Useful Blog Add-Ons & Tools That Improve Visitor Experience

Here’s a collection of most useful blog add-ons or extras that can be easily integrated with any website and will help in enhancing your visitors’ experience.
All these 15 add-ons are free and you don’t have to be a geek to use them on your site.

1. Google Talk Badge - This badge will enable site visitors to get in touch with you quickly. They won’t need a Google account and the badge is enabled only when you are online. Alternative is meebo me.

2. Web2PDF Online - Love this. People can download your articles as PDF files with a click. The PDFs are free of any advertising and you also get full access to stats so you know what articles downloaded most, etc. (example)

3. Zoho Creator - If you ever need to create web forms for your blog, use Zoho Creator. It lets you customize the form layouts, there are no data limits and best of all, readers can upload file attachments while submitting the form.

4. HP Blog Printing - This makes your blog printer friendly. Visitors can pick blog posts that they want to print and only the text + images get printed. Everything else including banners, sidebars, etc. are cut off from the printed version.

5. Outbrain Ratings - The is the best way to add ratings to your blog posts. Outbrain offers two extra advantages as well - your readers can find more stories related to the one they are currently reading and two, they can rate stories even from feed readers.

6. ShareThis or AddThis - They help reduce clutter on your blog by neatly arranging icons in a CSS drop-down that appears only on mouse hover. Both are similar though I prefer AddThis as it is loads faster and allows branding.

7. Google Feed Wizard - This is useful if you have to embed RSS feeds in your blog - you can create blocks in either horizontal or vertical format. If your need options other than AJAX, try these RSS widgets or the static Google Gadgets.

8. Skribit - This is again a great tool to get feedback and opinions from your site visitors.
For instance, you can put up a question like "What should I write about" or "How Can I improve" in the sidebar and readers can add opinions anonymously. They can even vote on suggestions left by other visitors. See example.

9. who.amung.us - This helps you and your readers know how many people are currently on the site and what pages are they reading. No sign-up required and amung.us will even tell you the exact location of different visitors on a map.

10. Eco Safe Badge - This badge allows website visitors to send a full copy of your web page to any email address in HTML or PDF format. Alternatively, they can download a PDF version of the page in a click. The whole idea is to discourage visitors from printing web pages.

11. Meebo Rooms - This allows visitors on your website to interact with each other inside a chat room. Other options worth exploring include Google Lively but again, Lively requires installation at the client’s end.

12. Scribd iPaper - If you frequently link to PDF files and Microsoft Office documents like doc or xls, the Scribd iPaper add-on will make sure that your content remains accessible even to readers who don’t have Microsoft Office or Adobe Reader.
You simply copy-and-paste a small block of code into your webpage, and QuickSwitch converts all the documents in your blog into Flash Paper format hosted on Scribd. If you only link to PDF files, try PDFMeNote script.

13. Yahoo! Media Player - If you have an audio blog or frequently link to MP3 files, integrate the Yahoo! media players in your blog template - this auto-detects any MP3 links and creates an embedded player so you are saved from all the hard work.

14. Translate Gadget - This lets your non-English speaking visitors translate articles from your website in their native language using Google Translation.
Alternatively, you can create your own translation box with language flags or through a different translation service.

15. Digg Your Blog - A good Digg widget that doesn’t get much attention.
Unlike the regular "Digg This" buttons, this widget creates a list of posts from your own blog that are currently getting votes on Digg. Put it in your sidebar to highlight "recently popular" content.

How to Determine my Computer's Mac IP Address

How to find your computer's network MAC address.

MAC stands for "Media Access Control" and is a permanent ID number associated with a computer's physical Ethernet or wireless (Wife) network card built into the computer. This number is used to identify computers on a network in addition to the computer's IP address. The MAC address is often used to identify computers that are part of a large network such as an office building or college computer lab network. No two network cards have the same MAC address.

On Windows based computers

1. Click on the "Start" menu and click on the "Run" prompt.
2. Type in "cmd" in the "Run" text box and press "Enter." A DOS command prompt window appears.
3. Type in "ipconfig /all" in the command prompt and press "Enter." Note the space between "ipconfig" and the "/." A list of items appears within the DOS command prompt. Look for "Physical Address" and view the number next to this item. This is your network card's MAC address. 
4. Depending on whether you are on a wired or wireless connection at the time of checking this information the MAC address shown will be for whichever network device is in use (Ethernet or WiFi).

On Mac OS based systems

1. Click on the "Apple" logo in the upper left of the screen. Select the "System Preferences" menu item. Select the "Network" option under "System Preferences." If you are using a wired connection through an Ethernet cable proceed to Step 2, if you are using a wireless connection proceed to Step 4. 
2. Click on the "Ethernet" tab within the "Network" window. If you do not see this tab look for an item labeled "Advanced" and click on this item and click the "Ethernet" tab when it appears.
3. Look for an item labeled "Ethernet ID" under the "Ethernet" tab. The number next to this item is your computer's MAC address.

Click on the "Airport" tab under the "Network" options. Look for "Airport ID" underneath the list of available networks. The number next to "Airport ID" is your MAC address. 

References:

Knowledge Base, What is a MAC address: http://kb.iu.edu/data/alfq.html

Coffer.com, How to determine MAC address: http://www.coffer.com/mac_info/

How to Test – Antivirus Program is Working Fine or Dead in your computer

Many time u don’t know your antivirus is working or not,,,, some time antivirus show error just for selective file,, but if u just confuse about your antivirus,, so here is the solution for your antivirus. see this……

The Anti-Virus OR Anti-Malware Test File

Open Notepad.

Copy and paste the following line into it.

 

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

 

Save the file as EICAR.COM

You have just created a virus. ( this is just fake virus just for checking anti virus )

Do not be worried.

Its a fake virus because is this is not harmless for your computer and is just for testing purpose. if your antivirus is working perfectly then it should be simple act, otherwise have some problem with your antivirus,, so just open this file and if your anti virus is showing any alert,, and that's mean your anti virus is working fine

Bitdefender 2011 Free with 180 days License

It is  every security Product Vendors are geared up to release the preview versions of next year software, already many popular security Product manufactures like Kaspersky has released preview versions, now it is Bitdefender turn,  which released a Public Preview of Bitdefender Total Security 2011 and giving 180 days free license.

 

If you are interested in testing Bitdefender Total Security 2011, you can win prizes like 16GB Apple iPad or Nintendo Wii or 100 BitDefender licenses.

 

I’m not writing what are the new features and what is Bitdefender Total Security 2011, you can directly go this page and know about BitDefender 2011.

How to Get BitDefender 2011 free License ?

1. Visit this page, fill the form and create a new BitDefender beta account
2. You will get conformation email, click the link in that email and login to account
3. Now Go to this page, subscribe “BitDefender 2011″ and you will be forwarded to page, similar to below image

4. As shown in above image first click ““Installation and Configuration Wizard Test Cases”, and copy 90 days key at the bottom of the page, then click “Product Registration and Activation Test Cases” and Copy another 90 days key at the bottom of the page.
5. Download the installation file from below links

BitDefender Total Security 2011 Beta – 32 Bit [220 MB]

BitDefender Total Security 2011 Beta – 64 Bit [258 MB]

6. Install it, and use above  90 days keys one after other and get 6 months free BitDefender 2011 subscription.

ENZOY

Top antivirus Programs to PC Security

To rate the top ten antivirus 2011 a strong criteria is used. The antivirus software are measured on various factors like technology, stealth, speed, price, support, configuration, ease of use and more. 

As we move on with time, speed keeps becoming even more important factor. Also, pricing is another major factor that we included while ranking the top ten antivirus 2011 software. The list of best antivirus software 2011 is quite long. 

We considered the following antivirus software list to come up with the top ten antivirus 2011. 

• BitDefender Antivirus 2011
  
• Norton Antivirus 2011
  
• F-Secure Antivirus 2011
  
• ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4
  
• Kaspersky Antivirus 2011
  
• TrendMicro Titanium Security
  
• Panda Antivirus 2011
  
• AVG Antivirus 2011
  
• G Data Antivirus 2011
  
• ZoneAlarm Antivirus 2011
  
• Vipre Antivirus 2011
  
• McAfee Antivirus Plus 2011
  
• CA Antivirus 2011
  
• Avanquest SystemSuite 11 Professional
  
• Avira Antivir Premium 2011
  
• Sophos Endpoint Security 2011
  
• Comodo Antivirus 2011
  
• PC Tools Spyware Doctor with Antivirus 2011
  
• Quick Heal Antivirus 2011
  
• Microsoft Security Essentials 2011

These are some of the best-of-the-best antivirus software and we have selected the top ten antivirus 2011 out of these antivirus programs. These security software were tested on various factors. Some of the factors we considered to judge these antivirus software are:

• Speed – Antivirus software should be fast. Only the fastest antivirus will make for the top ten list.
  
• Price – Antivirus software should be cheaper. The last thing we want is an expensive piece of software.
  
• Stealth – Antivirus software should be able to detect and remove all virus, spyware and malicious codes.
  
• Configuration – Antivirus software should be easy to configure and easy to run scans.
  
• Updates – Updates should be regular and should not interrupt a user.
  
• Real-time – Antivirus programs should provide real-time scanning options to detect and block real-time threats.
  
• Support – Antivirus Companies should provide adequate after-sale support, related to the product.

These are just a few factors that have been considered while ranking the top ten antivirus 2011 software. Based on these factors, we have provided our lab test results. 

What do you think about this list of top 10 antivirus 2011? 

Are you using any of these antivirus software? 

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