How to Make Shutdown Shortcut for Windows 8 PC

This is very nice tips to create easily windows shortcut to shutdown the PC

Normally Window 8 PC Shutdown by moving mouse in bottom right corner of PC to bring up charm bar. Select the setting charm allow you to then select power option and finally shutdown.

If you point, it takes four steps to shutdown, rather than two steps in previous versions of window. Therefore creating simple shortcut might be useful.

On the start screen click on desktop tab. Then right click anywhere on desktop and select New > Shortcut. In the box type

shutdown -s -f -t 0


And click next. You can leave shortcut name as shutdown or you can change to something else like Power off PC.

Now you have shortcut,when it clicked will immediately shutdown Window 8 PC.
You can also change the shortcut icon to something better. Right click on shortcut and select properties.

Select change icon and choose something more suitable.
Also you can right click on shortcut and select pin to start.
Then go to start screen to see shutdown tab is created. This will also allow you to shut down your pc in just one step.

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How Panda-Proof Your Website

Since Panda first hit the scene two years ago, thousands of sites have been mauled. SEO forums are littered with site owners who have seen six figure revenue websites and their entire livelihoods evaporate overnight, largely because they didn’t take Panda seriously.

Last year Google unleashed the most aggressive campaign of major algorithm updates ever in its crusade to battle rank spam. This year looks to be more of the same.

When you have a business or blog hosted online, you need steady and huge amount of traffic to the site. It should also be user friendly to drive the traffic. Attracting organic traffic from search engines can be the effective and cheapest way. But post panda effect, online marketers feel attracting traffic from search engines has become relatively tough. Google panda is a set of algorithms designed to get rid of low quality hosting websites or which are less user friendly.

Five Tips in Panda-proofing Your Website

• Avoid depending on auto generated content, this content are not on the favorites of search engines. If a search engines recognizes such content on your site, it will be regarded as spam content. And you might lose your traffic. 
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• Try to write unique content as your posts every time, pay specific attention on the length of the posts as well. A well detailed and lengthy post is entitled to be useful to the user as it will contain more information on that specific topic. The length of the posts should be at least 400 words and get rid of all the articles which have low content from the search results. You should also note that Google panda causes a wide-site penalty as opposed to page-by –page penalty. So, if one of the pages has low quality the whole site might be shut down. 
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• Get rid of all the pages that add little or no value to the site, such as disclaimer, about us, contact. Either assigns no index tags to all these pages or Robots.txt to stop crawling of these pages where ever possible.
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• Learn and implement SEO techniques on the site. A well researched and applied search engine optimization is likely to have positive impact on the site. Prior to writing the posts do a thorough research of all the high searched rich keywords and try including them in your post. But avoid stuffing keywords in the posts; this may affect the quality of your site. Build quality back links to your site. While looking for the back links be aware the Back links should be within your niche and from popular and authorized sites else they won’t be adding any benefits.
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• Building social media relations can be handier in tackling the panda effect. You can start with creating pages on popular social platforms such Google+, Face book, twitter and Digg. Link back these pages with your site and add various share bottoms on the site. Social trust adds huge difference to the rankings, specially +1 vote of Google. Google can give you high ranking based on these votes even if the posts may not be optimized, owing to the trust of the user on the social networks.

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Google updates Currents app, adds breaking news, quick Edition browsing and more

No matter where you fall on the print vs digital divide, there's no contesting the appeal of an easy-to-read magazine-like layout. Which is why Google's Currents app has plenty of charm for publishers looking for an auto-formatting solution.

Released a little over a year ago and updated to version 2.0 just today (Android-only), the platform now features a bevy of improvements, now adding in an Edition sidebar for quick browsing access based on genres, the ability to swipe vertically for in-Edition scrolling and horizontally to navigate to other "titles," a custom filter for highlighting sections of interest, a starring system for saving news of note, a Google News-curated breaking news section and, lastly, a new catalog design. If you're tiring of Flipboard or just feel you need a change from contentious redesigns, go ahead and download it at the source below.

Source: Google Play

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Technology: Free iPhone Application

Use Wallet when you see an exciting article, movie or formula but don't currently have time to study or perspective it. Today in my blog post, you will discover the best 100+ iPhone applications for all your needs. We’ve taken the attempt to classify the applications and selected only those we believe to be the best ones and which will most likely be useful to you.

Simply media Pocket's practical bookmarklet and, voilà, the material helps you to save on your computer, product and smart phone. Easily review it at any time. It performs with internet explorer and more than 300 other applications. Price: FREE
There are lots of iPhone application available on the Google apps store you can download it free.
Google Best Apps for iPhone

An iPhone without applications would be like a zebra without its lines — simply and tedious. As we all know the capability to obtain and run third-party applications is the x-factor for iPhone gadgets, particularly mobile phones.
A list of the best iPhone apps available, from time-saving productivity tools to fun apps you won’t be able to put down.

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SEO: Search Engine Optimization

Rand Fishkin recently filmed a Whiteboard Friday about paying one forward to people in your network with the hopes of having a hand to reach for some day when you need one. In the moment, it sounded like a loaded favor. “Here, let me give you something you didn’t ask for so I can offer a way to repay me.” Unfortunate.

As I drifted from my desk in thought, it became clear that actually, that is what link building really is. Regardless of how it is packaged, Rand’s technique is used by SEOs every day.

    “Dear Webmaster…”
    “Dear Blogger…”
    “Dear Reporter…”

Each outreach method includes a line about a great resource/article/idea that helps them, contributing to your SEO in the process. We are essentially offering (or begging for, really) something in exchange for a favor, also known as a link. So, how is how is going through an address book any different?

Most of us have tried broken link building, or what I call The Exchange. It reduces cold call syndrome by offering while asking. “Here are a couple broken links that you might have missed” is a much more successful ice breaker than “Hi, I work with… Hello?” The webmaster gets a gift and (hopefully) gives you enough time to ask one little, itsy-bitsy, tiny favor that would mean the absolute world to you. If this is a new concept, check out the many great resources on broken linking building tactics, like this and this.

The Exchange is a great angle, but it doesn’t give anything back to our digital or local communities. A webmaster catches a couple 404s, you get a link, but what about the kids?

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Apple announces iPad with double storage capacity

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Tuesday that it will sell a version of its iPad tablet computer with 128 gigabytes of storage, which is twice the capacity of its existing models.

Apple, which has sold more than 120 million iPads so far, said that the new iPad will go on sale February 5, in black or white, for a suggested retail price of $799 for the iPad with just Wi-Fi model, and $929 for the version that also has a cellular wireless connection.

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Facebook’s Graph Search: the Ultimate Personalized Discovery Engine?

Facebook Graph Search is a social search feature the company announced Jan. 15. The feature is currently in private beta with a waitlist for individuals and businesses. You can join the waitlist here (scroll down to the bottom).

Facebook’s announced plan is to roll it out gradually to hundreds of thousands of individuals first (English only), then more broadly for PC-based users, then for non-English languages, and then on mobile.

It isn't clear how quickly this expansion will occur, but several Facebook product people are on record saying they still have work to do to figure out how to scale the computationally intensive searches across millions of concurrent users. (Think of crawling a user’s social and open graph connections across hundreds of thousands or potentially millions of nodes for every search.) Non-trivial engineering challenges stand in the way of mass availability of this feature set.

The potential for Facebook’s new Graph Search feature is huge. Brands, digital marketers, and publishers can and should be doing a number of things right now to benefit from it as it reaches critical mass.

A simple rule of thumb is that the more content that gets shared, liked, or commented on through Facebook, the greater the chances of discovery of that content through Graph Search.

What is Facebook Graph Search?

What Does it Do?

It's a very cool feature. When I type in a query, such as “friends who have been to Rome, Italy,” Graph Search traverses all of my relationships and those of my friends to find people who have visited Rome. It then pulls back these people and displays them alongside relevant content. This is a simple example that illustrates the difference between the kinds of results Graph Search returns and how search results from Google (or Bing) would appear.

Another key aspect of this feature is how it appears to include implicit affinities and experiences, in addition to explicit likes and shares people have done through Facebook. When you think about the significance of that, it’s pretty impressive.

Based on the content I’ve shared, as well as the check-ins, posts, and comments I’ve made, plus the images I’ve tagged, etc., Graph Search can infer what I like, where I’ve traveled to, and so forth. The inclusion of implicit affinities is only possible due to Facebook’s massive scale and could ultimately be the component of Graph Search that makes the results valuable enough to get people to use the feature.

What is it Good for?

• People Search – Finding people you’re connected to who have specific interests and experiences
• Local (and Vertical) Search – Finding a business and/or events that friends have visited and/or liked
• Media and Entertainment Search – Finding TV shows, movies, music, and games liked, watched, etc. by your friends

How Will Facebook Monetize it?
Facebook hasn’t announced how they will monetize the feature. The obvious opportunity is to charge for sponsored listings much like AdWords. There are a few other options as well, including:

• Syndicate aggregated data to advertisers. Data would show what people are searching for, who/what they’re finding, etc.
• Creation of premium audience segments for targeting across the network via the FBX.

Find more for Facebook Graph Search

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