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I am a download addict. I simply love downloading stuff from the internet. Internet has grown so huge, that these days with a little intelligence and using the power of Google anyone can find everything they want on the Internet.

 

 

Needless to say, the rise of Online File Storage sites such as Rapidshare,Megaupload,hotfile, Fileserve etc along with torrents has only made downloading more easy. Having said that, am pretty sure that most of you….who aren’t much of a techie…but interested in downloading or are new to it, won’t know about external Download managers. Well, to explain in short, download mangers are external software’s that help manage your list of download externally…Some of the features appealing in these managers are ‘pause and resume’ facility, keeping track of completed downloads and managing the downloads depending on type of object being downloaded

Moreover, these download mangers have options to optimize the speed you receive for downloading. Though a simple Google search for free download managers would give you a dozen of options, FDM(Free Download Manager) is my personal favourite. It is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license.

Above is a screenshot of the FDM application. You can see many options/tabs in the window. There are many sort options on the left hand side. Also, the downloads could be sorted on basis of categories.

Some of the most appealing features of this software is

• Resuming broken download
• Ability to monitor IE,Firefox,Chrome and other browsers
• Flash Video download
• Bit torrent Support
• Site Manager
• Upload Manager
• Traffic mode – Easy,Medium,Heavy mode downloads
• Option to adjust number of simultaneous downloads and connections to be made for server
• Has a portable version also
• HTML spider
• A user community to give feedback on the downloaded file

All the above features i listed are my personal favourites and the main reason because of which am faithful to using FDM for the past 5 years. i have tried several other download managers too but for me, FDM features beats them all.The full list of features is cited here.

Free Download Manager

Download FDM and try out how it works out for you. feel free to share your valuable feedback later here.

For all YouTube watchers, am sure everyone by now knows ways to download YouTube videos. There are several ways to download videos, however by far, this is the most simplest way in the form of a plugin.

‘Easy YouTube Video Downloader’ is a plugin for Firefox browser that helps you download videos in various formats like .flv, .mp4, .3gp, HD etc. It is a very useful plugin and it seamless integrates itself below the YouTube video you are currently watching (look at the pic below)

On clicking the ‘Download As’ button you will be presented with various formats in which you would like to download.

Its the easiest YouTube video downloader ever, single click non-intrusive direct download buttons for FLV, 3GP, MP3, MP4, 720p HD and 1080p Full-HD qualities

 

Plugin: Easy YouTube Video Downloader

Recently Facebook has crossed ‘Ebay’ in terms of revenues to make it the 3rd largest website. And after this move, there is no stopping it.There had been some rumours few days before about Facebook going to introduce its own email system. Finally,it seems to be true as now Facebook has started a page for the same where in it is made clear that this service would be ‘invite only’.

However the term ‘Email’ would be incorrect as Zuckerberg describes it more as a ‘Social Inbox’. According to him this system will be like an inbox for filtering the messages you want to see from friends. However interestingly people can now have an email address @facebook.com …cool,huh!!!

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Normally these days, its a common trend to find one big partition on your laptop HDD. Its usually C:\ which is your primary partition and then apart from that if you have any other partition, most probably, its the recovery partition, which is useless as you cant use it. In such cases, its best to divide your primary partition to create one or more secondary discs.

Not only is this because you might want to store movies,music etc on separate drives but also it is a healthy practice to store files on drives other than the primary drive (the one containing your OS). You never know when your OS crashes and the only solution to restore it might be to format the C:\

In that case, you will end up losing important data. But dont worry, today I will show you to divide the factory partitioned C:\ to one or more drives.

First, navigate to ‘Control Panel’->’Administrative tools’->’Computer management’

Right click on C:\ and select the option of  ‘Shrink Volume’

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I joined Cognizant as a fresher somewhere around 7 months before and after being in the IT company for this long, one latest trend or craze I have seen is for UNIX. UNIX language is basically a shell language and programming in UNIX involves shell scripting. Both are difficult to understand and it takes time to get a grip on it since in UNIX you don’t get the luxury of a GUI unlike Windows, which most of us are accustomed too.

That really makes UNIX developers very rare in market and also they are  the highly paid ones . Mastering UNIX is a slow and steady process. Its more of getting accustomed to it than understanding it. For this you need a lot of practice. Not many of us have the option of installing a full fledged flavour of UNIX on our machine and that makes it difficult to practice it.

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ArtsCow is a leading online expert in manufacturing personalized photo gifts. Whether for personal purposes or commercial use, ArtsCow has a full range of customizable goods for you to choose from. Our large economies of scale have meant cuts in production costs, reflected in our pricing.
ArtsCow Coupons is an application developed by in-house programming team and is designed so that we and friends can enjoy their promotions and crazy offers.

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Well,to be frank ,even I am new to blogging.I have always been a subscriber to several huge and successful tech sites and even though I wanted to share many things,like them,with others by having a site of my own,I simply never found the time nor a perfect tutorial to do the same.I always wanted my own website with my name in the URL.Though this might sound funny,but yes,I wanted all this for FREE.Today I am happy to say that I have a website of my own and yes,I have done it without paying a single dime.

Today I am writing a tutorial on “How to get started with a website of your own for FREE”.I am breaking this down to  simple steps guiding you with screenshots wherever possible.

Step 1: Collect the following tools you will need later on

1. WordPress Blog (Latest Version)
2. FileZilla Client (Client Only.Server not required)

Step 2: Get a FREE Domain name

There are few domains which you can get for free.However co.cc domain,by far,has been the most sought out domain.I have been using this domain for about a year now and its quite easy to register for it.

Go to co.cc and register for an account.Registration is very simple and obvious.Choose and select a domain name carefully.You can even check the availability of the domains.

P.S: Not all domains you choose in co.cc is free.Most of them are,but if you choose a very common or highly popular name,there will be a charge of $3

Now after you have registered the domain,you can login into your profile anytime and Manage the domain.For this you need to go to your Profile –> Select your domain –> and Set up.

This is one of the most crucial steps,but for now we will ignore it,since we dont have the name servers to fill in,which will be given to us by the WebHosting company.We will come back later here and update them.

Step 3: Get a FREE Web Hosting

Now that we have a Web Domain,our first most important work is done.Now all that remains is finding a suitable free webhosting.

Over the past few months I have registered and tested several free WebHostings.Believe it or not,its true that free webhosting always has some or the other drawbacks,but then you have to sacrifice for it.Some of the few reliable free webhostings I have tested and recommend are

• 000webhost.com
• Hostrator.com
• Zymic.com
• Free-web-host.me (currently using)

Of all these,I found free-web-host.me,somewhat the best.Its features are unbeatable compared to others and it provides unlimited bandwidth.But the only drawback is every visitor to your site will get to see a free FORCED text ad at the bottom.

For the purpose of this tutorial.I am going to show you to register with free-web-host.me as your hosting

Go to free-web-host.me and ORDER a free package.Fill in all the details as asked……..

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Make sure you follow the direction shown in the images exactly.Now once you have finished signing up for a FREE webhosting,you will receive a couple of confirmation emails.After verifying,go back to free-web-host.me and login in with your user/pass account you just created.

You will be greeted with a Welcome Panel as shown below.

The Highlighted fields of PRIME importance here .That is what will allow you to set up your website now.Make a note of them,for future reference.

Step 4: Connecting the Domain with the Web Host

Now all that remains is connecting the domain (co.cc) with the webhosting you just ordered.If you have observed carefully the above image you will notice 2 Name Servers mentioned.This is what you will require to set up the domain in Step 2

Go back to co.cc and login into your profile.Go to Manage Domain –> Select Domain to manage –> Set Up.Under name servers fill out as shown.

Click on Set up.Now, as stated it might take upto 48 hrs for the registration to take place(but actually its usually done within 24hrs).

Step 5: Creating the Database for your Website

Now that your domain and web hosting are linked,you will first have to create a database for your website.Login  to you free-web-host.me account and click on the link below Control Panel

Click on MySql databases and create a new database.Creation is very simple and obvious.If you run into some trouble you could simply check their video tutorial for the same.After you create a database and your Db user,at the latter part of the page you will find this option to add the User to the Database.Note down the details D1,D2 as shown in figure.Its very important.

Now simply click on ADD.Then you will be given an option to choose the privileges.Since you are going to be the admin itself,select all and Confirm.You are now done with the database

Step 6: Getting started with FileZilla and uploading your Blog

Now if you have downloaded the WordPress blog from Step 1,simply unzip it anywhere in your Hard disk.Open the WordPress folder and look out for the wp-config-sample.php file.

You will need to open this file in an PHP editor.If you dont have one,just open it in notepad.You will need  to edit few details as shown.Fill in the DB dbname/username/password fields as shown in the figure.The MySQL hostname will remain localhost 99% of the time.Incase it isnt,it will be provided to you by your webhosting

If you have downloaded FileZilla (from Step 1) and started it,you will be greeted with an interface as shown.Fill in the information as shown in the fields and click Quickconnect

P.S: The username/password is that of free-web-host.me account NOT the MySQl DB username/pass.

Once connected follow the instructions below stepwise to upload your “EDITED” WordPress Blog to your webhost

Now all you have to do is WAIT patiently for wordpress to upload!!!

If all is done properly,when you go back to yoursite.co.cc,you should be greeted with a new WordPress Installation screen.The Installation is of 2 steps which any new born kid could do……

So there you go,your blog is up and ready for you.Modify it,tweak it and start filing your site with contents.In coming tutorials I will be mentioning some of the featured WordPress plugins you could use to furnish your website and make blogging easier.So if you ever dreamed of having a website of your own but couldnt do it for some reason,here you are….

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and have fun building your website.If you found this tutorial a success and useful and were finally able to build a site,dont forget to link your site down back at the comments.I will be more than happy to see someone benefit from me

Please feel FREE to contact me in case of any doubts whatsoever.I will try to help you in every possible way I can