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Everysince I created this blog, whenever I share my blog URL to people, the first thing they ask is 'hey do you own a website?' At first, I explained the whole thing about blogs and websites and why mine is blog. Soon, I realised I have to repeat the story to every people. I was fed up with explaining things. Now I simply accept that I own a website and move on. So, in this post I'm going to give you a clearcut idea of what is a blog, what is a website and the ways by which you can discriminate a blog from a website. I accept there are so many posts regrading this topic. But, I think there are so many points they miss to point out. I have tried my best to bridge the gap. In the following table, I have briefly listed the difference between a blog & a website. To know more about a particular point just click on it. The first thing you must know is all blogs are websites but all websites are not blogs. Quite confusing right?? Read further you will get to know. Properties ...

Every blogger on this earth would like to earn some money out of their blog. So, they post ads or promote affiliate products. Coming to ads side, one has many options. There are so many ad networks available on internet to choose from. To earn anything from the ads on your blog, you must have decent traffic which in turn requires good ranking on search engines like Google. Every blog must fulfill certain criteria to rank top on Google. One among which is pagespeed. The ads you serve may slow down your page speed eventually it affects your search rankings badly because, ad networks use javascripts to serve ads on publisher pages which is why you have to load ads asynchronously or after the document is completed loading. I presume you know the basic things about render blocking, asynchronous script loading etc. If you don't know much about those things this guide could help. Also see: How to increase Page load speed of Blogger Blog If you're running Adsense, BuySell ads, Chitika...

Almost all Engineering students might have Microprocessors & Microcontrollers laboratory classes in the course of 4 year degree. So, one must know how to write programs and feed it into 8085 & 8051 kits to get proper output. Unfortunately, most of us won't have access to those trainer kits when we want. Here, simulators come for the rescue. Simulators are nothing but computer programs that are capable of doing the same thing as the real devices do. So, development kits are not at all needed for gearing-up for practical exams. One can execute assembly language programs on the PC itself. What are all the benefits of using Simulators Syntax-highlighting - If the syntax you use is wrong, it will show it. Machine code - Equivalent machine code for your assembly language can easily be obtained. Testing - You can test the code before feeding it to Microprocessor or Microcontroller Prerequisites for both 8085 & 8051 Simulators To work with the simulators which I'm going to ...

'It is sine qua non to eat balanced food to stay healthy' What will you do when you read a piece of text like the one above? Do you know the meaning of 'sine qua non'? Sure, 95% of you might have no idea and assume a meaning to that word to know what the passage conveys. It might be good for the time being, but your English vocabulary would not improve. Also, you couldn't open your dictionary app of your smart phone or similar software on desktop to know the meaning. It is tedious and time consuming. So, what you can do about it? There are ways by which you can get the meaning, usage, examples, past & perfect forms, usage as adjective, adverb, noun forms, as well as the pronunciation of any particular word you come across on Internet easily. If you are not proficient enough in English, there is also a way to get the meaning of words in your mother tongue. Quite interesting right?? Note: This tip is applicable for chrome users only. I will find equivalent add-on...

We all watch YouTube videos frequently. While watching some videos, especially in full screen mode, it is annoying to see annotations and subscribe us links. It totally spoils our video watching enjoyment. You can manually close those pop-ups such as annotations and links, but it is not a permanent solution. There are two ways to hide those things in a hassle-free manner. This problem is a big burden for most of us, because the close button can't be clicked while watching in full screen mode. Most of the time spotting the x button to close those links becomes quite difficult. when it is more than two, you will be outraged. You can permanently hide those annotations by changing your YouTube settings as explained in this guide . The demerit of this method is you will no longer see links over the videos you watch which may include some useful links at the end of the video. Those links could be there as connecting links to other videos of the same channel or it may take you to the rel...

Sometimes, you might want to be offline and check who are all online on Google+ or Facebook. You may have some reasons to do this, I'm going to show you how to do this stuff perfectly. It will be something like the list of online people will be showed, you can choose whether you must be showed online or offline to them, it's completely your choice. UPDATE on 17/09/2015: Pidgin will no longer work for Facebook as Facebook disabled its XMPP Chat API from April 30th, 2015. You will need a third party application named, 'Pidgin' to do this. The best part is Pidgin is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Download Pidgin . For complete guidance on which version you have to download and how Check this link . You may ask me, 'Why should we use a third party application while there are provisions to do this on Facebook and Google+ by default'. Good question. Here my answer, you may turn off chat on Facebook and Sign out from hangouts on G+. But, you will no longer see ...

With 1.3 billion active users, Facebook is the most successful social network among world people. Day by day, the number of users joining Facebook increases steadily. Most of us know how to utilize the features of Facebook to make the most out of it. In this post, I share the most basic and important 10 features of it which I guess you don't know. Also, please don't blame me if you already know some of the tips mentioned. #1. Get post & comment links Often, you would come across a stunning post in Facebook which you couldn't share explicitly or you are too lazy to share it in custom. Sometimes, you may want your friend to check out a particular comment. You can get the link of any particular post or any particular comment by clicking on the timestamp (Refer below images). Else, you can simply right click the link and select 'Copy link address' and send it to your friend. #2. Download Facebook videos If you know how to download a YouTube video, you will easily d...

All bloggers are interested in Google traffic, because it is highly targeted and lucrative. It is also good to get referaal traffic from other sites. Flickr is an image hosting site owned by Yahoo. It is famous among bloggers for its CC licensed images. We can use CC images in our blog straightaway, depending on the type of the license. For instance, for CC BY-SA license, all we need to do is just giving credit to the owner. So, like Google, Flickr will also be searched for images. Also, Google often returns Flickr images if you filter the results under 'Usage rights'. Bloggers always filter the results under 'Labeled for reuse with modification'. So, they can use those images in their blog without any license problem. One can witness many Flickr images with this filter for any search query. So, it is good to have those kind of images in your Flickr channel to get traffic to your blog. It is easy to drive Flickr traffic to your blog. Also, if your image is good, it wi...

Are you a torrent freak and do you have a dual-booted system? I hope you understand what I'm going to teach you by taking a glimpse of the title. For instance, say you use Windows for Microsoft word and Linux for other purposes. Lets say, in Windows, You initiated a torrent download which is 75% completed. When you switch back to Linux, you could not continue the download from where you left. You have to begin all from the scratch otherwise you must boot into Windows to finish things. It's not at all necessay. You can continue the left off in your other OS too. You may have Windows + Windows, Windows + Linux, Windows + Mac, whatever this trick is going to work in all. Things you need Deluge - Torrent client. Two folders to store your .torrent files. (For example: win & lin) A common place for your downloads. (For example: container) Instructions Install Deluge bittorrent client in all OSs of your system. As said earlier, create three folders in your hard drive. Your OSs mu...

You might have used Google drive, Dropbox or Onedrive to save your files and share them with your friends or public. Whenever you want to share some files, you will be given a URL Obviously, they are not direct links in the sense, those allow other users to visit one gateway page which contains a download link for any particular file. The user must use that to download files. Some of us would want to share the direct links for the files, so that any user can initiate the download just by clicking that hyperlink. You could do that easily. You just need to edit the share URL to make this happen. To make things a lot easier, I have created a tool by which you can generate direct download links for your files in Google drive, Dropbox and Onedrive. What you have to do is just copy the share URL of any file. Go to this page - Direct Download link generator for Google drive, Dropbox, Onedrive . Paste the share URL in the text box under "Enter Share link" and press Enter. Now, if yo...

If you land in this page, then you must be a blogger. If you have registered your domain name with Bigrock (As I did), then you would have known about their free email service. Every domain name can have a maximum of 2 custom email addresses. Are you still using your gmail address in your contact page? This's the perfect time to look more professional. How awesome it would be if your email address look like the following one? vignesh@syncwithtech.org It's the email address I use in my contact page. Looks professional nah? Sure, it do. You can also have a custom email address like the one mentioned above. If you don't even know how to create a custom email address with Bigrock, refer this guide . This post is all about how to manage your custom email more easily without messing things up. Let's say you have created an email, from your Bigrock account. How will you use it? What are all you must do to get the most out of it? all of the above questions are answered in this...

Sure, load time of any web-page makes an impact in its search rankings. Who needs a slow web? Even Google says "The web should be fast". Will you revisit a website which takes more than 5 seconds to load? I will not. Moreover, fast loading web pages enhance user experience. Visitors are the pillars of any successful blog. So, every blogger must take steps to speed up their blog load time. In this post, I have given some tips which would help you to load your Blogger blog faster. Guidelines provided in this article were tested many times and is used by me in this blog. I have provided 2 URLs at the end of this post. Both of the URL contains the same content. One is optimized to load fast using the tips below and the other one is left as it is. Eliminate render blocking Javascripts and CSS This one is the major factor which could degrade your page speed. Render blocking is nothing but hindering the render of the page that means the main content of the page will be prevented fro...

Everyday we browse Internet to find something we need. Usually, we tend to come across a well-written article or blog post which we can't wait to share it with our friends. Obviously, this sharing happens online by means of Social networking sites. You are blessed, if you find Social sharing buttons on that site. Otherwise, you have to copy the address of that page and to share it manually which is a tedious task. Because of the above reason, sometimes you refuse to share the awesome webpage you found. It is no longer a problem while there is a solution to solve this. AddToAny is what you need to solve this problem. They provide a nice platform to share the content you see online to 90+ webservices like Facebook, Twitter, Stumbleupon, Linkedin and many more across the Internet. You could also save your article to Pocket, Instapaper, Evernote or bookmark it in Reddit. There is also provision to send the link as an email to your friend. If you are a Chrome user, then there is an ext...

All savvy computer users know what is VirtualBox , how and why it is used. But rather than just virtualizing, you can use it for other purposes too. The following things can also be done using VirtualBox in my point of view. For the one who don't even know what is VirtualBox, I recommend you to read the Lifehacker's guide to VirtualBox . Hide your personal files Tired of searching applications to hide your personal files? VirtualBox can give you real solution. You must have used Shared folders in VirtualBox. You could hide files, if the size of your Virtual hard disk is large enough to accommodate your files. Now all you need to do is, just cut and paste the files you want to hide from the Shared folders to the Virtual hard drive. You can retrieve the files from the VirtualBox whenever you need it. Note : One thing must be taken care in this method, if your Virtual hard disk is "Dynamically allocated". This type of hard drive will grow in size, when it is used. (i.e)...