Auto Update Your Twitter Using FeedBurner

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
Today in this post I will tell you how you can auto update your Twitter account when you post something new on your blog. You all must be using FeedBurner for your blog to track readers and to monetize your content on FeedBurner. As FeedBurner give updates to your readers same way it will also update your twitter timeline.

Here how you can
1.       Go to FeedBurner.com
2.       Login to your account
3.       Click on the feed name which you want to socialize with your Twitter
4.       Now go to Publicize –> Socialize
5.       There you click on Add a Twitter account button
6.       A popup will open
7.       Give your Twitter ID and Password of the account which you want to Socialize(if you are not logged in to Twitter)
8.       Click on Allow button to give access to your Twitter account
9.       Now choose the option how your blog post will get tweet, like you can add Hash tags, Additional text and other which you want
10.   You can also see the demo how your tweet will get updated
11.   Now click on Active or Save button

Click here to see how one of my blog get updated using FeedBurner.

How To Add Favicon In Blogger.com Blog

Hi! Everyone, wish you all happy and safe Christmas.
Today in this post I will tell you how you can make favicon in your Blogger.com blog. Favicon is what you see a small image in the corner of your browser’s tab/window (see in the below image). You might always see in Blogger.com blogs (*.blogspot.com) always have same Continue reading How To Add Favicon In Blogger.com Blog

How To Create Playlist In Blogger.com Using JW Player

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
Today in this post I will tell you how you can create playlist using JW Player. As I told in my last post that few readers asked me how they can create Playlist using JW Player and how they can host files of JW Player in Google code. So in last post I told you how you can host files in Google code and if you want to know how to use and earn from JW Player Click here.

To make a playlist using JW Player you need to have an XML file where you will put all the videos link of your playlist.
Here how you can create JW Player Playlist XML file
1.       Open notepad in your computer
2.       Copy the below code
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<playlist version='1' xmlns='http://xspf.org/ns/0/'>
<trackList>

   <track>
      <title>Video Name</title>
      <location>Video URL</location>
      <annotation>Video Description</annotation>
      <duration>Video Length (Time)</duration>
   </track>

</trackList>
</playlist>
Now copy the bold portion and paste it after </track> as much time you want (as much video will be in a playlist)
3.       Now change few things
i)        Video Name With the name of the video
ii)       Video URL with the URL of the video
iii)     Video Description With the video description
iv)     Video Length (Time) with the video length
Note: – Every time put different Name, URL, Description and Length
4.       After you made the playlist save that file
i)        Press Crtl+S (for save option)
ii)       Now change the Save as type: from Text Documents (*.txt) to All files (*.*)

iii)     An give the name of the file and after the name give .xml
iv)     Then click Save button
5.       Now upload this file to Google code hosting server or on your hosting server
To know how to upload file to Google code click here.
Here how you can make playlist using JW Player
1.       Go to Blogger.com –> Click on Design for the following blog –> Edit HTML
2.       Find the </head> tag
3.       Just before the end of head tag place the below code (if you haven’t place this code before for JW Player)
<script 
src="http://jajodiasaket.googlecode.com/files/swfobject.js"
type="text/javascript"/>

4.      Now place the below code where you want to
display your JW Player Playlist

<div name='jwppl1' id='jwppl1'>
<script type="text/javascript"> 
var so = new SWFObject
('https://player.longtailvideo.com/player.swf ','single'
,'600','320','8');
so.addParam('wmode','transparent');
so.addParam('allowScriptAccess','always');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addVariable('fullscreen','true');
so.addVariable('width','600');
so.addVariable('height','320');
so.addVariable('playlist','right');
so.addVariable('playlistsize','200');
so.addVariable('file','playlist.xml');
so.addVariable('image','image.jpg');
so.addVariable('plugins', 'ltas,gapro-1,googlytics-1,fbit-1');
so.addVariable('ltas.cc','AdSolution ID');
so.addVariable('gapro.accountid','Google Analytics ID');
so.write('jwppl1');
</script></div>
Change the following things before you place the code:
a)      Change The Longtail Video AdSolution ID
Change the AdSolution ID with your Longtail Video AdSolution ID and if you don’t have the AbSolution ID then you can sign up for free, to know how to signup Click Here . Or if you don’t want to show ads just remove this entire line ( so.addVariable('ltas.cc', 'AdSolution ID'); )
b)      Change the Google Analytics ID whit your ID (ID is something like UA-XXXXXXXX-XX)
c)       Change the playlist.xml with your Playlist XML file
d)      Change the image.jpg with your preview image URL (it it not necessary if you are using YouTube video URL)
There is a facebook share button plugin I have given if you want to remove it just remove the ,fbit-1 from this line so.addVariable(‘plugins’, ‘ltas,gapro-1,googlytics-1,fbit-1‘); .
Note: – If you want to add two player in one page then change the 1 in jwppl1 (in 1st line and in last 2nd line) with 2 in 2nd player, if you want to add three player then change it with 3 in 3rd player and so on.
Here is a demo of how JW Player Play will look like

If you are having problem in viewing the Demo Playlist Click here.

Hope it will help you in creating JW Player Playlist, if you have any question or problem let me know

How To Host Files On Google Code

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
Today in this post I will tell you how you can host files in Google code. As few my reader asked me how they can host files in Google code to so that they can create Playlist using JW Player (about creating playlist I will tell in next post) here is how you can. And hosting files in Google code not only help you in creating playlist for JW Player or any just it can also help you in many other ways like, hosting JavaScript, jQuery, CSS and many more. This can help you in Blogger.com blog also.

Here how you can create a project where you will host your file(s)
1.       Go to code.google.com/hosting
2.       At the bottom click on Create a new project
3.       Now fill the form accordingly
4.       After filling the form click on Create project button

Now your project is made where you can host your file(s)
                          

Here how you can host your files
1.       Go to your project
i)        Go to code.google.com/hosting
ii)       At the top-right corner of the page click on My favorites
iii)     Now select the project in which you want to host your file(s)

2.       Click on Downloads tab
3.       Then click on New download
4.       Fill the form accordingly and attach the file you want to host
5.       Then click on Submit file button

Now your file is hosted on Google code

Here how you can get the link of hosted file
1.       Go to the project where you have hosted the file
i)        Go to code.google.com/hosting
ii)       At the top-right corner of the page click on My favorites
iii)     Now select the project in which you want to host your file(s)

2.       Click on Downloads tab
3.       Now right lick on the download icon (beside the file of which you want the link)
4.       Now select
i)        Chrome : Copy link address
ii)       Epic/FireFox : Copy Link Location
iii)     Internet Explorer : Copy Shortcut
iv)     Opera : Copy Link Address
v)      Safari : Copy Link

5.       Now use that link copied link wherever/however you want
               
If you have any suggestion or want to tell anything let me know

Get Full Control Of Your Blogger.com Blog Feeds

HI! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
Today in this post I will tell you how you can control on your Blogger.com blog RSS feeds. If you are using Blogger.com for your blog, till now you get only three options (None, Short and Full) on the contents you want to show in your blog feeds. But now Blogger.com introduced one more option by which you get full control to show how much content will appear in blog feed.

Here how you can
1.       Go to Blogger.com
2.       Login to your account
3.       Click on Settings –> Site Feed (on the blog you want to do)
4.       There you will see Allow Blog Feeds
5.       Beside that click on drop-down menu and select Until Jump Break

6.       Click on SAVE SETTINGS

Now wherever you will give (Jump Breaks) in the between the post, in feed it will show only that much till where you have given jump break.

Note: – When you will give jump break in blog home page, label page and archive page it will also till there where you have given jump break.

How To Enable Moble Version Template On Blogger.com Blog

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
Today in this post I will tell you how you can enable mobile version template in your Blogger.com blog. Today when I login to Draft.Blogger.com I show Blogger has bought one new feature for mobile readers. You can only able to enable it through Blogger in Draft.

In Blogger mobile template now have only 6 templates. If you are using any templates from Blogger Template Designer then your blog will look same in mobile and if you are using any custom Blogger template then you will get simple look in mobile. In mobile all gadgets/elements may not support, for now it will supports gadgets/elements like Header, Blog, Profile, AdSense, Attribution. And using mobile anyone will able to make comments and watch videos. And if you are showing Adsense ads using HTML/JavaScript gadget then it won’t display ads, to show ads in mobile you have to use Adsense gadget or using Show Ads Between Posts tool, it will show ad at the top of the post page or at the bottom of the index page.

Here how you can
1.       Go to Draft.Blogger.com
2.       Login to your account (using Blogger.com ID and Password)
3.       Click on setting (for the blog you want to enable)
4.       Then go to Email & Mobile option
5.       There you will see written Mobile Template (beta)
6.       Select the Yes, On mobile devices, show the mobile version of my template. Radio button
7.       If you want to see how it will look in mobile click on MOBILE PREVIEW button
8.       Then click on SAVE SETTINGS button at the bottom of the page

Now a small script is added in your blog by which if any user will visit your blog using smartphone (WebKit-based mobile browsers are supported for our initial launch.) they will get redirect to mobile device template page.
If anyone wants to see how there Blogger.com blog will look in mobile device just add ?m=1 after the URL of your blog.

To see how my blog will look in a mobile Click here

Add YouTube Videos To Your Blog Directly From Blogger.com

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
Today in this post I will tell you how you can upload, search and add videos to your Blogger.com blog. Yesterday night Google introduced a new feature in Draft.Blogger.com (Blogger in Draft). Now you don’t have to open a new tab/window to search for a YouTube video then copy-paste the code. You can directly search YouTube videos or add your own YouTube videos from Blogger in Draft.

To search and add YouTube videos directly from Blogger.com
1.       Go to Draft.Blogger.com
2.       Click on NEW POST in which you want to post
3.       Click on Compose tab if it is not selected
4.       In the menu bar you will see video icon click on it
5.       To upload video, search from YouTube or to select from your YouTube account do the following
i)        To upload video select Upload (Note: – the videos you will upload will not get uploaded to your YouTube account, it will go to videos.google.com)
ii)       To search video from YouTube, select From YouTube
iii)     To select videos from your YouTube account, select My YouTube videos

6.       After doing any one of the above (in step 5) click on Select button

To post video from YouTube
1.       Go to that video page which video you want to post
2.       Click on share button below that video player
3.       Now click on Blogger icon

4.       A popup will open with that video’s iframe embed code
5.       Now post whatever you want to with that video