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How to subscribe to a blog with just a single click? [Chrome]
Use Aero with Windows Vista Home Basic

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 07:38 AM PST

If you are a web designer you might want to know how much of your site is visible to visitors. Google has come up with a model to let you analyze how much of the browser window is open to be viewed by users. This is crucial as sometimes you might have a significant number of visitors not paying attention to certain parts of your website. It could be a donate button or even a link to subscribe to your blog.

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Google Browser Size

Just visit the Google Browser Size page. Here you need to enter the URL you want to check for browser size.
Immediately the browser size is represented in a graph along with website as the background. Check image below for a representation. The opacity can be increased or decreased.
This showed that over 50% of the internet users view all of DW website while some might not be viewing the subscribe button.
Just a word of caution before you feel disheartened, as these stats are taken from visits to Google.com and hence might not reflect all that correctly for other websites. For example someone visiting a tech blog might actually explore it details as to not miss out on much.

Google Browser Size…

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I still think that it would be prudent for web designers to look up their websites through this Google tool and maybe start working on some minor adjustments if needed. Do check it out and drop in your comments with your views and opinions.

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How to subscribe to a blog with just a single click? [Chrome]

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 05:36 AM PST

This is one is for Chrome enthusiasts who also like to subscribe to various blogs. I love to read and hence I end up subscribing to a lot of different blogs. They can range from tech to history. I use Google Reader as I can easily share what I liked through Twitter and Facebook. But the subscribing process sometimes is quite tedious, especially if the subscription button is not easy to find.

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RSS Subscription for Chrome Browser

Download the Chrome Extension named RSS Subscribtion
Once installed onto your Chrome browser, go ahead and look up a website.
Now at end of the address bar you can see the subscribe symbol appearing if that website has subscription enabled through RSS feeds. Just click on from the address bar for subscribing.
As long as your are signed into your reader, its added to the reader automatically.

This extension is quite useful especially as not all websites make it very easy for us to be able to locate their RSS subscribe button very easily. Also some websites which are not really blogs but are sending regular updates might not bother with having easy access to their feeds. In this case RSS Subscribtion is perfect as it automatically checks if RSS feed is available. A single click and you are a subscriber.

Let me know if you find this Chrome extension useful and do drop in your comment with your views.

Link: Download RSS Subscribtion

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Use Aero with Windows Vista Home Basic

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 02:04 AM PST

Almost everyone is aware of the Aero feature in Windows. You can use it with Windows Vista and Windows 7, but unfortunately this is not available with the Home Basic version of Vista and Windows 7. There are many manual hacks available for making tweaks to make Aero available.

I came across this software Aero Enabler on the internet which does exactly the same but without you needing to look up various tweaks. Just download it, install it and you have Aero features enabled on your Home Basic version of Vista or Windows 7.

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About Aero Enabler

Aero Enabler does make changes to your registry so the best option is to create a System Restore point before install Aero Enabler.
Download Aero Enabler and install it.
As it installs, you can select or deselect the Hardware check for Aero.
This can be a bit of a problem as you might have some issues if your computer does not suit the system requirements for Aero. So carrying out a Hardware check is a better option.
Finally .Net Framework 3.5 is required on the system.

So go ahead and try it out and let me know what you thoughts on it through your comments.

Link: Aero Enabler

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