How to get most out of Twitter Search

 

The basics

Twitter search works pretty much the same as Google or any other search engine, you simply type in what you want to search for and Twitter will find all of the tweets that contain that keyword. A really cool thing about Twitter search is that, you can subscribe to the results in your feed reader, simply by clicking the RSS button in the upper-right hand corner of every result page.

Advanced features

If you want to refine your search with additional options, you can use a number of different operators to get better results. There’s a nice list of all the operators you can use with the search at search.twitter.com/operators. If you don’t want to type the operators, or if you simply prefer filling out a form, Twitter has put up a really nice page where you can literally see all of the different ways you can search Twitter. You can find advanced Twitter search features at search.twitter.com/advanced.
The hashtag is probably the most important function of Twitter search, and the most used too. Hastags are tags used to identify tweets related to a certain conversation. You can either use the hashtag feature of the advanced search or just type #tag into a regular Twitter search. For instance, if you type in #FollowFriday, you will get all the conversations about this topic.
Search for @reply to find replies to you or to find out who is talking about you. Just put the @ in front of your username in Twitter search and it will show you all the replies and conversations that mention your name. You can subscribe to this feed as well, helping you keep track of who is retweeting and replying to you.
The minus sign is very simple, but useful. Works the same as in Google or any other search engine. If your search brings up irrelevant results you can filter out the irrelevant results by using the minus sign.
Local search is where Twitter really shines. If you’re looking for something at a specific location, let’s say London, just search near:london and you will get all the results nearby.
Another great thing is search in time periods. This lets you narrow down your search to a specific timeline. To limit results to a certain timeframe, use the operators since: and until:. Format the dates as YYYY-MM-DD.

Conclusion

Well, Twitter is not the best search engine, but is one of the best tools for keeping on top of relevant news.

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18 Twitter Directories to Find friends and Followers

To get listed in these directories is always special as we can get a good number of followers.

The list of the 18 directories:

1. Analyst Twitter Directory. This is a directory of industry analysts that tweet. Big list and regularly updated.
2. First Issue. This is a directory of book publishers and others in the book trade who are using Twitter.
3. Geo Follow. GeoFollow allows you to list yourself geographically and categorically.
4. GovTwit Directory. The GovTwit directory includes all facets of government on Twitter: state and local, federal, contractors, reporters, academics, judicial branch and more.
5. Hashtags .Directory of hashtag users on Twitter.
6. Just Tweet It. A directory of Twitter users sorted by categories. Good way to find new people to follow or list your name to let people find you.
7. Legal Birds. List of legal professionals on Twitter such as lawyers, law librarians and academics.
8. Tweeple Rank. This website tracks a number of hashtags that are used to recommend people on Twitter, specifically #FollowFriday, #TweepleTuesday and #MrTweet. Easy to find best ranking twitterers.
9. Tweet Top. Tweet Top is the latest and greatest from Twitter people on popular topics. All the top tweets all the time.
10. TweetFind. Free Twitter yellow and white pages directory. Created to help people find new twitters to follow and a place where people can add their own Twitter accounts to a Twitter directory for free.
11. Tweetminster. TweetMinster is a service that makes it easier to connect the public with politicians using Twitter. TweetMinster helps you track UK politics in real time and to find and follow Members of Parliament and Prospective Parliamentary Candidates.
12. TweetWorks. Do you have favorite conversation topics? Start or join a group and connect with others who share your enthusiasm.
13. Twellow. The Twitter yellow pages. Browse through Twitter users to follow them or list yourself to get followers.
14. Twibs. The place to find businesses on Twitter.
15. Twitter Groups. Create or join a group of people with similar interests.
16. Twitter Link Up. Another directory of Twitter users.
17. Twitter Passion. Directory to grow your business, meet new friends, and network with like minded people! You can search by category and submit yourself as well.
18. Twitterectory. You’ve guessed it. It’s another Twitter directory where Twitter users will be offered the opportunity to include their names in the list under a particular category making it easier for people to find them.

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Avoid Being Filtered from Twitter Search

If you use Twitter search, you probably noticed that all tweets do not show up. That is because Twitter started filtering out certain tweets from Twitter search. And there are not many worse things than your tweets not showing up in the search results, especially if you use Twitter for business. Being filtered out is not good for your social presence either.
What kind of tweets are being filtered you ask? Recurring tweets, meaning if you post same sentence a few times in a row it will only show up once among the search results. Tweets from people who are often blocked by others. And of course, tweets sent from accounts marked as spam will also be filtered. And believe me people use Twitter search a lot, I do on a daily basis. Being filtered out, you will have a hard time connecting with other people.

A few tips to not get filtered from Twitter search

1. Don’t spam. That one’s easy.
2. Don’t post the same thing every few seconds. If you want to promote your website or whatever, better do it over a couple of hours. It’s also annoying to see your product or blog linked five times in a row.
3. Don’t retweet spammers. You’ll have to learn how to spot spammers. Check out people’s profiles, watch their tweets.
4. Mix the words. If you really have to tweet about the same thing many times in a short period of time, you can mix the words to avoid filtering.

Oh, there’s one more thing you can do. Check if your profile is showing up in Twitter search. Go to Twitter search and type in your username without the @. Or better yet, type in from:yourusername. Make sure your last tweets are shown.

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5 Essential Free softwares for your PC

All of the freeware software mentioned support all versions of Windows including Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

1.  Browsers: It is fair to say that for majority of PC users, surfing the internet is the only major use for their PC. So, it would have been unfair to begin this list with any other category. Although, windows comes with Internet Explorer, it would not be totally wrong to say that IE 8, the latest addition no more than an average web browser. So an alternative web browser is an absolute necessity. Coming to the point, there are two major contenders for inclusion in this category. So, I was unsure which one to choose. So I decided to include them both. (I have intentionally not numbered the browsers)                           

a.  Mozilla Firefox: Mozilla is not totally wrong to say that the Firefox Web browser is the faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to browse the web. Firefox is one of the most complete browsers available. It is considered to be the first browser to shake the Internet Explorer's dominance.One of the good things about Firefox is that it keeps up with the needs of time. Another cool thing about Firefox is that it has an almost perfect score in Acid 3 test. Firefox wins the race with other browsers in terms of available themes, plugins, and security. Overall, Firefox is a must have browser on your PC.

b.  Google Chrome: When Google does something, it is huge and the same is true for Google Chrome. Everything was looking settled in the browser market when Google all of a sudden came up with their new browser with the unique thought of building it almost from scratch. Google's Chrome is currently the fastest browser on the planet with tremendous java script rendering capabilities. Unlike Firefox, Chrome has a perfect score in Acid 3. Themes and plugins also make Chrome a totally customizable browser. Overall, Chrome is fast, safe and customizable. If you have no problem with Google's products, Chrome is a must have browser on your PC.

2.  Media Player: If we check our hard drives, one thing which most of us will find on them is media. To play that media, we need a media player. So a media player is an absolute necessity for most of the PC users. One can say that Windows comes with Windows Media Player, so why is a another media player needed. To them, I say that though Windows has media player but it does not have the ability to play all the media unless you install the necessary codecs. So there is an essential need for another media player which comes with almost all codecs installed. There is one such media player available. It is VideoLAN's free offering, VLC Media Player.

 VLC  Media Player: VLC Media Player is an open source, multi-platform media player that comes with almost all of the codecs required to play all different types of media on your PC. So you do not have to worry about installing codecs to play your files. Moreover, the best part about VLC media player is that being open source, you can install on almost any operating system. Moreover, VLC media player is portable so you can carry it in your flash drive. All this combined with stability, performance and the ability to change skins and take snapshots from videos make VLC Media Player an absolute essential software.

3.  Image Viewer: Well most of us like to take images, and most of us like to edit them as well. This leads to a large amount of images in different formats. The inbuilt image viewer in Windows is not all that bad but the problem arises when we try to open files of different formats. Imagine this situation, you have a great collection of images which are of different formats. Now you invite your friends to show those images. But you have one problem, Windows Image Viewer is not opening the images as they are of unsupported formats. What do you do? Well you install Irfan View with plugins.

Irfan View: Irfan View is developed by Irfan Skiljan, a student at the University of Vienna in 1996. Irfan View is one of the most popular image viewer worldwide. Irfan View gets downloaded over 1 million times each month. One of the major advantages of Irfan View is that it has a light interface, is fast in opening images and can open virtually every type of image image file possible. It can even open Flash files and also serves as a small media player as it can play movie files and mp3 files as well! And that is not all, Irfan View can be used to do minor image editing as well.
Some of its features are:
Slide show, batch conversion , Acquiring from a TWAIN source, Batch acquire or scan,add text to photos, convert to greyscale, enhance colours and even capture screen shots. Honestly, that is not even 5 % of what Irfan View is capable of. All this at a tremendously small size make Irfan View a must have essential.

Irfan View Plugins can add further functionality to this already great software.

4.  Security: This could well be the most important category of this article. Security of a PC is the most important thing in the cyber world now. There was a time when this was not essential but those were the good old days. Now one cannot even think of browsing the web without having an anti virus or anti spyware installed. Big organizations and corporate companies spend millions for securing their network but you don't have to. There are some free tools which do the job equally well without costing you a penny. (To read a full article on securing your PC, visit How to increase your Cyber Security.)

There were many alternatives to include in this category. So I decided to include the most popular one which is presumably AVG Free Edition.

AVG Free Edition: AVG is a popular antivirus with a slick interface having the ability to detect viruses and spywares. It receives updates frequently and is light on resources. Some of its key features are Automatic Update Functionality, Resident Shield, Email Scanner, free lifetime database updates for home users, Anti Spyware, Anti Virus, AVG toolbar and Search Scan. All these premium features are available free of cost in AVG free for home users making AVG a must have free anti virus/spyware for your PC.

 
5.  Office Suite: An office suite has become an absolute necessity these days. We use it to create text documents,create presentations, making tables, graphs recording data, managing schedules,creating spreadsheets and workbooks. A full fledged Office Suite like Microsoft Office will cost you no less than 500 USD (Rs. 25000). That is too high for any user. So what should one do. Well use the Open Office Suite instead.

Open Office Suite: Open Office Suite is an open source, multi lingual, multi platform project developed by Sun Micro systems. Among all the Office Suites available, Open Office is considered to be the only worthy competitor to Microsoft Office. It is fast, available in many languages, works on all computers, stores all data in an international open standard format, read and write files from other common office packages and the best of all, is free of charge for any purpose(commercial or private).

These freeware will definitely help you to make your PC more usable. Although there are many more free software for Windows that are worthwhile, these 5 are an absolute must for a freeware dominated Windows PC

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How to hide in the Network Neighbourhood

 Don't want your XP computer to show up in the network browse list (Network Neighborhood/My Network Places) to other users on your network? One way to accomplish that is to disable file sharing. To do this, click Start, right click My Network Places and select Properties. Right click your local area connection and click Properties. Uncheck the box that says File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks. Click OK.

But what if you want to be able to share folders with some users; you just don't want everyone on the network to see your computer's shares? There's a way:

Click Start and select Run.
In the Run box, type net config server /hidden:yes
Click OK.
Now others who know the UNC path (\\computer name\share name) can connect to your computer's shares from the Run box, but it won't show up in the network browse list.

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Visual Basic- API Programming on how to get Computer Name

'Get Computer Name from your/any computer (www.technary.com)
Declare Function SetComputerName Lib "kernel32" _
Alias "SetComputerNameA" (ByVal lpComputerName As String) As Long


Private Sub cmdChange_Click()
SetComputerName txtNewName.Text
End Sub


' Check if program running
Private Sub Form_Load()


'// Not the best way to check (www.technary.com)
'// Better to use the FindWindow API


If App.PrevInstance = True Then
MsgBox ("This program is already running.")
End
End If


End Sub

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List of SQL commands

This is a list of all SQL commands:

Refer them in programming (without and mistakes) to save your time!
Table of Contents
ABORT -- abort the current transaction
ALTER AGGREGATE -- change the definition of an aggregate function
ALTER CONVERSION -- change the definition of a conversion
ALTER DATABASE -- change a database
ALTER DOMAIN --  change the definition of a domain
ALTER FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER -- change the definition of a foreign-data wrapper
ALTER FUNCTION -- change the definition of a function
ALTER GROUP -- change role name or membership
ALTER INDEX -- change the definition of an index
ALTER LANGUAGE -- change the definition of a procedural language
ALTER OPERATOR -- change the definition of an operator
ALTER OPERATOR CLASS -- change the definition of an operator class
ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY -- change the definition of an operator family
ALTER ROLE -- change a database role
ALTER SCHEMA -- change the definition of a schema
ALTER SEQUENCE --  change the definition of a sequence generator
ALTER SERVER -- change the definition of a foreign server
ALTER TABLE -- change the definition of a table
ALTER TABLESPACE -- change the definition of a tablespace
ALTER TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION -- change the definition of a text search configuration
ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY -- change the definition of a text search dictionary
ALTER TEXT SEARCH PARSER -- change the definition of a text search parser
ALTER TEXT SEARCH TEMPLATE -- change the definition of a text search template
ALTER TRIGGER -- change the definition of a trigger
ALTER TYPE --  change the definition of a type
ALTER USER -- change a database role
ALTER USER MAPPING -- change the definition of a user mapping
ALTER VIEW -- change the definition of a view
ANALYZE -- collect statistics about a database
BEGIN -- start a transaction block
CHECKPOINT -- force a transaction log checkpoint
CLOSE -- close a cursor
CLUSTER -- cluster a table according to an index
COMMENT -- define or change the comment of an object
COMMIT -- commit the current transaction
COMMIT PREPARED -- commit a transaction that was earlier prepared for two-phase commit
COPY -- copy data between a file and a table
CREATE AGGREGATE -- define a new aggregate function
CREATE CAST -- define a new cast
CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER -- define a new constraint trigger
CREATE CONVERSION -- define a new encoding conversion
CREATE DATABASE -- create a new database
CREATE DOMAIN -- define a new domain
CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER -- define a new foreign-data wrapper
CREATE FUNCTION -- define a new function
CREATE GROUP -- define a new database role
CREATE INDEX -- define a new index
CREATE LANGUAGE -- define a new procedural language
CREATE OPERATOR -- define a new operator
CREATE OPERATOR CLASS -- define a new operator class
CREATE OPERATOR FAMILY -- define a new operator family
CREATE ROLE -- define a new database role
CREATE RULE -- define a new rewrite rule
CREATE SCHEMA -- define a new schema
CREATE SEQUENCE -- define a new sequence generator
CREATE SERVER -- define a new foreign server
CREATE TABLE -- define a new table
CREATE TABLE AS -- define a new table from the results of a query
CREATE TABLESPACE -- define a new tablespace
CREATE TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION -- define a new text search configuration
CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY -- define a new text search dictionary
CREATE TEXT SEARCH PARSER -- define a new text search parser
CREATE TEXT SEARCH TEMPLATE -- define a new text search template
CREATE TRIGGER -- define a new trigger
CREATE TYPE -- define a new data type
CREATE USER -- define a new database role
CREATE USER MAPPING -- define a new mapping of a user to a foreign server
CREATE VIEW -- define a new view
DEALLOCATE -- deallocate a prepared statement
DECLARE -- define a cursor
DELETE -- delete rows of a table
DISCARD -- discard session state
DROP AGGREGATE -- remove an aggregate function
DROP CAST -- remove a cast
DROP CONVERSION -- remove a conversion
DROP DATABASE -- remove a database
DROP DOMAIN -- remove a domain
DROP FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER -- remove a foreign-data wrapper
DROP FUNCTION -- remove a function
DROP GROUP -- remove a database role
DROP INDEX -- remove an index
DROP LANGUAGE -- remove a procedural language
DROP OPERATOR -- remove an operator
DROP OPERATOR CLASS -- remove an operator class
DROP OPERATOR FAMILY -- remove an operator family
DROP OWNED -- remove database objects owned by a database role
DROP ROLE -- remove a database role
DROP RULE -- remove a rewrite rule
DROP SCHEMA -- remove a schema
DROP SEQUENCE -- remove a sequence
DROP SERVER -- remove a foreign server descriptor
DROP TABLE -- remove a table
DROP TABLESPACE -- remove a tablespace
DROP TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION -- remove a text search configuration
DROP TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY -- remove a text search dictionary
DROP TEXT SEARCH PARSER -- remove a text search parser
DROP TEXT SEARCH TEMPLATE -- remove a text search template
DROP TRIGGER -- remove a trigger
DROP TYPE -- remove a data type
DROP USER -- remove a database role
DROP USER MAPPING -- remove a user mapping for a foreign server
DROP VIEW -- remove a view
END -- commit the current transaction
EXECUTE -- execute a prepared statement
EXPLAIN -- show the execution plan of a statement
FETCH -- retrieve rows from a query using a cursor
GRANT -- define access privileges
INSERT -- create new rows in a table
LISTEN -- listen for a notification
LOAD -- load or reload a shared library file
LOCK -- lock a table
MOVE -- position a cursor
NOTIFY -- generate a notification
PREPARE -- prepare a statement for execution
PREPARE TRANSACTION -- prepare the current transaction for two-phase commit
REASSIGN OWNED -- change the ownership of database objects owned by a database role
REINDEX -- rebuild indexes
RELEASE SAVEPOINT -- destroy a previously defined savepoint
RESET -- restore the value of a run-time parameter to the default value
REVOKE -- remove access privileges
ROLLBACK -- abort the current transaction
ROLLBACK PREPARED -- cancel a transaction that was earlier prepared for two-phase commit
ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT -- roll back to a savepoint
SAVEPOINT -- define a new savepoint within the current transaction
SELECT -- retrieve rows from a table or view
SELECT INTO -- define a new table from the results of a query
SET -- change a run-time parameter
SET CONSTRAINTS -- set constraint checking modes for the current transaction
SET ROLE -- set the current user identifier of the current session
SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION -- set the session user identifier and the current user identifier of the current session
SET TRANSACTION -- set the characteristics of the current transaction
SHOW -- show the value of a run-time parameter
START TRANSACTION -- start a transaction block
TRUNCATE -- empty a table or set of tables
UNLISTEN -- stop listening for a notification
UPDATE -- update rows of a table
VACUUM -- garbage-collect and optionally analyze a database
VALUES -- compute a set of rows

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Rename multiple files in XP

XP lets you rename files in bulk by simply selecting multiple files within Windows Explorer and pressing the F2 key. When you use this feature, the OS applies the name you enter to the first file and applies the same name with a number in parentheses to the other files you selected (the file extensions remain unchanged).

For example, if you select the following files,
* notes.doc
* figures.xls
* disney.jpg
* holiday.gif

and rename the first file (notes.doc) to SoD.doc, XP renames the remaining files as follows:
* SoD (1).xls
* SoD (2).jpg* SoD(3).gif

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How to enable Facebook Video Chatting

Facebook surprisingly introduced video calling feature on their most popular popular social networking website. You could start using facebook video chat now itself.
How To Enable Facebook Video Calling?

Sign in to facebook.

• Go to facebook.com/videocalling
• Click on Get Started. 
• Facebook will ask you to install an application on your pc. 
• After installing the application, Click on any online friend and start video calling.
• That's it. Ask your friends to install the facebook video calling app.

You can also send video message to your offline friends. 

I've just made a video chat with my friend. And it was really cool...

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Download Google+ Plus Theme for Windows 7

Since the release of Google+ plus a lot of users migrated from facebook to Google+ plus because they offering  interesting cool features like Circles, Huddle, streams and hangout.

So by demand of  Google+ plus fans we created the small free theme for windows 7 users with help of adding 8 different Google+ plus wallpapers and icons in these package. You can download and apply the theme for any desktop screens, laptops and notebooks.

Instructions to install the theme:

After the downloading the zip file, extract into the some folder then will be able to see Google+ Plus for Windows 7.themepack double click on that file and it will take 2 to 3 seconds install on your PC. After installation you can able to see all 8 beautiful Google+ plus wallpapers. Click on below link to download the theme.

Download Google+ plus theme for Windows 7

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Nokia new Ovi Maps 3.0.4

Nokia released a new 3.0.4 verison of Ovi Maps which provides more accurate positioning, faster zooming and panning as well as faster gradient. Nokia have worked with the local yellow pages companies like Telegate in Germany and France Cityvox and their partners, with Michelin and Lonely Planet Maps Ovi increase the size of percentage points of the database.

The new Ovi Maps 3.0.4  version  offers improve its speed, accuracy and position of adding Wi-Fi in the mix. It helps in free drive navigation, walk navigation, maps, map updates, events guides, Lonely Planet guides and Michelin guides. Compatible devices includes Nokia N8,Nokia X6, Nokia N97 mini, E72, E55, E52, Nokia 6730 classic, Nokia 6710 Navigator, Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic, Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition, Nokia 5230. Download Ovi Maps Navigation

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Opera 10.1 for Android

Opera Software announced a Opera 10.1 for android mobile and it will be available free on Android stores  from 9 November 2010. Opera Mobile is claimed to be able to load pages faster than the original browser with panning, scrolling,zooming, smooth browsing, Speed Dial, password manager, visual tabs, download manager, Opera Link, Geolocation support, SVG support and the ultimate feature Opera Turbo. In addition, users will get a better browsing experience on the slow or busy network with Opera Turbo, which provides data compression up to 80 percent.

Opera Turbo brings you faster page loading especially on slower connection and now we can enjoy smoother scrolling, zooming and panning. This was certainly something the original Mini lacked.

You can also download these android app in opera site for free.

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5 Social Media Monitoring Tools for Brand`s Performance

Twazzup: 
                Twazzup is a free and easy to use tool. It allows user to type in keywords and instantly received realtime mentions of the brand in Twitter.

Addict-o-matic

Addict-o-matic gathers information about your keywords or brands from across the Web, including Flickr, YouTube, Digg, Google Blogs, as well as all the traditional social media platforms. It is also a free tool similar to Twazzup. The interface is more in the style of news aggregator than a dashboard with statistics.

Socialmention

This is very similar to Twazzup but with added networks which gives you result beyond Twitter. It will show user-defined statistics for your keywords over a thirty day period. It is a free program, but it doesn’t allow for storing historical data or some other premium features most pay monitoring sites offer. There is a convenient display that shows every relevant hashtag, post ranking, source, user, and keyword.

Buzzlogic

BuzzLogic is a digital media company with a data-driven ad platform built to optimize advertising across the largest pool of trusted blog content on the web. It combines proprietary conversational analytics with industry-leading audience targeting data to maximize performance - and provide contextual insight to boost results.

Scoutlabs

Scoutlabs uses a simple, user-friendly interface that delivers very powerful analytics about the brand being tracked. The tool is more like a dashboard where users and view the data and gain insights. It also has special categories for online sentiment, mentions, and quotes for further analysis.

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Social Bookmarking Buttons for Blogger

By adding a list of social bookmarking icons to your blog posts, you can encourage your readers to promote your blog posts to the Social bookmarking sites such as Technorati, Stumble Upon. Delicious, Digg, and more. Adding your posts  to these sites definitely will bring more traffic to your site.

To add the list of social bookmarking icons,

1. log into Blogger > Layout > Edit HTML. 
2. Before starting this hack, please remember to Save a copy of your current template. 
3. Then, check the "Expand Widget Templates" box
4. Now, search for this small piece of code <data:post.body/> using CTRL+F.

Now, paste the code below immediately after the code <data:post.body>.

<!--Social Bookmarking Icons Start-->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<div align='left'>

<!--Twitter-->
<a class='twitter-share-button' data-count='vertical' data-via='YOUR-TWITTER-ID' href='http://twitter.com/share'>Tweet</a><script src='http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<span class='post-icons'>

<!--Delicious-->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://delicious-button.googlecode.com/files/jquery.delicious-button-1.0.min.js"></script>
<a class="delicious-button" href="http://delicious.com/save">Save on Delicious</a>

<!--Google-->

<a title="Post to Google Buzz" class="google-buzz-button" 
href="http://www.google.com/buzz/post" data-button-style="normal-count"></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/buzz/api/button.js">
</script>

<!--Technorati-->
<a expr:href='&quot;http://technorati.com/faves?add=&quot; + data:post.url' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Technorati' src='http://s310.photobucket.com/albums/kk426/magznetwork/socialbig/technorati.gif' style='padding:0;margin:0;border:none;'/></a>

<!--Digg-->
<a class='DiggThisButton'> (&#39;<img alt='DiggThis' src='http://digg.com/img/diggThis.png'/>&#39;)</a>
<script src='http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js' type='text/javascript'>
</script>

<!--Yahoo-->

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js" 
badgetype="square"> </script>

<!--Stumble-->
<script src='http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=5'/>

<!--Reddit-->
<script src='http://reddit.com/static/button/button2.js' type='text/javascript'/>

<!--Facebook-->
<script src='http://widgets.fbshare.me/files/fbshare.js'/>

<!--Sphinn-->
<script src='http://sphinn.com/evb/buttons.php?b=lg' type='text/javascript'>

</script>
</span>
</div>
</b:if>
<!--Social Bookmarking Icons End-->

U can change the order of the list as u r interest
The Final Result will be like these:

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Top 3 Free Anti Virus Softwares

1.Avira AntiVir Free Antivrius:
                                           Avira's AntiVir has been a player in the security world for some time; however, in 2008 its status boomed because of its remarkably strong detection rates. It still remains near the top of independent antivirus efficacy tests, but while the 2009 version more or less kept pace with the competition, the 2010 edition isn't quite as good as it could be.

 Here are some key features of  Avira AntiVir Personal   Free Antivirus:

1. · AntiVir protection against viruses, worms and Trojans AntiDialer protection against expensive dialers
2. · AntiRootkit protection against hidden rootkits
3. · Faster Scanning up to 20% faster
4. · AntiPhishing protection against phishing
5. · AntiSpyware protection against spyware and adware NetbookSupport for laptops with low resolution
6. · QuickRemoval eliminates viruses at the push of a button

Click on Download Now the download will be automatically started

2.AVG Free Antivirus:
                                        The AVG Free Edition application provides basic protection for surfing, searching and social networking.  Millions of people around the world use AVG Anti-Virus Free for their basic online activities. Whether it’s surfing the Internet, conducting web searches, or simply keeping up with friends on Facebook, AVG Anti-Virus Free has got you covered.

Features:

1.  Surf and search with confidence AVG LinkScanner's real-time protection
2.  Stay protected on social networks with AVG Social Networking Protection
3.  Enjoy a faster running PC AVG Smart Scanning works while you're away and runs in low-priority mode when you return
4. Stay up-to-date with the latest threat information from the AVG Community Protection Network and AVG Protective Cloud Technology

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 3.Avast Free Antivirus:
                                    Avast! Free Antivirus is perfect for people who send e-mails and surf popular websites. avast! is a package of applications that aim to protect your computer from a possible virus infection or other malware threat. If you use it correctly, and in combination with other programs such as data backup utilities, it will significantly reduce the risk of your computer being attacked or infected by a virus, and thus the risk of losing important or private data. 
 

Features:

Core and detection:
· Antivirus and anti-spyware engine
· State of the art scanning engine provides reliable protection against viruses, spyware and other forms of malicious software.
 
Real time anti-rootkit protection:
· Unique "on access" technology checks all kernel-mode drivers that the operating system is loading for signs of rootkit behavior. This enables even unknown rootkits to be detected and stopped before they can do any damage.
  
Scanning:
· Boot-time scanner
· Allows you to scan your computer for infections before the operating system has started and before a virus can be activated (32-bit operating systems only).
 
Command-line scanner:
· Enables you to run a scan directly from the command line.

Wake-up for scan:
· Microsoft Windows is woken from sleep or hibernation mode, performs a scheduled scan, then returns back to sleep mode.

Scheduled scanning:
· Allows users to define the scan time and files to be scanned.
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Improve Laptop Battery Life

 Following are the Top tips to optimize the laptop battery :

• Buy smart: Look for notebooks with low power consuming processors like the Intel’s “CULV” “Consumer Ultra-Low Voltage” processors or AMD processors with “cool & Quiet” feature.

• Dim screen brightness: Choose an environment with adequate lighting—less brightness means you’ll drain less power from your battery.Use the Function key (Fn) available in most of the laptops to dim the brightness.

• Run your applications wisely: To get the most from your laptop, even when multitasking on the go, run resource intensive applications just when actively using them. Then make sure to close the applications you aren’t using.Running Video on the laptop will consume the battery very fast.Avoid to run video almost all time.

• Close unused applications: Programs will still use power while sitting idle.Also some unrequired background processes can  be closed using the task manager.Stop such processes from starting at boot.

• Have the right RAM for your needs: With appropriate RAM, instructions run off memory instead of disk. Less power is needed to refresh the RAM than to spin the hard drive.So increasing the RAM in in the laptop with high resource usage works will highly improve the battery life.

• Clean your battery: Rub the battery’s metal contacts with rubbing alcohol every two months. Allow to dry before re-inserting.

• Remove extra accessories: Unplug items like PC cards, USB and FireWire devices that are not being used.

• Use built-in power management devices: Enable this feature and set your system to “Battery Optimized” mode or “Max Battery” mode. Put your computer to sleep earlier and turn off the screen backlight sooner.Start > Control Panel > Power Options (in Classic View).

• Disable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth if not being used: Wireless LAN and Bluetooth access uses power even when it is not in use. Transmitting and receiving data drains the battery.

• Defragment your hard drive regularly: The built-in defrag utility included with Windows  will take your file fragments and put them closer together on your hard drive, which will decrease hard drive access times and save battery life.

• Use Direct Power as much as possible : Keep your laptop connected to the direct power supply using the laptop power adapter as much as possible.

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How to get in Blogger Related Content Search

The new Blogger Search is still in development stages and Google as always is absolutely quiet on this. However, going by the source of code of the JavaScript inserted in all Blogspot blogs, one can conclusively find a sure shot way of getting included in the Blogger related content Search and benefit from the traffic received.

A fragment of JavaScript added to Blogspot blogs is as follows:-

function showRelatedContent(args) {
      var el = document.getElementById('related-iframe');
      if (el.parentNode.style.display != 'none') {
        el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
        document.onclick = showRelatedContent.prevOnClick;
        return;
      }
      
      

Looking at it, one can obviously see a mention of the "parentNode.style.display !=none" referring to the iframe of Blogger's Navigation Bar which most of the blogspot users "hide" using the css #navbar-iframe{display:none}. So, it appears that blogs that have disabled the Navigation Bar will not show related content. Moreover, going by some preliminary tests, it appears that Blogger checks which blogs have disabled the Navigation bar and on its basis decides which blogs to include in Blogger related content search. This is much similar to the behavior shown by the Next Blog feature in Blogger's Navigation Bar which also only links to blogs that have shown the Navigation Bar. However, for non-competitive search queries, blogs without the Navigation Bar also appear in results. It also appears that recently updated content is given preference in terms of ranking.

So ultimately, you must unhide the Blogger Navigation Bar if you wish to get included in Blogger Search results. So, it appears that Blogger Team is now playing smart to force people into showing the Navigation Bar.

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Have you used Epic Browser

Epic Browser is powered by Mozilla. The best browser company at the moment. But Epic Browser is a Beta Edition for Indian people. The mindset in making this browser is to use the Indian Language Fonts instantly on your browser. I felt sharing with you all because we have a lot of Indian Visitors on Technary. Let the world know about this great browser. It has more than 1500 applications. It has the best security in terms of Malicious website warnings and Anti Phishing protection which makes it more loving.

Many people not only from India but from all over the world are using this awesome browser. The looks are great. It has an extreme cool experience while browsing on the Internet. Browsing is now a total fun for sure!
The Indian wallpapers and themes really are cool in this browser. They completely depict the culture of India. What can I say more, this Browser is fast and reliable. Social Networking Site like Facebook is just in one touch access. The best one is liked is the Gmail Shortcut.This is the main reason people love it rather using the default Mozilla Firefox. You can customize the complete browsing experience.

The most important aspect is that this browser is completely free. You can download it right now!

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