.

And if you want to place it somewhere else and you can't figure it out. leave comments i'll try to help..

When all this done you can register an account on their site to get further statistics on the workings of the outbrain widget.

How to know if someone has copied your post

If you are writing some valuable post and other people just copy you posts and paste it on their websites. It don't worth anything, you are simply wasting your time as all credits goes to the



leecher. With this copyscape search tool you can track each of your post and see if it is somewhere else on the web.


First go to copyscape and paste the full hypertext link of one of your post and click search to try.
If nobody copied your post you should see this message:
"No copies of this page were found. Click below to search for copies of other pages on your site:" and below are some other pages from your website that copyscape automatically generate for you to try.

On the contrary if copies of your post is found elsewhere. you should see this:
Been copied? Defend your site with a Protected by Copyscape banner.

And now is up to you if you would like to take necessary actions to the leecher. To prevent further plagiarism against your post you can place a banner of copyscape on your site.

Create a favicon online for free

you can now create a favicon for your website or blog at no cost. Get a favicon.ico online if you don't have a software to create one.

Get started
The online editor is found here
Select your favourit color from the box on the right hand side then paint your favicon.
you can also upload an image which you think would be your favicon if you edit it properly.
Crop the part of the image which you would use, when cropped it will become a 16x16 px image. you can edit it further or leave it intact.
finally click on "make favicon" and generate the icon. Right click and save the icon.
Learn how to install a favicon here.

How to organize your bookmarks

In this Image my bookmarks are those small square which i encircle, these are favicon of websites which i like.



This screenshot was taken from my browser which is firefox. You can see the navigation toolbar, bookmark toolbar and the megaupload toolbar.

When you go on a website you can notice that there is a favicon and with only this favicon you can know which site it is without any text.

You can make your bookmarks look like on the image above.

Firstly make sure you have selected "bookmarks toolbar" in firefox>view>Toolbars
Then while you are on some pages which you like and would like to bookmark, from your firefox browser menu click on Bookmarks>Bookmarks this page.


Do not click ok yet. You should clear the text in the name section and should look like this.


Now click ok and go to your bookamrks Menu. you should see a blank favicon, drag the favicon and put it in your Bookmarks Tollbar Folder. Now that the blank favicon appear in the bookmark toolbar you can click on it or just refresh the page, you should see the real favicon of the website you just bookmark.

You can bookmark as many websites and put it in the Bookmark Toolbar Folder like on the first image. This will help you surf over your best websites quickly.

Add a contact form on your blog

>Many blogger put their contact information by leaving an e-mail address somewhere on his site. But this would be more professional if there were a contact form on the weblog. Unfortunately this require that you have your own server, if you dont have a private server this would be impossible. A contact form would automatically send the information written by a visitor to your e-mail inbox.
If you don't know how to add a contact form on your blog. There's a nice website that allow you to create and modify application form for free.

You just need to register for an account here.



After you had register and activate your account you just need to login, click on "create new application" then specify a form name and select blank form or use template whatever your choice is. It is very easy to go now, use the column on the left and the blank space to drag and drop your selected single line, email, multi-line, dropdown and so on..

Important: don't forget to set your email address. use an active email address where you want the information to be delivered. you can do so by clicking on "More actions" and select "Set Email notification"

After you customize it click on "access this application". This step is where you will get your html code to insert into your blog. Again click on "more Action" and select "Enbed in your website". Before copying the code you can still edit the border ,color and so on..

NB. Later when you modify the form you don't need to change the code on your blog, it does automatically. Here on my blog i'm using the same method, i can assure it works fine.