HOW TO ACCESS WIKIPEDIA OFFLINE

Hey friends, as you all know Wikipedia is the biggest information provider on the internet at present. You can find every single definition on wikipedia along with detailed explaination. Today we are going to discuss that how you can access the wikipedia Offline i.e, while not on internet, you can still find information on wikipedia.

Just follow the easy steps to get that working:

    Download WikiTaxi  from this linkhttp://www.wikitaxi.org/delphi/lib/exe/fetch.php?hash=8fcac3&media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikitaxi.org%2Fdelphi%2Fdownloads%2FWikiTaxi_1.3.0.7z, you will find this as 7-zip archive.(Use 7-zip to open this.)

    Extract the archive and you will find the files as below:

Run wiki taxi and you will find a screen like this:.

 Now, you need to download a package (Dump, as they say it), the package start from 25 MB and goes upto 3.5 GB. You just can download Simple English (it would do your task)

    After downloading, open Wikitaxi Importer and you will see something like this:

In XML dump file dialog, click browse and select the file you downloaded, browse for location of Wikitaxi folder and hit Import Now! It dows it for aruond 5 Minutes and you are done to use it offline.

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Add / Import Facebook Contacts to Gtalk Using Yahoo Contacts

Now you may have more friends in your facebook than Google Talk. It is really difficult when you have to manage your friends on facebook and friends on facebook at a time. With two different windows active, it becomes slightly difficult but there is always a solution. Now, You can now add your facebook contacts with your gtalk Contacts. The facebook contacts import process is really easy if you have a yahoo account. If you don’t have one, then sign up for a yahoo account and believe me – it’s Worth it.

How To Import Facebook Contacts To GTalk Contacts

1) Go to Yahoo Mail and Sign in with your Username Password

2) Select Contacts Tab from the Top Panel

3) You will see a message on top like this ” New! Import email addresses from your Facebook friends to Yahoo! Contacts ” and this will be added to your yahoo messenger too.

4) Simply follow the steps and you will get all your contacts imported to your yahoo contacts

5) Click On this Link to export all your Facebook contacts on your PC. You can Export it as .vcf, .csv or .zip file format

6) Now Go to your Gmail > and Sign in

7) Import the Downloaded Contact File to a Group

8} Select Compose and Select the Group Name in the “TO” field

9) Once Group name is taken by the Field, You can just Click Select All and Copy all the address

10) Sign Into Gtalk, and Click on the Add button Link.

11) To the Blank Space in the Newly opened window, Paste the copied Contact list and click on Next button. Its Done.

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Add / Import Outlook Contacts to Skype Contacts

Skype is on a Go. It has been revolutionizing the voice calls made over the internet. With the release of the latest skype version 5, it has even took a step further to import social contacts from twitter and Facebook so that you can call your facebook and twitter friends too. Outlook by Microsoft on the other hand has been grooming up their application better and better. Well, things just got better – Skype can now integrate all your Microsoft Outlook contacts with the existing skype contacts and allow you to call your Outlook contact using Skype.

How to Import Outlook Contacts to Skype

1) Run Skype : Go to Start > Programs > Skype

2) Find Contact link on top of Skype and Click it

3) From the Drop Down Menu Select “import Contacts“

4) Again : Go to Start > Select Outlook or Desired Address Book

5) Click Next button and Check the option which Pop up > Click Yes

6) Go to the Skype Application and Click Next

7) Choose “Select All” button to import all outlook Contacts

8} Click Next button and Finish. Its Done.

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Connect xBox 360 Live through Laptop or PC

Most of us would wish to connect our Xbox Live 360 with our computers or Laptops. The process is very simple. Follow these steps to connect your xbox live through your PC or laptop. Works with Windows 7.

Steps to connect Xbox live through your PC

1) Keep your Xbox live completely Off.

2) Place your Wifi enabled Laptop or PC close to your xbox 360 and connect Ethernet cable.

3) Switch On your PC or Laptop but not your Xbox Live.

4) Click on Start > Control Panel > Select ” Network and Sharing Center” > Click on ” Manage network connections”

5) Choose Both the LAN and Wireless icon using the Ctrl Key and right click on one icon.

6) Click on Bridge Connection option.

7) Check for the icon status on task bar, You should be now connected to wireless network and LAN network.

8} Switch On your XBOX Live 360 and sign into Xbox live. This should happen automatically else – select network settings from settings option. Click on Test Xbox Live option and you will be able to log in.

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How To Make A Clickable Picture Link

How to make a picture (an image, photo or screenshot) clickable, that is, become a hyperlink.

The first thing is you must get the picture up on the web. This you can do by uploading toPhotobucket.

You can choose one of the billions pictures they have or if you have an account or open an account (its free) you can upload an image.


Once you upload or select an image you will get code for the image in four formats you must select HTML.

So for this we will use this image.



When you click this image it will lead you to Photobucket.com.
So we gotta change the direction.

This is the Html for this picture its the same as the code you use sending any pictre comments in Myspace etc...

We are interested in the address http:// photobucket.com.

<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu40/paulcrowe/info.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" /></a>

The address determines were the picture leads to when clicked.
So we simply change it to were we want the picture to lead to.

In This case we will change it to http:// spiceyourblog.info :

<a href="http://spiceyourblog.info" target="_blank"><img src="http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu40/paulcrowe/info.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" /></a>

By changing the address the picture now leads to this site.
Easy.

But were not finished yet take your cursor and put it over the picture

You will see a line of text appear "Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" (does not work in all browsers)
We can also change this it gives a discription of the image and also helps get your image indexed in Google image searches.

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The code we are interested in here is "Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket".

<a href="http://spiceyourblog.info" target="_blank"><img src="http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu40/paulcrowe/info.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" /></a>

We simply change this text to whatever we want it to say like this :

<a href="http://spiceyourblog.info" target="_blank"><img src="http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu40/paulcrowe/info.jpg" border="0" alt="Type the text you want here" /></a>

Now the text will show "Type the text you want here"

Try it out :



You now have a simple professional hyperlink that leads to anywhere you choose.

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How To Make An Easy Clickable Link

In this post i will show you how to make a text link or hyperlink.

Making the link is very simple.

This is how you would create a link directing to this site:

<a href="http://okkomadewaltricks.blogspot.com "> Click Here</a>


And this is how it looks:

Click Here

To make the link direct to your site or any web page you want all you have to do is replace my link (the bit in red) with your link.

<a href="Replace this with your link">Here</a>

You may also change the text that shows.

So instead of "Click Here" you could have :

<a href="http://okkomadewaltricks.blogspot.com ">abcdefghij</a>

Which appears as so:

abcdefghij

This is just a simple html text link for more help and a more indept look at creating links check out w3Schools.

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How To Make A Youtube Video Auto Start Or Auto Play

This is very easy to do and also a very common question.When you place a YouTube video on your blog the default setting is set for the video not to start unless play is clicked.If you would like the video to start automatically when someone arrives on your page you just need to add a simple piece of code.

Make A YouTube Video Auotplay

 YouTube have a newer embedd code and an old code i will cover both.You can see in both codes were i have added &autoplay=1

- The old YouTube code

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vK9_rU37IbE&autoplay=1"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vK9_rU37IbE&autoplay=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

- The New YouTube Code

<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vK9_rU37IbE&autoplay=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

With the auto play code added your video will now start automatically.

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What Is Rss / Subscribe / Feeds?

What is RSS? This is a regularly asked this question and it might be worth putting together a page to define RSS and hopefully help you on the topic.Do you want to keep up to date with the latest posts on your favorite blogs/websites?We have a number of ways that you can subscribe to this site and receive updates. The main one that our readers use is our RSS feed.

What is RSS?

RSS is a technology that is being used by millions of web users around the world to keep track of their favorite websites.

In the ‘old days’ of the web to keep track of updates on a website you had to ‘bookmark’ websites in your browser and manually return to them on a regular basis to see what had been added.

The problems with bookmarking

• You as the web surfer had to do all the work
• It can get complicated when you are trying to track many websites at once
• You miss information when you forget to check your bookmarks
• You end up seeing the same information over and over again on sites that don’t update very often

RSS Changes Everything

What if you could tell a website to let you know every time that they update? In a sense, this is what RSS does for you.

RSS flips things around a little and is a technology that provides you with a method of getting relevant and up to date information sent to you for you to read in your own time. It saves you time and helps you to get the information you want quickly after it was published.
RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. Many people describe it as a ‘news feed’ that you subscribe to.
I find the ’subscription’ description helpful. It’s like subscribing to a magazine that is delivered to you periodically but instead of it coming in your physical mail box each month when the magazine is published it is delivered to your ‘RSS Reader’ every time your favorite website updates.
How RSS actually technically works is probably a lesson for another day but the key today is for you to understand why it’s good and how to use it.
Let me say right up front that I’m not the most technically savvy guy going around - but even I can use RSS. At first I found it a little strange to make the change from bookmarking to RSS but I found that when I started that I just couldn’t stop.

How to Use RSS

Get an RSS Reader - The first thing you’ll want to do if you’re getting into reading sites via RSS is to hook yourself up with an RSS Feed Reader.
There are many feed readers going around with a variety of approaches and features - however a good place to start is with a couple of free and easy to use web based ones likeGoogle Reader and Bloglines. Either one will do if you’re starting out,as I say there are many to choose from but to get started either of these are fairly easy to use and will help you work out the basics of RSS.
Both of these feed readers work a little like email. As you subscribe to feeds you’ll see that unread entries from the sites you’re tracking will be marked as bold. As you click on them you’ll see the latest update and can read it right there in the feed reader. You are given the option to click through to the actual site or move onto the next unread item - marking the last one as ‘read’.

The best way to learn how to use either Google Reader or Bloglines is to simply subscribe to some feeds and give it a go. Both have helpful help sections to get you up and running.

Note: other options to tracking websites that you might already be familiar with include using pages like MyYahoo, MyGoogle and MyMSN.

Find Some Feeds to Subscribe to - there are two places to look for a site’s feed:

1. On the Site
2. In Your Browser

On Site Subscription

Over the last few years you may have noticed a lot of little buttons and widgets appearing on your favorite sites and blogs. Little orange buttons, ‘counters’ with how many ‘readers a blog has, links called RSS, XML, ATOM and many more.

They come in all shapes and sizes. Here are a few you might have seen:

There are plenty more - but any time you see any of these buttons or anything like them it means that the site you are viewing almost certainly has a feed that you can subscribe to. In most cases it’s as simple as either copying and pasting the link associated with the button into your RSS Reader or clicking the button and following the instructions to subscribe using the feed reader of your choice.
Once you’ve done this and have subscribed to a few feeds you’ll begin to see unread items in your Feed Reader and you can start reading.

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Don’t want to Use an RSS Reader? Email is an Option

If the above explanation all just seems a little too complicated for you then please don’t worry. Many sites also enable you to subscribe to RSS feeds via a more familiar medium - Email.

I know that not everyone is into the RSS thing so at the top of our left hand sidebar there is a field where you can enter your email address and get a daily email with a summary of our latest posts. You can unsubscribe at any time and your email will be kept private and not used for any other purposes than to send these daily updates.

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Avoiding Some Basic Problems during a Conference Call

There is no hard and fast rule, when it comes to the usage of conference calls. Generally, there can be varied reasons for using conference calls. Moreover, they are not just about communication alone. You can conduct online seminars or you can conduct meetings with people sitting far off places.

Regardless of the reason for the use of conference calls, there is no doubt that during its use you are going to face some problems. By the time you will end up going through this article, you will come to know about techniques to deal with some problems faced during the call. 

One of the basic problems you would face while organizing a

conference call is the late arrival of the people. You can consider it as a standard problem in a majority of meetings. However, the probability for the occurrence of this problem during a conference call increases multifold. In a face-to-face meeting you can know that a person is late, if he is actually late and people don’t want to be ashamed being late. However, in case of a conference call, things are different unless you host the call. Even if you are late in this case no one would know. However, if you are firm on the point of timing and keep reminding people time and again, then there are high chances that they will be on time in the meeting. You can have video conferencing in order to avoid this problem.

Yet another common problem during a conference call is the repetitive interruptions due to background noise. For some unknown reasons, despite having used mobile for more than a decade, a majority of people don’t know a proper conference call etiquette of communicating over a conference call. You would often find people talking in their full pitch even in the situation wherein they can be heard just by speaking in a low tone. Before starting the conference call, they don’t bother ensuring that the surrounding is sans any distraction. This is a basic thing, which everyone must know but still you will find it happening in every conference call. 

The last but definitely one of the major problems is the lack of active involvement. Most of the people are busy doing something else during a conference call, which acts as a deterrent for a successful call. They aren’t mentally involved in the discussion so there presence is null and void. They can be included in the meeting by having a facilitator who would ensure that everyone is actively involved in the meeting.

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