There are tons of third party paid software’s which let you convert MS Office files like Word, Excel, Power point, Access into PDF format but why to use paid software’s? When Microsoft itself giving us a new plugin for the same purpose that too absolutely free.

By using new Microsoft plugin “Microsoft Save as PDF of XPS” you can convert any of MS office 2007 files format to PDF by just one click. Next time when you prepare a presentation for your client or college notes, you will love to save your files directly in PDF format as its lot easier to read PDF files compare to other formats.

Download the plugin from the below given link and install it, In your Save menu you will get a new option “Save as .PDF file” and save your Microsoft Access, Excel, Info-path, Onenote, PowerPoint, Word 2007 files as PDF File.

Note : This plugin will work only with MS Office 2007 and higher version.

Kindly click here to download

There is no doubt that youtube is most popular video sharing website over the internet, I visit youtube regularly to listen to my favorite music, watch movies and many informative tutorials. But, Like me if you too don’t like the cluttered youtube interface like forced ads on videos, comments and un-appropriate related videos.

Then ViewPure is just what your looking for, ViewPure is a web-based service which helps you to watch your favorite movie, video of youtube in very clean interface without any ads, comments and blah blah..

The above mentioned screen-shot is from Viewpure site, You can enjoy some additional features like share button, short link, background change option.

In bottom side of the site you can find a “Puriy” button just drag and drop that in your bookmark toolbar and move to youtube.com and click on “purify” button to watch videos in clean interface. The site will get redirect to viewpure and enjoy the video in simple background.

Website Link : ViewPure

The well known name in wordpress premium theme community “Themesheep“, Released a new two column premium like free theme “SketchPad“. which is specially designed for wordpress 3.0. It has features like inbuilt social icons in header navigation, related articles with thumbnails and latest tweet updates in header area and top of that it has premium theme features like Teaser box in homepage with post thumbnail, number of comments and read more link and many more cool options which makes it one of the best freemium theme.

Demo | Download

Know any other awesome free theme? Let us know in comments

If you would like to send a large file to someone over internet, then there are mainly  two options. You can either send the file using email attachments or if the file doesn’t comes in maximum attachment limit, you can upload them to an online file sharing storage devices and then share the download links to the recipient.

Lets discuss the popular services that will help you to share large files over the internet without any hassles that too absolutely free.

1) Share The Big Files Using Email

Famous email services like Yahoomail and Gmail are good for email attachments but there is a drawback, by using these email services we cannot attach files more than 25MB. However the recently revamped Hotmail service is best for sharing large files as it lets users send emails as large as 10 GB.

The maximum size of individual file that you can attach to a hotmail email is only 50MB, but you can use a free file-splitter like HJ-Split to break big files into 50MB size parts and attach all the parts to a single email. The recipient can easily join those parts using the same free software.

2) Share The Big Files Without Using Email

The downside with large email attachments is most internet service providers and web-based email programs like gmail, yahoo decline incoming emails which have large size attachments and therefore, if you are sending a big file using email service then the recipients also should use the email services which support large size attachments like hotmail or else chances are more that your email will not get delivered to the recipient.

The best way to share big files without using web-based email services is DropBox. Dropbox is a file hosting service powered by Dropbox inc. which runs on advance cloud computing which enables its users to store and share the files and folders with others across the internet using file synchronization.

Once you installed the Dropbox software on your windows, Mac, or Linux desktop, you can upload unlimited files of any size to the internet (It depends on your Dropbox account, the maximum limit for free users is 2GB) and for any reason if you don’t want to install the Dropbox software you can still upload the files to your Dropbox account using web-based up-loader but here the maximum limit per file will be 300MB.

Another best option is Google Docs, it allows users to upload files of up-to 250MB (any format) and you will get 1GB free storage space to share your files with any one over the internet. you can also buy more space for an average price.

In these days every tom dick & harry has a blog, But writing a unique & good content is not everyone can do and the need of unique & excellent content to rank well in search engines has took to undisciplined plagiarism. and In today’s world copying content on which you worked very hard or paid some good money for the content can be copied very easily.

Today, i will give you list of top 7 free tools that can help you to check, track and end this Plagiarism, Below there is a list of  tools to battle Plagiarism, The more sharply you use them, the more secure your website/blog content will be and you can catch thieves those are copying your content.

Bad-Behavior – The best solution to end plagiarism is to stop before it starts, Bad- behavior is php based script which is available for almost all kind of CMS programs, This script will work as anti-spam in addition to this it can be used to prevent automated content thief by blocking unwanted bots.

Copyscape : Copysacape is another best online plagiarism  checker service which can help you to cross check your content elsewhere on the internet But the free version of copyscape is limited and will only display first top 10 results.

Google Alerts : Instead of cross checking your content manually daily or weekly, Lets Big G alerts do it for you automatically, Just create simple google alerts using your unique phrases or special characters which you used in your content and sit back get updated whenever those phrases or special characters appears on the web.

Digital Fingerprint, detecting content theft : Digital Fingerprint is  one of the popular plugin of wordpress by Maxpower, This plugin will add a digital signature or key to the end of your RSS feeds, and offers tools to find those digital keys in major search engines like google Blog Search, Bloglines, Feedster and many more.

Picture-Shark : A difficult to remove watermark is the most powerful method to forbid image theft. Picture-Shark is best, free and power tool to watermark your images with support for different output formats and it can process 100′s of picture each minute.

Watermark.ws : If you can’t download the above software to watermark your copyright images, Then Watermark.Ws is your best online  tool to add watermark your images with text or picture within no time.

Google Image Search : Finding image plagiarism is really challenging task. Still, you can search on google image search engine with your image file names or special characters which you used to name those images. Most plagiarists don’t care about images names & upload on there sites as it is.

Yesterday, I posted a article on How to Download Facebook Contacts and one of our visitor requested to explain how to export orkut friend list. Downloading your orkut contacts list is very simple. This will make your social life more easy, By using this method you can add your orkut friends on other social networking sites like facebook, myspace and you can import these contacts to Gmail as well.

To export orkut contacts login to your orkut profile and click here, then fill the captcha and download contacts in CSV format

While i was browsing youtube today i found a very interesting video entitled “Learn how to download facebook contacts”. As we all know facebook API’s doesn’t display users email addresses, therefore we cant export facebook contacts to add on other Email services or social networking sites.

Today, I’m gonna explain you a very simple trick to download facebook contact within no time.

To start the process visit Yahoo address book and click on facebook icon then a login pop-up will appear, Enter your facebook login details and in a matter of seconds your whole facebook contacts will be added to your yahoo mail account.

After importing your facebook contact list to yahoo mail account, Visit this link and download a comma separated value(.CSV) file with Email addresses of all your facebook friends to your local hard disk

You can use this .csv file to import your contacts/friends in outlook express, Gmail, phone address book, orkut and many other social networking sites.

New Techupdate's Fan Page

In today’s world every net savvy use social networking sites & facebook is one the most famous social networking site all over the world, In fact as per the web analytics firm compete.com facebook is now bigger then yahoo in United States.

If you can make presence of your web page/blog/ online company like a casino gaming one (www.casino.com) on facebook then you can expect some very good traffic in return. Since traffic contribute money, its really important to market your web/blog in a very effectively there

How to make Facebook Fan page?
For new users its very tricky to find out where to create new fan page on facebook. for our readers we created simple step by step tutorial by following this you can make your own facebook fan page in just a minute

Step 1: Open this URL
It will open a new page where you will be asked to complete three steps

Step 2 :In second step you need to name your fan page which will be displayed everywhere so make sure to name it catchy and brandable. then click on “create page” and you will be redirected to brand new facebook fan page.

step 3 : Upload fan page photo

Step 4 : Click on “edit page” here you will be asked to fill your page details like, address, zip code and website info. After completing all details click on save option and your done

Below you can check live demo of Facebook Fan page of Newtechupdates.com and you can be a fan of our fan page

Last night one of my friend asked me the procedure to shift xyz.wordpress.com blog to a own domain name using self-hosted version of wordpess content management system (wordpress.org)

I thought to share this tutorial with all of you, After following this tutorial, all your old blog links will continue to work and your daily traffic will be redirected to your new site.

Similar to other bloggers, My friend started his first blog on wordpress.com simply because its free of charge and one dosn’t need any technical skills to setup the blog. But, After some months his blog got popular and he was not able to use other plugins, theme’s which he likes and the most important part “limitations of worddpress.com” on google adsense. So, he decided to migrate his blog to a persoanl domain and use wordpress.org

Step 1: Buy a domain name and get a webhosting account

Unlike wordpress.com you need own domain name & server space to host your new blog.

There are many website to purchase web domain name but i prefer godaddy because they offer some special promotional codes by which you can buy a brand new domain as low as 1$.
Name.com is also good, here you can enjoy private registration without any additional fee (i.e your name & address will be hidden in whois records)

Webhosting : I prefer these web hosting’s for wordpress blog hostgator, Dreamhost, Rackspace. Hostgator also provides free hosting for first month(trial period)

Step 2 : Move posts from wordpress.com to wordpress.org

Currently we have a new domain and hosting space, lets install wordpress.org now.
Now a days all major hosting companies provides 1 click wordpress installation using tools like fantastico.You can install it manually as well, you can use any method which you feel comfortable but make sure that you have wordpress installed.

Next go to dashboard of old xyz.wordpress.com blog, Click on tools -> Export and save the .XML file to your local hard disk. Now in your new blog(xyz.com) go to dashboard and click on Tools -> Import and click on wordpress which would be in last place. upload the XML file which you download earlier from your last blog and click on “Import Attachments.”

Step 3: Redirect readers and search engines to your new blog
Your new xyz.com blog which we installed just now is just a clone of your old xyz.wordpress.com blog, your daily visitors and search engines know nothing of your new blog for that reason we need system which redirect your old xyz.wordpress.com blog traffic to new xyz.com blog

To begin the above steps first login to your domain name registrar(the site from where you bought domain name). after login click on DNS(domain name server) settings so that your new domain redirects to xyz.wordpress.com servers.

Change the existing DNS name server to
ns1.wordpress.com
ns2.wordpress.com
ns3.wordpress.com

Now, move to xyz.wordpress.com blog’s dashboard, choose Upgrades > Domains. Type in the name of your new domain and click on “Add domain to blog”. Then press “Map Domain” when asked to verify that you wish to add this URL to the blog.

Domain Mapping is a premium service of wordpress.com and it will cost you 10$ p.a.

Once you added the new blog URL, you need to select your xyz.com domain as the primary domain address. To do this goto xyz.wordpress.com blog’s dashboard then Upgrade -> domain and select xyz.com as primary and update primary domain.

Step 4 : Setback the DNS Name server Changes

Now, in the last step you need to change your domain DNS settings back to the original.
Login to to your registrar site again and change the domain name server settings like it was before then save the changes, wait for sometime and currently your both domain xyz.wordpress.com & personal domain(xyz.com) will take you to the new site

All the Traffic, search engines, Rss readers, incoming links get redirect to your new personal domain.

You can find plenty of tutorials on internet for the topic “how to make blog”, But today I’m gonna show you how to convert your existing blog into a E-Book.

How can i convert my blog into a book?

By using the website blogbooker.com you can convert your wordpress, blogger or livejournal blog into a E-book absolutely free. It gives you outstanding quality of PDF book which allows you to get a hard copy of your blog/journal. But the front & back cover of your book have to be designed by you. To check the sites which provides real printed books click here

How to Convert wordpress Blog into a E-book?

Step-1 : In the very first step we need a export copy of your blog, which will be in .xml format.

Step-2 : Open this page & fill the required options, then click on “create your blog book”

Step-3 : Download your Blog Book!

How to Convert Blogger Blog into a E-book?

Step-1: To convert your Blogger Blog into a E-book you need to Export your blog, click here to find out how

Step-2: Ones you have a .xml(export) copy of your blog, visit this site and fill the required options then click on “create your blog book”

Step-3: Download your Blog Book !

How to Convert Livejournal Blog into a E-book?

Step-1: Open this page
Step-2: Enter user name & password which you use on livejournal (you can change your password immediately for security)
Step-3: Select the blog post’s duration &  paper size
Step-4: Click on “create your LJbook”
Step-5 : Download the Blog Book

To check out how your blog will look like after converting it to blog book click here