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Reasons Behind The Immense Popularity of Mobile Technology

2012-12-17T12:46:00.001+05:30

Of the many forms of technology, mobile technology has taken the apex position. It is the most popular topic nowadays and it has covered most fields of life. It is now used in almost all domains of business and personal uses. What's behind this popularity is something which one needs to know in order to make use of this technology in a way that fits his or her necessity.

So, what triggers this popularity and high demands of mobile devices in the market today? In order to answer that question one needs to answers to himself or herself what do he or she look for in life. What each and every person looks for in life is ease of life. And in this case, Mobile technology has done a great job in rendering people what they desire. It is only through it that one is able to do certain things in life which was once considered an impossibility. This is further heightened by mobile apps development. Mobile devices are just a simplification of the bulky computers and laptops and without the applications, it's just the same as the normal computers. The applications which are available nowadays allow people of today perform multiple tasks in one go and while on the move.

Once there was a time when one needs to do a particular task on the internet or the computer needs to be stationary and hooked on to the computer. Now, everything has changed. One can do not just one task but many task using a mobile device with specific application installed for the tasks. And everything can be done anytime and anywhere.

When it comes to keeping in touch with loved ones, there was the snail mail, then the telephone, the email, online chatting, etc. but for that one needs to wait for days and hours and one needs to be hooked on to the computer when it comes to chatting. With the advent of the mobile devices and the advancement in mobile apps development, all things mentioned above are already history. One can have email, chatting (voice and video) and other means of getting in touch with loved one in just one device and there is no need for one to be stationary. One can enjoy all these features while one is on the go. One don't have to worry about professional duties while at home since one can experience a whole new level of multitasking on mobile devices.

Nowadays, there are numerous mobile devices that can render extremely satisfying services like the iPhone, iPad and other devices with which one can perform tasks with ease. What more do one can ask from technology? As mentioned before, what one asks from life is ease and simplicity and one can get it from mobile technology. All points stated above explain the immense popularity and demands of mobile technology. This technology can make every task once considered hard a simple one, one needs not to worry about other task when one is under process because of the multitasking capability and due to its mobility life's ease has been considerable escalated. Hence, the popularity of this technology,

Mobile Apps Development | Platform Supporting Devices

2012-10-10T12:27:00.002+05:30

Mobile Apps Development

Oglacs Pvt. Ltd. designs and develops mobile applications for hand-held devices like personal digital assistants, enterprise digital assistants, mobile phones, and similar other technical objects. These applications are sometimes pre-installed or even downloaded from apps store. Mobile application services help clients to offer different programs and software to their customer and increase the sales of their product. Also the software modifications make the handsets user-friendly.

Platform Supporting Devices:

JAVA ME: Used to produce portable applications, used to provide simple applications on feature handsets. These are not more than 1MB to run on mass-phones.

Symbian Platform: a real time multitasking operating system, designed to run on resource-constrained systems, maximizing performance and battery life and utilize minimum memory space.

Android: It’s a Linux-based program and is supported by almost all major software, hardware and telecom Companies. Critical code can be written in C, C++and similar native languages.

.NET Compact framework: used for applications on Pocket PC and windows Mobile

BREW: Deploys applications on CDMA devices.

Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Flash Lite and Microbrowser are some other platforms for the mobile applications. Each of these platforms is enriched with development environment which provides tools to developer to use, write, test and deploy applications. Each tool has either commercial cost attached to it or is available for free to use it and come out with newer interfaces and programs.

Mobile applications help the consumer to calculate, listen to songs, go wild and crazy on social networking sites and enjoy the different privileges offered by them. Mobile applications are developed at Oglacs to make the mobile user friendly and an indispensable device.

Application Development | Android Application Development

2012-08-28T11:56:00.000+05:30

A software process, software lifecycle or software development done in a planned structured manner is application development. Application development is required for web application, mobile application, Custom application, services application and database application. All these applications may sound similar but are different in approach and development.

Application development enables the companies to install various different programs in minimal space for the best of their customers. Oglacs takes a pride in application development services and has excelled in mobile application and custom application development. Web and services applications development are also done for clients to enhance their services for their customers.

Application development is associated with higher responsibility as it requires capturing and testing techniques also. Customers look for appropriate and exact software solution and are always obsessed by the latest in technology. We keep upgrading our application development services for increased functionality expectations and to protect against constantly evolving threats.

Outsourcing of application development requires application developer to be highly capable at programming. He should collaborate and get familiar with compliance issues for successful application development.

The programming is done in such a way that it matches with the present and holds equal compatibility with future applications. Oglacs’ application development team works to the best of abilities to bring together client requirements in the most feasible manner and make the technology amalgamate with present and future approach.

Public Distribution System | PDS | EPDS | e-pds | Electronic pds

2012-03-28T16:48:00.004+05:30

Public Engagement

With this Online Distribution Core, The Government connected with the food grain movement, allocation, distribution, thefts and grievances in real time. The cases of thefts as intercepted by a common man in the district can be instantly reported online or through mobile phones. The reported complaint then gets assigned to the authorized officials and actions are taken immediately. Unlike other system, in pdsonline.in, the complainant is kept in the loop in this whole process of rederresal by sending SMS alerts and informing as and when the action is taken on registered complaint. This helps in engaging the beneficiaries in partnering with the Government in managing the supply chain fairly and efficiently.

GPS Tracking

The foodgrain movement is monitored in realtime with the help of GPS devices. These GPS devices when mounted over the ferrying vehicles, sends out the route information back to the system in realtime. This helps in catching the datapoints about the entire planned journey.

The electronics weigh bridges are used in this electronics system of distribution that allowed the weights to be directly entered to the system automatically without any manual intervention so that the chances of error and thefts are eliminated.

Hitherto, manual and slow core of Public Distribution System is now automatic and instant. The opacity of the distribution is now transparent. Information and reports are open in public space and available on the click. The disbursal Vs Offtake report can be generated at every node of the distribution chain. Like one can generate report for entire district wise, blockwise, panchayat wise, dealer-wise.

POS terminals

To tightly couple all the nodes of PDS supply chain, and to remove manual intervention, system provides Point of Sale terminals to the dealers. This POS terminal reads the barcoded coupons and registers the offtake by the beneficiary on to the centrally located MIS wirelessly. Food grains are weighed electronically at FCI, then at SFC and then dealers’ disbursal to the beneficiary too is logged in to MIS through POS terminal. The disbursal Vs offtake data is managed at MIS for each dealer. Total disbursal Vs offtake data is available for various abstraction of district like for whole district, block, panchayat, etc.

PoS terminals are low cost, low power devices designed especially for rural demography where there is a shortage of power supply. These devices have the capability to reduce bandwidth requirement keeping in mind the intermittent internet connectivity in rural setup.

Employment Generation

Apart from ensuring due entitlement of poor reaching to them, the automated PDS also becomes a source of employment generation. In pdsonline data center, young college passouts, men and women alike, can be seen generating the reports and resolving queries on toll free number.

When we contacted the developers of the system, Oglacs Software Pvt Ltd, they discussed their plan for the next phase where the system would be eco-friendly- a green solution. That would solve the problem interrupted power supply where devices and weighbridges shall be operated on solar energy. That make the solution not only eco-friendly but would also reducing a huge recurring cost incurred on alternate power supplies like generators.

“We plan to replace SFC and FCI laptops with low power devices like tablets those can be operated with the help of solar chargers. Similar is the plan for solar powered weighbridges. We intend to bring down the recurring cost substantially.” Engineering Director at Oglacs quoted as saying.

The Hon’ble Minister and the entire Gaya District Administration are hopeful that this State-Of-The-Art solution (pdsonline.in) shall certainly help in bringing transparency, accountability and better manageability in the system and as a result, the due entitlement of the poor people reaching them smoothly. At various nodes where the system is already functional, various incidents of theft and frauds have already caught with the help of this system. With increased coverage of this system, in a very short period of time, the hitherto one of the most inefficient department of public distribution system, shall be a very effective tool in social upliftment of the common man.

Wireless Syncing iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with iTunes

2012-03-07T14:49:00.001+05:30

One of the latest features in iOS 5 and iTunes 10 is the ability of wireless syncing your devices. What you need to do is to connect the device first to your computer and then making sure that it is plugged into a docking station or into a wall outlet directly. You don't need any help of anyone who works in a software development company, what you need is just a computer, your device and a network.

Before you start the wireless sync, make sure that you have the latest version of iTunes and also ensure that you have the latest version, iOS 5 running on your device. On top of that you will also make sure that you have your computer and device on the same network.

To begin with the sync, plug your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch to your Mac or PC then follow the following steps:

ñ Click on your iDevices name under Devices in the iTunes left panel.

ñ Scroll down under options and check sync with this iPod Over Wi-Fi and then click Apply.

ñ Now, plug your device directly to a wall outlet or into a dock (This is a part which involves a wire making this process not completely wireless).

ñ On your device, go to settings >> General >> iTunes Sync.

ñ Tap on Sync Now in order to start syncing. In this process, you will be able to see a series of screens while your device syncs with iTunes and you will also be able to monitor the syncing process on it

The synchronizing steps is complete. However the amount of time for the sync to complete depends upon the network speed and the amount of data you are syncing.

Even though this process is not completely wireless, it comes in handy if you rarely connect your device to your computer. Not only that, you can also sync your device with iTunes anywhere in the house provided both are on the same network. The cherry on the cake about the Wireless Sync is that you can continue using your device and iTunes while the synchronization continues in the background.

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Stop Your iPhone from Launching iTunes and iPhoto Automatically

2012-03-05T15:58:00.000+05:30

Are you frustrated when your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch loads iTunes automatically when connected to your Mac? You can get rid of it and be hassle free by following the steps given below. You don't need any help from any person who works in any software development company.

Open iPhone, and in the menu bar go to iPhoto and then to Preferences
Now you'll see that the connecting camera opens options is by default set to iPhoto. Since your device has a camera, iPhoto will recognize it and open the application each time you plug it in.
Click the drop-down menu and select “No Application”
Once the above steps are done, close iPhoto and launch, iTunes.
Plug in your iPhone to your computer
Click on your device under the devices panel in the left column.
Uncheck the box that says “Open iTunes when this iPhone is connected” which is in the options area on the right side.
Click apply.

Now you are done, this comes in handy when you want to charge your devices without having iTunes and iPhoto loading automatically.

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Android Tips – Press and Hold

2012-03-01T15:17:00.001+05:30

If you are a new Android phone user, I'm sure that you may have tapped on those icons but have you ever tried holding your finger until something comes up? You should try it out.

The On/Off Button

Pressing and holding the the On/Off button can bring up new options other than locking and unlocking the screen. It can bring up options to switch Flight Mode and Silent Mode to On or Off. The third option is to shut down the device.

The Menu Button

Soft keyboard will pop up on long holding the Menu button. This is not applicable to all phones but will work on pure Android Nexus devices and on HTC phones if you are in an application which uses the keyboard. With Samsung's TouchWiz, keyboard will pop up along with appropriate search facility. Press and holding the same button will make it disappear. This option comes in handy while filling up online forms on your browser without sending the information you've just typed in. This is useful if the android application development company that created the application that you are in isn't able to provide enough security.

The Search Key

Pressing and holding the search key will take you to Voice Search. This may however be different in some phone models. As you may see that there is no search key in Samsung Android phones, you my try double tapping the home key.

The Home Key

Press and hold on the home key, it will bring up a small window that displays the most recent applications you have used and this makes access to your favorite applications easy and swift. You don't need to go through the trouble of going to the menu, scroll to the particular page and click on the application icon. On Samsung TouchWiz, another option, Task Manager is offered at the same time.

The App grid key

This one is meant only for Nexus. Android phones has plenty of home-screens within the desktop and one has to swipe through to get to the desired screen. Press and holding the app grid key at the bottom of the desktop screen will bring up mini-icons each representing the panels or home-screens. Tap on the mini-icons to jump to the desired home-screen.

On Text (copy & paste)

Long pressing on text will start the cut, copy and paste function. First you will have to highlight it then select cut or copy function to have the text copied on the clipboard which can be later pasted on any web form of message.

The Desktop

Last but not the least, press and holding anywhere on an empty space of the desktop or home-screen will uncover the key to a whole new different option of your android phone. You will be able to add new widgets to the home screen, add folders, change wallpapers and shortcuts. This is thereby the easy way of customizing your phone's home-screen.

It is a wonder that without having to download any application from any software development company providing android application development, you can do a lot with your phone and that too by just pressing and holding. It's really worth a try. Explore more and you'll get to know more about your Phone.

Android App by Kodak – Kodak Gallery

2012-02-28T17:48:00.000+05:30

Kodak, a renowned company in the field of photography and cameras has launched an Android application that allows users to create ad hoc social networks for sharing photos.

The company first introduced the app for iPhone users back in November last year and the Android version is rolled out quietly. Here's look the the new Android app:

With this application, users can set up temporary networks for sharing pictures. For example, creating a network by the name “At a Wedding” where members can post photos taken with their mobile devices. Other wedding-goers can also be added to the network thereby giving them access to upload and view pictures from the event. This defining event specific networks has the advantage of giving users access only to those pictures that matter to them.

It is worth mentioning that iPhone version of the Kodak Gallery has been downloaded 500,000 times since its launch and more than 5 million photos have been uploaded using the the iPhone application.

This application allows users share their photos through email, text and Facebook. They can even get push notifications when photos are added and when there are new comments on a particular photo or album. Not only that, uploaded pictures can be transformed into prints, photo books and cards.

This application can be downloaded from Android Market as well as Amazon's Appstore for Android.

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CSS Basics - Applying CSS to HTML - @importing Stylesheets

2012-02-23T16:19:00.000+05:30

There is one more way of importing external style sheets into HTML files and that is the @import property. The syntax look as given below:

<style type="text/css" media="screen">

@import url("styles.css");

...other import statements or CSS styles could go here...

</style>

Sometimes important statements can be seen without the brackets but it does the same thing. One should also be aware that @import should always be first in an embedded style sheet. And you can specify that the imported style sheet is applied only to certain types of media and that is done by including the media type at the concluding part of the imported statement. However, this works in every browser except IE6 and below.

The code given below does the same thing as the previous example:

<style type="text/css">

@import url("styles.css") screen;

...other import statements or CSS styles could go here...

</style>

These are the ways you can import CSS to a HTML document. You may however be careful in choosing the styles you would go with.

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CSS Basics - Applying CSS to HTML - External Style Sheets

2012-02-22T13:01:00.000+05:30

External Style Sheets is putting all CSS definitions in their own file, saving it with CSS file extension and then applying it to the HTML documents through a link element inside the document head. Lets take a look at the below given link element:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css" media="screen">

1. The href attribute points to the CSS file.

2. The media attribute defines which media should get these styles applied to and

3. The type attribute defines what the linked resource is.

With external style sheets you keep the look and feel of your web pages all in one single file. This also means that you can make changes on the pages by just changing a file and leave the rest to the browser that will load the file once and cache it for all other documents that reference it.

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CSS Basics - Applying CSS to HTML - Embedded Styles

2012-02-21T13:11:00.000+05:30

Embedded styles are those which are placed in the head of the document inside a style element. An example is given below.

<style type="text/css" media="screen">

p {

color:white;

background:blue;

padding:5px;

}

</style>

The benefit of embedded styles is that you don't have to add any style attribute to each paragraph instead you can style them all in a single definition. You can also in a similar way change the look and feel of all paragraphs in a single location. However, this is limited to just one document. If you want to define the look of paragraphs for a whole site in a go, Use External Style Sheets.

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CSS Basics - Applying CSS to HTML - Inline Styles

2012-02-17T15:18:00.000+05:30

There are three ways you can apply CSS to a HTML document.

Inline Styles
Embedded Styles
External Stylesheets

You should know that you should always use the third one unless you have special reasons for using the first two. You'll come to know why is that but before going on to that, let us review the three options.

Inline Styles

Using a style attribute, you can apply styles to an element as given below:

<p style="background:blue; color:white; padding:5px;">Paragraph</p >

Withing this attribute, you list all CSS properties and their values. Here, each property or value pair is separated by a semi-colon from the others and each property is separated by a colon from its value within each pair.

This is how you define styles in CSS.

There is one benefit of the Inline Styles and that is the browser will be constrained to use these settings. Any other styles defined in other style sheets or those which are embedded in the head of the document will be overridden by Inline Styles.

However, this one comes with problems too. Its one big problem is that they make maintenance harder than they should be. In addition to the maintenance issue, Inline Styles doesn't take the advantage of the most coercive part of CSS, the Cascade. Cascade is something which when used defines the look and feel of a web page and the browser applies it to all elements matching a certain rule.

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CSS Basics - CSS Shorthand Part 2

2012-02-14T16:40:00.000+05:30

Comparing individual and shorthand values

Take a look at the below given margin rule (border and padding works in the same way)

div.foo {

margin-top: 1em;

margin-right: 1.5em;

margin-bottom: 2em;

margin-left: 2.5em;

}

The rule as given above can also be written as:

div.foo {

margin: 1em 1.5em 2em 2.5em;

}

Providing less than four values for a shorthand property

A shorthand value has the capability of taking less than four values as listed below. Results are sequential according to the number of values provided.

1. Same value applied to all four sides. margin: 2px; for example

2. First value applied to the top and bottom and the second to the left and right. Example - margin: 2px 5px;

3. First and third value applied to the top and bottom respectively; second value applied to the left and right. As for example - margin: 2px 4px 1px;

4. Values provided to the top, right, bottom and left as given in CSS source order above.

However, the best way is to provide all four values to shorthand properties for it provides sound legibility. The same applies to the padding shorthand property.

Making the choice to use a single property or a shorthand value

Even though shorthand value gets used most often in margin and padding properties, there are times in which shorthand properties are best avoided or at least used after thorough consideration. Shorthand should be avoided in the following cases provided:

1. When a single margin is needed to be set. In such situation, simultaneously setting multiple properties conflicts the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle.

2. When the selector to which the properties apply is subject to many edge. In this case, the unavoidable lists of shorthand values can become difficult to follow when it comes to altering and changing the layout.

3. If the stylesheet is going to be maintained by people with limited skills. If you are working with a team and the CSS is maintained not just by you, shorthand should be best avoided.

4. When there is a need of supplanting a value to account for an edge case.

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CSS Basics - CSS Shorthand (Intro)

2012-02-10T14:38:00.000+05:30

As a continuation to my post on Cascading Style Sheets basics today I'll be introducing what CSS Shorthand is. This is one thing we'll come across in this course. It allows combining several related CSS properties together in one property in order to save time and effort. In this section and the upcoming posts or articles, I'll be writing on available shorthand types.

Let me tell you one thing. I have already used shorthand in my previous posts without mentioning it.

Comparing individual and shorthand values

Take a look at the below given margin rule (border and padding works in the same way)

div.foo {

margin-top: 1em;

margin-right: 1.5em;

margin-bottom: 2em;

margin-left: 2.5em;

}

The rule as given above can also be written as:

div.foo {

margin: 1em 1.5em 2em 2.5em;

}

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CSS Basics - Advanced CSS selectors (Part 4)

2012-02-09T12:09:00.000+05:30

Pseudo-elements

This one has two purposes. The first purpose is:

To use them in selecting first letter or the first line of text inside a given element.
To easily create a drop cap at the start of every paragraph.

Below are given the rules as example:

p:first-letter {

font-weight: bold;

font-size: 300%

background-color: red;

}

In the above rule, the first letter of every paragraph will now emboldened, will be 300% bigger than the rest of the paragraph, and have a red background.

In order to make the first line of every paragraph bold, we can use the below given rule:

p:first-line {

font-weight: bold;

}

The second use of these elements is to generate content through Cascading Style Sheets which is more complex. We can use the :before or :after pseudo-elements to specify whether a content is to be inserted before or after the element selected. Thereafter, we decide on what is to be inserted. Here is an example of inserting images after every link on that page.

a:after {

content: " " url(flower.gif);

}

We can also use the attr() function to insert attribute values of the elements after the element. As for example, we can insert the target of every link in the document within brackets after them as given below:

a:after {

content: "(" attr(href) ")";

}

Rules like the above are perfect for print style sheets. By print style sheets we meant to say those which we can write and are automatically applied when a user prints a page.

Rules like this are great for print stylesheets, which are stylesheets you can write and which are automatically applied when a user prints a page.

We can also insert incremented numerical values after repeating elements (like paragraphs or bullets) using the counter() function of which will be explained later.

It is to be noted that all these selectors are not supported in IE 6 and below. Important information shouldn't be inserted with CSS for that content will be unavailable if a user chooses not to use the style sheet. The bottom line is, CSS is for styling and HTML is for important contents.

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CSS Basics - Advanced CSS selectors (Part 3)

2012-02-08T14:54:00.000+05:30

Adjacent Sibling Selectors

These selectors allow the selection of specific elements that come directly after another specific element. However, the elements are of the same level in the element hierarchy. In the following rule, you will be able to select all p elements that comes immediately after h2 elements but not other p elements.

h2 + p {

...

}

(Note: Adjacent Sibling selectors are not supported in IE 6 and below)

Pseudo-Classes

These classes are used to provide styles to various states of elements. Its most common usage is in styling links states. Examples are given below:

:link—the default state of links.

:visited—links already visited in the browser.

:focus—links that currently have the keyboard cursor within them.

:hover—links that are currently being hovered over by the mouse pointer.

:active—a link that is currently being clicked on.

According to the following rule the default links will be blue. The underlining under the link will disappear when hovered over. In order to make the same effect take place when links are focused via the keyboard, :hover rule is duplicated with :focus. If a link is already visited, the color of the link will turn gray and finally, when a link is active, it is emboldened.

a:link {

color: blue;

}

a:visited {

color: gray;

}

a:hover, a:focus {

text-decoration: none;

}

a:active {

font-weight: bold;

}

Note that the above specified rules should be in the same order. It may not work otherwise. This is because specificity of a rule in a style sheet may override the earlier rules. You will come to know more about it later.

The :focus pseudo-class also comes in handy as a usability aid in forms. For instance, we can highlight the input field that has the active blinking cursor with a rule like given below:

input:focus {

border: 2px solid black;

background color: lightgray;

}

Now, lets have a look at :first-child. This pseudo-class selects any instance of the element that is first child element of its parent. As given in the example below, the rule selects the first list item in any list and makes its text bold.

li:first-child {

font-weight: bold;

}

Last but not the least, lets look at :lang pseudo-class. This class selects elements whose languages have been set to a specified language using the lang attribute. An example is given below.

<p lang="en-US">A paragraph of American text, gee whiz!<p>

Could be selected using the following:

p:lang((en-US) {

...

}

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CSS Basics - Advanced CSS selectors (Part 2)

2012-02-07T17:12:00.000+05:30

Universal Selectors

These selectors as mentioned above, select every element on a page and apply the styling properties. As for instance, the following rule says that every element on the page will be given a solid 1 pixel black border

* {

border: 1px solid #000000;

}

Attribute Selectors

These selectors allow selecting elements based on attributes they contain. For example, the following selector shows that you can select every img element with an alt attribute.

img[alt] {

border: 1px solid #000000;

}

By using the above selector, you will be putting a black border around any image that has an alt attribute.

Selecting attributes becomes more useful if you can select them by attribute value instead of just attribute names as given in the example below:

img[src="alert.gif"] {

border: 1px solid #000000;

}

You may think that this is not that useful but it can be useful when it comes to debugging. CSS 3 now introduces three new types of attribute selector that can select based in text strings in attribute values.

Child Selectors

One can use a child selector for selecting specific elements that are children of other specific elements. As for example, the following rule will turn text of strong elements that are children of h3 elements into blue but will cause no effect on other strong elements.

h3 > strong {

color: blue;

}

(Note: Child Selectors are not supported in IE 6 and below)

Descendant Selectors

Similar to child selectors, descendant selectors however only select direct descendants. These selectors select only suitable elements from anywhere in an element hierarchy, not only direct descendants. Look at the following HTML snippet.

<div>

<em>hello</em>

<p>In this paragraph I will say

<em>goodbye</em>.

</p>

</div>

The div element is in this snippet is the parent of all the others. It has two children, em and p. The p element has another single child element, another em.

A child selector can be used to select just the em immediately inside the div as:

div > em {

...

}

But if you use a descendent selector, as give below:

div em {

...

}

Both em elements would be selected.

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CSS Basics - Advanced CSS selectors (Part 1)

2012-02-06T17:14:00.000+05:30

In my previous articles, I introduced you to basic CSS selectors, class, element and id selectors. You can execute a lot of CSS works with those but they are not the only selectors. There are other selectors that allow you to select elements and style based on more specific rules:

Universal Selectors: These selectors can be used in selecting every element on the page.

Child Selectors: These selectors can be used when you want to select specific elements that are descendants of any specific elements.

Descendant Selectors: These selectors can be used if you want to select particular elements that are descendants of other specific elements. Elements is not just limited to direct children but those which are further down the tree as well.

Adjacent Sibling Selectors: To select those elements that follow other specific elements, these selectors are used.

Pseudo-Classes: These comes in handy when you want to style elements not just based on what the elements are but on more esoteric factors such as the stats of links. i.e. you can style the elements depending on more deeper factors like being hovered over or link already visited.

Pseudo-Elements: These elements allow styling of specific parts of elements. As for instance, the initial letter of that element. These elements also allow inserting of content before or after specific elements.

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Tips on How to Use Your Android Phone – Part 1

2012-02-03T17:36:00.000+05:30

One thing I know of Android Phones is that using it is real easy and works with just a slight touch. And one of the most interesting part is “THE LONG PRESS”.

If you are stuck somewhere while operating your phone or if you don't know where are the options you would like to see, just press and hold on the icon, tab or bar to see more functionality pop up. This function or option that pops up when long pressing an icon, word, or tab can help you decide what to do with the specific application or program. In short it is equivalent to the right click of a mouse.

Deleting Icon From the Home Screen

Your phone comes with some icons already in your home screen. When you want to put another in place of that icon, it will be a problem if you don't know how. It's easy. You just need to Press and Hold the icon until there is a slight vibration from the phone then you will be able to move the icon anywhere on the screen. The moment you start dragging the icon, there in the bottom of the screen will be shown an "bin" icon. Just drag the icon to that portion and release it. The icon is now removed.

You may now wonder, won't that affect the program? No, it doesn't. When you delete a shortcut icon from your computer home screen, does it have any effect to the program? No.

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Random Writings: Are you wondering why I'm 24/7 on Facebook?

2012-02-02T18:08:00.003+05:30

Random Writings: Are you wondering why I'm 24/7 on Facebook?

If you think I'm jobless, you are wrong. I do part of my work on Facebook. I am a content writer who now do Search Engine Optimization too. Now you might be wondering what Search Engine Optimization is. Let me clear your doubt.

Search Engine Optimization a.k.a SEO

As the name suggests, it has go to do with Search Engines. Do I need to tell you what Search Engines are? Yeah yeah!! Yahoo, Google, Bing, etc. are search engines. Companies, businesses nowadays try to get themselves listed on the first SERP (Search Engine Results Page) when someone types in a keyword and hit SEARCH. In this way they promote their services and products by targeting people who look for such services or products online. The more your site is visited by people worldwide, higher are the chances of bringing your site up in the SERP.

I do the same for the company I work for. It is a software development company that provides almost all types of software solutions, don't ask me what. I promote its business on Facebook, Twitter, Linked and whatever social networking sites available (exaggerated).

Is this enough to justify my reason for being online on Facebook and Twitter 24/7? If you still have questions, comment on it. I'll be all fingers to clear your doubts.

Ain't my JOB cool??

Intro to Various Android Versions

2012-01-31T18:54:00.001+05:30

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These days, when people talk of smartphone, Android phones are what they refer to. We've been using Android phones and what do we know about them. If you are looking for what it really is, I'm providing you an introduction to each Android versions ranging from version 2.1 to 4.0.

Android 2.1

The first commercial version of Android i.e. V1.0 was released in 2008. But all phones comes with at least the 2.1 version. Version 2.1 was released by the end of 2009 and is code-named Eclair.

What's with this version?

V2.0 comes with the following features:

1. Revamped User Interface therefore supporting higher screen resolutions and screen sizes.

2. Users can set live wallpapers

3. Camera Flash Support

4. Exchange email support

5. Multiple account and contact synchronization

Android 2.2

Within six months of the release of v2.1, Google announced the next update v2.2 which is code-named Froyo. In addition to above version, this version includes the following:

1. Wi-Fi hotspot functionality

2. USB tethering

3. Improved multimedia management

4. Push Notifications and

5. Ability of installing applications on memory cards instead of phone memory.

Android 2.3

Some minor additions to the Operating System included improved performance, improved application launcher, automatic application update support in the apps market, Adobe Flash support, voice dialing using Bluetooth. Eventually, Froyo became the OS of choice for tablets owing to its compatibility of supporting larger displays and stability. These are just the features that any android application development company would look for in order to create the best of applications.

Then after another six months, v2.3 was launched with the Google Nexus S. v2.3 was also known as Gingerbread. The improvisations made in this one are:

1. Revamped UI

2. Improved keyboard with better accuracy

3. Simpler copy/paste functionality

4. Front or Secondary camera, gyroscope and barometer support on devices

5. Better power management thereby better battery life

Android 3.0

This one is specifically designed for tables keeping in view the larger screen of tables. It comes with new interface with 3D effects. It also solved the issue of Android button standardization. The need to have physical buttons on devices has been removed by adding a system bar at the bottom. This system bar displays one touch access to connectivity settings, notifications, navigation buttons, etc. Some of the other improvisations include improved onscreen keyboard, multi-core processor support, hardware acceleration, etc. Another feature worth mentioning is the support for external keyboard and joysticks.

Android 4.0

This is the newest version of Android operating system and ia code-named Ice Cream Sandwich. This will be the common OS for both Android Powered phones and tablets from now onwards. It puts in together the best features of v2.x and 3.x, has got new looks and is improved in functions.

Some new features exclusive to this version are:

1. Face recognition

2. Customizable apps launcher

3. Separation of widgets already installed

4. Tabbed browser

5. Built-in photo editor

6. Better camera performance

7. Auto synchronization (customizable) of contacts with social network integration.

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CSS Basics - Grouping Selectors

2012-01-30T15:02:00.000+05:30

Yet again, you can group different selectors. For example you want to apply same style to h2 and p, you could write the CSS below:

h1 {color:blue;}

p {color:blue;}

In the above CSS you repeat information that is the same (i.e. color:blue). To shorten the Cascading Style Sheet, you can group the selectors together with a comma. Doing this will apply the rules withing the brackets to both the selectors. You can write it this way.

h1, p {color:blue;}

Of the several selectors (each matching a different part of the markup, HTML), the three most basic ones you'll come across most often are:

p {}: element selector

This selector matches elements of the name on the page.

.example{}: class selector

The selector matches elements that have a class attribute with the value specified. Therefore, the above would match <p class=”example”>, <li class=”example”> , <div class=”example”> or any other element with class “example”.

#example{}: id selector

Matches every element that has an id attribute with the value specified. All element with the id of example would match.

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Cascading Style Sheets Basics - Comments

2012-01-27T12:55:00.000+05:30

Commenting in your CSS is one thing you should know while working on Cascading Style Sheets. Comments are added by enclosing them in /* and */. Comments can span several lines and these lines will be ignored by the browser.

/* These are basic element selectors */

selector{

property1:value;

property2:value;

property3:value;

}

Comments can be added between rules or inside the property bock. As for instance in the following given CSS, the second and third properties are enclosed within a comment delimiters. These properties will hence be ignored by the browser. This is therefore useful while checking out what effect does a certain part of a CSS has on the web page. What you need to do is just comment on them, save your CSS and reload the HTML.

selector{

property1:value;

property2:value;

property3:value;

}

Cascading Style Sheets, unlike other languages has only block level comments; single line comments doesn't exist. One can however limit the comment to a single line but this too needs the elements to include the opening and closing comment delimiters “/* and */”.

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CSS Basics - Defining Style Rules

2012-01-25T14:29:00.000+05:30

You might have read about my earlier post on CSS introduction. This article is a continuation to my earlier article. Without wasting much time, lets have a look at an example of a CSS code and then analyze it.

selector {

property1:value;

property2:value;

property3:value;

}

The relevant parts are as follows:

The Selector

The selector is a part of a CSS that identifies the HTML elements in which the rule will be applied to. Identification is done by the actual element name such as body, sidebar, footer, etc. More details will be discussed later on.

The Curly Braces “{“ “}”

These curly braces envelop the property/value pairs which are separated from one another by semi-colons (;) while the properties are separated from their respective values by colons (:).

The Properties

The properties define what you want to do with the element or elements you have selected and they come in wide varieties. These varieties can affect element color, position, background color, margins, font type, padding, etc.

The Values

The values as in context to CSS are the values that you want to change or assign to each property of the elements selected. Values are dependent on properties. As for instance, properties that affect color can use up hexadecimal colors like #4459ff, color names like red, green, blue, yellow, etc. or RGB values like rgb(132,55,44).

Properties that can change position, borders, height, width, etc. can be measured in pixels, percentages, ems, centimeters, inches, etc.

Here is one example to a CSS code:

p {

margin:4px;

font-family:verdana;

color:green;

}

The HTML element that this rule selected is p i.e. every p element in the HTML document or documents that uses this CSS. All p element in the HTML documents that uses this CSS will have the rule applied to it. If more specific rules are applied to them, the specific rule will overwrite the current rule. As per the rule above, the properties affected are the font inside the paragraphs, margins around the paragraphs and the color of the text. The margins here are set at 25 pixels, font is Verdana and the color of the text is green.

We will be coming back to all these in detail later. To know more about Cascading Style Sheet in detail, keep visiting back. Not only CSS, you can also read about Android application development, iPhone application development, etc. from my article section.

Are Gadgets of Today Changing Our Lives?

2012-01-23T15:29:00.001+05:30

Look around and you will see people hardly interacting to one another. Even if they are, they've got earphones plugged into their ears talking indirectly to human but to some voices via the microphone on the phone. It ends not here, some are busy sitting inside the train playing games on their handheld devices and others are busy text messaging and chatting but not aware that somebody (a human) is sitting right next to him or her. I guess we should redefine the meaning of socializing. It's time that we should limit it to the internet world or the so-called virtual world. People don't care talking to real people but to a virtual person who has a Facebook profile or Twitter. There are advantages of gadgets and our taking it for granted has brought out its disadvantages too.

What if there's no internet and the gadgets? Did you ever thought of it? It's true that the world would seem too big but the warmth that everyone shared in the past would still be here. Now, nobody wants to speak to a stranger (on the train) who could be his or her best friend for years but is busy with the internet seeking which software development company is bringing out new products so that he or she can get hooked on to gadgets more than ever. Even these companies are busy in bringing out products that would help only the lazy group of people and bring up the number of fat and unhealthy people. Why do I say so? Look at every gadgets of today, even fans, cooling devices, television, etc. work with a remote controller and some work with voice commands. We don't need to stand and walk in order to operate them. We can just lie on the couch eating junk foods and do everything without moving an inch. The only time we move is when nature calls. This in turn makes us lazy, fat and unhealthy.

On the other hand, gadgets and technological advancement is making our lives safe. Scientific experiments that took days and months to complete at one point of time are taking just hours or few days thereby making everything swift and simple. Web application development has also made managing records easy which thereby relieve us from working day-in and day-out sparing us time for our loved ones. We should make the most out of it.

The irony here is that I am pointing out what has gadgets done to our lives and at the same time I am using the same gadget to make the message available to the masses. I am here trying to propose that we should not forget that we have our real life, a life that runs without internet and electricity. We don't need the help of android application development companies to live a better life but the warmth and love of our friends and family members. We should therefore not take gadgets for granted, we should make ourselves hale and hearty and most important of all, we should interact with people and prove that we are human and social.