How To Create Your Own Fonts

First of all i understand that most of us are not really not that crazy about fonts. And i am sure a lot of people use the basic preinstalled fonts for almost all their work. So the idea of creating your own font may not excite you..

But nevertheless its good to have some fun trying out new things and believe me its really easy to do and you will have a lot of fun doing it. Once you are done with it you can use it as your signature font or if you were able to create something extraordinary, you can share it with others and be famous. Read on to find out more.

How to create your own fonts??

We will use a cool website fontstruct to create the fonts. Its really easy to use and you can create some awesome fonts using this. Here are the steps:

• First go to this website, 'Fontstruct' and sign up for a new account  

• As soon as you sign in you will see a yellow box saying create new fontstruction, click on it 

 

• Then it will ask you to provide a name for the font. Name it anything you like

• Now you are in the main page where you can create your fonts. Something like this will be shown

• The fun part starts here. Everything you see here is quite simple to understand. You can use the bricks available at the left side and draw whatever shape you want for the letter A. Click on preview to see how it looks.

• There are 100's of bricks available and seriously your imagination is the limit when it comes to how you are gonna use them. 

• When your are satisfied with the letter 'A' just click on the next letter and draw the next letter. When you are done with designing all the letters you want click on save to save all your progress.

• After playing with it for some time i was able to create these weird looking first three letters. I am sure you can do way better that this:D

• Lastly click on download to download the font. It will download a zip file with your font in it. Extract the file anywhere and 'copy the font file'.

• Now to install the font, browse to the directory  'C:/Windows/Fonts' and paste your font there and you are ready to go

You can use this font like any other preinstalled font. In MS word or notepad just go to format-> font and then choose the font you created and have fun writing in your own unique font. And once your are done with that, you can share your fonts with others on fontstruct. Just click on the font you created and there will be an option to share that with everyone.

So have fun creating your own fonts. I would love to see your fonts on the front page of fontstruct. If you have any doubts regarding this then you can ask that in the comments sections below

And as always thanks for reading.. 

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5 Things To Do When Really Bored

Are you really bored to death. You have nothing to do and are just sitting online trying to find something fun to do. I guess then you are in the right place. This is my personal list of 5 things to do when you are getting really bored. These are the things you can do online to kill your not so precious time. Some of these may be familiar to you, some may be completely new. So have a look:

1. Chat With God:

Yes there is an online website where you can chat with god 24/7. Of course you won't be actually chatting to god. You will just be chatting with a program that thinks he is god. Such programs are very old. I remember the first time i saw such a program was like 5 yrs ago. And i doubt if something spectacular has happened in this technology in these 5 yrs. But still its really cool and the AI program behaves pretty nicely. At times you would doubt if you are talking to a computer or God. Here's the link:

Chat with god

2. Look at Some Pictures

There are a lot of sites online that are full of funny and weird pictures. Looking at such pictures still turns out to be one of the best ways to kill your time when really bored. I know most of you will be familiar with these so i will just provide the links:

• Random Pics
• FailBlog

3. Watch Videos:

If not pictures the next best thing you can do is watch some videos. It all depends on what type of videos you like but most people will look for videos in the funny genre when they are getting bored. Check out these sites to find some funny videos.

• Failblog
• Funnyordie
• Youtube

4. Play online games :

Games are considered the best way to pass your time. Believe me once you get addicted to any game you won't have any time left to do any other thing. But there are some games which are not that addicting and hence safe but you can still play them to pass your time. Most of the online flash games are really good and you will have a lot of fun playing them. Here are some online games site

• Miniclip
• Games2win
• Zapak

Recently i found a new way to play games via webcams. Yes you can control your game with your body through webcams. This looks really interesting and you may consider checking some of these out:

• Ironman
• Lorenzgames
• Autobots
• Playdojam

5. Surf the internet:

Just like you found this article while surfing the net, you may find a lot of other really great sites full of awesome content. And you may find some interesting sites too. According to me the best way to find interesting content is through stumbling. If you aren't on stumble yet then you should join right now

StumbleUpon

Lastly this is a list of some other interesting things i found out recently. Some of them are websites, some applications, some videos and some games:D Check them out..

• Future Me
• What Happened In Your Birth Year
• Barcode Yourself
• Reaction Test
• Smart Glass Future
• What Do You Love
• Wrong Jobs
• Future Of World
• Are You Addicted To Internet
• Swap Files Randomly
• Some Illusions
• Mystic Mind Reader- (shared by naser)

That brings me to the end of this post. Hope you found out something useful and interesting. And next time when you are really getting bored you will have a whole lot of things to do. And as always you can leave your opinions in the comments section below. Do you know of some other ways to pass time on the internet?? I will be glad to know:D


Thanks for reading

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Google Plus One's For Sale!!!

Are you really disappointed that inspite of writing quality content you still don't get the fame you deserve. Your content doesn't get viral and you are obsessed with people that get 100's of +1's on every post they write. Well then why not buy them! You all must be familiar with sites that sell backlinks and they were doing really good. And now its the season of Google's Plus One sales. Read on..

Does Google +1's Really Matter?? 

Apart from the fact that having +1's may make your site look good and respected there are some SEO advantages too.

First of all i want to make it clear that i am not an SEO expert and i won't even pretend to be. Now with what i read some SEO experts are saying that social exposure i.e facebook likes, google +1's and retweets etc will also play a major role in ranking of websites in google. There is no official statement by google about google +1 affecting rankings although. 

A good reason why search engine's may consider this is that people are really selective while sharing something. If they don't find anything useful then forget that they will even move there mouse anywhere near the share or like button. 

So if a post has 100's of likes, shares etc it will act as a seal of approval that the content is really good. And we all know how much google loves unique and useful content, it wants to get rid of all the spammy sites from its search results. So you may start seeing +1's affecting your site ranking in the near future.

How to Buy Google +1's??

A site called Plussem.com is all into this and is selling google +1's for a moderate price. Plussem is probably the first one to offer such a service. It is run by a site SEOshop.biz. Here are the prices..

Buy 50 Google Plus One for 20$
Buy 250 Google Plus One for 70$ 
Buy 2000 Google Plus One for 360$  

So how does Plussem Work??

They say that each +1 apparently comes from a real person with a verified Google account and is given manually by visiting the buyer's site. All +1s trace back to different IP addresses, and are distributed over a number of days to make them look more natural. That means that they will make sure that google finds these +1's legitimate.

 

Lastly no i do not recommend buying social fame through such sites. I also wouldn't ever buy backlinks although that is quite common. I believe in doing these things the hard way, i.e by hard work. But there are a lot of people that do everything they can to rank in Search Engine's. Be it buying backlinks, buying SEO softwares and what not. So if you are one of them go ahead try this you may get some benefits right now or in the future.

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Navigate In Firefox Using Mouse Gestures!!!

I know navigation in browsers is not a problem to most of us, as we are used to the old basic style of moving our mouse to different positions and then clicking at different places to accomplish different tasks. Not hard isn't it.? But recently I came across this firefox plugin which takes navigation to a completely different level. With this plugin installed you can switch between tabs, open or close any tab, bookmark any website or open your favorite websites etc. with just a mouse gesture. 

With mouse gesture I mean moving your mouse in a specific pattern. For ex: to go back just right click your mouse draw a line backwards and you are then on the previous page. I hope you get the point. Sounds interesting?? Read on to find out more..

The plugin used to enable this function is called 'All in One Gestures'. There are some other plugins too which promise the same result but this one is my favourite. Here are the steps to use this.

Step 1: Install The Plugin

• First download this plugin from here.
  

• Click on Add to Firefox to start the download. And remember to click on allow when asked to download. 

• Once downloaded restart your browser and you will see that your extension is ready to use.

• To test this, hold the right click button anywhere on the page, draw a line backwards and release the mouse button. As soon as you do this you will see that you are taken to the previous page.

Now once the plugin is setup, its time to configure it to suit your needs.


Step 2:  Configure

• Go to Tools>Add-ons. In the Add-ons manager go to the extensions tab and choose 'all in one gestures' and click on options.

• Now you will see the options menu and under it will be four tabs. Leave all the other tabs for now and click on the Gestures customizations

• Here you will see a long list of functions with their corresponding gestures. So now you can choose which functions you want and the corresponding gestures to get that function done.

• You will notice that the gestures are written in terms of combination of up,down,left and right. For ex: the gesture for the next tab function is up-right. So to go to the next tab you have to right click anywhere, draw a line upwards and then move it in the right direction. 

• Now to customize your gestures find the function for which you would like to use the gesture. See the default gesture for that if available. If you don't like the default one you can edit the gesture to something which you can easily remember. 

• To edit gestures just click on the edit gestures and you can type the combination you want or you can draw it yourself.

• Finally when you are done with the customization just click on 'Ok' and get ready to test out your new gestures.

It may take some time in the starting to get used to this but believe me after you do get comfortable with these you won't look back. I primarily use this to move backward, forward, open new tab, close tab and bookmark. And lastly if you are looking for such plugins for Google Chrome then you can find that below. It will be pretty similar in use.. 

• Mouse Gestures For Chrome 

So hope you like this. Thanks for taking out some time to read this. And as always you can share your opinions about this in the comments section below...

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Charge Your Laptop By Typing!!!

A team of researchers at Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) have successfully demonstrated a new, “nano-scaled” piezoelectric film’s capacity for turning mechanical pressure into electricity. I know this sounds weird but you can now charge your laptops by typing. Well not right now, it would take around 3 yrs to realize this technology on commercial basis. But nonetheless this is really a big achievement which can change the way we use our laptops. 

How's this possible:

The technology used to convert mechanical energy(typing) into electricity(power) is pretty simple. I mean simple to understand. They used piezoelectric materials i.e the materials which produce electricity when some pressure is applied, to accomplish this task. Now if we put a piezoelectric plate underneath our keyboard, the pressure generated by typing can be converted to electricity which can then charge our laptop. Sounds legit to me.

So why wait 3 yrs:

To clarify this, Dr Madhu Bhaskaran, who led the research told ABC News in Australia said "Currently the energy levels we're able to generate is around ten times less than what's required, so that's the next step, to amplify it by ten times, so we can produce an everlasting battery or replace existing batteries.

Now to do this it will take atleast 3 yrs. Once they are able to amplify it, i guess the technology will get commercially available pretty quicky. And i am sure this will become quite a selling point for the companies that will be able to incorporate this technology first.

What's next:

Apart from using piezoelectric materials to charge your laptop, scientists are looking at some other applications too.These include running shoes which can power up your cell phone and a pacemaker which is powered by your blood pressure. Also scientists are looking for a way to power touchscreen devices with the swipes of our fingers using the same technology.

Some alternatives:

When i read about this research i was sure that there would be some other ways too by which we can charge our laptops. So after doing my bit of research i found these:

• Charge your laptop with a foot pedal 
• Charge your laptop by using friction

So what you think about this?? I mean i am really excited about this research. It could be really useful for bloggers like me. And who knows, some day you may be able to charge your laptop by moving your mouse or maybe with the blink of your eyes:D

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Some Cool Internet Facts!!!

These are some of the cool internet facts which I hope that you didn't knew already. Of course these are not discovered by me but as always I did a full research to find these. So hope you like this and some of these are able to amaze you.....

Img source http://dailyinternetdigest.com

Internet Traffic :

1. Only 22% of world population surf the internet. 

2. Sweden is the country with the highest percentage of net users at 75%.

3. 35.6% of internet users are Asian!!! 

4. Of the 247 BILLION email messages sent every day, 81% are pure spam. That sucks... 

Domains :

5. Every single 3-character .com domain name has long been registered!!! These include all the 50000 possible 3-character .com domain names.

6. A single individual owns over 200,000 domain names! His name is Dr. Lieven P. Van Neste.

7. Every .com domain name from 1 to 63 characters long, consisting entirely of the letter "a", has been registered.

8. The highest amount of money paid for a domain name is for business.com, $7.5 million!!!

9. The first .com domain name that was ever registered was Symbolics.com. 

Websites :

10. There are over 200 million websites, 74 per cent are in the commercial or .com domain.

11. There are more than 100 million blogs.

12. One in five bloggers update their blogs daily, that includes me:D

13. Twenty hours of video from around the world are uploaded to YouTube every minute. 

14. You would need to live for around 1,000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube.

15. The average Facebook user has 130 friends.

16. People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook.

Google:

17. Google comes from the word 'googol', which is 1 followed by a hundred zeros.  'Google' resulted from a spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’.

18. Google estimates that the Internet today contains about 5 million terabytes of data (1TB = 1,000GB), and claims it has only indexed 0.04% of it all! To fit the whole Internet you would need just 200 million Blu-Ray disks.

19. Only 10% of all the pages on the Internet make it to the search engines.

20. 57% of American kids say ‘Google’ as their first word. Lol??? 


So what you think about these??? If you know some other cool internet facts then you can post that in the comments:D

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Google To Fight Malwares Now!!!

Google today announced that it will now warn people if it finds any malware activity on your computer. That's a big step by google, for the first time a search engine will issue warnings about the state of your computer if it is infected or not. Of course its still in its initial stages and can't detect 100% of all malwares. I doubt that it will ever be able to do that. But nonetheless this adds another unique ability to google and will surely be helpful to a lot of people.

So How Will Google Detect Malwares :

It all started when google was conducting its regular checks and found some unusual search traffic. After conducting some more tests google found that the computers exhibiting this behavior were infected with a particular strain of malicious software, or “malware.”

So basically google will warn people whose traffic is coming from these malicious proxies.

What If Google Detects Malware :

First of all google will issue an warning in a yellow box saying that you computer may be infected. The warning  will also contain a link having information on how to get rid of that malware. It will also provide links to AV softwares to scan your computer.

So Can I Uninstall My Antivirus Software Now :

No. Don't even think about that. Google is in no way a replacement to your AV softwares. It can detect only certain type of malwares. And as you may be knowing that there are thousands of other virus available for free download on the internet so it won't be a good idea:D

So if you see a warning while searching for something in google don't ignore that. Just click on the link that show the information on how to get rid of that malware. If that doesn't help do a full scan with your your favourite antivirus program. You can also use malwarebytes to scan your computer for malwares.

So what you think, is it a good step taken by google??

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