Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Unlimited Free Cell Phone Minutes Hack

None of us enjoy paying the absurd prices we have to pay for monthly cell phone service. Finally, there is a solution! Most networks have a feature allowing you to call a certain number of contacts, on any network for free, anytime. We’ll exploit this feature allowing you unlimited free cell minutes!


Step-by-Step Tutorial:

1.Sign up for Google Voice – Google Voice allows you to consolidate multiple phone numbers, but it also allows you to make free calls!

2.Once you’ve signed up, adjust your settings as shown in the picture above. This displays your Google Voice number on all calls, enabling free calls.

3.Depending on your carrier, this still will vary:

Verizon: Currently they offer a friends and family plan allowing you to pick 5 to 10 numbers you can call for free.
AT&T: A new feature for AT&T, the “A-list” is just like Verizon’s offer, allowing you to call 5 to 10 numbers for free.
T-Mobile: myFaves is T-Mobile’s version, allowing you to call 5 numbers for free.
Sprint: Sprint created a similar service called Pick 3 which may only be available to some customers.

4.That’s it! Just add your Google Voice number to your carrier’s free calling plans to access unlimited free calling!

Definitely an incredibly useful hack with potential to save you a ton of money.

Blogger/BlogSpot Pagination (Page Navigation) Made Easy

Pagination In Blogger/BlogSpot Blogs:


LIVE DEMO (see page bottom)

Read this tutorial to add Pagination to any BlogSpot / Blogger based blog with just two steps. The pagination numbers are completely customizable.

Instructions to follow:

STEP #1:

Log in to Blogger, go to Layout -> Edit HTML

Find this code:

</body>

And paste this code immediately ABOVE/BEFORE it:

<!--PAGINATION-STARTS-->
<script type='text/javascript'>
var pageCount=10;
var displayPageNum=3;
var upPageWord ='Previous';
var downPageWord ='Next';
</script>
<script src='http://files.main.bloggerstop.net/uploads/3/0/2/5/3025338/pagination1.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://files.main.bloggerstop.net/uploads/3/0/2/5/3025338/pagination2.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<!--PAGINATION-STOPS-->

var pageCount=10; is the number of posts to be displayed on each page. [For ex. in a simple Google search on each page you are shown 10 search results] - change the number "10" to any number you want.
var displayPageNum=3; is the number of buttons to be shown (on each side) along with the page number currently seleted.

For eg. If a reader is on page 6, then in the pagination, page numbers will be displayed like this:

Prev 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next

i.e. 3 page numbers on each side of number 6.

STEP #2

Now we'll do the styling of these pagination numbers...
By default, this code will give a purple look to the numbers.

Find this code in the template:
</head>

And immediately ABOVE/BEFORE it, paste this code:

<!--PAGINATION-STARTS-->
<link href='http://files.main.bloggerstop.net/uploads/3/0/2/5/3025338/pagination2.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
<style type='text/css'>
.showpage a:hover {
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color: #92416C;
}
// STYLE CODE FOR SELECTED PAGE STARTS
.showpagePoint {
color: #FFFFFF;
background: #92416C;
border: 1px solid #92416C;
}
// STYLE CODE FOR NUMBER BUTTONS STARTS
.showpageNum a:link,.showpage a:link {
color: #000000 !important;
background-color: #92416C;
border: 1px solid #92416C;
}
// HOVER CODE for NUMBER BUTTONS
.showpageNum a:hover {
color: #FFFFFF !important;
background: #92416C !important;
border: 1px solid #92416C;
}
// STYLE CODE FOR "PREV and NEXT" BUTTONS STARTS
.showpageArea a {
border: 1px solid #92416C;
}
// HOVER CODE for NEXT-PREV BUTTONS
.showpageArea a:hover {
border: 1px solid #92416C;
color: #FFFFFF !important;
background: #92416C !important;
}
</style>
<!--PAGINATION-STOPS-http://bloggerstop.net-->
In the code above, everywhere #92416C refers to purple color.

Replace it with the color codes you want [view color-combinations and get HTML hex-color codes from this page].

Try different colors for borders, backgrounds, hover effects, and the numbers text too, according to the instructions I have highlighted in RED/BLUE colors.
NOTE: If you create something unique and it can be modified more to suit other tempates, then do comment on this page and show your work. Your blog will be featured in this post.
Save the template.