How to stop Online Plagiarism

The dictionary meaning of plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation," "close imitation," or "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work

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Use IFTTT to Automatically Tweet New Post On Blogger Or Wordpress

Tweeting new articles on Twitter can be a cumbersome process sometimes. It might take from a few to many clicks depending on the amount of customization you want to add to your tweets. But for bloggers who tweet in just the same way everytime IFTTT's new offering can save a lot of time for you. It just takes 5 minutes to create a new "Recipe" (Recipe is what IFTTT calls their service). Every recipe contains "If This Than That" Statement. You can choose This and That as any service which IFTTT supports right now. 

Here's how to setup new recipe in minutes.

Step 1: Make a new account on IFTTT [Link].

Step 2: When you'll login into IFTTT, click on "Create a new recipe". You'll then see a big IF THIS THAN THAT statement written on the website. This will be colored differently than any other word. Click on "This".

Step 3: It will then say, choose a new *trigger channel.

*Trigger channel is basically where change is being made by you. For Example say you are blogging on Wordpress. You post a new article on your blog. So the change was done by you. "If you made a change on Wordpress (This) then we'll tweet it for you on Twitter (That) "

Step 4: Lets suppose you chose Wordpress on the last step. Now it will ask you to put your Wordpress's credentials to activate this service. Do it. Then continue to the next step

Step 5: So you'll now be asked to choose Trigger. You can choose "Any New Post".

Step 6: That has to be clicked now, and you'll see the same list of apps you saw in step 3. Choose "Twitter", as you want to tweet everytime you post a new article on Wordpress. 

Step 7: Put in your Twitters credentials and you're done with making the new recipe, unless you want to add a description to it. Add a description if you want, but it is not mandatory to write it. 

If you want to check if this is working or not, click on the arrow button just placed on the right side of your recipe. On the next page click "Check Now" and Tweets will be tweeted about your new post. 

This works pretty well for all the service. It supports both Self hosted and Wordpress.com installations. You can also set it up to work with blogger. You can save Read items from pocket to Google calender to make a diary entry sort of or you can send email when new blog post arrives. You can try any combination of total of 54 apps. You can create unlimited recipe and each recipe triggers itself automatically in 15 minutes. 

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Test If You Typed Password Correctly

Using very long password can make your account hard to get hacked but you can make typo's pretty easily while typing it. And in worst case scenario your account can also get temporarily blocked if you mistype your password again and again while logging into some service. So how to look at your password to confirm it is right?

This Javascript bookmarklet called Show My Password will surely help in confirming your password. Just drag it and drop it on your browsers bookmark bar. So next time, if you want to check your password just click on the bookmark you just made and a dialog box will appear containing your password. Also a thing I noted that, if your page has 2 or more password fields it will show all the passwords. So this can be helpful when you're filling a form online and want to confirm the password. 

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How To Surf The Web Anonymously Or Activate Do Not Track

Keeping yourself anonymous on Web is a hard job. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo or every single service we use on web, stores identifying cookies or similar files on our computer's local disk. These files are used later to track our moves on Web. Like what are we searching, reading or clicking. These help Websites like Google to target Ads on us very specifically and increase their revenue by a big margin.

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How To Mix and Edit Audio File Like A Pro

Party mix songs sounds great. But they takes a great effort and high-end software's to be made. So if you ever wondered if you can use one such software to mix or edit songs which is also user friendly, here is Audacity. 

It is cross platform so you don't have to worry about compatibility with different Operating System. It can also convert files different audio files to your desired format just like media.io. 

You can also record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, records, or minidiscs. With some sound cards, Audacity can also capture streaming audio.

Editing is fairly easy. We can cut, copy, paste and delete different tracks and can create professional kind of music with it. And you can install different plugins too which will in turn increase functionality of this freeware app.

You can download it for Windows from here and for Mac OS X from here and for GNU Linux from here. 

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How To Access Pandora From Anywhere In The World

Pandora is a great Cloud Music Streaming service which helps you to listen to your favorite artists, songs, genres and more without even downloading them. But the bad part is though, it isn't available to users who don't live in US. If you go to Pandora.com now, it will redirect you to this restricted-to-use-page. The restricted page basically says that you must be in United States to access Pandora. 

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How To Search Anything That You See With Google Goggles

Google has a great reputation in search market and they are moving a step further with Google Goggles. This is an Application that is developed by Google that helps you search what you see. It searches for anything that you capture with your handheld device.

How To Use It

For using it you must have an Android or iOS device as official app is available only in their respective stores. After downloading (Links below) it on your smartphone, launch the app. You will just have to then point at anything and take a picture of it. The picture will then be uploaded to Google's own server and with their magical algorithms, perfect matching results including Google search, Images, eBooks, Video etc. of it will show up and everything happens in a few seconds. 

Google Goggles in action; Picture Courtesy: Lifehacker

Recently, Google added support to business cards. As you scan your business card it converts all the information into an uncluttered format. And this can be saved in your phone for later revision. This can be really helpful when you are running short of time. Also, this works pretty well for landmarks, books, contacts, artwork, logo's and more. But this app still falls short when you click food, animals, apparels etc. in it. 

You can download this app on Android from Play Store and for iOS users from iTunes. 

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How To Use Tablet As Your Second Monitor

Driving an external monitor with a laptop is quite common now a days. Since it adds a gorgeous display to your work space, it also increases your efficiency at the same time. Whether you're trying to keep up with twitter feed or some website, it acts as a secondary computer which can be tweaked as per your requirement. Since external monitors are not mobile like Tablets are, Tablets can be a better option as a secondary screen for on-the-go users. 

It isn't as easy as hooking up an external monitor but it doesn't requires hacking to make it working either. Here are some Apps which will let you do it in minutes.  

Air Display: Air display is quick and easy to use. You can use your tablet in either orientation -- Landscape or portrait -- as you like. Apps are available for both Android and iOS Price: $9.99 

Celio Corp Redfly's ScreenSlider: It can be used with Android and Windows. iOS app is under development. It cost a $1.99 as a regular download but it is currently in sale for just $0.99.

Splashtop XDisplay:  Though one of my favorite's, it can play graphic intensive games, stream content and can give remote access to your Desktop. Setting up iPad as secondary monitor is just as easy as other services. Free for 10 Minutes in each session and $4.99 in-app one time purchase.  

iDisplay: Nothing special, it can work both for PC and Mac and is priced at $4.99. 

You will be presented with instructions on their respective site but here are some general ones.

Firstly, download app on your Tablet and on your PC. Check if your Tablet and PC are connected on the same Wifi network. Then Open app on your Tablet and select name of your computer. Follow the on-screen instructions and your Tablet will be connected with your PC. 

You can also invest in some sturdy stand for your Tablet to make it feel more like an External Monitor.  

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