2008/08/15

Daily Gyan

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Daily Gyan

Add a Contact Me Page to Blogger BlogSpot Blog [Video Tutorial]

Posted: 15 Aug 2008 01:38 PM CDT

Blogging is all about connecting with your readers.

If you want to be a better blogger, you need to listen to your readers. You need to give them an opportunity to get in touch with you.

That's why it is important to have a 'Contact Me' page in your blog. A 'Contact Me' or 'Send Your Feedback' page not only makes your blog look professional, but will also make you understand your readers better, help you in getting a lot of tips from them and ultimately will make you a better blogger in the long run.

Unfortunately, a Blogger blogspot blog neither has a Contact-Me page out of the box nor any ready made Contact-Me widgets like the many plugins available in the WordPress arena.

But, have you seen our Send Tips page? It has been done using Zoho Creator. In today's post we teach you how to create a similar form for your blog. Read along.

To make a Feedback/Contact Me page for your blog, we are going to use Zoho Creator. Though there are multiple options available like response-o-matic, freedback, wufoo and google docs, we are going to use Zoho Creator. Why?

Because:

Zoho Creator is free
Zoho is a reputed company and will not burst in a dot com bubble any time soon.
No separate user account is needed. If you have a Google account (obviously, you do own a Google account if you are blogging in Blogger), then you can use it to log into Zoho.
The input form that you create is highly customizable. The flexibility in customizing the form is much greater than Google Forms. Hence you can easily blend this form with the rest of your blog.
You can configure Zoho to email you the contents that user submitted. Therefore, you don't have to login to Zoho's web site ever after.
Zoho provides many ready made scripts which provides many added functionality. Like for instance, if you have added an email field in the form, you can configure it to check whether the email that the user entered is a valid email or not.

Let's dive right in. Go ahead and watch this video.

Visti Zoho Creator and get started.

Doubts, questions, queries, suggestions? Post a comment.

Easily Create a Malware Fighting Arsenal With Anti-Malware Toolkit

Posted: 15 Aug 2008 06:38 AM CDT

The first thing anyone should do after installing Windows is to install an anti-virus program. Then an anti-spyware program. Then a firewall. Then lot many other programs to protect yourself from numerous malwares that are floating around.

If this process is too tedious for you, then the program Anti-Malware toolkit is for you. This program is not an anti-malware utility as the name might suggest. But, it is a program that makes downloading all popular anti-malware programs a quick and easy process.

It downloads the most latest and greatest versions of all popular security applications like Spybot S&D, HijackThis, Autoruns, CCleaner,Avast, Comodo Firewall etc for you to install.

Of course, you can always go to the web sites of these applications and download them your self, but Anti-Malware Toolkit makes it a single-button-click affair.

Pros:

Freeware
Simple user interface
Identifies whether a program is incompatible with the user's operating system.
Runs on Windows: 98, 98SE, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008.

Cons:

Doesn't check whether any of the listed application is already installed in the machine.
No option to schedule downloads.
Doesn't actually install the downloaded applications.
Required .Net 2.0 framework

Anti-Malware toolkit | Direct Download Link

Get Live Olympics 2008 Updates From Zoho [Olympics Gyan]

Posted: 15 Aug 2008 03:58 AM CDT

The good folks at Zoho, the popular online office suite, have created a Live Olympics 2008 Dashboard which gives you a sneak peak into the latest Olympics results.

This has been created exclusively using Zoho technologies like the Zoho DB & Reports and Zoho Wiki.

Live Olympics 2008 Dashboard