Setting up Windows Live Writer for blogging at TechNetNepal

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Aug 242016
 


Are you a blogger? Or do you love blogging but feel lazy to login to your CMS (Content Management System) in your website to publish them? If so, Microsoft has created the perfect tool for you. The name of the tool is Windows Live Writer. It is a desktop application for publishing blogs which eliminates the hassle of logging in to the CMS everytime. It was first launched on November 6th, 2007 as Windows Live Writer 2008 and its last stable release was launched on August 7, 2012 as Windows Live Writer 2012. Windows Live Writer supports the blogging platforms like WordPress, Blogger, SharePoint and many others, therefore, allowing the bloggers using various platforms to publish their blogs without hassles.

Now, let us move on to setting up Windows Live Writer for blogging. Through this post, we will teach you about setting up Windows Live Writer for blogging at TechNetNepal.net, which is a teaching-learning-sharing portal of Microsoft Innovation Center Nepal. For being able to blog at TechNetNepal.net, you will first need to have a blogging space. For getting your very own blogging space, you will have to create an account at TechNetNepal, then send an email to mic@micnepal.org, requesting them to provide you a blogging space.

Step 1: Download Windows Essentials 2012 from here. And run the file that is downloaded.

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Step 2: After showing the blue colored window (shown above) for a while, you will be displayed a window with the question “What do you want to install?”. There, choose the second option saying “Choose the programs you want to install.”2wlw

Step 3: In a window asking you to “select programs to install”, put a tick mark on ‘Writer’ and click ‘Next’.3wlw

Step 4: Then, the installation will begin. It will take some minutes. As soon as the installation completes, a similar window will appear on your screen. Click on ‘Close’.4wlw

Step 5: Now, go to Start Menu and run Windows Live Writer. You will be shown Microsoft Services Agreement. Click on ‘Accept’ and a configuration wizard shows up.5wlw

Step 6: Click on ‘Next’ to see the wizard asking you “What blog service do you use?”. Since we are trying to connect TechNetNepal’s account here, you will have to choose ‘Other services’ and click ‘Next’.6wlwStep 7: Now this (the window shown below) is the place where you will have to input the URL of your blog (i.e. http://technetnepal.net in our case), and your login credentials (the login credentials are the credentials that we use for logging in to TechNetNepal). You can put a tick on ‘Remember my password’ if you want the application to keep your credentials saved for the future purposes.7wlw

Step 8: A window showing “Setting up your blog account” will be shown for some minutes. After the setup is finished, you will be asked to “Select blog type”. Choose ‘Community Server’ from the dropdown list. And set the remote posting web address to http://technetnepal.net/blogs/metablog.ashx. Then, move ahead by hitting ‘Next’.8wlw

Step 9: Now, you will be asked to select your blog. Choose your blog from the list shown and click ‘Next’. In my case, it’s ‘Sagun’s Blog’.9wlw

Step 10: You’ll again see the “Setting up your blog account” window for some time and after its completion, you will see the message “Your blog has been set up”. Finally, it’s time to click on ‘Finish’ and ‘Start’ blogging!10wlw

Now you’ll be taken to a window which will be similar to the screenshot given below. Now, to publish your blog, you’ll have to set the title of your blog and write up the content. Then you can finally click on ‘Publish’ button at the top left corner of the window to get your blog published on your TechNetNepal blog.11wlw

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Protection of Electronic Gadgets from Water

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Jun 292012
 

The rainy season is one of the most important seasons that take place in the earth. In this season, the earth receives rainfall from its atmosphere which is a great source of water for the earth as well as its organisms. So, rainy season can be termed as a very useful season. Along with the usefulness of rainy season, we get some drawbacks from this season too. The drawback is that we have to face a challenge to protect our electronic gadgets like mobile phone, tablet, camera, laptop etc. from water.

So, in this season we should be very much careful about caring for our electronic gadgets which are highly valuable and important for us and our daily life. Though we try our best to protect our gadgets from water, unfortunately we may become unsuccessful sometime. We may become unable to protect our highly important electronic gadgets from water. In order to protect our gadgets from being damaged, we can observe the following tips and tricks:

1. Whether our gadget is either mobile phone, or laptop, or a camera, after the entering of water in our gadgets, we must switch our gadget off and take out the battery of the gadget.

2. We should take out the important things like memory card, sim card etc. from our gadget.

3. Trying to take the water that has entered into our gadget, by shaking or giving jerks is a great idea to save our gadget.

4. In order to make the outer surface of the gadget dry, we should wipe it with the help of a dry piece of cloth or a piece of paper. But we should not use a rough material to wipe it.

5. In order to dry the gadget and minimize its wetness, we can put it near to an air conditioner but we should never put it in front of a fan or a hair dryer.

6. If possible, we should store our gadget inside a pouch of rice. But we should save our gadget from the dust that is in the rice. After keeping our gadget in the pouch of rice for some hours, the coldness and wetness of the gadget will be minimized.

7. After keeping our gadget inside rise, we should take it out and place it on a dry surface. If wetness is found anywhere on the gadget, we can dip an earbud in alcohol spirit and use the earbud at the part which is wet. After waiting for sometime, we can switch our gadget on.

By following  the instructions that are given above, we can easily save our gadgets from getting damaged. But these tricks are not usable if there is more amount of water the inner part of our gadget or if the gadget is wet for a long time.