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Create free online profile page

2012-01-01T23:38:00.000+05:30

A personal web-page that's all about you. Create free online profile using about.me.
Using about.me services you can quickly build a personal and dynamic splash page that points visitors to your content from around the web.

This is my about.me profile.

Other then customizing and publishing your page you can also understand how many people see your profile, where they're coming from, and what they do on your page.

Create you online profile now.
URL: https://about.me/

Create a Panorama image

2012-01-01T23:13:00.000+05:30

Panoramic photography is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with elongated fields of view. In most simple words its "wide format photography". The term has also been applied to a photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio.

Above image is an example of panorama-image. Now its very easy to create these type of images.

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the application creates a high-resolution panorama that seamlessly combines the original images. The stitched panorama can be shared with friends and viewed in 3D by uploading it to the Photosynth web site. Or the panorama can be saved in a wide variety of image formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to the multiresolution tiled format used by Silverlight's Deep Zoom and by the HD View and HD View SL panorama viewers.

You can download its 32-bit version and 64-bit version.

Find more details on its native web-site.

Facebook Wall of shame

2011-10-16T06:55:00.001+05:30

Source: WordStream (Link)

Java is losing popularity

2011-10-13T06:24:00.000+05:30

Despite the recent release of a major upgrade to the platform, Java is losing popularity based on the latest monthly assessment of programming languages by Tiobe Software.
The October edition of the Tiobe Programming Community Index, released Sunday, October 9, found that Java lost popularity in September, with an estimated 17.913 percent of developers using it as opposed to 18.761 percent in the previous month's index. Java still finished as the top language, but if the downward trend continues, the C language, ranked second with 17.707 percent of users, will be number one next month, Tiobe said.

Java has been tops in the index from 2001 until now with a few exceptions between mid-2004 and mid- 2005 and couple of months last year, when C took over, said Paul Jansen, managing director at Tiobe. He anticipates Java facing a long-term downward trend based on what he sees happening in the field. "This downward trend is probably caused by the fact that the Java language evolves too slowly compared to other languages, such as C#," Jansen said.
Rounding out the top 10 languages in Tiobe's index were C++, PHP, C#, Objective-C, Visual Basic, Python, Perl, and JavaScript. Objective-C and Transact-SQL scored all-time highs, with usage rates of 6.245 percent and .909 percent respectively, while Assembly re-entered the top 20 by claiming the 19th spot. Visual Basic.Net jumped to the 25th spot after ranking 39th last month, while F# dropped from 23rd to 46th.

This would be a very bad news for "Open-source community" too as java is the largest supporter. Well we can just wish best for Java and Java developers.

Source: InfoWorld, Tiobe Programming Community index

WebRupee

2010-08-23T15:06:00.002+05:30

Symbol for Indian currency was approved by the Union Cabinet on 15 July 2010. WebRupee is a web api for the symbol of Indian currency, it makes the rupee symbol available to everybody on the web. WebRupee API provides a simple, cross browser method for using the Rupee symbol on your webpage, blog or anywhere on the web.

How To Use WebRupee?

Add a stylesheet link in the head section of your webpage: http://cdn.webrupee.com/font
Add the following code enclosing your "Rs."
```
span class="WebRupee" "Rs" span
```
Rs. 200

Just include the following javascript and it will update all the " Rs " / " Rs. " for you

Source: WebRupee.com

Create mosaic posters for facebook wall

2010-08-23T14:34:00.000+05:30

If you want to create mosaic posters of your facebook profile pic using your friends's profile pics then just fit the bellow URL-

Frintr-http://frintr.com/

Just visit the website and select which social network you want to use to create a mosaic image from your friends. The social networks covered are Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.
Once you select the social network it will prompt you to sign in with your account credentials.
This will start creating a mosaic patterned images from your friends on the network. It is low resolution and hence free.
I could also change the image which I wanted rendered in mosaic format.

Secrets of Syncing, Streaming and Organizing

2010-07-11T11:03:00.000+05:30

Don't mess with codecs: If you're tired of installing and updating audio and video codecs to extend your player's capabilities, make VLC your main media player. Easily the most compatible media player available, VLC can handle a multitude of file and streaming formats designed for iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player, and more.
Prevent stream stutter: Though many factors outside your control could interrupt your video stream (especially if you're streaming from another user's PC rather than from a dedicated service such as Netflix or YouTube), one tweak that may help is to increase the size of your system's read buffer. This adjustment will make the stream take longer to start, but it can also smooth out some hiccups by introducing a little more latency.
In VLC, open the Open Network Stream menu, check Show more options, and bump up the number in the Caching field. In Windows Media Player, choose Options from the Organize menu, click the Performance tab, and manually adjust the ‘Buffering settings'.
Accelerate or slow down podcasts: If you want to play back your audiobooks and podcasts in Windows Media Player at a different speed from the one they were set to play at, you can arrange it instantly via a few keyboard shortcuts. Press Ctrl-Shift-G to make a podcast play faster, press Ctrl-Shift-S to slow it down, and press Ctrl-Shift-N to reset it to normal.
Automate photo uploads: Depending on which photo management software and online photo services you prefer, you may be able to upload new pictures automatically.
LiveUpload to Facebook can publish from Windows Live Gallery, while Picasa can post anything you put in a Picasa Web Album on the Picasa Website. If you favor Flickr, try Foldr Monitr, which can watch a specific folder for newly added images and post them to your Flickr account.
(For more on automating your media collection, see "Automate Your PC's Media Library.")
Tag photos from Windows: If you have a lot of photos on your PC, you'll probably want to organize them with a photo gallery app (such as Windows Live Photo Gallery or Picasa). But if you don't want to deal with an extra application, you can use Windows 7's built-in metadata support to maintain order among your photos by means of descriptive tags ("Kids" or "Vacation," for example).
Just select the pictures in Windows Explorer, click Show More Details... at the bottom of the open window, click Tags, and type the tags you want to use (separate multiple tags with semicolons). Once you've tagged your photos, you can search for them by placing "tag:" in front of your search string.

Must-have on a browser

2010-07-11T10:52:00.000+05:30

Here are some useful tips to improve your web experience on any browser. Enjoy and share comments.

Capture a full-page screenshot: Ever need to snag a screenshot of an entire Web page? Three utilities designed for specific browsers -- Screengrab for Firefox, IE Screenshot, and Talon for Google Chrome -- are perfectly suited to the task.

Try IE-in-a-tab: Even if you typically don't use Internet Explorer, you should have a copy of it handy for special situations. You might need to see how your site works in IE, for instance, or a site you use might not support other browsers. For maximum convenience, IE Tab for Firefox and IE Tab for Chrome let you keep the Microsoft browser in a tab so you don't have to juggle multiple browsers at once.

Bring back the bookmark: If you got out of the habit of using the humble bookmark because synchronizing different sets of bookmarks was too much of a hassle, install Xmarks. It lets you sync your bookmarks across different PCs and across different browsers.

Verify sites' trustworthiness: The Internet can be a dangerous place, but the Web of Trust browser add-on promises to make your excursions there a little safer by telling you how the sites you visit rate in terms of privacy policy, vendor reliability, and child safety.

Save eight keystrokes from every URL: You no longer need to type "www." or ".com" in most URLs. Instead, merely type the unique part of the domain name that you want to visit -- say, pcworld -- into your browser's navigation bar, and press Ctrl-Enter. Your browser will automatically fill in the "www." and ".com" parts of the address.

Middle-click to open a link in a new tab: Middle-clicking a link (that is, clicking it with the scrollwheel) will cause it to open in a new tab. Middle-clicking a folder containing multiple bookmarks will cause all of them to open in new tabs.

Improve a site's printer friendliness: At most Websites, the "printer-friendly" versions of the content are pretty awful. So head over to PrintWhatYouLike.com, and pick exactly which page elements you want to keep in your hard copy.

Safely remove memory cards and Pen Drives without waiting

2010-07-10T10:46:00.000+05:30

You're supposed to use the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the system tray before unplugging memory cards and the like -- but waiting for it is such a pain that you'll be itching to pull your memory card without waiting for Safely Remove Hardware to do its thing. The key to making quick removal safe is to ensure that Windows isn't writing to the card without your knowledge; if the operating system behaves itself, you can eject the card whenever you want without corrupting your data.
To adjust your settings, first right-click the memory card in Windows Explorer, choose Properties, click the Hardware tab, select the memory card reader, and choose Properties; then click the Policies tab (you may have to click the ‘Change settings' button before Policies shows up), and choose Optimize for quick removal. Henceforth, you won't need Safely Remove Hardware.

Disable touchpad clicking when you type

2010-07-10T10:38:00.000+05:30

If your touchpad is set to detect a tapping motion as a mouse click, it can send your cursor flying around your screen whenever your wrist accidentally brushes against the touchpad. Grab Touchfreeze, a free utility that automatically disables your touchpad while you're typing, and you won't have to wonder where your newly typed text ended up.

You can download this msi from Google Code.

Link

Enjoy.

Stick to one point of view (Windows7 Trick)

2010-07-10T09:19:00.001+05:30

Windows will remember and abide by your View settings for each individual folder -- a level of faithfulness that's annoying if you like to stick with a particular view setting. Open a folder, click the Organize tab, and choose Folder and search options. Select the View tab and click the Apply to folders button at the top. You have a new default folder!

Change Windows Explorer's default folder

2010-07-10T09:15:00.003+05:30

Tired of clicking through Windows Explorer to find the one folder you use regularly? You can save precious time and mouse clicks by making Windows Explorer open your favorite folder by default. Right-click the Explorer icon in your taskbar, and then right-click Windows Explorer and select Properties. In the Target field, add a space and a file path at the end of the ‘%windir%\explorer.exe' section, so that the new (longer) path looks like this: ‘%windir%\explorer.exe C:\Users\yourusername\yourfolder'.

Run apps from anywhere

2010-07-10T09:11:00.000+05:30

You can launch applications and set parameters from your keyboard, without having to waste time digging through the Start menu to find the one you want to use. Press Windows-R to bring up the Run dialog box.

Launch taskbar apps directly (Windows 7)

2010-07-10T09:09:00.000+05:30

Put your most commonly used applications in the taskbar, and you'll use your mouse a lot less. Pressing Windows plus any number key will launch the program in the corresponding taskbar slot (so Windows-1 will open Windows Explorer, Windows-2 will open the app positioned to the right of Explorer, and so on).

Zoho

2010-06-27T19:31:00.001+05:30

Zoho is a web-based application bundle which provides lots of services similar to Google... What say is better then google..
In its office suite it gives-

Zoho Writer
Zoho Sheet
Zoho Reports
Zoho Show
Zoho Projects
Zoho CRM
Zoho Invoice
Zoho Creator
Zoho Wiki
Zoho Discussions
Zoho Planner
Zoho Notebook
Zoho Chat
Zoho Mail
Zoho Meeting
Zoho People

It is collection of rich featured collobration services for enterprise and development tools as well, like cloud platform and database sevices.
Zoho Challenge is a powerful, feature-rich software that automates and streamlines online test creation, distribution and evaluation/scoring process. Zoho Challenge is aimed at schools, teachers, coaching centers and organizations to quickly and efficiently administer tests for students, employees and candidates.

Zoho also provides following services:

Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint
Zoho CRM Plug-in for Microsoft Office
Zoho Plugin for Microsoft Office
Zoho Gadgets
Zoho CloudSQL
Zoho Browser Plugin (IE, Firefox & Chrome)
Zoho Calendar Plugin for Microsoft Outlook
Zoho on Facebook
Zoho on Mobile
Zoho Search-Unified & Actionable Search

Go and Hit www.zoho.com to enjoy the elegance of services.

Few more new cool webservices by Google

2010-06-12T15:55:00.000+05:30

Hey!!!
Here our web giant Google introduced some useful webservices.
Go and Experience them.
www.google.com/trends
www.google.com/trends/hottrends
trends.google.com/website
http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/overview.html

Compare Google Bing Yahooo

2010-06-12T15:39:00.000+05:30

Now you can compare results of your search queries @ one platform. Hit this link.
and observe and choose best one for you...

Face in Space

2010-06-12T15:22:00.000+05:30

NASA wants to put a picture of you on one of the two remaining space shuttle missions and launch it into orbit. To launch your face into space and become a part of history, just follow these steps:

First...Click on this link and upload your image/name, which will be flown aboard the space shuttle. Don't have a picture to upload? No problem, just skip the image upload and we will fly your name only on your selected mission!

Next...Print and save the confirmation page with your flight information.

Later...Return to this site after the landing to print your Flight Certificate - a commemorative certificate signed by the Mission Commander. You can also check on mission status, view mission photographs, link to various NASA educational resources and follow the commander and crew on Twitter or Facebook.

So ready to

Fly Your Face in Space...........

Multiple Login in Gtalk

2010-04-02T20:38:00.000+05:30

Here is cool trick by which you can Login with multiple Google Accounts in Gtalk
Follow the procedure..............

1. Right-click Gtalk shortcut and select Properties.

2. The shortcut properties dialog box as shown below should popup.

3. Just add /nomutex to the existing text

Eg: "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe"/nomutex

4. Now you can launch multiple windows and use different ID's.

Making your fastest browser i.e. Mozilla Firefox more fast

2010-04-02T16:38:00.000+05:30

By following these steps you can make Mozilla more fast, even 10 times.......

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

Now enjoy the speed.........

Computer Acronyms List

2010-04-02T15:57:00.000+05:30

Hi....
I know it was a very long time since I posted my last post.
I was .....................
Leave it and enjoy the list of Some Usefull Computer Acronyrns...............

ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port
ALI - Acer Labs, Incorporated
ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit
AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
APC - American Power Conversion
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASPI - Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
AT - Advanced Technology
ATI - ATI Technologies Inc.
ATX - Advanced Technology Extended

--- B ---
BFG - BFG Technologies
BIOS - Basic Input Output System
BNC - Barrel Nut Connector

--- C ---
CAS - Column Address Signal
CD - Compact Disk
CDR - Compact Disk Recorder
CDRW - Compact Disk Re-Writer
CD-ROM - Compact Disk - Read Only Memory
CFM - Cubic Feet per Minute (ft�/min)
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CTX - CTX Technology Corporation (Commited to Excellence)

--- D ---

DDR - Double Data Rate
DDR-SDRAM - Double Data Rate - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
DFI - DFI Inc. (Design for Innovation)
DIMM - Dual Inline Memory Module
DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory
DPI - Dots Per Inch
DSL - See ASDL
DVD - Digital Versatile Disc
DVD-RAM - Digital Versatile Disk - Random Access Memory

--- E ---
ECC - Error Correction Code
ECS - Elitegroup Computer Systems
EDO - Extended Data Out
EEPROM - Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EVGA - EVGA Corporation

--- F ---
FC-PGA - Flip Chip Pin Grid Array
FDC - Floppy Disk Controller
FDD - Floppy Disk Drive
FPS - Frame Per Second
FPU - Floating Point Unit
FSAA - Full Screen Anti-Aliasing
FS - For Sale
FSB - Front Side Bus

--- G ---
GB - Gigabytes
GBps - Gigabytes per second or Gigabits per second
GDI - Graphical Device Interface
GHz - GigaHertz

--- H ---
HDD - Hard Disk Drive
HIS - Hightech Information System Limited
HP - Hewlett-Packard Development Company
HSF - Heatsink-Fan

--- I ---
IBM - International Business Machines Corporation
IC - Integrated Circuit
IDE - Integrated Drive Electronics
IFS- Item for Sale
IRQ - Interrupt Request
ISA - Industry Standard Architecture
ISO - International Standards Organization

--- J ---
JBL - JBL (Jame B. Lansing) Speakers
JVC - JVC Company of America

- K ---
Kbps - Kilobits Per Second
KBps - KiloBytes per second

--- L ---
LG - LG Electronics
LAN - Local Are Network
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
LDT - Lightning Data Transport
LED - Light Emitting Diode

--- M ---
MAC - Media Access Control
MB � MotherBoard or Megabyte
MBps - Megabytes Per Second
Mbps - Megabits Per Second or Megabits Per Second
MHz - MegaHertz
MIPS - Million Instructions Per Second
MMX - Multi-Media Extensions
MSI - Micro Star International

--- N ---
NAS - Network Attached Storage
NAT - Network Address Translation
NEC - NEC Corporation
NIC - Network Interface Card

--- O ---
OC - Overclock (Over Clock)
OCZ - OCZ Technology
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer

--- P ---
PC - Personal Computer
PCB - Printed Circuit Board
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
PCMCIA - Peripheral Component Microchannel Interconnect Architecture
PGA - Professional Graphics Array
PLD - Programmable Logic Device
PM - Private Message / Private Messaging
PnP - Plug 'n Play
PNY - PNY Technology
POST - Power On Self Test
PPPoA - Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
PPPoE - Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
PQI - PQI Corporation
PSU - Power Supply Unit

--- R ---
RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAM - Random Access Memory
RAMDAC - Random Access Memory Digital Analog Convertor
RDRAM - Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
ROM - Read Only Memory
RPM - Revolutions Per Minute

--- S ---
SASID - Self-scanned Amorphous Silicon Integrated Display
SCA - SCSI Configured Automatically
SCSI - Small Computer System Interface
SDRAM - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SECC - Single Edge Contact Connector
SODIMM - Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module
SPARC - Scalable Processor ArChitecture
SOHO - Small Office Home Office
SRAM - Static Random Access Memory
SSE - Streaming SIMD Extensions
SVGA - Super Video Graphics Array
S/PDIF - Sony/Philips Digital Interface

--- T ---
TB - Terabytes
TBps - Terabytes per second
Tbps - Terabits per second
TDK - TDK Electronics
TEC - Thermoelectric Cooler
TPC - TipidPC
TWAIN - Technology Without An Important Name

--- U ---
UART - Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
USB - Universal Serial Bus
UTP - Unshieled Twisted Pair

--- V ---
VCD - Video CD
VPN - Virtual Private Network

--- W ---
WAN - Wide Area Network
WTB - Want to Buy
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get

--- X ---
XGA - Extended Graphics Array
XFX - XFX Graphics, a Division of Pine
XMS - Extended Memory Specification
XT - Extended Technology

Obama is using Fairness Cream

2010-02-28T00:21:00.001+05:30

Google Search Tricks

2010-02-27T23:28:00.000+05:30

Google the Search-Gaint.............Very useful search engine can be more useful for you if u use following keywords along with your search queries...........

site:domain.com “search term = restricts search results to the given domain.
allinurl:WORDS = shows only pages with all search terms in the url.
inurl:WORD = like allinurl: but filters the URL based on the first term only.
allintitle:WORD = shows only results with terms in title
intitle:WORD = similar to allintitle, but only for the next word.
cache:URL = will show the Google cached version of the URL.
info:URL = will show a page containing links to related searches, backlinks, and pages
link:URL = lists other pages that link to the URL
related:URL = lists other pages that are related to the URL.
filetype:FILETYPE = will restrict searches to that filetype
-filetype:FILETYPE = will remove that file type from the search.
site:www.anysite.net “+www.anysite.net” = shows you how many pages of your site are indexed by google
allintext: = searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title
allinlinks: = searches only within links, not text or title

Enjoy Searching.....................

Dialup Pasword Recovery

2010-02-07T15:33:00.000+05:30

Dialupass

This utility enumerates all dialup/VPN entries on your computers, and displays their logon details: User Name, Password, and Domain. You can use it to recover a lost password of your Internet connection or VPN.
Dialupass also allows you to save the dialup/VPN list into text/html/csv/xml file, or copy it to the clipboard.

Unique Features:

Recover all type to Dialup and Broadband Dialer's Passwords
Easy to use
Free to Download
Click to download
Source: NirSoft

CrossPlatform Task Scheduler

2010-02-07T15:18:00.000+05:30

Now its very easy to schedule your tasks like connecting to internet, backups, opening browser. Here is a brief description about a utility called ScheduleIT.
ScheduleIT is a Java based process scheduler with great features. You can use it to schedule the tasks with custom arguments. It provides exports and imports features, templates saving and task history management.

Download:
If you do not have the JRE 1.6 installed on your computer then click here to get it. Download the appropriate file as per your operating system.
Here is the download page: Download ScheduleIT Binaries

Source:SourceForge.net