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How does my blog look in all browsers worldwide – how to check compatibility?

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It’s not just Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Opera. There are many more web browsers used by people worldwide in their computers, tablets and Smart phones. In addition there are different versions of the same browsers and different Operating Systems. 


So how does my blog or website look like in all these permutations and combinations?

It’s the wish of every blogger and website builder to know an answer to this important question. Let’s find out! The reason is that if their blog didn’t look correct in any of these, they might lose a good chunk of visitors.
Not surprisingly, there is an easy solution to this problem.
A service online provides a feature which captures screenshots of your blog or website in various platforms and shows them all in one screen for you.
The two most important advantages of using this service are:
  1. It can help identify visual differences, plug-in problems of your site on all web browsers. 
  2. Your website’s appearance as it is – and to use that screenshot for studying and enhancing user experience.

Bonus advantage: It also provides the page loading time in most cases.
Who provides this service?
1. One that immediately comes to my mind is browsershots.org. They have a big list of permutations and combinations of OS platforms and Web browsers. You might get around 150+ screenshots once the blog is tested.
2. The second one is www.browserstack.com.  This is also equally good in terms of checking your blog or website on many platforms.
3. Another one that is available is www.browsershots.at.
Though all the above given services are FREE, one may have to wait in the queue as there is a lot of demand. They also let us register and/or pay for the service to get precedence.

 Thus, this helps us in ensuring our visitors get the view that we intended to show when we kept our best foot forward with our blog or website. 

 Good luck in enhancing your user experience!

Written by Arun Sarathy.

How to sort and filter emails in Gmail by size and more

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Gmail from Google has a feature that lets you filter emails in many ways.
But let’s say the day has come when suddenly your Gmail’s storage capacity is nearing its full limit.
Of course Gmail offers 15GB of free storage for your Gmail account (as on today) and they keep increasing the storage capacity eventually but what if today you’ve reached almost the full capacity.?


First I would check my emails to see if there are old, never or seldom opened forwarded emails with loads of photos in it that weighs more than 10MB in size. But this is not outlook to simply sort the emails by hitting on the header that says ‘size’. So how do we do that?

Google has an excellent inbuilt feature to do just that.

Simply go to your Gmail and in the search bar type “size:10m” to filter emails that are 10MB or more in size. You can type in any size that you want to filter with.

 Note that Gmail’s maximum size limit for an attachment is 25MB. To add an attachment more than that size you might want to use Google Drive.

To know more about adding attachments in Gmail, go to this page. 

 Next time you want to kill time productively, I would suggest to first go to Gmail, filter your ‘All Mail’ section with specific sizes and clean it up. It helps in the long run to save that precious virtual disk space for storing something better. 

Written by Arun Sarathy.

The best way to create cool menu items (tabs) in Blogger blog

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This tutorial shows you how to add a menu bar which when clicked shows posts related to that ‘menu’ item which you’d clicked.
Almost all blogging sites have a feature called labels. It is this feature that we are going to tweak and use it for our purpose. I accidentally stumbled upon this feature when trying to add a ‘tag cloud’ to my another blog to which I contribute.


So how do we do this?

Here we go :-
1. Ensure you’ve added labels to all your posts. This is the most important step. For eg. if you’ve written posts related to ‘Movies’ in your blogger site – you would add a label called ‘movies’ or something like that. All you need to do is to add the label and remember that label to proceed with our next step.
2. Now go to the ‘Pages’ section and add a ‘New Page’. While adding, ensure you add it as a ‘Web Address’. See Clip 1.
Clip 1
3. In the title, provide the title that you would like your menu tab to show as.
4. In the URL, provide it this way: –
http://www.your blog name.com/search/label/your label name

In this example you would add the label ‘movies’.

5. Save and reorder your menu pages in the order you want it. That’s all! Now you have a new tab added which when clicked shows only the posts which you’ve labeled as ‘movies’. 
Awesome isn’t it?!
Please share this tutorial with your friends.

Written by Arun Sarathy.