Saturday, December 11, 2010

Monetize Your Blog : A New Pay-Per-Post Program

Every one wants to make money from blog ,and you must be heard that you can monetize your blog with posts  now i am going to say you about a new program which allow you to make money from posts !!

What's PostNjoy?
PostNjoy is a platform that connects advertisers with bloggers who have own blog or social media. PostNjoy enables advertisers to operate the advertising campaigns at a much lower cost and bloggers can make money simply by reviewing and promoting other products, this will be the easiest way ever to make money blogging.
This can be alternative of blogveritse and payperpost (on these programs i never got chance to write on my blog ) I never made money on these service so now i am looking forward to this . i hope this will be great fo me and will be great for you people .  
PostNjoy, monetize your blog

So why are you waiting ??? earn from blog with this service and try to monetize your  blog if you haven't done so ..
Features of PostNjoy
* No Pay Per Click Charges, Affordable Pay as You Go.
* Build buzz, publicity and word-of-mouth marketing among thousands of blogs.
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Thursday, December 9, 2010

FoursqWAR turns Foursquare into a turf war

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FoursqWAR is a strategy battle game built on top of Foursquare’s API.

Hits:

Imaginative use of the Foursquare API.Nicely presented.“Civvy” features let you use it for standard Foursquare checkins too.

Misses:

Only works well when friends are playing.Finding occupied buildings to challenge can be tough.The details:

It’s great when developers build something a bit different with a popular API and FoursqWAR from Irish developers Project Zebra is one such example. This iPhone game sees players compete to reach the top of a leaderboard by ‘attacking’ and ‘defending’ different Foursquare locations.

Selecting a location from the map view, you can occupy it with troops if it’s empty or you can attack if it’s occupied by another player’s forces. Through winning battles and occupying more buildings you gain points thus nudging you up the leaderboard.

Although you start the game with a small number of infantry troops, you’re able to swap them for stronger forces like humvees, a mortar team, bomb technicians and even John Rambo himself. In-app purchases can be used to boost your squadron further if you want a further boost.

The game is nicely presented, with a fittingly smart, military look and Apple Gamer Center medals to earn as you gain experience. Handy ‘Civvy’ options allow you to check in and view normal Foursquare data for each location in addition to playing the game.

The only real problem with FoursqWAR is that if you’re in an area where there aren’t any other players, it’s not much fun. While testing the game I found one location that had already been occupied, and there’ currently no way of telling enemy occupied locations from vacant ones without tapping on each one manually.

That said, if it sounds like fun and you can get a few local friends involved, FoursqWAR could be great fun.

The game is currently available for free, although a charge will be applied soon. So, it’s worth grabbing quickly if you’d like to give it a go. [iTunes App Store link]

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Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Arrested In London

Sky News has confirmed that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested in London.

Assange was arrested by the Metropolitan Police on a European Arrest Warrant, on behalf of the Swedish authorities over allegations he sexually assaulted two women in Sweden.

It is thought that the Wikileaks founder was arrested by appointment at 9:30am and is due to appear at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court later today.

You can’t go minutes without hearing something regarding Wikileaks with today being no exception. The whistleblowing website has been subject to intense criticism from governments all over the world when it published confidential cables sent between senior US military officials just over a week ago.

The website then experienced minor downtime when EasyDNS pulled its DNS services that supported the site. Whilst the site remained available via direct IP addresses, Wikileaks immediately set about moving its operation to Switzerland, re-emerging with a new Wikileaks.ch domain.

In an effort to keep its acquired information readily accessible even while under duress the site started accepting mass mirroring across domains around the world. The list of mirrors which you can be found here currently lists over 355 sites with a number of them including IPV6 protocol.

Assange must must appear before the Magistrates court before 12.30pm, unless a judge gives permission for a later hearing. It is thought that he is still not aware of the full allegations against him.

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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Laughing out Loud in Asia: Why is the www so funny in Japan?

We’re all familiar with internet slang.  We’ve all LOLed with the rest of them at the latest online joke or witty tweet.  If it was really funny, we may even have ROFLMAOed as well. Then, when we disappear mid-chat most of us will send a simple BRB  to cover our absence, which TBH, is much better than telling the truth about our trip to the toilet.

But, these are all anglocentric acronyms and abbreviations, they’re based on the English language.

In Asia, as in Europe, the internet has much more fragmented than in, say North America.  English may still be dominant but, in the social networks and chat-rooms, local languages hold sway and all have their own unique abbreviations for commonly used phrases.

This short list will enable you to scan the forums and, at least, work out if what’s being discussed is funny or not.   Often, where western internet slang is based on abbreviations and acronyms based on the first letters of a phrase, Asian slang, because of the pictographic nature of the languages, is based on homonyms, i.e. the sound of a word. This especially so in China where a whole numerical chat language has developed based on the sounds of the numbers used.

So, in no particular order, here’s The Next Web’s guide on how to LOL in Asia.

Japan:

www –  In Japanese, the word for laugh is warau so www is literally an abbreviation for laugh laugh laugh.orz – This is actually an emoticon.  The meaning is disappointment, failure or despair. The image, formed by the letters is of somebody bowing in despair (the o is the head, the r is the arms and the z is the legs).wktk – waku waku teka teka “just can’t wait” (for what’s happening next).ksk - kasoku, literally acceleration or hurry up.

Korea:

^^ – LOL or happy face based on ^_^???  and ??? are usually used to indicate laughter. ‘?’,  represents a “k” sound, and ‘?’ represents an “h” sound.

Thailand:

555 - LOL, the sound of 5 in Thai is ‘ha’ so 555 is literally hahaha.

China:

??? – LOL, like the Thai 555, this Chinese homonym sounds like hahaha.  However, if you see…555 – it means crying in China, literally wuwuwu.88 – Many Chinese chats end with 88, pronounced Ba Ba or Bye Bye.520 – Wu Er Ling, often used because it sounds like Wo Ai Ni, I Love you.  But be careful not to mix up the numbers because…250 – Means ‘idiot’ and could lead to a sudden 88.

I hope this short list has raised a smile.  If you have your own favourites from the region that you’d like me to add, get in touch via the comments below.  Are you in Singapore, Malaysia or Indonesia? I’d love to be able to add some internet slang from your countries too.

TTFN, 88.

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Sky Songs closes, service “unable to reach a large enough customer base”

BSkyB’s Sky Songs music subscription service is to close, just over a year after the service launched as another high-profile competitor to Apple’s dominant iTunes platform and popular streaming service Spotify.

Sky Songs launched as an ad-free service, offering 5 million tracks initially for a flat fee of £6.49 per month, with a second subscription available at £7.99. As the service faltered, BSkyB reduced its pricing, offering the service for as low as £4.99.

The company has admitted that the music service was “unable to reach a large enough customer base”, even with the backing of all the major music labels, EMI, Universal, Sony and Warner, something that Spotify, one of its main competitors has up to now failed to do. Whereas Spotify offered unlimited streaming of tracks, coupled with advertising, to non-paying customers, Sky Songs restricted users to 30 seconds, offering a download service should users want to listen to the entire song.

Virgin Media was said to be in talks with Spotify to deliver a streaming service for the UK company whilst it prepared to launch its own service. It is almost a matter of time until Apple moves its iTunes music service to the cloud, allowing users to take their downloaded music wherever they go. With its own service not penetrating the market BSkyB has seen the potential competition and decided it should exit the market before it loses too much revenue.

Sky Songs customers will no longer have any payments taken from their accounts, according to an email from the company, with the service closing on February 7.

A Sky spokesman said:

“We’ve taken the difficult decision to close Sky Songs. Although we are extremely proud of the service we built and the experience it offers, we just didn’t see the consumer demand we’d hoped for.

“As Sky Songs demonstrates, we’re a business that takes risks and innovates, but at the same time, we’re pragmatic and act decisively when a new venture isn’t working out.”

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Google Maps on Android to get dynamic and 3D building rendering, offline maps

Google’s head of Android development showed off a new version of Google Maps for Android that will be rolling out within the next few days that looks like a significant improvement.

The largest improvement will be the inclusion of dynamic rendering of the map – replacing the slower and jerkier tiles based maps. This will not only lead to much smoother zooming and swiping, but place titles, street names, etc will also be dynamically resized which will make reading easier as well.

The new Maps will also support tilting (using the phone’s accelerometer we’re assuming) so that maps can be viewed at a ‘bird’s-eye’ angle, and about 50 cities will also feature 3D buildings.

Another major feature will be the addition of offline maps, which will be stored on the phone. However, the app will only store maps for areas that you frequent (based on your location activity we’re assuming), and will be updated every time you visit that area, according to the New York Times report. Another added bonus: turn-by-turn navigation should continue to work even if you don’t have a wireless signal in an area you already have a stored map.

Yet another cool feature of the new interface will be the ability for the map to rotate based on the direction you are facing (using the compass of course) as well as being able to rotate around locations from different angles (like in Google Earth) on multi-touch enabled phones.

As we mentioned, this update is rolling out for Android first and will require more recent phones to enable all of the new features. Engadget was able to get a list from Google of all the phones that will support all of the new features, with the brand new Nexus S of course being one of them. They are the: Galaxy S; Droid; Droid X; Droid 2; Droid Incredible; Evo; Nexus S; and G2.

Frankly, we can’t wait to see this update in action.

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The ISBN for wines, AVIN hits the 30 million wine labels

30 million wine labels that include wine name, region and varietals, along with other data, on a QR code, from 150 different wine producers – that’s the milsetone recently hit by AVIN, an “ISBN for wines” cataloging system.

AVIN is a unique 13 digit number, acting like an open standard and used for tracking wine, for over 25,000 different wines from 7,500 wineries. It’s been sponsored and financially supported for over three years now by Adegga (a wine social network).

We had a recent talk with André Ribeirinho, AVIN founder, where he told us that AVIN is building up a board of wine producers people to assure that the project will be sustained in the future, along with the needed independence to run it. Also André thinks that the QR Code, one of the two ways to represent the AVIN,  will be a non issue on the near future due to the widespread use in Europe and USA.

AVIN was created due to the fact that the bar code, already present on every bottle, isn’t unique – since different years have the same bar code – and it couldn’t retain essential wine information neither it’s web friendly. So, with a smartphone you can scan and extract information from the wine label itself. Wineries will be able to create and change their own code database information, through the AVIN API which will be soon public.

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10 Canadian Startups You Should Know About

Canada is ripe with startups, but being a huge country it’s easy to miss some of the really cool ones that we should be keeping an eye on. With the help of some friends (David Crow and Jeremy Wright), I came up with a list of some of the startups we should all have on our radar. These aren’t all new startups, or “hot” startups, or “whatever” startups, but they all are doing something interesting that we should have our eyes on (in no particular order, btw):

1) ThoughtFarmer: Maybe Intranets aren’t sexy or really cool or getting huge headlines, but the fact of the matter is that lots of companies use them. Maybe “use” is too mild a word…rely might be better. ThoughtFarmer has been doing a lot of really, really cool things under the radar for years now. Recently they launched version 4.0 of their Intranet toolkit, which makes the things I wanted to do with an Intranet 10 years ago, child’s play. ThoughtFarmer’s focus is leveraging social media and social connections to make an Intranet stronger. ThoughtFarmer runs on the Microsoft suite of tools (.NET, SQLServer, Sharepoint, etc) and is a system well worth the look.

2) Status.net: Roll your own microblogging server? Need I say more? There are two parts to this pretty interesting product. First is the hosted service, which can even be white labelled , you can run something like trishussey.status.net (which I do have, btw) to have a personal Twitter-like environment (that can connect and cross post to Twitter as well). Second is the install yourself option, which has become popular enough large hosts (like Dreamhost) are offering it as a “one-click” install. Why do we need this? Because while Twitter is great, if you wanted to build something private or custom, or even just more of your own you need the tools to do it. This is the tool. Status.net might also be our best hope for a decentralized, interconnected microblogging system independent of Twitter (like how email is today).

3) Shopify: So you want to sell stuff online. Like, dunno, Angry Birds stuffed toys, but you don’t want to mess with having to build the online store and such (eeewww code! Ewwww!) how might you do that? Well I’d Shopify is your answer. Shopify lets you quickly make a entire online store, complete with templates, and the connectors needed to receive payments. Yeah, I said templates. From the looks of things, it looks like most people could have a functioning store up in an evening (or maybe a weekend). Shopify is a hosted service, so you don’t need to know how things need to be set up to work, they are just supposed to work.

4) Geotoko: I profiled these folks for Launch Party 10 earlier in December. Their business is simple, help other businesses manage all the location claims, offers, and deals for the various location services (Foursquare, Facebook Places, Gowalla, and others) as well as provide metrics across all the services to see which ones work best for you, with which user segments. Location services might be fun for consumers, but they are starting to mean business to businesses. The problem is that the location service area is very fragmented without an overwhelming leader right now. It’s not like just using AdWords for online ads. Geotoko is trying to take the pain out of having your business be involved in location services buy just consolidating and managing it for you.

5) HootSuite: I know that I have a soft spot for HootSuite, but from the 20,000 foot level, looking at other Twitter apps out there, HootSuite is rolling out more features faster than anyone else. They are a busy shop, no doubt. HootSuite seems to be on a flight path for becoming a central social media dashboard for the social media junkie. They aren’t without their challenges. The recent move to the freemium model is ruffling more than a few feathers, but maybe this is just a bump in the road? Regardless HootSuite’s suite of tools are pretty hard to beat for cohesiveness and connectedness, I’m looking forward to what’s next from them.

6) Well.ca: Another startup I talked about recently, Well.ca is selling things that people don’t often buy online— toiletries—and seem to be doing a darn good job of it. Maybe selling stuff that people need for a good price (and hello, free shipping in Canada!), isn’t sexy, but just ask Amazon how well it’s working out for them.

7) Freshbooks: I’ve a Freshbooks user for years. Freshbooks is pretty much the only thing that made sure I got paid regularly over the last three years (recurring invoices FTW). While they have expanded their project management tools and such, their core is still easy, painless invoicing.

8) CommunityLend: Working from the idea that sometimes people need a loan for lots of reasons and for lots of other reasons a bank won’t lend them the money. Maybe it’s to start a company or go to school or pay off some debts, but the factors that banks use to decide if a person should be lend money are strict (and for good reason). But what if other factors could be considered, some of the more human things? This is where CommunityLend comes in. CommunityLend is a peer-to-peer lending program (BC, ON, and QC only) where people are loaning to people. You still have to go through the credit check and such, but that isn’t the final word. Also, lenders compete to lend you money, so it isn’t a matter of “take or leave it” it becomes, what’s the best offer. It might not be the whole solution, but it certainly could be part of it.

9) Mobio: Have you noticed that QR codes are finally starting to crop up in North America? Yeah me too. Well Mobio is working on tools and apps to make QR codes more interesting, dynamic, oh and profitable. Mobio first started to get into interesting QR code waters with connecting QR codes to payments. Get your bill at a restaurant, scan the QR code and the credit card tied to your account is billed. That was the start, Mobio is making QR codes more dynamic by putting a server between the code and the destination letting one QR code go different places long after the code was created. Ah flexibility in QR, that’s handy.

10) Mobify: So have you used your smartphone to browse a website lately? Cool. Now, have you built a mobile-optimized version of a site? Yeah I didn’t think so. Right then, making a mobile version of a site can be a pain. Oh what about commerce on devices that don’t support Flash? Ah, the plot thickens. Mobify has these things under control. They have their own set of technologies to make sites mobile savvy, without you having to mess up your own site. Mobify got our attention in Vancouver by making the first mobile app for our transit system. They’ve seen how the market is changing and have expanded in the last year into mobile commerce. Not bad, not bad at all.

Now, there is no doubt in my mind that there are a lot more than 10 great startups out there. These are the ones I think are particularly cool. Have others? Please, post them in the comments!

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

New Twitter Worm on the loose, don’t click suspicious links. Details here.

Updates at the foot of the post.

There’s a worm spreading rapidly across twitter. It appears to be a tweet with no text but just a URL. A twitter search highlights the extent of the problem.

The URL appears to be identical: http://goo.gl/R7f68 on every tweet but it’s highly likely that it will alter itself at some point.

What we’ve been able to learn is that the worm seems to be either creating or using a number of spam/newer accounts – that said a few influentials have also tweeted the URL. The results of the search only go back about 6 hours, so it hasn’t been around that long and appears to stem from mobile.twitter.com.

More interesting is this screenshot from a tool that lets you check the full URLs behind short ones. It apparently redirects to http://artcan-developpmement.fr/tw.html. Very odd.

Update: Nils Geylen posted the following in the comments section, highlighting that attackers look to have compromised a legitimate French furniture website and then loaded forwarding scripts to take users to a number of different malicious domains which look to serve malware:

http://artcan-developpement.fr (without the extra m: oppement instead of oppmement) is a regular French site selling design furniture of some sort. The bit after the slash of course redirects to various exe or php files on several other domains (e.g. detecproforyou.us/twit.php or robsearch.info/tre/sena.exe) then results in a 404 for that file. But at the source for that page and it’s empty. Tried this on a secondary Linux machine. Not sure what was supposed to happen.

Update 2: There are a number of tweets showing up in many users’ streams that are advertising the service Fllwrs, all links are cloaked using the Goo.gl domain shortener. If you see a tweet in your stream that says the following, its best to stay away from it:

Just found the easiest way to track who follows and unfollows you – http://goo.gl/kLE5M

At the moment, we are not sure if the two links are related. If you have found yourself to be compromised by this service then you should head to Twitter.com and revoke access for Fllwrs. To do this, head into: Settings -> Connections -> Find Fllwrs and REVOKE ACCESS!

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Bebo fights back with Chatroulette-style ‘bChat’

Remember Bebo? It’s back and it wants to get you chatting to strangers.

Bebo used to be the default social network for schookids and those who hadn’t discovered Myspace yet. That is until Facebook turned up and the kids moved on. With dwindling traffic, previous owner AOL offloaded Bebo to London-based Criterion Capital Partners earlier this year and now it’s starting to fight back.

The first stage of the plan is the launch of a Chatroulette-style video chat service called bChat. The service is a branded version of vChatter, a ‘family friendly’ version of the ‘random video chat’ format which we covered recently.

Just like with the standard version of vChatter, bChat uses an “advanced matching process” to connect Bebo users to new people based on a number of characteristics, such as their social preferences, geography, age and interests.

Unlike ChatRoulette, where the ‘anything goes’ policy quickly turned it into a rather seedy place to visit, bChat promises to be much safer. In addition to being able to report abuse, vChatter’s platform makes random screening by moderators easy to do.

The move is part of a wider, rolling programme of changes to Bebo reported on today by The Telegraph. New Bebo CEO Adam Levin told the newspaper  that the site is now all about self-expression. “I think we can coexist really well with Facebook as Bebo is a platform now focused on self-expression. Not everyone wants to be on a platform where their Mum and Dad are members.”

Can Bebo turn its fortunes around? Myspace, another former success story looking to get back on top, recently launched a new design and integration with Facebook and yet we’re still not 100% certain what it actually wants to be. Bebo is going to need one compelling product if it’s going to lure its members back from the temptations of Facebook.

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Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Arrested In London

Sky News has confirmed that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested in London.

Assange was arrested by the Metropolitan Police on a European Arrest Warrant, on behalf of the Swedish authorities over allegations he sexually assaulted two women in Sweden.

It is thought that the Wikileaks founder was arrested by appointment at 9:30am and is due to appear at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court later today.

You can’t go minutes without hearing something regarding Wikileaks with today being no exception. The whistleblowing website has been subject to intense criticism from governments all over the world when it published confidential cables sent between senior US military officials just over a week ago.

The website then experienced minor downtime when EasyDNS pulled its DNS services that supported the site. Whilst the site remained available via direct IP addresses, Wikileaks immediately set about moving its operation to Switzerland, re-emerging with a new Wikileaks.ch domain.

In an effort to keep its acquired information readily accessible even while under duress the site started accepting mass mirroring across domains around the world. The list of mirrors which you can be found here currently lists over 355 sites with a number of them including IPV6 protocol.

Assange must must appear before the Magistrates court before 12.30pm, unless a judge gives permission for a later hearing. It is thought that he is still not aware of the full allegations against him.

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The ISBN for wines, AVIN hits the 30 million wine labels

30 million wine labels that include wine name, region and varietals, along with other data, on a QR code, from 150 different wine producers – that’s the milsetone recently hit by AVIN, an “ISBN for wines” cataloging system.

AVIN is a unique 13 digit number, acting like an open standard and used for tracking wine, for over 25,000 different wines from 7,500 wineries. It’s been sponsored and financially supported for over three years now by Adegga (a wine social network).

We had a recent talk with André Ribeirinho, AVIN founder, where he told us that AVIN is building up a board of wine producers people to assure that the project will be sustained in the future, along with the needed independence to run it. Also André thinks that the QR Code, one of the two ways to represent the AVIN,  will be a non issue on the near future due to the widespread use in Europe and USA.

AVIN was created due to the fact that the bar code, already present on every bottle, isn’t unique – since different years have the same bar code – and it couldn’t retain essential wine information neither it’s web friendly. So, with a smartphone you can scan and extract information from the wine label itself. Wineries will be able to create and change their own code database information, through the AVIN API which will be soon public.

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FoursqWAR turns Foursquare into a turf war

TNW Quick Look

FoursqWAR is a strategy battle game built on top of Foursquare’s API.

Hits:

Imaginative use of the Foursquare API.Nicely presented.“Civvy” features let you use it for standard Foursquare checkins too.

Misses:

Only works well when friends are playing.Finding occupied buildings to challenge can be tough.The details:

It’s great when developers build something a bit different with a popular API and FoursqWAR from Irish developers Project Zebra is one such example. This iPhone game sees players compete to reach the top of a leaderboard by ‘attacking’ and ‘defending’ different Foursquare locations.

Selecting a location from the map view, you can occupy it with troops if it’s empty or you can attack if it’s occupied by another player’s forces. Through winning battles and occupying more buildings you gain points thus nudging you up the leaderboard.

Although you start the game with a small number of infantry troops, you’re able to swap them for stronger forces like humvees, a mortar team, bomb technicians and even John Rambo himself. In-app purchases can be used to boost your squadron further if you want a further boost.

The game is nicely presented, with a fittingly smart, military look and Apple Gamer Center medals to earn as you gain experience. Handy ‘Civvy’ options allow you to check in and view normal Foursquare data for each location in addition to playing the game.

The only real problem with FoursqWAR is that if you’re in an area where there aren’t any other players, it’s not much fun. While testing the game I found one location that had already been occupied, and there’ currently no way of telling enemy occupied locations from vacant ones without tapping on each one manually.

That said, if it sounds like fun and you can get a few local friends involved, FoursqWAR could be great fun.

The game is currently available for free, although a charge will be applied soon. So, it’s worth grabbing quickly if you’d like to give it a go. [iTunes App Store link]

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

If We Were Samsung, We Wouldn’t Be Happy

Take That, love them or hate them, they have affected the lives of millions of women (and some men) for over a decade.
When Samsung announced that it would be sponsoring the Take That’s upcoming Progress Live 2010 tour and gave each member a Samsung Galaxy Tab to play with, you wouldn’t expect the group to be quite so obvious when promoting the company’s involvement.
It wouldn’t happen to Apple, would it?!

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Saturday, October 23, 2010

MacBook Air Flash Guide

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HP Slate Officially Launches for $799

We all but gave up on the Slate, but Hewlett-Packard’s tablet computer was destined to reach the market after all, albeit in a slightly different flavor than it was originally envisioned.

The HP Slate 500 is a Windows 7-based tablet PC with a 8.9-inch, 1024×600 resolution screen, a 1.86GHz Intel Atom Z540 processor, a Crystal HD accelerator that should ensure smooth playback for HD (1080p) videos, two gigabytes of RAM (recent rumors predicted 1 GB), and a 64GB SSD.

It has a USB port and two cameras: a 3-megapixel one on the back, and a VGA camera on the front for making video calls. It also has Wi-Fi but, quite disappointingly, no 3G connectivity.

These specifications make the Slate one of the most powerful tablets on the market, but its $799 price tag also makes it more expensive than its chief rival, the iPad. However, HP has envisioned the Slate as a device aimed at business customers.
“It’s really like a full-function PC, it runs Windows, it will run your office applications, it just so happens to be in a slate form factor,” said Carol Hess-Nickels, director of business notebook marketing at HP.
What do you think about HP’s decision to make the Slate a Windows 7-based tablet, aimed at business customers? Is the price right, and is there a place on the market for such a device? Please share your opinions in the comments.
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Monday, October 11, 2010

Apple Starts Selling iPhone 4 Bumpers Again !!

Apple had announced on September 10th that it will be discontinuing its free iPhone 4 case program after September 30th.
 The iPhone 4 bumper cases that were unavailable in Apple's Retail and Online stores during the program, first made their silent comeback to the retail stores on October 1.

Macrumors has just reported that they're also available on Apple's Online store.
Back in July, Apple had announced at the special press conference held last weekthat it will give free cases to all iPhone 4 customers to address concerns raised by iPhone 4 users about its antenna issue.

But in September, Apple decided to discontinue the program as it believed that iPhone 4 antenna attenuation issue is even smaller than it originally thought.

We had heard some reports that Apple had started selling iPhone 4 bumpers in its Retail stores from October 1. They're now available even on Apple's Online store.

iPhone 4 retina display analysis

The Bumper cases are available in all the six original colors and are priced at $29 each. They will ship within 24 hours after you order it.
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Friday, October 8, 2010

New Yahoo Messenger App for iPhone To Allow Video Calls To PC, Android Smartphones

Yahoo's VP of Mobile for the Americas, David Katz has revealed that Yahoo is working on a version of Yahoo Messenger for the iPhone and Android, which will allow users to make video calls like FaceTime. The application, which is still under development, will use the iPhone 4's front camera to make video calls both over Wi-Fi and 3G.

While the iPhone 4's FaceTime is a great feature, it is restricted to making video calls over Wi-Fi - and that too only to other iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G users. The Yahoo App on the other hand, enables video calling to other users logged on to Yahoo messenger either on a PC, iPhone or Android smartphones.

David Katz, Yahoo’s VP of Mobile for the Americas region has revealed the following details:

"The free app, will be available for both iPhone and Android phones and will allow smartphone users to not only conduct video calls with each other, but with anyone that currently uses Yahoo Messenger for video calls on their PCs."
The ability to make voice calls with users on the iPhone, Android smartphones and anyone using Yahoo messenger on the PC could transform it into one of the killer iPhone apps on the App store, especially when you consider that Yahoo Messenger has 80 million users worldwide.
Yahoo seems to be pretty confident that its iPhone app will be approved because applications like Tango and Fring that offer video calling via 3G and Wi-Fi have already been approved by Apple.

Apple has also clarified that “they do allow apps on the App Store that support video calling on Wi-Fi and 3G networks.”
So, it could be only a matter of time before the updated Yahoo Messenger app arrives in the App Store.

We'll let you know as soon as it is available in the App Store
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

iTunes Instant: Faster And Easier Way To Search iTunes And The App Store

If one of your biggest complaint about iTunes is that it is slow then you’re not the only one. iTunes 10 that was released earlier in the month is a little bit faster but just not fast enough.
So Stephen Ou, a 15-year-old developer (can you believe it) from the Bay Area created iTunes Instant, which makes it a lot faster and easier to search iTunes and the App Store.

Stephen Ou apparently developed iTunes Instant in less than 3 hours using Apple’s own Search API.

iTunes Instant is exactly what I have been looking for, simple user interface with fast, real time search results (sorry I have been spoilt by Google Instant, the new search enhancement that shows results as you type).
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

'Error 13001' While Syncing iPod? Troubleshooting

You can update and organize your favorite content on an iPod using iTunes. iTunes is a free software application, provided by Apple, which enables iPod to interact with your computer. You can also connect to the iTunes store and purchase and download desired audiobooks, podcasts, videos and other stuff. However, you can experience major problems while syncing your iPod with iTunes. As a result, you cannot update your iPod. The error messages with strange codes might bewilder you and you are left helpless. Such situations suggest that there are some serious issues with your iPod including corruption. To tackle corruption, you would be required to restore an iPod, followed by prompt iPod recovery using an updated backup. And, if no backup is available, there are other efficient ways (discussed later in this article) to get back your lost iPod content.

Imagine a situation, wherein, you have an iPod Classic. You connect the device to your laptop in order to update it and start the sync process. But, this time around something unusual happens and you get the following error message while syncing iPod to iTunes.

"Error 13001"
Due to the occurrence of the above error message, the sync process halts.

Cause:
The above error message can surface in any of the below-mentioned conditions:
If your computer is infected with a virus.
If there is an issue with the content (eg bad music files etc)
If a background process is causing an issue with the syncing process
If there is a problem with the device itself. For instance, iPod disk corruption

Resolution
To troubleshoot the above error message, you must consider the following iPod recovery steps:
Use MSCONFIG or Task Manager to turn off the following processes, which may be viruses causing interference with the sync process

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1. If you find that the issue is not related to any virus, try and sync one type of content at a time (music, podcasts, photos etc). This would help you determine which type of content is causing the trouble. Replace the bad content or do not allow it to get synced.

2. If all of your content seem like causing the issue, then create a new user account. Log in to this new account and sync your iPod.

3. If the issue gets resolved, collect MSinfo32 report from both new and old accounts. Find out which processes are not active in the account you created recently.

4. If you still get the error message in a new user account, then it clearly indicates that the problem lies with your device. The iPod in question could be corrupted. In all such situations, you must restore the iPod right away.

Since restoration leads to serious data loss, you must download and employ a third-party iPod recovery software to retrieve the lost iPod content. They are quite easy-to-use and consume less amount of time in recovering music files, videos, audiobooks etc.

The best software to recover data from iPod Classic and iPod Shuffle is Stellar Phoenix iPod Recovery.

Available in two versions for both Windows and Mac, this application recovers almost all photo (JPEG, TIF, TIFF, GIF), audio (MIDI, AIFF, M4A, OGG) and video (AVI, MOV, ASF, WMV) formats. This iPod recovery software is completely safe and allows you to save scan results for recovery at a later time.
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Monday, September 20, 2010

How Can I Get Back My Deleted Data From Hard disk



"How can I get back my deleted data from hard disk (computer), memory card?"


 It happens many times when you or some other person delete some important files or folders from your hard drive, pen drive or memory card and you feel helpless as you don’t know how to recover the deleted file.




Disk Digger is another free data recovery software which recover files from any type of media including USB flash drives, memory cards (SD, Compact Flash, Memory Stick, etc), and your hard drive also.


>> This program can recover deleted files including photos, videos, music, documents, and other formats also.


>> This is a free portable tool, i.e. it does not require any installation.


>> When you are using Disk Digger you need to select the drive and file types and click Next and retrieve the file from the list is files shown.


You can get it from Here
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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Make Your First Letter Big In Blog Post




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Often, You might have seen in newspapers or even in some blog posts that there are paragraphs in which the first letter of the first word of the first line is bigger in size as compared to the rest of the letters.This looks nice to see and many blogger uses this tricks. So this post helps you to implement this tricks.

You can also do the same thing in your blog posts—simply by Adding some CSS to your html code.Your post’s first letter (character) would become bigger than original font sizes.


Now, you might have a question–How to do this? 


Well, to implement this in your blog, all you need to do is to follow some steps which includes adding some CSS code in your html code, and you will have the first letter of your blog post bigger in size. Below picture shown you is the result of this tutorial.
Make First Letter Big in Size for Blog

Steps to make first letter big in your blog post are :-


  • Log in to your blogger account
  • On your dashboard, click on Layout (see the image below.)

Select   Blogger Layout

  • Now, click on Edit HTML to add code to templates (see the image below.)

Edit HTML


  • Then find the code]]></b:skin>and add following code above it 




.post-body:first-letter {
float:left;
color: #000000;
background:#ffffff;
line-height:80px;
padding-top:1px;
padding-right:5px;
font-family:times;
font-size:100px;
}



  • Save your templates and you finished with this.


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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

How to Import Your Blog to Your Facebook Page


Generally, A blogger needs a wide platform which spread their important article to webuser. So this useful and important article should be available to their right audience. And we all are familiar with the popularity of facebook. How to use this platform effectively..??, their is one way...Feed your blog posts right to your Facebook page.
Here’s how:
Step 1: In the “Account” dropdown on the top-right menu bar, click “Application Settings”. This will bring up a page with a list of your applications.
Step 2: On the resulting page, click “Notes”. Don’t click on “Edit Settings” or “Profile”. Just click the word “Notes”.
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Step 3: The following page will bring up your current notes or state that you don’t have any. On the right side of the page is a box where you will click on “Import a blog”.
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Steps 4: On the next page, enter the URL for your blog’s feed. Then click the checkbox to accept Facebook’s terms (basically saying that you’re entering your own blog), and hit “Start Importing”.
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Important: Facebook is often glitchy at this step.  If you get an error, and you’re sure you’ve entered the right URL, keep trying. You might even have to close out of the process and go back in, but eventually it will work. (Hopefully Facebook is working on this.)



Note: If your entire site is a blog (rather than a page on your site), you can enter the primary URL here too. In other words, we could enter “http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfoSectors” or just “http://www.infosectors.com”.
Step 5: If all goes well with the URL you entered, you’ll be taken to a page showing a preview of your blog posts. Don’t worry that they’re not in order here. It’s because they all show as being loaded on the same day.From this point forward, new posts will show up at the top as you post them. If all looks good, click “Confirm Import”.
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Once you’ve confirmed your import, you can view the feed in the “My Notes” tab. That’s it! Your blog posts will now update your Notes page in your Facebook account automatically.
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If you have a Fan Page
You can easily accomplish the same thing on your Facebook Fan Page. Everything is the same as a regular Facebook page, except the first step. On your settings page, where all your settings are listed, click “Edit” under “Notes”. From there, everything looks the same as above.
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Blogging Useful Tools [Start Blogging Smartly]


In my previous article I post about essential free templates websites for blogger,this something bloggers need. So in this section also I posted about various tools available for blogger, which makes your blogging easier and fast. This tools will help you in some way.
And we are blogger, So we should know about this available useful tools. I hope you'll like this, even I am very excited to write something useful things for my blogger friends. 

     Post from anywhere!

Using  Blogger Mobile  is easy: Snap a photo and write some text on your mobile phone, send it to  go@blogger.com , and it gets posted to your mobile blog!

  • When you send texts to BLOGGR (256447) or photos to go@blogger.com from your mobile device they're automatically posted to your new blog.
    Blogger Mobile
     lets you send photos and text straight to your blog while you're on-the-go.



  • Mail-to-Blogger: Post your article via email..?? Yes, you can also post to your Blogger blog via email.This feature is inbuilt to your blogger.So it is easy as well as healthy to use and post.

  • BlogThis! BookmarkletBlogThis! is an easy way to make a blog post without visiting blogger.com. Install this nifty bookmarklet in your browser, and you can post with just one click.Isn't this useful..??

  • Blogger in DraftBlogger in draft is a special version of Blogger where we try out new features before releasing them to everyone. Think of it as our sandbox, or laboratory, or just “Blogger + new things.” By taking your feedback and looking at what works and what doesn’t, we’ll be able to make features that much better when releasing them to everyone.

  • Blog via Flickr: You can post your Flickr photos directly to your blog, and can even post directly from your camera phone (great for those whose mobile phone network is not covered by Blogger Mobile)

  • Haloscan: By default, Blogger doesn’t allow you to send trackbacks when you post. By using the free service from Haloscan, you can send trackbacks to other blogs, and also display the trackbacks which have been sent to you. Other free features for Blogger users include external commenting and ratings systems for your blog posts.

  • w.Bloggar: a free Windows based application which you can integrate with your Blogger blog to post remotely. One version allows you to install on a pen drive to post while you are away from home.

  • Blogger for Word: This something great..!! Using this free download, you can publish your post to blog, save drafts and edit posts from within Microsoft Word.

  • Blogger Developers Network: Information for developers interested in creating applications, templates and widgets for the Blogger framework.

This is general info about this tools,it just gives you small descriptions about the tools and if you have something to say then post comments below. I hope...,this post liked you and will be useful.
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