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You may be surprised to see me writing about Free CNA training. However I have been working on the topic for quite some time now and I have been really impressed with the concept of free cna training in the USA and I thought it will be nice to share the concept on this blog as well.

What is Free CNA Training

CNA training is a training program that prepares people to become a certified nursing assistant. However because of the recent slowdown in the USA many aspirants have been finding it difficult to affors the cost of the CNA Training. The Free CNA Training  is a really intelligent solution to this problem. Free CNA Training programs are offered by nursing homes and old age care homes. The candidate is allowed to attend the CNA classes for free, however he is expected to pay the organization in kind either in the form of free service during the course or by agreeing to work with the organization after completing the CNA certification.

Are free CNA Training courses a fraud?

Some organizations have brought bad name to free cna training courses by promising a free training to candidates while they actually charge an exorbiant fee later. However according to me such people are few and you need not worry about them. Do your homework and basic background check well before joining any free cna training course and you shall not have to worry.

How do I get a Free Red Cross CNA training?

Looks like you are confusing two of the most popular forms of CNA training. Red Cross CNA Training is a CNA training offered by the red cross and it is NOT free. While free cna training are offered by a number of nursing homes and hospitals in America. Many people get both these concepts mixed up and try to look for free red cross cna training. To the best of my knowledge there is nothing like a free red cross cna training though.

I hope you found the information provided above useful. Let me know if any clarification is required and I shall help you out.

While analyzing the traffic for binaryday, I was surprised by the statistics of my post about free rapidshare premium account. The post has got more than 23,000 pageviews and 80 comments in the last 3 months alone. The numbers prove 1 thing i.e there are a large number of users looking for a rapidshare premium account. My search for a permanent solution to this demand of premium rapidshare accounts took me to rapidshare premium link generator.

 What is a rapidshare premium link generator?

A rapidshare premium link generator is a site that allows you to download files from rapidshare with all the features of a premium rapidshare account. That means no waiting time, ability to download multiple files simultaneously and so on.

List of free  rapidshare premium link generator

Here is a list of free rapidshare premium link generator that you may use for faster download.

1. http://www.rapidsharepremiumlinkgenerator.com/
2. http://rapidhack.prv.pl/
3. http://www.rapiddownloader.info/
4. http://www.rapidquick.net/

Let me know if you get to know about any more free rapidshare premium link generators. I shall update with the rapidshare link generator so that all the users can benefit.

Other posts about rapidshare on binaryday

1. Rapidshare download Manager and Rapidshare manager
2. 5 free rapidshare downloader

System restore feature was introduced in windows xp. The popularity of windows xp system restore feature has ensured that the feature is avialable in the latest OS offering from microsoft i.e windows 7 that too in a much improvesied form.

Understanding System Restore

If you have not encountered system restore in earlier versions of windows then think of it as a undo command for microsoft windows. If your os starts behavings badly after installing a particular programme or because of a virus etc, then you can use system restore to take your computer back to an earlier date when it was working fine.

How does System Restore in Windows 7 work

If you enable system restore then it takes periodical snapshot of your system and stores them as restore points when you make any significant changes or install any driver. When you use system restore to solve a problem it simply overwrites your current file system by this backed up configuration. Since the backed up version did not have the problematic software or virus, the problem gets resolved.

Scan for Affected Programs before doing system restore in Windows 7

A big problem with system restore in windows xp was that there was no way to find out what all programmes will be deleted after the system restore. The problem has been resolved to a large extent in windows 7 through a feature called scan for affected programmes. It will provide you a list of prgrams that will be uninstalled after the system restore, thereby making it easier to decide if you need to back up certain files.

We at binaryday seem to be too impressed with windows 7, the latest operating system from microsoft. We have previously blogged about windows 7 themes , windows media player 12 or wmp 12 and Free Download Directx 11 with Directx 3D for Windows 7 and Vista. In this blog post I shall be discussing how you can download windows 7 upgrade advisor.

What is windows 7 upgrade advisor

Windows 7 upgrade advisor is a tool that will let you know if all hardware and software on your pc are compatible with windows 7. It can be installed on windows vista and xp. The windows 7 upgrade advisor will hopefully protect users against unpleasant surprises.

Where to download windows 7 upgrade advisor

The beta version of windows 7 upgrade advisor is available at the official microsoft site at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/upgrade-advisor.aspx

How to install windows 7 upgrade advisor

As with all other products from microsoft, installation is a piece of cake and quite intuitive. So I need not explain this step.

Nero 9 is the latest version of the popular Nero software. Some of the highlights of Nero 9 includes

• Fast and easy rip, burn, Autobackup, and copy functions 
• ability to copy, burn, share, upload, and create music mixes.
• Convert music and DVDs to play on your iPod and other mobile devices

As can be seen from the post above, there is a significant improvement in the user interface of Nero 9. Nero 9 comes with a tape scan feature that allows easy preview and scene selection from digital videos.

Nero 9 Download

As with other versions of Nero, Nero 9 continues to be a not-free software. However the 15 day trial verion is free and can be downloaded here

I seem to have found a new interest in technology. After writing a post about free rapidshare premium account yesterday, I am back with a post about free download of Directx 11 for Windows 7. The few people who visit this post regularly for posts related to blogging, need not worry. The reason I am not posting about blogging is I am in the middle of a really good research about twitter. So please bear with these posts about Directx 3D while I complete my research.

Directx 11 for Windows 7 is the latest graphic technology

If Directx 10 was the preferred version for Vista, Directx 11 is the recommended graphic technology for Windows 7. Directx 11 is available as part of technical preview for public testing. It has got several new features. Hence our recommendation is that you must download Directx 11 ASAP.

Free Download Directx 11

The following are the links to the section on microsoft site from where you can directly download Directx 11.

• Download Directx 11 SDK here
• Download Directx 11 End-user runtimes here

Directx 11 with Directx 3D

The Directx 3D seems to be generating lof of buzz. Honestly I have not been able to figure out what is great about Directx 3D. Please leave a comment if you know the answer. The links to download Directx11 3D are the same as the ones listed above.

There seems to be a high demand for free rapidshare premium account going by the large number of blog contests with a rapidshare premium account as the prize. Hence I am taking a break from normal blog posts about blogging and writing some tips that you can use to get a rapidshre premium account for free.

Google Alert for rapidshare premium account

From time to time bloggers post a free rapidshare premium account username and password to attract new users to the blog. You can see the blog posts about free rapidshare premium accounts through google blog search. However most of the time the account would be useless by the time google picks it up. You can solve this by creating a google alert for ‘rapidshare premium’. This way you will get alerted as soon as anyone makes a post about rapidshare premium account.

Get a free rapidshare premium account by accumulating rapid points

You should consider creating a free rapidshare account. Then upload some interesting videos and share it with friends and blog readers. You earn rapid points for every download from your rapidshare account. Once you have enough rapid points, they shall give you a rapidshare premium account for free.

Advantages of a rapidshare premium account

If you have been wondering why the hell you need a premium account, then let me tell you that rapidshare has some real luxury for its premium customers including unlimited parallel downloads, unlimited upload space, fast connection speed among others.

How do you manage to find free rapidshare premium accounts?

I had recently written about most viewed video on youtube. Related research shows that there is a massive demand for free bollywood movies onine. There are many websites that allow users to download free bollywood movies. There is also no dearth of websites to watch online bollywood movies. I have been trying to figure out a feasible business model for starting a website where users can watch free movies. I am not able to find much content related to the legal aspects of the topic. If any of you happen to have any experience in the topic, then please drop me a mail.

Also do you know if working on a seo project for a website which may be illegal is legal or not. My previous posts about romantic hindi songs and romantic hindi movie may get me a project from a site about bollywood hindi movies. I am not sure if it is legal though. What should I do?

You will never have to search for a wordpress plugin again. All that you need to do is bookmark this page. That is a promise.In this post I shall be listing most useful plugins that will help you in

1. Search Engine Optimization (8)
2. Effective Internal Linking (3)
3. Commenting (Including spam protection) (8)
4. Social Media Marketing (Digg, stumbleupon, plain email) (6)
5. Caching (1)
6. Navigation (3)
7. Advertisement and Monetization (6)

Wordpress plugins for Search Engine Optimization

• Google XML Sitemaps: Slap yourself and slap hard if you do not have it already. The plugin creates a sitemap for your blog and keeps updating it automatically everytime you make a new post. Super useful plugin that needs to be installed immediately.
• Sitemap Generator: Highly useful for effectively passing link-juice to the important blog-posts. It produces an html sitemap for your blog that your human visitors can see. You can see it in action here. It provides you with the ability to group your posts into categories, choose which posts to show in the sitemap and which ones to hide. Use the plugin to list your most important posts and then build significant links (internal and external) to this page.
• Canonical URL Plugin: Makes use of the canonical tag feature supported by Google, yahoo and msn and thereby avoids the dreaded duplicate content issue. A must have plugin right in the category of Sitemap generator and All in one SEO Pack.
• All in One SEO Pack: A super useful and most popular wordpress plugin. Automatically optimizes the title,meta description and meta keywords for your post. Allows you to customize them if you want.
• Platinum SEO Pack Similar to the All in One SEO Pack. However some bloggers seem to prefer this one
• Ultimate Tag Warrior : Tags are extremely helpful for targetting long-tail keywords. I know keywords in the title are important. However I can not write a title as “wordpress plugins for seo | wordpress plugins for comment management | …………..” even though I want this post to rank for all those keywords. The best solution is then to add those keywords as separate tags and then I shall have one url pointing to this page with title wordpress plugins for seo and another url with title wordpress plugins for comment management.
• Plugin to solve canonical url issue : Google treats http://binaryday.com, http://www.binaryday.com, http://binaryday.com/index.php and http://www.binaryday.com/index.php as 4 different urls !!!!!!! This splits the external link juice amongst the urls and creates problem of duplicate content. The www-preference (linked above) solves the issue by doing a 301 redirect of all 4 urls to a single url.
• Permalink Migration plugin : Permalink structure determines the format of url for individual posts. The structure of your permalink has significant impact on seo. The problem is if you change your permalink structure then old bookmarks and external links will stop working. This plugin solves the problem and allows you to optimize your permalink structure for best seo result.
• Search Meter : Your blog is the best place to conduct keyword research. It tells you what are the keywords yours users are searching for so that you can create content that satisfies their need.
• SEO Friendly Images: More people search for images than you think. Image search has become even important after Google’s universal search roll out put image into standard Google SERP. It is common knowledge that having good alt and title tag helps a lot in image search. The seo friendly images plugin will autmatically assign an alt and title tag in situations where you have forgotten to put one.

Wordpress plugins for Effective Internal Linking

Internal linking is very often the most neglected SEO aspect. Considering that this is the single most important reason for wikipedia pages ranking so high, I am surprised that not many bloggers use it. Effective internal linking keeps your olders posts fresh on google index and builds new links to them, thereby protecting flow of traffic to them.

• Yet another related posts plugin Shows related posts at the bottom of each post. Increases number of pageviews per user.
• Show your best work to visitor: It calculates popularity based on pageviews, comments and trackbacks. Helps you display the most popular posts to visitors thereby increasing the probability of them getting impressed and subscribing/ linking to you.
• Internal Linking: The plugin lists the most widely used words and against them you can specify a url to link to. Then whenever you use any of those words, it automatically inserts a link to the relevant post. Great for keeping content fresh in Google-cache.

Wordpress plugins for better Commenting and spam protection

• Akismet: You can not allow commenting on your blog without installing this plugin.
• CommentLuv This plugin shows a link to the latest blog post of the commentator. Definite encouragement for other bloggers to leave a comment on your blog especially if your blog gets decent traffic.
• Top Commentators widget Shows the top commentators of your blog. You can select the duration over which the top commentator is calculated. Avoid the temptation to set it to 1 day as then only spammers will show up. If you set the time period to 7 days or a month, regular commentators on your blog get a free link from you.
• Show an email to first time commentator : It does exactly what it says i.e sends an email to the first time commentator on your blog.
• Most recent comments Displays the recent comments on your sidebar. Keeps the discussion alive by getting attention to posts where discussion is going on.
• subscribe to comments plugin lets a user know when someone has replied to a comment that she has posted. Works like a charm in getting some passionate discussion going.
• Nested comments is a great way to keep different threads of discussion among the users separate. Not necessary for smaller blogs with less than 10 comments per post though.
• comment highlighter allows you to make the comments by the author stand out by highlighting the same in a different color.

Wordpress plugins for Social Media and plugins to help your blog go viral

If you have a relatively new blog, then you will do well to focus more on social media sites like Digg and Stumbleupon, rather than waiting for google to start showing you some love. Social media tends to treat each individual post on its merit. Hence if you can write good and interesting topic then you can attract traffic.

• Addthis : This is one of the few plugins that I use on Binaryday. Adds a button to the post. As the users clicks on the button, it opens a page with large number of social media sites links. Keeps your site clutter free while providing the user an option to add your site to any social media he likes.
• diggZ-Et : It puts the familiar digg button on your posts. Works like a good reminder to your visitors to digg up your post. Hope you will remember to digg this post by seeing that big digg button at the bottom of this post.
• Stumble-It : Puts a stumble button at the bottom of your post. Great for reminding users to stumble you.
• Stumbleupon for wordpress : It allows users to read more similar posts from your blog. Really helpful at increasing pageviews/user.
• WordTwit: Highly useful plugin for publicising your blog on twitter. It automatically pushes your published post to your twitter account.
• email this: Allows users to email your post to their friends. You will be surprised by how useful it can be.

Wordpress plugin for efficient caching

If you have done the above steps (SEO, internal linking and social media marketing) correctly then there is a good chance that your server will be having tough time serving up your blog to the massive traffic that is flowing in. Wp-Super-Cache reduces the load on your server by caching your blog pages and then serving static html pages to subsequent users.

Wordpress plugins for Better Navigation

• Pagination Plugin : Display clear and beautiful links to the inner pages of your blog. Offers the ability to style the page bar according to your choice with little bit of coding.
• Horizontal Dropdown Menu : This is not a plugin. Rather this is a code sample explaining how to create a magazine style horizontal menu. I could not find a good plugin for this functionality. If you hate coding, here is a plugin. But then the fact is the demo looks little messy.
• Sticky Post : Adds a sticky post feature to your blog.

Wordpress plugins for Advertisement and Monetization

• All in One Adsense and YPN and adsense deluxe allow you to insert adsense ads into your blog post. Can help in increasing CTR significantly.
• AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System enables you to share revenue with blog authors
• Now Reading Display books from amazon and earn commisson
• Paypal Donate Add a link to your paypal account so users can tip you
• chitika plugin helps you integrate chitika ads to your blog.

Wordpress plugins for Everything else

• Contact Commentators : It allows you to contact the previous commentators on your blog. You can now thank your new commenters for their comment, appreciate long term active commenters for their continued support, inform all commenters about new services, send greetings on special occasions or events, analyze the commenters’ contribution etc
• Wp-Security-Scan It scans your wordpress installation for security vulnerabilities like 777 file permission and offers corrective measures
• Wp-DB-Manager: Automates the backup, repair and all other admin functionalities related to wp database.

Everytime I face a problem, binaryday gets a rather useful post. The last time my USB got infected with virus, I had posted my experience about how to remove virus from usb. More than 500 people have found that to be useful since then. (Though not many people have visited my post about how to convert word into pdf, I will ignore that)

This weekend I had to go searching for a Nikon service center in Mumbai. While the addresses are present on Nikon India site, it could not be easily found. Hence I decided to put up the information on the blog.

Nikon Service Centers in Mumbai

Sattelite Silver Shop No.6&7.
Opposite National Garage, Marol Naka,
Andheri Kurla Road, Andheri (E),
Mumbai 400059, India
Phone: (91-022) 4092 5555
Fax: (91-022) 4092 5599 

Mazda Camera Centre (Mumbai)
306, Veena Killedar Industrial Estate,
Pais Street,
K.Khadye Marg Mumbai
400011, India
Phone: (91-022) 2307 9284
(91-022) 2307 9293
Fax: (91-022) 2308 9211 

Nikon Service Centers in Pune

Surana Service Center (Pune)
629/33, Raviwar Peth,
Below Muslim Bank,
Bhori Masjid Building,
Pune – 411002
Phone: 020 – 2447 5341
020-6416 6259
Email: nikonservicepune@gmail.com

Nikon Service Centers in Ahmedabad

New Electronic Centre (Ahmedabad)
Shop no 13-14, Shahjanand Trade Centre,
Opp Kothawala Flats, Preetam Nagar,
Near Paldi Cross Road,
Ahmedabad – 380006
Gujarat
Phone: 079-2657 9822
Email: newelectroniccentre@hotmail.com 

Nikon Service Centers in Delhi

Photo Vision (Delhi)
Address:
223, Okhla Industrial Estate Pharse III
Near Modi Flour Mill,
New Dehli 110020,India
Phone: (91-011) 2692 5999
Fax: (91-011) 2692 9857 

Nikon Service Centers in Gurgaon

Nikon India Private Limited.(Gurgaon)
Address:
Nikon India Pvt Ltd,
Plot No.17,Sector 32,
Institutional Area,
Gurgaon 122002, Haryana
Phone: +91-124 4688514
Fax: +91-124 4688527 

Nikon Service Center in Bangalore

Inter Foto India Pvt Ltd (Bangalore)
Address:
310,Kedia Arcade,
92,Infantry Road
Bangalore -560001
Phone: (91-080) 080 41132935
(91-080) 080 41132936
Fax: (91-080) 080 41132921
Email: service@interfotoindia.com 

Nikon Service Center in Chennai

Camera Service Centre (Chennai)
Location Map  Address:
No.5 Vijayashanthi Complex
Basement 3, Blackers Road
Anna Salai,
Chennai 600002,India
Phone: (91-044) 2859 4392
(91-044) 2841 3513
Fax: (91-044) 2852 4662
Email: cameraservicecentre@vsnl.net

Nikon Service Center in Hyderabad

Astro Camera Tech (Hyderabad)
Location Map  Address:
1st Floor, Above Bank of Baroda,
Beside Reddy Hostel,
Hotel Jaya International Lane,
Abdis, Hyderabad – 500001
Phone: 040-6646 0248
Email: nikon.act@gmail.com

There are many websites that allow you to send free sms messages from your laptop/ computer. However if you wanted to send a sms from your mobile phone then you needed to pay the tariff.

However now you can send free sms messages from your mobile as well. The free sms site http://www.way2sms.com has comeup with a wap version at http://way2sms.com/wap Go to this url through your mobiles browser and send unlimited free sms messages from your mobile phone. Ofcourse you will need gprs connection in your mobile to avail this facility.

Xeeber is one more service that allows you to detect invisible yahoo messenger users. I have not used Xeeber myself yet. Have you used Xeeber? Please leave a comment stating your experience with the service.

SMS prices might have dropped. However who does not like an option to send free sms messages? Here we profile some websites that allow you to send free sms in india. Bookmark this page now. You will need more than 1 of these sites as they have a restriction on number of free sms you can send daily.

way2sms.com: This is one of the earliest players amongst the free sms service providers. The best part is it allows you to send messages upto 110 characters long. Really hassle free registration.

160by2.com: This is one of the newest players amongst the free sms service providers. However it allows you to send messages upto 80 characters long. However they are getting a lot of traction among new users.

www.jaxtr.com Jaxtr provides many more solutions apart from free sms. It is functional in countries outside india as well. However it works quite well in India. It even gives 50 free credits to make free calls.

www.spicesms.com: They support a imited number of service providers. As a matter of fact they do not support any of the 3 mowas using to check out the free sms services in india.

I have been researching about websites that allow you to download youtube videos. I was extremely impressed with vixy.net as it allowed me to convert the video into several formats includig avi,divx,mp3,mpeg4 and 3gp.

However I just got to know that it is not the only one. There are number of online resources that allow you to do so. So here is a list of some free youtube converters.

We need to convert pdf to excel frequently to avoid data entry.3 pdf to excel coversion tools that I am evaluatig right now. I shall be posting my views on this post after using the tools for some more time. Please share your views if you have used any of these or other free pdf to excel product that you know.

http://www.freepdfconvert.com/convert_pdf_to_source.asp

http://www.zamzar.com/

http://www.investintech.com/prod_a2e.htm

FLV Player is required to play downloaded youtube videos. You can download FLV Player at http://applian.com/flvplayer/

Here is a list of olie resources that you may use to download youtube videos

http://www.youtubecatcher.com/

http://www.downloadyoutubevideos.com/

http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/

http://keepvid.com/

http://www.savevideodownload.com/download.php

http://www.vidgrab.com/

http://vixy.net/

I like http://vixy.net/ the most as it allows download in other formats as well

Submit your pages to sites like Digg, Reddit, Sphinn. For content relevant to Indian readers only submit them to Indianpad.com, newscola.com, humsurfer.com.

Bookmark your site on social bookmarkig sites. Some of the most popular ones are here ). These sites are great for getting direct traffic to your blog. However may of them use no-follow tags. Hece they do not help you in improving your pagerank. Here is a great list of Social Bookmarking Sites that provide do follow links

Advertise your site on classified sites like Craigslist, kijiji, click.in.

Submit your site to DMOZ.Submit to other relevant directories as well. A list can be found here.

Sign up to StumbleUpon and get your friends to Stumble your site. Here are some tips to use StumbleUpon more efficiently.

Find quality and relevant blogs and leave a comment. Importantly it alows you to start the networking with other bloggers as well.

Participate on related forums. Add a link to your site in the signature of any forums you post on. Here is a list of large number of forums.

A site or blog downtime is every webmaster’s / blogger’s biggest nightmare. Now we do not need to keep checking your site to know if it is working. Set up an alert on www.pingdom.com. It will let you know if your site goes down. I am already in love with this site. Try it out for yourself.

Why gmail proxy sites?

Companies are increasingly blocking the access to popular sites like gmail. Following is a list of gmail proxy sites that you can use to access gmail at workplace, incase gmail is banned at your office. Make sure to check out my latest posts about dual core vs core 2 duo, most viewed video on youtube and free rapidshare premium account.

Gmail Proxies that I have been using for long

http://www.criclover.com

http://polysolve.com/

http://www.yoyahoo.com

http://www.myglite.com

Some more Proxy sites for gmail that I found out through research

http://www.browseprox.com I like this proxy for gmail a lot as this does not have many pop-up advertisements. However it has lots of contextual advertisements.

http://www.browser9.com

http://btunnel.com I am a little skeptic about using this proxy as the advertisements on the site look like those on malware proxies.

http://bypassgenie.com/ Looks like a good proxy website for accessing gmail. However the site was not working while I was trying to access it.

http://www.filtersneak.com I find this a little more trust worthy as it warns you about not supporting https protocol.