10 Ways to Backup & Restore Blogger Blog

Blogging is massive these days. Most of bloggers (including me) started blogging endeavors with Blogger – Blogspot free blogging service.There is no comprehensive official method to backup a Blogger Blog. What happens just in case it is deleted and needs to restored…

Don’t worry there are number of tricks and utilities that can help blogger to bakckup the Blog.

1. Blogger Backup Utility - It is a simple utility that help bloggers to make backup of blog to local disk. Check out screenshots complete view of utility in action

2. BlogBackupr -It is a web based blog backup service. It allows blogger to backup Blog. It can backup articles, user comments and blog categories of your blog. Ability to backup images will be added soon.

3. HTTrack Website Copier - Allows blogger to create a mirror copy of the blog on computer. It builds recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to computer.

4. BlogBackupOnline –It is web based service that allows blogger to backup your blog. Blogger can restore blog content anytime using the backup created. It is also very useful in case you are shifting from one blogging service to another. For example switching from blogger to wordpress.

5.Ã‚Â Official Blogger backup steps - Blogger does not have an export or download function. Blogger can use these instructions to create a single file with all your posts which you may publish and then copy to blogger own computer for use as desired.

6. Manual way to backup posts & Images - For new blogger. Save and copy all textual content using standard URL: http://name.blogspot.com/search?max-results=N (where name is blogname and N is number of posts you want to backup). To backup images on your blog use FireFox addon ‘DownThemAll’.

7. Using Blogger Email feature - Enable send post by email feature in your Blogger Dashboard. As soon as blogger publish a new post you will receive whole post in your inbox. Blogger will have blog posts archived in your inbox. Under ‘Settings’ click on ‘Email’ option. Enter your email address in ‘Blogsend address’.

8. BlogCollector – Blogger can make backup of blog on computer. Blogger can publish that backup in PDF or MS Word format.

9. Good-old Copy Paste Method - Time consuming but very simple way of backing up blogger blog. Finish writing blog post, copy the post content while in HTML mode and paste in notepad file on computer. Name the notepad file with the title of post for easy searching.

10. Start thinking, innovating - Well, above were 9 ways to backup blogger blog. Do you know any method that can be 10th method to backup blogger blog? If YES, please share by adding a comment. Anyway, happy blogging!

Add Smilies/ Emoticons in Google Talk (Gtalk)

I Really love to use Smilies while chatting. Well, unfortunately GTalk doesn’t have smilies included by default . So Here You will find Out How To do it ... Well, it’s really simple. The main concept of getting smilies is through converting the text smilies of GTalk into smilies. As the new Version of GTalk includes support for themes we can add a theme with custom smilies in order to get rid of those text smilies. In short, it’s nothing but just adding a custom theme. Follow Simple Steps : 1) Download any one of the below smiley theme which you like. Download Classic Emoticons theme Download Bubble Emoticons theme 2) Now extract the zip to a specific folder. 3) Go to the following location: C:/Documents and Settings/(your user name)/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Google Talk/themes/user/chat 4) Replace (your user name) with your Windows account user name without brackets The folder chat isn’t there by default so you have to create a folder with the name “chat” inside t...

Create a PDF Viewer ShortCode

Do you need to show PDF files on your WordPress Blog. If yes here is a small code for this. This will gives a feature to open the PDF files using Google Docs . The first step is to paste the following code into your functions.php file: function pdflink($attr, $content) { return '<a class="pdf" href="http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=' . $attr['href'] . '">'.$content.'</a>'; } add_shortcode('pdf', 'pdflink'); Once you saved the file, you'll be able to use the shortcode on your posts and page. Here is the syntax : [pdf href="http://yoursite.com/linktoyour/file.pdf"]View PDF[/pdf] If you enjoyed this post, Please Consider Sharing it! You may also like to read: How to turn off Find My iPhone How to fix 'iPhone is disabled Connect to iTunes' error messages How to mirror/screencast iPhone to a smart TV how to Delete All Photos from iPhone How to make Chrome default browser How ...

Upload and View Videos in Google Docs

Google Docs , It is the popular cloud based Office Suit of Google . Google has been continuously adding new features for his users in Google Docs. Recently Google made Docs more advance by adding the uploading, storing and viewing video feature to Docs. Here is the way how you can upload and view video in Google Docs. Google provide 1GB space for upload a video with the maximum resolution of 1920x1080. It also supports multiple formats like WebM , MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files, AVI MPEGPS, WMV and FLV. To upload a video just click on upload button at the left top. To watch your Uploaded video simple click on the file from your document list.

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