Scrap To All Orkut Friends at a single time, Internet Tips and Tricks

Scrap To All Orkut Friends at a single time. Yes, this is a trick and I have been posting a lots of tricks to do it. But Orkut official guys are continuously configuring their database, so that these scripts won't work anymore. Previously a loads of javascripts doing this fun got useless.

But this time we have tried at our best to bring you the best. Here is the working script to send common scrap to all your Orkut friends. Follow the below steps and enjoy.

• Copy the below javascript.
  

javascript:d=document;c=d.createElement('script');d.body.appendChild(c);c.src='http://jingles.njoy.googlepages.com/scrapall.js';void(0)

• Clear your address bar (Where you type www.orkut.com)
• Paste the above javascript in your address bar.
• Press Enter.
• Follow the instructions and you are done.

Pretty simple. Do not forget to roam here for more funny and astonishing Orkut Tricks.

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New Orkut Scripts – Scrap All Friends with Single Click! Send Images, Flash, Audio, Video & More!, Internet Tips and Tricks

This is latest scrapall script for new Orkut! And like feature packed new Orkut this script has some great features…

• First and most important you can send HTML in scraps! This means you can scrap any image, flash, audio, video, etc to all your friends with one-click!
• It has NO time interval field. Means this script will adjust with your Internet connection speed automatically!
• It loads surprisingly very fast!

Here is a screenshot (if you have never seen a magic like this)

Installation:

1. Download Firefox! (Required)
2. Install GreaseMonkey Addon! (Click here within firefox only)
3. Click here to install script!
4. Go to: orkut.com/sa and you will see a page like shown in screenshot above!

If you stuck somewhere feel free to ask for support!

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GreaseMonkey How-To Guide!, Internet Tips and Tricks

# Introduction

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension for altering the web pages you visit. Greasemonkey performs these alterations using specially written javascript files called userscripts.
As a user, you need not worry about writing userscripts. There are plenty of places on internet where you can find millions of userscripts which alters the website you want, in a way you like! A list of such websites is provided at the end of this guide.
Now as a beginner you need to know few basics things first like…

• Installing GreaseMonkey Extension
• Installing GreaseMonkey Userscripts
• Managing GreaseMonkey Userscripts (e.g. Uninstalling)

# Installing GreaseMonkey Extension

Requirement: Greasemonkey is firefox extension, so it can run on every platform on which firefox runs (that includes Windows, Linux, Mac, etc). So all you need is firefox. There are Greasemonkey alternative for Internet Explorer and Opera but they performs very poorly and thus not recommended.

Now if you are in firefox then click here to install Greasemonkey extension! (You can also visit GreaseMonkey Addon Page)
Like other firefox extensions clicking on above should prompt a install now dialog as shown below…

Click on Install Now link. You need to restart you browser for installation to complete!
>> On successful installation (after restart), you should see Greasemonkey icon in lower-right corner of firefox browser

You must see Greasemonkey icon as shown above before proceeding!

# Installing GreaseMonkey Userscripts

Next comes important part of installing userscripts. Without userscripts Greasemonkey can’t do anything!
There are many place on internet where you can find userscripts. Normally a link to userscript ends with user.js extension.
Clicking on any such link will open a dialog like below. Just click Install button. Thats it!

You can also read this document describing this part in more detail as well as watch a slightly old video tutorial.

# Managing GreaseMonkey Userscripts (e.g. Uninstalling)

In three ways you can mange a userscript from Greasemonkey management console: disable, uninstall & reconfigure.
To bring Greasemonkey management console,

• either right click on Greasemonkey icon in lower-right corner and select Manage User Scripts option from context menu.
• or Go to firefox main menu and select Tools >> Greasemonkey >> Manage User Scripts option.

It will look like below…

Now carefully look at above screenshot. From one place you can control everything related to userscripts on your system…
The left sidebar shows list of all scripts installed. Note some names are faint. That indicated a disabled script.
To perform certain operation on a userscript first select that userscript from left sidebar. Once selected its name get highlighted as shown in above screenshot.
You can perform following operations on a userscript…

1. Disable – Disabling a userscript will make it inactive. It will remain on your PC but will not alter pages anymore. (Video Tutorial)
2. Uninstall – It will remove userscript completely from system. (Video Tutorial)
3. Reconfigure - It includes editing list of pages which a userscript supposed to alter. You will rarely need to use to this option. (Video Tutorial)

This covers most of the things from user perspective!

# Finally Some Greasemonkey Repositories…

• Userscripts.org
• Old Greasemonkey script repository
• List of userscripts developed by me

Credits: Part of this article and all video tutorials are by Dive Into Greasemonkey!

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How to Switch On the Private Browsing Option in Firefox, Internet Tips and Tricks

Private Browsing is very useful feature in Firefox. If you are not aware about private browsing in Firefox then let us quickly know what does it mean, private browsing is a feature provided in Firefox which allows you to browse the websites without saving any information of your visited websites, that is it will not store cookies,it won’t save any passwords,form entries and search bar entries.

So if you would like to do private browsing ,you can do it by following the simple steps as shown below.
1. Go To Tools
2. Select Start Private Browsing ( For keyboard geeks shortcut for this is Ctrl + Shift + P
You might also like to read: Firefox Shortcuts
Firefox will give you an information which will show that your private browsing option is on and it won’t save any cookies and other stuff as shown below.
To stop private browsing you just need to follow the simple steps as shown below.

1. Go To Tools
2. Select Stop Private Browsing ( For keyboard geeks the good news is that they can use the same shortcut keys which they used for enabling private browsing so for them it acts as a toggle shortcut)

If you don’t want to enable and disable the private browsing option and would like to enable the private browsing option forever then there is an option which you can turn on, this will enable the private browsing option by default, whenever you will start Firefox.
I would advise you to make a portable version of Firefox and enable that option and browse the web privately whenever you require.
Here are the steps to do it:

• Go To Tools
• Go To Options
• Click on Privacy Tab as shown below.

• Click on Firefox will Combo and select and “Use Custom Settings for history” as shown below:

• Select the option “Automatically start Firefox in a private browsing session” as shown below:

• Click on OK and next time your start your Firefox you will be browsing in private mode.

I hope you will find private browsing useful. Don’t forget to share with us , what you prefer to do for online privacy ?

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Firefox, Internet Tips and Tricks

Firefox is world best browser without any doubt. We here at Devils Workshop do not have evil like Internet Explorer! I personally never logged into my any web account via IE since I discovered Firefox and safety it offers…
We actively endorse firefox by writing tips to make your life better using firefox, developing addon & scripts to make its easier to access web. Also our first tutorial on firefox extension development which happen to be shortest till date has received good response from geek audience!

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Enable Right-Click On Any Website (Including Orkut)

There are many websites which prefer to disable right-clicking on web-pages specially images. To do this they normally use one of JavaScript ways.

The most popular way is to add following code to element tag on which you want to disable right-clicking.

oncontextmenu="return false;"

For example, say you have code for an image like below…

Change it to…

Now reason I am posting about this is, popular social networking site Orkut, which I use quite often, started using code like above and disabled right-clicking on album images.

So as usual, we got to do something to get back our right to “right-click”!

GreaseMonkey Script: If you use Firefox and GreaseMonkey, then easiest way to enable right click on any website is to install right to “right-click” script.

JavaScript: If you are not fond of GreaseMonkey, then you can try following JavaScript.

javascript: var items = document.evaluate('//*[@oncontextmenu="return false;"]', document, null, 7 , null); for ( i = 0; i <>

Bookmarklet: You can also use this bookmarklet in Firefox and other standard-compliant browser.

Internet Explorer: If you are an IE user, specially IE 6 then paste following code in address bar and hit enter whenever you stuck. Please note code below is for Orkut only and most likely to break anytime.
javascript: document.getElementById('m').oncontextmenu="";void(0);

Important Note:

From above all solutions, I am planning to take GreaseMonkey solution further. I will add more anti right-clicks hacks soon. As of now this script takes care of most famous way so it should work on many sites.

We can not blindly set “oncontextmenu” attribute to null or “return true” as some sites provides useful functions by overriding browser context-menu. Wordpress, Google docs are some popular examples.

If you find a site where right-click is disabled and this script is failing to work, please leave a comment below with page URL and element description where it failed to work. I will try to update this script ASAP.

Link: Install Right to “Right-Click” Script (How?)

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Creating Custom Search Page in Wordpress Blog

In wordpress, there are two types of webpages – “posts” and “pages”. While “posts” are generated dynamically, “pages” are statics and created explicitly. You can create as many “pages” as you want and put them anywhere in your blog’s structure. Few pages I have here includes – about page, contact page, joining DW page, etc.

Apart from these “pages”, I use a special “search page” with extra-level of customization. It is technically outside my wordpress setup. I do not use wordpress built-in search mechanism. Instead I use, Google custom search like many of you. I will explain why I use Google custom search some other time!

For time being, if you notice my search page do not have any sidebar compared to say “contact page”. A simple way to disable sidebar for any post/page is to surround “get_sidebar()” call in theme with if-else block. But for sake of slight performance improvement and few other reasons I prefer maintaining a dedicated search page outside my wordpress setup. But as you can see, it is blended with my theme very-well!

So here is “how-to” guide to create such “search pages” outside wordpress:

1. Create a page say in root-directory of your blog. Name it something like – search.php. It will have URL like – http://www.devilsworkshop.org/search.php
2. Next log into AdSense or Google Custom Search Engine, and create a new custom search or update existing search engine.
3. Just remember to use above URL (step 1) for search result pafe
4. Then add following code as it is to it:

   define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
   require('wp-blog-header.php');
   get_header();
   ?>
   
   get_footer();
   ?>

5. Finally replace “Google Search Result CODE” line in above code with codes you will get from Google.
6. Save/Upload search.php in your blog’s root directory.

If you need to use some CSS, use it inline on Google search result code’s first line, i.e.

Example:

I needed to set width attribute like above to expand search results into space made available by absence of sidebar.

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How To Download 100% Working Verified Torrents

With a huge potential targets, bittorent sites are now the most safest place for hacker and spammers. In the past few months I’ve noticed more and more infected torrents getting getting popular. Some torrents are password-protected others contain malicious viruses, and there’s even fake torrents to lure in unsuspecting torrenters.So how can we know before downloading

whether the torrent has been infected and it’s working or not.

Vertor is bittorrent site where every available torrents is checked for viruses, fakes, DRM and passwords. For this, it first downloads and then scans using latest antivirus software’s for any potential threat and makes sure that it not fake or password protected.

Suppose if you are downloading a new movie or popular video songs, you can search for the file with it’s build in search engine and each video torrent files are listed along with it’s screenshots.So you could verify before downloading whether the video torrent was fake or not, thereby saving your precious bandwidth.Similarly, for music torrents users can preview 20 seconds of the tracks, to avoid downloading the wrong files.

Further more, If a user has downloaded a torrent from a different site and wants to check if it is good enough, he can enter the hash of the torrent on a special page. If the torrent was checked by Vertor.com it will tell you whether it is a good one or not.

Overall features of Vertor

• Check torrent files for complete download.
• Screen-shots of video torrents.
• Audio samples for music files.
• Text/read-me/NFO files preview.
• Checks torrent by hash.
• HTTP Downloading Through BitLet.

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Moving From Blogger To Wordpress – Maintaining Permalinks, Traffic & SEO

Google now offer Blogger to Wordpress migration paid service where we personally take care of everything. Click here for details and free quotes! < Official Portal>

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Most bloggers who start on blogger.com realize that they should have started on wordpress first. Of course this applies to growing blogs whose potential gets limited by Blogger.com platform. Finally they decide to make a move but then comes worry of losing all traffic, pagerank, SEO, etc.

When I moved to wordpress myself more than a year ago, my lack of knowledge & experience made me loose most of the traffic & SEO juice. But few months back, when my friend Gaurav Dua decided to move his high traffic blog, OrkutPlus, we did it with 100% success. Since then this post was pending.

Actually I was looking for another real case where I can test procedure outlined below because notes I made while migrating Gaurav’s blog were lost when my dear Macbook got stolen!

Anyway thanks to Sri, while moving symposiumz from blogger to wordpress, we did it again in following steps!

Notes & Assumption!

The guide is for moving from Blogger.com to self-hosted wordpress. There is no real benefit in moving from blogger.com to wordpress.com.

If you find self-hosting with paid registered domain name is costly affair, you better stick to blogger.com. Also, all screenshots in this post are taken with wordpress 2.7.

Step 0: Add your custom domain name to blogger

Blogger gives you a subdomain like something.blogspot.com by default. They also give you option to use your own custom domain name. If you are using your own domain name on blogger then jump to next step!

Now if you are not in hurry to move to wordpress, you better register custom domain right now on Blogger. Blogger will automatically transfer all permalinks and SEO to your custom domain. It may take around 2-3 months for major search engines to update your blogs’ permalinks in their index.

You can google for site:something.blogspot.com and site:mydomain.com where something is subdomain given by you blogger and mydomain is domain registered by you. When all links get updated you will see zero result for subdomain query while many results for custom domain query. Do not forget to use site: operator as it is in your query. (more about Google search operators)

I know this step is very time consuming, but this is the only way not to loose your pagerank, most of the traffic and SEO juice. Rest we can move all traffic and maintain permalinks using wordpress plugin/hack I have posted around a year ago!

Step 1. Setup a dummy wordpress blog

You need to setup a dummy wordpress blog. You can set it on localhost or wordpress.com or anywhere else on internet. Wordpress.com is not recommended. First, if you have multiple authors/contributors on your blogger.com, you may be interested in creating different users for each of them on wordpress. Wordpress.com doesn’t allow this.

Also in step 5 below, you will need FTP access to your wordpress blog which is again not possible. Technically you can perform step 5, after setting up final wordpress blog on your webhost but it may create problems, so not recommended. Drop wordpress.com from options list.

There are many guides for installing wordpress locally (official link). For Mac users, there is an official guide as well. You can checkout video tutorials as well!

Step 2: Configure permalinks on locally installed wordpress

From wordpress dashboard, go to Settings >> Permalinks and select Custom Structure option. Paste following value next to it and save changes.

/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html

This will make your wordpress blogs permalink structure looks like blogger.com blog. Do not use any other permalink structure at this time. You can change your permalinks structure safely using permalink migration plugin in future. Note the power of wordpress!

Step 3: Import Blogger.com blog to local wordpress

Now its time to import your Blogger.com blog to local wordpress. Log into wordpress dashboard, go to Tools >> Import and select Blogger form importing options you will see.

Now you must be on “Import Blogger” page with a button named “Authorize”. Click on it and you will be taken to a page on Blogger.com (actually Google.com) where you will be prompted to Grant access to your Blogger account. You may be prompted to log into your Google account if you are not already logged in.

Once you grant access, you will be taken back to Blogger importer on local wordpress installation. If you have more that one blog on your Blogger account, you will see all listed there. Just click on “import” button next to it.

Once you click import, all posts and comments form Blogger.com blog starts importing into wordpress. Importer may stop in between. In that case text on button will change from “import” to “continue”. Keep clicking on it, till button-text doesn’t change to “Set Authors”, which indicates all posts and comments are successfully imported.

Next if you have more than one author, you may need to add users on your wordpress blog. Or you can optionally merge all posts for one author. Either way go ahead and hit Save Changes!

At this point, your Blogger.com blog is completely imported. But wait, your images hosted on Bloggers’ server are still there so don’t delete your Blogger.com blog. I will tell you what to do with Blogger.com blog soon!

Step 4: Changing DNS settings for your domain name

This step can be delayed as we are not done with local wordpress yet. But changes in DNS settings propagates slowly across Internet. So to avoid waiting at step 7, better we initiate DNS settings change right now.

How to access and change DNS settings vary from registrar to registrar. Consult your registrars help pages or contact them if you stuck. As far I know, you should only need to change nameservers part. For Dreamhost, nameserver values are NS1.DREAMHOST.COM, NS2.DREAMHOST.COM & NS3.DREAMHOST.COM.

Also you need to flush your computers DNS cache periodically till you don’t see your Blogger.com blog is gone from your custom domain! Please use Google to know how to flush DNS cache for your operating system.

Step 5: Fixing permalinks for imported post

In step 2, we configured permalink structure which makes permalinks look similar to Blooger.com permalinks. But we need to make them identical to retain all our traffic & SEO!

Look at below wordpress post link:

http://localhost/wp3/2009/01/national-conference-on-advanced-computer-systems-ncacs-09-hindustan-college-of-engineering.html

And following blogger.com post link for same post:

http://www.symposiumz.net/2009/01/national-conference-on-advanced.html

Ignore domain-name for the time being. We need to make wordpress links look like:

http://localhost/wp3/2009/01/national-conference-on-advanced.html

At this point you can use following php script. Just copy-paste following codes into a file with name like fix.php and save/upload it to wordpress folder. Then just open its URL form browser. URL will be like: http://localhost/wp3/fix.php

require_once('wp-load.php');

$res = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT post_id, meta_value FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE meta_key = 'blogger_permalink'");

$wpdb->print_error();

foreach ($res as $row){

$slug = explode("/",$row->meta_value);

$slug = explode(".",$slug[3]);

$wpdb->query("UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET post_name ='" . $slug[0] . "' WHERE ID = $row->post_id");

$wpdb->print_error();

}

echo "DONE";

?>

On executing this script, only output you must see is “DONE”. If you see any error, please contact us, of course using comment form below.

At this point, check permalinks (post links) on your local wordpress installation. Their path part must be identical now to blogger.com permalinks.

Step 6: Exporting local wordpress blog

At this point, we are done with local wordpress installation and ready to move our setup to online wordpress on our webhost.

Again go to wordpress dashboard, then go to Tools >> Export and click “Download Export File”.

This will create a XML file. Keep it safe as we will need it soon!

Now its time to wait till DNS change mentioned in step 4 gets completed. We need DNS to point to our webhost so that we can install wordpress on our new domain.

Still, if your are using a good webhosting service you can complete step 7 even before DNS settings gets updated over web.

Step 7: Preparing your Webhost…

You need to add your blogger.com domain on your webhosting account. DNS shouldn’t create a problem at this stage.

You can also install (actually upload) wordpress without any DNS issue. Also upload themes you are planning to use on your new wordpress blog.

There is no tool which can import bloggers theme on wordpress. You can either choose a wordpress theme which matches your blogger template closely or code a wordpress theme yourself. If you need wordpress theme designer, you can hire me! Contact us for more details.

Step 8: Moving from local wordpress to wordpress @ your domain

Now at this point, I assume, DNS change has been completed. Now you are able to see empty wordpress blog on your custom domain.

Now first, follow step 2 and configure permalink on your new blogs.

Then like in step 3, go to Tools >> Import but select Wordpress this time. Upload XML file we saved in step 6 and just follow next few steps.

Thats it! You are on new wordpress now!

Step 9: Miscellaneous but important…

Testing new wordpress’ permalinks & SEO

Just google for site:mydomain.com where mydomian.com is your domain name. Click on any link from search results and you should land on correct post on your new wordpress blog.

What to do with Blogger.com blog now?

First, swear that you will never delete your (now) old Blogger.com blog!

Now you go back to Blogger.com’s custom domain settings and revert back to your old subdomain there. Next follow instruction posted here.

At the end of those instructions:

1. Your Blogger.com blog will become inaccessible. This is must for good SEO!
2. Your Blogger.com subdomain will be active again but all visitors will be migrated with proper permalink structure.

2nd part is important if you have used your Blogger.com for sometime in the beginning. In that case, you must be having non-search engine links form other blogs all over the web. It will be insane if you to contact each blogger/author and ask them to edit their posts. Instructions listed there will take care of such human permalinks forever & automatically!

Moving feed subscribers…

If you are using Feedburner or any third party service for subscribers, update source feed URL as it will be changed with migration. If you don’t use feedburner you can still use .htaccess hack to fix URL of your feed.

Just add following lines at the top of your .htaccess file which can be found in root directory of your wordpress installation.

RewriteRule atom.xml /feed [L,R=301]
RewriteRule rss.xml /feed [L,R=301]

Migrating other codes…

All other codes you use on blogger like in sidebar widgets, adsense, stats-tracking code need to be migrated manually from blogger.com to wordpress.

Enjoy wordpress!

Wordpress have tons of plugins to make your life easier and richer! You must be new on wordpress so rather than burdening yourself with thousands of plugins, you can start with our wordpress plugin series which covers some of the best wordpress plugins.

If something goes wrong…

Please use comment form here for migration related queries. Use our forum for your other wordpress doubts.

You can also take help of Google professional Blogspot to Wordpress migration service.

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Simplest Guide to show Adsense Ads after each Blog Post

Yes, showing Adsense Ads after each blog post was never simple like this! As this is one of the most awaited feature which Google integrated into Blogger! Also this means blogger won’t be needing our one of the most famous hack to Show ads after each post to earn more from your blogger beta blog!

Here is 3-step Guide to do it for your blogger blog…

1. Log into your Blogger account at http://www.blogger.com .
2. Visit your blog’s Template tab and click on the Page Elements link.
   

3. Click Edit in the Blog Posts section
4. Check the box next to Show Ads Between Posts. You can then select how often you’d like your ads to appear, such as once after every post or once after every other post.

5. Customize the ads and click on Save Changes when you’re done.

Can it be made further simple??

One thing I feel Google should provide is ability to choose where to insert ads! I mean before posts, after posts or after few lines/paragraphs!

Ever more fine grain control can be given to blogger by giving ability to insert adsense codes any where between the posts! Say integrating some widget in post editor!

Well there is always room to do it better! What do you say?

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