How to Create a Custom Toolbar for Website

A customized toolbar of your blog or website may increase visitors loyalty. If they found your toolbar useful they can use it in browser. And this is also important for your site's ranking. There may be hundred ways to build a toolbar. Some of them are free or some may be premium. 

For creating toolbar, my personal choice is Alexa. Why? 

• Because it's free and easy to use. 
• You can easily monitor the usage statistics. 
• And most importantly, alexa is a ranking site. It measures websites ranking from 1 to the last. 
• Alexa considers the site most that has its toolbar and widget in the page. 

Let's build a toolbar now. 

1.  First go to the Alexa and register an account. It takes 2 or 3 minutes. If you already have 
     an account then proceed to the next step. 

2.  Now go to the toolbar creator page.

3.  A pop up window will ask you to enter the toolbar name. Type the name or skip it. 
     You can write a name later.

4.  Now look at the image below. Here you can edit toolbar name and choose a logo. 

5.  Have a look at the Add buttons that drive traffic to your website. There are 4 buttons.  

     Only add the buttons that is necessary for you. Because you can't add 

     all the buttons due to the space limitations. 

6.  Now move to the Add social networking buttons section. Add only the first 2 buttons. 

     Show tweets button is not necessary. Click Next. 

7.  Add buttons for things that your users do everyday. This is the most useful part for 
     the users. I recommend you to add the Personal Twitter and Gmail button. Click Next.

8.  This step let you add an icon for the toolbar. You can either choose an icon made earlier 
     or use the default. I prefer to use the custom image. Click Next.

You're almost done. Publish it to make the toolbar available for download. But how can your visitors will get it? 

Go to the dashboard and click on your toolbar. Then you'll find different shapes and colors. Choose the color and shape as your choice from step 1 and 2. Then add a HTML gadget in your blog by the html code from the step 3. Place the gadget in a part of the page where the visitor can easily find it.

Currently the alexa toolbar works with Chrome, Firefox and IE. Hope it will support more browsers in the future. 

Have a look at the sample toolbar below: 

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If you have any query regarding toolbar creator then leave a comment. 

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How to Create Password Reset Disk?

For your computer security you can set start up password. Whenever you turn on PC, Windows ask you to enter password. Then you enter password and get access to the desktop. And all of us know that it is a normal process. 

But, if your forget your password? Then what? 

You might think experts can easily break it and have access to the PC! And as you're not expert so enter the DVD in the drive and start installing Windows again. And you lose all of your files and folders that is stored on installation drive. 

But you can avoid such type of hazard very easily. I don't advise you to write down your pass in the diary or calender. Because this is not safe. Just spend few minutes to create a password reset disk. It's safe and easy. And there is no risk. Follow the steps below: 

1. First make sure you've connected your USB Flash Drive in the port. You don't need to format the disk. And your files will not be affected. 
2. Then go to the User Accounts from Control Panel.
3. Now hit on the Create a password reset disk option from the left panel.
4. You'll see Forgotten Password Wizard. Click Next.
5. Select the drive that is to be used as reset disk. Click Next.
6. Enter the current password if any. Otherwise leave it blank. 
7. Click next and wait for the processing. Click Next again. Then Finish.

The disk is ready for use. Now open your USB drive and look for a 2 KB file named userkey.psw. This is the file that can help you to reset the password. Don't delete it. 

Now restart your PC and try to access by entering a wrong password. You'll see the Reset Password option. Click on it and type a new password. And from now you can use this password. 

You can change your password as many time as you wish by the same disk. 

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Caution: Anyone can change your password if he knows about your reset disk. So make sure that unauthorized person is not familiar with your reset disk. 

NB: This system has been tested on Windows 7 and 8. And it will work only on that PC from where the disk is created.  

Fun Fact: You've to create this disk before forgetting password. After forgetting this password, you can't create this disk. 

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Boost your Traffic with Link Collider

In this post I'm gonna share a site with you. This site will help you to boost your blog or website visitors. And at the same time it will also increase your site's Google +1, FB Like, Twitter Follower etc. 

And I can assure that, you'll not feel any harassment while using this site. Simply register and follow my instruction. 

1. First visit this site. Link Collider
2. Then register by your contact email and enter a password and confirm it. Now submit it.
3. Now go to your mail inbox to confirm the registration. NB: Also check your spam box.
4. Now it's time to add your website or page.Click on Post a Website / Facebook Page.
5. Now fill up the form properly. You should choose an attractive logo with an ideal description of the site. Then save it.  
6. Look at the Collect FREE Tokens button next to Post a Website / Facebook Page. There are 8 categories- Like, Tweet, Share, Follow, Auto etc. 
7. Collect tokens by these categories. You must have Google Plus, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube Account to perform these tasks. And make sure you're signed in all of these accounts in the same browser while doing these. 
8. You can monitor your sites by clicking on My Websites button.

Caution: These types of link building and SEO sites are the targets of hackers! So I recommend you to use your alternative Email ID other than your primary ID. And you should use a different password other than your Email account password. 

NB: You've to regularly visit this site and collect tokens to increase your traffic. 

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Play Guitar with Google Doodle!

Have you ever played guitar? To be honest with all of you, I never played it. And I am not interested to do so. Because I am busy with my computer, internet and blog. 

But I often like to play digital guitar! If you frequently visit Google then you may notice that its logo changes time to time. At present it shows Olympic events as doodle. Sometime in 2011, I opened the home page of Google. I surprised at looking its doodle as below. Whenever I move my cursor it sounds just like a guitar. 

Click this link to play guitar

This doodle was launched in honor of musician and electric guitar pioneer Les Paul, who passed away in 2009. You can play this guitar by mouse and keyboard. Just move your mouse over the doodle and it will make sound. You can also play it by pressing the keys of keyboard.

Recording option is also available for you. You can record your performance and get it by a link. 

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How to Backup or Restore Blogger Template?

Blogger let you backup your whole blog template. Keeping a backup copy of the template is specially necessary for new bloggers. If you're a new user you may customize your blog by taking helps from others. But if you make any mistake you may lose your customized blog template. In that case you have nothing to do other than restoring the default template. 

However if you keep a backup copy of your blog template then you can use it in other blogs too! Even you can share the same template with your friends. Besides if you make significant changes of your template and get it back in a previous stage then you must have a backup copy. 

To backup or restore your blogger template follow the steps below: 

1. First make sure you're signed in on your blogger account.
2. Then go to design.
3. Now click on the Template button from the left panel. 
4. Then click on Backup/ Restore button from the top right corner of the screen.
5. To download the template, hit on Download Full Template button. And if you wanna restore template then choose previously saved template file. 

The following picture may be useful for you. 

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