How to Play Video Files Having Ordered Chapters

January 14th, 2012 No comments

If you are an anime fan and download mini encoded mkv files for watching anime series, then you have probably encountered this format called Ordered Chapters. So basically the uploading team will cut the opening and ending themes of the anime to two separate files. These two will be common for all the main episode files and should be placed in the same folder. That way the file size of the main anime episodes will be significantly less and it will be quicker to upload and download and will save some bandwidth.

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Neave Pac-Man is The Best Pac-Man!

January 7th, 2012 No comments

I was planning to write this post for a quite while now. But I had some doubts on my mind whether I should write it or not.I will disclose the reason at the end of the post :)

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Google Search Can Be Your Instant Online Calculator

December 21st, 2011 No comments

Do you know that Google Search can do your calculation just like the calculator in your Operating system? You can use it seamlessly to do any simple or complex computation while browsing the web. To use Google Search built-in calculator function just type the calculation in the Google Search box or you can just copy paste the computation from any other page. And Google will show you the evaluated value as the result. This is a small trick but you never know when you may find it handy :)

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Get One Year of Free Hosting And .IN Domain Registration From Google And HostGator

December 11th, 2011 No comments

If you are Indian, you can start your site for free with your own .in top level domain. Google and HostGator have collaborated with a few Indian companies to start giving away one year of free hosting and domain name to help local businesses create a online presence. I was going through their FAQ section. And it seems there is no strings attached. The domain will be registered to your name and they will provide the option to edit DNS record after one year. Or you can transfer your domain to any other domain registration service after initial 60 days. And after one year if you want to move your hosting to any other web hosting company instead of paying them, that is also possible. If you want to grab a .in cctld and free hosting just go to this site www.indiagetonline.in and register. You will need to add your PAN card copy as a proof that you reside in India.

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After Google Buzz It Is Time For Google Wave To Say Good Bye

November 25th, 2011 No comments

Another Google project is going down after Google Buzz. Today I received a mail from Google about the impending death of Google Wave. By 31st January, 2012 all Google waves will be read-only and the service will be completely shut down on 30th April, 2012. Just like Google Buzz, there is option to keep your waves. You can export your important waves as PDF format. Anyways it is not an issue for me. I don’t like to get too social online and only few social resources that I use like Facebook or Twitter are merely for sending out my blog updates. So I have nothing to export or keep from Google Buzz or Google Wave :)

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Working Link For Google Adsense Check Reissue Form

November 19th, 2011 No comments

I am an Indian and I used my permanent home address in Google Adsense account information. There used to be no issue when Google used to send Adsense check in regular mail delivery. But nowadays Adsense check is sent to all over India by Blue Dart and last time it didn’t even reach to my home town and they redirected it back. Anyways I was not there and my parents didn’t get any delivery sent to my name. So I had to request for reissue of that Adsense check. My mandatory 60 days waiting period just got ended few days back. But it took quite a while for me to search and find out the correct link where I can request for reissue of my Adsense check. You can’t do it from within your Google Adsense account and most of the pages that I got from Google search will point you to invalid Adsense support link saying:

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How to Delete Unsent Skype Messages When Recipient is Still Offline

November 6th, 2011 No comments

I have done this thing quite a few times. But the thing is the users whom I sent the Skype message by mistake used to be online at the same time and I couldn’t do anything before the message got delivered. But few days back I was on Skype and my mouse betrayed me! I clicked on someone’s profile and just dragged it to some other Skype contact! So basically I just shared the contact details with the second guy. Though they already knew each other and in each other’s contact list in Skype, I had some spare time and as the user was offline I thought there must be some way if I want to clear this mess :)

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Don’t Forget to Change WordPress Comment Submit URL If You Are Using Shared SSL

October 28th, 2011 No comments

Sometime back I wrote a post about how you can secure WordPress blog admin area using shared SSL without any plugin. But today I found out a glitch about that method and wanted to update you on how to fix it. So basically the issue I faced was like if some user submits a comment it redirects over https connection to the comment page and shows the SSL error that my site is using an SSL certificate of a different domain. It is because WP_SITEURL now points to the shared SSL secured url path given by the host company using their own domain name like https://cp32.hostable.com/~USERNAME/BLOG_DIRECTORY, but not your own domain like http://www.waveofweb.com/. And so after clicking on the submit button it redirects to that shared SSL path and submit the comment properly and then redirects the user to comment page using https version of the domain name. At that time reader gets the warning message of bad SSL cert. There is no issue with comment submit functionality but this is bad user experience. And readers are all we have got :)

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Search Query Data From Webmaster Tools Has Been Integrated to Google Analytics

October 8th, 2011 No comments

Google has now integrated search queries data from Google Webmaster Tools to Google Analytics so that user can better analyze their traffic data with the help of better filtering and visualization options that one can get in Analytics account. So if you now go to your Google Analytics account using the new interface, you will see a new sidebar menu called Search Engine Optimization underĀ Traffic Sources which in turn is under REPORTS tab. For your convenience I have attached a screenshot for the same :)

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Google Real Time Analytics Is Still to be Rolled Out for All the Accounts!

October 7th, 2011 No comments

Long back I wrote a blog post that you might not get immediate traffic data from Google Analytics as they generally update reports every 24 hours. But around a week ago they announced that they will be serving real time visitors data as it happens on your site. Just now I wanted to take a look in my own Google Analytics account. I switched to new interface but couldn’t find anything as they showed in their screenshot. According to their blog post, I need to be an administrator for the Google Analytics account, otherwise I won’t get the option. But I am the only one accessing my Analytics account and so I am the administrator! I was just thinking what might have gone wrong! Then I found out that it’s yet to be rolled out for all the Google Analytics accounts and they are planning to add it gradually in the coming weeks. I was just in too much of a hurry ;) So if you just can’t wait like me, go to this url and request access to real-time analytics option for your account. Then you might get priority than other publishers as they keep rolling out the feature :)

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