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How to change your Favicon on Wordpress

7:21:00 PM |

If you want to change your default favicon, this is the right place. In this post, I'll show you how to change / add your favicon on your WordPress website.

A favicon is typically a graphic 16 x 16 pixels square and is saved as favicon.ico in the root directory of your server. You can use a favicon with any WordPress blog on a web server that allows access to the root directories.

Step 1: Go to your theme editor and select header or header.php

Step 2: Search for the line of code that contains favicon. Overwrite it, if it exists, or add the following code below the <head> HTML tag then save it.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php echo get_stylesheet_directory_uri(); ?>/favicon.ico" />

Step 3: upload your favicon.ico to your WordPress folder using either file manager or ftp client. Then check again by entering http://yourwebsitename.com/favicon.ico.

Step 4: Refresh your blog and the miracle will happen

Note: delete your browser's cache if you see no change.

How to Install Disqus on WordPress

10:33:00 PM |

Disqus is a blog comment hosting service for websites and online communities that uses a networked platform. I will show you how to install Disqus on WordPress easily.

Step 1. Set up your account on Disqus website.

Step 2: install Disqus Comment System plugin on WordPress.

Step 3: Refresh your website and start commenting.

How to Link an AdSense account to an Analytics account

10:07:00 PM |

In this post, I'll show you how to link an AdSense account to an Analytics account by following simple steps.

Step 1: sign in your Google AdSense account > Setting > Access and authorization

Step 2: Sign in your Google Analytics account. If you don't have, create one.

Step 3: Copy tracking code to your site

Step 4: Link your accounts

Step 5: Check your AdSense account and congratulation!

Fixed: PHP Warning - POST Content Length exceeds the limit

9:16:00 PM |

When upload a theme to my WordPress hosting, I get this error: "PHP Warning: POST Content-Length of xxx bytes exceeds the limit of 8388608 bytes in Unknown on line 0". This is because you exceeded the limit of uploading files.

In order to solve this problem, you have to edit the php.ini file in your hosting.

You have find post_max_size and upload_max_filesize, then change the default number to 30M or what ever you want.

After changing your file, restart your web server (for local hosting) or try to upload your file again.

How to Add Floating Social Share Buttons Widget to Blogger

12:26:00 AM |

This is a very simple method to add floating social share buttons widget to Blogger. I hope that you find the right way when reading this blog. By adding sharing buttons, it can help to improve your SEO and traffic to your blog.

What you need to do is to follow these steps:

Step 1. Go to Layout

Step 2. Click on Add A Gadget link

Step 3. From the pop-up window, scroll down and select HTML/Javascript

Step 4. Copy the code below and paste it inside the empty box

Step 5. Save the gadget.

<style type="text/css"> #pageshare {position:fixed; bottom:5%; margin-left:-721px; float:left; border-radius:5px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px;background-color:#fff;padding:0 0 2px 0;z-index:10;} #pageshare .sbutton {float:left;clear:both;margin:5px 5px 0 5px;} .fb_share_count_top {width:48px !important;} .fb_share_count_top, .fb_share_count_inner {-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;} .FBConnectButton_Small, .FBConnectButton_RTL_Small {width:49px !important; -moz-border-radius:3px;/*bs-fsmsb*/-webkit-border-radius:3px;} .FBConnectButton_Small .FBConnectButton_Text {padding:2px 2px 3px !important;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;font-size:8px;} </style> <div id='pageshare'> <div style="margin-left:8px;"><div class='sbutton' id='like' style='margin: 5px 0 0 5px;'><script src='http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1'> </script>

<fb:like layout='box_count' show_faces='false'></fb:like> </div></div><br /><div class='sbutton'><a class='twitter-share-button' data-count='vertical' data-via='itbox4vn' expr:data-counturl='data:blog.url' href='http://twitter.com/share' rel='nofollow'>Tweet</a><script src='http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js'; type='text/javascript' </script><br /><div class='sbutton' id='su'> <script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=5"></script> </div> <div class='sbutton' id='digg' style='margin-left:3px;width:48px'> <script src='http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js' type='text/javascript'></script> <a class="DiggThisButton DiggMedium"></a> </div> <div class='sbutton' id='gplusone'> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <g:plusone size="tall"></g:plusone></div><br/><a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/--ItBoxForVn--' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='Subscribe To Our Rss Feed'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwqPFe6agCqw71fompsrXfXcgWjva5BUcYwkApoXZE36SPgHJ3Lyo5Lpj_HtI95f_QtU7wLmRFDmeYP_dm8YRPpJkY4-etqj226UNrgBir2QqFde84FA4LRBK5twjBztIxF1K6C0nZbzxV/s1600/icon_rss_reader.png'/></a>

How to Put Your Business in Google Maps?

11:07:00 PM |

Google Maps is a must have for any business, especially for local SEO. This is what I get from Kick-Ass Local SEO Tips & Strategies (Inbound Marketing Toronto). It's a great meetup event.

Local SEO becomes more important nowadays. For example, I live in Toronto, and I want to find a good Pho restaurant (Vietnamese food) for diner. Then ka-boom, the Google search shows me the one which is near my house. How fantastic is it!

Let's image what happens if your business doesn't show up in the (local) search engine? You lose a bunch of potential customers, right?

Now, this article will help you to put your business in Google Maps for FREE! Yay!

Step 1: Go to Place for business, sign in to your account and fill out your business information

Step 2: way for the PIN. Google will send it to you in 1-2 weeks

Step 3: Once you get the PIN, verify your business and create your Google Plus page for your business

Congratulation! Your business is on Google Maps now.

How to Manage all Your Online Passwords

2:20:00 PM |

Are you tired of entering every single password when you get into a website such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo...? This is an amazing application to manage all your online passwords. Believe me, this is the last password you have to remember!

Step 1: go to Addon Manger (Firefox) or Extensions (Chrome) then find and install Lastpass

Step 2: Restart your browser

Step 3: If you don't have an account, create one

Step 4: After creating an account, enter your username and password

Step 5: If you see the red button as in the picture, you're successfully access to Lastpass Vault. You can choose AutoLogin if you want to access your Facebook account automatically.

Happy saving time!

How to Create a Home Tab on Wordpress

2:07:00 PM |

In this post, I will show you how to create a Home tab in Wordpress. All that you need to do is follow some simple steps:

Step 1: Go to Appearance -> Menus

Step 2: Create a Link to your main page

Step 3: Refresh your page

How to do Keyword Research for SEO Strategies?

1:57:00 AM |

The most important thing is to focus on the potential customers. Below is how people conduct their keyword plan, so they will know which keywords to focus on as a part of SEO strategies.

Step 1: Brainstorming

Answer this question: "What services do you offer in customer's perspective?"

Step 2: Evaluate search volume

Focus on long-tail keywords.

E.g. iPhone cases are less effective than blue iPhone cases, and blue iPhone 4s cases are more effective than the others.

Step 3: Categorize by keyword

For example: model, brand, color, custom...

Tool to help find keyword

1. Google Keyword Planner (you may be asked for registering in the first place)

2. Google Trends

How to Change default Blogger Favicon / Icon

3:43:00 PM |

In this post, I will show you how to change default Blogger icon next to your blog name in the address bar. I know when you find this post, you are really tired of that yellow B icon. Don't worry, it's time change:

Step 1: Log in your blog Dashboard -> Layout, then edit Favicon

Step 2: upload your favorite icon

Step 3: Refresh your blog and the miracle will happen

Note: delete your browser's cache if you see no change.

How to Promote my Personal Blog?

9:59:00 PM |

I started blogging since 2009. It was all about computer such as Linux, Windows, Technology solution... At the first time, there was no view at all in the my blog. Until now, there are extremely more views per day in my personal blog. Not so good, not so bad. However, it keeps growing as I have many things to learn and many mistakes to fix.

My first purpose of starting to become a blogger is to save my works somewhere, so I have a chance to take a look at it again, and maybe there's someone who will need my solutions. Indeed, it helped a lots of people who got the same problem as mine although I just had a little knowledge in web design. Actually, it doesn't matter much.

I think the most important thing if I want to be come a blogger is to love what I write no matter what happens. When loving my work, I will create unique information that nowhere else has. That will become a part of me, a trait of me. That is the one which will make my blog more interesting to the reader who has the same hobby or problem.

* Writing what I love just attracts some audiences, but write what brings the most benefits for the common reader will definitely make more impact. For example, I can write about celebrities, politic, economic or whatever. However, it is easy to be criticized when getting involve in those subject. Anyway, my blog must have some real values in order to attract the reader.

Then, the next step is to bring your blog to search engines (Google, Yahoo, Ask...), so people can find my works no matter where they live.

Next, googling the problem that I am solving is a good way to promote. I registered as a member and posted the solution together with the link. It really helps, most of my views comes from those pages. I can find websites, forums or Facebook pages that have the same character with my work, then I help to solve their problems. It is a good way because I can also improve my knowledge by solving the problem.

The fourth step is to share my content on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest regularly. This method can attract some readers with the same hobbies or problems as mine.

There are some other methods that can help me to gain the audience such as email subscription, paid ads, asking friends to introduce my blog...

In addition, I think that the common way to gain more audience in a short a mount of time is to start a charity campaign or a competition with prizes or action which involves in what you are writing about. After that, let's ask your friends or post in social media to promote it. By doing in this, I can gain a huge amount of like and share on Social Media.

In general, having a good content and some basic knowledge in SEO and search engine can absolutely bring to your to the certain level in the digital world.

Feel free to discuss about How to promote your blog, or if you have some useful tips, please let's me know.

(From Dale Nguyen)

Top SEO Online Training Courses

9:47:00 PM |

Basing on the question which is posted in LinkedIn, I made a small research about those SEO online courses for the one who make to improve their digital marketing skill. It`s not only about SEO but also about Online Marketing.

2. Naber Consulting

3. Moz

5. Digital Marketing Institute

This is good for the one who wants to pursuit their Master in Digital Marketing

6. Google Partner Programs

7. Canadian Marketing Association

8. Matthew Woodward

9. (to be updated)

Have fun!

How To Remove Blogger Attribution Gadget

10:13:00 AM |

The Attribution gadget is the gadget in the footer that says "Powered By Blogger". If you have tried to remove this then you may of noticed this gadget is locked into you blog. To unlock it, follow the next steps:

5 Tips For Your Google Plus Business Pages

2:48:00 PM |

If you haven’t created a Google Plus Business Page for your business you’ll probably wantGoogle Plus Business Page to go here and create one before reading any further.

How To Add Facebook Like Box To Blogger

12:55:00 PM |

This tutorial will quickly walk you through an easy step to add Facebook Like box to blogger. Facebook Like Box on your blog will increase the exposure of your fanpage to your visittors. It’s a great way have more readers to your blog. It all require just one click from your visitors and the maggic done. All your posts that enters the page would be visible to your readers. It will appear in their Facebook timeline.

How to Submit Your Blog to Search Engines like Google, Yahoo & Bing

4:45:00 PM |

Most of sites that support you to submit your blog or website directly. Click on the link below to submit your blog:

Have fun!

Inbound Marketing: Don’t buy your customers’ attention. Earn it!

10:33:00 PM |

Install Dropbox on Ubuntu 10.4

8:43:00 PM |

The installing process is very simple:

wget http://linux.dropbox.com/packages/nautilus-dropbox_0.6.7_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i nautilus-dropbox_0.6.7_i386.deb

The next step is to follow the instruction.

Have fun!

How to Play Diablo II on Linux

7:56:00 PM |

A simple way to use windows software on Linux is to install Wine application. In order to play Diablo II on Linux, you have to an auto run of this game. The next step is very easy: Let's Play!

Paypal Scam (Nigerian, Kijiji)

10:22:00 AM |

I'm selling my Nikon Lenses on Kijiji, then I got scammed by a Nigerian through Paypal account. Luckily, I didn't send him my product yet. Below is what he sent me using fake Paypal account:

You received a payment of $400.00 CAD from Douglas wayde(douglaswayde@aol.com)Thanks for using PayPal. You can now send any items.
It may take a few moments for this transaction to appear in the Recent Activity list in your Account Overview.
Seller Protection - Eligible

Buyer
Douglas wayde
douglaswayde@aol.com Note to seller
You have to provide to us the shipment tracking number so that your funds can reflect in your account as soon as possible.

Shipping address- Confirmed
Name Ricardo Douglas
Address 11 Adetayo Street,Itire Ijesha,Surulere.
City Lagos
Zip code 23401
Country Nigeria
Shipping details

How to Change Default Dictionary on Kindle Fire HD

8:22:00 PM |

I read that Kindle Fire HD has its own Oxford dictionary, however; I mistakenly deleted that file in the first place when I brought my toy back home. Therefore, I never have a chance to use that function on my device. Recently, I discover a method to use a different dictionary for reading book. I had a English-Vietnamese dictionary to use, so it means that you can use any dictionary you want in your Kindle Fire besides Oxford dictionary.

How To Root Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9

12:07:00 AM |

Before You Proceed

Please note that rooting your device will void warranty of your device.

Make sure that you have USB drivers for your device installed on your PC.

Enable USB Debugging mode. Go to Options > Applications > Development > USB Debugging. Also, go to “Settings -> Security” and enable the “Unknown sources” option.

Backup all your personal information on your device.

Charge your device battery with at least 50% of power.

How to Set Up a Simple Email Campaign - SugarCRM

11:27:00 AM |

Setting up your SugarCRM system to correctly use email marketing and lead management takes quite a few steps. It can be frustrating at times, but the end result is well worth the pain.

How to Install PHP - IMAP (XAMPP)

9:27:00 AM |

When creating a marketing campaign in SugarCRM, I got a problem with IMAP - PHP on my web server: "Inbound Email cannot function without the IMAP c-client libraries enabled/compiled". All that I need to do is to open php.ini file and enable IMAP.

How to Change the ‘Root’ Password for MySQL in XAMPP

10:23:00 PM |

After setting your XAMPP on your machine, you may want to set your MySQL password for security. Let's type http://localhost/security on your machine.

Resources Management Solution for Small to Medium Business (Rapla Open Source)

1:46:00 PM |

If you want to look for a solution to manage your resources such as meeting schedule, people, room, computer, projector and etc, you found the right one. The solution uses Rapla, a open source software, to manage and schedule resources. Administrator can use it as a local solution or online solution; however, the web hosting or VPS has to work as a Java web server. It's simpler when using this software locally.

How to Install Magento on Localhost XAMPP (Windows)

9:58:00 AM |

This is a request from my Q&A. I thought that install Magento together with XAMPP on PC will cost a ton of time and effort, but it goes the opposite. It's very easy to install both of them. I installed XAMPP 1.8.2 and Magento 1.7.0.2 on Windows XP. Actually, with the help of Bitnami, the process of installation becomes so easy than ever. Besides Magento Module, you can install Wordpress, Joomla, Moodle or Cloud on your XAMPP machine.

Help Desk Request Form with Images (JotForm + Dropbox)

10:32:00 AM |

It`s very easy and convenient when using Google Form to create an IT Request Form. However, the only problem is the client cannot upload and files through Google Form. It's time to find an alternative solution. Although, there are many good services that provide with charges, they are not my type. After searching and digging, I finally found one that possibly works. It's the combination between JotFrom and Dropbox, so files will be stored in Dropbox account. This one can be used in many cases such as: volunteer form, job application form, survey form and even purchasing with Paypal.

Limits: 100 submissions / month

Better Presentation with Mobile Apps

1:47:00 PM |

I have a suggestion from my friend that why don`t we use remote control to make our presentation better? Actually, it's a very very old method to use. Many people use it when they are in class, company or anywhere, and I'm just an old-fashion follower. In general, people used a remote control that was especially designed for (of course) remote control. However, now they don't need to bring that device together with their stuffs because of the raise of smartphone these days. It's the time for utilizing it.

How To Delete Image Files in Media Manager in Joomla! 2.5

10:42:00 PM |

I found that deleting just a few files in Media Manager is very easy; however, it is very struggling to remove a numerous of files because people have to click on every single file. It's a waste of time if keep doing in that way. I think FileZilla may help to solve this problem by managing files through FTP protocol. All that people need to do is to establish a FTP connection to the website hosting. After that, all files in the website can be managed easily and seamlessly.

Have fun!

How to present Prezi on Android Phone or Tablet

6:22:00 PM |

Recently I used a Prezi presentation to work on my group work. It is a great online or even offline application that can help people to present their ideas smoothly and simply. People are very impressed about how Prezi can slowly replace the traditional PowerPoint in the formal and informal presentations. This program is a big revolution in organizing and expressing ideas.

How to Create a PowerPoint Presentation (MS 2010)

11:49:00 PM |

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Install Windows 7 Or Windows 8 From USB Drive

3:38:00 PM |

There are a bunch of guides to show you how to "Install Windows 7 or Windows 8 form USB Drive" on the internet. You can choose to use the command line, or you can choose the faster way by using Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool (4 steps) or UNetbootin (2 steps). I just installed my laptop yesterday using UNetbootin, so I write this to show you how. Just follow some simple steps.

Share Internet Connection with Others

11:25:00 PM |

With the new technologies in modern day, sharing internet connection from one computer or device (cellphone) is very fast and flexible. For example, Iphone, Android or 3G USB can share their network to others easily. In this post, I do not mention about Cellphone devices, I will discuss about Computer sharing network.

Install Java Plugin on CentOS for Firefox

10:06:00 PM |

Some applications on Firefox require Java for working. However, you can not install regularly on CentOS. I will show you how to install Java Plugin on CentOS for Firefox.

How to Type Vietnamese on CentOS

9:51:00 PM |

There are many solutions that help typing Vietnamese on Linux (RedHat/Fedora/CentOS). One of those is SCIM. It is very simple to install Scim package.

Follow these steps to install scim:

Google Translate Widget for Blogger

9:36:00 PM |

Google Translate is Google free translation service which supports more than 57 different languages. By using Google Translate Gadget for your blog, you shared your idea, work and soul to the whole world.

Here is how you do it:

Loadbalanced High-Availability Apache Cluster

6:54:00 AM |

Building a High Availability system is a vital task for most entrepreneurs nowadays. If your system is not stable enough for business or management, you will loose lots of potential customers - blood of business.

How to Update PlayOnLinux on Linux (Ubuntu 10.4)

6:12:00 AM |

Here are some simple steps to update PlayOnLinux.

How to Clone Virtual Machines on VirtualBox

5:29:00 AM |

If you want to use more than two virtual machines with the same configuration on VirtualBox, just install one by one. However, this costs lots of time. Instead, I found out how to make a shortcut.

How to Build File Server on Linux (Ubuntu 10.4)

5:01:00 AM |

It's very simple to build a File Server on Linux for either Windows or Linux. All you need to do is install necessary package. In this post I will show you how to build a File Server on Linux using Samba.

How to Send a Mass Email to All Users in Joomla

1:09:00 AM |

Sometimes you want to send a message via email to all of your users. Sometimes you want to send that message only to a group of users or only to those having access to the back-end. Sending emails is always a bit delicate. Nobody wants to be a SPAMMER and nobody wants to receive SPAM, so be careful!

Manage Your E-books with Calibre (Kindle Fire)

9:21:00 AM |

Kindle Fire HD 7", Dolby Audio, Dual-Band Wi-Fi, 16 GB - Includes Special Offers

Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. Especially if you have a tablet with small memory, you better convert it your better use. In my case, it's really good to convert almost PDF ebooks to .MOBI, AZW3 or EPUB (NOOK, Aldiko) format. Because, I can't manage well all of my ebooks well in DOCS, so you should make them appear in BOOKS location.

How to Take Screenshots On The Kindle Fire HD

7:54:00 AM |

Kindle Fire HD 7", Dolby Audio, Dual-Band Wi-Fi, 16 GB - Includes Special Offers

There is simple way to take a screenshot on your Kindle Fire HD without rooting your device. The formula is press the "Power + Volume Down button" then you will have a perfect screenshot for later use. Remember that you should press the power button first then continue the Volume down button. If not you will get a screen shot with a volume bar on your screen.

How to Install Google Apps (Gmail, Youtube, Maps) on Kindle Fire HD

12:48:00 PM |

Kindle Fire HD 7", Dolby Audio, Dual-Band Wi-Fi, 16 GB - Includes Special Offers

After search for several information for install Google Apps on Kindle Fire HD (almost for 7"), finally I already installed them on my Kindle Fire HD 8.9". All information I took from XDA Developer Forum, thanks for it. (My Kindle isn't rooted yet)