Application Site: http://draft.blogger.com/home

Prerequisites: Blogger blog.

Process Time: 3 minutes.

Steps:

Step-1. Go to the application site and sign in.

Step-2. Under Manage Blogs, click on Layout. If you have several blogs, you will have to repeat the same process for each.

Step-3. The layout tab is displayed. Select Edit HTML.

Step-4. Search for the following code:
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Step-5. Before the line, write the following code:

#navbar { display: none }

Step-6. Click on SAVE TEMPLATE.

Application Site: http://www.blogger.com

Prerequisites: Blogger blog. Favicon url. [1]

Process Time: 5 minutes.

Steps:

Step-1. Go to the application site and sign in.

Step-2. Under Manage Blogs, click on Layout option of your blog.

Step-3. The Layout tab is displayed. Select Edit HTML.

Step-4. Find </head> by pressing Control-F and typing </head>.

Step-5. Just before the code </head>, insert the following line: [2]

<link href='your-image-url' rel='shortcut icon' />

Step-6. Click Preview to preview your changes.

Step-7. Click Save Template.

Notes:

[1] You can upload your blog favicon to sites like Picasaweb. It can be an ico, jpg, gif, or png.

[2] your-image-url is the url link to your uploaded favicon.

Reference Site: http://www.myfico.com/CreditEducation/ImproveYourSCore.aspx

Prerequisite: Credit data.

Process Time: > 1 month.

Steps:

Step-1. Enhance your payment history by

• paying your bills [2] on time and
• staying current on your payments.

Step-2. Monitor your amounts owed by

• keeping balances low on credit cards and other revolving credit
• paying off debt and not moving it around
• not closing unused credit cards as a short-term strategy to raise score and
• not opening new credit cards just to increase your available credit.

Step-3. Maintain a longer credit history.

Step-4. Time your application for new credits by

• giving sufficient period of time between inquiries and
• checking your credit score directly from organizations authorized to provide credit reports to consumers (aka soft inquiries)

Step-5. Get a credit card or an installment loan to show you can manage them responsibly.

Notes:

[1] Range of FICO credit score and credit rating:

• 750 – 850 = Excellent
• 660 – 749 = Good
• 620 – 659 = Fair
• 350 – 619 = Poor

By BCSAlliance.

[2] Utility bills are not necessarily sent to credit reporting agencies as part of calculating your score. Some mortgage companies don’t even report your payment history. To be sure, ask the creditors if their records are submitted to the reporting agencies.

Application site: https://reader.google.com/

Prerequisite: Google account

Process time: 1 minute.

Steps:

Step- 1. Go to application site.

Step- 2. Log in your Google account.

Step- 3. Go to “Google Reader”.

Step- 4. Click on “Add subscription”, type the address of a web page and Google Reader will automatically generate a feed if it can’t detect one.

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Tip: To find the URL of the feed generated by Google, click on “show details” and you’ll find a URL.

Application site: https://docs.google.com

Prerequisite: Google account

Process time: 2 minutes

Steps

Step- 1. Go to application site.

Step-2. Log in your Google account.

Step-3. In the  template gallery page, there is a new link in the top right hand corner: click on “Submit a template”.

Step- 4. Click on “Select from your Google docs” and search the file you would like to upload.

Step- 5. Click “Select” at the bottom of the screen from which you selected your Google document.

Step- 6. Enter a description for your template.

Step- 7. Enter the language of your template, or leave it set to the default (English).

Step- 8. Click submit template, and you’ve just contributed your Google Template to Google Docs!

Step-9. Select up to two categories that apply to your template.

Application site: https://mail.google.com

Prerequisite: Google account, Labs in Gmail.

Process time: 3 minutes

Steps:

Step- 1. Go to application site.

Step- 2. Log in your Google account.

Step- 3. Browse to Labs in your Gmail account.

Step- 4. Look for the function called “Default Text Styling”. It is about halfway down the list of Labs functions.

Step- 5. Change the function to Enabled, and save your changes by clicking on ’save changes’ at the bottom or top of the page.

Step- 6. You are not brought back to your Inbox view. Now, click on “Settings”.

Step- 7. On the “General” tab in settings you will now see a box with Default Text Style about half way down the page.

Step- 8. You can highlight the sample text in the text box, and change the settings using the buttons displayed above. For example, you can change the font.

Step- 9. You can also change the color of your email text.

Step- 10. If, after playing around with the settings you regret your choices, and want to go back to the default settings and start over, you can do so clicking the button on the far right.

Application site: http://www.buddyfuse.com/en

Process time: 2 minutes.

Application site: http://twte.ly/

Prerequisite: Twitter account

Process time: 1 minute

Steps:

Step-1. Go to the Application site.

Step-2. Sign in your Twitter account on the upper right portion of the page.

Step-3. When your signed in, select a “Type”. Choose “Poll”.

Step-4. Under Question, type in your question on the box provided.

Step-5. Under Choices, enter in your choices on the boxes provided to the question. To add another choice, just click the + button.

Step-6. When you’re done. Click “Publish”. You’re done.

Application site: http://www.jelli.net/landing/

Process time: 2 minutes

Steps:

Step-1. Go to the Application site. Click “I Want in” from the lower right portion of the page.

Step-2. On the right side of the proceeded page, fill up the following requirements:

• Username
• E-mail
• Password
• Zip code
• Gender
• Birth Year
• Accept their terms of service and privacy policy

When done filling up, click “FIRE”.

Application site: http://xm.my/

Process time: 2 minutes

Steps:

Step-1. Go to the Application site.

Step-2. Type in any place by its name under choose location on the box provided and click search.

Step-3. When your location is shown on a map, then type in your place’s name or message of the place on the box provided.

Step-4. Under Create your link (their 3rd step) click “save map”.

Step-5. Your link will then be displayed on the top of the next page right after your place name or message.