How To Turn On/Off Windows Action Center Message On Your PC

How often do you see this image when you are on Windows? It’s annoying, isn’t it? Every time you restart your PC that reminder comes on to nag you.

These messages are coming from the Action Center. The Action Center helps to scan your PC for security and maintenance issues, and it will alert you if necessary. If you have Windows Defender disabled, you will be repeatedly prompted to "Turn on virus protection". If you want to opt-out from receiving messages like this, this is the quick tip you should be reading.

Turn Action Center Message On Or Off

To begin, start off by searching for Action Center on Windows 8 Metro search; click to open it. For Windows 7 users, go to Control Panel > System & Security > Action Center.

Next, click on Change Action Center settings at the left sidebar in the window. You will arrive at the Action Center settings page where you can choose the messages you don’t want to be prompted with.

To turn off Action Center messages, untick any of the options. If you do not wish to receive any further messages from Action Center, untick all of the options. Once done, click OK.

Hide Icon And Notifications

Ultimately, you can also turn off all notifications from Action Center directly from the taskbar icon. To do that, click on the up arrow button at the taskbar and then click on Customize.

Next, choose to Hide icon and notifications under the Behaviors tab in Action Center. Click OK and you’re done.

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20 Clever & Creative Bus Ads That Make You Look Twice

Billboards are static advertising avenues and while buntings and posters have a bit more flexibility, usually they are too small and stuck to really deliver that advertising impact. Buses though, buses have real awesome potential – you can see them on the road and it has moving parts (doors) that can be utilized for various marketing tactics to tell your products’ story.

But why tell you when we can show you? Check out how these 20 clever and creative ads that help advertisers run viral campaigns and reach a wider audience just by making its daily bus rounds. Many use optical illusions, strategically placed artwork and even the original bus parts to help leave a lasting impression.

X-Games: Bus by Kit Walker Associates. The wheels on the bus are utilized to turn this bus into a giant skateboard. Don’t think you want to attempt a 360 flip on this one though.

Hell on Wheels: Bus by Kathryn Daab. In conjuction with the DVD release of the first season of AMC’s series “Hell on Wheels” in 2012, this bus was made to look like an old school locomotive train. At least it doesn’t need a railroad to run.

Community First Credit Union: Flexible Bus by I.D.E.A.S.. At first glance, it looks like the bus has gotten into a bit of an accident. Don’t worry though, your home loan can be just as “flexible” as this bus.

Copenhagen Zoo: Snake Bus by Bates Y&R. If this giant snake squeezing the bus doesn’t get you to visit the Copenhagen Zoo, well, then I don’t know what will.

“Just one bite” Bus Ad by Unknown Agency. Most chocoholics would be able to eat something they love in one bite. This bus ad cleverly portrays that through the use of the bus door and the man on the side.

Axe: Bus by Lowe. This bus is now a party bus thanks to the axe effect. Which man wouldn’t want to party on a bus like that?

NZDating.com: Buses by Draft. Even buses need love. Sometimes you can’t leave things to chance and need to take the steps to find your own perfect match, as illustrated by this dual bus ad.

VISA, Wellington On a Plate Culinary Festival: Giant Lobster Bus by WHYBIN\TBWA. You might want to get your Visa handy for the “Wellington On a Plate” culinary festival. This huge lobster with it’s antenna sticking out will surely get any foodies attention.

Perth Zoo: Tiger Bus by The Brand Agency. This gives new meaning to the phrase, “It’s a jungle out there!” This tiger will come say hi to you if you don’t pay it a visit at the Perth Zoo.

Specsavers: Bus Back Crash by Smart. Well, we all know that this little “accident” could have been avoided had you gone to the Frankton Specsavers right?

Bernmobil: Airport bus by Neue Lgk. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, wait, it’s a flying bus? For those of you who need to take the Airport Bus, at least you know what you’re getting.

Keep Holland Clean Foundation: Trash by Grey Amsterdam. People tend to litter when it’s not their own personal vehicle. This bus ad serves as a reminder about the importance of proper trash disposal.

COA’s HIP Program (Having Involved Parents): Bus wrap safari by Cramer-Krasselt. Nature calls! And it’s reminding parents to be involved in their child’s education. After all, the parents need to help their cubs out, right?

Mercedes-Benz: Glow by FHV BBDO. Special glow-in-the-dark paper and various sillhouettes on the back of the bus gives you the opportunity to have a glimpse of what the Mercedes Night View has to offer.

Dr Best: Bus by Kim Sokola, Julia Neumann. This flexible toothbrush ad makes use of the joint in between the carriages to showcase just how flexible this toothbrush can be. Just don’t ask for floss when you’re done.

Careerbuilder.com bus. Sometimes a terrible job can make you consider other ‘alternatives’. This bus reaches out to those people to give them another chance to reconsider.

National Geographic: Bus. No need to go diving to have a look at the sharks. This National Geographic Ad will roll right up to you and feed you to the shark itself.

X4 Energy Drink: Bus by La Age Marketing Arts. A bit of X4, teamwork and determination and you’ve got enough power to move a bus. Or at least make an impression.

Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada: GetYourButtSeen.ca bus by Ogilvy Montréal. No butts about it, colorectal cancer is a serious issue and this bus ad uses shock value and humor to remind you to get your check-up.

Air India Express: Window by MudraDDB. Not everyone can afford to travel by air but with a clever ad that transforms your bus seat into a plane seat, it may just convince you to.

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Deleting Your Search History From Search Engines & Social Media Sites

We spend a lot of our online time searching for the answers to simple questions and complex queries. Sometimes, we make searches that we wish to keep private, things like personal medical advice, financial enquiries about investments and future securities etc. It is understandable that some users may feel uncomfortable with the fact that their search history is kept online in the hands of a third party.

What makes things worse is when the searches are used to serve personalized ads, which will be available for anyone using your machine to see. In this post, we are going to show you how to delete your search history from the more popular sites on the Internet, to better safeguard your privacy. Also included are tips on how to opt out of having your searches tracked on these services.

Google
If you are logged into your Google profile when making a search query or clicking a link on the results page, your choices will be logged in, to give you better results in future searches (and of course, to serve you better ads). If you want to opt out of this, you can remove your searches from your profile.

How To Delete Your Searches

Go to the Google Web History page to view every single query you ever made on their site. You can remove select searches, or all of your past searches.

To remove all of your search queries, click on the box next to the Remove Items box and then click Remove Items. If you would like to delete individual items, tick those items before clicking Remove Items.

After this, to make sure that Google doesn’t record your web history, you can turn off your Web History by clicking the Settings in the top right corner and select Turn off.

If you do not want Google advertize to you based on your searches, consider turning personalized ads off.

Facebook
If you have ever looked up someone, or a business page on Facebook, your searches will be saved in your Activity Log. Your friends will not have access to what you have searched (or who you have stalked), but Facebook, and whomever happens to have access to your account, does.

How To Delete Your Searches
To delete your Facebook search queries go to your profile page and click View Activity Log. On the left side of the page, click More and then Search. Here you can see every single search you have made on Facebook. To delete them all, click Clear Searches.

YouTube

Accidentally searched for Justin Bieber’s latest single and want that search query removed from your search history? It is relatively easy to remove your search history from Youtube.

How To Delete Your Searches

All you have to do is go to Search History, located under Video Manager. From here, you can choose to delete either individual searches, clean house, or make sure YouTube doesn’t record your searches by choosing Pause search history.

To ensure that nobody gets access to your search history, delete your Watch History, which can be accessed when you click your profile picture. Again, you can choose to clear individual videos, the whole playlist or turn off logging.

Twitter

Twitter will keep only the most recent searches in your history so deleting these queries isn’t as important as the other services listed in this post but if have a pressing need to remove your search history, here’s how to do it.

How To Delete Your Searches

On the site, click on the search box and the option to Clear All to remove all search queries.

On the iOS app, click on the search lens and beside Recent searches there is an x button. Tap on it to bring up the Clear menu.

On Android, you can manually remove each search query by pressing the x next to the query.

Yahoo

Unfortunately, Yahoo doesn’t have an option that allows you to delete your previous search history. The only thing you can do here is to make sure that Yahoo will no longer log any of your search queries in the future.

How To Delete Your Searches

To turn of your search history on Yahoo, go to their Search Preference menu and under Keep search history, select Search history off.

 

While we’re at it, you might want to opt out of Yahoo’s search-based advertising, where in addition to your previous search history, they will look into your computer’s browsing history to serve up personalized ads. To do so, go to Yahoo’s Ad Interest Manager and click Opt Out.

Bing

Microsoft’s Bing gives you an easy way to delete your entire search history and at the same time to make sure it will not record them in the future.

How To Delete Your Searches

Simply go to Bing Search History and from there you will have the option to Clear all of your search history and Turn off logging.

Again, while we’re at it, we should turn off personalized ads for Bing because as with Yahoo, Bing will look into your computer’s browser history for advertising purposes.

Go to Microsoft personalized ad preference and from here you will be provided tools to better manage your privacy and data.

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Imacro Script for Bubblews.Com August 2014 Update

Bubblews.Com is one of the Best Social Network who pays to their users for writing some articles. In return of your written articles you will get $0.1 on every View, Like and Comment that are given to you by your follower friends.

When you came to this link it makes sure that you are already aware of this Network and came here for Imacro Script for Bubblews.Com Followers.

Without wasting your precious time we are providing you the Script for Unlimited followers in Bubblews.Com Network.

The basic concept is to make money and for that you need more friends which means more followers on this network which you only get when you follow other people. But when we go through the manual  operation of following people will takes lots n lots of time which make you Bore.

So here is the Ultimate solution for this - An Imacro script which best works best with Mozilla Firefox and with this script you will make Thousands of Followers in a Single Day by doing nothing.

Requirement for this :- 
1. Mozilla Firefox ( Install or Download )
2. Bubblews.Com Account
3. Mozilla Add-ons - 
    a.) iMacros for Firefox - ( Install or Download )
    b.) Open Link in New Tab  - ( Install or Download )
4. Average or Min 512Kbps Internet Connection Speed
5. Average System Configuration 

--- Copy below Code and Paste in your Imacro ---

SET !ERRORIGNORE YES SET !LOOP -9999999 SET !TIMEOUT_TAG 1 SET !TIMEOUT_STEP 1 TAB T=1 URL GOTO=http://www.bubblews.com/account/following/380433 FRAME F=0 TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:Follow TAB T=1 TAB CLOSEALLOTHERS TAG POS=2 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:Follow TAB T=1 TAB CLOSEALLOTHERS TAG POS=3 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:Follow TAB T=1 TAB CLOSEALLOTHERS TAG POS=4 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:Follow TAB T=1 TAB CLOSEALLOTHERS TAG POS=5 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:Follow TAB T=1 TAB CLOSEALLOTHERS WAIT SECONDS=3

Things to Remember :-

1. Change this url or link [ http://www.bubblews.com/account/following/380433 ] to the person who's followers you want to follow.

2. In the above code We wrote only 5 Follows as an example but you can made upto 20, 40, or 50 whatever you think you required.

3. Please Go to the Setting of  Open Link in New Tab  - ( Install or Download ) add-ons & select the option Lv.2 Open any link in new tab. (By this method you can follow more people at a time)

Note:- This last add-ons setting is to be done for sure otherwise remaining doings are waste.

If you have any query or suggestions for this, Feel Free to Comment.

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Google Web Designer: Design Tool to Create Interactive HTML5 Ads

If you follow Google’s development close enough, you probably know about this but if you don’t, the giant search engine company has recently launched a new tool call the Google Web Designer. In short – this is Google’s version of Adobe Flash. Only that the output is in HTML5 and CSS3, and it’s currently limited to creating ad banners.

As stated by Sean Kranzberg, Google Engineering Manager, in the announcement for the tool:

"We think that Google Web Designer will be the key to making HTML5 accessible to people throughout the industry, getting us closer to the goal of “build once, run anywhere".

Google Web Designer is available for Mac and Windows. Let’s see what this beta version of Google’s latest product has to offer.

Getting Started

We can create a new blank file for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, and Google Ads, which provide a set of pre-defined ad size that is also the standard of the Google AdSense ad format. New file creation requires us to specify the document title, the name, saved location.

Animation Mode

This is something that we might not find in other web page creator applications – the Animation Mode.

There are two options in Animation Mode: Quick, which gives us simplified toolbar for creating basic animation, and Advanced, which will give us the advanced toolbar for arranging more complex animation. We can also opt between these modes when the file has been created.

Adding New Element

Google Web Designer provides a set of standard User Interface, which is easy to get accustomed to. The left toolbar lets you select tool sto add new element.s The default element generated would be the div element. But, you can have it changed.

1. Select the Tag Tool.
2. Go to the top toolbar, and select the Custom Element.
3. Specify the element you want to add.

On the toolbar to the right, you can modify the element’s property such as the padding, margin, dimension, border, as well as see all the CSS rules that are applied on the element.

Furthermore, Google has created an overview of the UI in the following video. Watch it to get further insight.

Animation

This is where we build animation with HTML5 and CSS3. This feature is better explained with a live demo, and Google has one for that, which so much easier to digest than. Enjoy:

Conclusion

In spite of its name, Google Web Designer is aimed at advertisers rather than web designers in general.

In fact, the official announcement is posted on the Adwords Agency blog. But, despite of the name and Beta status, Google Web Designer is quite functional for creating web animation

I’m definitely looking forward to the improvements in the next version.

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Spice Up Your Google Search Background [On Chrome] | Hacking Is Magic

The trend these days is that if you want the answer to something, you don’t ask a grown up, you ask Google. I’m sure for most of you the Google search page is your start page, especially if your favorite browser is Chrome. Notice that the background of the Google search page is a blank sheet of nothingness, well, apart from the search bar of course.

How about we spice things up a little by adding a background or your own picture? With this Custom Google Background extension, you can customize the Google search page background to something of your liking (but only on the Chrome browser).

Getting Started

First, add Custom Google Background extension to browser. It will ask for permission to access your data and browsing activity.

Next, you will be forwarded to the Settings page. Choose the image you want to use for Google search background from your hardisk or from a URL.

You can upload more than one image and even leave it on random mode so your background will always change as you reload the page.

Not only that, with this extension you can personalize the Google search page. Choose to hide certain elements from the search page such as the Google logo, the "Lucky" button, the footer and much more. You also can adjust the position of your image.

Bored with the current image? Just click on "change background image" at the bottom left side of the page, and it will redirect you to the Settings page and you can make your changes there.

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