A 12-year-old app developer

  


Most 12-year-olds love playing videogames -- Thomas Suarez taught himself how to create them. After developing iPhone apps like "Bustin Jeiber," a whack-a-mole game, he is now using his skills to help other kids become developers.


 

Wednesday 21 December 2011 | posted in | 1 comments [ More ]

Stop Receiving E-mail Notifications From Facebook

Generally your mail inbox is already full and we generally don’t maintain it properly adding to these is the Email notification from the Facebook .These tend to make the inbox crowded with less than a day as you may have 1000 friends which may lead to huge number of Email notifications with in a single day.



 Steps To Stop Receiving Email Notifications:




  1. Login into your Facebook Account.

  2. Get into the Group Homepage which you don’t want to receive Emails from.

  3. At the upper right corner you will see the notification icon, click on it and you can click settings from the available options of  on,off,settings.You will get a small pop up window   where you can remove the tick mark on the “Also send an Email Notification to your mail-id”.



 You can revert the action by making a tick once again in the check box.

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Disable Facebook Notification


Facebook is a good social networking site however the everybody get annoyed (or) irritated when their Facebook page shows notifications. This can be even worse if these notifications are made by unwanted people or you may don’t like them.


 Steps To Disable Facebook Notification:




  1. Login into your Facebook account.

  2. Get in the Group Homepage that you don’t want to get notification’s from.

  3. At the upper right corner you will see the notification icon, click on it and you can select OFF to disable it.



 Once disabling the notification ,if you need to receive notification then you can revert the steps.

Saturday 17 December 2011 | posted in , | 0 comments [ More ]

The magic of truth and lies (and iPods)





 

Using three iPods like magical props, Marco Tempest spins a clever, surprisingly heartfelt meditation on truth and lies, art and emotion.


 

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A robot that flies like a bird




 Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.

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Anand Agarawala demos BumpTop




 Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3-D extreme, transforming file navigation into a freewheeling playground of crumpled documents and clipping-covered "walls."

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The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology





 

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.

 

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Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address





 

At his Stanford University commencement speech, Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to pursue our dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself.

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The technology of storytelling





 

iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, from the walls of caves to his own onstage iPad.

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Six ways to save the internet




The next big shift is now, and it’s not what you think: Facebook is the new Windows; Google must be sacrificed. At TEDxSantaCruz, tech investor Roger McNamee presents 6 bold ways to prepare for the next internet.

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Wireless Application Protocol(WAP)






 

Wireless  Application  Protocol  is  a  kind  of  fusion  of   the  mobile  network technologies  and  the  internet  technologies. The  Wireless  Application  Protocol forum (WAP  Forum)  was  founded  in  June  1997  by  Sony  Ericsson, Motorola,   Nokia.

WAP  Forum  and  the  open  Media  Alliance (OMA)  are  to  bring  diverse  internet  content  and  other  data  services  to  digital  cellular  phones, other wireless terminologies. They  provide  better  protocol  suite  world  wide  wireless  communication  across  different  wireless  network  technologies.

WAP  supports  wireless  networks  like  cellular  digital  packet  wireless communication data (CDPD), Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM). To enable easy fast  delivery  of  relevant  information  and  services  to  mobile  users.

 

 

Six ways to save the internet

The next big shift is now, and it’s not what you think: Facebook is the new Windows; Google must be sacrificed. At TEDxSantaCruz, tech investor Roger McNamee presents 6 bold ways to prepare for the next internet.

 



 

Monday 12 December 2011 | posted in | 0 comments [ More ]

Sites to learn C and C++

Programming Knowledge has become a essential skill for most of the engineers around the World.The growing technology has led to the development of many programming languages ,though Cis the basic concept for most of the programming languages.

In this post I am going to give five websites to learn programming in c and c++.


  1. cprogramming.com


This sites gives a detailed description about each concept in C and C++ with definitions ,syntax and examples .You can also check your knowledge in these languages by attending the quizzes .



2. learncpp.com

A site dedicated specially to C++.It’s similar to a book with the appendixes you can search any programs needed .The Concepts are well explained with examples even a fresh person can understand easily.

3. Cppgm.blogspot.com

A blog which has large number of C and C++ programs that can be very useful to Engineering Students but not to a new individual. This blog also contains Network programs ,Data Structures.

4. mycplus.com

This site offers variety of source codes in C and C++ such as Gaming and Graphics .If you have any doubts you can post your questions and get a solution for it.

5. tutorialized.com

It contains some good posts to explain the small and geeky things in programming languages .You can create an account for yourself and submit tutorials to the website.

 

Wednesday 7 December 2011 | posted in , | 0 comments [ More ]

The Technology of Storytelling



iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, from the walls of caves to his own onstage iPad.

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Are Your Passwords Strong Enough



Password is a security that can be used to protect one's account.But now a days these passwords can be easily hacked by ethical hackers easily or even by normal persons.This can happen because of


  • using the same password for more days.

  • Choosing a normal password.

  • using the same password for every websites.


Research on Password hacking have found out that people tend to use Normal password which is easily breakable.Normal Passwords are similar to these kind of words and numbers like



  1. "password"

  2. "qwerty"

  3. "1234"



Some people tend to keep their favourite actress or favourite films as their passwords.

Generally a Password should not contain any of these listed below:


Your Birth Date

Your Marriage Date

Your husband Name

Your Child Name

Follow these steps to protect your account



  1. Change your password regularly atleast once every three months.

  2. You should use a different password for each website or each account that you access.


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Google Knol



Many of us don’t know about Google Knol. According to Google’s point of view Knol is something which gives knowledge about a product in a article form which is clear understood idea. The URL http://knol.google.com contains information about various items just similar to wikepedia.

All think that Google knol was started as competition to Wikipedia .The articles in the websites have crossed 1Lakhs(approx).The Articles in the Knol website can be read easily by going to the site http://knol.google.com and searching for what you need as all of us know about the speciality of Google search engine.

Similar to Wikipedia you can also write your own articles or edit the articles that need to be corrected.The Steps to write your Own article in Google Knol are:

1.First go to http://knol.google.com.

2.To Write a Knol,you must have a Google account.

(If you don’t have a google account create a new Account at Google)

3.Login using Google account to write your article.

4.Click on Write a Knol,you will get a basic structure to write articles ,you will get a license.

There are three types of licenses based on Permission settings for others.

 

Thursday 1 December 2011 | posted in , | 0 comments [ More ]

How to reset root password in Ubuntu 10.10

In Linux and Unix, there is a SuperUser named Root but in windows Root is Administrators group. The SuperUser can do anything and everything, and thus doing daily work as the SuperUser can be dangerous. You could type a command incorrectly and destroy the system. Ideally, you run as a user that has only the privileges needed for the task at hand. In some cases, this is necessarily Root, but most of the time it is a regular user.

Reset Ubuntu Password:

To reset Ubuntu password follow the steps, it is very simple and easy to reset the password.

1. Reboot your machine and press alternatively shift+esc key. Now the grub menu will display.

2. Select the recovery mode from grub menu.



3. Now press 'e' to edit the grub menu and find out ro single



4. From the editing window replace ro single to rw init=/bin/bash



5. Now press ctrl+x. Now it will direct you into root directory without knowing the root password.



6. Change the root password by using the command given below.

passwd root



7. Now reboot your machine by the command given below.

reboot-f



8. Now Login as root and Enjoy ..............!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday 25 November 2011 | posted in , | 0 comments [ More ]

Two E-commerce Wordpress Themes

Mazine E-Commerce Theme by ThemeForest




Demo|Download

eShop - Ecommerce Theme by Templatic




Demo|Download

Thursday 24 November 2011 | posted in , | 1 comments [ More ]

Install Wordpress in Windows 7

WordPress is a web software you can used to create your own beautiful website or blog. WordPress is free and priceless software, it is very easy to use.

Install WordPress in Windows 7 (Local host)

To install word press in local host or in windows follow the steps given bellow.

1. Download and Install Xampp on windows. Click here to download Xampp from official website. For installation follow the screen short given below.



2. After installation, console (“cmd.exe”) will pop up automatically. Read carefully and type y for Yes or n for No, according to your installation choices.


3. Start XAMPP by clicking xampp-control.exe and start the Apache and MySQL services.





4. . Now open browser, go to http://localhost/xampp. Welcome screen of xampp will open as shown in the below figure. In the welcome xampp screen click phpmyadmin.



5. Now create a database (in my case I created nijesh) and also select the other two options (utf8_unicode_ci & utf8_general_ci) as same as shown in the below figure.

6. Now download Word Press, click here to download word press.

7. After downloading word press extract word press.zip file in the directory shown below,

C:\xampp\htdocs



8. Now, rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php. wp-config-sample file is in this directory(C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress). Now open the file and find ‘DB_NAME’. Now, write your database name that you created in place of wordpress, listed out there as shown in the below figure.



9. Now head over to http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php and complete the WordPress Installation.

10. Fill all the details as shown below.

Now word press is ready to use ...... !!

Sunday 20 November 2011 | posted in , | 1 comments [ More ]

Update Firefox to 8.0 in Ubuntu 10.10

In Ubuntu 10.10 the default version of Firefox browser is Firefox 4.0. To update Firefox to 8.0 in Ubuntu 10.10 follow the steps given below.

1. System --> Synaptic Package Manager --> Settings --> Repositors



2.Select Other Software tab --> Click Add a dialog box open as given below.



Type the following code and click Add Source.

ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable

3. Reload the Synaptic Package Manager and Search for Firefox, Select Mark for Upgrade.



4.Now you can enjoy the Firefox 8.0.

Saturday 19 November 2011 | posted in , | 1 comments [ More ]

An Intresting Shell Script

A Shell Script to print the Chess pattern on the terminal.


  • $ vi chessboard

  • for (( i = 1; i <= 9; i++ )) ### Outer for loop ###

  • do

  • for (( j = 1 ; j <= 9; j++ )) ### Inner for loop ###

  • do

  • tot=`expr $i + $j`

  • tmp=`expr $tot % 2`

  • if [ $tmp -eq 0 ]; then

  • echo -e -n "\033[47m "

  • else

  • echo -e -n "\033[40m "

  • fi

  • done

  • echo -e -n "\033[40m" #### set back background colour to black

  • echo "" #### print the new line ###

  • done


 

Run the above script as follows:

$ chmod +x chessboard

$ ./chessboard

 

 

OUTPUT:



 

 

Sunday 13 November 2011 | posted in , | 0 comments [ More ]

Run Google Chrome as Root in Ubuntu 11.10

Google Chrome does not run in Ubuntu as root, while run Google Chrome as root it will display a error message as shown below.




To run Google Chrome as root in Ubuntu follow the steps given below.

1. Open the file google-chrome in any text editor.

/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome

2. Remove the last line as given below.

exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@"

3. At the same place add the line given below.

exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@" --user-data-dir $HOME

Now save the file and open Google Chrome, it will run asroot.



Enjoy .............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday 12 November 2011 | posted in , | 2 comments [ More ]

Shutdown System Automatically in Ubuntu

In this post we can see how to shutdown the system automatically, ie daily at particular time or once in a week days or once in a month. To shutdown the system follow the steps given below.

1. First need to install a package. The package can installed by using terminal.

sudo apt-get install cron

2. Open text editor and write the script as given below,

Shutdown Daily

To shutdown the system daily, copy and past the script in text editor and save file name as root in the directory given below.

/var/spool/cron/crontabs/filename

# minutes  hrs, dayofmonth, month, dayofweek command

55 13   *  * * /sbin/shutdown -h now

The above code will shutdown the system daily at 1:00 Pm.

Shutdown Weekly once

To shutdown the system once in a week, copy and past the script in text editor and save file name as root in the directory given above.

# minutes  hrs, dayofmonth, month, dayofweek command

00 13  *  * 0 /sbin/shutdown -h now

The machine will shutdown every Sunday 1:00 Pm.

Same as Sunday we can shutdown the machine Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,Thursday,Friday,Saturday and Sunday. For this change the value from 0 to 6 for this in the same script.

00 13  *  * 0 /sbin/shutdown -h now #shutdown Sunday at 1:00 Pm

55 8   *  * 1 /sbin/shutdown -h now #shutdown Monday at 8:55 Am

55 3  *  * 2 /sbin/shutdown -h now #shutdown Tuesday at 3:55 Am

55 3  *  * 3 /sbin/shutdown -h now #shutdown Wednesday at 3:55 Am

55 6  *  * 4 /sbin/shutdown -h now #shutdown Thursday at 6:55 Am

55 4  *  * 5 /sbin/shutdown -h now #shutdown Friday at 4:55 Am

55 2  *  * 6 /sbin/shutdown -h now #shutdown Saturday at 2:55 Am

the value range from 0 - 6,

0 -----> Sunday

1 -----> Monday

2 -----> Tuesday

3 -----> Wednesday

4 -----> Thursday

5 -----> Friday

6 -----> Saturday

Note :

1. The file name must named as root.

2. Save the root file in the directory given below

/var/spool/cron/crontabs/

Thursday 10 November 2011 | posted in , | 0 comments [ More ]

Basic Ubuntu Commands

1. Enable Root in Ubuntu

To enable root directory execute the following command in terminal.

sudo passwd root

2. Add New User

To add a new user account execute the following command in terminal.

sudo adduser username

3. Delete User Account

To delete the user account execute the following command in terminal.

sudo deluser username

4. Lock/Unlock the User Account

To lock the user account execute the following command in terminal.

sudo passwd -l username

To Unlock the user account execute the following command in terminal.

sudo passwd -u username

5. Change Permission for File

chmod is a Unix command that lets you tell the system how much (or little) access it should permit to a file. To change the permission you must login in root using su on terminal.

chmod 700 /directory/filename

6. Change Permission for Connection Editor

You can set permission to connection editor using chmod command. To change the permission you must login in root using su on terminal.

chmod 700 /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor

You can remove permission for connection editor by executing the following command in terminal.

chmod 777 /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor

7. Change Permission for Media

You can set permission to media using chmod command. To change the permission you must login in root using su on terminal. After executing the command all the USB connections are get locked.

chmod 700 /media/

You can remove permission for media by executing the following command in terminal.

chmod 777 /media/

8. Change Permission for Appearance

You can set permission to appearance using chmod command. To change the permission you must login in root using su on terminal. After executing the following command desktop background cannot be changed in normal user.

chmod 700 /usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties/

9. Change Permission for Screensaver 
You can set permission to screensaver  using chmod command. To change the permission you must login in root using su on terminal. After executing the following command screensaver cannot be changed in normal user.

chmod 700 /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver-preferences/

10. Change Permission for Keyboard

You can set permission to keyboard preference  using chmod command. To change the permission you must login in root using su on terminal. After executing the following command keyboard preference cannot be changed in normal user.

chmod 700 /usr/bin/gnome-keyboard-properties

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TurnKey Linux Virtual Appliance Library


The Turnkey Linux Virtual Appliance Library is an open source project developing a free virtual appliance library of pre-packaged servers based on Ubuntu that can be deployed on virtual machines, in cloud computing infrastructures or installed in physical computers.


Each virtual appliance is a ready-to-use solution that's optimized for ease of use in server-type usage scenarios.Each appliance is designed to "just work" with little to no configuration required.


The project currently maintains 40 virtual appliances, which are packaged in multiple build formats:




  1. Amazon Machine Image: provisioned on-demand via the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

  2. Virtual appliance: a ready-to-run VMDK disk image with OVF support. Does not require installation.

  3. Installable Live CD: an ISO image which installs on both bare metal (I.e., a non-virtualized physical machine) and virtual machines, including VMware, Xen, VirtualBox, and KVM. This image can also run live in non-persistent demo mode.


Pre-integrated server applications include LAMP, Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, MySQL, MediaWiki, Domain controller, File server, Ruby on Rails, phpBB, and many others.

Saturday 5 November 2011 | posted in , | 1 comments [ More ]

Wordpress Theme supporting SEO

Wordpress Themes which provide the SEO Optimization are provided by WOO Themes.Let us take a example of an theme,say Bueno.



Demo

You need to sign up in woothemes.com to  download this theme.

Theme Features:


  1. These are some of the features that you will find within the theme:

  2. Using a clear & concise grid-based design, Bueno is not only sexy as hell, but very easy to customize;

  3. Integrated banner ad management

  4. Widgetized sidebar, with some Bueno-specific custom widgets to allow you full control of what happens in your sidebar

  5. 7 different colour schemes to choose from

  6. Theme packaged with a .po file for easy theme translation.


 

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5 Free Wordpress Themes



Equilibrium


Equilibrium
Demo|Download

Fotofolio


Fotofolio
Demo|Download

Bookish




Demo|Download

 

FREEmium




Demo|Download

Designredux



Designredux
Demo|Download

Monday 24 October 2011 | posted in | 1 comments [ More ]

Top 10 S/W Companies



1. Tata Consultancy Services

The Indian software industry is set to keep up its growth rate despite the slowdown in the economy. The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) has forecast a strong outlook for FY08-09 strong with software and services revenue seen growing by 21-24 per cent. The software and services exports are set to hit the $50 billion-mark.


2. Wipro

What started off as a hydrogenated cooking fat company, Wipro is today is a $5 billion revenue generating IT, BPO and R&D services organisation with presence in over 50 countries.


3. Infosys

Infosys Technologies Ltd was started in 1981 by seven people with $250. Today, the company boasts of revenues of over $ 4 billion and 94,379 employees.


4. Mahindra satyam

Established in 1987 by Ramalinga Raju, Satyam has a staff strength of 51,000 employees. In 2008, the company's revenues crossed the $ 2-billion mark.


5. HCL Technologies

HCL is a leading global technology player with annual revenues of $4.9 billion. The HCL Enterprise comprises two companies listed in India, HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of 'India's original IT garage start ups'.


6. Tech Mahindra

Tech Mahindra was incorporated as a joint venture between Mahindra & Mahindra and BT plc in 1986 under the name of 'Mahindra-British Telecom'.


7. Patni Computer Systems

Patni Computer Systems Ltd one of the leading global providers of information technology services and business solutions. The company has clients across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific locations.


8. i-flex Solutions

iflex started as a division of Citicorp (now Citigroup), wholly owned subsidiary called Citicorp Overseas Software Ltd. (COSL) in 1991. Later, a separate company Citicorp Information Technologies Industries Ltd. (CITIL) was formed and Rajesh Hukku was appointed as its head.


9. MphasiS

MphasiS Limited was formed in June 2000 after the merger of the US-based IT consulting company MphasiS Corporation (founded in 1998) and the Indian IT services company BFL Software Limited (founded in 1993).


10. L&T Infotech

L&T Infotech is a global IT services and solutions provider. It is a subsidiary company of is Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (L&T), an engineering, manufacturing and construction conglomerate, with global operations.


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