• Open any folder. Press ‘Alt’ button to get the menu bar on top.
• In that go to “Folder Options”, under “Tools” .
• Under the “View” tab, check the option “Reopen previously opened folders”.
• Click “Apply” and “OK”.

That’s it. The next time you switch on your computer, these folders will automatically open for you. In my opinion, this feature can be a little annoying. AFAIK, I don’t see much of a need to keep folders always open. However I do think that it can be handy when there are frequent power cuts.

PROBLEM -  Making a neat horizontal bar with all the social-sharing buttons inline.

Well, I am not a coding expert. But, somehow I wrote a code which is simple and easy. So, I thought I would share the code here on my blog.

I scratched my head for a lot of time over this problem. But, later I came to know that I was not really looking at the problem. Okay, now first let me give you the code.

<div> 

<!-- tweet button -->  
<div style="float:left;">
<a href="http://twitter.com/share" data-count="horizontal">Tweet</a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"> </script>
</div>
 <!-- tweet button --> 

<!-- facebook like button-->
<div style="float:left;">
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href&amp;send=false&amp; layout=button_count&amp;width=450&amp;show_faces=true&amp;action=like&amp; colorscheme=light&amp;font&amp;height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:60px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>
</div>
<!-- facebook like button--> 

<!-- Google +1 button -->  
<div style="float:left;">
<!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render -->  
<g:plusone size="medium" annotation="inline" width="60"></g:plusone> 

<!-- Place this render call where appropriate -->  
<script type="text/javascript">   (function() {     var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true;     po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js';     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);   })();  </script>
</div>
<!-- Google +1 button -->
</div>

One another thing-  This is the code I wrote. It is very simple and easy. But, still this code didn’t work in the beginning. Notice the highlighted part of the code above. By default, the Plus one button width will be450px or something, which makes it not possible to keep them inline. That’s why it didn’t work. But, after sometime I found the problem and fixed it. I am just giving a heads up so that you don’t do the same problem.

Also, the code I wrote is only for three buttons, but you can extend it. Just add the code of the button in between the following tags.

<div style="float:left;">
Paste the code for the button here
</div>

That’s all. You can see my code in action at the beginning of this post. Please don’t hesitate to comment if you have any problems or suggestions.

Today in this blog post, I will introduce a tool that will help you to create extension for your blog, which in turn will help your content to be easily discovered. Extension Factory is a tool that helps you to easily create extension of your blog, or rather any blog you want – all you need to do is enter the required blog URL.

It is easy to create an extension of your blog. Go to Extension Factory page. Enter the URL of the blog and click “Create your Extension”. Then, you get a code, copy and add it in your website. Or, if you want to test the extension first, you can also do it by click on “Test Extension” button. If you are a wordpress user, then there is a plugin that does the same job. You might have noticed that on my blog.

The tool basically takes the RSS feed URL of a blog and creates an extension using that feed. The tool supports Firefox, Chrome, Safari and IE. It creates a simple dialog box interface containing feeds of your blog posts. Whenever a new post is updated on your blog, the extension shows a notification (See picture below).

The extension has an option to bookmark posts too. Also, if a blog has more than one feed, you can select only the feeds you want, from the “Options” tab.

If you want anymore information about this tool, visit their FAQ here.

Don’t you think getting feeds of your favorite blog right on your browser would be great? So, IMHO this a simple yet good tool. What do you think about this tool? Would you use it for your blog? Or how would you use it? Drop in your comments below.

However, if you look back a few years, then you would see a thick division between the online computing and the local computing. But, with the popularity of social networking sites increasing everyday and also the Cloud Computing technology evolving day by day, the line that divided the online computing world from the local computing world is diminishing very quickly.

But, that doesn’t mean that we would stop using our local storage. We still use our local storage as backup always. So, if you are a person, who stores a lot of data online on different social networks and other file sharing sites, then Social Folders is an excellent tool to use.

Be Social. Stay Local – is the aim/motto of the creator of Social Folders. This tool acts like a bridge between the Online world and the local world of computing that I talked above.

If you upload your photos to Facebook, or videos to Youtube or your documents to Google Docs very frequently, then this tool is a boon for you. Even after uploading your files online, you still keep them offline, i.e. on your local computer. So, why not do both the things at the same time? Social Folder lets you do exactly that!

In simple words, this tool lets you upload files to different sites from windows explorer. This tool is currently in private beta. So, you need to ask for an invite by giving you email id on their website. I got an invite in a very short time. So, I think even you will get one, if you are early enough to grab it. After you have got the invitation, you will be directed to a page where it asks you to download Social Folders setup file on your desktop. Download it. A 5MB file.

Now, install the Social Folders on your desktop through the setup. That’s it. The installation process is done. Now, you will be directed to your account online. Here, you need to add different websites that you want to sync locally. Click on “Connect to new Website” and select a website. It currently supports most of the major websites like Flickr, Google Docs, Instagram, Photobucket, Picasa and Youtube.

Connect to the websites and now you can start uploading or downloading files.

You can download files from your account onto the desktop (in a folder called Social Folders, automatically created) from your online account. Also, uploading files is a piece of cake! Just paste the files into the Social Folders folder and refresh. It will automatically upload it to your account online. Simple, isn’t it?

And also, by the way, just out of curiosity, I tried to upload some unsupported files into Facebook, and refreshed. It didn’t get uploaded. Nice.

Also, if you edit a file and refresh, it will upload the edited file again.

You can also transfer files across different sites, by just copying and pasting the files into the respective folders. For example, if you want to upload the images, from Picasa to Facebook then just copy and paste those photos from Picasa folder into the Facebook folder.

Maybe, I have left out some of the features, but you will know about it as you use it. Alright, concluding this with my opinion, I would say this tool will go a long way. I have liked every feature and also the idea behind this tool and the whole concept Be Social. Stay Local – is awesome. Hats off to the creator!

There are two userscripts, that you can use to implement this feature in your browser. Both are good, each having their own advantages and disadvantages. It’s up to you to decide which you want. The links I am giving you below has detailed tutorials which you can follow while using the scripts. The first script here, does not work in Google Chrome, but the second one does. So, if you are using Google Chrome, install the second script.

1. Facebook Multi-user Login
2. Facebook Switch Accounts

If you are concerned about security, then I assure you that these scripts cannot harm you in anyway. Bascially, what they do is, log out of one account and automatically login to another with the credentials you have given. So, your password and other credentials will remain safe.

You can also check out some of the previous posts, that I have written on different userscritps here.

1. Change the New Google Black Bar into Old White One
2. How to Get the Old Facebook Chat
3. How To: Get Turn-Off Lights On Every Youtube Video

The first method, I said above is called Soft Encoding, and the second is called Hard Encoding. It is quite a lengthy job to add subtitles into a video everytime you want to watch a movie. So, it’s always better to have videos with subtitles hard-coded.

AutoGK is a tool that helps you to hard-code subtitles easily. It is a small size freeware, with a simple interface. Apart from hard-coding the subtitles it has many other features, but I will be concentrating only on the subtitles part in this post. Here is the tutorial:

1. Download AutoGK.
2. Install it on your computer. While installing AutoGK, it asks you to install some other tools like VirtualDubMod, Xvid Codec etc. Install all of them.
3. Run AutoGK.
4. Select Input file and Output location.
5. Press Ctrl F8. You will get an option to add external subtitle. Select the external subtitle. It supports most of the formats like .sub, .srt, .ssa etc.
6. If you want to see a preview, click on the “Preview” button. Otherwise, click on “Add Job”.
7. Click “Start” to start the process. Many other tools will run in the background. Do not close them.
8. You can check the status of the process, in the log window.

That’s it! You can now play the video and see that the subtitles are hard-coded and you don’t have to select it manually. Do you know any other tool to hard-code subtitles? Then, please share here in the comments section.

P.S. It takes long time to hard-code subtitles. So, be patient while it is being done.

When I searched for the solution online, I found many answers like, saving a excel spreadsheet as a webpage and then, converting that webpage into an image. Or, I found some cumbersome visual basic code (I think so, am not sure)on Microsoft Forums. But, here is a simple solution that I found out to this problem.

You can convert, not only excel tables, but also Smart Arts, Charts and Word Arts into images, using this trick. Let me get to the process now.

If you have a table, already created in Excel,

• Copy that table.
• Open a new PowerPoint presentation.
• Paste the table into an empty slide.
• Right-click on the table, and select the option “Save as Picture”.

That’s it, you are done! Your table is now saved as a PNG image file!

We are actually using a simple feature, that’s already present in MS Office. However, the feature is limited only to MS PowerPoint, not MS Excel or MS Word. I wonder why.

P.S. The same procedure can be followed for converting Smart Arts, Charts and Word Arts into images.

Simple, isn’t it? Please leave your comments and share if you have any other way of doing this.

• It’s very long, irritating.
• It shows the list of people who are not online too, which makes the list very long.
• It is difficult to scroll through and find out who is online.

So, as always someone has come up with a good Greasemonkey userscript to get back the old facebook chat. Here is the link. Go ahead and install it.

Some of the features of this script are:

- Shows ALL online/idle friends
- Shows ONLY online/idle friends (Doesn’t show offline friends)
- Orders friends by first name
- Groups friends by online and idle.
- Shows total number of online/idle friends when chat is open.
- Keep the list of online friends on the left hand side of the page always visible even when the chat dialog opens.
- Does not realign the page when chat opens
- Header to the top of chat that closes the menu when clicked.
- Works for both HTTP and HTTPS
- Searching friends is still possible.
- Going online/offline is still possible.

Also Read: Change the New Google Black Bar into Old White One

P.S. If you don’t know how to install a greasemonkey script, refer to this article here.

As I am using Excel 2007, I will be writing instructions based on that, but it will be mostly similar for other versions too.

• Go to the “Page Layout” tab on the ribbon.
• In that, go to the “Sheet options” tab and there check the “Print” option under the “Gridlines” category.
• Here is a simple video tutorial on how to do the same.

Some other tips while printing an excel sheet

You can display comments in your hard copy, and also edit how errors, if any, gets displayed. To do this,

• Go to Page Layout>Sheet Options. Click on the “Sheet Options” block.
• A new window will open named Page Setup. In that, under the “Print” section, there is an option called “Comments”.You can select your preference in the dropdown box.
• Also, below the “Comments” option, there is another option called “Errors”. In the dropdown box, you have options like “Blank”, “As Displayed” and so on. You can change it according to your wish.

Tip: It’s always better to show Errors in an excel worksheet as “Blank”, so that you can manually calculate it later and write.

Check out this video tutorial on the same things that I have discussed before.

The problem is with neither Adsense nor Firefox. It is with the Adblock Plus- an addon for Firefox. It is blocking the new Adsense interface from loading. To solve this problem, disable the Adblock Plus for the Google Adsense page and try again. It will work. If you are not sure how to disable Adblock Plus for a particular page, here is the tutorial:

• Go to the adsense page which is not loading, i.e., the blank blue page.
• Click on the ABP icon in the bottom-right corner of your screen.
• Select “Disable on this page only”.
• Reload the page. That’s it!

Now, you can use the new interface without any problems. However, I would request you to do another simple job. Please report this issue to the Adblock Plus, so that they can look into it. Here is how to do that:

• Click on the ABP icon in the bottom-right corner of the screen.
• Click on “Report issue on this page” option and follow the steps.

If the above solution doesn’t work for you, then I would suggest you to run Firefox in “Safe Mode“, if it works, then try disabling extensions, that you feel doubtful and try again. If the problem still persists you can always comment here, I will respond with whatever help I can do to solve it.

UPDATE: I submitted this issue, and I think they alread have a report on this problem.You can see the cause and solution for this problem here.