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Post on multiple facebook groups in one click

Ashmeet Singh — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:08:00 +0000

Marketing on Facebook is the new mantra to popularize your products and links. Many companies are in the business of social media awareness. I made a small project a while back and want my friends to know about it by posting it on some of the groups I had joined which I found out to be a very tedious job. I had to manually go to each group and wait for the links to resolve to post my content. This is a very inefficient way of marketing.

After a thorough search on google the only solutions I was able to get were paid and were priced heavily, which might not be a problem for big firms but it is not convenient for individuals. OS I decided to make a script that would allow users to post on the Facebook groups they have joined for free.

While developing this script my main motive was to make it as easy to use as possible and provide it on as many platforms as possible which I was able to achieve. The script that I have made is known as MegaPost.

You can log into MegaPost by going to this URL

http://techvisionblog.in/wordpress/

Once there you would need to grant the application to read your groups and then to post on behalf of you on these groups. The interface is as simple as it gets. You need to post all the written material in the message box and if you want to share a link with it can be pasted in the link box.

The thumbnail of the link will be automatically resolved and you don’t need to do any other setting.

Right now the application is in beta stage and some errors might occur but I will be working on them.

I’ll be uploading this script on gitHub for a faster development of it but if you want the script in advance leave me a message.

Setting up web server on Mac OS X with wordpress

Ashmeet Singh — Wed, 22 May 2013 03:17:38 +0000

I think setting up a local web server on your system is one of the initial steps you take if you are a web developer. Having done a similar post for windows Doing this for a mac seemed a subsequent step. On a mac this process is a bit easier than that on windows. The only thing you will need is a MAMP server package. MAMP stands for Mac Apache MySql Php server. This lets you run a web server with a php engine and an sql server which is mostly what you need to run a website. You can download the package from here.

Once you are have it installed on your system the first thing you need to do is to reset the ports for apache and php by going into the preference menu. MAMP provides you with their custom ports I don’t know for what reason but it is always better to run these servers on their default ports. Then you need to select a Document Root directory for apache as by default it is /var/www in which if you want to make any changes you obviously need to have super user permissions. This is a pain every time you change a line of code you need to enter your password to update it. So it is always better to change it to somewhere in your home directory like for me its /user/ashmetsingh/www from where I can easily change the code multiple time without having to enter my password.

To install wordpress first you need to download you can download it from here. Extract it and copy its contents to your apache document root. Now you need to setup a database to do that go to phpMyAdmin interface from the MAMP start up page or you can also browse to it by
http://localhost/phpMyAdmin

Create a new database lets say wordpress for example. Now go to

http://localhost/wordpress/

The default username of the sql server is root and password field is kept blank. This will install your woydpress onto the MAMP server.

View drives on finder desktop

Ashmeet Singh — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:44:14 +0000

In windows all the drives in your computer are visible from my computer but in Macintosh this is not the case. Apple tries to simplify your experience of computing by hiding the files that you don’t need to see but this has an opposite effect on geeks like me who are always trying to get into the system.

Accessing specific network drives on your system is the most tiring experience of all if you have ever tried. You can put an icon of drives on your desktop for a faster access.

There are a few ways of doing this. The first one can be making an ‘alias’ of the drive and putting it on the desktop. The other one can be go to Finder-> Preferences-> General and check the boxes in front of Hardisks and Connected Servers. This will now allow you to view all your network drives on your desktop and all you macintosh hardisks.