Tutorials – Page 57 – Saket Jajodia

Create And View Your Own Twitter API

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.

Today in this post I will help you in creating new and viewing existing Twitter API key. By creating Twitter API you will able adds some twitter features in your blog/website (like: hover card, tweet box, follow me button and many more). Here is few simple steps to get your Twitter API key.

For New Twitter user:-

1. Login to your Twitter account using twitter.com

2. Search and click on the Developers (see at footer of right side panel) or Click here

3. Click on the 2^nd option (Register an app)

4. Now fill the form accordingly

5. After filling the form click on Register application

6. Read the TWITTER API TERMS OF SERVICE careful

7. If you agree with their click on I Accept

8. And if you don’t then you won’t get the Twitter API

9. After clicking on I Accept you will redirect to a page where you will able to see all the details and your API key.

For Old Twitter user:-

1. Login to your Twitter account using twitter.com

2. Search and click on the API (see at bottom of the page) or Click here

3. Click on the 2^nd option (Register an app)

4. Now fill the form accordingly

5. After filling the form click on Register application

6. Read the TWITTER API TERMS OF SERVICE careful

7. If you agree with their click on I Accept

8. And if you don’t then you won’t get the Twitter API

9. After clicking on I Accept you will redirect to a page where you will able to see all the details and your API key.

View Your Existing API

1. Follow the 1^st and 2^nd step from the above following

2. Now see at the top of the page

3. You will see its written Your apps click on it

4. Now you can see all your apps you have created

Read Articles On Blogs/Websites Without Any Distractions

Cross Post With Google-Chrome

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.

Today in this post I will help you in reading articles without getting distracted from other contents on that page. In many blog/websites you must have show ads, share buttons and much other stuff sometime which become distractive and irritating specially video and flash ads, but to run those blog/websites most of them need to place ads and share buttons (to gain traffic) on their blog/website.

So here is a solution to hide those distractive stuffs while reading article or watching videos.

You can use a Google Chrome Extensions Reading Glasses to hide those distractive stuffs while reading article or watching videos.

1. To use you need to install Reading Glasses, to go to install page Click here

2. After it get install select a text of that portion which you want to keep visible

3. Then click on the Reading Glasses button

on the right-top of your Google Chrome browser

4. And see the action

5. After reading if you want to make the invisible portion make revisable again click on Reading Glasses button

Let me know how helpful it is for you.

Download any videos from any websites

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.

In this post I will tell you how you can download any videos from any website with your Epic or Mozilla Firefox browser. You can download videos from more than 600 website (including YouTube, Facebook, IndiaFM (Bollywood Hungama), IBNlive and many more) and the No. is increasing.

You just need Video Download Helper Add-on in your browser, to get Add-on Click here. After downloading and installing it into your browser you will see a new icon

between home icon and address bar. If the icon didn’t appeared then restart your browser or computer. Click on that gray icon to see which are the sites supported (to download videos).

Now go to the site from which you want to download video. After fully page get loaded and if it could able to find any video on that page then the icon color will change and its will be rolling

and you will also see a drop-down button beside that icon.

Now click on that drop-down, you will see few names. If you are downloading from YouTube then it will show you the option to download in all resolution as much it is available for that video.

Or to download you can also go to Tools –> DownloadHelper –> Media –> now select any one of them according to you.

Let me know what you think about this add-on to download your videos.

Get Desired Username For Your Facebook Profile

Hi! Everyone, Happy Teachers Day.

In this post I will tell you how to you can have a username for your Facebook account. By having a username you can get rid off in typing your long email ID in Facebook while login, you can also get a small desired profile URL for your Facebook profile then that long numbered URL so it get easy to tell your friend your profile URL, so they can able to find you easily.

Here are the steps to get Facebook username

1. Login to your Facebook account

2. After you login at the top-right click on Account –> Account Settings (or Click here)

3. Then you will see few settings options for your Facebook account in that click on Change in Username option

4. Now you will see few suggestions by Facebook suggested to you to choose your username

5. Now if you want to have any username suggested by Facebook then simply select that radio button beside username

6. If you didn’t like any username suggested by Facebook and you want some other username then that, click on More

7. Type the your desired username (you can use any letters both upper and lower case, numbers and dot but maximum 4 dots can be use)

8. Now click on Check availability (before clicking recheck what you have typed in the box)

9. The they will ask you to recheck your username, then click on Conform

Note: you can’t change your username more than once, so be careful while choosing your username.

How To Use Like Button In Your Blogger.com Blog

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.

In this post I will tell you how you can use Facebook Like Button in your Blogger.com blog. Few people asked me how they can use Facebook like button on their blogger blog so here it is. If you don’t have a blog in Blogger then you can create it now.

1. Go to your Blogger Dashboard –> Design –> Edit HTML –> now tick the Expand Widget Templates for the following blog in which you want to use Facebook Like Button.

2. Search for the following code (to bring the browser search box press Ctrl + F or F3)

a) If you want to use it before post and after title

<p class='post-header-line-1'>

b) If you want to use it after post ends

<data:post.body/>

3. Now place the following code just after any of the above code

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<iframe allowTransparency='true' expr:src='"http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=" + data:post.url + "&layout=standard&show_faces=true&action=like&font=arial&colorscheme=light"' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:70px;'/>
</b:if>

a) Things you might need to change

(1) layout=standard

You can change standard to button_count if you only want to show the button with no. of likes

(2) show_faces=true

You can change true to false if you don’t want to show the face

(3) action=Like

You can change Like to Recommend if you want to show recommend instead of like

(4) font=arial

You can change arial to

(a) lucida+grande

(b) segoe+ui

(d) trebuchet+ms

(e) verdana

Use anyone of follow font you like

(5) colorscheme=light

You can change light to dark depending on your template color

(6) change the width:450px and height:70px depending on your template

(7) If you want to show Like Button in home page also then remove the following codes

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
</b:if>

4. Now click on SAVE TEMPLATE, now check your blog everything is working fine

5. Now everything is fine now again come to Edit HTML page for the same blog

6. Now find opening head tag you will get it at the top of the page.

<head>

7. Paste it just below the head tag

<meta expr:content='data:blog.pageName' property='og:title'/>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.title' property='og:site_name'/> 
<meta content='Your Profile ID' property='fb:admins'/> 
<meta content='Category of your Blog' property='og:type'/>

i) Things you need to change

(1) Your Profile ID change it with your profile ID (If you want then you can remove the Profile ID line)

(2) Category of your Blog choose the category of your blog from Facebook open graph page to go to Facebook open graph page Click here.

Note:- Before editing your Blogger template take the backup of your template by going to Blogger Dashboard –> Design –> Edit HTML –> now click on Download Full Template for the safe side.

Tweet Button For Your Web Browser

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
In this post I am going to tell you how you can add tweet button in your web browser. As few days back I told you how you can add Twitter tweet button in your Blog, website and Google Chrome Browser. Now twitter has released tweet button for browser, where you just need to drag and drop a link in your browser’s bookmark bar (supports all major web browser).

Just drag and drop the below Tweet button in your web browser’s Bookmark bar.

Tweet

And now whenever you visit a webpage, where you can’t find the tweet button to tweet, you can just use this bookmark tweet button to tweet. However this will also work as twitter tweet button works. When you will click on it a twitter pop-under window will appear by which you can tweet as you tweet using twitter tweet button in a webpage.

And if you didn’t liked this bookmark button then you can also use a Chrome extension by Shareaholic in Google Chrome. This also works as the Twitter tweet button works and it also shows how many tweets have been done in the following page.

How To Use Picnik Editor In Picasa

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.

In this post I am going to tell you about Google’s new update added in Picasa is an online photo editor Picnik. Google have integrated Picnik which is the best online image editor application. And now it is also available in desktop version in Picasa.

To edit your image in Picnik using Picasa:-

1. Open the Picasa application in your computer or download it from picasa.google.com

2. Now find and select the image you want to edit

3. Right click on the image (you want to edit)

4. Click on View and Edit (shortcut key is Enter)

5. Now in left-hand side you will see bunch of option in that you will see an option of Edit in Picnik under Basic Fixes tab

6. Click on Edit in Picnik

7. Now you will see they are asking you Would you like to edit a copy of this image in Picnik? If you don’t want they ask you every time you edit in Picnik then tick the box of Don’t ask me about the in future. , now click on Yes

8. Now you will see its getting loading it might take little time to get load

After it get totally load up now you can enjoy editing your image using Picnik tools and after finishing editing you can save it in Picasa by clicking Save to Picasa button on the right-top of the window.

Or if you want to edit the image which is uploaded in your Picasa web album, then you need to go to that image page (in Picasa web album) you want to edit then above that image you will see an Edit drop-down click on it then you will see its written Edit in Picnik click on it and editor will start getting load in browser then start your editing. After editing get completed click on Save to my album on the top-right of the editor, it will get save in the following album (in the album of that image you were editing).

Note: 1. If you are editing image using Picnik then you need to have internet connected.

2. In this application (Picnik) all the editing tool is not for free to use most of the tool are chargeable, so you need to pay to use those tools.

3. If you are already editing something using Picnik in Picasa (both web and desktop) and if you try to edit one more image at the same time then you won’t be able to do it will show you the same image you are editing at that time with the same edited effects you have given in it, as because it works online so it don’t allow you to edit the same image at the same time.