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.

Sunday, 18 December 2011 | posted in , | 0 comments [ More ]

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 ]