1. Choose that time of moving your site when you get the least visits. For this check your website stats from control panel and find the day and time at which your website have the lowest visitors.
2. Now you have a day and time to switch over, and most probably you already have bought the new hosting plan, if not then buy it now. Make a full server backup of your old hosting account and upload it to the new hosting account. Note that we have not changed the Nameserver (DNS) for the domain right now.  You can use the IP address of new hosting account for logging in. For ease, keep the database username and password same as they were in old hosting account so that you don’t need to change them in script. If you want to change, don’t forget to change them in your website script as well.
3. Now change the Nameserver to that of new hosting and immediately check your website through a proxy site. I’ll suggest good old anonymouse.org for this. Reason is that thru these proxy site you can immediately see you site working from new web host. Checking thru proxy is of great help because you never know your new host may not fully support your website and throw up error and you will never want your visitors to see those errors. Often these errors reveal server path or database name, so it’s better to check before hand. If everything looks fine then just sit back as DNS resolves for the rest of visitors of your site and your site visitors will not notice any downtime most probably.

One last thing to do is when your sites is fully functional from new webhost, login to your old webhost account and download the database and compare it with your current one. During the switchover, there is a possibility that user registered and his data might be left on the old host. These will be few and not much so you can manually add these to your database!

In such a tech climate, the enterprising blogger can be forgiven for trying to reach the largest possible audience with his blog. It’s easy to reach people these days, after all, and — when it comes to page rank and ad revenue – having more viewers is certainly beneficial. But many of the strongest blogs, especially many of the strongest upstart ones, are those that successfully target a much narrower and more defined demographic: a niche audience.

If you’re starting a new blog, or simply trying to better target the narrow readership of a blog you already have, here are some suggestions:

Know The Competition

If you’re writing a blog about tech products or baking, there are countless other blogs out there in the internet that do the exact same thing. There’s no point, consequently, in assessing what all these other blogs do and trying to differentiate yourself in response. But when it comes to niche subjects, the competition is far more quantifiable. It therefore may help to study any and all similar blogs, paying close attention to content, ads, readership comments, and angle. Then, let that knowledge inform your own work.

Market in the Real World

The internet, unlike the physical world, is vast and endless. Buying online ads or marketing your niche blog on social media sites may thus not have quite the desired impact, since your target audience can be quite difficult to track down. For this reason, real world marketing holds a particular benefit. Depending on the specific nature of your niche, there’s a good chance that the topic has newsletters, conferences, events, stores, or gatherings in the real world. If you want to best reach your desired readership, integrating yourself with this community is essential.

Be Comprehensive

When it comes to content on a blog, everyone has an angle and an opinion. It’s a blog, after all. But when niche topics are concerned, you don’t want to risk alienating any percentage of your already-small audience. So make sure not to cover every issue from only one angle or only discussing one particular element of your niche. Instead, try to be more comprehensive and fill that niche fully.

These are just a few tips for approaching your niche blog. No matter your specific topic of interest, and no matter what your exact methodology is, always remember the core element of marketing a successful niche product: know the community. By being involved in the community of people who share the same interest, you have the connections, resources, and knowledge to accomplish what you seek.

1. Download Latest JDK from oracle.com
2. Download Tomcat from tomcat.apache.org

Now first install JDK. Copy tomcat folder in the same drive. Suppose you have installed JDK in C:\Program files\JDK1.7.0 then you can put tomcat in C:\tomcat . When you are done with this part, you have one last thing to do and that is to set environment variables.

To set environment variables, right click on your My Computer icon on desktop and click Properties. In the new window that open click on Advance tab and then click on the Environment Variables button. Now in the window you will see two placed to enter variables, at that top which will say user variables and below system variables. You can enter variables in any one of these. If you have multiple user account set up and you want tomcat to run only for your account then I would suggest entering values in user variables otherwise in system variables. If you enter in system variables, please restart your computer otherwise the entered environment variables will not work. Enough of lecture, here are the variables in order of (variable name: variable values) :-

CATALINA_HOME: C:\tomcat
CLASSPATH: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0\lib;C:\tomcat\lib\servlet.jar
JAVA_HOME: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0
JRE_HOME: C:\Program Files\Java\jre7
TOMCAT_HOME: C:\tomcat

When entering these variables make sure that the corresponding parth does exist in your system by browsing the files and folder. When all done, just go to the bin folder in tomcat and double click the startup.bat file. Now server will start and you can check it by entering http://localhost:8080 in your web browser. To shutdown server, double click shutdown.bat

In desktop computers the PSU (Power Supply Unit) is a critical component and it does a job of providing DC voltage to all other components in computer. This PSU is basically a SMPS (switching mode power supply) and it can fail after few years of use. PSU fail more often if there are voltage fluctuations. What we mostly do is buy a new PSU and discard the old one. Did you know that this PSU can still work like new by just changing few components inside it! And good thing is that not many parts fail in SMPS and it can be repaired easily. So here is a DIY post on repairing the PSU. Before we begin please note that high voltage maybe present even when the PSU is disconnected from main power supply, so do not touch anything inside before removing all the stored charge. We will tell you how to do this when we reach that point of DIY.

Removing the PSU from cabinet

First of all we need to take out the faulty PSU from the computer cabinet. To do so, first of all disconnect all the connections from computer and open up the cabinet. Now you should see the PSU with bunch of wires coming out and connecting to motherboard, drives and all. Remove all these connectors one by one. These are made in such a way that they cannot be fitted in incorrect direction so you don’t need to worry about which wire goes where when re-fitting them. So just pull them out one by one.
Once all the wires are removed, look at the back side and you should see four mounting screws which are holding the PSU in the cabinet. Unscrew all of them one by one and before removing the last two screws, hold the PSU by hand so that it does not fall below and break something. At this point if you find dust on PSU and in the cabinet, you might want to clean it with soft dry cloth and a paint brush. Take the PSU apart. Put the computer cabinet cover back and forget it for a while.

Opening the PSU

Look at the PSU and on top you will find screws, unscrew them using a Philips screwdriver and keep the screws at a safe place. Now try to remove the PSU cover apart, if it doesn’t come, search for more screws. Sometimes there maybe some screws hidden behind stickers.  Once you have opened the PSU cover, clear the dust with blower. Do not touch any part inside right now but do have a good look on any burnt sign on any part of PCB or parts. Look at the fuse if you can spot one, if its blown, make sure you have a spare one ready but do not replace it yet.

We will continue this DIY in part 2

1. How to type in your language?

If you are using windows, just go to Control Panel and double click the icon which says “Regional and Language options”. Now select the language in which you want to type from the drop down menu. When you will click ok, a language toolbar will appear in your taskbar. If it doesn’t then just right click on the taskbar and in Toolbars option select Language bar. Now your Language bar will display EN and on clicking on it once, it will show the second language which you selected. Select your preferred language from this language bar to type in that language. If your desired language is not in the list then you may need to install that from the Windows installation disk.

2. I can type now but its displaying as square boxes or question marks

Install font! If the language in which you are typing need special font and your computer does not have it then it will display as square box. For example if you want to type in Hindi, then you should have Hindi font like Kruti Dev installed.

3. I have fonts but web page show it as ?????

Due to some reason if you place a regional language text inside script pages (like index.php of wordpress), it will show as ????. Proper way to fix it to have full language file built for your regional language but if you need only few text to show in your language then here is the workaround which always works. Get help of any online Unicode code converter. There are many but [www.rishida.net/tools/conversion/] is a good one. In this converter, put your regional language text in “Mixed input” field and click on the convert button. Now copy whatever you get in the “Hexadecimal NCRs” field and paste that in your web page or script page. Now you will not see those ???? anymore but your regional language text in proper way.

Change the Power Saver Mode

Most people don’t realize they can change their computer’s settings depending on the situation they’re in. Microsoft Windows users can click on the battery icon in the bottom right portion of their screen. There are several different ways to use the power saver features: you can change how quickly your laptop goes into hibernation, you can decrease the brightness of the screen, and you can also change what the power button does when you press it.

Harness the Power of the Sun

By using sunlight as a natural power resource, you can charge your battery throughout the day and not have to worry about losing your work. Most batteries run for $45 so you can purchase a solar power charger and store several at the same time. By using these batteries for work, you won’t have the need to plug in to a power source unless it is a rainy day.

Proper Battery Maintenance

By taking proper care of your battery, you are not only increasing the amount of power you get with each charge, you can also cut back on the amount of batteries you need to purchase over the lifespan of your computer. By using an air duster to clean out your battery and wiping it with a dry towel, you can optimize performance and ensure longevity. For Windows users, the Microsoft website gives official instructions on how to care for your battery.

Close Unused Applications

Tabbed browsing can be a great way to discover the best things on the Internet in a short period of time. While you’re running two browsers at the same time with ten tabs each, you’re probably going to want some music playing in iTunes. You also might still have Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office open from your day at work. While it is great that these applications can run on your laptop at the same time, they also use a lot of memory and battery life.

Unplug Accessories

When you plug in devices like removable USB drives and iPods, you’re battery is essentially using its power stores to run them. By removing a USB drive after you have saved or gathered the files necessary and taking out your iPod when it is fully charged or synced, you can save battery life. If kept in the drive, external software like CD’s use battery life even when you are not using them.

By taking some considerations you can reduce your carbon footprint, become more productive, and use your laptop to its best capabilities.