Posted on 02 May 2010. Tags: edit hyperlink, hyperlink, Microsoft, powerpoint
There are two methods to change the color of the hyperlink text while working on MS PowerPoint. By following either of the methods mentioned below, you can change the color of the hyperlink text or at the most, match the color of the hyperlink text with the text that is present on a slide.
Point to Note: If hyperlinks are present in the title as well as the sub-title placeholders, don’t change the hyperlink text in the theme.
Method 1: Changing the Color of Hyperlink Text
- While you are working on your presentation, you fill find the ‘Design’ tab on the menu bar, next to the ‘Insert’ tab. On clicking the ‘Design’ tab you will find a range of color themes. Locate the ‘Colors’ drop down button and select the “Create New Theme Colors’ option.
- As soon as you select that option, a dialog box will open. You will find several options under the heading ‘Theme Colors’. You can choose to do either of the following:
- Change the color of the hyperlink text by clicking the drop down arrow next to the option ‘Hyperlink’ and selecting the color you want.
- If you want to change the color of the followed hyperlink (a hyperlink to a destination that you have visited.) text, then click on the drop down arrow next to ‘Followed Hyperlink’ and select a color of your choice.
Point to Note: If you want more colors to choose, click on ‘More Colors’.
3. Once you are done selecting the color, click ‘Save’.
Method 2: Match the Color of Hyperlink Text to the Existing Text on a Slide
- Select the existing text on the slide that has the color in which you want the hyperlink text to be. Right click after selecting the text and you will get several options to choose from.
- Select the ‘Font’ option and you will find a new dialog box open. In the dialog box, click on the drop down arrow next to ‘Font color’ under the ‘All Text’ heading.
- On doing so, you will find a range of colors to choose from. Select the ‘More Colors’ option and another dialog box will open.
- Click on the ‘Custom’ tab in the ‘Colors’ dialog box and make a note of the color formula values mentioned in the ‘Color model’ box and in the respective color boxes.
- To exit the ‘Colors’ and ‘Font’ dialog boxes, click on ‘Cancel’ twice.
- Once you have done this, select the hyperlink text on the slide the color of which you want to change.
- After selecting the hyperlink text, click on the ‘Design’ tab in the menu bar and click on the ‘Colors’ drop down arrow. Then, select the last option, ‘Create New Theme Colors’.
- On doing so, the ‘Create New Theme Colors’ dialog box will open. In that box, you will find several options under the ‘Theme Colors’ tab. You can choose to do either of the following:
- In order to change the color of the hyperlink text, click on the drop down arrow next to the option ‘Hyperlink’ and select ‘More Colors’.
- In order to the change the color of the followed hyperlink text, click on the drop down arrow next to the ‘Followed Hyperlink’ option and select ‘More Colors’.
On choosing either of the options above, a ‘Colors’ dialog box will open. In the dialog box, you will find ‘Custom’ tab. Click the custom to find the ‘Color model’ and other color boxes below. In those boxes, type the color formula values that you had noted down in step 4.
After that, you can click on ‘OK’ and then, ‘Save’.
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Posted on 04 February 2010. Tags: base64_decode, eval, hack, malicious code, malware, unescape, wordpress, wordpress security
Well my day ended yesterday with a shock and the whole day today was spent in getting back to normalcy. Yes, SEO-Mind.com was hacked. I am not sure how it was hacked, but a whole bunch of codes were injected in the top of each and every file in my server. That would be 6000 + !!! Yes, the number is right!
When I opened any php file, I had a code starting like below on top of the source code:
This in turn loaded a iframe, which would get added to the footer of every page and download malware to visitors local computer. On decoding the Base 64, I found that it had another encrypted code using eval(unescape in it. This created an iframe as follows:
document.write(‘‘);
Now, the problem was, “How do I remove this from the 6000 odd pages on the server? Not just wordpress, the joomla site residing on the same server location was also infected. This means, the malware code was injected into every php file on the server. It had not left a single php file uninfected.
After breaking my head on different things, finally, here is what I did:
1. Took backup of the database
2. Backup of the wp-content/upload folder
3. Downloaded the plugins folder and themes into dreamweaver and removed the malicious code using find and replace. This was around 1500 files. I had to do this because I had customized most of the plugins and themes and I hate doing that to the dozen plugins and themes that reside on my wordpress again. Infact, I have forgotten what I did as it was years earlier.
4. Install a fresh pack of Wordpress
5. link the database to it [Please be aware that some Wordpress users have mentioned even their database being hacked. Thank God, it did not happen to me!]
6. Drop the upload folder back to the place as its only images, its not prone to hacks or malicious code
7. Drop the cleaned plugins and themes folders to their respective locations
8. Hurray! it started working fine without the code. I am yet to clean up the other sites, but wordpress is working great and faster too!!
The next immediate step I took was to increase my Wordpress Security.
Though a Hack can happen through various channels, majority of the hacks can be avoided through easy precautions. I am writing an article on how a hack like this can be avoided by following some simple procedures. I will post soon about this. Anyone who had a bad day or a week due to this hack can comment on how you solved it out!! I should be getting a peaceful sleep tonight!!
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Posted on 16 February 2009. Tags: black hat, cloaking, doorway page
Doorway pages are meant for spamming the index of search engines.
Usually, when a visitor clicks on a doorway page listed on SERP, they are redirected with a meta refresh command or javascript to another page. Doorway pages are also redirected using a server side redirect like a .htaccess file or server configuration file. Continue Reading
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Posted on 02 September 2008. Tags: wordpress, wordpress blog, wordpress database, wordpress tips
Usually, a basic paid hosting would provide 5 – 10 databases. Some of you would have used the all the databases. If you are one of them and wish to have one more Wordpress blog, then sharing the database would be a good option. This can also help better organize your database and also import, share or export user information easily
Installing more than one Wordpress blog using one database is quite simple. All that you need to do is go for a manual installation. Many hosting providers now provide a “one click” install which would take care of everything. Follow the steps below to create your Wordpress blog in the exisiting database.
- Download Wordpress extract and upload it to the folder you wish to install.
- Open wp-config.php file and search for the $table_prefix. The default would be
$table_prefix =’seo2010_’;
- Change the prefix to a name related to your blog. If it is http://www.seo-mind.com, then change it to ‘wpseo_’ or something similar. This can help you recognize the blog tables in future.
- If you are not familiar with editing wp-config.php file, change the default seo2010_ prefix when the Wordpress Configuration screen appears.
- Just proceed further till completion. That’s it! You now have two Wordpress blogs running in a single database.
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Posted on 24 June 2008. Tags: GTalk keyboard shortcut
For all those GTalk lovers, here are some cool shortcuts you can use while chatting.
- Ctrl + E – Centralizes the selected text that you typed, or the current line where your cursor is present.
- Ctrl + R – Justifies the selected message to the right, or to the current line.
- Ctrl + L – Justifies the message to the left the selected text, or the current line.
- Tab – Helps specify the area required for each windows opened
- Alt + F4 – Closes the current GTalk window.
- Alt + Esc – Minimizes all GTalk windows.
- Windows + ESC – Opens Google Talk (if it is minimized, or is in the tray)
- F9 – Automatically open Gmail to send an email to the current contact window that is opened.
- F11 – Automatically initiates a telephonic call with the contact.
- F12 – Can be used to cancels a telephonic call.
- Esc – Closes all current windows
- Ctrl + Shift + L – Helps switch between numbers, letters, points, roman numbers, capital letters and capitals with roman numbers
- Ctrl + 1 (KeyPad) – A simple space between the lines.
- Ctrl + 2 (KeyPad) – A double space between the lines.
- Ctrl + 5 (KeyPad) – A space with 1.5 distance between the lines.
- Ctrl + 1 (NumPad) – Moves the cursor to the end of the last line.
- Ctrl + 7 (NumPad) – Moves the cursor to the begin of the last line.
- Ctrl + F4 – Closes the current GTalk window.
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Posted on 23 June 2008. Tags: gtalk registry tweaks, gtalk tips, gtalk tricks, registry tweaks
GTalk is simple yet an excellent tool for connecting with your friends and collegues. Who would not like to add some tweaking to customize it to what you want? You can do this using a registry tweak.
Note: The below changes are done on the Registry file. If you are unaware of how to do this or you are technically not sound, please avoid editing the registry as it can even stop your computer from working.
1. Choose “Start” from the taskbar and select “Run”.
2. Type “Regedit” and click “ok”.
3. Now in the left side of the window, you would find folders.
4. Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk
5. Here is were you can perform the GTalk tweaks.
6. You need to right click on the registry files and choose Modify to change the settings
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\view_show_taskbutton
If this is set to 0, it would hides the taskbar button, and will leave the tray icon only, when the window is shown
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\show_pin
If set to 1, will show a “pin” next to the minimize button that allows the GTalk window to be kept on top of all other open windows while clicked.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\away_inactive
If set to 1, GTalk status will be set as Away after the number of minutes specified.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\away_screensaver
If set to 1, GTalk status will be set as Away after the specified number of minutes.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\inactive_minutes
Number of inactive minutes to will become away if auto-away is “on”.
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Posted on 16 April 2008.
IE 6.0 has been around for quite a long time and Internet Explorer 7.0 has been finally released by Microsoft. IE 7.0 has many features like quick tabs, streamlined interface, advanced printing, tabbed browsing, rss feeds, page zooming and instant search box. The tabbed browsing is one feature that Mozilla Firefox had added long back. The quick tabs in Internet Explorer help navigate between tabs easier as they have a thumbnail displaying them in a single window.
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Posted on 14 April 2008. Tags: album, online dating, online social networking, smo. social media
Orkut an online social networking service had recently come up with an option to lock scrapbooks and photo albums. This privacy feature restricts public from viewing photo albums. However, hackers have found a way out to access the scrapbooks and photo albums which are locked. Continue Reading
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Posted on 26 February 2008. Tags: google talk, gtalk, messenger, multiple instances of messenger
Did you ever want to open two instances of Google Talk simultaneously? Yes, it is possible. You can infact open two instances of GTalk at the same time and log in into two different accounts. Here is how you can open multiple instances of GTalk at the same time:
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Posted on 25 February 2008. Tags: messenger, simultaneously open yahoo messenger, yahoo messenger, ym8multi.zip
Did you ever wish to open multiple instances of Yahoo Messengers simultaneously? Yes, you can open multiple instances of Yahoo Messenger at the same time and log in into two different accounts. Here is how you can make two Yahoo Messengers open at the same time:
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