Google with Cool Form Feature in Docs

September 7, 2008 · Filed Under Computer, Internet, Software · Comment 

Google Docs is actually an online word processor that’s completely free to use and comes with a couple of very nifty ideas. If you’ve not tried it yet then you’ve certainly got nothing to lose by doing so: the only requirement is that you sign up for a Google account.

Google Docs offers a solid array of features. The standard stuff is all here: auto-saving, spell checking and word count, the latter of which offers a readability assessment for your document, so you can see how clearly you write.

Where Google Docs really shines is with its sharing facilities. When working with a document, you can click the share tab and specify other people as collaborators or viewers. Viewers can merely look at the document, but a collaborator can edit it fully, so if you’re working with a co-writer on a project (or several) you can all utilize the same master document.

There are lots of tools in Docs like spread sheet, Power Point and also Form facility that’s also absolute free.

Following are the steps to create a form and publish it on your site for getting reweave on your site or any thing you want. You can also see the summary of the poll or reweave of your form any time by logging in to docs.

  • Go to New > Form
  • Fill the Form as you want to display.
  • Submit that by clicking on Done button
  • Save the Form
  • Go to the More Action at top corner
  • There you can get the embedding code for your web site also you can edit the massage appears after the submission of poll or reweave by going to edit configuration.
  • You can view the published form by clicking on the hipper link which is show at the bottom of the page. You can share the URL to any one to participate in poll or reweave. Here is my Form.


Creating a form from a spreadsheet:

  • Click on the Form tab and click on Create a form.
  • In the form template that opens, you can add any questions and options you’d like.
  • Click Email this from once you’ve finished adding your questions.
  • Add email addresses for your desired recipients.
  • Click Send.

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How to Setup Free Mail Server for Your Own Domain with Google

August 24, 2008 · Filed Under Computer, Internet · Comment 

Yes that’s true you can setup your mail server for your own domain, absolutely free with Google!! As we know Google having mind blowing mail servers; you will be getting IMAP, POP, Mail forwarding ….etc for free and we can trust Google and they are with us for a long time now. So here are the simple 8 steps you need to follow to setup your mail server with Google.

1) Go to Google Apps and sign up for a standard account for your domain.

2) Once you provide your info, Google will take you to your control panel/Dashboard.

3) Note that Google needs to verify that you own your domain. So click on the link to verify your domain ownership.

4) At this point there are two ways of verifying ownership, HTML and CNAME method you can use any one of this which ever convenient for you.

5) Now setting Google apps as your mail server, by using this people can send mail to ‘userid@yourdomain.com’ and it will get routed to Google apps. If you need this, then sign in to your domain hosting service and go to the DNS panel for your domain and add the following to the MX (Mail Exchanger) section. Make sure you delete the default MX entry that is already there by default. If you don’t have access to MX you need to contact your Hosting providers to set this.

Priority        Mail Server

1             ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5             ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5             ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
10           ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10           ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10           ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10           ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.

If hosting provider allowing only one or three MX, then choose first 1 or 3. You can use priority as same.

6) Wait a couple of hours to settle DNS (This depends up on hosting providers). There will be a default email address which ever you passed while signing up this will be master account. If you need one more email account then go to your Google apps dashboard and “User accounts>> Create a new user” and add new email account. Also activate your Email.

7) In the “Service settings >> Email” menu you can change web addresses for accessing Email. For this create a CNAME and modify URL. This URL can be used to login to mail box (ie: click on “Service settings >> Email” menu and change the default web address to http://email.yourdomain.com or whatever you used for CNAME)

To use the custom URL email.yourdomain.com, you must change the CNAME record with your domain host.

a) Sign in to your domain hosting service.

b) Navigate to your DNS Management page. Generally be found in Domain Management or Advanced Settings, if not you need to contact your Hosting providers to set this.

c) Find the CNAME settings and enter the following as the CNAME value or alias:

email

d) Set the CNAME destination to the following address:

ghs.google.com

8) Wait for a couple of hours to settle DNS (This depends up on Hosting providers). Then you can access to login page of your mail box using “http://email.yourdomain.com” or whatever CNAME you set.

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How To Remove Google Search Virus Warning Alert? This Site May Harm Your Computer

August 23, 2008 · Filed Under Computer, Internet, Security · Comment 

How To Remove Google Search Virus warning Alert? This Site may harm Your Computer

If your website is facing similar problem while searching then you need to make sure that..

1) Your ‘.htaccess’ file hacked.

Some one hacked your ‘.htaccess’ file and added malicious redirection codes in to it. What it dose means! It redirects the Google or any other search engine request to malicious domains, so for this you can do one thing like Remove all ‘.htaccess’ which are infected or replace it with original one.

2) Make sure your website is not affiliated with any Mallware related website or activates.

Your site may infected by iframe attack where hackers inserted JavaScript iframe codes into your first or last line of index pages of every folders. This calls an external malicious page in to visitor’s computer and loads nasty programs. The codes will be inserted in encoded format, so look like “%20%77%69%6e” in a file. You need to clean this.

Once you have reviewed your website and are sure it is clean, you can submit a request for re-review your site with google manully as follows.

Using Google Webmaster Tools. (Note: you need to verify site ownership to see this information).

1. Sign in to Webmaster Tools with your Google account.
2. On the Dashboard, select the site you want.
3. On the Overview page, click Request a review and follow the instructions.

After this Google will review your website manually and, Once they will make sure that it doesn’t host or distribute any type of Malware, they will remove the identification from search results and it will re-index it.

Update:-

I forgot to tell the Reason and Precaution for this problem, here it is …

This can happen for various reasons like:

- poor/compromised account/FTP password, which allows hackers to guess the password [or use brutforce tools] and get unauthorized access.
- user’s computer infected by viruses, which is controlled by hackers. In this situation, customer’s uploads also get infected.
- poor scripts, which allows hackers to insert various malformed queries and remotely execute the code and perform intended action
- Virus effected theme selection for the application
- Installing application which are downloaded form third party sites; mainly not genuine sites.

You will have to ensure that:

- generate a strong password combination [for account, ftp, database etc]
- scan local computer with good antivirus, anti spy ware programs and clean bad programs.
- keep the software up-to-date with vendors/developers, and seek their support/forums for any known vulnerabilities/fixes/workarounds available.

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Google AdSense with New Feed Add and Video Unit Service

August 17, 2008 · Filed Under Computer, Internet · Comment 

Google has publicly launched AdSense for Feeds. Google has actually been trying out this service for a long time with a few selected feed publishers, but they launched it for the rest of the world. This new offering lets publishers very easily include AdSense in their RSS feeds which takes advantage of Google’s classic CPC and also CPM  ads.

Also some weeks ago they have launched “video units” service, which actually YouTube video sharing service. Basically you get the chance to embed certain YouTube videos into your website, either by picking from an available channel or feeding Google your preferred categories and keywords, or by allowing Google to automatically target the content to your site.

1) To use the AdSense for Feeds service, simply log into your AdSense account, then follow these steps:

a) Click on AdSense Setup
b) Click AdSense for Feeds
c) Fill out the setup form
d) Click “Save” that’s it.

Once you’ve finished this, the feeds you selected will now show ads at a frequency that matches the criteria you specified when setting it up.
Also google will launch a add migration tool for the existing feedburner add users.

2) To use the “Video units” service, simply log into your AdSense account, then follow these steps:

a) Click on AdSense Setup
b) Click Video units
c) Fill out the setup form
d) Click “Save”.
e) Get the code and past it in you site and enjoy

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