How to convert an ECM file to BIN

I will show the use of ECM file and will also give a tutorial on how to convert it to any usable format like BIN

I was browsing a PSX game site and downloaded a game from there and got a ECM file, that was the first time i saw an ECM file, I researched about it and was able to convert it to a working BIN file, the original ECM file was 200MB and when the file was converted into BIN it went to 600MB in size, so you can imagine how powerful is this ECM system.

ECM files are used to compress files and folders from a CD or CD image, it's very powerful and can compress a CD image to 200MB from 600MB, isn't it great ? So, many people compress their file to ECM and upload it to internet to save space and bandwidth. But the file can't be open by a Disk Burning or CD image converting programs like Nero, MagicISO etc. They are only to burn files of CD images type like ISO,CDZ,BIN etc.
So read this post to know how to open it.  

What is an ECM file?

ECM stands for Error Code Modeler , it compresses files and save huge amount of space, most of the CD/DVD have unnecessary EDC/ECC data in them and takes lots of space on the drive, ECM only adds the data in the compress file, and thus the file size changes, the compression size depends on unnecessary EDC/ECC data on the CD. Compressing a CD image to ECM is easy, just open the CD image file into your favorite compression program and save the file as [filename.bin].ecm, just add ECM at end.

How to convert ECM to BIN?

Ok, let's get back to the main thing, but read the above contents as well, we were at 'How to convert ECM to BIN' or any other readable/burnable file format, because we can't burn an ECM file to a CD so we need to convert it to use it. 

The procedure is small, it's just a 2 minute job. To make it easy to understand for you, i will list step-by-step procedures, please read them carefully.

1. First of all we have to download a file, with which we will convert the ECM file to a BIN file, it's not a good looking program but works great, thanks to Neil Corlett for this program. I have set a password to extract files from the RAR file, the password is stramaxon.
   

   Download File [LINK 1 | LINK 2] - Password for the file: stramaxon

2. Now extract the RAR file with WinRAR program, it will ask for a password, just enter "stramaxon" in the password field (without quotes)
3. Open the ecm100 folder in the extracted folder there will be two files, unecm.exe and ecm.exe
4. Open the folder where your ECM file is, now drag and drop the ECM file on unecm.exe in the ecm100 folder
   A similar window may pop-up when you drag and drop the ECM file into the unecm.exe, wait for it to decode 100%.
   
5. Once it's 100% completed, the cmd windows will close, now check the folder where tje ECM file was, a BIN file will be created. And done !

We have successfully converted the ECM file to an burnable image file BIN. If you want to change the BIN file to other CD image file, you can do it by burning the BIN file on a CD and then making image file from that CD, I know that will be easy for you, but if you don't know how to do it then please request me a tutorial on depy45631@gmail.com

PostCron - Free and easy Post Scheduler

PostCron is a Facebook app that schedules your post for your pages and profile, easily set the time and relax it will do all for you.

PostCron is a free to use post scheduler for Facebook and Twitter, there are several other post schedulers available for Facebook and Twitter but the worst part is that it don't work for free, we have to pay required amount there, but PostCron let us use their application for free.

If you have huge fan following on Twitter and Facebook then you may have to post regularly, but you can't be online all the time, so what should you do? Don't worry much, just use PostCron, it will schedule your post and you can set time to post it and PostCron will do it.

With a free PostCron account you can schedule 10 pending publications, but with pro and premium subscription you have lot more plus points like adding your own icon on post and add a link to your website. This app is great for pages which have to post regularly to keep their fans count stable like this page Troll Happens, it's my friend's page and he always have to post regular photos but because he don't always have time, so he schedule it with PostCron, he suggested me PostCron and after using it i felt like 'Wow', with regular posting our 'Talking About Us' count increases and more people are reached.




But don't worry, PostCron gives us great features even if we are using a 'Free Subscription', we can multiply the post, edit already scheduled post.PostCron gives us full control on what pages we want to use PostCron. PostCron's interface is very simple and easy to use, so don't need to a pro Facebook user to use it.

PostCron serves thousands of pages and therefore they have to pay the servers charges and which they earn by our Premium or Pro subscription, so please, if you can pay money, invest in them or buy a Premium or Pro subscription to help them run this great project.

Now you know what app to use to schedule Facebook and Twitter posts. It's free !

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Access Edit HTML in Dynamic Views Template

This short tutorial will show you how to access Edit HTML in dynamic views template

Editing HTML in Dynamic Views template in Blogger is not possible without this hack, the Edit HTML button is always disabled if you are using the Dynamic views template. 


So let's start with the hack, first open your Blogger Dashboard >> Template >> now have a look at your address bar, it will look like this (the blog id is different)


http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8259823568185811984#template


Replace blogger.g part with html , now it should look like this


http://www.blogger.com/html?blogID=8259823568185811984#template


You will be taken to the HTML edit of your blogger template which is Dynamic views, now you can add or remove HTML elements from your Dynamic views to fit your needs. 


I found this trick on Yogaratnam N. aka Yoboy's blog 'Southern Speaker', thanks to him for this trick. 


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Show more than 200 comments on Blogger post

This tutorial will show you how to show more than 200 comments on Blogger posts

This tutorial will give answers to questions like "Why my blog post only show 200 comments", "why can't i see more than 200 comments on my post" and etc.


If you ever got over 200 comments on any of your blog post and then you see that you can't view more than 200 comments on that post and you worry about it. Blogger have no limits on number of comments on a post, but yet many people are facing this problem but can't sort out how to fix it. 


I will show you how to allow to show more than 200 comments on a blog post, so that you can see everyone's feedback. The problem in this is that comments location is set to Embedded by default and Embedded comments only shows 200 comments, i will guide you through how to change embedded to something else that will show 200 comments.


I will show step-by-step instruction with screenshot, so that you can understand it easily. There are different procedures for different version of blogger interface.

Old Blogger InterfaceNew Blogger Interface

Do it in New Blogger Interface

We will do it fast, first of all you have to log into your Blogger account

1. Now go to the Settings menu of your blog
   
   
2. Click on 'Post and Comments' under 'Settings'
   
   
3. Once you clicked on Post and Comments , you will see options about Comments and Posts, under Comments there you will see Comments Location
4. You just have to change it from Embedded to Full Page or Popup Window to let your page show over 200 comments
   
   
5. Now click on Save Settings on top of the page and preview it.

Do it in Old Interface

Let's see how to make it work in the old interface.

1. Log into your Blogger account
2. Click on Settings under the blog title on the home page
   
3. Under Settings menu click on Comments
   
   
4. Next to Comment Form Placement option select Full page or Popup Window
   
   
5. Now Save Changes and done !

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Backup the Blog Template in Blogger

A short and easy guide how to backup your template of your blogger blog, so that you will always have a copy of working template.

Update for April 2017: This tutorial is obsolete, please go to the newer tutorial on backing up your blogger template in the new Blogger UI

I have decided to make this post small so that you can do your work faster than just reading my text, i have provided screenshots so that you can easily understand.

This tutorial covers guide on how to backup template in blogger in both New and Old Blogger Interface

How to Backup in New Blogger Interface

First i will show how to backup the template in New Blogger Interface, as most of the Bloggers now use New Interface. Follow the step-by-step instructions with picture demos.

1. Log into your Blogger Dashboard and select Template from the drop down list next to your blog
   
   
2. On the Template page, see the right top corner, there you will see a "Backup/Restore" button
   
   
3. Click on it and a box will appear, there will be two option, one is to Download the full template and other will be to Upload a template. Click on "Download the full template" and your download will start.
4. The XML template will be saved on your computer and you can keep it for future, so if you make any mistakes in editing the template you always have copy of working template

There's no limit of how many times you can download the template, whenever you feel you want a backup of your template, just use this to keep a backup of your template.

How Backup template in old interface

If you are yet using the Blogger old interface then the instruction below will help you to backup your template in old UI

1. Log into your Blogger account, on the Dashboard click on Design under your blog
   
   
2. After clicking on Design , click on Edit HTML under the Design tab
   
   
3. Below the Backup/Restore section in Edit HTML page, click on Download full template

Once you click on Download full template your backup template will be downloaded

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Transfer a blog from one account to another Account

This tutorial will show you how to transfer control of a blog from one account to another, it's easy.

There can be many reason for which you want to transfer a blog from one account to other account, but people who don't have much experience with Blogger will find difficulties doing this themselves. The transfer of blog over two accounts can be useful, because if you have two account related to that blog, it will be easier to take control of the blog if for any reason your account gets deleted.

You can make Blogger account with not only Google account but any account like yahoo, hotmail etc. (but later you have to sign-up for a Google profile too)

To transfer the blog over two accounts, follow the step-by-step procedures, with picture demonstration it will be easier to understand.

1. Login to your Blogger account at blogger.com  
2. On your dashboard, select Settings option for the blog
   
                                                    
3. Now in Basic tab under Settings, in Permissions section there will be an option/link +Add Authors, click on it and a pop-up will appear to enter an email address you want to add as an author (or admin).
   
   
4. Now open your other email account and you may have received a mail from Google/Blogger about the blog contribution invite.
   
   
5. Visit the link you will be redirected to Blogger, if you aren't logged in, log in there
   
   
6. After accepting the invitation you will be made the Author of the blog. Author can't make any changes to the blog, it can only make posts. To make him an Admin go to your old account which is already admin of the blog and next to your new email address click on Author and select Admin from drop down list
   
   
7. Once you select Admin, the email can have full control over the blog.
8. If you want you remove any email address connected to the blog if you are an admin. 

An Admin on a blog can do anything, like deleting post, changing address, changing the template etc. It also have the ability to remove other admins and authors on the blog too.

Be careful while adding someone as an Admin, only give them this privilege if you trust them, because they will have full control over blog.

Tip: Using two browsers when doing this can save your time (to open up two accounts at the same time).

How to add CSS to your blogger blog

In this tutorial you will learn how to add custom styles to your blog with CSS on Blogger.

CSS is plays an important role in presentation of a blog or website. In Blogger users are allowed to style their blog, but if you are new to Blogger or just don't know about CSS and HTML you might find it difficult to find the right way to do it. So how do you add your custom CSS in Blogger? You will get the answer in this tutorial, for you to understand it better I have also included screenshots.

There are two ways to add CSS to your blog template. I prefer to use te hEdit HTML mode, it's good for professional web designer, and I suggest to use basic Add CSS option in blogger for peoples who are new to web.

There are two ways to add CSS codes to your blog template. One is using the HTML template editor where you can put the code according to your needs anywhere in the document. And other is to use 'Add CSS' GUI option provided in the visual template designer.

For general users I suggest the Add CSS option as it doesn't require code editing and all, but in some cases you might need more control on how you want that CSS to be loaded (for example, if you want to load a CSS only on item pages) in such cases using the HTML Template editor is the only choice.

Using Add CSS in Template Designer

Note: Since the recent Blogger UI update the "Template" section is now called "Theme"

Blogger have included an Add CSS option, where you can just copy and paste the CSS styles code and it will be applied to the template. Let's see where's that option.

Blogger has a rich set of template designing tool that you can use to change colors, fonts and layout of your blog without writing even a line of code. The template designer also allows you to define your own styles using CSS to apply on the blog. To access that option follow the instruction below :

1. Go to your Blogger dashboard at http://www.blogger.com/home
2. Now select the blog from the list (if you have multiple) and go the its "Theme" section on the left pane.
   
   
3. In the Theme section, click on the button that says "Customize" and you will be taken to the Template Designer page
4. Select the Advance tab from the list of options on left pane and from the sub-menu list select Add CSS, it's at very bottom.
   
   
5. Now in right pane, there will be an input area where you can paste your CSS styles
   
   

In this procedure you won't be able to edit the existing CSS code in your template, you will only be able to add new styles and can only edit the styles that you added using the template designer.

You don't need to add the HTML elements such as <style type="text/css"></style> , we can paste the CSS styles directly. Adding those elements may result in error.

Adding it using the HTML Template Editor

You can also directly add CSS syles in your template code, but working in the HTML template editor can be difficult for users who don't have much experience with HTML and CSS. As lot of markup codes are lying there already, a general user might feel a bit unformtable, but once you start working with codes you will find it interesting.

1. Go to your blogger dashboard at blogger.com/home 
2. And from drop-down menu of the blog select Theme
   
   
3. After going to Template menu, click on Edit HTML button to open the template code editor on the page
   
   
   
   
   
4. Now using the default find-on-page function (by default CTRL+F ) and find </head> and paste your CSS code (inside <style>) and paste it above </head>. Do remember to include the first and last line in the following code around your CSS rule when adding it above the closing </head> tag d
   
   

   <style type="text/css">
   /* This is a comment, and follow is a CSS rule */
   body
   {
   color:#999;
   background-color:whiteSmoke;
   font-family:"Georgia", Helvetica, sans-serif;
   }
   </style>
   

   
   The CSS styles are just for example.
   
   Other way
   You can paste your CSS styles by putting the HTML markup (in green) above and below your raw CSS code and then paste it above </head> in the template
   
   

So now you have the idea where to paste the CSS codes in your blog. For more web designing help subscribe to our blog.


Remember to Backup your template before making any changes to it. To Backup your template Go to Blogger Dashboard >> Theme tab >> On top right corner there will be a Backup/Restore button and then download the template, if anything went wrong we can restore it to working template by uploading it there.