Wednesday, May 29, 2013

How to use online watermark to your pictures

Using watermark for your pictures prevents you from stealing your valuable pictures published in your website. There are many tools such as Photoshop, VSO Image Resizer and Gimp to watermark your photos. But you have to download and install them to use. If you have a bulk of images, it is best to go for such tools. However most of them are commercial products.

Imagine a situation that you have a pc without any image editing software but you need to do watermark on your few pictures. In such situation, online tools will be helpful to accomplish your task. Here I listed some websites which come with very handy online tools.
http://picmarkr.com/
http://www.watermark.ws/
http://www.watermark.ws/
http://www.umarkonline.com/.
http://www.picghost.com/

Here I’m going to explain how to use picmarkr.com to water mark a photo.

•    Go to http://picmarkr.com/
•    The site gives 3 step method. In step 1 upload your image from your pc, flickr, picasa or facebook.


•    Then click “Ok. Go to Step 2” button.

•    In the step 2, you can find 3 options to place your watermark. If you want to put a text as watermark, simply type in “Text to display” text box. You can put an image as a watermark on your picture. To do so, you need to select second option “Image watermark”. This handy tool also allows you to put “Tiled watermark” facility.

In this step, you can also adjust alignment settings and opacity of your watermark. Then click continue button.

•    Step 3 allows you to download your watermarked picture. Meantime you can publish your picture to facebook, flickr or picasa.

Friday, March 1, 2013

How to add a Youtube video to PowerPoint Presentation


You have hardly heard about adding a Youtube video to a PowerPoint slide. Youtube videos are widely used all over the world by the people. Daily millions of videos are uploads into the Youtube server. We need more storage for normal videos. When we use Youtube videos, our presentations have no bulks. But make sure the place where you are going to make presentation has internet accessibility.
Here are the steps how to do this.

1.       Set the layout of your slide blank.
2.       Now you need to go Developer Tab. Normally this tab is unavailable to user. In order to enable the tab, click on the Office button and then PowerPoint Option.

  
3.       In the PowerPoint Option dialog box, at the popular category, check the box before Show Developer tab in the Ribbon. Then click OK.

4.       Now click the Developer tab on the ribbon. Click the More Control button in the Controls group.


5.       More Controls dialog box appears. Here choose Shockwave flash object and click OK. In order to choose the Shockwave flash object command you need to scroll it.


6.       Now your mouse pointer turns + mark to draw an object. With this tool draw a box on the slide which covers the size of your video.


7.       Right mouse click on the object and choose the Properties from the fly menu. Properties control box appears. At the Movie attribute, place your URL coding for the Youtube video.



8.       Now you need to do small changes in the coding as mentioned below.

Remove the watch? from the coding and change the = sign just after v as /

Before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbXzI-IAdSc
After: http://www.youtube.com/ v/MbXzI-IAdSc

Then close the Properties box.

9.       Press F5 key for slideshow.

10.   Now you are ready to watch the movie on your presentation. Good luck!

Friday, February 22, 2013

How to increase maximum number of partitions in Windows 7


When you try to create a new partition in your hard drive with the windows 7 platform sometimes you will receive a an error message like below:
"You cannot create a new volume in this unallocated space because the disk already contains maximum number of partitions"

Here are the steps to fix this problem.

1. Your hard drive should be converted to dynamic disk then it will allow you create extra partition. In order to convert this, go to Disk Management.

2. Right click on the grey area of Disk 0 and select "Convert to Dynamic Disk"

Now you can create many logical partitions in your hard drive.

Friday, February 15, 2013

How to share a folder in windows 7


Sharing a folder is not quite usual than windows XP or other version. This guide will help you how to share a folder in Windows 7.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

DELL - Back to Founder


Micahel Dell, the founder of DELL company which is the world leading computer makers, is going to buy back the company. He will buy the firm for $24.4b along with technology investor Silver Lake and with financial backing from Microsoft.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Microsoft Office 2013 launched

Microsoft company has launched a new version of its Office software suit which includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint and outlook.

The resigned products have been designed to work with touch screen-controlled computers.

It has the integrated Skype video chat facilities.

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Smartphones with Firefox OS revealed

Mozilla has launched another outstanding product called Firefox OS. Now it provided the details of the smartphones powered by Firefox OS.

Geeksphone is a small Spanish firm has produced 2  models Keon and Peak.


Peak has powerful facilities than Keonn. First It has a bigger 4.3" screen and front & back cameras. Keon was designed with 3.5" display and 3MP back camera.


Friday, January 11, 2013

How to comment an article in Joomla!

After a long day of search, finally I found the way how to comment an article that was published in Joomla. JComments is the tool which is available as component, module and plugin. It is totally free. You can download from author's site.

JComments is a powerful tool in which you can use ACL, smilies, BBCodes and avatar support. It is very very easy to install and configure:




To view the demo page visit the following link:

http://demo.joomlatune.com/

To download the tool visit the following link:
http://www.joomlatune.com/jcomments-downloads.html


How to enable sub menu items in Joomla!

Joomla! is one of the dynamic CMS tool to create web applications in efficient manner. Menu is a great module which is frequently used in various purposes in a website. Almost every website will have a top menu. Most of the people would like to appear sub menu items under main categories. Joomla has that feature but default option is disabled.

Here I explained how to enable sub menu items in Joomla.

First go to Extensions and click Module Manager. Tick the check box in front of Main Menu and Click Edit button.

In Joomla 1.5

Under the “Module Parameter”
1.    Choose which menu should have sub menu.
2.    Set Start Level and End Level would be.
3.    The very important area is “Always show sub-menu item” is should be ticked “Yes”.


In Joomla 2.5

That’s all your sub menu items will be appeared under the main category.

Enjoy blogging!