Review : Webroot Internet Security Complete 2010

The Webroot Internet Security Suite integrates technology from a number of award-winning security solutions, including Webroot AntiVirus, Spy Sweeper and Window Washer.
It is rated # 1 Internet Security Suite of 2010 by TopTenReviews.com.

With Webroot Internet Security Essentials, you can keep your PC protected without sacrificing speed. It loads and protects faster, requires less disk space, and doesn’t create confusion with an overload of unnecessary features. An easy, intuitive dashboard lets you monitor your security and take the appropriate action to stay protected.

Prominent Features:

* Award-winning antivirus, antispyware and firewall security
* Proactive protection against data theft, hackers and malware
* Streamlined design to maintain PC speed and performance
* Automatic backup to protect digital photos and irreplaceable files

I recently signed up for the beta testing program for this webroot's new and promising product - Internet Security Complete. So far I found no issue with this at all. It's working perfectly, real time protection is light on resources and scanning is lighting quick.

Since it is an all-in-one security suite, it offers strong firewall, anti-phishing, anti-spam, browser and email protection. It has built in system junk and spam cleaner which not only cleans quickly but also saves a lot of space taken by those hidden browser cookies and temporary files created by third party apps.

The most impressive feature of Webroot's Internet Security Complete is that it has all the options available at one click on it's main interface. You can initiate any process including system scan, spam or junk cleaning or anti-virus update with a right click on taskbar icon or by opening main interface without a need to open any other additional window. Settings, task scheduling, notification, and gamer mode all can be accessed in one single window with a nice slide-in effect.

But the best feature of all is it's "Sync and Sharing". You can sign up for the FREE 2GB online account for your documents' backup so you can synchronize your most important folders and set them to auto synchronization mode so that whenever a new file is created or copied in those monitored folders - is automatically uploaded to your webroot's online backup account. This synchronization process is so light on system resources that you wouldn't notice it in the background!

A toolbar installed in your browser lets you save your history and favorite websites online so that you can keep track of them online and can access from anywhere where you have internet access. Securely edit your profile and password information for any of your protected websites. You can also save your identity by creating a master password for your identity protection which can help you in filling web forms automatically with the button from the toolbar in your browser.

Watch what webroot's is saying about their new beta product:

According to Webroot the final product will be released in Mid October 2010. Till then they will continue to receive feedback from their beta testers.

Note: The beta version will be activated for 60 days only. If at any point you no longer want to utilize the beta version, simply uninstall.

Minimum System Requirements:

* Windows XP 32 bit SP2, SP3
* Window Vista 32 bit (all Editions), Windows Vista SP1 32 and 64 bit (all Editions)
* Windows 7 32 and 64 bit (all Editions)
* 300MHz processor (minimum) 1GHz processor (recommended on Vista)
* 256 RAM (minimum) 2GB RAM (recommended on Vista)
* 200 MB Hard Disk Space
* Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher, Firefox 3.0 and higher

Download Webroot Internet Security Complete 2010 Beta | Read FAQ's | Visit Webroot.com.

How did you find this product? Leave your reviews and comments below, if you are one of the beta testers of the product.

6 Best Social Bookmarking Widgets for Blogger Blogs

Social bookmarking sites are a popular way to store, classify, share and search links. In a social bookmarking system, users store lists of Internet resources, which they find useful. These lists are both accessible to the public or a specific network, and other people with similar interests can view the links by category, tags, or even randomly.

You can install simple and few social bookmarking buttons in your blog post, An All-in-one Social Bookmarking Service or these Popular Social bookmarking widgets or plugins in your site/blog to help your visitors to bookmark and share the articles they like.

Here I'm sharing some of the top social bookmarking widgets, that are very easy to install in your blogger blog. All the Instructions are written to install the buttons at the end of all your blog posts.

Note: If you are reading this in a RSS Reader, then you have to open this post in a web browser in order to view demos and scripts included.

1. AddThis

AddThis is one of the most commonly used bookmarking buttons. This is because of it's simplicity in installation and customization options. AddThis takes minimum space in your site and supports over 225 social bookmarking sites. You can install AddThis in almost any type of website, blog or even in emailing list.

Demo:

Click here to view Code and Installation Instructions [+/-]

1. Go to Layout Layout > Edit HTML.

Check "Expand Widget Templates"

2. Find <data:post.body>

3. And just BELOW it, paste the following code.
(Pasting the code ABOVE <data:post.body> would show the widget at the start of posts.)

<!-- ADDTHIS BUTTON BEGIN -->

<a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250" 

class="addthis_button"><img 

src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" 

width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="Share" /></a>



<script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script>

<!-- ADDTHIS BUTTON END -->

4. Save the template, and open any post to see the buttons.

The code given installs the simplest form of AddThis sharing widget as shown in the demo above. To customize or design your own widget, goto AddThis.com.

or view AddThis Toolbox, if you want to design or choose from a large collection of AddThis buttons.

2. AddToAny

Similar to AddThis , AddToAny also supports hundreds of social bookmarking sites. AddToAny not only takes Minimal space in your blog post but also supports emailing and local bookmarking.

Demo:

Click here to view Code and Installation Instructions [+/-]

1. Go to Layout > Edit HTML.

Check "Expand Widget Templates"

2. Find <data:post.body>

3. And just BELOW it, paste the following code.
(Pasting the code ABOVE <data:post.body> would show the widget at the start of posts.)

<!-- Add to Any Share/Save BEGIN -->

<br/><a class='a2a_dd' href='http://www.addtoany.com/share_save'><img alt='Share/Save/Bookmark' border='0' src='http://static.addtoany.com/buttons/share_save_171_16.png' width='171' height='16'/><p class='a2a_linkname_escape' style='display:none'><data:post.title/></p></a><script type='text/javascript'>a2a_linkname_escape=1;a2a_linkurl="<data:post.url/>";</script><script src='http://static.addtoany.com/menu/page.js' type='text/javascript'></script>

<!-- Add to Any Share/Save END -->

4. Save the template, and open any post to see the buttons.

The code given installs the simplest form of AddToAny sharing widget as shown in the demo above. To customize or design your own widget, goto AddToAny.

3. Sexy Sharing Bookmarks

Created by a Pakistani Web Designer - Naeem Noor, Sexy Sharing Social Bookmarking Widget got huge popularity among bloggers because of it's unique design and beautiful hovering effect.

Demo: See Demo Here

Click here to view Code and Installation Instructions [+/-]

1. Go to Layout > Edit HTML.

Check "Expand Widget Templates"

2. Find </head> and ABOVE it, place this code:

<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'/>



<script type='text/javascript'> 

jQuery(document).ready(function() { 

// xhtml 1.0 strict way of using target _blank 

jQuery(&#39;.sexy-bookmarks a.external&#39;).attr(&quot;target&quot;, &quot;_blank&quot;); 

// this block sets the auto vertical expand when there are more than 

// one row of bookmarks. 

var sexyBaseHeight=jQuery(&#39;.sexy-bookmarks&#39;).height(); 

var sexyFullHeight=jQuery(&#39;.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials&#39;).height(); 

if (sexyFullHeight&gt;sexyBaseHeight) { 

jQuery(&#39;.sexy-bookmarks-expand&#39;).hover( 

function() { 

jQuery(this).animate({ 

height: sexyFullHeight &#39;px&#39; 

}, {duration: 400, queue: false}); 

}, 

function() { 

jQuery(this).animate({ 

height: sexyBaseHeight &#39;px&#39; 

}, {duration: 400, queue: false}); 

} 

); 

} 

// autocentering 

if (jQuery(&#39;.sexy-bookmarks-center&#39;)) { 

var sexyFullWidth=jQuery(&#39;.sexy-bookmarks&#39;).width(); 

var sexyBookmarkWidth=jQuery(&#39;.sexy-bookmarks:first ul.socials li&#39;).width(); 

var sexyBookmarkCount=jQuery(&#39;.sexy-bookmarks:first ul.socials li&#39;).length; 

var numPerRow=Math.floor(sexyFullWidth/sexyBookmarkWidth); 

var sexyRowWidth=Math.min(numPerRow, sexyBookmarkCount)*sexyBookmarkWidth; 

var sexyLeftMargin=(sexyFullWidth-sexyRowWidth)/2; 

jQuery(&#39;.sexy-bookmarks-center&#39;).css(&#39;margin-left&#39;, sexyLeftMargin &#39;px&#39;); 

} 

}); 

</script>

3. Now find ]]></b:skin> and just ABOVE it, place this code:

div.sexy-bookmarks{margin:20px 0 0 0; border: 0;outline: none;clear:both !important} 

div.sexy-bookmarks-expand{height:29px; overflow:hidden} 

.sexy-bookmarks-bg-sexy, .sexy-bookmarks-bg-love{background-image:url('http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/176/sexytrans.png') !important; background-repeat:no-repeat} 

div.sexy-bookmarks-bg-love{padding:26px 0 0 10px; background-position:left -1148px !important} 

div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials{width:100% !important; margin:0 !important; padding:0 !important; float:left} 

div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials li{display:inline !important; float:left !important; list-style-type:none !important; margin:0 !important; height:29px !important; width:60px !important; cursor:pointer !important; padding:0 !important} 

div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials li:before, div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials li:after, div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials li a:before, div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials li a:after{content:none !important} 

div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials a{display:block !important; width:60px !important; height:29px !important; text-indent:-9999px !important; background-color:transparent !important} 

div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials a:hover{background-color:transparent !important} 

.sexy-digg, .sexy-digg:hover, .sexy-reddit, .sexy-reddit:hover, .sexy-stumbleupon, .sexy-stumbleupon:hover, .sexy-delicious, .sexy-delicious:hover, .sexy-yahoobuzz, .sexy-yahoobuzz:hover, .sexy-blinklist, .sexy-blinklist:hover, .sexy-technorati, .sexy-technorati:hover, .sexy-facebook, .sexy-facebook:hover, .sexy-twitter, .sexy-twitter:hover, .sexy-myspace, .sexy-myspace:hover, .sexy-mixx, .sexy-mixx:hover, .sexy-scriptstyle, .sexy-scriptstyle:hover, .sexy-designfloat, .sexy-designfloat:hover, .sexy-comfeed, .sexy-comfeed:hover, .sexy-newsvine, .sexy-newsvine:hover, .sexy-linkedin, .sexy-linkedin:hover, .sexy-google, .sexy-google:hover, .sexy-friendfeed, .sexy-friendfeed:hover{background:url('http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/3006/sexyspritenew.png') no-repeat !important;border: 0;outline: none;} 

.sexy-digg{background-position:-980px bottom !important} 

.sexy-digg:hover{background-position:-980px top !important} 

.sexy-reddit{background-position:-700px bottom !important} 

.sexy-reddit:hover{background-position:-700px top !important} 

.sexy-stumbleupon{background-position:-630px bottom !important} 

.sexy-stumbleupon:hover{background-position:-630px top !important} 

.sexy-delicious{background-position:-1190px bottom !important} 

.sexy-delicious:hover{background-position:-1190px top !important} 

.sexy-yahoobuzz{background-position:-1120px bottom !important} 

.sexy-yahoobuzz:hover{background-position:-1120px top !important} 

.sexy-blinklist{background-position:-1260px bottom !important} 

.sexy-blinklist:hover{background-position:-1260px top !important} 

.sexy-technorati{background-position:-560px bottom !important} 

.sexy-technorati:hover{background-position:-560px top !important} 

.sexy-myspace{background-position:-770px bottom !important} 

.sexy-myspace:hover{background-position:-770px top !important} 

.sexy-twitter{background-position:-490px bottom !important} 

.sexy-twitter:hover{background-position:-490px top !important} 

.sexy-facebook{background-position:-1330px bottom !important} 

.sexy-facebook:hover{background-position:-1330px top !important} 

.sexy-mixx{background-position:-840px bottom !important} 

.sexy-mixx:hover{background-position:-840px top !important} 

.sexy-scriptstyle{background-position:-280px bottom !important} 

.sexy-scriptstyle:hover{background-position:-280px top !important} 

.sexy-designfloat{background-position:-1050px bottom !important} 

.sexy-designfloat:hover{background-position:-1050px top !important} 

.sexy-newsvine{background-position:left bottom !important} 

.sexy-newsvine:hover{background-position:left top !important} 

.sexy-google{background-position:-210px bottom !important} 

.sexy-google:hover{background-position:-210px top !important} 

.sexy-comfeed{background-position:-420px bottom !important} 

.sexy-comfeed:hover{background-position:-420px top !important} 

.sexy-linkedin{background-position:-70px bottom !important} 

.sexy-linkedin:hover{background-position:-70px top !important} 

.sexy-friendfeed{background-position:-1750px bottom !important} 

.sexy-friendfeed:hover{background-position:-1750px top !important} 

.sexy-link{ margin-left:25px; float:left} 

.sexy-link A{padding:10px 0; width:470px; text-align:right; border:0; outline:none}

4. Now find <data:post.body> and just BELOW it, paste the following code.
(Pasting the code ABOVE <data:post.body> would show the widget at the start of posts.)

<div class='sexy-bookmarks sexy-bookmarks-expand sexy-bookmarks-bg-love' style='margin:20px 0 0 0 !important; padding:25px 0 0 10px !important; height:29px;/*the height of the icons (29px)*/ display:block !important; clear:both !important;'> 

<ul class='socials'> 

<li class='sexy-delicious'><a class='external' expr:href='&quot;http://del.icio.us/post?url=&quot;  data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='nofollow' title='Share this on del.icio.us'>Share this on del.icio.us</a></li> 

<li class='sexy-digg'><a class='external' expr:href='&quot;http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=&quot;  data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='nofollow' title='Digg this!'>Digg this!</a></li> 

<li class='sexy-stumbleupon'><a class='external' expr:href='&quot;http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=&quot;  data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='nofollow' title='Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon'>Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon</a></li> 

<li class='sexy-reddit'><a class='external' expr:href='&quot;http://reddit.com/submit?url=&quot;  data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='nofollow' title='Share this on Reddit'>Share this on Reddit</a></li> 

<li class='sexy-google'><a class='external' expr:href='&quot;http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=add&amp;bkmk=&quot;  data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='nofollow' title='Add this to Google Bookmarks'>Add this to Google Bookmarks</a></li> 

<li class='sexy-twitter'><a class='external' expr:href='&quot;http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading: &quot;   data:blog.title   &quot; - &quot;   data:post.url   &quot; (@NAME)&quot;' rel='nofollow' title='Tweet This!'>Tweet This!</a></li> 

<li class='sexy-facebook'><a class='external' expr:href='&quot;http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=&quot;  data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='nofollow' title='Share this on Facebook'>Share this on Facebook</a></li> 

<li class='sexy-mixx'><a class='external' expr:href='&quot;http://www.mixx.com/submit?page_url=&quot;   data:post.url' rel='nofollow' title='Share this on Mixx'>Share this on Mixx</a></li> 

<li class='sexy-comfeed'><a class='external' expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl   &quot;feeds/posts/default&quot;' rel='nofollow' title='Subscribe'>Subscribe</a></li> 

<li class='sexy-yahoobuzz'><a class='external' expr:href='&quot;http://buzz.yahoo.com/submit/?submitUrl=&quot;   data:post.url' rel='nofollow' title='Buzz up!'>Buzz up!</a></li> 

<li class='sexy-linkedin'><a class='external' expr:href='&quot;http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=&quot;  data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='nofollow' title='Share this on Linkedin'>Share this on Linkedin</a></li> 

<li class='sexy-designfloat'><a class='external' expr:href='&quot;http://www.designfloat.com/submit.php?url=&quot;  data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='nofollow' title='Submit this to DesignFloat'>Submit this to DesignFloat</a></li> 

<li class='sexy-technorati'><a class='external' expr:href='&quot;http://technorati.com/faves?add=&quot;  data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='nofollow' title='Share this on Technorati'>Share this on Technorati</a></li> 

<li class='sexy-scriptstyle'><a class='external' expr:href='&quot;http://scriptandstyle.com/submit?url=&quot;  data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='nofollow' title='Submit this to Script &amp; Style'>Submit this to Script &amp; Style</a></li> 

<li class='sexy-myspace'><a class='external' expr:href='&quot;http://www.myspace.com/Modules/PostTo/Pages/?u=http&quot;  data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='nofollow' title='Post this to MySpace'>Post this to MySpace</a></li> 

<li class='sexy-blinklist'><a class='external' expr:href='&quot;http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&amp;Url=&quot;  data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='nofollow' title='Share this on Blinklist'>Share this on Blinklist</a></li> 

<li class='sexy-friendfeed'><a class='external' expr:href='&quot;http://friendfeed.com/?url=&quot;   data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='nofollow' title='Share this on FriendFeed'>Share this on FriendFeed</a></li> 

<li class='sexy-newsvine'><a class='external' expr:href='&quot;http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&amp;save?u=&quot;  data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='nofollow' title='Seed this on Newsvine'>Seed this on Newsvine</a></li> 

</ul> 

<div style='clear:both;'/> 

</div>

5. Save the template, and open any post to see the sharing buttons.

4. ShareThis

Sharethis is mostly popular because of its tracking and reporting features. While free registration you have to add domain(s) so that ShareThis can track the links their clicks and visits, and the social sites where your data is going. And this is the reason it is mostly used by professionals who are very concerned about tracking their content.

Demo:

Click here to view Code and Installation Instructions [+/-]

1. Go to Layout Layout > Edit HTML.

Check "Expand Widget Templates"

2. Find <data:post.body>

3. And just BELOW it, paste the following code.
(Pasting the code ABOVE <data:post.body> would show the widget at the start of posts.)



<div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;>

<script src=&#39;http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=3f23816c-c290-4d29-8bb0-a882f3cb6c99&amp;type=blogger&#39; type=&#39;text/javascript&#39;/></div>

4. Save the template, and open any post to see the buttons.

The code given installs the simplest form of ShareThis sharing widget as shown in the demo above. To customize goto ShareThis.com

5. SocialList.org

SocialList bookmarking widget is not so well-known but works impressively well. It supports over 1700 social bookmarking sites. And the best thing about this is that it opens all bookmarking sites in a mini popup window so reader is not redirected to any page in a new window.

Demo:

Click here to view Code and Installation Instructions [+/-]

1. Go to Layout > Edit HTML.

Check "Expand Widget Templates"

2. Find <data:post.body>

3. And just BELOW it, paste the following code.
(Pasting the code ABOVE <data:post.body> would show the widget at the start of posts.)

<!-- SocialList.org BEGIN -->

<script type='text/javascript'>

sociallist_url = location.href;

sociallist_title = document.title;

sociallist_text = "";

sociallist_tags = "";

</script><script src="http://sociallist.org/widget.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

4. Save the template, and open any post to see the buttons.

The code given installs the simplest form of SocialList sharing widget as shown in the demo above. To customize goto SocialList.org.

6. Socio Fluid

SocioFluid bookmarking widget is one of the most beautiful looking widget. With very little support to social bookmarking sites, SocioFluid is still very liked among bloggers, because of its, nice hovering and zooming effect over buttons. With big shiny and separate buttons for each bookmarking site, it has most simplest code of all.

Demo :

(If you are unable to view the demo, then go to SocioFluid.com to view the demo.)

Click here to view Code and Installation Instructions [+/-]

1. Go to Layout > Edit HTML.

Check "Expand Widget Templates"

2. Find <data:post.body>

3. And just BELOW it, paste the following code.
(Pasting the code ABOVE <data:post.body> would show the widget at the start of posts.

<!--SocioFluid--><script type="text/javascript" src="http://sf2.sociofluid.com/v2?widget=132480-0001030c0d11"></script><noscript><a href="http://www.sociofluid.com/">SocioFluid</a></noscript><!--SocioFluid-->

4. Save the template and view any post.

The code given installs the simplest form of SocioFluid sharing widget as shown in the demo above. You can change size, hovering effect and select/deselect the buttons you want to show on your widget, to do customization, goto SocioFluid.com.

Hope you liked it.
If you face any problem while installing these widgets, leave the comments below. Otherwise don't forget to share this page to others; you can use any of the bookmarking widgets above :-D

Install Digg, Retweet, Facebook Share & Yahoo! Buzz Sharing Buttons in Blog Posts

Social bookmarking widgets in your blog posts are a quick way to share your articles on social bookmarking sites, that can get traffic and popularity to your blog posts.

The best place to install bookmarking buttons is below the post where readers can submit the article easily if they like it. But putting those buttons on a prominent place like at the top of the post is also beneficial sometimes for webmasters because readers can access those sharing buttons easily.

I'm sharing here installation of Digg, Twitter, Yahoo! Buzz, and Facebook Share button for your blogger blog posts.

These will appear inside your all posts at top right.

1. Go to Layout > Edit HTML.

Check "Expand Widget Templates"

2. Find <data:post.body>

3. And just ABOVE it, paste the following code.



<div style='float: right;'>

<table>

<tr><td>

<script src='http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js' type='text/javascript'/>

</td><td>

<script type='text/javascript'>

tweetmeme_source = &#39;YOUR-TWITTER-USERNAME-HERE&#39;;

</script>

<script src='http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js' type='text/javascript'/>

</td></tr>

<tr><td>

<a href='http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php' name='fb_share' type='box_count'>Share</a><script src='http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share' type='text/javascript'/>

</td><td>

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

</td></tr>

</table>

</div>

4. Save the template and you're done!

You'll see these 4 buttons in your all blog posts at top right position.

Customization

Digg button is in Blue code
Twitter button is in Red code (Replace YOUR-TWITTER-USERNAME-HERE with your twitter user name without @)
Facebook Share button is in Green code
Yahoo! Buzz button is in Pink code

To move the place of the button, change the "right" (bold), to "left" or "center" to place buttons accordingly.

You can add as many bookmarking buttons as you want if you know the codes of them.

To see details instructions on installing and customizing twitter/tweet button in your blog posts, see here.

How to Add/Install a Forum to Blogger/Blogspot Blog

Embedding a forum on a website with static pages is really easy job to do. All you have to do is to create a forum on some third party site, take the generated script and put that in your site on a new blank page.

But did you know that you can put that same forum on your Blog too? No? Well you can.. and this is true!
Now you can embed a complete forum inside your blog anywhere, whether in a new page or inside a blog post!
View TipsoTricks Forum as a demo.

Last week when I decided to look for such a thing to put in my blog. I started searching for such a a script or a third party tool that can help me putting a forum in my blog and I found this blog that had this embedded forum in a blog post - exactly the thing what I was looking for!

I learned that if you have your own hosting server behind your blog, then you can do it easily by creating a blank page, and putting forum script in it and giving it a nice sub-domain name.

But if you don't have your own hosting account you don't have to worry now. Nabble.com is the site that helps those bloggers that want to put a forum in their (free hosted) blogs.
With Nabble, you can embed a forum using a single javascript code, and your forum will work like a natively installed part of your site.

Just follow the instructions carefully:

Creating the Forum

1. Go to Nabble.com.

2. Put in your name, forum name and description and hit "Create Forum" button.

On the next page you'll see a blank forum ready for you with a message:

3. Click "Yes Create sample Sub Forums" button to create sub-forums (categories) in your forum.

3. To do this, click option > structure > create new sub-forums.

You can change the appearance, numbers of users allowed. security settings and lots of other settings.

4. After you are done with your changes, click "Embedding Options" on top right of the page to get the script of your forum.

5. Copy the script.

You can also register yourself to claim the forum you edited so that you can make changes in the future. You can make changes in the forum even after putting in your blog!

Embedding the forum in your blog

6. Create a new post and in "Edit HTML" tab of your post editor, paste the script you copied.

7. Click "Post Options" below your post editor and under "Reader comments" select "Don't Allow". This will disable the comments and hide the comment form below the forum.

8. That's it! Publish and Preview your forum!

You may view TipsoTricks Forum as a demo.
And don't forget to register there ;)

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As you know whos.amung.us is one the best tools to track visitors on your website in real-time. You get the basic tracking widget and some basic features for free with the sign up.

But with a whos.amung.us Pro account, you not only get dozens of other professional tracking widgets and stats but also you are in control of everything. Everything is customizable. You can Insert your own logo, re-arrange dashboard stats anyway you like, choose colors for each stat. The possibilities are endless!

Recently they started giving away their Pro account for their existing customers. All you have to do is to sign up to their mailing list and they will draw random names every month to give pro accounts for FREE.

Remember: You won't find this give away on their site unless you sign up and view your stats.

When you view your site's stats from your free account, you will see this message:

So Hurry up, Go and enter your email address now to enter the draw!

Visit : whos.amung.us

Small Utility to Create Hidden Shortcut in XP Start Menu

I developed this utility last summer in holidays and found it buried in my project files when I was cleaning up the folders yesterday. So I thought it to share it on the blog to see the reviews.

This small utility creates an additional shortcut in Windows XP's start menu (under RUN) so I named it "XP Hidden Shortcut" :p

Although in Windows XP a new shortcut beneath RUN can be created by tweaking the registry. But for that one must has some knowledge of Registry Editing.

This little Program does the same but with help of simple GUI, a new shortcut under RUN can be created in a flash with no Registry knowledge required.

I used C# to create the application and it generates a .reg file (in a temporary folder) and executes it automatically after the shortcut file name and location is selected.

Installation is pretty simple and wizard-like as you normally see in Windows. (I used Smart Install Maker to create the setup package).

The interface is very simple and you'll find usage instruction on hovering the mouse over controls on the interface.

(file size :176 kb)
or Download from here (if above button is not working)

REMEMBER: This works only in Windows XP and requires .Net Framework 2.0

Hope you'll like it! :)

Send/Receive Facebook Status Updates via Mobile Phone (SMS) in Pakistan

As you know with Pring you can connect your facebook and twitter accounts to send and/or receive updates from both the services.

Facebook is already offering mobile usage in which you can update your status through your mobile phone via simple SMS. You can also get free SMS alerts whenever any of your friends updates his/her status on facebook. Although sending sms to facebook to it's international number charges you a little amount but this was solved for Pakistani mobile users by Mobi2Tweet, and now by Pring.

Pring is not only fast but also more convenient to use. With pring whenever you update your followers on it, your updates will go to facebook account as well. Or you can say whenever you update your facebook account your followers on Pring will see your update too. To know more about Pring, read here.

Learn how to Send/Receive Twitter Updates via SMS with Pring

If you haven't subscribed to Pring yet, It is required to register yourself first there. You can also register from your mobile phone, but in order to receive updates from Facebook, you need to login to Pring's website to allow pring to access your Facebook account.

1. Login to Pringit.com

2. Go to Settings>Network

3. Click the "Connect with Facebook" button.

4. You'll be redirected to you facebook profile where Pring will ask you to allow access to your facebook account. Click all "Allows" and you'll be back to your pring's profile page.

That's it! from then on you'll see all updates/messages from your cell phone will go to go to facebook and updates from your friends on facebook will be sent as text messages to your cell phone from where you can reply them too via sms.

After connecting you can do two things:

1. Receive Facebook friends’ updates on Pring (from both web and cell)

2. Set Facebook status update via web or cell.

If you go to your Pring's Settings>Network page again, you'll see two options:



- Full Facebook Synchronization



In the Full Synchronization mode. Any update you do on Pring will be reflected on your Facebook account as a status update.

This means whenever you send a message/update to pring, will be automatically be sent as status update to your Facebook profile.



- Selective Facebook Synchronization



In this mode you will need to add @fb before any update to make it appear on facebook. So if you have this option enabled updates without @fb will not become your Facebook status. So updates with @fb either from Pring will become your facebook status while those which do not start with @fb will only set on Pring.

To turn this thing off, go to Pring Settings>Network again, and click "Disconnect" button to turn off twitter connection.



Learn how to Send/Receive Twitter Updates via SMS with Pring

How to Send/Recieve Twitter updates via Mobile Phone (SMS) in Pakistan

If you are in Pakistan and know about Pring - Mobile Social Network in Pakistan, then let me tell you first that service is getting popular everyday despite being still in beta mode. Since I've already reviewed Pring, you can read more about Pring here.

The best thing about Pring is that it lets you connect to your facebook and twitter accounts at the same time so you can receive sms alerts of your friends updates' on facebook and people you're following on twitter.

As Twitter Mobile is still not offered for Pakistani users, so some third party services solved this issue like Mobi2Tweet and now by Pring. You can not only send but can also RECEIVE twitter updates of people you're following right on your cell phone via text messages.

Although from Mobi2tweet you can update twitter status, but cannot receive tweets from others, but connecting your pring account to twitter you can now receive tweets too!

If you haven't subscribed to Pring yet, It is required to register yourself first there. You can also register from your mobile phone, but in order to receive updates from twitter, you need to login to Pring's website to allow pring to access your twitter account.

1. Login to Pringit.com

2. Go to Settings>Network

3. Click the "Connect with Twitter" button.

4. You'll be redirected to you twitter profile where Pring will ask you to allow access to your twitter account. Click "Allow" and you'll be back to your pring's profile page.

That's it! from then on you'll see all tweets on your cell phone from people you're following and also you can tweet your status via sms as well.

After connecting you can do two things:

1. Receive Twitter friends’ updates on Pring (from both web and cell)

2. Set Twitter status update via web or cell.

If you go to your Pring's Settings>Network page again, you'll see two options:



- Full Twitter Synchronization



In the Full Synchronization mode. Any update you do on Pring will be reflected on your Twitter account as a status update.

This means whenever you send a message/update to pring, will be automatically tweeted on your twitter profile.



- Selective Twitter Synchronization



In this mode you will need to add @tw before any update to make it appear on twitter. So if you have this option enabled updates without @tw will not become your twitter status. So updates with @tw either from Pring will become your tweets while those which do not start with @tw will only set on Pring.

To turn this thing off, go to Pring Settings>Network again, and click "Disconnect" button to turn off twitter connection.

TipsoTricks : Forum Launched!

Today we are happy to announce our Forum on TipsoTricks. The reason behind to start this forum is to help people to communicate with us in a better and quicker way. Beside help from our side people can also help each other on a common platform.

As no one likes to contact through contact forms or emails. They want quick responses and solutions to their question and that is what we felt in our emails and chats full of queries from our followers in both in emails and sms community.

The forum is open and everyone is invited to ask, share, suggest or comment on any topic there.

Visit: TipsoTricks FORUM

We would be looking forward for your suggestions and comments on the forum. :)

Join our SMS community if you would like to get updates from us and all our followers via text messages.

Add/Install Simplest jQuery Featured Content Slider in Blogger/Blogspot Blog

By using a jQuery content slider you can show off your blog's best content on the home page in a beautiful flowing style. Content rotates automatically in these sliders.

Previously I bloggerized one of the most beautiful content sliders on web and wrote a simple tutorial here. As promised I'm here again with a new and rather simpler version of a content slider powered by jQuery.

This Simple version of Content Slider uses divs tags, which slide whole div frames containing both text and images at same time. This creates a nice sliding effect with one article per slide.

You can view the DEMO of this content slider before proceeding for installation steps.

I simplified the complex instructions written with the original slider's source for all blogger.com users.

Installing some CSS and JavaScripts in Template

1. Go to your Layout > Edit HTML and click "Download full template" to download template's backup (recommended)

2. In your template, find ]]></b:skin> and just ABOVE it, paste this code:

#jFlowSlide{ background:#DBF3FD; font-family: Georgia; }

#myController { font-family: Georgia; padding:2px 0;  width:610px; background:#3AB7FF; }

#myController span.jFlowSelected { background:#43A0D5;margin-right:0px; }



.slide-wrapper { padding: 5px; }

.slide-thumbnail { width:300px; float:left; }

.slide-thumbnail img {max-width:300px; }

.slide-details { width:290px; float:right; margin-left:10px;}

.slide-details h2 { font-size:1.5em; font-style: italic; font-weight:normal; line-height: 1; margin:0; }

.slide-details .description { margin-top:10px; }



.jFlowControl, .jFlowPrev, .jFlowNext { color:#FFF; cursor:pointer; padding-left:5px; padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px; padding-bottom:2px; }

.jFlowControl:hover, .jFlowPrev:hover, .jFlowNext:hover { background: #43A0D5; }

3. Now find </head> and just ABOVE it, paste this code:



<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://sites.google.com/site/tipsotrickscom/jquery/jquery.flow.1.2.auto.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">

$(document).ready(function(){

$("#myController").jFlow({

slides: "#slides",

controller: ".jFlowControl", // must be class, use . sign

slideWrapper : "#jFlowSlide", // must be id, use # sign

selectedWrapper: "jFlowSelected",  // just pure text, no sign

auto: true,  //auto change slide, default true

width: "610px",

height: "235px",

duration: 400,

prev: ".jFlowPrev", // must be class, use . sign

next: ".jFlowNext" // must be class, use . sign

});

});

</script>

Adding the Widget and it's contents

4. This part is the easiest. Go to Layout > Page Elements and click "Add a Gadget" wherever you want to put the slider. (usually just below navigation menu).

5. Choose "HTML/JavaScript" from the gadgets list and paste the code below in the content area.

<div class="jflow-content-slider">

<div id="slides">



<-! Slide #1 Starts-->

<div class="slide-wrapper">

<div class="slide-thumbnail">

<img alt="" src="IMAGE-LINK"/>

</div>



<div class="slide-details">

TITLE-OF-THE-SLIDE

<div class="description">

       TEXT-OF-THE-SLIDE

</div>

</div>

<div class="clear"></div>

</div>

<!-- Slide # 1 Ends -->



<-! Slide #2 Starts-->

<div class="slide-wrapper">

<div class="slide-thumbnail">

<img alt="" src="IMAGE-LINK"/>

</div>



<div class="slide-details">

      TITLE-OF-THE-SLIDE

<div class="description">

       TEXT-OF-THE-SLIDE

</div>

</div>

<div class="clear"></div>

</div>

<!-- Slide # 2 Ends -->





<-! Slide #3 Starts-->

<div class="slide-wrapper">

<div class="slide-thumbnail">

<img alt="" src="IMAGE-LINK"/>

</div>



<div class="slide-details">

      TITLE-OF-THE-SLIDE

<div class="description">

       TEXT-OF-THE-SLIDE

</div>

</div>

<div class="clear"></div>

</div>

<!-- Slide # 3 Ends -->



.

.

.

.

<!-- You can add as many slides as you want above this line -->

</div>



<div id="myController">

<span class="jFlowPrev">Prev</span>

<span class="jFlowControl">1</span>

<span class="jFlowControl">2</span>

<span class="jFlowControl">3</span>

<!-- Increase these numbers as with the increase in your number of slides above -->

<span class="jFlowNext">Next</span>

</div>

<div class="clear"></div>

</div>

Customizations

- (In code of Step 3) numbers in red are width and height of the main slider while the number in green is the sliding speed.

- In this content slider everything resides in the widget's div tags.
(In code of Step 4) Just replace "IMAGE-TITLE", "TITLE-OF-THE-SLIDE", "TEXT-OF-THE-SLIDE" with your image, title and text respectively.

You can increase the number of slides according to your need and available space.

- If you increase the number of slides, then don't forget to increase "jFlowControl" numbering.
For example if you add another (fourth) slide then you have to add 4 in order to show number "4" on the main widget.

So if you have like 15 slides, then make sure you have 15 (upto 15).

- (In code of Step 3) Links given in blue are links to 2 JavaScripts that this slider requires. If you have your own server you should download the scripts and upload them on your server for speedy loading.

Demo

View slider's DEMO.

Hope you got all the installation and customizations steps. If you face any problem installing this, feel free to leave the queries in the comments below.

[Source: WebDesignBooth.com]