I am sure most of us use the 'Ctrl+c' and 'Ctrl+v' shortcuts to copy and paste in word but here are some extra word shortcuts for word users that will significantly improve the editing efficiency when using Microsoft Word. This list is not comprehensive but these shorcuts save me the most time. 1. Shift + F5 (Returns to the last edit point) Very useful when you have to copy some text from other parts of the document and you want to return to where you were in order to paste it. 2. Shift + F3 (Changes the case of any selected text) This word shortcut is very useful when you want to toggles through the capitalization options. If you have a few lines of text in all uppercase and you want it to be in lowercase then this shortcut should make your life heaps easier. 3. Ctrl + Enter (Inserts automatic page break) It's amazing how many people use manual page break (Press enter key repeatedly to bring some chapter/line to the next page)! Manual page break is a maintenance nightmare cause as soon as you enter a line in the document you will have to manually fix all the other pages again. Use page break ...

Remindr is a very useful web based service that will send you automatic notifications in the form of an email, cell phone message or in twitter at a prescheduled time and date. There are a number of similar services like 'Remindr' that are out there but I really like Remindr because of it's simplicity and ease of use. 'Remindr' basically helps you remember things by reminding you of tasks that you wanted to complete by pinging your cell phone, email, twitter account and gtalk account. Sometimes even with To Do lists and Post Notes, it's very easy to forget to complete the tasks in a timely manner. This is where 'Remindr' comes into play. This service allows you to increase your daily productivity. Here is why I like 'Remindr' No need to create any account to use the service. Just visit the site and schedule a reminder No need to worry about timezones (It uses your local time) The user interface is very neat and easy to use. And offcourse the service is free of charge :) [caption id="attachment_733" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Remindr Service User Interface"][/caption] How to use 'Remindr' service visit the site at http://www.remindr.info Fill in the Topic/Task Fill in the Time (this is the time Remindr will ping you) Choose a ...

You can use the 'type' and 'find' command in Dos/Windows to get the equivalent output of the UNIX 'cat' and 'grep' commands. The 'find' command can be very useful when you are trying to search for a specific text or phrase over multiple files. The 'find' command also comes in handy when searching for all the occurrences of a specific text or phrase in all the files under all the sub-directories of a given directory. The Type Command The 'type' command in Dos simply displays the contents of a text file or files. To see the content of a file simply enter the following in the command prompt: C:>type "filename" The Find Command The 'find' command in Dos can be used to search for a text string in a file or files. below is the usage and optional parameters of the 'find' command. [lang='css'] FIND [/V] [/C] [/N] [/I] [/OFF[LINE]] "string" [[drive:][path]filename[ ...]] /V         Displays all lines NOT containing the specified string. /C         Displays only the count of lines containing the string. /N         Displays line numbers with the displayed lines. /I         Ignores the case of characters when searching for the string. /OFF[LINE] Do not skip files with offline attribute set. "string"   Specifies the text string to find. [drive:][path]filename Specifies a file or files to search. If ...

Favicons are a great way to make your site stand out from the crowd. It is also very easy to implement too. In this post I have explained how you can easily make a favicon and use it on your site. What is Favicon? Favicon is short for favorites icon. This is the icon that shows up on the left side of the browser's address bar. Favicon is also known as bookmark icon, website icon, url icon or shortcut icon. Size of a favicon is 16x16 pixels. How to Make a Favicon Easily in Photoshop In Photoshop open a new file (make sure the image size is 16 x 16 Pixels). Design your favicon. You can either start from scratch, use a picture, or a section of a picture. Note: The image size is rather small so I advise not to use a picture with a lot of graphic content. Save the favicon you created as 'favicon.ico' (you can save the image as .png or .jpg and then rename it to .ico) You can even use MS Paint to make favicons too... all you have to make sure is that the image size is 16x16 pixels and the filename is 'favicon.ico'. How to Use Favicon on Your Site? Adding a ...

Search Engine Optimization is a very hot topic in the World Wide Web. After all, everybody wants to rank higher and come up on the first page of Google search and get more traffic. I have identified and made a list of top 15 SEO practices that I tend to forget quite often. These simple SEO techniques if practiced properly can make a significant difference as to how my pages are ranked in the Search Engine Queries. Use rel="nofollow" tag on low value links to not pass the page rank juice. For example 'Read the rest of the entry', 'About', 'Contact' etc. Use proper anchor text for interlinks. Don’t use 'here' or 'there'. Optimize the images, always create alt tags and write description in the alt tag. Use search engine friendly permalinks. Make sure the URLs do not have '&', '?', '!' etc characters. Use hyphens (-) between words to improve readability. Do not use underscores (_), use hyphens (-) instead. Do not use session id in URLs. Use sticky posts. Use tag clouds. Have a category description paragraph. Let the visitors subscribe to category specific RSS feed. (Use category specific RSS plugin for WordPress) Use internal linking when possible and appropriate. Use sub-directories rather than sub-domains when possible. Sub-domains do not share ...

I installed a translator plugin on one of my WordPress blogs but the plugin wasn't working properly so I disabled it but two days later I found out that my Google web master tools account was reporting about 1100 'Not Found' errors under the 'Web crawl errors' section. All the errors were from translated versions of my blog. I used the 'robots.txt' file to fix this issue. If you don't know what a 'robots.txt' file is, then read the article titled how to control access of the web crawlers or web robots to your site. Basically, add rules to your 'robots.txt' file to Disallow any spider from indexing the translated version of the pages. My 'robots.txt' file looks like the following Depending on your situation you might need to block more languages. Just look in the Google webmaster tools and see which languages are causing the error then add them to the Disallow rule. [lang=css] User-Agent: * # Language pages Disallow: /ar/* Disallow: /bg/* Disallow: /zh-hant/* Disallow: /ca/* Disallow: /cs/* Disallow: /da/* Disallow: /de/* Disallow: /el/* Disallow: /es/* Disallow: /fi/* Disallow: /fr/* Disallow: /he/* Disallow: /hi/* Disallow: /hr/* Disallow: /id/* Disallow: /it/* Disallow: /iw/* Disallow: /ja/* Disallow: /ko/* Disallow: /lt/* Disallow: /lv/* Disallow: /mr/* Disallow: /nl/* Disallow: /no/* Disallow: /pl/* Disallow: /pt-br/* Disallow: /pt/* Disallow: /ro/* Disallow: /ru/* Disallow: /sk/* Disallow: /sl/* Disallow: /sr/* Disallow: /sv/* Disallow: /tl/* Disallow: /tr/* Disallow: /uk/* Disallow: /vi/* Disallow: /zh-CN/* Allow: / [/lang] As far as I know, Google penalizes ...

Many webmasters can't resist the temptation of putting more ad units on the web page to multiply the revenue generated from advertisements. A recent survey conducted by BurstMedia where over 4,000 web users participated revealed that: Ad clutter is not tolerated by web site visitors – many web users abandon a site they believe to be cluttered. Ad clutter can negatively impact a consumers’ perception of an advertiser’s product or service. 

The WP-Table Plugin for WordPress developed by Alex Rabe is a nice plugin that allows the admin to insert excel like table in WordPress Posts or Pages easily. If you are looking for a fixed version of this plugin that works on WordPress 2.5+ then read on. The original WP-Table plugin causes a fatal error when activated under WordPress 2.5+. So this plugin needs a code fix in order to be able to use it on 2.5+ WordPress versions. The Fixed Version of the WP-Table WordPress Plugin The code fix that needs to be done for this plugin to work is explained on this site. But if you are looking to download a fixed version (where the code has been fixed) that just works right off the bat and you don't have to do anything other then activating it then download this one. There is a readme.txt file inside the zipped folder that explains the installation and usage of this plugin. Installation of this WordPress plugin is simple like most of the other plugins. Installation and Usage of the WP-Table Plugin Download the zip file. Unzip and Upload the folder ‘wp-table’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress. Go to 'Tables' from the ...

This post is aimed at the WordPress beginners who are looking for a tutorial on how to create a WordPress post with video instructions. How to Create a post in WordPress Creating a post in WordPress is really simple. Login to the WordPress dashboard by visiting www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin Click on ‘Add New’ from the ‘Posts’ menu once you are inside the WordPress admin panel There are four main and important sections in a post that you should fill in before publishing the post The post title Post content Tags Categories Give the post a nice title. Add the post content in the content section. Add relevant tags for this post. Add the post to the relevant category (Create a category if a relevant category doesn’t exist). Publish the post by hitting the 'Publish' button. Few Post Editing How Tos To add a more tag in the post just position the cursor at the appropriate place then click on the 'Insert More Tag' To create a header text just select the text then chose the desired Heading style To insert bulleted list just click on the Ordered List button To add the post to a Category just tick the desired category from the categories list If a relevant category doesn't exist then click on the 'Add New Category' and add it To add ...

This post has a textual and video instructions showing how to fix the WordPress "Unable to create directory" error when uploading/inserting image into WordPress. I started getting the "Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads/2008/12. Is its parent directory writable by the server?" error when uploading or inserting image into a WordPress post just after upgrading to WordPress 2.7. First I thought it is a directory permission related error so I tried changing the permission of my 'upload' directory to 777 but I was still having the same problem. After trying many things I was able to fix it using the following method. Log into your WordPress Admin account. Go to 'Miscellaneous' Settings options from the 'Settings' menu. In the Miscellaneous Settings put wp-content/uploads in the "Store uploads in this folder" text box. Save the Changes by hitting the "Save Changes" button and you are done. Fix WordPress Image Upload Error: Video Instructions Let me know if this method worked for you.