These days lot of people access website on smartphones and tablets, which has made the life of the web designers and developers more difficult, thanks to Apple and Google for giving smartphone and tablets in almost every hand. A recent survey mentions that 35% of American adults have smartphones and 87% of them access internet on their phones. That is the reason most of the big websites are working on responsive web designs.

Google has also officially recommended that website owners use the responsive design approach instead of maintaining separate mobile and desktop website as responsive design “keeps your desktop and mobile content on a single URL.”

Google Adsense And Responsive Layouts

Its likely that you use Adsense to monetize the content on your website but the problem is that ads delivered by adsense are not responsive, which means that if a user visits a responsive website on a smartphone all the Adsense ads will be delivered of the same size. Lets take an example to make things more clear, if a website is using 728×90 banner and you are viewing the website on a mobile phone, the webpage might extend beyond the screen. That being said, how can we deliver ads of different size based on the viewer screen. Google Adsense is not responsive by design, but can be made to work with your responsive design with a simple Javascript code.

<!-- You can add multiple Adsense Ad units -->
<!-- Just change the ad on Line #4 and Line #7 -->
 
<div id="google-ads-1">
 <script type="text/javascript">
 
	adUnit   = document.getElementById("google-ads-1");
	adWidth  = adUnit.offsetWidth;
 
	/* Replace this with your AdSense Publisher ID */
	google_ad_client = "ca-pub-1234567890";
 
	if ( adWidth >= 768 ) {
	  /* Leaderboard 728x90 */
	  google_ad_slot	= "AAA";
	  google_ad_width	= 768;
	  google_ad_height 	= 90;
	} else if ( adWidth >= 468 ) {
	  /* Banner (468 x 60) */
	  google_ad_slot	= "BBB";
	  google_ad_width 	= 468;
	  google_ad_height 	= 60;
	} else if ( adWidth >= 336 ) {
	  /* Large Rectangle (336 x 280) */
	  google_ad_slot 	= "CCC";
	  google_ad_width 	= 336;
	  google_ad_height 	= 280;
	} else if ( adWidth >= 300 ) {
	  /* Medium Rectangle (300 x 250) */
	  google_ad_slot 	= "DDD";
	  google_ad_width 	= 300;
	  google_ad_height 	= 250;
	} else if ( adWidth >= 250 ) {
	  /* Square (250 x 250) */
	  google_ad_slot	= "EEE";
	  google_ad_width 	= 250;
	  google_ad_height 	= 250;
	} else if ( adWidth >= 200 ) {
	  /* Ad Link Unit (200 x 90) */
	  google_ad_slot 	= "FFF";
	  google_ad_width 	= 200;
	  google_ad_height 	= 90;
	} else {
	  /* Do not display the Google Ad */
	  google_ad_slot		= "0";
	  adUnit.style.display	= "none";
	}
 </script>
 
 <script type="text/javascript"    
   src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
 </script>
</div>

Thanks to Amit from Digital Insipiration for this awesome code.

Lets make our hands dirty and try to understand this code. We are basically using the javascript offsetwidth property to get the width of the div element which encloses the google ad and based on the width we are delivering different ad banners and if the screen width is too small we are not displaying the ad at all.

To get started, create multiple ad units (say 768×90, 468×60 and 300×250) inside your AdSense dashbaord and replace the relevant google_ad_client (ca-pub-1234) and google_ad_slot (AAA, BBB, etc.) identifiers in the code with your own values.

Let me know how this goes. Until next time..!!!

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The modern technological era has its bright side and its dark side. We know all about the bright side and how it has improved our lives. The advancements being made today are unprecedented and it seems as if this is only the beginning. With time we will reach newer heights and a global expansion will take place, but for now let’s also consider the dark side. These are the threats we face on an everyday basis. These aren’t health risks but are possibly even more dangerous.
In this time of digital satellite television we are faced with unseen challenges. These are risks to our safety and security. Both intellectual and personal security is being targeted by unknown forces. All measures taken to stop these attacks have limited impact. We are totally exposed to these hackers who want to steal our personal data. These people have actually become intruders in our lives and their attacks malign us day by day. Let’s take a detailed look at the worst security threats in the world of digital satellite television.

Hacking

Well we all have heard of hacking across dish network. This is nothing new and it seems that it will continue to torment us. Hackers are now coming up with more advanced methods to steal information. All protective shields seem useless. Anything connected with your digital satellite TV will be accessible to the hacker. He can steal vital information and misuse it. A lot of people don’t realize the risk of hacking and are then exposed to it. In this digital age we need to take counteractive measures to stop this growing menace.

Software Attacks

These digital satellite TV’s are very advanced. They are programmed with software that keep them running. Another security threat is software attack. These attacks are very frequent and can be quite damaging to your television. They can corrupt the system leaving you unable to access files and folders stored on the hard drive.

Viruses and Malware

Viruses and malware can be even more lethal. It not only corrupts your data but destroys it as well. These viruses can infect the system and leave it incapable of doing its tasks. The malware content can enter the system through other software and then take away your key data.

Illegal Sharing

These hackers have developed systems so that they don’t have to pay for content. They hack the system and then use it illegally to watch content on their system at your expense. You will not know what hit you because the impact will be sudden and devastating. These non-paying users enjoy free service after they break the encryption codes in your system.

Hijacking of TV

The security threats to digital satellite TV keep on rising. Hackers can hijack the system and control your TV. They can alter programming patterns and make your life miserable on a dish network. Once you lose control you are helpless and you can’t even tell the source of the attack.

Distribution of Content

Once your data is exposed the hackers can do anything they want with it. Your personal photos, videos and files are now their property. They can put them up on the internet and use them to blackmail you and damage your reputation.

Loss of Money

High class content that is classed as premium and is only available to specific people will now become public property. These hackers will not pay a penny for misusing these services. They will enjoy at your expense. All you can do is sit and watch as your bills rise without you even knowing.

Passwords Leaked

The hackers can break the security chain and even gain access to your passwords. Once they are in the system they can access personal information. Your social security code and any other files, let’s say bank account numbers, will be affected by this security breach.

Unhealthy Content

By changing the content type on your satellite TV system, these hackers can expose your children to unhealthy content. This may include extreme violence or porn.

Damage your System

Lastly the viruses and malware at times can be so deadly that it can completely damage the system. Your TV set will be rendered useless after a while and you will need replacements.

About Author

Rosette is a technology expert with years of experience under her belt. She has written numerous articles and blogs over the years with regards to dish network security. She believes Broadband Expert has become a viable alternative to any other cable service providers. She advises to compare the services of both cable and satellite TV efficiently at Broadband Expert.

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After 4 years of loyalty with Apple I finally decided to move to Android and bought my new shiny Samsung Galaxy Note II. I was impressed with the device as soon as I got it in my hands. After a few minutes I realized that I have a few hundred contacts in my iPhone which needs to be migrated to the new Android device. After some research I figured that there are indeed a couple of ways to do the same and I will list down 3 ways, which can be used  to achieve the same.

1. Using iPhone and Google Sync 

Migrating contacts and calendars from iPhone to Android is really simple. It just needs active google/gmail account and iOS 3.0 or later.

• On your iPhone select Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
• Set up a new “Microsoft Exchange” account (yes, even if you’re trying to import from Gmail).
• Input your email address and login info. Enter a domain if you have one for an actual ME server; Gmail users can leave it blank.
• Select “Server” then either input the ME server address or “m.google.com” for Gmail.
• On the final screen, select what you want to import—Mail, Contacts, Calendars, and/or Reminders—then hit Accept.

2. Using iTunes

You can actually use iTunes also for moving your contacts from iPhone to Android.

• Mount your iPhone onto your computer as an external drive using a USB cable and open iTunes
• Select your iPhone from the list on the left pane and select the “Info” tab
• Select “Sync Contacts With” and then choose “Google Contacts” from the drop-down
• Enter your Google log-in info when prompted then hit Apply to sync

3. Using iCloud

You can also use iCloud if you have been backing up your iPhone you can actually easily sync up your contacts with gmail.

• Login to you iCloud account here.
• Click on Contacts and then select the contacts you want to export.
• Click on the Settings icon on the bottom left and select export vCard. A file will be downloaded to your computer.
• Login to your Gmail account and go to contacts and then select import and upload the file you just downloaded from iCloud.

Whatever method you choose, in a few minutes the contacts will be synced to your new shiny android device and you are good to go. Let me know if you have any concerns and keep the comments coming.

Until next time…..!!

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The last century has witnessed a remarkable revolution in terms of technology. The progress graph shapes steeply upwards and can even become an almost vertical line in a short span of time. This is because advancements are taking up at a very rapid pace and it is becoming all the more difficult to keep pace with them.

Apple launched its range of iDevices and set new standards in the industry. Many companies followed suit and started launching their own versions of iPhone, iPod, iPad and the rest. The most noticeable of these are perhaps the Android devices, which offer quite a high level of competition to Apple. All these devices have different features, but one thing that is shared by most of them is access to an online store that sells a wide range of applications ranging from just fun to completely professional. Every manufacturer has a store with a different name, and may offer slightly varying applications to its users. However, beneath the surface, they are all just the same with only minute differences.

Mobile apps comprise of many categories such as education, games, news, utilities and entertainment. The most popular of these are usually games, mp3 players, word processors and cloud storage apps. Among these pretty similar apps, there is one that recently received a lot of attention because it is aimed at being massively different from the crowd. Launched by Elagato, this app is called EyeTV. This incredibly smart software package promises to provide entertainment, knowledge and convenience to all its users no matter what their age is or where their interests lie. And all this is offered without any disruptions or complexities of any sort. In other words, EyeTV gives its users everything that they want in this world through a just a single device.

Main Features

An EyeTV mobile is very similar to a standard USB device. You can just plug it into your PC and let it play any channel that you want to see. Prior to this, you will have to subscribe to a company that offers dish and channel packages such as Directv. The device also lets you view a list of programs that will be telecasted in the current week on all channels.

The best part about EyeTV is that you require no internet connection while using this device. This is because EyeTV functions on the new Satellite TV technology, which is gradually acquiring popularity. According to a research, 22% of people have subscribed to satellite internet in America, and this figure is rapidly rising as the advantages are being realized. Using pretty much the same technology, Directv now offers more HD channels and movies than ever before.

EyeTV does not need an internet connection for operation, but it can let you get connected to it anytime that you want. Thus, you can surf your favorite sites and play your favorite games online. So you can get full entertainment in a flexible way.

Effect on the Android Industry

EyeTV is definitely going to revolutionize the world starting with the Android industry. As of now, android devices are generally being used for playing games or utilizing flash applications. However, EyeTV can now let you watch live television on your Android device as well. You love watching television, and many of you will probably own Android devices.

If you make your devices compatible with EyeTV as well, then you can get the best entertainment ever on just your mobile device. This is an enticing feature and will let you make the switch to EyeTV. Similarly, many other people will follow suit so that they can avail flexibility, convenience and fun through just that one single device that they always have upon them. And remember, this does not require internet connections so you do not have to be in the range of a Wi-Fi network.

The Bottom Line

The EyeTV has created a storm in just its initial phases of release. This will probably grow with time, making it a replacement for all other related technology.

Author Bio

Rosette is an avid TV watcher and uses services from Google TV as well as Sat TV Direct to access the best content available across the world. She writes frequently about new developments in the TV world.

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If you are have moved from Windows to Mac but still are using Microsoft Outlook as your Email Client. This tip might be helpful for you. You might be wondering why do you  need to setup Outlook as default email client, rather you can just open MS Outlook and send, receive your emails.

For example, one of the following scenarios can occur if Office Outlook is not your default e-mail program:

• If you try to send a spreadsheet to a mail recipient from Microsoft Office Excel that is on a computer that has Office Outlook and Outlook Express installed, Office Outlook might not be used to send the e-mail message.
• If you click a link on a Web page that is intended to open a new message window, your computer might not open the Outlook new e-mail message window, or it might use a mail program other than Outlook.
• When you send a file from a program by pointing to Send To on the File menu, and then clicking Mail Recipient, the e-mail program that is set as your default mail client is used to send the file.

How to Set Outlook as Default Mail Client

1. Launch Microsoft Outlook program and click on Preferences in Outlook Menu
2. On the next screen select General.
   
3. On the General Screen, check “Make Outlook the default application for e-mail, contacts, and calendar”
   

Note: Setting Microsoft Outlook as default application will not setup or import email accounts from another email clients.

Let me know if you face any issues with setting this up. Until next time..!!!

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Holiday Season is here and its that time of the year when every one is busy calling their families and friends. This year is special as you can call your far-away relatives and friends without worrying about the international call bills. Isn’t that a good news?

Skype to Skype calls have been free from the inception of Skype but this holiday season Team @Skype is offering Skype premium w/ Unlimited World Free calling absolutely Free for one full month.

How to Get this Offer

1. Signup/Login with Skype and enter your credit card or PayPal details (you won’t be charged) and complete the signup process.
2. Once the premium service is activated you can start making international calls and you can cancel the premium subscription any time within 30 days.

One thing to note though is the world in Skype’s terminology is smaller than the real world and you can make calls to landlines in these countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia (Moscow and St. Petersburg only), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom and Venezuela.

You can make calls to landlines and mobiles in these countries: Canada, Guam, Hong Kong S.A.R., Puerto Rico, Singapore, Thailand and United States.

Hint: You can cancel the premium service immediately after activation, however your premium services will continue to work for 30 days.

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Long awaited Thesis 2.0 theme is available for download since October 1, 2012 and comes packed with a bunch of new features, actually let me correct myself the whole theme itself has changed and new thesis theme has been designed to make customizing the theme as easy as possible (no coding required).

The best three things are:

1. Pixel-perfect typography – We all know that typography is one of the key ingredients of the design and the content should be easy to read and scan.
2. Custom 404 Page - The importance of 404 page can’t go unnoticed and has been emphasized enough by everyone and Google even recommends making your 404 page as useful as possible. Now making custom 404 page using Thesis theme is a piece of cake.
3. Landing Pages – Landing pages are a must have for converting leads into sales. ( that’s the bottom line isn’t it)

Prior to Thesis 2.0 all these tasks were possible but required a considerable amount of developer time and if you are not a programmer yourself, every time you need a change you will have to invest money and time in hiring a developer. With Thesis 2.0 you can do all this using your browser and few mouse clicks.

If you don’t own a Thesis theme license it’s time to get one here.

Stay tuned for more tips and tricks on Thesis 2.0.

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As a website publisher you must have been looking for ways to optimize Google AdSense to monetize your content. There are a bunch of ways for that namely using standard ad formats, using mix of rich and text ads and most importantly writing unique and relevant content.

we all know that content is the king however you may not be reaping the best rewards with your content if your robots.txt is not configured properly.

What is Robots.txt?

It is a text file and usually found in the root of the website e.g. http://www.byteindia.com/robots.txt robots.txt is like a gatekeeper for your website which controls the access to your website for the web crawlers, search engines and web robots. It controls which pages of your website can be viewed and indexed by the search engines. Apparently it is a very important and useful piece of your website and appropriately configured robots.txt along with great content can deliver amazing results for your website however, a misconfigured robots.txt can block your website from being listed in search engines, show completely irrelevant ads.

Modify Robots.txt to allow AdSense Web Crawler

Google AdSense ads are displayed through the use of an AdSense web crawler. That crawler scans your page’s content and determines which ads to display, according to specific keywords. If our AdSense crawler is being blocked by your robots.txt file, we’re going to have a difficult time displaying relevant ads on your site. As a result, your users may see less relevant ads, which can lead to a lower CTR.

Google suggests that you allow access of your website to AdSense crawler and you can do that by adding the following two lines to your robots.txt

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

This will ensure that our AdSense ad crawler can access your site and will help display more relevant ads. As a result, you can potentially benefit from increased ad revenue. Please note that making this change will not impact your Google search rankings. Adding these two lines to yourrobots.txt file will only help to deliver better, more relevant ads to pages with AdSense code already on them. Pages that don’t have AdSense ad code will not be affected.

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If you like Mozilla Firefox’s private browsing mode and want to enable it by default. Here are few simple steps to do the same.

1. Launch Firefox and type “about:config”  in the address bar. You will get a warning to be careful as any wrong setting change could cause your Firefox to misbehave.
2. On the next screen type “private” in the search box and hit enter
   
3. Change “browser.privatebrowsing.autostart”  from false to true and restart the browser and you are all set.

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Google is committed to make the life simpler by adding more and more features to its products. While lot of people are still accustoming to the new look and feel of Google products. Last Week Google announced additional language support in Gmail search and now they have released autocomplete for the Gmail Advanced search in addition to graduating three lab products Refresh POP accounts, Filter import/export and Navbar drag and drop.

Advanced search, which can be accessed by clicking on the arrow in the search box, now supports autocomplete predictions in the From: and To: fields, making it easier to find mail from or to a specific person.

With the graduation of Refresh POP accounts, clicking the refresh link at the top of your inbox will now not only update your inbox with your new Gmail messages, but will also fetch messages from any other POP accounts which you have set up.

From the Settings > Filters page you can download a file containing some or all of your filters or upload a file to create a set of filters all in one go.  This makes it easy to share filters with friends, backup filters for later and more.

Lastly, if you use gadgets on the left-hand side of Gmail, you can now rearrange them with drag n’ drop.

Source : Google+

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