Add Emoticons to Blogger’s posts

Everyone knows that emoticons add more value to your blog posts by making the communication between you and your readers more personal. They allow you to express your emotions to your visitors.

For quite sometime, I was looking for a way to add emoticons to Tech Bold as well. By using GreaseMonkey extension for Firefox, it is now possible to use emotions with your blogger blog

GreaseMonkey is a specific extension for Firefox which enable you to add hundreds of other scripts to your Firefox, another good reason to use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer.

What you’ll need to use emoticons in your blogger blog:

• Latest Firefox Web Browser. You can download Firefox by clicking on the link on the left sidebar of this blog.

• Next you need GreaseMonkey Extension for Firefox. After installing Firefox, install GreeseMonkey Extension from here.

• And the emoticons GreeseMonkey script. Finally install the script by left clicking here.

Now when you’ll be writing your blog post, you should be able to add emoticons by simply clicking on them. This only works in compose mode, not in text/html mode.
ENJOY

Save Disk Space By Compressing Folders

Disk Space is something how much you have is always less. New computers does come with hard disks which has boat load of disk space, but many people may have older computer where free disk space is not what it used to be. One option would be to upgrade or buy a new hard drive, but what if you're not that tech savvy.

Another option in Windows XP and Windows Vista is to compress the entire folder, so that every file that is stored on that folder is automatically compressed when saved and decompressed when opened. The beauty of this thing is that you don't need to compress or decompress the files, it is done automatically by Windows. You wouldn't even notice it. It's like working with any other normal folder.

Note: Before you try to compress a folder, make sure that folder is on NTFS file format.

Compressing the Folder to save Disk Space

• Right click the folder whose files you want to compress and click properties.
• Click on Advanced..

• Check the box which says "Compress contents to save disk space".

• At the Confirm Attribute Changes window, select "Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files". Click Ok

• Did it saved disk space? Of course it did. (see figure below)

Easily remember folders with Rainbow Folders

Imagine if you could set different color to different folders to select the one you want from a huge pile of folders. Rainbow Folders is a freeware which allows you to set custom colors to various any folder. You can easily color any folders to any color you want.

It will easily speed up your navigation among thousands of folders located on your hard drive. You could mark important folders as red, working folders as blue, music folders as well green. However, my color sense isn't that good.

Once a folder is colored, it is visible in every Explorer window, every open/save dialog and in every folder selection tree as seen in many programs. You can also set a custom tooltip to be displayed with the folder every time the mouse comes in focus. And it does works with Windows Vista as well.

Download Rainbow Folders

Using Gmail as a Drive in Windows

Gmail recently increased their storage space to a massive 4GB. This of course is nothing compared to the current storage capacity of the hard disk drives, but what if you could use Gmail as an online data storage facility? For an online storage facility, it can do wonders.
Most of the companies offering online storage charge some fees for their facility, and Gmail also offers a massive 400 Gigabytes of storage which would cost $500 per year. But most users like me will be happy to use that massive 4GB of online storage facility for free. You can even save your important files and backups on Gmail.

You can use the Gmail Drive Extension (which of course is a freeware) to use Gmail as a drive in Windows and instantly store and retrieve files from your Gmail account like it was a normal drive on your Windows.

I use it to backup important data, not as my main backup location but a secondary one. All files that are stored on the drive are accessible on the Gmail website as well which means it is also possible to store files that you work with on different computers.

Download Gmail Drive Extension