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How to recover lost data from failed harddisk or formatted harddisk.

2010-02-03T16:40:00.003+05:30

It has happened to me many times, formatted hardisks without backup, sometimes deleted the data unknowingly but, now you can recover such lost data with TESTDISK.

TestDisk is OpenSource software and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

TestDisk is a powerfull FREE data recovery tool it can run under windows as well as Linux.

Here's what their site says,

    * Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
    * Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
    * Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
    * Fix FAT tables
    * Rebuild NTFS boot sector
    * Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
    * Fix MFT using MFT mirror
    * Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock
    * Undelete files from FAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
    * Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions.

Technically you can recover all your lost data if only if you have not written over the recovering data.

To know more about TestDisk visit their site: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Step by step tutorial of TestDisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

Free Ebooks on how to use twitter to promote youself and for profitable business

2009-08-06T18:29:00.008+05:30

If you are twitter addict and you have a website, business then read on!.
Twitter is gaining its popularity day by day and we would be fool to not use such an emerging technology for our profits.

Many of the bloggers use twitter to drive traffic. organizations use it to spread the news and gain readership.

If you don't know how to use twitter to promote yourself, to increase you traffic or for business profits, then here is a list of three ebooks which might be useful for you.

1. Mastering Twitter

Before you can use Twitter, know twitter. This books lets you master the simple website which has been so successful in such a short time, twitter.

This is a 30 page ebook is written by Chris Demetrios, this book starts with setting up account, how to customize the homepage and how to follow rule.

New to twitter? read it!.

2. A geek’s Guide To Promoting Yourself and Your Online Business in 140 Characters or Less with Twitter

This is a PPT ebook, its like slides arranged together in a meaningful way. Only 48 slides.
This ebook is from Geekpreneur explaining how to build a strong twitter profile and how to use it for mini blog, and promoting the business. It even explains some twitter tools and how to use them.

3. Beginner’s Guide to Using Twitter for Business

This is a 20 page ebook from John Jantsch explaining the basic terminology like what is RT? what is DM? to how to use it for business. how to get social.

Have any suggestions or any ebooks you want to include? please drop a comment

Use draft blogger to display HTML code directly and schedule posts

2009-08-04T16:43:00.005+05:30

Have you ever visited blogger discussion?
People ask a lot of questions, among many questions this one struck me "How to display HTML code directly in Blog posts?"

There are 2 ways to answer this qustion
1. Either you can visit a code converting tool like this Google's code converter Gadget or
2. Use draft blogger

What is this draft blogger?
draft blogger is a blogger platform, where upcoming blogger tools, plugins which are going to be released are tested

Blogger in draft is a special version of Blogger where we try out new features before we release them to everyone.

What can i do using draft blogger?
Using draft blogger you can
1. schedule posts
2. show HTML code literally
3. Disable converting newlines to <br/>

Go now and test draft blogger

Have any suggestions?

Wolfram|Alpha loves AppsTime!

2009-08-03T00:06:00.007+05:30

I check everyday, how my blog is performing with google analytics and alexa. So yesterday i thought why not check how my is rated/doing on search engines

So, I started to type "appstime" in different search engines. and below is the result

1: Ranked 3rd in google

2. Ranked 1st in yahoo search

3: Ranked 3rd in Bing

4: Ranked 9th in ask

After searching through these search engines i thought why not give a try to Wolfram Alpha- its the buzz guys! New thinking search engine.

Don't know what is Wolfram|Alpha ?

Here what wiki says

Wolfram Alpha (also written as WolframAlpha and Wolfram|Alpha) is an answer engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine might.

So i type "http://appstime.blogspot.com" the url of my blog.

and here is the answer!!!

Now, remember why i said Wolfram|Alpha loves appstime!

Note: Those are inaccurate results!

Happy Friendship day to all my readers and everyone

2009-08-02T00:04:00.011+05:30

Happy friendship day to all !!

Now, to those who don't know, Second Sunday of August is celebrated as "FRIENDSHIP DAY." So, have a nice wonderful day.

Have a Nice Friendship day!

Capture your favourite amazing web design pages FOREVER!

2009-08-01T14:18:00.008+05:30

Stumbled upon a site whose web design, look and feel you loved, wanted to capture the web page?

well, then read on this post is just for YOU!

iterasi.net is a website where you can capture the webpage as it is!, if the web page do change in the future the captured web page won't change and you can view the web page as you had captured.

AppsTime through iterasi viewer

Current look of AppsTime

Go ahead and save your favourite web design web pages

Have any suggestions? please leave a comment.

Touch Down..! Firefox crosses 1 billionth download !!

2009-07-31T15:44:00.013+05:30

UPDATE !

Firefox download counter is going to hit 1 billionth very soon. check out here Firefox download counter

Latest counter as i checked

Firefox has proved over the years that its the best, fastest, secure and fully featured browser on the net right now.

There are few tips on site as how you can be spread the message

1. Add a link to www.firefox.com to your Instant Messaging profile.

2. Use the Firefox logo as your profile picture or buddy icon.

3. Vote up a Firefox story on a social news site like Digg or Reddit.

4. Wear a Firefox t-shirt today!

The Internet Explorer has lost a good market share
These statistics have been taken from w3schools

The market share of Internet explorer in Jan 2008 is 54.7 which fell to 40.7 in June 2009.

Firefox has emerged winner with 47.3% market share

Check out my Previous blog on 10 Must have Firefox addons for bloggers who browse alot!

Leave your suggestion, views in comments

10 Beautiful Handwritten fonts which are FREE for personal use

2009-07-30T12:58:00.002+05:30

In this post i will list 10 awesome handwritten fonts which are FREE for personal use.

1. Lewis Hand

This is a true type font designed by Misile law foundry, licensed under FREE for personal use.

2. Handwritten Crystal

This is a bold true type font by Crystal Suovanen

3. Scriptin

This is a "fast" running letter handwitten font.

4. Arsenale White font

This is another beautiful font by studios kmzero. Licensed under GNU/GPL.

5. Qokiji 1.0

This is another great font from Joanne taylor licensed under Freeware.

6. Khand fonts

This fonts comes in lowercase, uppercase, numerals and punctuation. This is a bold font licensed under Freeware by Kevin Richey.

7. Cat's Awesomely Awesome Font

Beautiful "big" font designed by Catherine Cunningham.

8. King cool KC

I love this font , you can use this font for header looks damn kool. Released by Kimberly Gewesin Licensed under free to use for personal use.

9. Luismi Murder Font

This is a beautiful font by DarkoJuan

10. Sue Ellen Francisco

Another beautiful font from Kimberly Gewesin.

Suggest your favourite FREE handwritten fonts in comments.

Find your Twitter Grade and your twitter ranking!

2009-07-29T11:57:00.009+05:30

Twitter has become a phenomena and almost 99.99% of all bloggers use it to drive traffic and lure its readers by tweeting on a niche.

Why u need twitter grade?

Twitter grade is basically a type of Technorati which give the authority and reach of the that twitter profile.

Here's what their official blog says

What Twitter Grader is trying to measure is the power, reach and authority of a twitter account. In other words, when you tweet, what kind of an impact does it have?

How does its algorithm works?

Twitter grader algorithm takes many factors which are given equal weight

1. No. of Followers

2. Power of Followers

3. Updates

4. Update Recency

5. Follower/Following Ratio

6. Engagement

To know what above factors mean and to know more

Read the offical twitter grader blog! Here

Find your twitter grade and let us know. Here

Comment your grade and ranking who knows I may end up following you!

10 Stunning, Professional look Blogger Templates which are FREE!

2009-07-28T12:09:00.012+05:30

In this post i will list 10 truely professional looking Blogger Templates.

Note: Before downloading please visit the original post for info on how to customize and all, and contact the relevant author / developer of the Template for further queries.

1. Solitude

Solitude is a simple very professional blogger template. It has a stylish Menubar and a bird on the left corner.

Download Demo

2. Excellence

Excellnce is very professional blogger template. It has a special column for Author and special tab for private advertising.

Visit Post for more info

Download Demo

3. Daily Inspired

Daily inspired is a highly customizable blogger template release by Woork. At first look you may confuse whether it is blogger template!
If you know HTML and CSS then only go for this template.

Visit Post for more info

Download Demo

4. Template Blue

Template Blue is a simple 2 color blogger template. Its a 3 column template with body in Middle.

Download Demo

5. Gadget Blog

Gadget Blog is like a tech blogger template, having 2 Menubar with one Menubar dropdown list which can be very helpful if your blog is gadgets related. It gas 3 column footer!

Visit Post for more info

Download Demo

6. Community

Community Blogger template and Gadget Blog Templates are very similar both have 2 menubar with one having dropdown menubar and 3 column footer.

Plus point: It has private advertising space and the social bookmarking is configured and also follow on twitter!

Visit Post for more info

Download Demo

7. Chethstudios Life

Chethstudios Life is a template released by Cheth Studios.
Want a very simple 2 color blogger template looking professional? this is the template.its also boosts 3 column footer. checkout its more features at the provided link.

Visit Post for more info

Download Demo

8. Simple Box

If I had to rate these templates on a scale of 10, I would rate this template 9, damn good, easy installation and very professional template. it has 3 footer column and almost everything configured.
.Recent Posts
.Recent Comments
.Read More

What More you need?

Visit Post for more info

Download Demo

9. Typoork

Typoork is a clean and professional Blogger template released again by woork which is totally free and highly customizable. It supports inline comments form, delicious and retweet counters in each post.

Visit Post for more info

Download Demo

10. Personal Mag Theme

This was my first template.. i installed this template at its first look very professional. Its a 3 column template.Built-in RSS feed and Email Subscription links. built in adsense ready
check this template for yourself!

Visit Post for more info

Download Demo

Suggest any other templates which you think are professional?

10 Must have Firefox addons for bloggers who browse alot!

2009-07-27T14:15:00.007+05:30

If you are a blogger freak and love Firefox then, here's a list of 10 must have Firefox addons for YOU!

1. Adblock Plus

If you are annoyed of ads and browse a lot websites this addon is must. Blocks ads and make the site loading faster if you have low connection internet.

2. No script

The best security you can get in a web browser!
Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.

3. WOT

WOT, Web of Trust, warns you about risky websites that try to scam visitors, deliver malware or send spam. Protect your computer against online threats by using WOT as your front-line layer of protection when browsing or searching in unfamiliar territory. WOT's color-coded icons show you ratings for 21 million websites - green to go, yellow for caution and red to stop – helping you avoid the dangerous sites. Surf safer and add WOT to your Firefox now.

4. Stumble Upon Bar

I love this bar when you don't know what sites to browse.
StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more.

5. Better Privacy

Ever wondered why you are still tracked though you tried everything to prevent it?
BetterPrivacy is a Super Cookie Safeguard which protects from usually not deletable LSO's. It blocks longterm tracking on Google, YouTube Ebay and many other domains.

6. Web developer tools

The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
You can test small snippets of code right there and see the results.

7. ReadIt Later

Read It Later allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.

8. XMarks

Xmarks is the #1 bookmarking add-on. Install it on all your computers to keep your bookmarks and (optionally) passwords backed up and synchronized. Xmarks also helps you uncover the best of the web based on what millions of people are bookmarking.

Note: This Addon is available for Internet Explorer and Safari users too. Free download at http://www.xmarks.com

9. FireBug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page...

10. GreaseMonkey

Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.

Suggest any other addons which are your favorites.

Collection of Blogging Tips n Tricks for Bloggers

2009-07-24T13:38:00.000+05:30

This post is a collection of Blogging tips and tricks for bloggers.

1. Add .gif favicon for Bloggers on Blogspot

When you have a .ico favicon on blogspot, it gets replaced by the default blogspot's favicon. In this post i will discuss why to have a .gif favicon.
Read More...

2. How to build Contact form in Blogspot

Bloggers before beginning should always have a contact form so that your readers can contact you back. This post discusses how to have a contact form.
Read More...

3. Why Tag Cloud is Important and How to add to Blogger

A blog design should always be unique and easy navigation should be provided. tag cloud can act as a very easy and efficient way of navigation as well as adding a value to your blog! Read this post as why tag cloud is important.
Read More...

4. How to Add Adsense within Blogspot Posts

Many people start blogging for monetization. But bloggers don't realize that adding adsense within posts will increase their click rate. This post discusses how to add adsense within posts.
Read More...

5. How to Add Tweetmeme for Every post

Blog cannot survive on Content alone, it needs to be publicize and tweeting is a good way. this post discusses how to add tweetmeme or retweet button to your post.
Read More...

6. Free Ebook on Authority in Blogosphere

Blogging is all about authority the more authority you have the more popular your blog is. This Ebook is all about the authority in Blogosphere. Its FREE! go and download.
Read More...

7. Free Blogger template Ebook, A must for Bloggers using Google's Blogspot Platform

As i said having a unique blog has its own advantages, people will recognize ohh its his BLOG! and keeping a simple and minimalistic design helps your readers to comeback again! Larger load time may lose you a few readers also ... to know all about this read this ebook its a very great resource to have.
Read More...

8. Are you Beginner Blogger? Read this Book!

If you are beginner blogger then you got to read these books. first book - 12 websites you must visit is very small ebook it will hardly take your time. Second ebook give you steps , tricks and all info on how to market your website/blog.
Read More...

9. All About Permalink

This is an interesting post which will help you understand what are permalinks and how they can boost your pageranks.
Read More...

10. 5 things every blogger should do

Last but not least 5 things every blogger should know and do.
Read More...

Twitter has become phenomenal success but, has tweeting?

2009-07-23T15:33:00.000+05:30

Twitter has gained its popularity very fast... reaching alexa rank of 23(Currently)

We tweet more than we digg, stumble or share on facebook but, is tweeting helping bloggers to spread and gain popularity of their blog?

I see many famous blogger posts they have 100 tweets and yet only 4 to 5 diggs.

I have 62 following yet when i share something the tweet disappears into more within an hour. I wonder do my followers even get to see my tweets who have like 1k to 10k followers?

This is an open question

1. Have we valued twitter more?

2. Do you guys prefer tweeting or other sharing form like digg,stumble,delicious or facebook?

Best Web Resources on Fonts

2009-07-22T10:43:00.000+05:30

This post is a collection of some of the fine, ultimate web resources on FONTS.

If your are FONT Freak you got to look at these post!!!

1. 40+ Extremely Beautiful FONTS Hand-picked from deviantART.

2. 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design.

3. Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs.

4. 45 Beautiful Free Fonts for Modern Design Trends.

5. 10 Beautiful and free fonts for web designers.

6. 20+ Beautiful Free Serif Fonts.

7. 65+ Smoking Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials.

8. 200+ Textures, Brushes, and Fonts: Ultimate Grunge Roundup.

9. 40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design.

10. 45+ Exceptionally Useful Free Handwritten Fonts.

There are many fonts resources... This post will soon be again edited with the available resources.

Please leave a comment and link if you want your post on font to be included.

Are you Beginner Blogger? Read this Book!

2009-07-21T14:33:00.000+05:30

You think starting a blog is tough? Then read these two books which will make your work a lot easier.

1. 12 Websites you must Visit!

This is Free Ebook released by Lithium Mind, which lists 12 websites which you must follow. this is a very short book and won't take much of your time. I would definitely recommend you take a look at this book anyway its FREE!.

Building a Blog is not enough you have to market it, share it, publicize it right?
This book will help you in marketing your blog.

2.The Winning Way – Ultimate Checklist of 500+ Proven Internet Marketing Strategies!

This is a 118 page report of all the marketing strategies you want to know. This book covers 500 different internet marketing strategies to market your blog.

Here's what the author wrote:

I’m so confident that this resource will help you as an Internet marketer that I’ll make you a deal. Download the checklist and read through it. If you don’t find at least 3 new ideas that help you to promote your website and drive traffic, I’ll send you $50 via Paypal for your time.

Free Blogger template Ebook, A must for Bloggers using Google's Blogspot Platform

2009-07-20T13:24:00.000+05:30

If you are using google's blogspot platform then this is a sure and must read ebook for all those blog lovers.
This ebook is written by Amanda Fazani of Bloggerbuster. She has an incredible knowledgable on Blogger template. I consider lucky to read her book!.
This book has helped a lot in building of this New Template for Apps Time.

In this book she discusses
1.how and why to build customized blog?
2.how to optimize your blog?
3.and lot of other resources which are worth to look into.

Go now and Download the Blogger Template Ebook for Free !!!

List of High PR dofollow Blogs, topics focussing on web design, blogging, tutorials and inspiration.

2009-07-19T12:37:00.002+05:30

Hi Everyone,

Finding a High PR do-follow Blog List is difficult whose topics focus on web design, blogging tricks and tips, tutorials and inspiration.

I will soon be compiling a blog list of dofollow blogs.

If your blog is Dofollow and topics focus on webdesign then submit your blog by leaving a comment with your blog url and PR.

Apps Time is a dofollow blog so your comment gets you a sure backlink!. Comment and enjoy the backlink!.

Update !
AppsTime is no longer a DO FOLLOW blog.

What do you think about the new layout of AppsTime

2009-07-18T17:11:00.001+05:30

Hi All,

Brand new Template for AppsTime. This template is an inspiration from woork based on the template "typoork" released by woork.

What do you think about the new template? please leave suggestions. Thanks!.

Poll: Should we have dofollow Blog?

2009-07-09T17:16:00.001+05:30

Today's post is a poll on whether we should have dofollow blog or nofollow blog?

What is dofollow?
In simple words Dofollow means you tell search engines that the comment url is a valuable link. Ie: your are providing a backlink to the person who comments.

Nofollow:
Having a nofollow may not get you more comments and thus less visits

Dofollow:
Having a dofollow blog can get you lots of comments but it also brings spams.

How to make your blogspot blog dofollow?
Making the blogspot blog dofollow is very easy

go to Dashboard, click on Layout go to Edit HTML and click on Expand widgets

Search for "nofollow" ... you may find two nofollow replace them with dofollow and just remove rel=”nofollow” by default it is dofollow.

Yes , AppsTime is a dofollow blog, comment and enjoy the backlink!.

Update !
AppsTime is no longer a DO FOLLOW blog.

Alternative software for Garage Band in Windows

2009-07-08T17:49:00.000+05:30

All the windows lovers who love Garage Band, well need not worry, if not garage band but there are few other software which are worth to take a look at.

What is Garage Band?
This is what apple says "Welcome to the school of rock. A Mac-sized practice space. Your own recording studio. If you want to learn to play an instrument, write music, or record a song, GarageBand can help — whether you’re a rookie or a rock star."for more info visit GarageBand 09

Garage Band Alternatives to Windows

Mixcraft.
LMMS - Linux Multimedia Studio.
Adobe Audition.
Sony Acid
Band in a box
Sonar Home Studio
Reason
FL Studio

MIXCRAFT

Clear, colorful, and intelligently designed interface to streamline your work.
Custom loop library includes hundreds of royalty-free sounds in dozens of musical styles.
Works with Acid™ and Apple Garage Band™ loops.
Record multiple MIDI and audio tracks simultaneously.
Piano roll to view and edit MIDI.
Includes a General MIDI library, two sampled grand pianos, Hammond B-3™ emulator, MiniMoog™ emulator and a polyphonic synthesizer.
Includes 18 high quality effects.
Create mega presets that layer and split multiple virtual synthesizers and effects.
Add unlimited VSTi™ instruments, VST™ and DirectX™effects.
Mix down to MP3, WAV and other audio file types.
Burn CDs of your mix with just one click.

For More information visit Mixcraft

LMMS

LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio®, which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. You can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more; all in a user-friendly and modern interface.

For more information visit LMMS-(Linux Multimedia Studio)

ADOBE AUDITION

Adobe Audition 3 software is the all-in-one toolset for professional audio production that allows you to record, mix, edit, and master digital audio. Adobe Audition delivers the flexibility you need to produce professional results for all your audio and video projects and gives you pinpoint control in an intuitive, easy-to-use environment. Whether you are composing music, recording and mixing a project, producing a radio spot, cleaning up production audio for a movie, or designing sound for video games, Adobe Audition 3 provides the powerful tools you need to get the job done.

Visit Adobe Audition for more info.

SONY ACID

This is what their site says - " If you're serious about making your own music, ACID Music Studio software is the perfect tool for original song creation, multitrack audio and MIDI recording, and studio-quality mixing, and effects processing. Share your songs any way you want — burn your own CDs, upload to the web, prepare audio for podcasts, or export to your MP3 player."

For more information visit Sony Acid

BAND IN A BOX

Band in box - This is what their site says - "

Band-in-a-Box is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program for your multimedia computer. You can hear and play along to many song ideas, and go from "nothing" to "something" in a very short time with Band-in-a-Box as your on-demand backup band.

There are many more reasons that Band-in-a-Box is a favorite of musicians, students, and songwriters the world over. To see for yourself, you can click on the Band-in-a-Box forum and guestbook links on this page and share the experiences of other users in your own language."

Visit band in a box for more information

SONAR HOME STUDIO

Sona says-"With SONAR Home Studio you can record live instruments, vocals, or any audio source. You can easily edit audio, MIDI, and music notation. The updated Loop Explorer gives you the tools to build backing tracks faster than ever. Add real instrument sounds using the included virtual instruments suite. Bring your mix together with studio-quality audio effects and professional mixing tools. When you are finished, share your music on the web or burn it to CD for fans, friends, and family."

REASON

Reason is a virtual studio rack with all the tools and instruments you need to turn your ideas into music. And it's more than just a set of excellent synths and effects. It's a complete music system. Step into the age of Reason. Reason comes with synthesizers, samplers, drum machine, REX file loop player, professional mastering tools, mixer, vocoder, world

class effects, pattern sequencer and more. As many of each as your computer can handle. Reason is an infinitely expandable all-in-one music production environment, complete with its own realtime sequencer.

For more information visit Reason

FL STUDIO

FL Studio is the most complete virtual studio currently available. It will play any sample file (wav), generator (softsynth), VSTi & DXi) or midi instrument you feed it.

For more info visit FL Studio

Share your thoughts and tell if i have missed any of your favourite software!

Now that you have read, Next is What?
if you like it ,REALLY like it then consider for BOOKMARK n SHARING IT!!!

Free Ebook on Authority in Blogosphere

2009-07-07T16:57:00.000+05:30

Before you Download the Ebook here are few things to know why we need authority?

Blogging is all about traffic.
If you search google for traffic tricks and how to get traffic. I'm sure you will find hell of articles on this hot topic.
Even i have written a blog which is worth to take a look

How to Increase traffic to your blog

So how is authority related to blogging n traffic.?
Well if ask this question ...

do you know?
Problogger.net
Johncow.com
Copyblogger.com

If yes, why do you go and visit these blogs?
Simple they have established their authority over blogging.
Having authority in blogosphere is very important if you want to get noticed and traffic.

How can i establish authority?
Go, now and get technorati account. Its a free service , they check the quality of the blog and assign an authority for you based on the quality of your blog.

AUTHORITY BLACK BOOK is a 64 page ebook on authority written by Jack Humphrey, If you are a new blogger then i would definitely recommend you to read this book. Book explains:

Why we need authority?
How to get authority?
What are the tools you can use? Lot more...

Share Your thoughts when you read the book and how it helped!!!

Now that you have read, Next is What?
if you like it , REALLY like it then consider for BOOKMARK n SHARING IT!!!

All About Permalink

2009-07-06T17:08:00.000+05:30

What are Permalink?
Permalink are the permanent links to your blog post.

Why are they important?
Search engines like Google give more value to the permalink and what its keywords. permalink expresses what your post is all about.

Should i have Human readable or machine optimized permalink?
Well, to optimize and imcrease your rank in google you need to have both.

How can i achieve it?
With a small trick you can achieve machine optimized and human readable permalink.

Whenever you write a blog write the post machine optimized, in blogger once published permalink won't change even after you change the post title.

for eg: check my blog post its
permalink:
http://appstime.blogspot.com/2009/07
/permalinkpermalinkswordpressblogspotwha.html

Human readable title : All about Permalink

When you publish with machine optimized permalink, rewrite the blog title in Human readable format and republish it again.

Few steps to follow before making permalink
1. Put the main keyword in Google insight search and find relevant keywords
Google insight search
2. Use google adwords tool to find high paying keywords
Google adwords tool

Image showing the permalink keyword search in

1. Google Insight Search

2. Google Adwords tool

Should you have a link to your permalink at the bottom of post?
yes, everytime your write a post make a rule to write permalinks to your post at the bottom of every post.

Benefits of having permalink at the bottom of every post :

1. Bloggers who like your post may want to link to your post.
2. Having a permalink can make their work easy.
3. It can get you more backlinks.

Heres my permalink to this blog

http://appstime.blogspot.com/2009/07
/permalinkpermalinkswordpressblogspotwha.html

Firefox 3.5 on LaunchPad

2009-06-29T16:54:00.001+05:30

King of Pop passed away, we will miss you but wait here come King of Browsers. Firefox 3.5 all set to release on Tuesday, according to PCWorld

Mozilla is expected to release its Firefox 3.5 browser on Tuesday morning, a company representative said on Friday afternoon.

What firefox 3.5 Holds

1. Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.

2. Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.

3. The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.

4. Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.

5. Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.

6. Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 and elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.

Download firefox 3.5 Beta 4

UPDATE 1
Firefox 3.5 Released Download it NOW!!!

The Developers Features of Firefox 3.5

1. HTML 5 support

2. Newly-supported CSS features

3. New DOM features

4. New JavaScript features

5. Networking

6. New Canvas features

7. New SVG features

Click Here to read full developers features.

I hope and feel that firefox 3,5 will close the debate of which is the best Browser? for once and all for good. Whats your opinon???

Simple steps to boost you web traffic

2009-06-25T17:14:00.000+05:30

I don't know Why? but this question keeps popping wherever I go and whichever site I visit, many people write post on this title and many people ask this question in forums. Many of them are misguided or just used to bring hits to their site, So, here I m trying my best to provide an answer..

Beware: Sites which offer you Ebook on such topics and are selling they are monetizing, I would suggest just have patience and follow the things mentioned below and wait for the fruit to ripe.

Is there a sure short way to do?
No, I don't think so. Every journey starts with a single step in the same way this too is a journey which begins with a single step.

Then how do I begin?
Well, I will tell you things which I have learned so far and I'm still learning. First of all when you start a blog make sure you have these things

1.Have a Facebook account.
2.Have Twitter account.
3.Have Delicious account
4.have Digg account
5.Have Technorati account
6.Have StumbleUpon account.
7.Have Social twist/Share this account. (optional)

What topic and how to choose?
Always write blogs on hot keywords. Use Google hot trends to know which keywords are been used most and how to use them.
Many sites what they do is they write post title with the newly released movie name For eg: right now Transformers 2 – Revenge of the fallen movie is released so what people do is type these sample keywords like :

1.Download transformers 2 – revenge of the fallen or
2.Watch Transformers 2 full movie online or
3.Free download transformers 2 movie

These keywords are used as topic or post names as they will bring more traffic and will surely become hit in short time.

You can consider above method as a shortcut.

What should you do after each post?
First and foremost whenever you write a post make sure that you share the post on all the site above mentioned and more if you can. A post can't survive on its ocntent alone it needs to socialize.

Should you have Google analytics account?
Hell yeah, you should and must to track and keep an account of how many people are visiting and from which place that will help you in publishing your post . This is first thing you must do. Do it right now!

Use relevant tags for every post
Whenever you write a post put tags and use Google for alternate search keywords Eg: I typed in Google to find out alternate keywords for How to increase traffic to site this was the result.

click to enlarge

web site traffic
increase web traffic
increase website traffic

now use these keywords as tags to your post which will help in increasing your page in Google search.

Comment Back
Always reply to your readers comment appreciating or resolving their query that will hep you because you have a guaranteed readers for your next post.

Everything is done?
Okay then, Its time to wait for the fruit to ripe!

Share your thoughts and how you increase traffic.

Move your wordpress blog to blogspot

2009-06-23T22:32:00.001+05:30

Ever wanted to move your Wordpress blog to Blogger?

Well, last night i stumbled upon such utility called wordpress2blogger

Visit, convert and share your blog, let us too have a bite of it ;).

One week Old Apps Time

2009-06-19T18:48:00.000+05:30

photo credit: aloshbennett

Today, Its a week since my blog gone online, feels kinda cool having a blog.

First a BIG THANKS to all, I couldn't have achieved this without your co-operation and readership. so thnx guys for sticking around and motivating me to continue to write posts.

I am gonna list the things which i have achieved by my one week old blog.

Heres it goes :

1. 5 Feed Readers.

2. Entered Alexa Ranking - current Rank of 2,233,794.

3. 318 Visits , 954 Page Views.

4. 9 Posts , Will try to make around 2 - 3 post per week.

Many of the things have turn out to be surprises to me, so i thought let me make a list of things which i wish to achieve in next 3 months.

What i wish to achieve in the coming next 3 months

1. Reach 100 RSS Subscribers ( Currently @ 5).

2. Average 500 daily page views ( Currently at 100+ ).

3. Enter the Alexa Top 800,000 ( Currently at 2,233,794).

4. Increase the average comments per post to 10.

If you guys have any suggestions let me know.

Share your thoughts and experiences when you begain blogging difficulties you faced and how you overcame those.

Why Tag Cloud is Important and How to add one to Blogspot

2009-06-18T14:25:00.001+05:30

Now those who have visited my site previously might find some changes, The label widget in the right sidebar is been replaced by TAG CLOUD.
Now in this posts i will discuss step by step guide to install a blogger tag cloud widget, in no more than 5 minutes

What is this Tag Cloud?
Tag cloud is just a collection of tags or labels which you have used in your blog posts.

Why is Tag Cloud Important?
Tag Cloud plays an important role in optimizing and your site. It can also enchance your site look rather than a long label widget.

Some of the advantages of using TAG CLOUD.

1. Gives readers a clue as what your site mainly focuses.

When a reader scans your tag cloud he gets an idea as what your blog is and on what topics it focuses.

2. Easy Navigation of posts for your readers.

Sometime a tag can capture reader and drive him directly to that post.

3. Tag cloud helps in indexing the pages and thus helps in ranking.

Tag cloud is a bunch of keywords in your blog posts, which will help google to understand your site better. Heres what hummer parts has to say about it.

Tag Clouds is created for usability purposes but it is also a powerful weapon for search engine optimization. That's because tagging allows you to organize your internal hierarchical linking structure, flowing the link juice more strategically throughout your site. And because those link tags are textual and keyword-rich, a tag cloud is more advantageous to use in terms of SEO against traditional navigation bar.

4. Gives a great look to your design.

Seriously when you look at your website with tagcloud with bunch of keywords spread around some small some big, it captures me. I feel to have a look at it, don't you?

5. As a Blogger it gives you feedback.

Looking at your Tag cloud you can easily say which part you are concentrating more, which keywords are used more.

Now, Step by step guide of installation of tag cloud

There are many tag cloud generator tools you can use any of them, your choice. but, for this tutorial i will be using tagcloud-generator.

Step: 1

First know where you want to install tag cloud, you need to know the width and height of the tag cloud area. done? Now proceed to step 2.

Step: 2

Go to tagcoud-generator and enter your website URL.

Step: 3

Change the settings as you want them.

Step: 4

Generate preview and copy code if satisfied with preview.

Step: 5

Go to your Dashboard and Click on Layout, go to Page Element, add a gadget HTML/Javascript and paste the code.

If you have done everything as mentioned you should see the tag cloud in your web page.

Congrats, you have done it!!

Share Your thoughts and which other tag cloud generators you use.

13 Awesome Ebooks on Photography FREE!!!

2009-06-17T21:54:00.000+05:30

PHOTOGRAPHY!!! Well, who doesn't love to shoot?
For all those who believe SHOOT AT SIGHT- That's my right.

Here are some of the best free ebooks, GO AND GRAB THEM!

Before beginning for those who think photography is just - "take a camera and click". This tutorial is for YOU! read this Tutorial

SOME OF THE AWESOME EBOOKS ON PHOTOGRAPHY ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

1. Aperture Digital Photography Fundamentals

Aperture is a powerful digital photography application designed to help you produce the best images possible. However, many factors outside of Aperture can affect the quality of your images. Being mindful of all these factors can help prevent undesirable results.

2. Street Photography for the Purist

This 160 page long photography ebook was compiled by Chris Weeks, a professional photographer living and working in Los Angeles.

"It’s not meant to take a beginner from just getting a camera in their hands and going out to make surreptitious street photographs. Certain people expect certain things from me. When I first conceived this and started writing then asked others for collaboration it was meant for a certain audience. Not the big-picture audience. Just those who love making street photographs and looking at material by other street photographers.".

3. Engineering and Design Photogrammetric Mapping

This military manual provides standard procedures, minimum accuracy requirements, instrumentation and equipment requirements, product delivery requirements and QC criteria for photogrammetric mapping. This includes aerial photography and standard line mapping (topographic or planimetric) products, including digital spatial data for use in computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) systems and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The manual is intended to be a primary reference specification for contracted photogrammetric services. It should be used as a guide in planning mapping requirements, developing contract specifications, and preparing cost estimates for all phases of aerial photography and photogrammetric mapping. It may also be used as general guidance in executing some phases of photogrammetric mapping with USACE hired-labor forces.

4. LightRoom Tips and Tricks

Joe Barret at Image-Space.com provides easy to read and printable collection, thirty plus pages Lightroom tips and tricks.

5. Passion for Photography 10 Tips

Good reading material on photography tips, compiled by April Blaine Hite. April has a great passion for photography and has had this passion all her life. Thru this light photography ebook, April shares her ideas on capturing various photography scenes.

6. A First Experience

This ebook does not contain tips and tricks in photography, it merely a collection of pictures taken by Timen Swijtink during his journey through South East Asia in the summer of 2006. During his trip in ten weeks he visited Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos and took over 6000 photos.Timen tried to retain the photos’ quality, so do not be surprised, it is 70 MB photography ebook full of beautiful shots of usual cycle: denial, anger, frustation, drama and drama.

7. Mastering Digital SLR Photography

Have you used SLR Cameras if you have one and don't know how to use the this is your book, its and online book.

You can read the book online Here, book review can be found Here.

8. 10 Photography Posing Tips

April Hite has a short and sweet ebook on photography posing tips. She’s a photographer and wants to share on some of the tips and techniques which you can use to compliment your pictures, just by using the items which can be easily found laying around the house.

9. Free Ebook on Wedding Photography.

Wedding photography is a major commercial endeavor that supports the bulk of the efforts for many photography studios or independent photographers.With the advent of the digital revolution in photography, today’s contemporary wedding photographer needs to stay abreast of all the latest developments in the industry.

10. Tinker Tubes - Personal Lighting Systems by Dean Collins

Light weight modular diffusion lighting systems you can build yourself from everyday materials. This book shows how to build an Adjustable Light Box and a variety of Light Panels and Light Houses.

11. Lighting 101 by David Hobby

12. The Image-Space Tips and Tricks collection by Joe Barrett

Vol - I

Vol - II

13. Street Photography

Here are some Online Magazines which are worth to take a look

JPGMAG - JPEG Magazine - Check for yourself you will love it.

PhotographyBB ONLINE MAGAZINE

The PhotographyBB Online Magazine is composed by a hardworking team of volunteer contributing authors who’s goal is to teach beginners all about digital photography and image processing.

Most of the books have been take from : onlinefreeebooks and getfreeebooks Which i think is worth going through their archives for other related free stuff. These blogs host lots a ebooks on varied subjects.

DISCLAIMER

Apps Time provides you collection of links to other websites containing ebooks/manuals/cheatsheets either for computer geeks, technicians, automotive enthusiasts or programmers. We merely take the power of Google Search to find those materials and link to it. NONE OF THOSE MATERIALS ARE HOSTED IN THIS SERVER NOR UPLOADED BY ME IN SOMEONE'S SERVERS.
We are neither affiliated with authors and brands nor responsible for its content and change of content. Information contained herein is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall ANYONE be held liable for any loss of profit, special, incidental, consequential, or other similar claims.

Share your thoughts and books which you think is important and missing.

5 things every blogger should do

2009-06-17T11:22:00.000+05:30

Few days back i started blogging and learned a few things which i think every blogger should do who are novice and just taking off blogging journey:

1. Always have feed in front page which can be easily seen.

Feed is a way to know how many people are following you and plus its a great way of advertising and keeping your readers knowing the latest post.

2. Always have contact form.

What d hell, No contact form? how are your readers going to contact you. Its a must every blog need to have, You got to have a way back for readers to talk back and feed your blog.

3. Always have socialize buttons.

Blogosphere is all about sharing and making people to know it. Whenever you write a post share it on famous site like digg, buzz up, twitter ( if you have good network) it helps you to boost in sales(visits) of your post.

4. Always reply to your comments and be active.

Whenever a comment arrives and which needs reply try to reply it as soon as possible.

5. Don't fill up space of your blog with ads.

When you starting you blog don't fill up the space of your blog with ads make it content rich so people can visit your blog again and again.

Feel free to share your thoughts, and comment if i have missed out anything which should be important.

How to build Contact form in Blogspot

2009-06-16T09:30:00.000+05:30

I have seen many blogs which don't have contact forms and use comment system to contact them. This is not the right way to do:

1.It can be very messy
2.You cannot share sensitive information through comment system.

Why you need contact form?
Contact form is a must for the any blogs or website. Its a way for your customers, followers or readers to Contact you in case if they need help.

How to get one?
Well if you google for contact form you will many online free contact form building free tools.

In this post i will explain how to build contact form using Zoho Creator which is pretty good tool. You can use whichever tool you feel is good from googling.

You can have your contact form in working and the way you want it to look in just less than 5 minutes.

Step 1:

If you should have google or yahoo account first you can login using that. Else create Zoho account and Login into zoho creator

Step 2:

This is what you will see when you login. click on Create New Application. If you already have made application you will see them. ( check out below Create New Application the Created title with date and Red cross.)

Step 3:

When you hit create application you will be taken to another page, where you will be asked name of the application and form name.
As Zoho allows 3 forms to be created for free users if you need more you need to register.

You can create application with drag and drop. the left side are the elements which you need and right side the space to create.

Go to More Actions and set the Email Notification to your primary Mail ID and also enable the user submitted data. so you will have all data and information in your mail when someone tries to contact you.( applicable if you are not using Zoho as primary)
Create you application. This image of my temporary creation of contact us form.

Step 4:

Now Access this application which you have created. Which will show the application you have created and how it looks. if need to change click on edit application and change the needs.
You can click on the above customize tab and change the look and color of the form.

Step 5:

Click on More Actions and get the embed in your website code of the application for you blog or website.

Step 6:

Now this important, Go to your blogspot dashboard and create a New Post, go to post options below give a old date so that it doesn't show in latest posts, disable comments ( if you need to) and paste the code you obtained from the zoho creator.

Live Demo

That's it You have done it, Congrats.

Share you thoughts and leave comments.

How to Earn Online using blogs

2009-06-15T11:43:00.000+05:30

Like all bloggers when i started, I too read about such articles whose title read,"How to earn online" and believe me this is what is have learnt.
First of all there is no such hard and fast rule to earn online. If there was one you won't be reading this.

If you ever come across a blog whose title says,"How to Earn Online" don't give a damn shit and just close it. yes, close it.
Only two things mean when a blog says, "How to earn Online"

1.They haven't earned online.
2.They need traffic.

There is no short cut to earn online, just keep doing what you are doing.

1.Write quality content
2.Socialize it.

Have patience, this is the most important factor.

When you read such articles you get distracted and waste more time in reading and providing traffic to their website rather than you should focus on how to build you website and improve it.

Share your thoughts.

Direct Advertising on Apps Time

2009-06-14T14:37:00.002+05:30

AppsTime is a blog which focuses mainly on Web Apps, Desktop Apps, Blogging Tips, Technology and Code.
Started on 12th June 2009 had 1000 pageviews in its first week and currently alexa ranking of 1,154,924.
Check this One Week Old

Average 34.11 visits/day visits and 100+ pageviews.

Check the google Anlytics of AppsTime Blog

Show the avgerage visits,pageviews

Price for the slot

Price - 5 US $ / PM

You can submit ads in either JPG, GIF, PNG images. Just send me a mail using the Contact Me form. Don't forget to send the link to the image . Payment is via Paypal. Send me an email for further information.

How to Add Tweetmeme for Every post

2009-06-14T10:03:00.001+05:30

Well adding tweetmeme is the most easy.
To know how it looks
For top of post look at my post Apps Time.
For bottom of post visit here

Now add these lines of code for

1. Above Post
Add this code just above

<data:post.body>

2. For Below Post
Add this code just below

<data:post.body>

Tweetmeme Button Code

<div style="float: right; margin-left: 14px; padding-right: 15px;">
<script type="text/javascript">
tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>';
</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script>
</div>

you can have compact tweetmeme or retweet button by adding this line:

tweetmeme_style = 'compact';

just below

tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>';

How to Add Adsense within Blogspot Posts

2009-06-13T11:44:00.001+05:30

Adding adsense to posts is not allowed but with some trick you can add the google adsense to the posts in just 3 simple steps.

Step 1: Get the adsense code and convert it so that it can parse xml.

Don't know how to convert???

UPDATE 1
I HAVE PROVIDED THE GADGET TO CONVERT ADSENSE CODE USE IT!!!

Paste your Code Here and Get the converted adsense code

Step 2:
Go to your blog dashboard, click on Layout and got to Edit HTML.
Press Ctrl+F and find this code

<p><data:post.body/></p>

Step 3:
Add the below code

<table align='left'><tr><td>
YOUR CONVERTED ADSENSE CODE HERE </td></tr></table>

Between

<p><data:post.body/>

Save Template and you are done, congrats.

Comment if you face any problems

Add .gif Favicon to you Blogspot Blog

2009-06-13T09:08:00.000+05:30

Out There many blogs explain as "how to" about favicon. Then why am i writing this again, good question keep reading and you will know.

What is Favicon?
Favicon is Favourite Icon which is present along side the address bar, near url.

Why to add Favicon?
Don't you want to brand you blog/website, if yes, then favicon is the best thing to brand your blog.

Which is the Best Image type to add as Favicon?
.ico is best image type to add as favicon and if you have a website you should go for .ico image type only as all browsers support it.

why .gif for blog?
When you add .ico image type as favicon won't work with blogspot the favicon is replaced by the blogger's favicon. This will work in firefox only , Google chrome again replaces it with blogger B favicon.

How to add Favicon to your blog?
Go to your blog, Click Layout go to Edit Html, using ctrl+F find %lt;head> just below it add the following code.

<link href="you link to .gif" rel="shortcut icon">
<link href="you link to .gif" rel="gif">

Check for more
Favicon Generator
Favicon from pics

Comment on how you decided your favicons and what type you use for your blog or website.

Now That you have read, Next is What?
If you like this article then SHARE IT!!! and help us spread the word.

What will IPHONE 3G-S cost in India??

2009-06-12T13:48:00.002+05:30

Apple Strikes back again this time without Steve Jobs with its brand new Extra Speed iPhone 3G(S). The S- Stands for Speed.

New Features Include
1. Faster Speed
2. Improved Camera
3. Voice Control
4. Cut, Copy and Paste
5. Compass
6. Landscape Keyboard
7. Spot light search
8. Stocks
9. Youtube
10. Internet Thethering

For full feature of apple iPhone 3G-S go here

But, Above all these features the more important question about the iPhone 3G S is ,
1.Can everyone will be able to buy it?
2.Will they sell it carrier independent?( Not like 2 yr contract with AT&T).

last time it was priced $180 but there where hidden costs. It was priced 36000 Rs here in India

Despite apple boasting it with new improved features, only improvement can be seen as Speed, Camera, cut paste and voice control.
It still lacks Lot of feature and above all Bluetooth not generic only can be shared with Mac related Hardware.

If Apple want to capture more of the mobile market it has to concentrate on Emerging markets such as India and China. Due to the price tag which they offered last time didn't help Apple much in sales. Lot of companies are also offering such mobile at lower price and feature rich.
Will they Make the Same mistake in India?

Comment what price you would be guessing Apple iPhone 3GS this time?

Contact Me

2009-06-10T16:53:00.006+05:30

Hi, My Name is Vikas KM.
You can use the below form to contact me.

To have a contact form like me click Here

Thank You

2009-05-16T11:52:00.000+05:30

THANK YOU!!
YOU WILL SOON BE CONTACTED.