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5 Reasons Why a Blogger Should Subscribe to Other Blogs

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 10:30 PM PST

This is a guest post by Bert Padilla

When I do blog hopping, I usually subscribe to other blogs both via RSS or Email. Subscribing to other blogs is a good practice of being informed on what's happening on the web. Here, I am going to explain on my own point of view why subscribing to blogs is essential for a blogger.

Email and RSS Subscription

1. Know the Latest – You are always receiving the latest updates on a particular niche. Thus, you always have something to share on your own blog based from what you've read.

2. Remember the Blog – If you visit a particular blog and found something interesting, let's say a well-written tutorial, you will definitely love visiting that blog again. If you don't subscribe to RSS or Email, sometimes it will take time for you to find the blog especially if there are lot of competing blogs on a particular topic.

3. Read Blog Posts Even the Website is down – There are some cases in which a website is down either by hosting company or just some technical errors. If you just bookmarked the website or blog, of course you can't load the page. But if you subscribe to RSS, in most cases you can still read the feeds.

4. Be the First to Comment – When a blog post is published, it will eventually be delivered via Email depending on scheduling; or your RSS reader is updated with the latest post. As a subscriber, you will also be the first commenter and is more visible to other audience.

5. Inform the Author – Some bloggers usually don't subscribe to their own RSS or Email. Thus, they missed checking if the RSS or Email delivery has technical problems or not. As a subscriber, you can easily spot it. You can notify then the author and be recognized.

There might be other reasons why you should really subscribe to other blogs. Meanwhile don’t forget to subscribe to devils’ Workshop RSS feeds. If you can add more, let's talk it on the comment section.

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Five ways to download any image from any website

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 10:08 PM PST

Saving pics from websites and popular social networking sites is one of the most trending topics of internet. Because to avoid misuse of their pics, website developers have started using new techniques so that no one can download their images. Frankly speaking, no one here is meant only for normal Internet users, not for techie geeks like us. Check out some ways by which you can save any pic from any website on the net. All you need to do is follow step by step procedure given below and any one is definitely gonna work for you. These steps have been sorted from easiest way of saving a pic to that when no other option works.

1.The Save Image as… option:

This option is most commonly used when you are allowed to save the image from the website and there’s no such security level. All you need to do is right click on any image and click ‘Save image as…’ and save it wherever you want. Facebook can be considered as an example where you can easily save images from any album.

2. Drag and Drop:

If right clicking isn’t giving any response that means right click is disabled on that website. In such a case click the image you want to save and move the mouse cursor to address bar of your browser without leaving the click. This is commonly known as drag and drop. Orkut album pics(older version) can be saved by this method.

3. View Background image:

Some images in a website are stored as a ‘Background Image’. That means you can right click on them but there’s no option of saving it. But if you are using Firefox, it’s damn easy to save images like this. Right click on any image and click on ‘View Background Image’ . Now your browser will show only the background image as a normal pic. Right click on the image and click ’save image as…’.

Using this way you can save twitter backgrounds and other images of a website such as header, footer image e.t.c.

4.View Page Source:

Page source of a webpage is the same page but in html coding form, and even a single thing on a webpage can be seen in html using page source. To view page source click Ctrl+U from your firefox browser. Now if a website neither allows you to right click on it nor you can drag and drop images, probably this option will help you. Open the page where the image is located and view it’s page source. For firefox to view page source either press Ctrl+U or go to View>>View Page Source. Now in the page source search for .jpg which is a most commonly used extension for images. You can also search for .gif or .png . Now copy the link of image with which .jpg is attached. For example,

http://photogallery.indiatimes.com/gadgets/google-phone/Google-phone-/photo/5415500/Google-phone-.jpg

Page Source

Taken from this page (indiatimes). Try saving image of google phone from the same page.You’ll see that first three steps aren’t working in this case. So view the page source and find link of google phone with .jpg link. The page source is generally full of links with .jpg extension, use your common sense in selecting link in that case i.e check the other words given in that link such as ‘google phone’ in above link. This method can be used for sites like photogallery.indiatimes.com but do not misuse the images with copyrights.

5. Print Screen:

Print screen option always works and you can save any image that you can see on your screen doesn’t matter how protected they are. To use print screen option, open any image on your computer and hit ‘Print Screen’ / ‘Prtsc’ button on your keyboard. Now go to your desktop, right click on it and create a new bitmap image. Edit bitmap image using MS paint and press Ctrl+V (shortcut for paste). Crop the image if needed. Use this method for any website.