YouTube Video Not Loading?

By KillerElf on 12:47 PM

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I've been coming across this quite often lately and I figured out that for some reason when a video is embedded in another site there's never a problem with playback.So for example we'll use http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh9XwSgCigc which is not loading for me.

You can share it to your facebook or google+ or you can simply replace the part that says  youtube.com to endlessvideo.com and that will take you to a site that loops videos on YouTube or specific parts of them down to a second in lenght.
As you can see the video loaded.Also you can use that to get around the age verification on youtube if you're at a friends house for example and don't want to log onto your google account.
Hope that helps!

Get your site indexed on Google

By KillerElf on 4:10 AM

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You might be using blogger and wondering why your site doesn't get to the top results on google and other people's sites do.Well you're in luck in this tutorial I'll show you how to add a sitemap so google can crawl and index your pages faster and therefore rate your website higher.Let's get started.
First off you need a Google Webmaster Tools Account.You can get one by going to:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/
Once you're logged in select your blog and go to the Optimization tab then Sitemaps.If you're using Blogger there's a default sitemap at www.yoursite.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml otherwise you'd have to create your own.I might cover that in an upcoming tutorial but for now click ADD/TEST SITEMAP and put in sitemap.xml , test it just to make sure if it comes up with the number of posts you've made on your blog it's all working good.Go ahead an submit the sitemap.

Again it should come up with the numbers of posts/pages you have on your site.You can check the progress of your pages on the bottom right where it says Indexed also if there's any issues with your website.Now the only thing left to do is wait.

Remove white background on Photoshop

By KillerElf on 1:37 PM

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I took a bit of a break these past few weeks but now I'm back to blogging.I decided to do this tutorial because I think it's useful and not many people know how to do it.So here's a way to get rid of the white background instead of using the magic wand tool.
Let's get started.So I googled a random pic of a cat and ended up with this guy.


So once you have your picture opened in photoshop go ahead and unlock the background by double clicking on the background layer and clicking ok.
Make sure your brush color is set to white or any other color the background may be.
Once that's done go up to Select then Color Range... 
This little window will pop up.Play around with the fuzziness until only the "shadow" of your object remains.Basically only the dark parts of your image will remain.
Click OK then the background around your object/s will be selected.Hit CTRL + X and you're done.If there's more white around the object do it over until you get the result you're looking for.
That's the result.

Free FTP Client Software

By KillerElf on 6:14 AM

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FileZilla  is an Open Source FTP client for Windows , MAC OS X and GNU/Linux.You can download it at:
http://filezilla-project.org/


Just use your login credentials and you have full control of your FTP server in an easy to use environment.
I'll be doing some tutorials on WordPress in the near future , as  you can see I have it on my webserver.

Random Post Button

By KillerElf on 7:20 AM

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To get a Random Post button on your blogger website first login to your blogger dashboard , then navigate to your blog , go to layout then add a gadget.Find HTML/JavaScript under Basic and click the plus sign next to it.Name it Random Post or whatever you want it doesn't matter because the name of the button is in the script itself this is just so you know what gadget it is.


<div id="myLuckyPost"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> function showLucky(root){ var feed = root.feed; var entries = feed.entry || []; var entry = feed.entry[0]; for (var j = 0; j < entry.link.length; ++j){if (entry.link[j].rel == 'alternate'){window.location = entry.link[j].href;}}} function fetchLuck(luck){ script = document.createElement('script'); script.src = '/feeds/posts/summary?start-index='+luck+'&max-results=1&alt=json-in-script&callback=showLucky'; script.type = 'text/javascript'; document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script); } function feelingLucky(root){ var feed = root.feed; var total = parseInt(feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t,10); var luckyNumber = Math.floor(Math.random()*total);luckyNumber++; a = document.createElement('a'); a.href = '#random'; a.rel = luckyNumber; a.onclick = function(){fetchLuck(this.rel);}; a.innerHTML = 'View Random Post'; document.getElementById('myLuckyPost').appendChild(a); } </script> <script src="/feeds/posts/summary?max-results=0&alt=json-in-script&callback=feelingLucky"></script>

Paste this script in where it says content , save it and move it to wherever you want it to be on your blog.To change what the button says just replace View Random Post in the script I've made it bold so it's easier to find.

Easy Free Remote Desktop Assistance

By KillerElf on 6:30 AM

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It's called TeamViewer and it's the best remote assistance software for non-commercial use.You can get it at http://www.teamviewer.com/
You can either install it or just run it for one session.It's small and compact and overall a great piece of software.It's also good for transferring multiple large files from one computer to another.

The interface is pretty self explanatory.You have your ID and Password which people can use to connect to your computer on the left and the option to connect to another computer on the right simply by putting in the ID and Password from the other computer.
There's a Meeting option previously called Presentation where you can invite people to just look at what you're doing on your desktop without having any control unlike the remote assistance sessions.There's also live video , VOIP (Voice Over IP) , Conference Calls , Chat , File box and a Whiteboard function where you can point to stuff on your dektop via a paint brush , pencil , rectangle tool there's even speech balloons you can add for everyone to see and many more.And all that for free.

And best of all it's cross-platform that means you can download the Linux version and someone on Windows will have no problem connecting to your computer.

Quick Update

By KillerElf on 5:37 AM

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I know the site is a mess right now with random tutorials left and right but I'll get to categorizing it when it reaches 50 posts for now just use the Search bar to find the tutorials you're interested in.Stay tuned!