Category: Tips, Tricks and Hacks
On Wordpress , if you have set the www version as the default canonical URL and have redirected the non-www version to the prior, you’ll get an error saying that the sitemap’s stylesheet is missing. Same is the case if you set non-www as default and redirect the www version to the prior. The sitemap thus won’t load. This can cause a problem while submitting sitemaps to Webmasters or other places if you don’t use the default canonical URL form. Well here is a trick to fix it.
Recent reports have shown that the average company employee spends approximately 1 hour and fifteen minutes surfing the internet every day. While some managers don’t mind their workers spending some time for themselves, others do not take it as kindly. You can find some tips on surfing web in the office.
Facebook has added many options to control and filter your friend list, photos, your profile etc. You have lots of options to control your profile’s privacy settings to control the visibility of different sections of your profile. Well now you can also choose who to show your Posts on Facebook. For the pages you admin, you can select the countries and places where people would be able to see a post.
Google Street View is the ultimate tool from Google to have panoramic views of cities and places around the world. Google Street View is getting immensely popular for users on both computer and handheld devices. Here is a cool trick with which you can see 3D views on Google Street View for places around the world.
You might be interested in using subcategories for categorizing your posts in a better way. Wordpress by default lets you have the category name in the permalinks but if you use subcategory, both the category and subcategory slug appear on your permalinks. If you need to remove the parent category slug from Permalinks in Wordpress, you can do it using a plugin or modifying your theme’s functions.php file.
Firefox 4 has a completely revamped interface as compared with its earlier counterpart, the Firefox 3. If you use Firefox 4, you must have noticed that the addon bar that on Firefox 3 isn’t visible by default on Firefox 4. But you can turn it on from the customization options. On Firefox, you would have come across times when the icons on your Addon bar in Firefox shift all the way to the left from their default right hand side position. If you want to restore them to the right, here’s the workaround.
There is a long list of shortcuts and tricks for Microsoft Excel to get things done quickly and easily. As one may need to deal with large data using Excel, even a keyboard shortcut can be very handy. If you have a column with lots of data and need to use an earlier value in another cell within the same column, a dropdown list would be very handy. This can be done with a simple keyboard shortcut.
Getting a simpler login URL for Wordpress admin is basically helpful if you are working on a Wordpress project for a client who doesn’t know much about Wordpress. A simpler login URL would be much easier to remember. You can change the login URL of Wordpress by simply adding a line to your .htaccess file.
What if you want to receive emails at a disposable email address but don’t want others to open it anytime? With Mailinator, you can get an alternate email id that will open your inbox that others cannot open without knowing the original email id. It will act as your personal disposable email inbox.
Fallback fonts are the alternate fonts that are specified in the CSS when the font of first priority is not available in the system of the user. FFFFALLBACK is a nifty javascript bookmarklet with which you can try out alternate fonts for a webpage.
Sometimes, you might want to share something with just a few select people; an image uploaded on imgur for instance. In such case, Like buttons may not be the best way to share. Realizing this, Facebook has brought forth the Send button with which you can share a link with only the people you choose.
From control panel, you cannot customize the settings than you could with Godmode. Godmode is a folder that lets you customize your PC for a wide range of settings from a single place.
Creating a mail merge function with Google Spreadsheets can be a herculean task if you aren’t familiar with the charms of programming. Well, you don’t have to worry much about it; you can use the Map Mail Merge template for Google Spreadsheets to send out customized invitations and attach a custom Google map with each email, varying with the address of each invitee.
Generally, the easiest way of finding Word files is by looking through their file names. It can be even handier to include the filename on the document body itself, generally in the header or the footer. Here is how you can automatically insert the file name of your document in its header or footer.
The message saying that Microsoft word cannot open the converter and thus preventing a file from opening is very common encounter among MIcrosoft word users. You can fix the mswrd632 converter issue on Microsoft Word with these simple tricks.
There are many movies and TV shows to watch instantly on Netflix. But, its kind of hard to keep tabs on all movies being added to Netflix for instant watching. These Twitter accounts can help you know the movies that are added recently to Netflix or the ones that are to be removed from Netflix.
A driver’s updating process is not a very difficult task, anybody can do that, it doesn’t require any extra specialist knowledge. Meanwhile to keep your drivers up to date is very important because it brings stability and safety to your computer. You should first find the right driver for your system and then update it systematically.
The merits of access are endless. Excel is undoubtedly a very powerful tool for organizing data and filtering them. There are many tools that help you sort and filter data in Excel. You must have run across times when you need to sort cells containing specific words and then pile them up together. For example, you may sometimes need to sort a list of people by their last names. If you wonder how to do it, here’s an easy trick.
Google Analytics is by far the most advanced Web Analytics Tool available on the web. With custom reporting, advanced segments and other advanced tools, Google Analytics help you gather a customized report of your traffic stats. Google Analytics lets you export all sorts of report generated through it but by default only about 10 results/row are shown.
The New Facebook has a plethora of added options and tweaks as compared with the older version. The News Feed from your friends is fully customizable and you can even sort the feeds by Status Updates, Photos, Links, Page Updates or Pages. But have you noticed lately that you are seeing the updates in your newsfeed only from the same people? You can change the default settings of your Facebook news feeds to fix it.
