Some Useful Computer Tips and Tricks

How  to  Lock  Personal  Computer  with  Just  Single  Click?

  

 Instead  of  pressing  “CTRL+ALT+DEL”  or  “Windows  +  L”  keys  to  Lock  Down  your  computer  you  can  create  an  icon  on  your  Computer  desktop.  With  the  help  of  this  icon  you  can  lock  down  your  computer  in  just  a  single  click.

To  create  the  icon  follow  these  steps:

1-            Right  click  on  free  space  of  desktop  then  hover  your  cursor  on  NEW  and  then  select  SHORTCUT

2-            A  window/Dialogue  Box  named:  Create  Shortcut  will  appear  on  your  computer  screen

3-            Now  type  given  phrase  in  the  blank  space  of  dialogue  box

        Rundll  32  user32  dll,  Lock  Work  Station  And  Press  Next.

4-            As  soon  as  you  will  press  Next  Button,  a  new  window  will  appear  and  here  you  will  see  “Type  a  name  for  this  shortcut”.  Here  you  can  have  a  name  for  this  short-cut  of  your  choice,  i.e.  Lock  Computer  or  Log  off  etc.

5-            Now  press  Finish  and  you  will  have  a  Short-cut  icon  on  your  desktop.

How  to  see  your  most  important  file  on  top  of  the  other  files  in  windows  explorer?

If  you  want  to  see  your  most  important  file  in  any  folder  or  windows  explorer  on  top  of  the  other  files,  so  that  it  will  be  convenient  and  time  saving  for  you.  For  that  you  just  need  to  follow  a  simple  trick:

1  –                      Go  to  the  folder  where  you  want  your  file  should  be  top  of  the  other  files

2  –                      Right  click  any  free  space  in  folder  and  arrange  these  files  “Sort  by  Type”

3  –                      Now  click  on  any  file  of  your  choice  then  press  F2  to  rename  the  file  and  at  the  start  of  the  name  of  file  insert  an  Underscore  ”  _”  i.e.  New  Document.docx  to  _New  Document.docx.

How  to  Shut  Down  Computer  Friskily?

When  you  shut  down  your  computer  or  laptop,  many  programs  remain  in  Running  Process  and  they  are  not  completely  closed.  That’s  why  Computers  and  Laptop  take  too  much  time  to  shut  down.  To  resolve  this  problem  I  am  going  to  share  a  very  useful  tip  with  you.

1-            Open  Notepad

2-            Write  these  three  words  “Shutdown  inn  text”  in  notepad  and  save  it  as  Shutdown.reg

3-            Now  go  to  the  location  where  you  have  saved  this  file  and  double  click  on  this  file.

4-            Import  the  file

(Your  computer  will  shut  down  faster  than  before)

How  to  Create  a  File  or  Folder  without  any  Name?

1-            First  of  all  select  the  file  or  folder  which  you  want  to  remove  its  name.

2-            Press  F2,  then  Press  and  Hold  ALT  Key  and  then  press  0160.  Press  Enter

3-            Your  file  or  folder  will  now  be  un-named..

How  to  clean  program  files  with  Run  menu?

When  you  write  any  command  in  Run  menu,  few  of  past  commands  remain  save  in  Run  Menu  drop  down  list.  Furthermore  the  lists  of  programs  which  are  currently  running  also  remain  in  Run  Menu.  If  you  want  to  remove  these  lists  from  Run  Menu  then  use  this  small  yet  powerful  tip.

        Open  Run  and  type  “REGEDIT”
        In  Registry  Editor  select  this  Registry  Key  “HKEY_CURRENT_USER”  from  left  side  panel.
        Now  go  to  “Software  >  Microsoft  >  Windows  >  CurrentVersion  >  Explorer  >  RUN  MRU”
        In  RUN  MRU  Folder  every  last  used  information  are  saved.  After  clicking  on  RUN  MRU  folder  there  will  be  shown  some  values  on  right  hand  side  window.  Except  “Default”  file  delete  every  file  from  this  folder.
        In  this  step  restart  your  computer,  now  when  you  will  see  your  RUN  Menu  drop  down  list,  it  will  be  emptied.

How  to  hide  shared  folders  from  Network?

        To  hide  shared  folders  from  your  network  location,  simply  add  a  “$”  sign  in  the  end  of  every  folder  name.  By  doing  this  your  shared  folders  will  be  hidden  from  all  users.  Except  those  who  know  the  correct  location  of  that  folder.

How  to  change  the  ownership  of  Windows?

If  in  case  while  installing  fresh  windows  on  your  system,  you  have  unconsciously  entered  some  wrong  information  regarding  ownership,  you  do  not  need  to  worry  about  it.  Because  you  can  alter  these  information  anytime,  you  just  need  to  have  a  bit  knowledge  about  Windows  Registry.

        Go  to  Registry  Editor  “Run  >  Regedit”  and  search  the  Registry  Key.
        HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE  >  Software  >  Microsoft  >WindowsNT  >  Current  >  Version
        From  right  side  panel  find  a  file  named  “Owner”  double  click  this  file  and  change  the  values  as  per  your  need.
        Close  the  registry  editor  and  restart  your  computer.  Done

How  to  find  properties  of  any  file  or  folder  quickly?

If  you  want  to  know  the  properties  of  any  file  or  folder  quickly  then  select  the  file  and  press  “ALT  +  Enter”,  the  properties  will  rapidly  be  shown.  It’s  a  better  and  quick  to  get  property  information  then  the  mouse.

How to Make Money with Google Adsense

A program run by Google for the advertisement of websites by displaying related and targeted Google ads is known as Google Adsense. Google started this advertisement program eight years ago and from that time to the present time, millions of website owners got benefit and earned money through it.

Google Adsense advertisement program is for the website owners who want to make money by displaying the ads on their websites. It is an inexpensive form of marketing and an easiest way for the website owners to earn money online. The website owner just has to host an ad on his website and he earns money on every click (pay per click).

Getting the ads is very easy; the ads are displayed on the websites which has activated Google Adsense. Google sets up an account for the website owner and give him a code which is required for the displaying of adverts. By just entering the code in the content pages, the owner can start showing the ads. These ads can be in form of text, images or videos. A website owner can select or specify the place where he wants the ad to be shown. A website owner can place ad units, these are full ads and he can also place link units, these are just a strip of text link.

On the other hand, the Google Adsense allows the businesses to do the advertisement on the other websites and when any person using internet or searching something clicks on that ad then the business pays to Google on each click.

For making money with Google Adsense, a website owner needs high traffic on his website and it can only be done with search engine optimization (SEO). SEO contains link building, article submission, forum and comment posting with the URL of website or web pages. There is targeted traffic as well as non-targeted traffic available on internet. The advertiser always want the targeted traffic so, when the people (targeted traffic) looking for the services an advertiser is offering, they click on it and action takes place.

The most important thing for earning money is that the ad must be relevant to the theme and content of the website on which it is advertised. Google pays some percentage of money that it has earned, to the owner of the website that is hosting an ad on his website. The keywords also play an important role; related keywords should be used in the content of website that will attract related ads.

For getting started, first of all select a good topic that is interesting. Write useful articles on that topic and then post it on the website. Then start building links to those articles and one thing should be kept in mind, select good keywords. Keywords are responsible of attracting traffic on a website or a web page. A great way of increasing the profits is to place the ad exactly beneath the title of the page; by this a website owner will surely get the clicks.

How To Find The Perfect Niche For Your Blog

Starting a blog can be challenging, even if you’re a super hardcore techie who can design professional looking blogs. Once you get the site up, what do you write about? What is your blog even going to be about? Here’s how to find out what niche is the best fit for you.
What Is A Niche?

Your niche is basically what your blog is about. It’s the type of information you offer to your audience, and what topics you cover. You can have a broad niche or a very tight one – there’s no “wrong” niche. You want to find what best fits with you, your personality and your passions.
Examples Of Niches

    Blogging
    Spirituality
    Health And Fitness
    Gossip
    Cooking
    Sports
    Interior Decor

You can even go further into these niches if you like – for example, you may only want to blog about football instead of sports in general. Perhaps you only want to blog about a certain team, or even a certain player. If you want to tighten down the cooking niche, you may want to blog only about meatless recipes if you’re a vegetarian. Or organic recipes, or even just juicing recipes. Your blog can be as loosely or as tightly niched as you want to make it.

So, how do you find what niche is right for you?
What Is Your Passion?

Everyone has things that they love. It may be collecting Wizard Of Oz memorabilia. It may be gardening. It might be painting, or finding the best deals on discount furniture, or couponing. The list could go on. What do you love? What are you passionate about? Make a list of the things you really enjoy. Not the things you think you should enjoy, or the things you want to do at some point. What are the things that make you giddy? Do you love to craft? Do you love to make witty jokes about celebrities? Be creative. Dig deep.
Do You Have A Special Field Of Expertise?

Some people already have a field of expertise, such as being a doctor, a lawyer or just being really, really good at cooking Mexican dishes. What are the things you are good at, or the things you have certifications in? Is there anything that you are particularly knowledgeable about? Write down the things that you do well, even if you don’t particularly love them. This will give you a true scope of the possibilities for your blog, but chances are, you’re not going to choose something you have a lot of expertise in if you don’t love it too.
What Could You Write About Essentially Forever?

So you have a list of things you love to do, things you enjoy, things you’re good at, etc. It could be a big list, it could be a very small list.  To determine practical niches for your blog, think about the topics on your sheet of paper and consider which ones you could theoretically write about forever. Can you see yourself writing article after article on puppy training? If the answer is no, then scrap it. What about cooking? Do you already have tons of ideas for recipe posts swirling about in your head? If the answer is yes, then consider that to be one of the final possibilities for your blog’s niche.
Blogs are about content. Even if you love something, if you can’t write about it day after day, your blog isn’t going to go anywhere. Choosing a topic that you have lots of ideas for or can write about again and again and again without getting bored makes sure that one, two or even five years down the road from now, you can still create fresh content for your blog. However, chances are if you love something, you’re going to find it easy to write about anyways.
Look At Your Final List

By now, you should have it pared down to a few ideas. Maybe you only have one idea, or maybe you have five. That’s okay. Look at your list. Put it up. Sleep on it. Take it back out. Put it up again. Wait a week. Look at it again. Sleep with it. Shower with it. Okay, not really. But you get the idea. Meditating on the possible niches for your blog without making a hasty decision will reveal the one you truly want.

When you envision the possible niches for your blog over time, you will keep going back to one again and again. You might think about other niches and envision the possibilities for those, only to find your mind drifting back to the one topic. This is what will reveal to you the blog niche that is truly in your heart.
Be Confident And Go For It!

Once you find the niche, throw away your list. Right away! Don’t second guess yourself, don’t go back and consider the other niches again. Be confident and start a blog in that niche. Write your first post! Who cares if it doesn’t look pretty to begin with. Start writing. And write a post tomorrow. And the next day. And the next day.

If it’s a niche that you truly enjoy, you will find it easy to write posts about things related to your niche. Sure, you may still get writer’s block from time to time, but it will be nothing compared to trying to blog about a niche that you really couldn’t care less about. So get going! Take the plunge and when you come up on the other side, you’ll look back and be glad that you finally did it.

Earn Money from Google Adsense via YouTube

In today’s world, there are many different ways to make money online. One of the avenues to pursuing a profit online is by using your YouTube channel. There are thousands of YouTube channels on the web today and many of them are now using Google Adsense to generate a profit for themselves. But just how does this process work? And how can you begin?

The Process

The way that you generate income using your YouTube channel is to become a YouTube partner. To get paid from YouTube, however, you need an Adsense account. If you get accepted by Google Adsense and YouTube, you can insert ads into your videos. You then get paid based on the amount of clicks per ad, similar to Google Adsense ads on other websites.

Grow Your Audience

Before applying to YouTube, you should have a good-sized audience. In order to be assured of acceptance you need at least 5,000 subscribers, 50,000 channel views, and 1,000,000 upload views. There are people who have been accepted with less, but this is almost a guaranteed push in the right direction.

The reason for building your audience is quite simple. YouTube and Adsense definitely don’t want to waste their time and ads on videos that only a handful of people view. And you won’t earn much income if only five people click on an ad. So make sure to promote your YouTube channel in the online and offline world.

Post on a Regular Basis

If you wish to build your audience, you will get more views by continuing to post on a regular basis. People will come back for fresh content if they find that they like your ideas. And if they like your videos enough to share them, their friends may keep coming back for new content. So try to post new videos as often as possible.

Be Professional

In the online advertising world, it definitely pays to be professional. One way to become more professional is to create a brand name for your videos. A brand name gives your viewers a simple way to remember how to find your work. Create a website to showcase your latest works, and post your videos there as you create them. Make an intro with the brand name for your videos to make them more appealing. If you are professional, you will be able to attract your viewers and they will continue to visit.

Copy Infringement

To make sure that you get accepted by YouTube, don’t use any material in your videos which is copyrighted by other people. This could be another company’s logo, copying the exact script of another video, or simply someone else’s music playing in the background. If you are going to make money online, you should do so through the creation of your own ideas instead of stealing someone else’s.

Become a YouTube Partner

Once you have created your unique videos that appeal to the public and began promoting your channel by creating a brand name, you are ready to apply to become a YouTube partner. Just remember that you must also be accepted by Google Adsense to be paid. Once you have met these conditions, you will begin earning money through your YouTube channel in a short span of time.

Blogging for Profit 10,000 Hours in 10 Minutes

It takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert in something, but wouldn’t you rather get it done in 10 minutes?

Fortunately that’s all it will take to read today’s expert interview with Jennifer Baritchi of Dan & Jennifer Media. This dynamic duo created their own blog network and turned it into a successful endeavor.

Check out the full MediaShower interview with Jennifer about what makes a successful blog and how anyone can do it—if they know what to do.

10,000 Hours in 10 Minutes – Jennifer Baritchi on Blogging for Profit

You’ll discover…

    What are some misconceptions you find people have about making blogging a paying concern?
    What are some of the common ways a blog can make money?
    What are some mistakes fledgling bloggers make when trying to launch a profitable blog?
    What are the tools a blogger who wants to make money has to know about?
    How long does it take for a blog to become profitable?
    What are some ways to assess the ideas you have for a blog, to see if they have appeal?
    Can “niche” blogs be profitable?
    What are some ways to promote your blog that may not be immediately obvious?
    Where does a blog fit in with a larger marketing strategy or branding plan?

Best Alternatives to Google’s Ad Planner

Last year Google announced that it would be discontinuing several features on its DoubleClick Ad Planner. This led  many users to look for other platforms that provide similar services. This Google product was a widely used tools by website owners, and they gained valuable information using this tool. Some of the changes include removal of ads or domains that do not fall in the Google Display Network otherwise known as the GDN. This has certainly dismayed many active users of the service, as it cannot be used for premium ad placements anymore, and many domains do not fall into the Google Display Network.

How it was useful

This tool was very handy, especially for people involved in digital marketing. It enabled them to get quick and easy analysis of website traffic, demographics, income of households, and so on. It also enables you to find out which sites are doing well in a particular niche.  Though this data isn’t always very accurate, it provides vital information to many websites, both big and small.

This application can be used not only on one’s own website, but on other websites too. This way you can conduct research on your competitors’ websites as well.  Some of the filter options that are no longer available with the application include audience filters of You Tube channel (though the content filters are still available), education, keywords and etc. Information that no longer will be available includes site language, domain research, site info, and many others.

Easy alternatives to Google’s DoubleClick Ad Planner

For those who have been looking everywhere for a suitable replacement for Google’s AdPlanner tool, I am going to highlight about some good and effective alternatives to Google Ad planner. For information regarding ad placement and any non-GDN sites, the IAB Digital Advertising Directory is one of the best available options. This tool proves to be quite useful, and is free to use. It contains almost all the top websites, and they are listed here. You can find more about this tool here.

For site discovery, there are free tools available from many sources. Some of them include, Quantcast, Compete and Alexa. Also, Markosweb is a web service that will help users find out various information about the traffic of a particular website, just like the other tools that has been listed above.

Even the publisher center from Google has been removed. This handy tool helped publishers in the claiming of their own websites. They could also maintain ad placement accordingly. An alternative to this is the Data Card Publisher. This is a free tool developed by NextMark and allows publishers to create and maintain listings of their own in the directory.

For those people who want to create new media plans, there is a tool out there to help them as well. It is again from NextMark and is called Digital Media Planner. This tool is not that expensive and proves to be an efficient alternative to ad placements and non-GDN sites.

10 Amazing Google Adsense Tips and Tricks

Working with Google Adsense to generate a profit can be somewhat daunting, especially when you even think about all of the advanced algorithms that Google uses to weed out sites. But I have assembled 10 amazing Google Adsense tips and tricks that will help you improve your knowledge and your earnings with Google’s ad program.

1) If you want to maximize your profits, make sure to create more than one website.
However, you don’t want to start off by creating 100 websites. Maintenance for that many sites, at first, would be hectic. While having only one website would be the easiest to maintain, it also increases your chances of being cut out altogether by the latest algorithm update. So, you want to have a few websites up and running. Then if the latest algorithm forces one website out, you still have a few others to generate income from while you work on the affected one.

2) Pick a niche to write about per site.
Creating a site that discusses any topic under the moon may be easier to find the desire to update, but it will make it difficult to create constant traffic, make it hard for the Google search engine to rank your site, and cause trouble generating ads that are on topic.
Also, if you only pick one subject to focus on, you can go more in-depth and gain expertise in that field. This makes your website more profitable for users and yourself.

3) Create a site about something you are already interested in!
This Google Adsense tip only makes sense! Making your site about something that you like makes it more fun in the long-run for you to continue managing your site. If something is less like work, then you are more likely to do it. Constant updates on your site is good for traffic and search engines, which generates clicks on your ads.
However, don’t create a site about something that is not in demand. Just because you like to study rare deep-sea anglerfish doesn’t mean that everyone else does. If you want to maximize your profits, you will need to give information about something that the general public will be researching.

4)Do not put Google Adsense on a brand new site!
When building a new site, wait until you have completed the site, you have built inbound links, and you are getting traffic. A brand new site can leave your ads being off topic and difficult to follow.
Also, if you try to apply to Google Adsense too early when your website is brand new, you will most likely be turned away. Google wants to know that your site has enough traffic so that putting their ads on your page will be profitable to them and you. They don’t waste time on beginner or spammy sites.

5) Do not put images next to your ads!
While many people did this for years and it worked successfully, it now against Google’s policies to do so. This is considered to be ‘encouraging clicks’ which is prohibited. If you do so, you may get more clicks for a bit, but you will quickly be caught and banned from having Adsense on your page. And once you are banned, you cannot get your account back into good standing.

Here is a free additional Google Adsense tip: If you haven’t read Google’s Adsense policies, I seriously suggest doing so.

6) Place images in optimal places on your site.
Ads that are higher on the site get clicked more often, which generates more income.

7) If you want to maintain optimal profit, do not put your ads on affiliate sites.
While well-known affiliate sites may get you more clicks than your own brand new site, you cannot depend on these sites to earn a maximum profit. It can be considered as a violation of the rules and regulations of Adsense. Moreover, each of the affiliate sites charges a percentage of your earnings to be able to post on their site. So, work on your own site, promote it to generate traffic, and be patient. Having ads on your own site will be better for you in the long-run.

8) Make sure to update your site on a regular basis.
If you create a site and leave it for a few months, you may find that your traffic has dropped significantly. Therefore, your amount of clicks and pay has dropped as well.
No one wants to visit a site that has grown stagnant and has old information, so get busy generating new information for your readers!

9) Create ads that best complement your site.
The optimal sizes for ads have been researched. They are the 336×280 large rectangle, the 300×250 medium rectangle, and the 160×600 wide skyscraper.
However, don’t simply use these sizes without integrating them into your site well. You want the overall flow of your site to be pleasing to your loyal visitors, so be sure to fit the ads in a way that is visually appealing.

10) Do not stress over the latest google algorithms, or trying to beat the system!
Google constantly updates their algorithms to cut out spammers, and this unfortunately messes up the generated income for some sites. However, there is no way to currently beat this system, so do not stress if your site sees a dramatic drop suddenly. Simply continue to work hard at improving your site and keeping up with the latest Google Adsense Tips. Hopefully, you will see improvement again in your traffic.

These are some tips that should help you a great deal when trying to maximize the profits from your ads. Overall, continue working to improve your websites and don’t stress! Everyone knows that Google owns the world in their own mysterious way, and trying to fight it will only end in multiple visits to a psychiatrist. So, be happy and enjoy Google’s business offering to the world!