How to order, add new videos to YouTube playlist automatically and embed YouTube video playlist in websites and blogs

In this post we shall see how to order videos in YouTube playlist, add new videos to YouTube playlist automatically and embed YouTube video playlist in websites and blogs. As you might already know, videos uploaded to YouTube can be groups by playlists. Playlist settings can be configured to order the videos in a playlist, add videos to the playlist automatically by defining rules for the playlist. The playlist can then be embedded to websites and blogs and the order of videos is maintained as you desired. Likewise, even new videos uploaded are automatically added to the playlist by rules defined in the YouTube playlist settings.

Check out this video for the steps to order YouTube videos, auto add new videos to YouTube playlist:

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Blogger Video Bar broken? Displays "This content isn't available over encrypted connections yet."

Blogger has a gadget or widget called "Video Bar" which allows us to display YouTube videos on our Blogger blog. The video bar has few settings that allows us to specify whether we want to display Most Viewed Videos and Top Rated Videos from YouTube. Or we can also specify channel(s) and keywords to filter and display.

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How To Sync Google Calendar with Windows Calendar and also Gmail With Windows Calendar App on Windwos 10?

In this post, we'll discuss how to sync Google calendar with Windows 10 calendar app. Also in the same process, we shall also see how to sync Gmail with Windows Mail app in Windows 10.

Why sync Gmail and Google Calendar with Windows 10 calendar and Mail app?

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How to create or save favicon or icons using Photoshop?

How to create or save favicon or icons using Photoshop? 

Favicon is a small image that is used on websites and are displayed in browser tabs. In this video, we discuss how to create Favicon or icon files using Photoshop. Icons by default have .ICO file extension. By default, Photoshop does not allow creation of icons. To create or save image as icon, we will be using a plug-in in Photoshop.

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How to reset Drupal admin user password easily from phpMyAdmin?

How to reset Drupal admin user password easily?
In this post, we shall see how to reset Drupal admin user password easily from phpMyAdmin. If it is on a production site, we can do "forgot password" to let Drupal send us a password reset link. But on local development server, we might not have a provision to do it. So we may need to do it some other ways. We can reset passwords for user from phpMyAdmin by running some scripts. But as you might already know that passwords in Drupal are hashed. So we need to know the hash code of a password before running such sql command. I have included a SQL code for password reset in Drupal 7 at the end of this post.

This example is on local Drupal 7 running on XAMPP (Windows). In this example, we generate a hash code of a password we desire and replace the existing hash code in PHPMYADMIN with the new one to change the password. Admin can then login in with the new password and may change the password as usually done in Drupal by editing the user.

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Email Settings On OSCLASS Website - OSCLASS Mail Server Setup and Configuration

Email services are required by almost every website that need to communicate with users over email even for basic things like emails to users after account creation for activation link, forgot password and contact forms etc. OSCLASS also need email for the above purposes. Configuring Osclass to use  mail server is quite easy as OSCLASS includes a pretty simple to understand form for configuring email. In this post, we shall see how to configure OSCLASS mail server for sending emails from the OSCLASS website.

Email Settings On OSCLASS Website - OSCLASS Mail Server Setup and Configuration

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OSCLASS Tips : How to move OSCLASS website from live server to localhost development server ?

This post is about how to move OSCLASS website from live server to local development server. The process in a nutshell is pretty forward that is, to download the website files and put them in the local website directory, export database from the live server to the local server and update configuration files on development server. But there are some minute updates or changes required to let OSCLASS work on localhost development server, which we will see in brief in this post.

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