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Install / Enable HUAWEI E156G on Ubuntu
As mentioned in my previous post I bought Mobitel HSPA connection. When I bought the connection, I bought a new modem too (HUAWEI E156G).
Modem is working perfectly fine on Windows with Mobile Partner software but when it comes to Ubuntu it has problems.
My previous modem E220 had almost no issues on Ubuntu. As you connect your modem everything is done on plug-and-play basis, but when it comes to E156G it was not the same case. First I thought the USB Modem is not even recognized as a device, but Ubuntu did find it but didn’t bring up any pop-up as it does for E220.
Did a googling and found out the way. Hope it’ll be helpful as many people are buying Mobitel HSPA these days.
- First right click on the Network icon and choose Edit Connections
- Now choose Mobile BroadBand tab
- Click on Add button and choose Mobitel
- Once you done with the wizard click on Mobitel and choose edit
- there make sure you have *99# as Number and Mobitel3g as APN.
Click on the image to enlarge it
That’s all now you can connect to Internet using HUAWEI E156G. If you’re using a different provider then change the Number and APN accordingly.
SEO: Demand your second click
One of the reasons why people often have high bouncing rate is because of the bad usability issues in the pages. Your blog’s bouncing rate is 90% means; ninety out of hundred people, who came to your blog, puked and went away.
Usually bouncers are considered a negative statistic: the blog failed to engage them enough to entice even a second page view.
Here few tips on how to improve usability of a blog, in order to reduce the bouncing rate. When a user comes to your blog for the first time, you must make him a loyal visitor. Unique visitors will stay in your blog and click through several links, only if you have good content as well as good usability throughout the blog.
Colour Scheme
Home page is the most visited single page in your blog. We need to give colourful but simple design. Colour scheme must match the theme of your blog. If you’re making a fan blog for ‘Twilight Movie’ then you can use dark colours, but no point of using dark colours for a business blog.
For an example have a look at Harry Potter official site and Virtusa Corporation’s site. You can differentiate the colour scheme they’ve used.
Meaningful Graphics only
Use meaningful graphics. Don’t just use some red roses around your blog unless your blog is a niche blog for Valentine’s Day.
Excessive use of Ads
Don’t use Ads excessively. Google AdSense is obviously the easiest way to harvest some money out of your blog, but if you use them excessively it’ll look bad on your blog. Visitor will get an impression that, this is a fake blog trying to rip off a click from me.
Search Box
When visitors find interesting articles in your blog, they tend to go for a search inside the blog. If you don’t have a search box then you’re losing your potential second click.
Related contents
One of the advantages when you make a blog for targeted audience or a niche blog is you’ll have related contents. If a visitor interested in one of your article then probably he’ll be interested in another article too. It is recommended that you’ve got a niche blog to have low bouncing rate, though it’s not always possible.
Be Proud and show your contents
You must be having good popular contents in your blog. Show those popular contents to your users. This is why most of the popular blogs such as Daily Blog Tips having a section in side bar for popular contents and recent contents. A pleased visitor will definitely click on a link.
Colour of the Link
Visitor will identify a link in seconds if we have blue underlined links. When you use different colour for your links, it may confuse your visitor and he’ll end up closing your page. But always remember it’ll not always true. There are some popular blogs using different colour links. Why give trouble to your user?
- Image by LollyKnit via Flickr
I can recommend you to have blue colour link.
I recommend you to try Google Analytics to check bouncing rate. If you’re using Google Analytics once you logged in, you can see the bouncing rate for your site.
Now you can upload files to Google Translate
Google Translate added a new option to upload documents you want to translate. Now you can upload Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, PDF files, HTML and text files to translate.
By the way, Google gives you following warning too.
Unfortunately, Google converts your documents to HTML and then it translates the HTML file, so the translation doesn’t preserve the layout or the embedded images. You can upload Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, PDF files, HTML and text files.
This is not exciting news for Sri Lankans as we don’t have translator for both Tamil and Sinhalese. The only South Asian language to be listed in Google Translate is Hindi.
Hope someone will make translator in our local languages. I’m sure community will come to help when someone initiates the project. We can’t rely on Google for their support as they’ll have proprietary rights over their products.
Windows Live Messenger Sign in Problem???
Are you failed to login to Windows Live Messenger? Are you getting some garbage error codes when you try to sign in??? If so do the following stuffs.
- Restart your router/modem.
- Restart Windows Live Messenger
- Try pull-the-plug and re-plug routine, if software fails.
- Restart the computer (if you haven’t already done so a dozen times)
Error message is shown in Live Messenger
Hope it’ll work for you. You can check more about Windows Live Messenger Error codes on techarena.in
Attachment fails in Gmail???
When you upload attachments to Gmail, you may get error messages saying “failed to attach!”. If you come across such error message first thing you need to do is, installing latest Adobe flash player.
You can get latest Adobe flash player from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ . In given address you can check whether you’re having the latest version of the flash player. If you don’t have one, please install the latest version.
Google says this feature is not supported in Linux; therefore Linux users will have to wait some time.
If you’re already on latest version of Adobe Flash Player (as I’m writing this article, latest version of flash player available is version 10.0):
- Switch your attachment settings from ‘Advanced attachment features’ to ‘Basic attachment features’ (click Settings and select the General tab to change this setting). Save your changes and try to upload your attachment again.
- Try another browser: if you’re on IE then install Firefox or Chrome and check the feature on it.
- Disable your proxy: Most of our home users don’t use this feature, so don’t worry.
- If you continue to have trouble after following these suggestions, report it here.
PS: Now you can upload up to 25 MB to Gmail 
, but make sure your mail receiver also using Gmail, because if he can’t receive 25 MB attachment then no point of sending a mail with 25 MB.
How to Watch Blocked ‘YouTube Shows’ Videos
When YouTube introduced YouTube Shows, I was flying and happy beyond imagination. Soon I come to know that most of the shows are not available to Sri Lankan users.
I was so annoyed. I wonder why YouTube shows the shows that are not available to our region. When you click on a video, it’ll return an error message saying “This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions”.
When I asked from Google, this is their answer….
Some YouTube content partners choose to make their videos available only to certain countries. For instance, they may only have the licensing rights for a particular region. On occasion, YouTube does block specific content in order to comply with local laws in countries where YouTube has been launched. For instance, certain Nazi imagery is unlawful in parts of Europe.
They block the videos based on IP address. Since our IP address shows that we’re coming from Sri Lanka, YouTube will display above message to us.
Even to most of the European users, it’s the same story. I was digging in net and came across this wonderful Proxy.
http://www.hypercloak.com will help you to watch most of the shows. Go to that site and enjoy YouTube shows.
HostGator Web Hosting Review and cupon
HostGator is one of the leading web hosts online. What sets them apart? Let’s look at some of the key features that have people so happy with their service. After all, they’re an increasingly popular web host provider–so what makes them so special?
Before starting, I want to mention that I have been using hostgator for more than one and half year and 10 of my sites are hosted on same account. I never had any problems. If you ever have problems, HostGator customer care is there for you. Their customer care is very powerful and available 24*7.
Domain Name
HostGator allows you to host an UNLIMITED amount of websites. You can host one site or you can host 1,000–this gives you unlimited possibilities when it comes to growing your site and business online. Many web hosts only offer 100 sites at least, with HostGator there is no ceiling to limit your growth.
Space / Storage
Storage is 100% unlimited. This can be great if you want to host your websites or personal family albums. Having your own web host allows you to host files of any kind for remote access. Keep your websites and businesses hosted on your HostGator account and access your files from anywhere–absolutely NO limit to how much you can store.
Bandwidth
HostGator bandwidth is completely unlimited. This means you can upload and download files from the server, access web pages and files as much as you want and never exceed your quota. This can be critical for people who anticipate large amounts of traffic. You will never have to worry about getting capped or charged extra money for going over your limite, since there isn’t one!
Server Type
HostGator allows you to choose different server types. You can choose between a Linux web host or a Windows based web host–the decision is yours. This is a really nice option since many places don’t let you choose between server type.
Databases
MySQL Databases hold valuable information and are the lifeblood of many websites. If you are setting up any dynamic content you will surely need to use a database at one point or another. Luckily, HostGator offers unlimited SQL databases.
Uptime
HostGator is reknowned for their consistent uptime and security. If you ever experience an outage you can simply contact support for a prompt solution.
Pricing
HostGator is great because they have consistently affordable pricing. Sure, pricing isn’t a huge deal anymore so many hosts are able to offer great deals by splitting up servers into shared accounts, but HostGator pricing is much better due to the fact that they offer low prices on their dedicated and virtual-dedicated servers–something that isn’t so common. You can enter into a HostGator agreement for as low as $5 a month.
Uptime
HostGator is reknowned for their consistent uptime and security. If you ever experience an outage you can simply contact support for a prompt solution.
Pricing
HostGator is great because they have consistently affordable pricing. Sure, pricing isn’t a huge deal anymore so many hosts are able to offer great deals by splitting up servers into shared accounts, but HostGator pricing is much better due to the fact that they offer low prices on their dedicated and virtual-dedicated servers–something that isn’t so common. You can enter into a HostGator agreement for as low as $5 a month.
You can buy UNLIMITED HostGator hosting for $0.01. Check out how!
Norton Removal Tool
No doubt Norton is one of the best Anti-virus programs. Since I bought Kaspersky I wanted to remove the promotional version of Norton from my Laptop.
Uninstallation process was taking so much of time, so I just cancelled the windows and restarted the machine and tried to uninstall again. For god sake, I got enough trouble removing Norton from my machine.
If the installation process or uninstallation process is disturbed then next time you can’t install or unninstall Norton also note that you can’t install other Anti-Virus program or Internet security program.
Norton it self giving us a solution for this problem. They’ve got a nice small program, which will remove a failed installation or a damaged Norton product.
Even if this tool didn’t work for you? Then you must contact Norton Customer care to remove Norton from your machine.
System Restore Icon Gone???
There are couple of viruses which cause the most annoying problems. No virus guard can help to restore the damage they’ve done. Virus guard can only remove those viruses.
In my Windows XP machine, all of a sudden the system restore was gone. I was banging my head on wall and trying to figure out what has gone wrong.
Finally I come across this small application, which will help you to restore the start menu items. Now I got it back.
Update Twitter and Facebook Status Together
Twitter got an API to update status from various applications such as Twitterfox. Most potential social network siteFacebook is also providing status update via API.
I’m a fan of both Twitter and Facebook. I was just wondering why I can’t update both Twitter and Facebook together. If I update Facebook, it should update on Twitter and if I update Twitter, it should be updated on Facebook.
I was digging around and found this Facebook application. This application is available from Twitter’s web site and I’m sure you can rely on it.
Twitter Application itself a good self explainer, therefore you have nothing to worry. You can try and figure out what’s happening around. Good luck Twitters. Have fun with Twitter application for Facebook.
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