Category Archives: Free Education

Add “Pin It” Button To Your Google Chrome’s Bookmark Bar

For installing “Pin It” button in your Chrome:

  1. Visit Pinterest Goodies.
  2. Display your bookmark bar if it is hidden: Visit Wrench Icon (present at the top right corner of chrome) >> Bookmarks >> Check Show Bookmarks Bar
  3. There is a “Pin It” button on that page. Drag it to your bookmark bar.
  4. Now while browsing the web you can pin any image by pressing this “Pin It” button.

Watch this video tutorial:

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Add ‘Pin It’ Button To Images In Your WordPress Blog

Without using Plugin: Add this code to your theme’s footer.php file before the </body> tag. Get Pinterest’s javascript at Goodies.

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js”></script>

Add this code to your theme’s single.php file wherever you want Pin It button to be visible:

<a href=”http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&media=<?php echo catch_that_image() ?>&description=<?php the_title(); ?>” class=”pin-it-button” count-layout=”horizontal”><img border=”0″ src=”//assets.pinterest.com/images/PinExt.png” title=”Pin It” /></a>

Add this code in your theme’s functions.php file:

function catch_that_image() {
global $post, $posts;
$first_img = ”;
ob_start();
ob_end_clean();
$output = preg_match_all(‘/<img.+src=[‘”]([^'”]+)[‘”].*>/i’, $post->post_content, $matches);
$first_img = $matches [1] [0];
if(empty($first_img)){ //Defines a default image
$first_img = “/images/default.jpg”;
}
return $first_img;
}

Or You may use a WordPress plugin and that would be more easy for you. Use this plugin Pinterest Pin It Button For Images. Either search it on WP Plugin search or click the link and upload the folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, Activate from ‘Plugins’ menu and Enjoy.

Hide Post Images Without Removing Thumbnail Image In Category Archive

Given code hides post images but keeps thumbnail image in Category archive and homepage. Add following code block in your theme’s function.php:

function wpi_image_content_filter($content){

if (is_home() || is_front_page() || is_category()){
$content = preg_replace(“/<img[^>]+>/i”, “”, $content);
}

return $content;
}
add_filter(‘the_content’,’wpi_image_content_filter’,11);

Facebook Marketing Team Released Facebook Posters For Your Business

Facebook marketing team has released posters that you can use in your business stores after printing them. Its PDF so you can print them and put it in your office, stores or anywhere you want to encourage your clients, customers and others who visit your business place to join your page on Facebook. Also if you like you may put it in your website linking to your Facebook page but these posters are better for using as printable posters and for websites those old Facebook badges are fine.

Download all posters from here: http://ads.ak.facebook.com/ads/FacebookAds/Facebook_Signs.pdf

Adblock Plus For Annoyance-free Web Surfing

Adblock Plus is good if you need to block  undesirable website elements to appear on web pages while you are surfing the internet. Subscribe a free filter service and add undesirable website elements to the block list with just a single click.

Use sudo apt-get install xul-ext-adblock-plus command to install this app from your Linuc terminal.

Visit Firefox >> Tools >> Add-ons >> Get Add-ons >> Search All Add-ons >> AdBlock Plus to add Addblock extension to your Firefox web web browser.

Visit Adblock Plus Webiste

Inexpensive And Surprisingly High Quality Hardware Fine Working With Android Jelly Bean Will Make Largest Possible Market For Nexus 7 In India

Inexpensive and Surprisingly high-quality hardware fine working with Android Jelly Bean will make largest possible market for Nexus 7 in India. If Google integrates Universal Free Education System (that primarily works in India’s Language) in Nexus 7 in its release in India then I am sure it would be attracting 1.21 billion people of India because they would be learning the most advanced technology in their language and that would be changing the geopolitical structure of Internet and Google too because only 121 million Indians are active on Internet from 1.21 billion overall guessed population. Currently 929.37 million Indians are using mobile devices because its inexpensive and easy as they don’t need any education for that. Hence, it would be good if Google targets them first.

Nexus 7 Is Getting Towards Very High Demand In Comparison To Other Tablets. 16GB Model Is Sold Out

Nexus 7 16GB Is Sold Out. Google is not taking any more orders for Nexus 7 16GB: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_16gb No idea when it will be available again. Still, buyers may leave an email message for Nexus 7 16GB model and Google will notify them as soon the model get available. Nexus 7 8GB model is still available. Although demand for smaller 8GB version is comparatively low than 16GB one.

WordPress’s VIP Team Launched New Plugin That Controls Bulk User Management On Multisite Network

VIP team launched new plugin which is capable enough to control and manage all users across many sites in a multisite network install. It can check all network users and their roles on different sites sites and helps you to edit users, user roles on different sites at a time without visiting their dashboard from All Sites Super Admin Menu.

Linux 3.5 Kernel Is Released

Linux 3.5 has been released on 21 Jul 2012.

This release includes support for metadata checksums in ext4, userspace probes for performance profiling with tools like Systemtap or perf, a sandboxing mechanism that allows to filters syscalls, a new network queue management algorithm designed to fight bufferbloat, support for checkpointing and restoring TCP connections, support for TCP Early Retransmit (RFC 5827), support for Android-style opportunistic suspend, btrfs I/O failure statistics, and SCSI over Firewire and USB. Many small features and new drivers and fixes are also available.

Read Morehttp://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.5

Facebook Is Less Trusted With Personal Data Than Others

Fewer Internet users trust Facebook with personal data than other Internet companies.

According to Harris Interactive Inc. Survey:-

  • 1/3rd Internet users says that they are comfortable with Facebook’s policy of handling personal information
  • 41% respondents trust Google to show ads based on past Web searches.
  • 66% percent, are comfortable with Amazon using data on past purchases to recommend products.

French Supreme Court May Order Google To Censor Few Terms

Google suffered setback in its case against SNEP the music industry group. French Supreme Court ruled that Google may be asked for censoring search terms like ‘Torrent’, ‘RapidShare’ and ‘Megaupload’ from its Instant and Auto-complete services. Court argued that Google indirectly facilitates copyright infringement by not filtering these terms.

This new attempt from another court wouldn’t get rid of pirate sites. Pirate sites would just change their addresses in order to continue sharing activities.

YouTube Launched New Feature That Allows You To Blur Faces In Your Videos

YouTube has launched a new feature. Using this feature you can easily blur faces in your videos. It easily recognizes all faces in a video and you can blur them all in a single button click.

For using this feature: Select Video >> Enchantments >> Additional Features

Google Chrome Partnered With Tate Modern For Creating A Collaborative Art Project “This Exquisite Forest”

Google Chrome partnered with Tate Modern for creating an online collaborative art project “This Exquisite Forest” It uses modern web technologies like HTML5 Canvas and WebAudio API. You can create short animations, connect it with different others and this way you develop a collection of animated stories. Tate Modern Gallery would be displaying some of these selected stories through out the year.

Your WordPress P2 Blog Can Now Be A Full-Blown Issue Tracker

You can now have your WordPress blog as a full-blown issue tracker with Recently updated Resolved/Unresolved Posts Plugin. Test it live here in this post. Check Resolved/Unresolved button at the top right corner of this post.

  • Green posts are resolved issues.
  • Red posts are unresolved issues.

You also get a sidebar widget for quick overview of resolved and unresolved posts.

Source: http://kovshenin.com/2012/wordpress-as-an-issue-tracker/

Today Google Is Launching Updates To Google Maps

Google is launching updates to Google Maps with more detailed information on parks, coastlines, water bodied etc. These maps would be having accurate names, known locations with clearly labelled ferry routes. Updates to +Google Maps would be available for:

  1. Croatia
  2. Czech Republic
  3. Greece
  4. Ireland
  5. Italy
  6. Lesotho
  7. Macau
  8. Portugal
  9. San Marino
  10. Singapore
  11. Vatican City

Check Google Blog- More detailed maps in parts of Europe, Africa and Asia

Ubuntu – Find Your IP Address

Sometimes you need IP address to solve some problems with your internet connection. May be you don’t know that you have two IP addresses:

  • First IP address is of computer on the internal network. and
  • Second IP address is of your computer on Internet.

Finding your internal IP address:

  1. Click the network menu on the top panel.
  2. Select Connection information.
  3. Note your internal IP address.

Finding your external internet IP address:

  1. Visit whatismyipaddress.com
  2. Note your external IP address