January 2015 ~ For the first time

Sunday, 25 January 2015

#100thingsIlearnt - Lesson 8 - Learnt more google tricks

It was all consolidated in an image. How cool is that :D :D

IF you ever wanted to come back you can just save the image. BRILLIANT.

#100thingsIlearnt - Lesson 7 -How To Stop the spam

This is going to be short and on point.
I HATE SPAM. I HATE THAT I HAVE TO SIGNUP ON A SITE I FOR SURE WONT VISIT AGAIN. THEN I GET EMAILS LIKE "This is recommended for you" "You will love this, come take a look". NO. JUST NO. WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME??? *SIGH*

So i went ahead and learnt a solution, actually if you just mark an email as spam you wont see it again. But i dont have the patience to that every single time.

Hence, here is my one stop solution -
10minutemail

Does what it supposed and you get a virtual inbox too. So if you need some activation done, no problem you can get it done, coz you actually have an email address.

Thank you, internet and people of internet for being awesome :D
My headache is now gone farrrrrrr awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Until next time,
Keep learning,

Tuesday, 6 January 2015

#100thingIlearnt - Lesson 6: Youtube hacks we should all know

I love Youtube. It is amazing. And this is the best thing I have come across about it :D. I love this lesson I learnt. and I am keeping it short, coz one of my friends was like

Anyway, all these hacks actually send you to another website except the last one. So if they at some point stop working, it is not youtube's fault. OR mine. they worked perfectly for me :D

1)I love the songs these not so famous people upload on youtube, and I would like to have them on my phone. So I found this :D. Like I said, you get redirected to another website, follow through the steps and download, it is safe.

Replace "youtube" with "listentoyoutube" in the URL to download the audio of the video.

So this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oKreL1jvkg

to this - http://www.listentoyoutube.com/index.php?url=http://youtube.com/watch?v=0oKreL1jvkg

2)I have bad internet some days and I really want to download something I use this.

Replace "youtube" with "ssyoutube" in the URL to download the video in any quality available.

So this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oKreL1jvkg

to this - So this - https://www.ssyoutube.com/watch?v=0oKreL1jvkg

redirects you to - http://en.savefrom.net/?#url=http://youtube.com/watch?v=0oKreL1jvkg&utm_source=youtube.com&utm_medium=short_domains&utm_campaign=www.ssyoutube.com

Actually this works for vimeo and other popular sites too.

3)I have a two year old at home and he gets pissed if his rhymes stop after sometime , he will break my ever precious laptop if need be. So this saves me from the violence. Woohoo

Replace "youtube" with "listenonrepeat" in the URL to repeat the video automatically .

So this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oKreL1jvkg

to this - So this - https://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch?v=0oKreL1jvkg

redirects you to - http://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=0oKreL1jvkg#Humpty_Dumpty_Nursery_Rhyme_-_3D_Animation_English_Rhymes_for_children

4)I hate ads as much as you do, and sometimes I do not have my adblocker on. Then I do this :D

Replace "youtube" with "youtubeskip" in the URL and you won't see ads.

So this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oKreL1jvkg

to this - So this - https://www.youtubeskip.com/watch?v=0oKreL1jvkg

5)I dont know why you would use this, but I wanted some gifs for the blog and I ended up here. Neat stuff.

Replace "youtube" with "gifyoutube" in the URL to convert video into gif format .

So this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oKreL1jvkg

to this - So this - https://www.youtubeskip.com/watch?v=0oKreL1jvkg

6)And the last one, I always leave youtube signed in, But if you didn't want to then -

To skip the You tube's "Signin to confirm your age" message like on video
Just Change the url from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oKreL1jvkg
to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v/0oKreL1jvkg

So that is that. Until next time,

Keep learning.

The co-blogger I forced to write.

Hello, As I write this sipping some coffee on my couch I have like about 600+ views on here. And someone once told me I could not write for shit, heh. Anyway, all you kind friends THANK YOU :D. and all random people that ended up here, I have so much love for you guys :D. Anyway, I know I am going pretty slow on my task here, but I accommodate when I can. Anyway, why should knowledge ever be confined? So I am letting my friends write, And you know I really hope they teach me a thing or two and I in turn teach another soul :D. So here is someone I am constantly learning and looking up to. I will let him introduce himself now. And Hey guys! Looks like I’m the last one to introduce myself. I don’t think my first post will be as good as my other partners in crime but okay here it is.

My name is Kiran and I come from a small small town called Ooty. Yes, I said Ooty! You know usually when I introduce myself to someone new, nobody cares about my name! When I say the word “Ooty” everybody appreciates my home town more than the fact that I’m trying to make a new friend here… HELLO!! Anyway, I love my town. It’s like a gift, being born in such a calm and serene place. That is exactly why I’m writing on the blog late :P I was enjoying my Christmas vacation at home!

I don’t do a lot of writing, this is actually my first post to a large audience (if not now it soon will be).

I’m a kind of weird person. For starters, I don’t like doing stuff the normal way, like how everybody else would do. For example, right from when I was young, I have always loved the subject “MATH”. Yes I said MATH… So when we started learning integration, I never used to work on the problem like how my teacher taught me to. Instead, I would take the long way out and mostly end up stuck :P but that is the fun of it. Right? (Please don’t think that I’m a nerd or anything, I just love math!)

That is the same thing I do when I am travelling. I own a pulsar and she is the best thing that could have ever happened to me! (That dialogue is usually used by the boyfriend to the girlfriend or vice-versa) But trust me I have never felt more alive! I guess only Vindhya will understand the bond we share (the bike and me ie. :P) We take the most random roads, sometimes we get lost in a dense part of the forest, but mostly we go to places like nobody else has ever seen or even heard about ! And boy aren't those places amazing! Here are some pictures from the places we have visited:

Now you must be wondering… how the hell did I get such good pictures??!! Biking is not the only thing I like. I love visiting new places and also photographing the memories I make there! I only photograph because I love it, not because I own a good camera or any other reason like that. You could check out some more of my pictures on Instagram at @kiranvasudev. I kinda use Instagram like my diary, but only thing is everyone can see it!

Okay time to wind up, I get it. I also play a lot of football, so if anyone would love to play a game of soccer please do leave a comment and I will get back to you. We could play at the nearest decathlon or something.

I would love to make a lot of new friends and meet a lot of different people! That’s one of the main things I’m looking forward to. So please do keep in touch, a small comment on the Instagram account or one here. And yes, I will also be helping everyone learn blah, blah, DIY, blah, blah, pretty good stuff, blah, blah (whatever Vindhya said :P ).

Here are some more pictures that you might like :D

Nandi Hills, Bangalore

Home Sweet Home

Hope my first post wasn't that bad. Hoping to make some new friends real soon!! Until the next post… this is bye from Kiran :D

Sunday, 4 January 2015

#100ThingsIlearnt- Lesson:4 - Turnng old shoes into awesomeness- DIY

I am going girly on this one. This a DIY. I did it because I hate throwing things away. When I can do so much with them. So i took my old pair of shoes,and changed them.

Things you will need if you plan to be as crazy as me :
- shoes
-fevicol or a substitute that matches
- Some magazine, Or any kind of paper material you would want.
- varnish
- Sandpaper.
-paint brush

Step 1: Pick out the newspaper/magazine cuttings. Cut them in small strips, because you layer them more than ones. Why? Coz shoes are oval and you can not cover all sides easily.

Step 2: Apply glue over your shoes, make sure you put it on the shoe and not on the paper, because the paper becomes transparent and gooey. It is a mess, not the DIY you want to go for :).

Step 3: After one layer, it will look messy, something like this

Step 4: So continue layering, until you want to stop, I added few of my favorite strips of the comic on the last layer.

Step 5: Wait for it to dry.(usually an hour) Paint with varnish and sandpaper around if you feel, you need to smooth-en some rough spot. and Voila, DONE!!

Keep learning :)

#100ThingsIlearnt- Lesson:3- Integrate facebook comments,likes shares on your blog.

This was something I should have covered long time ago, wonder why it did not strike me. My amazing brother from another mother, Mathaious found that I had not integrated it in my blog and asked me to go ahead and learn how to.

I love people that encourage me to learn, I hope lot of people continue suggesting things I should pick up along the way.

How did I go about doing this? I obviously used my amazing google skills I picked up from my first lesson, read about it here. Anywho, I did find a blog that gave me an overview, but that was before facebook updated itself. It had everything I needed but also thing I did not need. So I experimented a little(read very little) and this is how it is done.

P.s: I barely read through tutorials, I often look at the pictures and figure it out, so there's less words and more pictures. That is how we will roll,kapish?

Step 1:

Go to this site - https://developers.facebook.com/

Step 2 : Click on add new app, you can see i have created one already for the blog. but I am going to another one now.

Step 3: Because It is a blog, I chose website but you can choose whatever your platform is, the basics dont change.

Step 4: Now, as I already have an app registered it asks me to choose a new one or the existing one, but if it is your first time you wont see this, it will just ask you to enter a name and create app id

Step 5: You just create it, unless you want to make it a test app, then slide the "yes" to a "no", but since it is a blog, I am not testing it, just integrating. Do not forget to choose category,it is a must.

Step 6: As said, copy it into your body tag, now if you are on blogspot this is how you do it

Click on "HTML", add a <body></body> tag. for some reason, you dont usually have one.

Then add that code in the beginning as shown.

EDIT: I tried this without the <body> tag and it still works, so you can skip adding it altogether too. As long as you add the scripts in the beginning whether you make a body tag or not does not matter.

Step 7:Fill in blog details and click next.

Step 8 : This is for testing purposes, but I added the like button, which comes with a share button on my page anyway, And Add it after the first <script> </script>

Also, this tells the page where you want the button, now it is in the starting, but nothing is stopping you from putting it at the end, all you do is write your entire blog and then paste this code.

Step 9: So you came here how to add comments, and not "likes" this is how you do it, click on the "comments plugin " hyperlink that you will see on the page as the previous screenshot shows, click on it

Now like a genius clicked on get code, and just copied it onto the "HTML" part. What I forgot was, the URL needs to be changed to whatever your blog is, or you get this example facebook has put up, so make sure to change that here:

Step 10: Do what it says. Add the first set of code in the beginning, and the second set of code where ever you want to add the comments, so something like this :

You are done :). Writing a tutorial for the first time, so should that not count as something I learnt too? I am going to ponder on that, while this reaches someone in need :)

Keep learning.

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