Few days back, we shared you a method you use DreamScene in Windows 7 and non-supported Windows Vista editions. DreamScene or video wallpapers may not to be a familiar word for people using Windows XP. Actually, Its a software tool on Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate that lets you play movies and moving objects as desktop background. That means you can set a video wallpaper. DreamScene is a free Windows Vista Ultimate addon, and Microsoft doesn’t provide the software for Windows 7 or Windows XP. However, now Windows XP users could also use Dreamscene on their desktop with XPDream.
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In recent years ,there was a tremendous growth in online Game industry .Almost All these games are based on Adobe’s flash technology and you need to play them online . Surely this is not possible for a normal flash game addict to afford the cost of network bandwidth to play them online .But now you can download and play these online Flash Games on PC .

.First step  to download the embedded flash game into our PC. There are many internet tools allowing us to save online videos , animations ,and flash (swf) files.Among which , you can either use the firefox addon to save flash files or a service File2hd .File2hd is yet another free service for saving embedded web images , videos , music , flash and animation files .

Go to File2hd , enter your target online game link and click on get files .As shown in image , we will get the direct link to the flash file that can be easily saved to PC.

Now for playing these flash games offline , there are two main methods .

1. Play online Flash Games on PC using offline web browser .

Just right click and open the flash file in any of your browser: Opera ,Firefox or IE .

2.Play online Flash Games on PC using software tool Flashoffliner:

Download flashoffliner here . After installation ,right click and open up flashoffliner menu from taskbar . Click on create an new FlashOffliner package .

Give the exact file location of the downloaded flash game on PC and follow the procedures as shown in the figure .

Now ,when each time you want to play a packed game , open up the Flashoffliner menu from taskbar and click on any of those previously packaged games.

Please not that I am writing up this tutorial for free online flash games .

Orkut has a feature for sending new scrap notifications by SMS. But Orkut SMS is a payed service and its charged as per the tariff rate of customer . Now here is free alternate method to receive Orkut scraps by SMS for free.

This is based on Google SMS channel which could be used to receive about 50 free SMS scrap book notifications per day . For this , first you have to get the feed URL of your Orkut scrap book . Feed URL for you Orkut profile can be fetched using a service Orkut feed .

Copy your Orkut scrapbook URL(Just click on the scrap book link from home page) and paste it as shown below .Now copy the generated Orkut scrap book feed URL .

Next task is to create an SMS channel for this Orkut scrap feed .
Go to this page , enter your user name and mobile number . Shortly you will receive a verification code sent to your mobile as SMS . After successful verification ,click on try now button from right side bar.

Give a suitable name and description for your Orkut SMS Channel .On the bottom portion , click on the radio button for feed . Now add your Orkut scrap feed into the box provided . Save the settings and your done . So next time when your Orkut scrap feed is updated , it will be sent through Google SMS channels to your mobile .This service completely free and without any advertisement.

In Todays world of blogging , social bookmarking has a greater importance for getting traffic ,recognition and attention from other Bloggers .I think you might have seen those bookmarking icons below all posts on my Blogger blog . So if someone likes my article , it would be easy for them to add it to their favorite bookmarking website .

Now I will tell you how you can add Social bookmarking below Blogger posts .

Open up your Blogger templates‘ edit HTML and click on expand widget templates. Now find out this section <p><data:post.body/></p>
of code.After this line Just copy and paste this code .

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&#39;font-weight: bold;font-size:12px;color:#444444;&#39;&gt;If You Liked This Post Do Share it with the World!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;<span class='bookmark'><br/><a expr:href='&quot;http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=&quot;   data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Digg' border='0' src='http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/8896/diggku9.png'/></a> <a expr:href='&quot;http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=&quot;   data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Technorati' border='0' hspace='12' src='http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/649/stumbleupondh6.png'/></a>

<a expr:href='&quot;http://technorati.com/faves?add=&quot;   data:post.url' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Technorati' border='0' hspace='12' src='http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/8656/technoratils5.png'/></a>

<a expr:href='&quot;http://del.icio.us/post?url=&quot;   data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Del.icio.us' border='0' hspace='12' src='http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9328/deliciousae3.png'/></a>

<a expr:href='&quot;http://reddit.com/submit?url=&quot;   data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Del.icio.us' border='0' hspace='12' src='http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9793/redditsw2.png'/></a>

<a expr:href='&quot;http://twitthis.com/twit?url=&quot;   data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Del.icio.us' border='0' hspace='12' src='http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2369/twitterpg5.png'/></a>

<a expr:href='&quot;http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=&quot;   data:post.title   &quot;&amp;u=&quot;   data:post.url' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Del.icio.us' border='0' hspace='12' src='http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/8207/yahoowc3.png'/></a>

<br/></span>

If you have related posts widget in Blogger , it would be better if you can place this code just below that section .

Here I am using Digg , Twitter ,Stumbleupon , Yahoo! bookmark , Technorati and Delicous . Remember to change those social bookmarking links with yours .  Now if you want more social bookmarking sites in your Blogger template, fetch corresponding URLs , get come 24*24 PNG icons and add it just above the last (</span>) line .

My last article was on a method to create beautiful RSS or email subscription forms in Blogger . Now here is method by which you can add an email subscription form ,just below your Blogger posts .Offering Email subscription form below the post would increase your subscription count as it is easily notable .

Another interesting thing about this Blogger widget is that we can add some beautiful text asking users to write comments or whatsoever . Just head over to any of my post pages to see how it works . Now to add an email subscription form under Blogger posts , follow these steps carefully .Open up your Blogger templates’ edit HTML and search for  <p><data:post.body/></p> and paste the following code just after this line .

<div class='hint'>

&lt;div style=&#39;background-color: #EC8F11 ;color: #FFFFFF;&#39;&gt;&lt;b style=&#39;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;&#39;&gt;&lt;span style=&#39;font-size:small;&#39;&gt;Did you enjoy this article?  subscribe to our ( 1500 subscribers can&#39;t be wrong ) &lt;a href=&#39;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1771094&#39; style=&#39;color: rgb(243, 243, 243);&#39; target=&#39;_blank&#39;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;blink&gt;RSS Feed&lt;/blink&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

A comment would be really helpful for the Author to keep going and Post Better. &lt;strong&gt;So, Post a Comment to this topic and Share your Views to It. I really appreciate your Comments&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&#39;#comment-form&#39;&gt;&lt;img border=&#39;0&#39; src=&#39;http://technotrixdebajyoti.googlepages.com/usrcomments.png&#39; style=&#39;margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle&#39;/&gt; Add a Reply / Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;

&lt;form action=&#39;http://feeds.feedburner.com/techknowlcom&#39; id=&#39;subscribe&#39; method=&#39;post&#39; onsubmit=&#39;window.open(&#39;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1771094&#39;, &#39;popupwindow&#39;, &#39;scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520&#39;);return true&#39; style=&#39;border:1px solid #fff;padding:0px;text-align:left;&#39; target=&#39;popupwindow&#39;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Also, Make Sure you Sign-Up :  &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;input id=&#39;subbox&#39; name=&#39;email&#39; onblur=&#39;if (this.value == &quot;&quot;) {this.value = &quot;Enter your email address...&quot;;}&#39; onfocus=&#39;if (this.value == &quot;Enter your email address...&quot;) {this.value = &quot;&quot;;}&#39; style=&#39;width:170px&#39; type=&#39;text&#39; value=&#39;Enter your email address...&#39;/&gt;

&lt;input name=&#39;url&#39; type=&#39;hidden&#39; value=&#39;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1771094&#39;/&gt;

&lt;input name=&#39;title&#39; type=&#39;hidden&#39; value=&#39;Subscribe To Feed&#39;/&gt;

&lt;input name=&#39;loc&#39; type=&#39;hidden&#39; value=&#39;en_US&#39;/&gt;

&lt;input id=&#39;subbutton&#39; type=&#39;submit&#39; value=&#39;GO&#39;/&gt;

&lt;/form&gt;&lt;br/&gt;

&lt;span style=&#39;color: rgb(204, 0, 0);&#39;&gt;(Don&#39;t forget to Activate the email subscription from your Inbox)&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;/p&gt;

</div>

Remember to change the feed URL ,texts and email subscription link with yours.  Now style your email subscription form by adding a CSS code just before ]]></b:skin> the style tag in your Blogger template .

.hint

{ border:1px solid #4ab7ff;

color:#191919;

background:#bfe5ff;

display:block;

font:400 11px/125% Verdana ;

width:94%;

margin:3px 0 0;

padding:6px 6px 6px 20px; }

Save your Blogger template and  preview email subscription form below your Blogger posts .

So what about the default Feedburner email subscription form in Blogger ?? It looks ugly right ?? . Now here you could use CSS to to create Beautiful email and RSS subscription form . An example of such a form is given here on my blog .

What you need is just to change the default code with this code .

<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~e?ffid=2358889"><img alt="feedburner" style="border: 0pt none ; margin-top: 15px;" src="http://i44.tinypic.com/o945yf.jpg"/></a><p><strong><span style="color:#ID9EDD;">Subscribe for Email Updates</span></strong></p><form action="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2358889" http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifysubmit?feedid="2358889" , popupwindow\ );return true target="popupwindow" id="subscribe" onsubmit="window.open(\" scrollbars="yes,width=550,height=520\" style="border:1px solid #fff;padding:0px;text-align:left;" method="post" \><img style="vertical-align:middle;border:0" src="http://i35.tinypic.com/ifv98i.jpg"/>&#160;<input ;} enter email onfocus="if (this.value == " value="Enter your email address..." address... type="text" id="subbox" onblur="if (this.value == " ) {this.value =  style="width:210px" your name="email"/><input value="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2358889" name="url" type="hidden"/><input value="Subscribe To Feed" name="title" type="hidden"/><input value="en_US" name="loc" type="hidden"/><input id="subbutton" value="GO" type="submit"/></form><center><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/techknowl" target="_blank"><img border="0" width="88" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Efc/techknowl?bg=99CCFF&fg=444444&anim=0" height="26"/></a></center>

Replace the the email subscription URL, feed URL ,  feed count chiklet code with yours .You can find and replace the font color with this tool . Apply some creativity and design a good subscribe by RSS logo and change it with the tinypic image in the code .