Google FeedBurner - Performance metrics for your feed

Google FeedBurner is a web application which allows you to Analyse, Optimize, Publicize, Monetize and Troubleshootize your feeds. To start with, Burn your feed on Google FeedBurner.

• Stay signed in your google account and launch http://feedburner.google.com in your browser.
  
  
  
   

•  Type your feed address in the given Box with max-results to be minimum and click Next.

Exemplar: http://www.blogger.com/feeds/219616526091656459/posts/default?max-results=3

•   Follow couple of Onscreen steps and your feed will be live to the world and the Analyse tab of your feedburner dashboard provides the feed statistics.

How to  promote your FeedBurner feed on your website?

•   Click on your Feed Title (For instance "Techzio") in the Google feedburner dashboard.
•   Click "Publicize" tab -> "Chicklet Chooser" link.

•    Choose the feed icon of your choice and your blog publishing service (Eg: Blogger) at the bottom of the page and click on Go! link to reach the next page.

•     Click on Add Widget button to add the Subscribe Feed icon link to your blog.

Stumbleupon - Vital key to generate traffic to your blog

Stumbleupon is a social networking tool which we can make use of to generate traffic to our website and create backlinks.

• Create an account with Stumbleupon (https://www.stumbleupon.com/signup).
• Download and install Stumbleupon toolbar. For Firefox the download link is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stumbleupon/

• Stay signed in your Stumbleupon account and launch http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit in your browser.

• Complete the above form with your website details and click Add this page. Now your site is available for others when they stumble.

Note: To discover new websites based on your interests, click Stumble! in the toolbar and you can rank the websites visited by clicking thumbs up/thumbs down button.

Siri - My Personal Assistant reminds me of everything

Siri (Voice activated Personal Assistant) is a wonderful feature in iPhone 4S. You can talk to Siri as if conversing with your friend. Let us see how to make our friend Siri to remind us our stuffs.

How to launch Siri?

• Press and hold the Home button

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• Take iPhone to your ear and look back into Home Screen

Siri will be launched. Wait for Siri to beep and you can start talking to her.

How to set reminders with Siri?

Exemplar:

Talking to Siri "Set a reminder to take tablets everyday 1 PM"

Say "Yes" to her to confirm

Siri has set reminder successfully and she will never forget to remind us.

Siri reminds using GPS:

•  You can tell Siri to remind something when you leave some place. Say "Remind me to take Umbrella when I leave here".
• You can tell Siri to remind something when you arrive some place. Say "Remind me to talk to John when I go to Office" (Office address should be added in Contact Information).

Certain Reminders:

•   Remember to start cooking at 8 PM.
•   Remind me to buy milk at 5PM tomorrow.
•   Remind me to buy bread every 5 days.
•   Remind me to finish this article by 6 PM. 
•   Remind me to attend meeting every Monday (everyday, every week, every two weeks, once a month, once a year). 

Note:

You can check back your reminders by asking Siri - Reminders for today/Reminders for July 28/Reminders for next month etc.

Google Alerts - Perceive latest info on your desired search to your Inbox

Google alert is a facility to preset your Google search and get the latest information regarding the search to your inbox directly. One should be aware of Creating and Managing Alerts in order to make use of this feature.

• Stay signed in your Google account and launch http://www.google.com/alerts in your browser.
• In the Search query field, enter your desired search term. Preview of your search is shown at the right side of the Google alerts home page. By having a look at the Preview, you can make sure if the search term chosen is appropriate.

• Select the Result Type (Everything/News/Blogs/Video/Discussions/Books), How often - frequency of alerts (As-it-happens/Once a day/Once a week), How many (Only the best results/All results), Deliver to (Your email id) and Click on Create Alert button. You are taken to the Google Alerts page with the alert set up.

•  Click the Edit button to change the Search term, Volume and How often and Save after editing. 
•  To delete an alert, tick the Check Box ahead of the alert and Click the Delete button.

Search on Mac smartly by configuring Spotlight

Spotlight is a tool to search the contents on Mac. The search is efficient with Spotlight as it focuses on Metadata. By configuring the spotlight on Mac you can go for a more effective search.

• Go to System Preferences and Open Spotlight Panel.

• You can check the check Boxes of items to be included in the Spotlight searches. (Eg Applications, System Preferences etc)
• You can choose your preferable "Spotlight menu keyboard shortcut" (to launch spotlight) as any function key. The default choice is command + space. 
•  You can choose your preferable "Spotlight window keyboard shortcut" (to launch spotlight search result window) as any function key. The default choice is option + command + space.

How to prevent spotlight from searching certain locations?

At times, you don't want the spotlight to search certain sensitive locations on your MAC. To do that,

• Click Privacy tab on Spotlight Panel
• Click the Add button (+) and browse the folder you like to prevent from spotlight search and click Choose.

• You can also drag and drop the sensitive folder into the list under the Privacy tab.