How to Convert a CD Audio Track to an MP3 Using Nero

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How to Convert a CD Audio Track to an MP3 Using Nero
By Kristen Leigh Grubb, eHow Contributor
updated: December 21, 2009
Nero is a multimedia software suite that allows you to convert audio tracks from a CD to MP3 format. Nero also allows you to burn CDs and DVDs, edit movies and share your music, videos and photos with friends and family. You must pay to download the full version of Nero, but there is an unlimited free version (Nero Lite) that allows you to copy and burn CDs and DVDs.

INSTRUCTIONS:
1 Download and install Nero (see Resources below).
2 Open Nero StartSmart. It will be found under the "All Programs" sub-menu of the main "Start" menu.
3 Click the "Audio Ripping" button on the left side of the screen.
4 Insert the audio CD into the computer's CD tray and click "OK."
5 Select the CD drive from the "Source Drive" drop-down menu.
6 Select "MP3 Audio (*.mp3)" from the "Output File Format:" drop-down menu.
7 Click the "Browse" button and select the folder where you want to place your MP3 file.
8 Click the "Deselect All" button so that no audio tracks are selected.
9 Click the check box in front of the track that you want to convert.
10 Click the "Rip" button at the bottom of the screen to covert the track to MP3.
11 Click the "OK" button when the conversion is complete.

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Page Navigation For Blogger

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Page Navigation For Blogger

Page Navigation is a really awesome and long awaited feature. You might have seen numbered page navigation on many wordpress blogs(wp-pagenavi by Lester Chan). Muhammad Rias of Techie Blogger had already developed a page navigation system for blogger.It really was an awesome trick which was made at a time when nobody could even think of implementing it on blogger.It had some minor bugs and now Abu Farhan has perfected it and he has now given us the perfect page navigation solution.Here is a little screenshot of what this is all about.
When you use this hack,you will see this kind of navigation on your blog’s home page and label pages(needs little customization).

Implementation of Blogger Page Navigation
Those who are bad at HTML modifications can use my one click installer :)

After installing this widget proceed to the label fix.

The Complex Method. :P
If you installed the widget you shouldn’t be here.. Scroll down to the label fix.

1.Login to Blogger Dashboard and navigate to Layout > Edit Html
2.Don’t click the checkbox which says ‘Expand Widget Templates’
3.Now find
]]></b:skin> and replace it with

.showpageArea a {
text-decoration:underline;
}
.showpageNum a {
text-decoration:none;
border: 1px solid #cccccc;
margin:0 3px;
padding:3px;
}
.showpageNum a:hover {
border: 1px solid #cccccc;
background-color:#cccccc;
}
.showpagePoint {
color:#333;
text-decoration:none;
border: 1px solid #cccccc;
background: #cccccc;
margin:0 3px;
padding:3px;
}
.showpageOf {
text-decoration:none;
padding:3px;
margin: 0 3px 0 0;
}
.showpage a {
text-decoration:none;
border: 1px solid #cccccc;
padding:3px;
}
.showpage a:hover {
text-decoration:none;
}
.showpageNum a:link,.showpage a:link {
text-decoration:none;
color:#333333;
}
]]></b:skin>
This is the CSS part which defines the look and feel of the page navigation.You can modify it according to your need

4.Next is the JavaScript part. Find </Body>
and replace it with

As you can see, there are some customizable parameters in this code var pageCount=5; This code determines the number of posts that would be displayed per page. var displayPageNum=5; This code determines the number of additional page navigation numbers that will be displayed on the page. var upPageWord ='Previous'; var downPageWord ='Next'; These two lines determine the text that would be shown for the previous page and next page respectively. Label Fix Now we have another problem.By default,the blogger label pages will show 20 posts.We will have to cut this down to the value that we gave for the variable pageCount (or the posts per page).For this we will have to edit our template How to Edit the template to cut short the posts per page? Go to the Edit HTML page and expand the Widget Templates Now find each occurrence of 'data:label.url' (including the quotes) and replace each of it with 'data:label.url + "?&max-results=5"' Here 5 is the number of posts to be displayed per page. Now if you are using the label cloud widget by phydeaux3,then find a.href = '/search/label/'+encodeURIComponent(t); and replace it with a.href = '/search/label/'+encodeURIComponent(t)+'?&max-results=5'; Here also 5 is the number of posts to be displayed per page. Now you should have the Blogger Page Navigation working perfectly on your blog. :) This tutorial is based on Codes from Abu Farhan and Muhammad Rias. So if you plan to write this tutorial on your blog,do link back to them also. Permalink: Numbered Page Navigation For Blogger You can use this article on your blog,but make sure that you link back to the original post page @ bloggerplugins.org. Article Licensed Under the Creative Commons Licensing Read - [CC Licenses Attribution-SA 2.5].
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Creating Horizontal Menus

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Creating Horizontal Menus

Horizontal Menus are an excellent way to create a menu of categories or Pages, highlighting specific areas of interest within your website. Many web designers place a horizontal menu under the header, where they draw the eye.

Horizontal menus are created with the HTML List feature. Yes, while they are horizontal instead of vertical, like typical lists, they are still a list. CSS presentation styles allow us to set the list to run on one line instead of a separate line for each list item.

Since horizontal menus are simply lists in a horizontal line, let's start the process with a list.

Creating a Horizontal Menu

Below is the simple list for our horizontal menu. We recommend you keep your list small as too many will stretch wide across the screen and may cause some layout problems. We've enclosed the list in a division called navmenu.

<div id="navmenu">
<ul>
 <li><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>">HOME</a></li>
 <li><a href="wordpress/recipes/">RECIPES</a></li>
 <li><a href="wordpress/travel/">TRAVEL</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://www.wordpress.org">WORDPRESS</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

As you can see, within our list we've included a PHP tag for the "home page" and several categories, as well as a link to WordPress, those helpful folks. The list would look like this, in its simplest form (as styled by the Codex):

HOME
RECIPES
TRAVEL
WORDPRESS

You can also use the wp_list_categories() template tag to list your categories. If you just want categories 1, 3, 4, and 5 listed and the rest excluded, your list might look like this:

<div id="navmenu">
<ul>
 <li><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>">HOME</a></li>
<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&include=1,3,4,5'); ?>
 <li><a href="http://www.wordpress.org">WORDPRESS</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

The place to put your new list might be just under the header. In WordPress v1.5, open the header.php file in theWordPress Theme folder you are using. Paste the code at the bottom of the file after the header DIV and then save the file.

In WordPress v1.2, open the index.php file and look for the end of the header section and place your list code there.

Applying the CSS

By default, a list runs vertically, each item on its own line. It also includes an image, known as a bullet, before each line. In your stylesheet, we need to add a reference to the navmenu and the first step is to remove the bullet and set our margins and padding to zero for the whole list.

#navmenu ul {margin: 0; padding: 0; 
 list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; }

If you save and upload your stylesheet, then refresh the test page in your web page browser, you would see that your list now has no bullets and no indents, if everything is working right.

Now, we need to add the technique that will set this list into a horizontal line. We need to add a style reference to the list item itself.

#navmenu ul {margin: 0; padding: 0; 
 list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; }
#navmenu li {display: inline; }

Because these are links, we have to take a moment to clean up the look of the links. There are many things you can do to style this list, but for now, let's add some space to the list of links so they aren't crowded together and remove the default link underline and have the link change colors when the mouse moves over it.

#navmenu ul {margin: 0; padding: 0; 
 list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; }
#navmenu li {display: inline; padding: 5px 20px 5px 20px}
#navmenu a {text-decoration:none; color: blue; }
#navmenu a:hover {color: purple; }

Okay, we can't resist. Let's take this another step further and give our new horizontal menu list some real jazz. See if you can tell what is being done to change the look.

#navmenu ul {margin: 0; padding: 0; 
 list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; }
#navmenu li {display: inline; }
#navmenu ul li a {text-decoration:none;  margin: 4px;
 padding: 5px 20px 5px 20px; color: blue;
 background: pink;}
#navmenu ul li a:hover {color: purple;
 background: yellow; }

If we did this all correctly, your list should look like this:

HOME
RECIPES
TRAVEL
WORDPRESS

Without CSS

One should note that the all the above will fail in browsers with CSS turned off: the <li> lists will still be formatted vertically, not horizontally.

Therefore, if one wishes to be portable to such browsers, one might use e.g.,

Privacy | License / GPL See also: WordPress.com

<p>Archives:<?php wp_get_archives('format=custom&show_post_count=1&type=yearly&after=;'); ?>
Categories:<?php echo str_replace('<br />',';', wp_list_categories('style=&show_count=1&echo=0'));?></p>

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10 add-on for blogger

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10 Addon firefox on blogger

Passionate bloggers are always seen to be keen to come up with quality content in each of their blog posts. They are known to research for information on the subject of t

heir posts and present them in a format that can be easily understood by their readers. Many of the bloggers are also known to adopt search engine optimization techniques in order to drive internet traffic to their blogs.

Here we would like to present 10 very useful Firefox Addons to such hardworking and passionate bloggers like you:

1. Windows Live Writer: The live writer is a handy tool which allows bloggers to create blog posts and include multimedia content such as photos, video, maps etc in their blog posts. The add-on supports various blogging platforms such as WordPress, Blogger, Live Journal among others.

2. Read It Later: This add-on for Firefox allows bloggers to get back to a page which might be of interest to a blogger. This is particularly useful when one comes across interesting content while casually surfing the internet. This add-on allows users to come back to that page of interest and then pursue their interests regarding the same.

3. InstaBlog Submitter: Professional bloggers would know of the importance of spreading the word about the content on their blog. In accordance with the same, InstaBlog Submitter, is an add-on which allows bloggers to submit their content in just 3 simple steps- Select content by Highlight, Right Click, and Submit. A must have add-on for bloggers.

4. NoDoFollow: Professional bloggers are aware of the importance of blog commenting as part of Search Engine Optimization techniques. As the name suggests, the NoDoFollow add-on is useful to check a particular page for its nofollow and dofollow link status of by applying appropriate colors transformations.

5. Tinyurl Creator: The popularity of twitter has also increased the need for presenting long urls in a condensed format. The TinyUrl creator add-on allows bloggers to cut long urls on their posts into smaller and simpler links.

6. ScribeFire: Formatting the content of a blog post can become a very tricky business. The ScribeFire add-on provides a feature rich editor which integrates with the browser and allows bloggers to drag and drop formatted text and also upload images and take notes etc

7. Zemanta: This add-on inserts a box on the right hand sidebar of WordPress write panel and enables bloggers to paste images and links into related posts with a single click. The add-on also supports other blogging platforms such as LiveJournal and Blogger.

8. SearchStatus: This add-on allows bloggers and webmasters alike to keep track of details such as PageRank, Alexa Rank, NoFollow among many other details of web pages. The add-on once installed produces these details for website automatically.

9. AdSense Notifier: Many bloggers are known to be very keen to check their AdSense earnings ever so frequently and thereby end up spending a lot of time for the same which can be better utilized for their blogging purpose. The AdSense Notifier add-on displays AdSense earnings on a sidebar and thereby saving precious time.

10. WebMynd Search Assitant: Remembering the pages visited can become a big problem when surfing through a large number of pages related to a particular topic. WebMynd records the web pages that you visit so that the next time you Google Search for the same, it provides you the past sites you visited through the search term.

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