Technology – Page 22

Advanced Excerpt Plugin – Keep All HTML Tags Intact

July 12, 2010 by Raj Agrawal 5 Comments

With Advanced Excerpt Plugin you can easily display your WordPress posts as excerpts without trimming away the necessary HTML tags.

It is a core-essential to customize your blog and make it look clean and properly structured. First of all, what is a post excerpt? It is a preview of the actual post where it displays only few texts from the actual post. Post excerpt is something preferred by most bloggers since it has many advantages attached. Readers can navigate through the home page of the concerned blog and select the topic of interest easily when the list of posts are in excerpt format. It also adds to the appearance of the blog.

Excerpting the posts can be painful if you do not have a right setup to work with. Many plugins perform their job perfectly but strip away the necessary HTML tags included in the formatting of the posts. With Advanced Excerpt Plugin you can easily and fully customize the excerpts and control how your posts will look like when in excerpt mode.

This is how a post looks like with basic excerpting. In this case all the tags have been stripped off making the excerpt look hide us:

The same post with using Advanced Excerpt Plugin:

How to use the Advanced Excerpt Plugin:

After downloading and installing it, navigate to Admin panel > Settings > Excerpt
customize the way you want or must keep with the default settings intact. (Keeping the default settings will include all the html tags in the excerpted post)
That is all you need to do.

Configuration options offered:

Advanced Excerpt Plugin is developed by Bas, a Computer Science student.

Download the plugin from: WordPress plugin directory

Giveaway: Premium Membership for MyGreenPC

June 28, 2010 by Raj Agrawal 2 Comments

MyGreenPC is a unique service that builds upon Windows integrated technology to provide a remote desktop solution that is easy to setup, far more secure, saves energy, and available anywhere in the world.

MyGreenPC is a easy to setup remote desktop access program which uses US government approved AES encrypted remote access sessions. This program enables you to easily access ‘client’ computers anywhere around the globe within few mouse clicks and in a more secure way. If you are a techie willing to fix someone else’s computer or just want to access your own computer located in some other country, remote access programs like these do the job.

It has two membership options – basic(free) and premium. The good news is that MyGreenPC is giving away it’s premium membership for free. If you are into remote desktop work, you should not miss this.

Difference between basic and premium membership:

A very unique feature of this program is that you can actually start a power-off computer with it. How? The FAQ section on the website says:

We do get this question asked a lot and surprisingly not even a lot of Computer professionals are aware of this feature. Most PCs support ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) and one of the features supported by this standard is allowing devices to Power-on the PC even from complete shutdown. The device in our case is the Network Adapter (network/lan card) that supports Wake-On Lan (WOL) functionality and luckily most of the computers these days have built-in support for ACPI and WOL. When you send a request to power-on your PC through our Client software, our servers instantly send a special packet called magic packet to the network card which signals the PC to power-on. And as soon as your PC boots our software will display your windows logon screen just as if you were sitting in front of it.

Follow these visual illustrations to obtain premium membership for MyGreenPC:

Once signed-up, you will be redirected to a page saying:

Now, activate your MyGreenPC account from the confirmation email you receive in your email inbox
That is it. You now have a MyGreenPC premium account!
You will need to follow the quick guide mentioned on (Click here) to setup and get started with a much secure and more flexible remote access session.

Visit: MyGreenPC

We do get this question asked a lot and surprisingly not even a lot of Computer professionals are aware of this feature. Most PCs support ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) and one of the features supported by this standard is allowing devices to Power-on the PC even from complete shutdown. The device in our case is the Network Adapter (network/lan card) that supports Wake-On Lan (WOL) functionality and luckily most of the computers these days have built-in support for ACPI and WOL. When you send a request to power-on your PC through our Client software, our servers instantly send a special packet called magic packet to the network card which signals the PC to power-on. And as soon as your PC boots our software will display your windows logon screen just as if you were sitting in front of it.

How To Keep Your Inbox SPAM Free

June 21, 2010 by Raj Agrawal 2 Comments

4 steps every user must follow to fight against E-mail SPAM.

It has been a long time since I registered on Gmail and haven’t received a single SPAM mail. This is because I have cautiously used my E-mail IDs at every web portal I registered with. As a result, my Gmail Account has been clean with a “Zero Spam History”. By zero spam history I mean no SPAM in my inbox and not even in the SPAM folder! I am sure of one technique that Email-Spammers have been flowing since the online SPAM world came into existence. It’s what I call as “Steal and Exploit”.

stop spam here — (Image Credit: messagedefence.co.uk)

The main sources of Email SPAM are websites with Freebies, Porn related content and Get Paid To (GPT). Once a user registers on these websites, their Email ID is available for the spammers. How? May be these website owners “sell” the Email IDs to spammers. The bottom line is, you can’t stop them. The only trick is let them continue with what they are doing and keep your important Email accounts away from them.

Follow these steps to effectively beat SPAM:

Use 3 Email Accounts. One only for your important contacts, second for social networking and third as a disposable email account especially for spammers.

If your accounts are only on Gmail, use a freeware application called GmailAssistant to check multiple email accounts at the same time for new emails to make it convenient. For other email services, you can use ePrompter (freeware) which supports AIM, AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, Yahoo Beta, Gmail, POP3, Earthlink, Excite, Juno, Email.com, Lycos, Mail.com, Mindspring, MSN, MyWay, Netscape, Rediffmail, SBC Yahoo and hundreds of other e-mail domains.

Disclose the disposable Email ID anywhere you want. Spammers will be able to attack this disposable account only.

You can get a quick and free disposable email from 10 Minute Mail, Guerrilla Mail and Mailinator.

Well, this is my way. Do you have your own way of dealing with email SPAM? If yes, then share your creative ideas to deal with this menace.