How To Share Dropbox Files On Your Facebook Group

Just two weeks after the announcement, Dropbox has fully implemented its integration with Facebook Groups. With this, instead of choosing files from your computer to upload to your Facebook Group, you can select files from your Dropbox account to be shared to your group.

In this article, we’ll be showing you how to start sharing files from Dropbox to members of your Facebook Group.

Add Dropbox Files To Your Facebook Group

This option is not available on the regular post box when you enter your Facebook. It is an option that is available in Facebook Group only (for now). When you want to add a file to your Facebook Group, you’ll be able to see the ‘Add File’ option. Click it to start sharing your file.

Under ‘From your Dropbox’, click the ‘Choose File’ button. You’ll get a permission request from Dropbox to access some of your Facebook information. Click Allow to continue.

You’ll then be prompted to login to your Dropbox account with your email and password.

After logging in, you can browse through your Dropbox files. Select one file to share on your Facebook Group.

After you hit Select, you will be able to add a message to accompany the file, just like a regular Facebook post.

Your file is now shared on the wall of the Facebook Group. Members can click on the link to download the file to their computer.

When group members click on the shared link, they’ll be taken to a Dropbox webpage where they can download the file. They can preview certain files that the Dropbox website supports (pictures, videos and basic text files) before downloading.

Just like any other post on a group, group members will receive a notification of the wall post. Members of your Facebook Group do not need to have a Dropbox account to download the file.

Note that anyone outside of the Facebook Group can also download this file provided they have the link from your Facebook Group wall.

Privacy Of The Dropbox/Facebook User

When you share your Dropbox files on Facebook, Facebook does not have any access to your Dropbox account information or files. When you add a file to the Facebook Group, Facebook only receives the name and size of the file and a download link.

On the other side of the fence, Dropbox only receives your basic information from Facebook to confirm your identity and uses your email address only to identify your Dropbox account.

The members in your Facebook Group also cannot edit or add anything to your Dropbox account. They only can download the one file you have shared. And when you share a file to the group, the link is secured with a Dropbox token, so that even if a person without access to this link guesses the token, they need to identify the file and folder it is in to be able to download any particular file. A simple file name change to the document would render the link unusable.

These privacy measures established between the two services will put your security worries to rest.

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How to Make Skype Multi Login

With every version , Skype has added a new switch for supporting multiple users on a single PC. The following steps would show how to create a new shortcut for starting a new Skype instance with a different Skype user account.

• Open Windows Explorer and go to “C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone.”
• Right click on the Skype icon and select “Create Shortcut.”
• Right click on the new shortcut and select “Properties.”
• Append ” /secondary” to “Target” to become ‘”C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe” /secondary.’
• Click OK to save the change.
• Give the new shortcut a new name and move it to anywhere you desired.
• When you click on this new shortcut, a new Skype window will appear and you can log on using another Skype account.

You can also run the new Skype instance under another Windows user account. Right-click on the new icon while holding down the shift key, then select “Run as.” See below for more details.

Setting up multiple Skype account on a PC

You have a Skype account on your computer, but so does your wife / husband, and so does your kids? None of you want to miss your important Skype calls from your friends. There is no need to fight over who should / shouldn’t be logged-in on your only computer at home. So here is the way around the brewing storm:

Build up a new user account in Windows XP:

1. Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Create a new account (Under Pick a task.)
2. Key-in your new account name in the “type a name for the new account:” box -> Next
3. Click Computer Administrator -> Create Account

Give the account you just created a password:

1. Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Left-click on the new account you just created.
2. Left-click on Create a password -> Enter the password two times and enter the password hint -> Create Password

Run the second Skype program using the new account you just set up:

1. Right-click on the Skype Icon on your desktop while holding down the shift key -> Left-click on Run as
2. Click The following user -> Choose User name and enter password / OK
Click on the New Users – Create a Skype Account tab if you need to register a new user in Skype, and follow the instructions on screen.
Click on the Existing Users – Log in to Skype tab if you already have a second account, and follow the instructions on screen.
Hope You Will Enjoy.  Have Fun.

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How To Disable YouTube Video Autoplay [Quicktip]

As video junkies would attest to, sometimes you want to open more than just one video at the same time, to let the video load up first before you play it one shot.

And those who use this tactic would understand how annoying it is for a video to auto play when buffering has yet to complete, especially when you have several loading and you have no idea which tab is playing and which is not. This article will introduce to you a few browser extensions to help you stop the Youtube auto play feature.

Stop Youtube Autoplay On Chrome

If you are using Chrome browser, head over to get the Stop Autoplay For Youtube chrome extension. Add to Chrome.

Once the installation complete, it just works! Open any Youtube video from your Chrome browser and you will see that the video would not play until it is fully loaded.

Click To Load And Play

If you prefer to be in control and only let a video play only when you want it to, you can choose to activate "Click to play" on your browser. This works with your Opera and Chrome browsers.

1. Opera

For Opera, open your browser, go to Preferences.

Now go to Advanced tab, look for the Content section at the left bar, check option for Enable plug-ins only on demand then click OK.

2. Chrome

If you are on Chrome browser, type chrome://chrome/settings/content in the address bar and enter. After the settings page appear, scroll down and look for the Plug-ins section, and change the option to Click to Play.

With all this set in Opera and Chrome, whenever you open a new video on Youtube, it will not load nor will it play, until you click the big button on the video screen.

3 Firefox

For Firefox, go to Tubestop extension page and install the extension to your browser.

Once installation is complete, all videos will not be played or loaded, until you click on the link on the video screen.

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How To Disable Metro UI in Windows 8

The metro style UI is the new breakthrough user interface that Microsoft has offered along with its new Windows 8 operating system but sadly it has not come up to everyone’s liking. Removing it will render the new OS unstable and rather unusable. So here I outline some ways to remove this new add on without permanently scarring the system. All the methods outlined below are totally reversible.

It is important to know that the following methods men changing registry values and in doing so you can bring harm to the system if you make a mistake. Windows 8 is still in a preview only mode, not even in the public beta. Primarily this is a version to get the developers familiar with the new environment and give them an idea on what to expect.

Here are my previous articles on Windows 8 Screen:

One who has already used Windows 8 knows that if you exit the new Metro UI, a classical windows 7 interface lurks beneath it. The main difference being that now the start button launches the Metro UI instead of the start menu. Following this tutorial will let you configure the start button to disable the metro UI and to call upon once more the classic windows 7 style start menu. You may revert back any time by reversing the process. Here is how you can get the classic menu:

Steps To Disable Metro UI in Windows 8

1. First, press the Start + R buttons, to open the Run menu.
2. In the Run window, type “regedit” and hit Enter.
3. Now scroll on the top of the list and double click on “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE”. This will expand the folder.
4. Do the same for “SOFTWARE “.
5. In the list, search for “Microsoft” and open it.
6. Now using the same procedure, navigate to Windows->CurrentVersion->Explorer and some registry entries will appear in the right side of the screen.
7. Click on the one called “RPenabled” and change its value from “1″ to “0″.

This will cause the metro UI to be replaced with a familiar looking Windows 7 start menu. To revert this all you need to do it to change the value of RPenabled back to 1.

If this seems too hard one can always download a program called start menu selector available from DeviantArt that is a portable utility to switch between these two menus with the click of a button. This software basically just does the same steps detailed above.

Simply download the program from the website, extracts the folders contents and click the executable. This also adds a quicker option for switching between menus when you right click anywhere on the desktop. To ensure that it gets the job done make sure that you use it with admin privelages.

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Change Windows 8 Logon Screen Background Image

Windows 8 comes with a background image of a subtle green shade. But as it stands not every user might like this same image to be seen each and every time they log into any windows 8 computers. To truly customize your machine beyond the masses you have too at least set a custom background image for Windows 8 logon screen and Windows 8 Metro start screen background.

The windows 8 green pixelated image is pretty cool but surely one would get bored of it after using the system for a couple of weeks. Your family picture, your pet, your favorite music band are a few options.

To truly change your boring old Windows 8 Metro screen background, give Windows 8 Start Tweaker a try. It’s a portable utility that can be used to change your Windows 8 start screen and also choose as the color of your choice for the Windows 8 logon screen.

Change Windows 8 Logon Screen

To do this you just have to extract the small program and run it as administrator and browse to the location of the image you wish to use. Note that the program has Chinese as the default language and to use it in English you will have to select the US flag option.

When you have chosen the custom image of your choice for your Windows 8 Metro background and the color of choice for your Windows 8 logon screen, simply log out and back in to see the effective changes.

If you do not like the new Metro UI then there is always the option to revert back to the older Windows 7 start menu interface. Untill the release of a stable version of the new OS I recommend using the classic windows style for important work and dwelling on the new look only in spare time.

To ensure the best fit of the custom background image make sure that the image you use is twice the current resolution of your screen. This will make sure that the image fills the whole background and not just a part of it.

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Display Google Feed Subscriber Count In Text

 if you’ve recently migrated your feed from Feedburner to Google Feed, you’ll noticed those codes will no longer work. Here’s the workarounds, for those who wanted to display Google Feed subscriber count in text for better styling.

Previous Code For Feedburner…

This code will only work if you intend to display Feedburner feed count in text, but for those who are already on Google Feed, some changes are required.

//get cool feedburner count
$whaturl="http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=feedburner-id";
 
//Initialize the Curl session
$ch = curl_init();
 
//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 
//Set the URL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whaturl);
 
//Execute the fetch
$data = curl_exec($ch);
 
//Close the connection
curl_close($ch);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
$fb = $xml->feed->entry['circulation'];
//end get cool feedburner count  

The Solution

Replace line:2 from:

//get cool feedburner count
$whaturl="http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=feedburner-id";  

to the following:

//get cool feedburner count
$whaturl="https://feedburner.google.com/api/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=feedburner-id";   

The Complete Code

Here’s the complete set of code to display Google Feed subscriber count in text. Remember to replace feedburner-id (line:2) with your real feed ID.

//get cool feedburner count
$whaturl="https://feedburner.google.com/api/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=feedburner-id";
 
//Initialize the Curl session
$ch = curl_init();
 
//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 
//Set the URL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whaturl);
 
//Execute the fetch
$data = curl_exec($ch);
 
//Close the connection
curl_close($ch);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
$fb = $xml->feed->entry['circulation'];
//end get cool feedburner count  

Troubleshoots

Here are some of the possibilities if the above code don’t work for you:
Double check if you’ve correctly replaced http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=feedburner-id with https://feedburner.google.com/api/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=feedburner-id
Did you replaced feedburner-id with your actual Feed ID?
SimpleXMLElements requires PHP5. If nothing shows up, chances are your web host is still on PHP4. You should contact them about the upgrade. 

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How to Clear History cache in Chrome Browser in Windows

First of all go to top of the browser menu customise and control google chrome
then go to history tab if you like to use short key then press CRTL + H you will directly go to the history tab.

Simply Click on clear browsing day as shown in the image.

Then select all all the data as you need to clear or leave some thing as you like select duration of history to clear then click on clear browsing data.

You have successfully done if you need more help please leave a comment below your reply will highly appreciate :) thanks.!

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Create Crest Logo Tutorial in Photoshop

Let’s see, how to create.

You may also see my this article : How to Create Crest Logo Tutorial in Photoshop

[1]-First of all Open New Document of Custom size, Height & Width 500×500 pixels, Resolution 72 & Mode RGB Color.

[2]-Now Open New Layer & then create the following shape with the help of ‘Pen Tool’ & press right click > make selection.

[3]-Now fill the #’dee4f2′ color in selection area.

[4]-Now select the& create the following setting a new layer.

[5]-Now create the selection at new layer & fill with #’36404a’color.

[6]-Now go to Blending Options,& use the following settings

Photoshop Technique-How to use the Blending Options feature.

[7]-Now create the selection at new layer & fill with #’36404a’color.

[8]-Now take the ‘Brush Tool’ create the shading as shown above step [4].

[9]-Now go to Blending Options,select Drop Shadow,Stroke & use the following settings

Photoshop Technique-How to use the Drop Shadow & Stroke feature.

[10]-Now create the selection at new layer & fill with #’36404a’color.

[11]-Now go to Blending Options,select Bevel & Emboss,Contour & use the following settings

Photoshop Technique-How to use the Bevel & Emboss,Contour feature.

[12]-Now your image should look like as shown below.

[13]-Now go to the Blending Option & give the following setting of Drop Shadow.

[14]-Now see below for Final Photoshop Output.I hope this is a good tutorial & U can use these Photoshop Techniques in your Graphics

Design project.

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