How to add Video on Blogger Sidebar

We all know that we can embed a YouTube video in Blogger in the main text area. However, it is a brilliant idea to add a video on blogger sidebar to draw immediate attention of your audience. Adding a video to blogger sidebar is not straight forward, however the work around is quite simple. Follow the steps as given below and you can easily add a video on blogger sidebar.

1.Open the YouTube video that you want to share in your blog. For demonstration, I have opened a Tom & Jerry cartoon.

 

2.Pause the video and click on the share button. Now share on the embed button. Copy the html

 



 

3. Now go to your blog and open it in design mode.

 

4.Click on “Layout” on the left pane.

 

5.Now click on “Add a Gadget”

 



 

6.This will open up number of gadgets. Select HTML/Java Script.

 

7.Add a suitable title for your video. Here, we have put “ My Favorite Cartoon” . And then paste the code that you copied from youtube. Click Save.

 

 

8.Now click “Save Arrangements” in the Layout window.

 

9.Now open the blog and you can see your video on blogger sidebar, where you have added the html gadget.

 



 

how to add tabs in blogger

Tab is a powerful tool in any website. That’s the reason why Internet Explorer came out with tabs from its version 7. On one way tab, gives a better look to your website and on the other hand it provides easy navigation. Now, those, who are using goggle blogger, you may not find Tab as a default design pattern. However, it’s very easy to add tabs in blogger.

Follow the below simple procedure to add a tab in your blogger.

• Click on the down arrow beside “Show Pages as” and select “Top Tabs”.


• Now click on New Pages and add your article as you do. This adds tabs in blogger

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  Once you finished, click on Publish to Publish the article. Now it will show as a tab in your website.

  
  

  

  
  

That's all required to add tabs in blogger. Now, you can organize your post in tabs and can make your blog more attractive.

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Identity Theft - A nexus with online marketing business

Are you sure that your private information is still private to you? The new trend in marketing is the online marketing. It has already become so popular that more and more companies are cutting share from their conventional marketing budget and allocating it to online advertising. The popularity of online marketing is quite obvious as it doesn't take time to reach the entire mass of people across the globe. The only thing that you need to choose is a proper site and a proper set of people. However, the curse of Identity Theft comes along with online marketing.

Choosing proper site is quite easy as you just need to check that the content of the site is aligned to your business and the volume of traffic to that site is substantial. The second part i.e. personalization is very interesting in the area of online advertisement and that is where we have the threat of Identity Theft. Actually personalization of an advertisement already exists to some extent here and there. If you have watched the free version of Hulu, you might have encountered the initial request, where we need to set the category of advertisement that we would like to watch. This is nothing but adopting or personalizing online advertisement as per your requirement. This really makes sense, as otherwise people may choose to ignore the entire slot dedicated for advertisement. Different organizations and online marketing agencies are already working on implementing and enhancing the same through online marketing. On one hand this is an innovative idea and business model, and on the other hand this has become a hot topic revolving around identity theft. Billions of dollars have already been budgeted for this in the coming years. But what exactly a personalization means? Let us take an example that we are the online advertising agency and we want to put an online advertisement for sale of passenger car. The car comes in the premium segment and our target audience will be mainly young people between the age of 25 and 30 years, whose annual income not less than $85000. Now if we can figure out these people, we will show our advertisement only to this set of people. The same space can be utilized for other advertisement to a different set of people and needless to say that it will be tailored according to their need. Among many organizations, IT giant google is one of the front runners in this area. They are working in a big way to personalize online advertisement and as well as their search engine. They have already modified their search engine to implement personalization to some extent. This is quite evident from the google search. And you can check it yourself very easily. For that, you need to search google twice, once while you are signed in and once while you are signed off. Enter some search criteria relevant to you (as your name or your website name) and see the difference in search result in both cases. Thus, don’t get surprised next time while you see an advertisement or a search result from google that you were long craving for.

 

Ad personalisation is a good idea and most welcome to this era of modern technology. However, along with personalization of advertisement, the curse of identity theft comes hand in hand. The private information that is required to personalize advertisement is often collected without the information of the user. Recently, there have been lots of discussion on breaching the private information. With the advent of personalized advertisement, suddenly the identity theft has come back to limelight again. Few years ago, the same identity theft came into lime light because of sporadic fraudulent cases across the globe. It generally happens in one of the two ways i.e. direct shared by the human being who have access to this data and through some software, which is known as malware and virus. Troajn Horse is the most discussed name of malwares in this field. A Trojan horse gives a hacker remote access to the remote computer system and help him to gather required information. Trojan Horse is readily available in the underworld market and can be used as a mean of stealing information.

 

In spite of all these controversies, many organizations are strategizing their future plan around personalized advertisement, which is a cause of concern because of Identity Theft. As a front runner in this place, google is working on the data policy as how exactly that can be handled in their effort to personalize search and advertisement. When the data is being used to do different frauds, the same can be shared with the online marketing agencies in exchange of money. Software hackers and other relevant people see this private information as a huge market space. It’s not far while the private data will be treated as commodity in underworld market and will be traded like any other commodity. The identity theft has already come to an alarming stage and hence need complete awareness among people. The worst part of this identity theft is that the victim remains totally unaware about this entire episode. Their attention is brought back to it only when they find out some fraudulent activity. Going forward, you may have to keep an eye also on the kind of advertisements shown to you. You may get an indication from the online personalized advertisements that your private data is no more private but has become public!

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Understand how to control access to computer to control your child

Microsoft parental control has multiple features e.g. you can restrict your child to use computer at a specific time of the day and you can impose this time restriction different for different days. Let me elaborate it in details.

First of all, you need to create a user account for your child. Ensure that this is not given the Administrator privilege. Now open control panel by clicking Start-->Control Panel-->Parental Control. Click on the standard user account for which you want to impose parental control. This will open up a screen as below

By default the parental control is turned off. Choose the radio button “On, enforce current settings”. This will in turn enable the other Parental control options namely a) Time Limits b) Games and c) Allow and block specific programs. Turn on the Time Limit option by clicking on the off link on the right hand side. It will open a time table as below. Click on the box time slot, when you would like your child to use the system. The restricted time slots will turn blue.

Similarly, the game option can be turned on. For game, the system will be showing options as below

You have different options here. You can completely restrict your child from playing any game OR you can set a restriction based on the game rating OR you can also allow or clock selected games.

The third option is the most interesting. This will enable you to restrict your child to use specific program in your computer. Once you enable this option, the system will give you a list of programs installed in your system from where you can select specific programs. This is also a good security feature for your computer. You can restrict the guest account by controlling access tp specific applications and there by protect your vulnerable data.

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Stock Tips - Sundram Fasteners

 

Industry outlook: Sundram fasteners is mainly associated with the Automotive industry.  The Indian automobile industry is expecting a 10-12 percent rise in sales in fiscal 2012-13 from 17376624 units sold in 2011-12 on better macro-economic conditions, an industry body said. As per the statistics provided by SIAM, the passenger vehicle sales was boosted by 4.6 percent in 2011-12 over the previous financial years i.e. 2010-11.  Sales of passenger car segment clocked a 2.19 parcent rise at 2016115 units from 1972845 units sold in 2010-11. Export of car was also increased by 25% in the last financial year.

 

 

 

Company outlook: The company outlook is quite bright as Sundram fastener is a major player in this segment.

 

 

 

1.   It has used the year 2011-12 for doing expansion and different other activities to meet the increasing demand. The company invested substantial amount towards creating capacity for new products and expansion of capacities for existing product.

2. During the year, the Company has invested EUR 33,332 (Rs 22.22 lakhs) in Windbolt GmbH, Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Germany for manufacture of special bolts for wind energy applications under 50:50 Joint Venture arrangement with Mr. Wolfgang Walter Naumann. The share of interest in Joint Venture has been accounted in consolidated accounts by using the proportionate consolidation method as per Accounting Standard (AS) 27.

3.  The Company has set up facilities at Mittamandagapet in Tamil Nadu for the manufacture of fasteners for use in Wind Energy Generators. This will help the power companies to procure the fasteners locally instead of importing it.

4. There is clear emphasis on R&D, which will help the company to maintain competitive advantage from technical front.

5.  There is clear emphasis on quality. The company is following “Total Productive Maintenance” (TPM).  The company has retained the accreditation of its quality system being in line with ISO 9001-2000.

6. US economy is seemed to be reviving.  And GM being the major customer of Sundram Fastener, the export demand is anticipated to be increased. Exports from all the major units showed sizable growth enabling the Company to post record sales of at Rs 646 crores as against Rs 479 crores in the previous year, an increase of 35%. Export sales were around 30% of the overall sales revenues.

7.   Subsidiaries other than the German subsidiary have shown an increase in revenue and growth. The germa subsidiary has been adversely impacted owing to German financial crisis. Though the consolidated revenue(from subsidiaries)  has been increased, there is a net loss of 10.69 crores.

8.   The Company proposes to expand capacities further in the manufacture of all its products-lines. The Company also proposes to add secondary capacities to develop new products for its customers. The total capital expenditure commitments during 2012-13 are likely to be around Rs 150 crores, subject to market conditions and internal accruals.

9.   Steel is one of the major raw material for Sundram Fasteners. The steel price has been steadily increased in the last few years. Last year, the petroleum based products and power have also seen increase in cost. Rising cost of all these together will put a pressure on the bottomline.

Overall the company is well poised to take benefit of automobile growth. We believe that expansion of capacities and diversification has been blended properly to continue its growth momentum and mitigate any potential market risk.

 

 

Financial : For the financial year, 20111-12, the company has posted a growth rate of 18% i.e. 2300 crores against 1944 crores in 2010-11 in topline. However, the bottomline has been impacted owing to high interest rate and higher input cost. The bottomline has seen a growth of 7% i.e. 112 crores against 105 crores in 2010-11. With our estimate considering a moderate growth of 10% in revenue the EPS of the company will be increased to 6.75.  The 2013 forward PE of the company will be around 6.59, which says that the stock is currently heavily discounted.

 

	Mar'13€	Mar '12	Mar '11	Mar '10	Mar '09	Mar '08
		12 mths	12 mths	12 mths	12 mths	12 mths
Total Income	2424.96	2,204.51	1,833.12	1,351.56	1,203.51	1,233.12
Total Expenses	2260.41	1,891.35	1,610.46	1,168.32	1,098.57	1,068.45
PBDIT	385	313.16	222.66	183.24	104.94	164.67
Interest	112.24	92.2	23.9	27.91	40.34	27.98
PBDT	327.26	220.96	198.76	155.33	64.6	136.69
Depreciation	74.42	63.61	54.54	47.48	42.23	34.23
Profit Before Tax	198.34	157.35	144.22	107.85	22.37	102.46
Tax	56.56	44.87	39.07	32.42	6.87	35.09
Reported Net Profit	141.78	112.6	105.18	75.43	15.49	67.38
Shares in issue (lakhs)	2,101.28	2,101.28	2,101.28	2,101.28	2,101.28	2,101.28
Earning Per Share (Rs)	6.75	5.36	5.01	3.59	0.74	3.21

 

Considering the above points, the stock is recommended for long term buy.

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No Printer No Worry

 

You can avoid 50% of this hassle by saving the page locally to your computer and take it to the internet café through an USB drive. There are number of ways that you can save a page. However, the one that I am going to discuss here is printing through PDF. There are number of companies provide this option. Among all these, I like CutePDF the most. The basic version of CutePDF is free. Once you install in your machine, it is ready and it doesn’t need any specific configuration. Installable is available from the below website

http://www.cutepdf.com/

Once you ready to print your file, print it as usual. This will give you a printer selection box and you can see the CutePDF-noPrinter.

Once you select CutePDF, the system will prompt you to save the PDF in your local machine. You can customize the PDF printout as you can do with any other printers. This is used by many people at home where they don’t have any access to the printer. But many people don’t know that there are higher versions of CutePDF, which provides enhanced functionality. Needless to say that you have to pay license fee for the higher versions.

Cute PDF Form Filler – In case the admission form is writeable, you can fill up the form in your local computer and while printing through PDF, it captures the filled up words as well. This is really helpful, when you have to fill up multiple forms and only a certain portion of the data needs to be altered. You can also apply 128 bit encryption or password protection to your document. There are other enhanced features that you can refer when you purchase the license. As on this day, a single license of this product costs $29.95.

So, next time you are required to print something, save it as PDF in your pen drive and take it to the nearest café for quick printing (and as well as saving few bucks).

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Welcome to “The Universal Post”. I am “Suvendu Manna”. I had my education in Engineering and Management. By profession, I am a Software Engineer and a Technical Blogger by choice. I do live with my parents, wife and two kids. My favourite time pass is to spend time with my little son.

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KCP-Small Cap Idea

 

On a consolidated basis, the revenue has been increased from       70465 Lakhs to 110557 Lakhs, an increase of 57%. Operating profit has been increased from 11316 Lakhs to 15074 Lakhs, an increase of 33%. Net profit has been increased from 9590 Lakhs to 12751 Lakhs, an increase of 33%.

 

Standalone	Revenue			Profit
Segment	2012	2011	% Growth	2012	2011	% Growth
Engineering	14401	13314	8%	3405	4541	-25%
Cement	54232	22494	141%	5384	1886	185%
Power	1905	1752	9%	748	745	0%
Sugar
Others	245	556	-56%	-107	-120	-11%
Total	70783	38116	86%	9430	7052	34%

Consolidates	Revenue			Profit
Segment	2012	2011	% Growth	2012	2011	% Growth
Engineering	22172	20296	9%	3712	5081	-27%
Cement	54232	22494	141%	5384	1886	185%
Power	1905	1752	9%	748	745	0%
Sugar	34061	26680	28%	6941	5515	26%
Others	245	556	-56%	-107	0
Total	70783	38116	86%	9430	7052	34%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is a loss in engineering sector mainly owing to the poor demand and realization. Cement sector has seen significant rise in demand almost 141%. Sugar has also seen a spurt in profit of 26%.

 

India is the second largest producer of cement in the world. The cement industry has good potential to boom as there is thrust to improve the infrastructure. In the financial year 2011-12, most of the companies have posted good revenue growth on the account of economic recovery in the second half. In 2011-12, the cement industry grew from 5% to 6.4%. In the cement segment, KCP has put major effort to increase its capacity. In March, 2011, it has commissioned its clinkerisation facility at Muktalaya. Also it has started production in the cement unit II in May, 2011. However, this segment is having risk from its input of coal and power. According to a report on the industry for the 12^th five year plan, India would require overall cement capacity around 480MT, whereas the current capacity is 330 MT.  As a result, most of the cement companies are planning to increase their production capacity. It is expected that the ccountry’s cement production will grow at CAGR 12%.

 

Risk :

 

a ) The cement sector is cyclical in nature. The boost in demand accompanied with fall in cement price.  The cement price has been fallen from 306/50kg to Rs 290. There may be further slip in cement price. This will put pressure on the profit margin.

 

b) Coal availability – Cement industry is very much dependent on coal. Though the coal price has seen a slide of 20% this year. This is owing to oversupply and tepid Asian demand. Any rise in coal price from hereon will impact the net profit.

 

c) Uncertainty in power supply – Power supply is predominantly controlled by the power transmission company, which are mostly under direct control of the government. To reduce such risk, KCP is using the captive power plant in parallel with power procurement.

 

EPS – From 2.99 to 4.56 and on consolidated basis it has been increased from 5.89 to 8.01

 

Concern: Though the long term borrowing has been reduced from 21844 Lakhs to 17627 Lakhs, the debt equity ratio needs to be improved.

 

The stock is available in very cheap valuation of PE 7 (trailing) whereas the industry PE (for cement sector) is 17.

 

The book value of the stock is also quite high i.e. 26.73

Based on the thrust on Infrastructure from Government, potential growth and cheap valuation, the stock can be a good bet for a one year period.

 

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