How to run a blog

Friends and family members often ask me how to start a blog, and I always enjoy explaining the advantages of a blog over a traditional website, but it is a lot information to take in over dinner. I thought I would document the process to make it easier to understand.
I recently created a video that documents some of what is discussed in this article.
1. Decide What You Want To Blog About
There are a lot of bloggers on the web already. If you want to attract readers, you are going to need to establish your credibility. Don't just blog about anything. Pick a topic you are are passionate about. Something that you have lots of experience with.
Decide: To Host or Not To Host
When it comes to starting a blog, your biggest decision will be whether you want to host the blog yourself, or use a free blogging service that is hosted for you.
Free Blogging Services
Yes, it's free, but nothing is really free. When you start a blog with a free blogging service, you don't get your own domain. You get something like mygreatblog.blogspot.com (where there are a million other blogs at blogspot.com) and you don't actually own the blog. If you ever do decide to move to your own domain, you have no way to take your readers with you, because you have no control over the site.
Cheap - Host your own blog using WordPress free Blog software
This is the method I suggest, because it offers much more flexibility and freedom to do what you want. You will have your own domain name, like mygreatblog.com. You can get this for as little as $30 per year. In my experience, WordPress is excellent free blog software that allows you flexibility and room to grow.
If you want to go the free blogging service route, check out links to free blogging services. If you want to host the blog yourself, read on.
Find a Domain Name
For me this part is fun. You know what your theme is already, so now you have to find a good domain name.
There are lots of places to buy domains, but it's better to go with a reputable company.
Godaddy has a good domain search, and is currently offerning domains for $1.99 (normally around $10 or more per year). Head over to GoDaddy to check it out.
Find a Web Host for Your Blog
By far, the easiest way to get a website is to go with a hosting company that offers "1 click installs", or instant installations for Blogging and Forum software. Blogs and Forums make it possible for someone with no experience to get good content up fast.
Hosts with "1-click" (easy) Installation

GoDaddy Blog Hosting
Another great blog host I recently learned about is GoDaddy. They have a 'one click install' Economy WordPress hosting plan that is really a great deal ( $2.99 / month (only $36 / year) ). Go to GoDaddy to check it out.

BlueHost Blog Hosting
BlueHost offers a "One-Click" WordPress installation with all of their webhosting packages. Plans start at about $5.00/month ($4.95/month). Available at BlueHost.com. They are listed on the WordPress site as a good WP host.

Dreamhost Hosting
For beginners, I recommend Dreamhost, because they tend to care, where as many other huge hosting companies don't. They cost a bit more, about $100 for a year, but it is worth it. Edit: I actually used a promo code and was able to get 1 year for about $60. Go to: Dreamhost.com and enter Promo Code: WMLGS1 to save $50.


Standard Hosting
1and1 Hosting
If you are on a budget, I recommend 1and1 hosting. They are much less expensive, but the one thing to be aware of is that can take a little bit longer to get good support at 1and1. Having said that, I have been using 1and1 for over 4 years (this site is hosted at 1and1). Compared to a lot of other hosts, they have an extremely user friendly control panel, and their servers are extremely dependable. Prices start at 4.99 / month($2.49 for the first year). Make sure to skip all of the "Offers" when you sign up. Go to 1and1.com
Install WordPress
Installation Overview If you have experience with installing web applications that use mySQL, this could take as little as 5 minutes to do, and the 5 steps below may be all you need, however, I have further explained each step below for beginners.
1.    Make sure your host meets the requirements. details
2.    Make sure you have a database ready with proper username and password. details
3.    Download and unzip WordPress. details
4.    In the WordPress folder, find and make a copy of wp-config-sample.php. Rename the copy to wp-config.php and fill in your database details. Save the new file. details
5.    Upload all the files to the directory in your web host where you want the blog to live - details
6.    Run the installation file. install-folder/wp-admin/install.php. details
Requirements:
To run WordPress your host just needs a couple of things:
•    PHP version 4.2 or greater
•    MySQL version 4.0 or greater
Create a Database
You can usually do this in your hosting control panel. If you aren't sure how to do this, ask your hosting company. After you have set it up, you should have 4 pieces of information about the database.
1. Database Name - The name of your database.
2. Username - your database user name.
3. Password - Your database password.
4. Host name - This is going to be a host name. It might be something like mysql.mydomain.com, or just localhost.
Without these 4 things, you won't be able to set up WordPress. Again, contact your hosting company's tech support if you have any trouble with this.
Download the current version of WordPress.
This is easy. Just go to wordpress.org/download/, and download the current version. You have a choice between the ZIP file or the TAR.GZ file. I think the TAR.GZ file may be smaller, but I always download the ZIP.
Uncompress the WordPress ZIP file.
Again this is easy.
Configure WordPress
Open the WordPress folder and rename the file wp-config-sample.php to just wp-config.php. Now open it and insert the 4 pieces of information about your database into the 4 fields below.
Change:
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'username'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password'); // ... and password
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value
to
define('DB_NAME', 'yourDatabaseName'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'your-username'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'your-password'); // ... and password
define('DB_HOST', 'your-hostname'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value
Choose Your Install Directory and Upload Everything
If you want your WordPress blog in a separate directory of your website, like “yourdomain.com/blog”, then rename the “wordpress” folder to “blog” and upload it to the root directory with an ftp program.
If you want your blog to be in the root directory of your site, meaning the blog will be located at “yourdomain.com”, then just open the wordpress folder and upload all the files and folders into your web root. If you already have a file called index.html, or index.php, you'll need to rename it or get rid of it before you uploading everything.
Finish and Install
8. In a browser, go to the domain where you uploaded WordPress, and then to /wp-admin/install.php, and follow the simple directions there.
You will be given a username and password. Save it in a safe place.
That's it. You now have a new blog. You can now log in with your username and password, and start writing.
Download a WordPress theme
This is the fun part. Picking a WordPress theme. There are many places to find WordPress Themes. When you find one you like, just download it and unzip it just like you did with the WordPress ZIP file.
6. Add Your Theme
You can do this after you upload, but it's probably easier to just do it now.
Look for the themes folder. It's in the wordpress => wp-content => themes.
There should already be 2 theme folders in the themes folder, “classic” and “default”.
Just drop your new theme folder in with them. (remember, it must be unzipped first)

WhatsApp Pocket for Mac

WhatsApp Pocket lets you extract WhatsApp chat messages from your iPhone to Mac with just a few, simple mouse clicks. It sports a very clean and intuitive user interface, making it easy to view and read your chat history. Have important WhatsApp chats that you want to save? Or accidently deleted a crucial message? WhatsApp Pocket solves issues and many more!

WhatsApp Pocket automatically detects and loads the backups stored on your computer, it lets you extract data including messages, photos, videos, voice memos, location data, contacts and favorites. Additionally, the program can help to recover WhatsApp chat messages without backup with ease.

With its internal search, you can type in keywords to find particular messages you need. What' more, it converts contacts information into VCF file so they can be easily imported into outlook or webmail.

Torch Browser

An all-in-one Web browser is nothing to sneeze at, but Torch Browser isn't going to pry you away from Chrome or Firefox. While it has options that make sharing and social media a breeze, Torch Browser just isn't unique enough to win people's hearts. It lags in performance and its major features aren't worth making the switch.
Torch Browser tries to carve out its niche by being an all-in-one Web browser. This means it can be a media player, a torrent downloader, and a place to combine all of your social networks. However, it doesn't do any of those things well enough to replace what you currently use. Once you get over the novelty, it becomes obvious that Torch Browser isn't that powerful as a Web portal. It's noticeably slower than other browsers and it doesn't have the same sort of add-on support. The layout is just a rip-off of the open-canvas setup of other, more popular browsers. None of this is to say that using it is all a bad experience. Torch Browser still runs circles around Internet Explorer and would be a major upgrade there.
While not a threat to Firefox or Chrome, Torch Browser is easy enough to use and might just impress Internet Explorer users. Heavy downloaders might enjoy the torrent downloader and media player that come with it, too.

Torch Browser combines the awesomeness of powerful browsing with media downloading and sharing. Torch Browser offers the following unique features: Built-in Torrent Easy downloading with built-in torrent capabilities Torch browser makes it easy to use and manage your torrent download tasks directly from the browser without having to download additional software. With Torch browser's built-in torrent features downloading files becomes easy and simple to do. Video Grabber Save videos in a click with an embedded video grabber. Torch browser lets you not only find videos and movies, but also easily save web videos from virtually any site you go to. Torch browser's video grabber is integrated into the browser and supports a broad range of file types, so once you find a web video you want to save; you can easily grab and save it without having to use external programs, converters or extensions. Easy Sharing Being social is easy with Torch's Share button Share the sites, videos, songs and search results with your friends on Facebook. Torch browser includes a built-in button to easily share on social networks the websites you like and the articles you find interesting. Download Accelerator Fire-up your media downloads with a built-in download accelerator. Speed up the download rate of your media files with a powerful download accelerator that is integrated into Torch browser. Powerful Browser Torch browser offers you superb browser experience with its strong and fast search capabilities. Being Chrome-based, Torch browser gives you broad, relevant and accurate search results in no time. Secure Browsing Special security features ensure that your browsing and media activities are safe and secure from viruses, malware, phishing and malicious websites. All In One Torch browser has built-in media features that enable you to search, download, play and share your media files directly from the browser.
What's new in this version: Version 25.0.0.4255 includes built-in button for Torch music portal, integrated settings for the drag and drop feature, download accelerator, performance improvements, and torrent bug fixes.

MediaMonkey

MediaMonkey Standard offers plenty of ways to enjoy your favorite tunes, but its default layout isn't very easy on the eyes. Luckily, you can customize that and just about every other inch of this powerful music player. That, combined with the built-in streaming radio and other nifty features, make it one of the best free media players on the market.
The program makes you click through a ton of pop-up windows -- including several administration permission windows -- while it's installing. The program, itself, is worth the wait for most music fans, though. It has neat features like tabbed playlists and party mode that make it easy to play your music, however you want. In addition to collecting music already on your computer, MediaMonkey Standard will search for music on any connected drives. It supports most streaming radio, as well. The program has an active community of coders and tinkerers behind it that have made lots of custom skins and tweaks you can add to the player. That's handy because the program, itself, looks a little bland. There is a gold version that unlocks more goodies, a fact you'll know with any usage of the player because it will constantly remind you that you can get it by paying or by completing special deals.
Don't be bothered by the program's mediocre layout -- it's housing one of the best media players we've tried and you can easily change the looks to suit your preferences.

MediaMonkey is the media manager for serious collectors. It catalogs audio and video files and can be customized to the needs of different 'collections' (e.g. contemporary, classical music, audiobooks, home movies, tv, videos), whether they're located on a hard drive or a network. MediaMonkey organizes your library, looking up and tagging Album Art and data via Freedb and the web, and organizes your files via its automated renamer. It includes a CD ripper, podcast manager, and downloader to build your library, along with a CD/DVD Burner, UPnP / DLNA server, and sync manager to share it. With built-in conversion functionality, it supports hundreds of devices including iPhones, iPods, Android devices, as well as a variety of televisions and DVD players (via DLNA). MediaMonkey's advanced playlist management complements a player that automatically adjusts volume levels and a Jukebox / Party mode that locks the UI for use at public events. Most importantly, it supports hundreds of scripts, plug-ins and visualizations to further customize it to meet your needs. *Supports MP3, OGG, WMA, FLAC, MPC, WAV, CDs, M3U, PLS, AVI, MP4, WMV.
What's new in this version: Version 4.0.7.1511 is a minor update that adds support for the iPhone 5 / iPod Touch 5G (and iOS 6 on older devices) and the iPod Nano 7G and also includes 40+ miscellaneous fixes and tweaks including several related to Android synchronization and compatibility with Windows 8.

GTA IV review

Grand Theft Auto 4 (commonly shortened GTA IV) is usually a 08 open earth action-adventure computer game, manufactured by Rockstar to the north along with printed by simply Rockstar Game titles. It turned out introduced for your Playstation 3 along with Xbox 360 elite about twenty nine April 08, along with for your Microsoft company House windows about 3 12 , 08. It can be placed in the particular fictional Liberty Metropolis, primarily based intensely about present day Nyc. The game practices Niko Bellic, some sort of expert of your unnamed war with Far eastern.The european union, who involves north America on the lookout for another person crucial, however swiftly gets entangled within a earth of gangs, criminal offenses, along with corruption. Similar to additional video game titles inside the string, GTA 4 consists of things from traveling video game titles along with third-person fps, along with attributes open earth gameplay, during which gamers can interact with the action earth in their particular pleasurable. Grand Theft Auto 4 likewise attributes various on the web multiplayer modalities.

Two expansion delivers happen to be produced for your activity, originally introduced while downloadable information for your Xbox 360 elite version in the course of last year. The two misplaced along with Damned and also the Ballad of Lgbt Tony function fresh plots that are interconnected while using the key GTA 4 deal, along with adhere to fresh protagonists. Both attacks happen to be introduced in concert for everyone programs as being a stand-alone activity named Grand Theft Auto: Shows from Liberty Metropolis. A bundle which included both first GTA 4 activity and also the Shows has been likewise introduced, known as Grand Theft Auto 4: The whole Edition. The 2009 handheld activity Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Competitions revisited the particular Liberty Metropolis of GTA 4.

Because very first activity on the critically acclaimed string to look about 7th creation controllers, Grand Theft Auto 4 has been widely awaited. A major commercial along with important achievement, that pennyless  industry data having income of close to 3. 6 thousand devices about it's very first day time of launch along with grossing greater than $500 thousand with earnings inside the very first 7 days, selling about 6 thousand devices around the world. Grand Theft Auto 4 earned many accolades from both game playing along with well-known mass media, including various recognitions while Activity on the Year. At the time of 2012 the action has available over twenty five thousand copies. Grand Theft Auto 4 can be widely regarded as by simply critics because the very best activity on this creation as well as one of the very best video game titles of them all. Activity Informer editor Tim Reiner inserted Grand Theft Auto 4 about list 1 on the report on Very best Game titles on this Era. Empire inserted Grand Theft Auto 4 sixteenth on the report on 100 Very best Game titles of them all.

How to run a blog successfully

Blogging and site-building has brought off which is perhaps transforming into a completely new say type of journalism. It presents anybody a chance to show ideas on just about any subject matter out there. The most famous versions are likely to be people who follow these steps.

1.    Ensure that the actual concept from the weblog is usually clearly identified. Even when this covers several categories it must be evident to everyone visitors about just what your website belongs.

2.    Post an image connected with by yourself. From an emotional point of view, readers love to determine what people look like. It makes all of them understand you are, in truth, individual.

3.    Post personal information with regards to by yourself sometime in the form of the resource, so that you can show your current standing and/or match the prerequisites connected with Step two.

4.    Excellent articles would be the critical. Will not rush anything in place presently there when you would not feel at ease uploading this to your paper. Managing a productive weblog means having this seriously.

5.    Take advantage of the course of action! In case you handle your website similar to work it'll appear by means of inside creating.

6.    Volume together with high quality. Needless to say high quality comes ahead of amount, but substantial quantities connected with high quality force the weblog past anything merely your buddies entry.

7.       Participate in conversations using your readers. The harder discussion, the much more likely concept will certainly multiply.

How to manage with slow internet speed

We all like the World Wide Web- browsing. Although precisely what can one particular perform while the net connection is the velocity of the snail? Here are tips on how to manage.

1. Restrict the consumption. Participating in video lessons and also online while doing so is usually annoying having a minimal web velocity. Opt for the things and also make use of web depending on the needs you have. Illustration: Need to total the groundwork? You should receive the info primary before seeing video lessons with regards to online games or various other things.

3. Operate a malware check on your hard drive. Should it be slow on web, it’s likely that it offers a malware. Without having anti-virus, receive one particular. Try acquiring AVG or Avast, there is delivered electronically unhampered on-line. Without having a malware, revise the modem or router. Likelihood is it's old. In the event modem/router are working well, make an effort to clean out applications it is not necessary. These include applications in which carry many ram or which are utilised seldom.

3. Opt for the web sites smartly. Any web sites eating many data will take too much time to help load on the visitor. Opt for useful however helpful web sites.

5. Attempt not to participate in online flash games like free online games, or various other online games can certainly eat many data and will significantly slow down your online consumption.

5. Get in touch with the supplier. From time to time, it can be an issue for the provider's conclusion. Get in touch with them if you feel you're acquiring very low net connection, under whatever you are worthy of in accordance with important computer data plan.

How to restrict web search

Unsafe effects of world wide web checking may prevent youngsters (and workers) coming from being able to view harmful articles on the web, as well as the need to help make wisdom telephone calls around suited human relationships with chat-rooms. In order to limit checking, make use of the following guidelines.

1. Available I.E and head to Methods > World-wide-web Possibilities. Be aware that if it doesn’t possess a regular toolbar page layout, the equipment option can look like a cog in the upper right-hand spot.

3. Find the Written content tab and click the Help option.

Decide on filtration system settings for the groups shown.

3. Click the Okayed Web-sites tab. Below it is possible to type any particular sites in which you may want to be dealt with exclusively. You can keep coming back and adjust this particular number after, most likely right after suggestions from the spouse and children.

4. Demand General tab, and click on Generate Security password. It will fix you in place as Supervisor, avoiding different consumers coming from transforming these settings.

5. Simply click ALRIGHT for you to leave this screen. At this point that you've enabled written content Advisor, it is possible to feel comfortable that your particular spouse and children may only see rated web pages.

Best language translator

Now-a-days as every one of us knows that internet has become popular all over the world, a large number of people of every country are surfing internet and obviously people of every country have different languages.

Problem

When people search for anything they find different languages which are not understandable for them so this is the problem that is being face by the users over internet.

Solution

Such users can’t find a suitable method to translate the content they find so this post will describe how to translate such content. To do so please follow the given steps:

1.       Open your web browser.

2.       Copy and paste this link in the address bar of your web browser; www.babylon.com

3.       Now download the Babylon software from there and after you have downloaded just install and use it.

Babylon

Babylon is basically software for translation of languages and a dictionary of every language. It is easy and free to free. But you can also upgrade it which will absolutely cost.

Babylon is also available for the users on android mobile phone.

How to boost up downloading and browsing speed for free

Now-a-days internet connections are getting slower on our computers because we use heavy applications, play games, use softwares and do many other things that makes our internet slow as well as our internet connection to some extent.  These things make the internet downloading and browsing speed very much slow sometimes because the use of these apps and softwares and games get updates and do many other things. The ways of boosting up internet downloading and browsing speed is given below.

How to boost up internet browsing speed

If you want to boost up your internet browsing speed then you are only in need of a single thing which is the removal of harmful things or you can say applications from your computer such as viruses, spywares, malware and worms etc. To remove all these things you should purchase or download and install an internet security application which could give you a complete 100% protection against harmful things and which also block harmful websites for you.

After doing this all you would definitely find a difference in the browsing speed of your personal computer.

How to boost up internet downloading speed

If you want to boost up your internet downloading speed then you need to perform the above given instruction but if you have an internet connection that is slow by network service provider then you can use Internet Download Manager. You can also lean about IDM (Internet Download Manager) from this article.