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How to Disable Google+ Button from Google AdSense Ads

News September 24th, 2011 / No Comments

Google AdSense team announced new Google+ button feature for Google Display Network. Starting in October, the +1 button will be shown on the ads on your site. Google has opened up a new era of social networking ads. Google believes that this will display a recommended ads to your social connections, resulting in higher CTR, relevance and increase in revenue. However, it is highly unlikely to happen as Social networking site(s) users have always been poor at clicking ads, we don’t blame them as we’re aware of the fact that they know that what Google AdSense ads are.

Most of the AdSense publishers and social media gurus are aware of the fact that social networking traffic doesn’t help much to get more Clicks and revenue. Moreover, this traffic often yields in high bounce rate, which might affect your eCPM and Google ranking as well (It is believed that Google Panda considers time on site as on of the ranking factor).

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If you feel that +1 button on Google AdSense is nothing more than a stumbling block and messing up with your ads look, then you may want disable +1 button annotation from Google AdSense publisher dashboard.

Let me remind you, click on +1 button doesn’t counted as an ad on click. There’re chances that people mistakenly click on your ads. If you don’t want to go through all this painful process, follow our tutorial to disable Google+ button from your Google AdSense Ads.

Disable Google+ button on Google AdSense Ads

First of all you need to have new Google AdSense interface in order to disable +1 button on your ads.

1. Sign in to your AdSense account ad Switch to New interface.

2. Click on “Allow & block ads” tab.

3. Go to ‘Advanced settings’ from left panel.

4. On the right side panel you will see an option ‘Social Ads Preference’. You need to block this option in order to disable Google+ button appearing on your ads.

+1 button will help to determine the interest of the people based on their social media group. You might be missing out a good opportunity to provide highly relevant ads to the visitor. All eligible ads will compete in ad auction and most profitable ads will be shown on your ads.

At this point of time it is not known how helpful this would be, but we would definitely like to stick to same settings.

Create WiFi Hotspot on Windows 7 Laptop

News September 22nd, 2011 / No Comments

WiFi hotspot is one of the necessary feature you would expect to have built-in into any device. Gone are the days when we used to rely on hardware based access point. Today’s’ technology is so sophisticated that it lets your devices like laptop and smartphone turn into secure WiFi hotspot to connect multiple devices simultaneously. Recent survey has also proven the fact that mobile devices like iPhone are widely used device on the Airport to access Internet using WiFi technology. Almost all laptop, smartphone offers Wi-Fi, as an option to easily connect the device to an Internet. Yes, it is true that it has put the security in danger but it is largely due to unawareness or ignorance. We’re not here to discuss about this. We shall cover this topic in depth at later stage.

Virtual wireless access point comes in handy especially when you are away from home or office. Before few years, you would require a WiFi router in order to connect multiple devices to access the Internet. However, if you’re using a Windows 7 powered laptop, then you have a reason to boast about your operating system. Suppose, you are carrying your laptop and smartphone along with you but you have internet connection on your laptop only. In this scenario, you will not be able to connect your laptop and smartphone simultaneously. In such situation you can create a WiFi hotspot on your Windows 7 laptop to connect multiple devices simultaneously.

Create WiFi Hotspot on Windows 7

Windows 7 can serve as an access point or WiFi hub where you can connect all your devices securely. Latter part is must as you would not want someone to access your network and use it for malicious purpose. Luckily, there are already plenty of applications available which let you create WiFi hotspot without much effort or technical knowledge.

Connectify: Connectify is one of the most recommended software often used to create hotspot instantly. Advanced option in connectify will let you decide the security mode and password to connect to hotspot. Once it is live you can connect any number of devices to it, which you can track down from ‘Clients’ tab. It will enlist all the connected devices to the network. Pro version of Connectify will let you share files, media on wireless network.

Download Connectify from here

Maryfi: Maryfi is yet another free utility that let you create a WiFi hotspot and connect WiFi enabled devices, networks, smartphone, music player and gaming system instantly. Like any other WiFi access point, Maryfi will keep your device safe using WPA2 encryption method. It is available in English and Arabic version.

Download Maryfi from here

Virtual Router: Virtual router turns any Windows 7 pc into WiFi hotspot using wireless hosted network technology. The program is written in C# and also works on Window 2008 R2 computers. It uses one of the most secured encryption algorithm called WPA2. It is a free utility.

Download Virtual router from here

Bzeek: Bzeek turns your Windows 7 into software access point for free WiFi access. You can connect your iPhone, Windows Phone, Android and other smartphone or any other WiFi enabled devices to this network securely. It has a built-in firewall to protect your computer and network.

Download Bzeek from here

Let us know if you’ve come across any such application which let you create WiFi hotspot so easily. We will definitely feature them in our blog.

Megavideo app for Windows Phone 7 available now

WP Apps September 22nd, 2011 / No Comments

Megavideo, a popular video hosting site, mainly used to host video content by many is available for Windows Phone 7 users now (unofficial app). Like file hosting services megashare, and rapidshare, Megavideo has also been abused by many people with pirated content. Such services has been notoriously used for pirated copy of latest movies, TV shows etc. In short, you will be able to find and watch recent movies and TV shows (pirated version) on Megavideo for free (hint).

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Megavideo for wp7

Megavideo app for Windows Phone 7 is available in the marketplace for $5.49, which is quite high considering the fact that it has nothing to offer. Trial version lets you watch 5 minutes of video to test the application. Trial version opens the market every 5 minutes, you can use go back key to watch the video again. It works by finding the link in Google search, and then opening the embedded media from the site. Honestly, we do not see much usage of this application (considering the price in the mind). It would have been better if the application price was stripped down to $0.00 or something.

Davide Bergamini, an Italian student has developed this application within 90 hours. According to him, this application is in highly experimental stage (are you serious? You want us to pay $5.49 for highly experimental app). I couldn’t play the video and honestly failed to understand how this application works. Google search is also in Italian language. We strongly recommend our readers to avoid this application at any cost.

Download Megavideo for WP7 from marketplace

Windows Phone Mango Update coming out in a week or two [Official]

News September 21st, 2011 / No Comments

Microsoft has finally put an end to all those silly rumors. This probably has to do something with today’s announcement regarding iPhone 5 release date. Apple shall reveal next generation iPhones—PLURAL, on October 4th. This might have forced Microsoft developers to hurry up and push Mango update to Windows Phone users. Personally, I would not hesitate to try iPhone 5, if available earlier than Mango update.

General Manager, Eric Hautala, has clearly said that they expect to start rolling it out in the next week or two. One can see Where’s My Phone Update? table to see when they will get Mango update. It will reflect the worldwide roll-out status.

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He also warns the users against unofficial and leaked copies of Windows Phone firmware (like Freedom ROM).

During the official Windows Phone 7.5 update process, every Windows Phone will also receive software from the handset manufacturer. This matched and paired firmware has been painstakingly tuned so your phone—and apps—work with all the new features of Windows Phone 7.5. Since your phone requires the proper firmware to function as designed, my advice is simple: steer clear of bootleg updates and homebrew tools.

Make sure you keep your weapons ready for the big day. Go and download Zune 4.8 right away, to make sure that you are running an up to date Zune version capable of receiving Mango update. I hope we get this update before October 4th, the official date for iOS 5 and iPhone 5 release.

WhatsApp for Windows Phone Mango Available for Download from Marketplace

WP Apps September 21st, 2011 / 1 Comment

WhatsApp, a popular cross-platform instant messaging application is now available in Windows Phone marketplace for download. Earlier last week, we informed you about the possible release of WhatsApp application for Windows Phone mango. Unlike iMessenger or BBM, WhatsApp is not designed for specific platform.

This is one of the strongest reason why we love this application. No matter whether you are using Symbian device, iPhone, BlackBerry or Windows Phone, WhatsApp is the only solution for you. It works pretty well on all the platform, and now developers have added Mango support as well. Definitely, we love Mango and WhatsApp makes it more sweeter.

Smartphone users are probably aware of the usability of this application. Features like group chat, push notification, free text messaging, and file sharing option, keeps it ahead of competitors. Marketplace listing doesn’t give much idea about this application, as there is no description provided to the users. However, those who have already used this application are probably aware of the usefulness of it.

Features of WhatsApp

Multiplatform: iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Nokia and Windows Phone Mango

Group Chat: Chat instantly people in your group or find the people to start the conversation. One-on-one chat is so last year

Push Notification: Get the latest update, message while application is not running

Free text & MMS: Send free text message and small video, images, audio to your friends.

Instant Contacts: Chat with the contacts in your address book.

Offline Messages: Guaranteed delivery of your messages when you come online. You can compile an offline message to be sent at later time.

Custom chat background: Get rid of boring chat backgrounds and enjoy your own backgrounds to make conversation more colorful.

Custom status: Tell the world about your mood or what’s on your mind with custom status message.

Above all WhatsApp is a free application. What’re you waiting for guys? A smart person utilizes their smartphone in more intuitive way and that’s why you should use this cross-platform application. Soon, we’ll see this application rocking the marketplace once Mango is available to all.

Download WhatsApp from here

Check out our Windows Phone Apps and Windows Phone Games gallery for more goodies for your Windows Phone

SSH Client for Windows Phone Mango

WP Apps September 21st, 2011 / No Comments

It’s raining mango and apps. What are we talking about? Windows Phone 7.5 has opened a new world of immense possibilities and system tweaks. More and more developers and company are opting for Mango based WP app.

Finally! We have got one of the most useful and powerful SSH client for Windows Phone 7.5. SSH client gives a sneak peak of what’s lying beneath. Basically, it means that we can access our device remotely, and access features like tunneling, forwarding TC ports, send files over SFTP protocol. Let us have a look at the features of the first ever SSH client for windows Phone mango.

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The SSH Client

Private key authentication
Different font types and sizes
Custom settings for every connection
On-screen keyboard and physical keyboard support
Customizable rendering speed

There are unlimited possibilities. However, it should be noted that this is meant for expert people or who has a little bit of advanced technical knowledge. A pro version will bring more support like Telnet support, Url parsing, more settings, portrait mode, pin connection as live tiles, backlog support, customizable click-areas on screen for quick command, support for usual commands like : Ctrl, Alt, Esc, Tab, cursor keys and much more.

Go grab it champ. Here is the link to download SSH client on Windows Phone Mango